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(4401, 4401, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A suicide bomb attack outside the Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul has caused heavy casualties.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Police said at least five civilians had been killed but another Taliban official put the toll as high as 20.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack took place about 16:00 local time (11:30 GMT) when the bomber tried, but failed to enter the ministry building itself, the Taliban said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several countries, including Turkey and China, have embassies in the area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The local offshoot of the Islamic State group, known as Islamic State - Khorasan Province (Isis-K) claimed it carried out the attack, in a post on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports suggest a Chinese delegation was due to hold talks with the Afghan officials inside the foreign ministry building at the time of the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Italian humanitarian agency, Emergency NGO in Kabul said it had received more than 40 wounded people and the casualty numbers were continuing to rise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kabul police described the attack as cowardly, adding in a statement that the perpetrators would be held accountable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan has been rocked by dozens of blasts since the Taliban seized power last year, mostly claimed by Isis-K.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Correspondents say that the Taliban tend to underplay casualty figures in such incidents. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 02:34:38', '2023-01-12 02:34:38'),
(4402, 4402, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that there is now no force in Bangladesh that can overthrow her Awami League government.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“The Awami League has deep roots among the people. No such force has yet emerged that can topple the Awami League government,” she told Parliament, replying to a supplementary question from Jatiya Party MP Fakhrul Imam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina, also the AL president, said her party wasn’t born from the pocket of any power-grabber and military dictator, rather it was born from the soil and the people of this country. “So, our roots have gone deeper into the soil,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said dictators like Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Gen. Ziaur Rahman, Gen. Ershad and Khaleda Zia tried to destroy Awami League but failed. No such force will ever again be able to do so with the AL, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“When Awami League is in power, it means the government serves the people and changes the fate of the people,” she said, asking all to remember what the condition of Bangladesh was before her party was voted to power 14 years ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his question, Fakhrul referred to one-eleven political changeover in 2007 and asked the PM if she thinks it is now time to reach political compromise among all parties though there is no possibility that the country would witness another one-eleven due to her wise leadership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said those who polluted the election, utterly destroyed the electoral process, snatched away the voting rights of the people and played ducks and drakes with the fate of the people are now raising questions over election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“What right do they have to raise questions (regarding election)? ….If we analyze every election, we see that the people can vote peacefully when the Awami League is in power,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the people vote for the Awami League spontaneously because they know this party keeps the promises it makes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina said BNP didn’t join the 2014 general election as the party knew that they secured only 30 seats in the 2008 election and the country witnessed an unprecedented development thanks to steps taken by the grand alliance government. “So, the people bestowed their trust and confidence in us and voted for us. They (BNP) boycotted the election,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said BNP apparently stood aside from the 2018 election midway due to nomination business and tried to make the polls questionable. “They have been able to make it questionable by carrying out different campaigns and propaganda…. But the people still have trust and confidence in Awami League,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing to Fakhrul, the PM said there is nothing to be scared. “Don’t be scared. We’re still here (in power). There is nothing to be worried,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply to another supplementary question from AL lawmaker Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu, the premier said the government would take tougher action, if necessary, against the hoarders of commodities and black marketeers in order to ease the sufferings of consumers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the matter is really unfortunate here in Bangladesh that the businessmen try to enhance the commodity prices anyhow during Ramazan and other festivals when their demands go higher. But in other countries, the prices of commodities are always reduced during festivals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the businesspeople are dilly dallying in importing commodities in many cases as they want to make profit by increasing the prices and demand of goods. “It is inhumane,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’re taking proper actions against the hoarders, black-marketeers and those who are engaged in LC-related anomalies.If needed, we’ll take tougher actions and we will pay special attention so that people won’t suffer,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a supplementary question from AL MP Ahasanul Islam (Titu), the PM said the government is taking steps to ensure proper supply of commodities during the upcoming Ramazan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We want so that the people of our country won’t suffer during Ramazan,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has kept arrangements to open LCs for importing essential consumer goods from different countries, she said adding that there is no problem in opening LCs for importing food items at proper prices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply to a question from Gonoforum MP Mukabbir Khan, the PM outright rejected the allegations of corruption in various mega projects and threw a challenge to place specific evidence—where and how much money was lost due to corruption.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The allegations he has raised are completely baseless…. I am throwing a challenge to the lawmaker that he will have to say clearly here about where and what amount (of money) was lost due to corruption and I will answer to these,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mukabbir in his question raised allegations of corruption in mega projects and quick rental power plants. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 02:54:52', '2023-01-12 02:54:52'),
(4403, 4403, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The map was called “Beach Trip” and was blasted out to more than 18,000 members of a public Telegram channel called, in Portuguese, “Hunting and Fishing.”</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But instead of outdoor recreation tips, the 43 pins spread across the map of Brazil pointed to cities where bus transportation to the capital could be found for what promoters promised would a huge “party” on Jan. 8.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Children and the elderly aren’t invited,” according to the post circulated on the Telegram channel, which has since been removed. “Only adults willing to participate in all the games, including target shooting of police and robbers, musical chairs, indigenous dancing, tag, and others.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The post was one of several thinly coded messages circulating on social media ahead of Sunday’s violent attack on the capital by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro looking to restore the far-right leader to power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It’s also now a potentially vital lead in a fledgling criminal investigation about how the rampage was organized and how officials missed clues to a conspiracy that, like the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol two years ago, appears to have been organized and carried out in plain view.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And like the attack in the U.S., the Brazilian riots demonstrate how social media makes it easier than ever for anti-democratic groups to recruit followers and transform online rhetoric into offline action.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On YouTube, rioters livestreaming the mayhem racked up hundreds of thousands of views before a Brazilian judge ordered social media platforms to remove such content. Misleading claims about the election and the uprising also could be found on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But even before Sunday’s riot, social media and private messaging networks in Brazil were being flooded with calls for one final push to overturn the October election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — something authorities appear to have inexplicably missed or ignored.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the online chatter referred to the planned gathering at Brasilia’s Three Powers Plaza as “Selma’s party” — a play on the Portuguese word for “selva,” a battle cry used by Brazil’s military.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participants were told to bring their own mask to protect against “pepper pie in the face” — or pepper spray fired by security forces. They also were told to dress in the green and yellow of Brazil’s flag — and not the red preferred by Lula’s Workers’ Party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Get ready guests, the party will be a blast,” the widely-circulated post said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It was all in the open,” said David Nemer, a Brazil native and University of Virginia professor who studies social media. “They listed the people responsible for buses, with their full names and contact information. They weren’t trying to hide anything.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, it’s unclear to what extent social media was responsible for the worst attack on Brazil’s democracy in decades. Only a handful of far-right activists showed up at gas terminals and refineries that were also pinpointed on the “Beach Trip” map as locations for demonstrations planned for Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bruno Fonseca, a journalist for Agencia Publica, a digital investigative journalism outlet, has tracked the online activities of pro-Bolsonaro groups for years. He said the activists live in a state of constant confrontation but sometimes, their frequent calls to mobilize fall flat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It’s difficult to know when something will jump out from social media and not,” said Fonseca, who in a report this week traced the spread of the “Selma’s Party” post to users who appear to be bots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, he said, authorities could have paired the online activity with other intelligence-gathering tools to investigate, for example, a surge in bus traffic to the capital before the attacks. He said their inaction may reflect negligence or the deep support for Bolsonaro among security forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One gnawing question is why, on the day of the chaos, Anderson Torres, a Bolsonaro ally who had just been named the top security official in Brasilia, was reportedly in Florida — where his former boss was on a retreat. Torres was swiftly fired and Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered his arrest pending an investigation. Torres denied any wrongdoing and said he would return to Brazil and present his defense.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday’s violence came after Brazilian voters were bombarded by a flood of false and misleading claims before last fall’s vote. Much of the content focused on unfounded concerns about electronic voting, and some featured threats of violent retaliation if Bolsonaro was defeated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the most popular rallying cries used by Bolsonaro’s supporters was #BrazilianSpring, a term coined by former Trump aide Steve Bannon in the hours after Bolsonaro’s defeat to Lula.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We all know that this Brazilian election was going to be contentious,” said Flora Rebello Arduini, a London-based campaign director with SumOfUs, a nonprofit that tracked extremist content before and after Brazil’s election. “Social media platforms played a vital role in amplifying far-right extremist voices and even calls for violent uprising. If we can identify this kind of content, then so can they (the companies). Incompetence is not an excuse.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brazil’s capital city steeled itself Wednesday for the possibility of new attacks fueled by social media posts, including one circulating on Telegram calling for a “mega protest to retake power.” But those protests fizzled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to the criticism, spokespeople for Telegram, YouTube and Facebook said their companies were working to remove content urging more violence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Telegram is a platform for free speech and peaceful protest,” Telegram spokesman Remi Vaughn wrote in a statement to the AP. “Calls to violence are explicitly forbidden and dozens of public communities where such calls were being made have been blocked in Brazil in the past week — both proactively as per our Terms of Service as well as in response to court orders.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A YouTube spokeswoman said the platform has removed more than 2,500 channels and more than 10,000 videos related to the election in Brazil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has prioritized efforts to combat harmful content about Brazil’s election, a company spokesman told The Associated Press. 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(4404, 4404, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 10 people are believed to have died in recent fighting between armed rebel groups in Colombia near the Venezuelan border, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The information we have received reports at least 10 deaths in the department of Arauca as a result of clashes between the ELN (National Liberation Army) and the dissidents of FARC,\" the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, wrote Juan Pappier, a researcher with the international rights group, on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The office of the ombudsman in Colombia, without specifying the number of fatalities, reported \"the discovery of several bodies of men killed in fighting\" that took place Monday and Tuesday in the small town of Puerto Rondo, in northeastern Colombia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neither the government nor military authorities have reacted to the announcements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ELN fighters in the region are engaged in bloody conflict with FARC dissidents, with both groups having rejected a historic 2016 peace agreement with the government as well as a recent truce announced by the government of new President Gustavo Petro.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petro, the country\'s first leftist leader, had declared on New Year\'s Eve that a temporary truce had been reached with the country\'s five largest armed groups, including the ELN, from January 1 to June 30.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the ELN a few days later said it had not agreed to any such measure, forcing the government to walk back its major declaration, a reversal that dampened hopes for an end to decades of violence that has continued despite the 2016 peace agreement with the FARC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Insurgents and drug traffickers battle over remote areas of the South American country as they seek to expand their territory and control over the cocaine trade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In January 2022 ELN and other rebels engaged in fierce fighting in Arauca, leaving 50 people dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peace talks between the ELN and the government will resume later this month in Mexico City. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 03:27:47', '2023-01-12 03:27:47'),
