Bangabandhu pays homage to Jalalabad martyrs

April 22, 1972

POPOV CALLS ON BANGABANDHU

Soviet Ambassador to Bangladesh Valentin Popov today calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Gono Bhaban. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad also attends the meeting.

HOMAGE TO MARTYRS OF JALALABAD

The people of Chittagong today pay homage to the sacred memory of the valiant Jalalabad fighters who took up arms against the British Army on April 22, 1930 under the leadership of Masterda Surja Sen. Bangabandhu in a message on the occasion of Jalalabad Day hopes that this historic day will be an event of inspiration for all times to come for each and every Bangalee.

INDIAN TRADE PROCEDURE WITH BANGLADESH

A government of India gazette extraordinary and a notification published today in New Delhi lays down details of the procedure of export and import trade between Bangladesh and India. The trade will mostly flow at state level through government agencies, although a limited scope has been left for persons who are eligible to import and export goods as the case may be.

Private trade on items like books, periodicals, baby food, machinery and spares will be allowed to be handled by licensed authorised parties. But big items like cement, cotton, textile goods, jute, newsprint etc. will be traded strictly at the state level. Despite publication of this trade procedural pattern, the total absence of any facility of remitting funds from one country to another continues to hamper bilateral trade initiatives at a private level.

$45 MILLION CIDA GRANTS

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has offered 45 million dollars in grants to Bangladesh to be spent in 1972-73. According to CIDA, the grants will be used mostly in importing food grains, essential spare parts and chemicals.

HIGH PRICES OF ESSENTIALS PERSIST

High prices of essential commodities including rice, pulses, edible oil and some spices have been persisting in the city markets. The price of rice has remained almost static for the last three weeks. Today, the lowest price is Tk 55 a maund. The varieties which are sold at that price are Irri and Nazirshail.

SOURCES: April 23, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Ittefaq