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The Embassy of Japan in Dhaka on Monday said the Medical Waste Management Centre in Kushtia district will contribute to improve the health and safety of people involved in waste collection and the living and sanitary environment of the residents. First Secretary Karasawa Shinju and Second Secretary Makiguchi Yasuyuki visited Kushtia district to attend the inaugural ceremony of the project for ‘Construction of Medical Waste Management Centre’ in Kushtia district provided to the NGO ‘PRISM Bangladesh Foundation’ by the government of Japan through the Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGHSP). Japan to show leadership in Asia, boost cooperation with Bangladesh, hopes Prof Yunus The project is expected to solve the social and environmental problems caused by medical waste and improve the health and safety of approximately 245 people involved in waste collection and disposal, and 1.94 million residents of Kushtia Pourashava, as well as the living and sanitary environment of Kushtia, Jhenaidah, Meherpur and Chuadanga districts, said the Embassy. “I hope this centre will contribute to improve the health and safety of people involved in waste collection, and the living and sanitary environment of the residents,” said First Secretary Karasawa. Big Japanese investors to come to Bangladesh, hopes Press Secretary Japan has supported 221 NGO projects through GGHSP since 1989, with a view to enhancing economic and social human security at the grass-roots level. The total sum of these GGHSP grants extended to approximately USD 17.5 million.  

Japanese Hockey team is the first foreign side to reach the capital on Wednesday (December 8)  night to participate in the six-nation Hero Asian Champions Trophy (Hockey) ‘2021 beginning on January 14 at the Maulana Bhashani National Stadium here. Six participating countries are: India, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Pakistan and hosts Bangladesh. The Korean team, which earlier scheduled to reach Dhaka Wednesday night, is expected to arrive in the capital Thursday night. India will be the 3rd foreign team to arrive here on Friday (Dec 10) at 12:30 hours by an Air India flight while Pakistan team scheduled to reach Dhaka at 16:40 hours on the same day (Friday). Malaysian team  will be the last foreign team to reach here on Sunday (Dec 12) at 22:00 hours by a Malindo Air flight. Read: Champions Hockey: 4 more players included in Bangladesh’s preliminary squad Meanwhile, the Japanese team made their first practice session here Thursday afternoon.  India will play Korea in the opening match at 3:30 pm on Jan 14. Bangladesh will play Malaysia at 6; pm while Pakistan will play Japan at 8:30 pm in other two opening day’s fixture. In the remaining matches, Bangladesh will play their giant neighbor Indian on Dec 15 at 3:30 pm, play Korea on Dec 17 at 8:30 pm, face Japan on Dec 18 at 6 pm and meet Pakistan on Dec 19 at 8:30 pm. The titan battle between two arch-rivals India and Pakistan will be held on Jan 17 at pm 3:30 pm. After a recess on Dec 20, the two semifinals and the 5th place deciding match will be held on Dec 21 and the final and the 3rd place deciding match will be held on December 22.    Earlier, Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) announced a 28-member preliminary squad of Bangladesh national hockey team for the heavy weight tournament and later they added four more players in the squad as per requirement of the team’s Malaysia Head Coach Gobinathan Krishnamurty. The training session of Bangladesh team began on December  1 at BKSP in Savar. Read: Premier Hockey: Mariner Youngs clinch title beating Mohammedan 3-2 The four newly recruited players are: Al Nahian Shuvo, Raju Ahmed Tapu, Abed Uddin and Razibul Hasan Rocky.    28-member Bangladesh squad: Biplob Kujur, Abu Sayed Nippon, Ashim Gop (goal keeper), Khorshedur Rahman, Farhad Ahmed, Ashraful Islam, Shohanaur Rahman Sabuj, Mehdi Hasam, Rezaul Karim Babu, Monoj Babu, Shafiul Alam Shisir, Sarwar Morshad Shawon and Khaled Mahmud Rakin (defender), Sarwar Hossain, Roman Sarkar, Nayeemuddin, Fazle Hossain Rabbi, Hasan Jubair Niloy, Prince Lal Samanta (mid-field), Rasel Mahmud Jummy, Milan Hossain, Mainul Islam Kaushik, Arshad Hossain, Mahbub Hossain, Deen Islam Emon, Rakibul Hasan, Pushkar Kisha Mimo and Rajub Das.