(4405, 4405, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Air pollution still remains one of the top-most environmental challenges for Bangladesh and Dhaka has ranked as the third most polluted city in the world with ‘very unhealthy’ air quality this morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) score was 239 at 9 am today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Karachi and India’s Delhi occupied the first two spots in the list, with AQI scores of 428 and 241 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 03:55:10', '2023-01-12 03:55:10'),
(4406, 4406, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi scored in Paris Saint-Germain\'s 2-0 win over Angers in Ligue 1 on Wednesday on his first appearance since leading Argentina to victory in the World Cup in Qatar.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi had been rested for PSG\'s first three matches following the long break in the season caused by the World Cup but he returned to training in Paris a week ago and was back in the starting line-up for this game against Ligue 1\'s bottom side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The win, which came three and a half weeks after he captained Argentina to their World Cup final triumph on penalties against France in Qatar, saw PSG move six points clear at the top of the French table<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">.Neymar also started, having missed his team\'s last two matches due to suspension and to undergo treatment on the ankle injury he suffered playing for Brazil at the World Cup.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile Kylian Mbappe was rested for a second straight game having been afforded time off for a holiday in New York in the wake of his own World Cup campaign, which saw him score a hat-trick in the final but come out on the losing side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe and Messi are expected to be reunited this weekend in Sunday\'s match away to Rennes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the meantime the absence of the France star meant young striker Hugo Ekitike again started in the home attack at the Parc des Princes and he opened the scoring in the fifth minute from a Nordi Mukiele cross at the end of a move in which Messi also featured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PSG were not at their sparkling best but Messi swept in his 13th club goal of the season to make it 2-0 with 17 minutes left.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ekitike and Mukiele were again involved before Messi applied the finish. The goal was initially disallowed for offside but a VAR check allowed it to stand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Messi has recovered well. He is relaxed and in great shape physically, and with Leo the team looks different,\" said coach Christophe Galtier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to broadcaster Canal Plus, Galtier, who said he had come down with a fever during the game, added: \"We are coming back off the World Cup so it is difficult for the players to find their reference points again.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are all just getting used to playing together again and you could see at times that we lacked some of the connections between the players that we had more often before the World Cup.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- PSG extend lead over Lens -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a 10th straight league loss for Angers, while Galtier\'s PSG team extended their lead at the top of the table as second-placed Lens were held to a 2-2 draw away at Strasbourg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PSG\'s unbeaten record this season had been ended in a 3-1 defeat away at Lens on New Year\'s Day, but they bounced back to win 3-1 at third-tier Chateauroux in the French Cup at the weekend without any of their superstar attacking trio.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lens are enjoying a fine season but could not get the better of struggling Strasbourg, who were playing their first game since the sacking of coach Julien Stephan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexis Claude-Maurice put Lens ahead in Alsace only for Sanjin Prcic to equalise before Kevin Gameiro gave Strasbourg the lead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Belgian international Lois Openda then made it 2-2 before the break, and there were no further goals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marseille are now just two points behind Lens in third place after a 2-0 win at Troyes, sealed thanks to goals by Chancel Mbemba and Jordan Veretout, the latter a member of France\'s World Cup squad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rennes in fourth lost ground after having two men sent off before conceding in injury time to lose 2-1 away at Clermont.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile fifth-placed Monaco drew 2-2 at Lorient, while Nice crushed Montpellier 6-1 in their first game since sacking coach Lucien Favre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On-loan Arsenal forward Nicolas Pepe and England international midfielder Ross Barkley both scored twice for Nice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lyon and Lille drew 0-0 away at Nantes and Brest respectively, while there were also wins for Toulouse and Ajaccio. 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(4407, 4407, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chuadanga has recorded the season’s lowest temperature in Bangladesh at 6.3 degrees Celsius today.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rakibul Hasan, in-charge of Chuadanga Weather Observatory Centre, said they have recorded 6.3 degrees Celsius at 9 am on Thursday, which is the lowest temperature of this season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over the district and it may continue, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The temperature may fall further in the next few days, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shivering cold has disrupted the day-to-day lives of people, especially the daily wager earners in the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People are being forced to remain indoors due to the cold wave. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 04:44:25', '2023-01-12 04:44:25'),
(4408, 4408, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia said Wednesday that it will send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) next month to bring home three astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a strike from a tiny meteoroid.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, made the announcement after examining the flight worthiness of the Soyuz MS-22 crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a radiator coolant leak in December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roscosmos and NASA officials said at a joint press briefing that an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft, MS-23, would be sent to the ISS on February 20 to bring Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio back to Earth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re not calling it a rescue Soyuz,\" said Joel Montalbano, ISS program manager at NASA\'s Johnson Space Center in Houston. \"I\'m calling it a replacement Soyuz.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Right now the crew is safe onboard the space station.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MS-22 flew Petelin, Prokopyev and Rubio to the ISS in September after taking off from the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were scheduled to return home in the same spacecraft in March, but their stay on the ISS will now be extended by several extra months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I may have to find some more ice cream to reward them,\" Montalbano joked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MS-22 began leaking coolant on December 14 -- shortly before Russian cosmonauts were to begin a spacewalk -- after being hit by what US and Russian space officials believe was a tiny space rock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Montalbano said \"everything does point to a micrometeoroid\" and not space debris, or a technical problem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The executive director of Human Space Flight Programs at Roscosmos, Sergei Krikalev, said the \"current theory is that this damage was caused by a small particle about one millimeter in diameter.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MS-23 had been scheduled to fly Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA\'s Loral O\'Hara to the ISS on March 16.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- SpaceX Crew Dragon -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision was made to use MS-23 to fly the current crew home, Krikalev said, because of concerns over potential high temperatures in the damaged MS-22 during reentry to Earth\'s atmosphere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said it could still potentially be used \"in case of emergency.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another emergency scenario involves using the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that is currently docked with the ISS after flying four astronauts to the space station in October for a six-month mission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Montalbano said discussions have been underway with SpaceX about using the Crew Dragon capsule to fly home other astronauts aboard the ISS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We could safely secure the crew members in the area that the cargo normally returns on the Dragon,\" Montalbano said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All that is only for an emergency, only if we have to evacuate ISS,\" the NASA official stressed. \"That\'s not the nominal plan or anything like that.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Krikalev said an uncrewed MS-22 would return to Earth, probably in March, following the arrival of the replacement vehicle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would bring back equipment and experiments that are not \"temperature sensitive,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the original MS-23 crew will get to the ISS is still being worked out, Montalbano added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Space has remained a rare venue of cooperation between Moscow and Washington since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine and ensuing Western sanctions on Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ISS was launched in 1998 at a time of increased US-Russia cooperation following the Cold War \"Space Race.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia has been using the ageing but reliable Soyuz capsules to ferry astronauts into space since the 1960s. 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(4409, 4409, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing outside the foreign ministry in Kabul that officials and witnesses said killed at least five people and wounded 40 others.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An IS member slipped by Taliban security barriers \"before blowing up his explosive belt in the middle of employees and guards,\" the Amaq news agency of the local chapter of Islamic State said on the Telegram messaging app.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">An AFP team was conducting an interview inside the information ministry next door when Wednesday\'s blast took place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A company driver waiting outside saw a man holding a bag and with a rifle slung over his shoulder walk past before the man blew himself up.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He passed by my car and after a few seconds there was a loud blast,\" Jamshed Karimi said, adding he saw 20 to 25 casualties. \"I saw the man blowing himself up.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said five civilians were killed and several more wounded by the blast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The local IS branch, known as Islamic State-Khorasan (ISK), claimed that the blast killed at least 20 people, \"including several \'diplomatic\' employees.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italian nongovernmental organisation Emergency NGO, which operates a hospital in Kabul, said it received more than 40 wounded people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Casualty numbers are continuing to rise,\" Emergency said in a statement. \"We have also set up beds in the kitchens and canteen.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bodies lay strewn on the road in the aftermath outside the high-walled compound of the ministry, marked with the Taliban flag, a video verified by AFP showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some wounded people writhed on the ground, screaming for help, and a handful of onlookers scrambled to offer assistance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry itself did not appear to be badly damaged. Window panes in the interior ministry were also shattered by the explosion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There was supposed to be a Chinese delegation at the foreign ministry today, but we don\'t know if they were present at the time of the blast,\" deputy minister of information and culture Muhajer Farahi told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Ahmadullah Muttaqi, a senior official at the prime minister\'s office, said no foreigners were present at the ministry when the suicide bomber struck.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom West, the US special representative on Afghanistan, tweeted that diplomats \"have seen reports of at least 20 dead and many more injured. This violence serves no purpose.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Attacks targeting foreigners -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">IS has claimed a string of attacks that have targeted foreigners or foreign interests in recent months, at a time when the Taliban is trying to attract investment from neighbouring countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least five Chinese nationals were wounded last month when gunmen stormed a hotel popular with Chinese business people in Kabul.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That raid was claimed by IS, which also took responsibility for an attack on Pakistan\'s embassy in Kabul in December that Islamabad denounced as an \"assassination attempt\" against its ambassador.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neighbouring China is one of the few nations to maintain diplomatic ties with Afghanistan\'s new rulers, saying it was ready for \"friendly and cooperative\" relations after the Taliban entered Kabul in August 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing has not recognised the Taliban government but has been eyeing investment in Afghanistan\'s ample mineral deposits, which were largely impossible to exploit during the 20-year war that followed the end of the Taliban\'s previous reign in late 2001.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four people were killed and 25 wounded in an attack on a mosque in the grounds of the interior ministry in Kabul in October, with survivors reporting it was a suicide bombing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And two Russian embassy staff members were killed in a suicide bombing outside their mission in September in another attack claimed by IS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of people, including members of Afghanistan\'s minority communities, have been killed and wounded in other attacks since the Taliban regained power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan\'s regional chapter of the Islamic State group is known as Islamic State-Khorasan, a historical term describing the territory they hope to rule spanning India, Iran and Central Asia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Taliban and IS-K share an austere Sunni Islamist ideology but the latter are fighting to establish a global \"caliphate\" instead of the Taliban\'s more inward-looking goal of ruling an independent Afghanistan. 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(4410, 4410, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the world leaders to work collectively for a just and fair economic order as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict with sanctions and counter-sanctions have created havoc throughout the world.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Taking current global economy into account, it is high time to work collectively for a just and fair economic order,” she said, addressing the inaugural leaders’ session of the ‘Voice of Global South Summit-2023’ through a virtual platform.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India is hosting the two-day virtual summit under the theme “Unity of Voice, Unity of Purpose” by bringing together the countries of the Global South to share their perspectives and priorities on a common platform.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 120 countries have been invited to participate in this virtual Summit. The outcomes of the two-day event will be channeled into the Indian’s G20 presidency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina said Bangladesh, a country of global South, welcomes India\'s vision as the President of G20 to ensure inclusive development under the theme, \"One Earth, One Family, One Future\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Let us work together to have a better future and a better world,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bangladesh PM said the recent Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing Russia- Ukraine conflict with sanctions and counter-sanctions have created havoc world over.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Global recession, crises of food, fuel and fertilizers have added to the rising impacts of climate change making peoples\' life unbearable,” she said, adding that bold, concrete and concerted actions are required at the global level to face these challenges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina also highlighted before the G20 platform six important points for sustained economic growth and development of the Global South.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“First, global peace and stability must be maintained for the greater benefit of humanity. Second, need a new paradigm that will address inequality in a holistic manner in parallel with SDGs, Third, special financing needs of the most vulnerable countries, including LDCs, climate vulnerable countries, etc. must be met during their transition,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raising the 4th point, she asked to bridge the \'Digital Divides\' to ensure equal opportunities for all, including women. “Take advantage of the 4th Industrial Revolution by investing in young population for which financing and technology transfer support is vital,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 5th point, PM Hasina said all human beings should have equal rights to lead decent life. “The global community must not forget ensuring return of the unfortunate Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals to Myanmar,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her final point, she asked to strengthen South-South and Triangular cooperation to ensure global human development. “Here, support from partners, international financial institutions, private sectors, think-tanks, and other stakeholders are crucial,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina warmly congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian government on assumption of G20 Presidency. “I deeply appreciate his strong commitment to make the G20 Platform more meaningful by consultative engagement on inclusive development,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She thanked the Indian government for inviting Bangladesh as a guest country to this important summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Focusing on the recent development of Bangladesh, the PM said the country has achieved rapid economic growth ensuring social justice for all. Bangladesh is acknowledged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’ve reduced the poverty rate from 41.5pc to 20pc in the last 14 years. Our per capita has tripled in just a decade. Bangladesh has fulfilled all criterions for graduating from the LDC category to a developing country,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said Bangladesh is ranked as world\'s 5th best COVID resilient country, and South Asia\'s best performer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina said the country aspires to build \'Smart Bangladesh\" with improved physical infrastructures as the foundation of a strong economy. “Our aspiration is to transform Bangladesh into a knowledge-based country by 2041 and to build a prosperous and climate-resilient delta by 2100,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Group of Twenty (G20) comprises 19 countries --Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Türkiye, United Kingdom and United States-- and the European Union. 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(4411, 4411, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ramadan (Roja) is not merely refraining from eating but to restrain oneself from selfish desire, wrong-doings , bad habits etc. Ramadan provide and command us to learn for controlling all sense organs from all bad habits.</b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last 10 night is 1000 tines more valuable in terms of degree of forgiveness by Allah S.W. T.(Subhan-W-Tala). It is called the night of Lalatul-Kadra. The Hell (Jahannum) remains closed. The Paradise (Jannat) remains open in this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simply it is an opportunity to come more close to Allah&nbsp; S.W.T as Ramadan (roja) is directly monitored by Allah S.W.T.(told by many Islamic scholars). It is important time to learn self control. Almighty Allah has given an easier way to get protection from Hellfire ( Jahannum in Urdu). If someone do Umrah , then he gets the benefit equal to a Haj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reading the \'Quran\' in this month is also very important. I recommend every Muslim to know the meaning of the \'Quran\' in this month. There are various electronic device that can be used to understand the \'Quran\'. Understanding of the \'Quran\' will strengthen our belief in the Qayamat and in day of judgement (Hashra).&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">My personal scientific Experience : Ramadan teaches us to avoid unnecessary eating. Depth of sleep gets improved. Squeezing and expanding&nbsp; of plasma (Blood\'s constituent) strengthen blood formations capacity.&nbsp; We become able to know the great taste of water and food. Intake of carbohydrate gets minimised.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All cells of body become stressed to release energy , hence garbage of the body reduces. Blood pressure becomes normal due to good sleep. Addict people have greater opportunity to quit bad habits. We realise the pain of empty stomach and feel also the pain of poverty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"7\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 06:28:21', '2023-01-12 06:28:21'),
(4412, 4412, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka commuters have been stuck in massive traffic jam since this morning as a 22km long tailback has formed from Tongi Bridge to Moghbazar in the city.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gridlock stretched from Tongi Bridge-Abdullahpur-Airport to Mohakhali-Moghbazar areas of Dhaka — causing untold sufferings for commuters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vehicular movement in parts of Dhaka came to a standstill for hours due to the huge pressure of Ijtema-bound vehicles in Tongi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joint Commissioner (Traffic North) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Abu Saleh Md Raihan, said the pressure of vehicles is a main reason for traffic jams as many people were heading towards the Ijtema venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commuters, especially the office goers and students were seen walking to reach their respective destinations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the traffic congestion came at tolerable level around 12 pm as additional traffic police are working to bring the situation under control, he added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 07:03:56', '2023-01-12 07:03:56'),
(4413, 4413, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In public, they present a united front — always. But Prince Harry has a very different story to tell about the British royals and the way they operate.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Harry’s explosive memoir, with its damning allegations of a toxic relationship between the monarchy and the press, could accelerate the pace of change already under way within the House of Windsor following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry’s description of royals leaking unflattering information about other members of the family in exchange for positive coverage of themselves is but one of the more tawdry allegations in his book, “ Spare,” published this week. The prince singled out King Charles III’s wife, Camilla, accusing her of feeding private conversations to the media as she sought to rehabilitate her image after her longtime affair with Charles when he was heir to the throne.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Far from the unity that is presented in public, the royal family and their staffs are depicted as scheming rivals, ready to stab each other in the back to make themselves or their bosses look better in the public eye. The palace that Harry describes resembles a modern version of the court of King Henry VIII, where courtiers jockeyed for the monarch’s favor and some lost their heads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book leaves the impression of a deeply dysfunctional British royal family whose members are so concerned about the tabloid press that they are forced to make deals with journalists, says Ed Owens, author of “ The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53.” And the public, when faced with this proposition, may think twice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I think there needs to be some kind of reset, and we need to think carefully about what the monarchy is, what role it plays in society,” says Owens, a historian. “Because this idea of `we, the British taxpayers, pay and in return they perform’ — it’s really a broken and corrupting kind of equation.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Largely funded by taxpayers, the monarchy plays a mostly ceremonial role in British society these days — masters of soft power. But supporters argue that the institution still serves a vital role, uniting the country behind shared history and traditions embodied in both the grandeur of royal ceremonies and the day-to-day work of royals as they open schools and hospitals and hand out honors to those who serve the nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">News coverage of the royal family generally falls into one of two categories: carefully orchestrated public appearances or sometimes chaotic stories about the private lives of royals based on unidentified sources.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But change may be at hand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The history of colonialism — so deeply intertwined with the crown — is being re-examined around the world. Protesters have torn down or defaced statues in British cities, and internationally respected universities such as Oxford and Cambridge are changing their course offerings. It all adds up to one thing: An institution that was once the symbol of the British Empire is facing scrutiny as never before.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles, who became king after the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September, faces the challenge of modernizing Britain’s 1,000-year-old monarchy to guarantee its survival. He has already said he plans to reduce the number of working royals and reduce the cost of the monarchy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This has been a long time coming, perhaps, but was delayed by one key factor: Elizabeth herself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Personal affection for the queen meant that the monarchy’s role in British society was rarely debated during her seven decades on the throne. Now that she’s gone, the royal family is confronting questions about its relevance in a modern, multicultural nation that looks very different than when Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1952.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Elizabeth’s world — governed by the mantra “never complain, never explain” — the sort of personal revelations in Harry’s book would have been unthinkable. He describes his mental health struggles following the 1997 car accident that killed his mother, Princess Diana, He recounts a physical altercation with his older brother, Prince William, reveals how he lost his virginity and describes using cocaine and cannabis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Spare” is the latest effort by Harry and his wife, Meghan, to tell their own story after they quit royal life and moved to California in 2020, citing what they saw as the media’s racist treatment of Meghan and a lack of support from the palace.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the ghostwritten memoir, Harry, 38, alleges that Camilla forged connections with the British press and traded information on her way to becoming queen consort, essentially feeding unflattering stories on Harry and Meghan to the press in exchange for better coverage of herself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The allegations are particularly sensitive because of Camilla’s role in the acrimonious breakdown of Charles’ marriage to Diana. While many members of the public initially shunned Camilla, she has won fans by taking on a wide range of charitable activities and has been credited with helping Charles appear less stuffy and more in tune with modern Britain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover leapt to her defense, arguing that Harry was just thin-skinned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I daresay some members of the royal family have passed stories to the press through their courtiers over the years, but it is absurd and naïve to infer that this was part of an orchestrated attempt to destabilize Harry and Meghan,” he wrote. “Royals are not puppets of the press, since — if they have any sense — they realize they can be biffed as well as praised. The wise ones know how to take the rough with the smooth.’’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But unlike Elizabeth, who famously issued a statement suggesting that “some recollections may vary” when confronted with racism allegations after Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, Buckingham Palace has responded to the first major crisis of Charles’ reign with silence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That has left Harry to dominate the headlines on both sides of the Atlantic, apparently being served tequila on a late night U.S. television show and repeatedly talking about the House of Windsor’s dirty laundry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since this isn’t the first scandal to rock Buckingham Palace —among other sensations, Elizabeth’s uncle abdicated the throne to marry a divorced American — many of those who bought Harry’s book on Tuesday seemed certain the institution would weather the storm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They just have to shrug it off and carry on being the royal family,” James Bradley, 61, said as he bought a copy. “After the queen’s death, the royal family’s stock has never been higher in my lifetime, and this will just bounce off. In six months’ time we won’t be talking about this.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Steven Barnett, a professor of communications at the University of Westminster, expects Harry’s revelations to push the palace to be more transparent— perhaps more like other institutions such the White House or the British prime minister’s office at 10 Downing Street.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“He’s done us a favor in exposing the collusive nature, the conspiratorial nature of relationships between the royal family and the British press,” Barnett says. “They will have to change the way in which they do business with the press. And that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing for the monarchy and it’s a good thing for British society.’’ AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 07:28:06', '2023-01-12 07:28:06'),
(4414, 4414, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United Kingdom has announced an additional £500,000 (Tk 60.6 million) in humanitarian support in response to last year’s flood in the Sylhet region, in which 7.2 million people were affected.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Delivered by BRAC, this funding will provide water, shelter, livelihood opportunities, and improved nutrition for people affected in Sunamganj, Sylhet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UK Development Director in Bangladesh, Matt Cannell, said last year’s devastating floods in the Sylhet region underline that Bangladesh remains vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This new funding provides vital water, nutrition, shelter and livelihood opportunities to some of the worst affected communities in Sunamganj, Sylhet. The UK is proud to partner with BRAC to deliver this support,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This new UK support will ensure safe water and shelter for nearly 1,000 affected households and restore livelihoods and food security for more than 5,000 affected households.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BRAC Executive Director, Asif Saleh, said the floods in northeastern Bangladesh, which affected over 7.2 million people in June 2022, were the worst to hit Bangladesh in the last two decades.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They left a trail of destruction in nine districts, with Sunamganj being the worst affected. Significant efforts were undertaken to provide emergency response to meet immediate needs, but sustained humanitarian support is direly needed to help people recover and rebuild their lives. This partnership between the British High Commission and BRAC will be crucial in standing beside the people in Sunamganj and being a partner in their journey to build back better,” he said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 07:59:11', '2023-01-12 07:59:11'),
(4415, 4415, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League will remain cautious about BNP’s movement and stay on streets to protect people’s lives and property, said Awami Leaque general secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We will be cautious about BNP’s movement as they can’t create any anarchic situation and we won’t change our stance. We are on streets and won’t leave those as we’ll perform our duty to protect the lives and property of people,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, came up remarks while talking to reporters at the Secretariat on the current issues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to a question about BNP’s leadership, Quader said, “Awami League will join the next election under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina but who is BNP’s leader? In the past election they took part in the election under the leadership of Kamal Hossain”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the Wednesday’s sit-in programme of BNP, the Awami League leader said there was no violence centering the programme but BNP activists hurled brickbats at police in Faridpur and it didn’t turn violent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If they held rally then Awami Leauge will bring out peace procession, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to a question about possibility of banning Jamaat-e-Islami, the AL leader said it is the matter of court and no decision has been taken yet from the party to proceed with it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Without Jammat BNP is powerless as BNP and Jamaat are the two sides of a coin. If it difficult for BNP to move without Jamaat and if they want more people in their programmes they have to depend on Jamaat,” he said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 08:36:58', '2023-01-12 08:36:58'),
(4416, 4416, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed at 10:30am today after five hours of suspension.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Shah Mohammad Khaled Newaj, deputy manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Aricha sector, said ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia route were suspended due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.</div><div><br></div><div>Two ferries were stuck in the middle of the river while around 200 vehicles got stranded on both sides of the river due to the suspension of the ferry services.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, ferry services on the Aricha-Kazirhat route remained suspended from 4 am today. Around 300 vehicles, mostly goods-laden trucks were seen waiting on both sides to cross the river. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 10:01:19', '2023-01-12 10:01:19'),
(4417, 4417, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The official trailer of the spy thriller Pathaan was unveiled by Yash Raj Films on Tuesday, Hindustan Times reported.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The movie features Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, and John Abraham in the lead roles. The over two-minute-long trailer begins with John Abraham-led terrorist outfit announcing an attack on India.</div><div><br></div><div>Shah Rukh Khan is seen as a soldier who has a mission to take down John. Deepika Padukone, also a soldier, joins Shah Rukh in his mission.</div><div><br></div><div>In the action-packed trailer, Shah Rukh is seen as a daredevil. The story moves to various international sites where Shah Rukh chases John Abraham.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Throughout the trailer, Deepika has moments where she gets to try her handslick action. After watching the trailer, the internet is convinced that not only John but Deepika is also the \'bad guy\' in the film.</div><div><br></div><div>A Twitter user wrote, \"#PathaanTrailer looks like Deepika will be playing the bad guy.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Another person said, \"Deepika is the main villain here, John is not!!!???\" \"Kya Deepika cheat karegi SRK ko (Will Deepika cheat SRK)?\" \"I\'m sensing from the trailer Deepika will be the real villain in Pathaan,\" read a tweet.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Everyone is prepared for SRK vs John. But I don\'t know why I feel her character to be mysterious. She is definitely going to be a surprise package,\" tweeted a fan.&nbsp;</div><div>\"Imagine Deepika turning villain after Pathan falls for her,\" said a person. \"Hear me out, if Shah Rukh Khan is a good character and they gave him the colour green and John is the villain character and they gave him the color blue... Why does Deepika have the color blue then and supposed in the end she will be a good character?\" asked a Twitter user.</div><div><br></div><div>Pathaan will release on January 25 in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Actor Salman Khan will make a cameo appearance in the film, helmed by Siddharth Anand. The film also stars Dimple Kapadia and Ashutosh Rana among others. Pathaan marks Deepika and Shah Rukh\'s fourth collaboration after Om Shanti Om, Happy New Year, and Chennai Express.</div><div><br></div><div>Shah Rukh will also be seen in director Atlee\'s upcoming action thriller film Jawan with Nayanthara and Rajkumar Hirani\'s Dunki with Taapsee Pannu. Deepika, on the other hand, will be next seen in The Intern remake; Project K alongside Prabhas, and in Siddharth\'s Fighter opposite Hrithik Roshan.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 10:32:31', '2023-01-12 10:32:31'),
(4418, 4418, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni has said that cultural activists played great role in achieving Bangladesh independence and flourishing its democracy.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The culture and education are deeply related. We have to keep our rich culture alive- cultural activists contributed to achieving Bangladesh independence and flourishing its democracy,\" she said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The education minister said this while inaugurating a five day long \"Gate opening festival\" at Sufiaful Monch in Taslima-Jalal Monchobari at Golaidanga village under Singair Upazila of the district as the chief guest last evening.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working to spread the peace all over the country and she was recognized as the leader of humanity all over the world.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 11:14:33', '2023-01-12 11:14:33'),
(4419, 4419, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A British doctor has cautioned that hospitals in the UK are so overcrowded that the conditions in the UK’s National Health Services (NHS) are even worse in nations with poor medical infrastructure like war-torn Ukraine, Hindustan Times reported.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Dr Paul Ransom works part-time with the UK hospital and also carries out humanitarian work overseas. In a letter to UK Newspaper The Argus, he described that Hospitals in Sussex, like the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, had overflowing corridors and staff who were \"at their wits\' end”.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Ransom said, “Sometimes I feel guilty at seeing my NHS colleagues trying to keep patients safe and sometimes even keep them alive in conditions that are worse than those I see in many hospitals I work overseas.”</div><div><br></div><div>“I have worked in many places like Ukraine, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe but very rarely saw corridors overflowing with patients waiting for a cubicle”, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In his letter, he recommended suggestions like to set up temporary medical infrastructure as it was done during Covid. In addition, the government should also enhance staffing levels, raise staff salaries, and use temporary facilities.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 11:41:07', '2023-01-12 11:41:07'),
(4420, 4420, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India is reviving a network of thousands of village guards in Jammu and Kashmir, including arming some with automatic rifles, after a militant attack in the disputed region killed seven civilians earlier in January, a police official said.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>New Delhi has battled a decades-long armed insurgency in Kashmir, accusing arch rival Pakistan of stoking violence in the territory - an allegation that Islamabad denies. The nuclear-armed neighbours claim the Himalayan region - that includes the Muslim majority Kashmir valley and Hindu-dominated Jammu - in full but control only parts of it.</div><div><br></div><div>Authorities reactivated an almost defunct network of 26,000 Village Defence Guards (VDGs) after militants killed seven residents of a Hindu community in a remote village in Jammu\'s Rajouri district on Jan. 1.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are re-grouping and rejuvenating the VDGs who were already there,\" local police chief Haseeb Mughal told Reuters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There was slackness after years of normalcy in the region and now we are training and reorganising them to prevent any such attacks. We have also provided automatic rifles to some.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The Rajouri attack alarmed authorities, concerned that it could be a sign that militants were looking to expand into Jammu because of a heavy military presence in the Kashmir valley, a security official said, asking not to be named.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi\'s government reorganised Jammu and Kashmir, then India\'s only Muslim-majority state, into two federally administered territories, aiming to spur development and tamp down on the bloody insurgency.</div><div><br></div><div>Basant Raj Thakur, a VDG from Jammu\'s Doda area, said that he supported the move to provide automatic weapons, replacing bolt-action rifles that some guards are currently armed with.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The way the situation is developing they should provide more such weapons and training,\" Thakur said.</div><div><br></div><div>VDGs receive a monthly pay of around 4,000 rupees ($49) from the local government.</div><div><br></div><div>The push to retrain and rearm VDGs, some of whom had been accused of indulging in criminal activities, has drawn some criticism from local politicians.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Placing weapons in the hands of locals of border districts in Jammu region contradicts the government\'s claims of normalcy,\" Mehbooba Mufti, a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister whose party wants more autonomy for the region, told reporters this week. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 12:11:12', '2023-01-12 12:11:12'),
(4421, 4421, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Golden Globes television ratings slumped to a new low of just 6.3 million viewers, even as the troubled award show tried to bounce back from its recent scandals, broadcaster NBC\'s preliminary figures showed Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The audience on Tuesday night fell from 6.9 million in 2021 -- itself a massive drop suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic, when award shows were held remotely -- and was down from more than 18 million in 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>The Globes were not televised at all last year, when NBC pulled the plug due to outrage over the lack of diversity and alleged ethical shortcomings of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the awards.</div><div><br></div><div>Tuesday\'s ratings -- the lowest ever for a full Golden Globes gala on NBC, and marginally higher than the audience for a stripped-down press conference held to announce winners during the Hollywood writers\' strike in 2008 -- will add to uncertainty over the Globes\' future.</div><div><br></div><div>The event has no television deal currently in place from next year. NBC tore up its longstanding multi-year Globes broadcast deal, and only agreed to bring back this year\'s show on a one-off basis.</div><div><br></div><div>Still, the 80th Golden Globes on Tuesday night saw many A-list stars return to the event\'s Beverly Hills gala, with Steven Spielberg winning best director, Colin Farrell collecting best actor in a comedy, and Eddie Murphy receiving a lifetime achievement award.</div><div><br></div><div>While the presence of so many stars suggested many in Hollywood are happy with the reforms the HFPA has recently enacted -- including the admission of Black members, after a Los Angeles Times expose revealed the group had none -- questions remain.</div><div><br></div><div>A plan by US billionaire Todd Boehly to spin off the awards show into a for-profit entity and pay salaries to members has raised eyebrows.</div><div><br></div><div>And several prominent winners did not attend on Tuesday, citing scheduling difficulties, including Cate Blanchett, who best actress in a drama for \"Tar.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In an email to AFP, an NBC spokesman pointed out that the \"Globes historically airs on Sunday nights,\" when ratings are usually higher, and in previous years benefited from following an NFL game on the channel.</div><div><br></div><div>The awards were moved to a Tuesday evening slot this year to avoid clashing with the wildly popular American football league.</div><div><br></div><div>Updated final figures including ratings from streaming platform Peacock, which also showed the Globes live on Tuesday, will be issued at a later date.</div><div><br></div><div>Live television ratings have slumped generally for awards show in recent years, as younger audiences in particular change the way they consume entertainment, gravitating more toward social media and streaming.</div><div><br></div><div>But the Oscars last March bounced back significantly from their pandemic slump, recording over 16 million US viewers, up from around 10 million a year earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>At Tuesday night\'s Globes, Spielberg\'s \"The Fabelmans\" was named best drama and \"The Banshees of Inisherin,\" starring Farrell, won best comedy. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 12:22:31', '2023-01-12 12:22:31'),
(4422, 4422, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received the medal and citation of IDF Global Ambassador for Diabetes.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen handed over the medal to her at her official residence Ganabhaban this morning, said PM\'s Speech Writer Md. Nazrul Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina was offered the first-ever Honorary title of the Global Ambassador for Diabetes in recognition of her role to ensure affordable access to health care for patients with diabetes and other non-communicable diseases during the opening ceremony of the IDF world diabetes congress held in Lisbon, Portugal on 5 December 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier the Prime Minister accepted the title during a call on by IDF President Professor Akhtar Hussain on 24 August 2022 at Ganabhaban here in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>The Bangladesh Ambassador to Portugal accepted the title on her behalf at the opening ceremony of the IDF world diabetes congress in Lisbon.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, PM’s ambassador-at-large Mohammad Ziauddin, PM\'s Principal Secretary Tofazzal Hossain and Senior Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen were present, while handing over the medal and the citation at Ganabhaban, according to UNB reports.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 13:00:49', '2023-01-12 13:00:49'),
(4423, 4423, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A delegation of Bangladesh Anjumane Al Islah, led by its president Moulana Hushamuddin Chowdhury Fultoli, called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence here this afternoon.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>They discussed various issues relating to the curriculum and education system. They apprised the Prime Minister of the absence of the glories of Muslim civilization in different textbooks of schools and madrasha.</div><div><br></div><div>PM\'s Speechwriter M Nazrul Islam briefed newsmen after the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister listened to them and assured of looking into those issues. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 13:54:34', '2023-01-12 13:54:34'),
(4424, 4424, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said after effective implementation of National Payment Gateway, people will be able to pay trade license fee through online soon.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>He also proposed that a seven-day long camp can be organised at Dhaka Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry (DCCI) office so that the members of the Chamber could especially avail the facilities of trade license renewal from it.</div><div><br></div><div>The Mayor said till June 2022, DSCC earned Taka 879 crore without increasing any tax. For creating a business and investment friendly environment, the Corporation would make Dhaka a smart city, he added.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Taposh said this when the Board of Directors of DCCI, led by its President Barrister Md. Sameer Sattar, called on him at Nagar Bhaban in the capital today, said a DCCI press release here.</div><div><br></div><div>The DSCC Mayor also informed that they would take an initiative to establish IoT based traffic signal system in the city to avoid traffic congestion.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>During the discussion, DCCI President Barrister Md. Sameer Sattar urged for automation of the application and renewal process of trade license including online fee submission through an integrated payment gateway.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He also proposed to establish a booth at DCCI to provide trade license service on behalf of DSCC or enter into a MoU for this purpose.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Sameer also sought DSCC\'s special attention to address huge traffic congestion that heavily affects commuters, costs energy and damage important working hours which is related to doing business context.</div><div><br></div><div>He also requested the Mayor to consider issuance of trade licenses to the young startups which do not have any commercial address but do their&nbsp; businesses from home or online. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 15:38:40', '2023-01-12 15:38:40'),
(4425, 4425, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The position of basic macroeconomic indexes including revenue collection, remittances, export growth, annual development programme (ADP) expenditure and money supply in the first quarter (July-September) of the running 2022-23 fiscal was satisfactory.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This was stated by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday in a report placed in the House on the progress of the implementation 2022-23 budget in the financial year’s first quarter.</div><div><br></div><div>“Revenue collection was done as per the target, positive trend was seen in import and export income, and as a result I am hoping that we will be able to attain our desired target in the current budget,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He mentioned that the revenue collection registered 19.33 percent in the first quarter which was 18.72 percent in the last fiscal.</div><div><br></div><div>The public expenditure was 11.14 percent against 11.90 percent in the same period of 2021-22 fiscal while implementation rate of ADP was 8.55 percent against 8.26 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>The finance minister said that due to the increase of import expenditure there was deficit in the current account balance that reduced to USD 36.47 billion in the reserve on September 30, 2022 which was USD 46.22 billion in the same period of 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>The growth in the remittances inflow was 4.89 percent against 19.44 percent in the previous 2021-22 fiscal.</div><div><br></div><div>The export income growth rate was 13.38 percent against 11.37 percent during the same period of the last fiscal.</div><div><br></div><div>“The positive trend of export trading growth will play as important variable in advancing our economy,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that the import expenditure (C&amp;F) increased 11.67 percent which was 47.56 percent in the same time of the last fiscal.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that normalisation of economic activities after COVID-19 period and significant rise of import of intermediary and capital machineries led to a huge hike in import expenditure.</div><div><br></div><div>“But, currently avoidance of luxury items and exercise of austerity by the government caused a decrease in import expenditure,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The LC opening during July-September tenure in 2022 was USD 18.58 billion which was 4.57 percent less than the same period of the previous fiscal.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the report, annual average inflation was 5.50 percent in September 2021 while it increased 6.96 percent in September 2022. On the other hand, the point-to-point inflation in September 2021 was 5.59 percent, while it increased to 9.10 percent in 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the budget deficit Mustafa Kamal said that the estimated deficit is 5.51 percent of the GDP. For deficit financing 2.22 percent sill come from external sources while 3.29 percent would be mitigated from domestic sources, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>He told that to contain pressure from inflation, the central bank took the path of contractionary monetary policy.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister also said that thanks to timely steps from the government it was possible to contain the inflation forced by price hike of fuel oil price and food items due to the Russia-Ukraine War, and depreciation of Taka against US Dollar.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 15:48:22', '2023-01-12 15:48:22'),
(4426, 4426, '<div><b>The first phase of the Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of the Muslims, will begin on the bank of the Turag River at Tongi, on the outskirts of the city, tomorrow.&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Ijtema will begin with \'Aam Bayan\' (general sermons) by noted scholars after Fazr prayers on the day that will end with Akheri Munajat (final prayers) on January 15.</div><div><br></div><div>The second phase of the Ijtema, however, will begin on January 20 at the same venue and it is scheduled to end with Akheri Munajat on January 22.</div><div><br></div><div>President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued separate messages on the occasion of the Bishwa Ijtema.</div><div><br></div><div>In his message, President Abdul Hamid welcomed the pilgrims from different countries of the world, including Bangladesh, who are coming to join the Ijtema.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that \'Islam is a religion of peace and humanity\', the head of the state said the participation of Muslims from different countries of the world in the Bishwa Ijtema is a great initiative to follow the noble ideals and creed of Islam as well as its propagation and expansion.</div><div><br></div><div>He hoped that Ijtema will pave the way to know, understand and practice the noble ideals of Islam.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Hamid believed that the Ijtema will play a significant role in strengthening the unity, solidarity and brotherhood of the Muslim-Ummah.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, said every year since 1967, one of the largest congregation of the Muslims on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, has been making a significant contribution in propagating and spreading the message of Islam.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Ijtema is a wonderful meeting place of mutual unity, harmony and friendship among Muslims from different parts of the world, which is an unparalleled example of Islamic society, discipline, brotherhood and magnanimity,\" the premier said.</div><div><br></div><div>She hoped that the message of the cherished non-communal spirit, genuine simplicity and hospitality and tolerance of Bangladesh will reach the world through the foreign guests coming to Ijtema.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the footsteps of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Awami League (AL)-led government has taken many steps for the development of Islam in Bangladesh since assuming the state-power in 2009, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>Model mosques and Islamic cultural centers are being constructed in all districts and upazilas, she said, adding that through the Islamic Foundation (IF), the government is spreading the teaching of the Quran to millions of children under mosque-based and public education programs (Gono-Shikkha) to propagate the education of the Quran.</div><div><br></div><div>The greatest Bangalee of all time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took many effective steps in the development, propagation, expansion and service of Islam after the country\'s great liberation war, Sheikh Hasina said.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangabandhu established Islamic Foundation and Madrasah Board, she said, adding that Bangabandhu donated land to the Kakrail Mosque for the Tabligh Jamaat and allocated land for the Bishwa Ijtema on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi, the premier continued.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I wish the happiness, peace, welfare and prosperity for the countrymen including the Muslim Ummah to the Almighty Allah on the occasion of the Bishwa Ijtema,\" said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has said all-out security measures have been taken centering the first phase of Bishwa Ijtema.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Adequate security arrangements have been taken for smooth holding of the Bishwa Ijtema. All the police, RAB and other law and enforcement agencies and the administration have been working together in a cordial atmosphere,\" he told the journalists after visiting the Ijtema ground at Tongi in Gazipur on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that special measures have been taken by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) and Dhaka District Police to facilitate the movement of pilgrims coming for Ijtema.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Car parking was arranged according to the division. Watch towers and control rooms were set up for the security of the Ijtema field. Police will perform duty in uniform and plain clothes,\" Mamun said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He added that sector based security measures were taken. Besides, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) helicopters will be engaged in security patrolling. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-12 16:00:16', '2023-01-12 16:00:16'),
(4427, 4427, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government has taken initiative to introduce an “Integrated Lawful Interception System (ILIS)” in a bid to monitor social media platforms and thwart various anti-state and anti-government activities, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Home Minister divulged the matter in Parliament while replying to a tabled question from ruling Awami League MP from Dhaka-10 Md Shafiul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafiul wanted to know whether the government will increase vigilance to thwart local and foreign conspiracy inside the country.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply, the Home Minister said that law enforcement and intelligence agencies are working relentlessly to thwart any kinds of conspiracy against the country.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Besides, modern technology like Open Source Intelligence Technology (OSINT) has been included in the National Tele¬communication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) to prevent different anti-state and anti-government activities through monitoring social media platforms on the Internet,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asaduzzaman also said that efforts were also made to introduce ILIS in this regard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Explaining the logic behind placing the activities of National Identity Card (NID) under his ministry, Khan said that the Election Commission (EC) has no involvement with the usage of NID except for voting purposes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply to a query from Gonoforum MP Mokabbir Khan the minister said that the national identity registration process is done under the executive department in almost all the countries of the world.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In view of the reality, it should be under the executive department in Bangladesh like other countries,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this reason, he said that the process of bringing it (issuance of NID cards) under the security service department of the Ministry of Home Affairs is ongoing. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 05:44:02', '2023-01-13 05:44:02');
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(4428, 4428, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Fresh from their brilliant performances at the World Cup, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are among the nominees for FIFA\'s The Best award for last year, world football\'s governing body announced on Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Messi, who has won the prize once before, captained Argentina to victory in Qatar, a career-defining triumph that has boosted his chances of winning an eighth Ballon d\'Or but may also make him favourite for this prize.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as Mbappe, who netted a hat-trick in the World Cup final, another two Paris Saint-Germain players are nominated in Neymar and Achraf Hakimi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karim Benzema, who won last year\'s Ballon d\'Or for his performances with Real Madrid, is also nominated, as is Robert Lewandowski, winner of the FIFA prize in the last two years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The list of nominees is completed by Manchester City\'s Julian Alvarez, Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland; the Real Madrid pair of Luka Modric and Vinicius Junior; Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Jude Bellingham.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexia Putellas is nominated for the women\'s award despite being out for the last six months due to injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Barcelona and Spain midfielder won the award last year and retained the Ballon d\'Or in October.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arsenal striker Beth Mead, runner-up to Putellas for the Ballon d\'Or, is also nominated, as are two other members of the England team that won the European Championship on home soil in Leah Williamson and Keira Walsh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are also prizes for the best male and female coach, the best goalkeeper, and the Puskas Award for the best goal of 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A public vote, open until February 3, will decide the three finalists in each category.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The winner is then voted for by a jury made up of national team coaches and captains as well as journalists and fans. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 05:49:11', '2023-01-13 05:49:11'),
(4429, 4429, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia said Thursday that its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine, which would mark an elusive victory for the Kremlin but come at the cost of heavy Russian casualties and extensive destruction of the territory they claim.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 100 Russian troops were killed in the battle for Soledar over the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said in televised remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The Russians have literally marched on the bodies of their own soldiers, burning everything on their way,” Kyrylenko said while reporting that Russian forces had shelled a dozen towns and villages in the region in the past day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian forces are using mortars and rockets to bombard Soledar in an unrelenting assault, struggling for a breakthrough after military setbacks have turned what the Kremlin hoped would be a fast victory into a grinding war of attrition that has dragged on for nearly 11 months with no end in sight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Civilians are trying to survive amid that bloodbath as the Russians are pressing their attacks,” Kyrylenko said. Serhii Cherevatiy, a spokesman for Ukraine’s forces in the east, said Soledar was hit by Russian artillery more than 90 times in the past day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soledar’s fall would be a prize for a Kremlin starved of good battlefield news in recent months, after losing the significant city of Kherson in December. It would also offer Russian troops a springboard to conquer other areas of the eastern Donetsk province that remain under Ukrainian control, particularly the nearby strategic city of Bakhmut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russians’ tactic in the assault on Soledar is to send one or two waves of soldiers, many from the private Russian military contractor Wagner Group who take heavy casualties as they probe the Ukrainian defenses, a Ukrainian officer near Soledar told The Associated Press.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Ukrainian troops suffer casualties and are exhausted, the Russians send in another wave of highly-trained soldiers, paratroopers or special forces, to get a new toehold on the battlefield, said the Ukrainian officer, who insisted on anonymity for security reasons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov praised the “selfless and courageous action” of Russian troops, which he said is helping them to press forward in Soledar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Gigantic work has been done in Soledar,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peskov, however, stopped short of confirming a claim by Wagner Group owner Yevgeny Prigozhin, who boasted about capturing Soledar on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There is still a lot to be done and it’s too early to stop and rub our hands, the main work is still ahead,” he said in a conference call with reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Malyar, said at a briefing Thursday: “The enemy continues the assaults, but suffers significant losses and is not successful.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AP was unable to verify the claims made by either side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that the troops defending Soledar “will be guaranteed ammunition and everything necessary.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia’s Defense Ministry made no mention of Soledar in its daily briefing on Thursday. The ministry announced Wednesday that the country’s top military officer — the chief of the military’s General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov — was put in charge of the military operation in Ukraine. He replaces Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who was demoted to deputy only three months after he was installed in that job.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian officials also said they were taking note of personnel changes at the top levels of the Russian military command, describing them as a sign that Moscow isn’t achieving what it had hoped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Personnel changes would not occur with such frequency if they were doing well,” a senior Ukrainian military official, Brig. Gen. Oleksiy Hromov, said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fighting continued elsewhere in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, reported Thursday that two civilians were killed and a further eight were wounded in Russian attacks on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing data from regional officials, Tymoshenko said that one civilian died and five were wounded in the southern Kherson province, where shells hit a maternity hospital, private houses and apartment buildings, while one person was killed in Donetsk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two people were wounded in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia province, with one further civilian sustaining injuries in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk province.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the United Nations, Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova told the Security Council that Ukraine will seek a general assembly vote on a resolution supporting Zelenskyy’s 10-point peace formula that includes the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and the Russians’ withdrawal. The plan that Zelenskyy presented to the Group of 20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia in November also includes the release of all prisoners, a tribunal for those responsible for the Russian aggression, and security guarantees for Ukraine. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 05:59:34', '2023-01-13 05:59:34'),
(4430, 4430, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The past eight years were the hottest since records began, the United Nations confirmed Thursday, despite the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, as the world faced a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters made more likely and deadly by climate change, the average global temperature was about 1.15 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organization said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA released similar 2022 global temperature figures on Thursday and Bill Nelson, head of the US space agency, described them as \"alarming.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Forest fires are intensifying, hurricanes are getting stronger, droughts are wreaking havoc, sea levels are rising,\" Nelson said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Extreme weather patterns threaten our well-being across this planet,\" he said. \"And we need some bold action.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WMO, a UN agency, said the past eight years \"were the warmest on record globally, fuelled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hottest year on record was 2016, followed by 2019 and 2020, it found.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year marked the eighth consecutive year that annual global temperatures were at least one degree over the pre-industrial levels seen between 1850 and 1900.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Paris Agreement, agreed by nearly all the world\'s nations in 2015, called for capping global warming at 1.5C, which scientists say would limit climate impacts to manageable levels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the WMO warned Thursday that \"the likelihood of -- temporarily -- breaching the 1.5C limit... is increasing with time.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russell Vose, NOAA\'s chief of climate monitoring, said there is a 50-50 chance that there will be a year in the 2020s above 1.5C, although a sustained average of 1.5C warming is not projected to occur until the late 2030s or 2040s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WMO reached its conclusions by consolidating six leading international datasets, including those of NOAA and the European Union\'s Copernicus climate monitor (C3S).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- La Nina effect \'short-lived\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN agency highlighted that the warmest eight years on record had all been since 2015, despite consecutive La Nina events since 2020.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather phenomenon has a cooling effect on global temperatures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year was therefore \"just\" the fifth or sixth hottest year ever recorded, the WMO said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation last year was more extreme in some places.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Copernicus said in its annual report Tuesday that the planet\'s polar regions experienced record temperatures last year, as did large swathes of the Middle East, China, central Asia and northern Africa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Europe endured its second-hottest year ever as France, Britain, Spain and Italy set new average temperature records and heatwaves across the continent were compounded by severe drought conditions, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the planet as a whole, the WMO said the impact of La Nina, which is expected to end within months, would be \"short-lived.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather pattern, it said, \"will not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Extreme weather events -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WMO said the trend was clear.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The average temperature for the period 2013-2022 was 1.14C above the pre-industrial baseline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It stood at 1.09C between 2011 and 2020, according to estimates by the UN\'s climate science advisory panel, the IPCC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This, WMO said, \"indicates that long-term warming continues,\" with the world \"already approaching the lower limit of temperature increase the Paris Agreement seeks to avert.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like NASA\'s Nelson, the WMO chief Petteri Taalas highlighted extreme weather events in 2020, pointing to floods that submerged a third of Pakistan, record-breaking heatwaves in China, Europe and the Americas, and a drawn-out drought in the Horn of Africa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the COP27 climate summit in November, UN chief Antonio Guterres unveiled a five-year, $3-billion plan to build a global early warning system for deadly and costly extreme weather events amplified by climate change.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, only half of the 193 UN member states have such systems, Taalas said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA\'s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said collective action is needed now but \"it\'s never going to be too late to make better decisions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Future warming is a function of future emissions of carbon dioxide,\" Schmidt said. \"At any point in the future, we can decide to do something that will reduce the emissions and reduce the temperatures in the future.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 06:37:42', '2023-01-13 06:37:42'),
(4431, 4431, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South on Thursday killed at least six people in central Alabama, where a tornado ripped roofs off homes and uprooted trees in historic Selma, while another person was killed in Georgia, where severe winds knocked out power to tens of thousands of people.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Autauga County, Alabama, 41 miles (66 kilometers) northeast of Selma, at least six fatalities were confirmed and an estimated 40 homes were damaged or destroyed by a tornado that cut a 20-mile (32-kilometer) path across two rural communities, said Ernie Baggett, the county’s emergency management director.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several mobile homes were launched into the air and at least 12 people were injured severely enough to be taken to hospitals by emergency responders, Baggett told The Associated Press. He said crews were focused Thursday night on cutting through downed trees to look for people who may need help.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It really did a good bit of damage. This is the worst that I’ve seen here in this county,” Baggett said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Georgia, a passenger died when a tree fell on a vehicle in Jackson during the storm, Butts County Coroner Lacey Prue said. In the same county southeast of Atlanta, the storm appeared to have knocked a freight train off its tracks, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials in Griffin, south of Atlanta, told local news outlets that multiple people had been trapped inside an apartment complex after trees fell on it. Firefighters also cut a Griffin man loose who had been pinned for hours under a tree that fell on his house. A high school was damaged, and students were held at four middle schools for parents to pick up after officials determined it was unsafe to run buses. The city of Griffin imposed a curfew from 10 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">School systems in at least six Georgia counties on the southern fringes of metro Atlanta canceled classes on Friday. Those systems enroll a total of 90,000 students.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nationwide, there were 33 separate tornado reports Thursday from the National Weather Service as of Thursday evening, with a handful of tornado warnings still in effect in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. However, the reports were not yet confirmed and some of them could later be classified as wind damage after assessments are done in coming days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Selma, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement, a tornado cut a wide path through the downtown area, where brick buildings collapsed, oak trees were uprooted, cars were on their side and power lines were left dangling. Plumes of thick, black smoke rose over the city from a fire burning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn\'t immediately known whether the storm caused the blaze. Selma Mayor James Perkins said no fatalities have been reported, but several people were seriously injured. First responders were continuing to assess the damage and officials hoped to get an aerial view of the city Friday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have a lot of downed power lines,\" he said. \"There is a lot of danger on the streets.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With widespread power outages, the Selma City Council held a meeting on the sidewalk, using lights from cellphones, to declare a state of emergency. A high school was opened as a shelter, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mattie Moore was among Selma residents who picked up boxed meals offered by a charity downtown.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Thank God that we’re here. It’s like something you see on TV,” Moore said of all the destruction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A city of about 18,000 people, Selma is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of the Alabama capital of Montgomery. It was a flashpoint of the civil rights movement and where Alabama state troopers viciously attacked Black people advocating for voting rights as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the tornado passed, Krishun Moore emerged from her home to the sound of children crying and screaming. She and her mother encouraged the kids to keep screaming until they found the two of them on top of the roof of a damaged apartment. She estimated the kids were about 1 and 4 years old. Both of them are OK, she said through Facebook messenger.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malesha McVay drove parallel to the tornado with her family. She said it got less than a mile (less than 2 kilometers) from her home before suddenly turning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We stopped and we prayed. We followed it and prayed,” she said. “It was a 100% God thing that it turned right before it hit my house.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She took video of the giant twister, which would turn black as it swept away home after home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It would hit a house, and black smoke would swirl up,” she said. “It was very terrifying.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 40,000 customers were without power in Alabama on Thursday night, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide. In Georgia, about 86,000 customers were without electricity after the storm system carved a path across a tier of counties just south of Atlanta.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The storm hit in Griffin, south of Atlanta, with winds damaging a shopping area, local news outlets reported. A Hobby Lobby store partially lost its roof, and at least one car was flipped in the parking lot of a nearby Walmart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damage was also reported west of downtown Atlanta in Douglas County and Cobb County, with Cobb County government posting a damage report showing a crumbled cinder block wall at a warehouse in suburban Austell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Kentucky, the National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed that an EF-1 tornado struck Mercer County and said crews were surveying damage in a handful of other counties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three factors — a natural La Nina weather cycle, warming of the Gulf of Mexico likely related to climate change and a decades-long shift of tornadoes from the west to east — came together to make Thursday’s tornado outbreak unusual and damaging, said Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University who studies tornado trends.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The La Nina, a cooling of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide, was a factor in making a wavy jet stream that brought a cold front through, Gensini said. But that’s not enough for a tornado outbreak. What’s needed is moisture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Normally the air in the Southeast is fairly dry this time of year but the dew point was twice what is normal, likely because of unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, which is likely influenced by climate change. That moisture hit the cold front and everything was in place, Gensini said. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 06:45:14', '2023-01-13 06:45:14'),
(4432, 4432, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two people were killed and as many injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw crashed into a truck in the capital\'s Jatrabari area early Friday, police said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as auto-rickshaw driver Momin Mia, 37, of Narayanganj and passenger Palash, 50, a fish trader of Munshiganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured are fish traders Shah Ali, 36, and Sumon, 40.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salman Rahman, sub-inspector (SI) of Jatrabari Police Station, said the accident occurred around 4am. \"The auto-rickshaw crashed into the truck on its way to Jatrabari wholesale fish market as the truck driver suddenly stopped his vehicle in the middle of the road in front of Dania College, leaving four occupants of the auto-rickshaw critically injured.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured were rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where Momin and Palash were declared dead, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, police failed to seize the truck, the SI said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 06:51:13', '2023-01-13 06:51:13'),
(4433, 4433, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Five members of a family, including two children, who were asleep in their house, were found charred to death in Rangunia early Friday, police said.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The dead were identified as Kangal Boshak, 70, Lolita Boshak, 60, Lucky Boshak, 32, Saraswati Boshak, 4, and Sowrabh Boshak, 12.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another member of the family, Khokon Boshak, 42, was rushed to Chittagong Medical College in a critical condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire broke out and engulfed the house of Abdul Malek at the Mohajonpara area of Parua union around 2am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdul Hamid Mia, deputy assistant director of Chattogram fire service, said firefighters reached the spot after getting the information and they could tame the flames around 4am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An accidental fire outbreak was suspected to be the reason for the accident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Hamid said the exact reasons for the fire mishap and the extent of damage could not immediately be confirmed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Bakar, sub-inspector of Rangunia Police Station, said: \"The bodies of five members of the family were brought to the police station in the morning.\" UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 08:26:38', '2023-01-13 08:26:38'),
(4434, 4434, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The first phase of the three-day Biswa Ijtema, billed as the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, began Friday morning after two years of Covid hiatus on the bank of the River Turag river in Tongi.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 56th edition of the annual Biswa Ijtema (World Congregation) began with the a\'mbayan (general sermons) of Pakistani Islamic scholar Maulana Ziaul Haque after Fajr prayers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of devotees from home and abroad – including India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Syria, Chad, Tajikistan Turkey, Afghanistan, Palestine, the UK, and the US – thronged the bank of Turag to listen to scholars reciting and explaining verses from the Quran and to renew their commitment to Islamic values.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the afternoon, the country\'s largest Jumah prayers, led by Maulana Hafez Zobair Ahmad, leader of a faction of Tabligh Jamaat, will be held at Ijtema ground.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gazipur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mollah Nazrul Islam said additional police personnel have been deployed in and around the Ijtema venue to ensure the security of the devotees. The venue has been brought under closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera surveillance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, the government set up health camps for the devotees to provide them with treatment like the previous years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, another devotee died today at the Ijtema venue due to complications of old age. On Thursday, two devotees died from cold-related illness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first phase of Ijtema will end Sunday with Akheri Munajat (final prayers).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tabligh Jamaat has been organising the congregation at the venue since 1967.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2011, it divided Ijtema into two phases to accommodate a large number of attendees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second phase of Ijtema will be held from January 20 to 22 this year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 08:38:53', '2023-01-13 08:38:53'),
(4435, 4435, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A mild cold wave is sweeping several parts of the country but it may abate in some places, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said on Friday morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mild cold wave is sweeping Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and Faridpur, Madaripur, Manikgonj, Moulvibazar, Cumilla, Feni, Jashore, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Barishal and Bhola districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Temperature between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius is considered a mild cold wave, 6 to 8 degrees Celsius a moderate cold wave and less than 6 degrees Celsius a severe cold wave.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 8 degrees Celsius in Dinajpur in the 24 hours until 6:00am on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The highest temperature was recorded at 30.2 degrees Celsius in Teknaf.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, moderate to thick fog may envelop the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere from midnight to morning and it may continue till noon at places.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">‘The weather may remain mainly dry with a temporary partly cloudy sky. The night and day temperatures may rise slightly,’ the BMD said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 09:30:57', '2023-01-13 09:30:57'),
(4436, 4436, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Vladimir Putin\'s move to replace his top commander in Ukraine is a sign of military disarray and his growing impatience in a war Russia is not winning, analysts said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The defence ministry in Moscow said Wednesday it had, again, replaced its top commander in Ukraine, putting army chief of staff Valery Gerasimov in charge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">His predecessor, Sergei Surovikin, a veteran of Moscow\'s wars since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, will become Gerasimov\'s deputy, working alongside two other generals, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian and Western observers said the move was a sign of Putin becoming exasperated by Ukrainian resistance, but also by fault lines in the Russian army command as it faces difficult demands which could include launching a possible major offensive within weeks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts said putting an army chief of staff in charge of an operation on the ground is highly unusual, as the job is usually removed from the battlefield, involving coordination, political contacts, threat evaluation and logistics choices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Not going to plan\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That Putin made the appointment anyway shows that \"things are not going to plan\", said a Moscow-based defence analyst, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The short legacy of Surovikin -- famous for his shaved head and uncompromising scowl, and appointed only in October -- was marked by missile attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, an apparent attempt to cow civilians into submission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But that strategy has not shown signs of working, adding to Russia\'s frustrations over its failure, nearly 11 months into the war, to beat Ukraine\'s army, undermine its government or warn off Western countries increasingly willing to send sophisticated weapons to Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Troop morale took a major hit when Russia suffered its worst military losses from a single Ukrainian attack with the death of at least 89 servicemen in Makiivka in eastern Ukraine over New Year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some analysts meanwhile questioned the wisdom of key changes at the helm while fierce fighting is ongoing around the frontline city of Bakhmut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s inconsistent to change the head of operations in the middle of a battle,\" said Tatiana Kastoueva-Jean, a researcher on Russia at IFRI, a French international relations think tank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It doesn\'t send a good signal to unbalance the entire hierarchy from top to bottom,\" she told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experts questioned by AFP said Moscow\'s move may well herald intensifying military action, such as a fresh offensive and a possible new mobilisation drive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is obvious that there are plans to expand the scale of fighting,\" Alexander Khramchikhin, a Russian military analyst, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the goal would be to gain full control of the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Russia on September 30 -- Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia currently does not control the full extent of the Ukrainian regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, while Russian forces pulled out of Kherson city in November. Russia has meanwhile never occupied Zaporizhzhia city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Serious offensives coming\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is confirmation, if we needed it, that there will be serious offensives coming, and that even Putin recognises that poor coordination has been an issue,\" said Mark Galeotti, at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The brevity of Surovikin\'s command meanwhile points to Putin\'s growing impatience, although experts admitted that the motives behind the Kremlin master\'s opaque decision-making are often difficult to gauge fully.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Everyone seems to be in shock,\" tweeted Tatiana Stanovaya, an analyst specialising in Russian elites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A great many knowledgeable people seem to not get the gist of this decision.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Especially since the Makiivka deaths, Putin has had to deal with \"long, sharp, emotional debates about the eternal Russian questions: \'who is to blame\' and \'what to do\'\", she wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some observers said Putin\'s personnel change in Ukraine was perhaps motivated by the desire for a loyal ally, but Galeotti said the basis for such trusted partnerships was dwindling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If you keep appointing, rotating, burning your stars, setting unrealistic expectations, arbitrarily demoting them, that\'s not going to win loyalty,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian leader will also find it increasingly hard to assuage the doubts of parts of the Moscow elite and public opinion, Khramchikhin said, detecting \"discontent on why... (Russia) has not won this war yet\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 09:39:07', '2023-01-13 09:39:07'),
(4437, 4437, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">One more person died from dengue in the 24 hours to Friday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new number, the official death toll from dengue rose to two this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, 10 people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne disease. Of the new patients, four were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and six outside it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One hundred and twenty-seven dengue patients, including 53 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DGHS has recorded 370 dengue cases and 241 recoveries so far this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country recorded 281 dengue deaths in 2022 – the highest on record after 179 deaths recorded in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DGHS recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries in the past year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 10:25:28', '2023-01-13 10:25:28'),
(4438, 4438, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Congressional Republicans are demanding to see visitor logs for US President Joe Biden\'s homes, arguing that the discovery of classified files at one of his residences is a national security risk.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden acknowledged on Thursday that sensitive material was found in the garage of his house in Delaware.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House deflected when asked if the visitor logs would be provided.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The justice department has appointed an investigator to look into the files.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">News that sensitive documents dating from Mr Biden\'s time as vice-president had been found in a private office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, emerged earlier this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was followed by a disclosure that a second cache was discovered at Mr Biden\'s home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first batch was found on November 2, just before the US midterm elections, but only became public on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden kept an office at the think tank after he left the White House in 2017 until he launched his presidential campaign in 2019. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 11:03:46', '2023-01-13 11:03:46'),
(4439, 4439, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 26-year-old woman and her six-year-old daughter were crushed to death on rail tracks in Lalmonirhat\'s Patgram Friday morning, police said.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Also, the accident left her two-year-old son critically injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dead were identified as Sumi Begum and her daughter Tasmira Tabassum Tasin from Dhabalsuti Rahmanpur village of Patgram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Burimari land port-bound train ran them over as they were crossing the Burimari-Patgram railway tracks in the Ghunti area around 10am, Omar Faruk, officer-in-charge of Patgram Police Station, said. \"The mother and her daughter died on the spot.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bodies were sent to the district\'s Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsies, Faruk said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sumi\'s son is now undergoing treatment at the hospital, he added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 11:07:14', '2023-01-13 11:07:14'),
(4440, 4440, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A mild cold wave is sweeping several parts of the country, but it may abate in some places, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said Friday morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mild cold wave is sweeping Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and Faridpur, Madaripur, Manikgonj, Moulvibazar, Cumilla, Feni, Jashore, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Barishal and Bhola districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Temperature between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius is considered a mild cold wave, 6 to 8 degrees Celsius a moderate cold wave and less than 6 degrees Celsius a severe cold wave.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 8 degrees Celsius in Dinajpur in the 24 hours to 6am today. The highest temperature was recorded at 30.2 degrees Celsius in Teknaf.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, moderate to thick fog may envelop the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere from midnight to morning and it may continue till noon at places.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The weather may remain mainly dry with a temporary partly cloudy sky. The night and day temperatures may rise slightly,\" the BMD said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 11:10:56', '2023-01-13 11:10:56');
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(4441, 4441, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa stopped by the sets of Bigg Boss 16 with their son Laksh. Bharti, who also hosts Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L\'il Champs, shared a new video of their Bigg Boss appearance on Instagram on Friday.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The husband and wife left Laksh, nicknamed Gola, with host Salman Khan, saying they would be back in two days and asked him to babysit. Salman didn\'t seem to mind much as he made friends with Gola.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The comedian duo shared the same promo on Instagram. It was captioned, \"Bigg Boss tonight 10pm on @colorstv...\" In the brief but hilarious clip, Bharti can be seen wearing a pink ethnic outfit, while Haarsh is in a gold jacket, black shirt and black pants. Laksh is wearing a white and orange jacket with blue pants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The clip shows Bharti walking onstage saying, \"Golaaaa!\" She puts him in Salman\'s arms saying, \"Sir, ek minute pakado, main thak gayi (Sir, hold him for a minute, I\'m tired).\" Salman replies, \"Obviously, thakogi haan (you\'ll be tired)!\" as Haarsh laughs on. Bharti says, \"Haan, yeh Bharti ka bachha hain (Yes, he\'s my child).\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, they seem to rush off stage, leaving their baby with Salman. As they depart, Bharti shares, \"Do din bachha sambhalna hain (You have to take care of him for two days) and Haarsh adds, \"Chachu ko pareshaan maat karna (Don\'t trouble uncle).\" Salman asks if Laksh would like to do dance and they groove along to the actor\'s song Baby Ko Bass Pasand Hai from Sultan (2016).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fans seemed to love this cute exchange with Salman ending up as babysitter. Actor Nisha Rawal wrote, “Patootie pie (red heart emoji),” while actor Karanvir Bohra dropped laughing face with tears emojis on their post.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One fan commented that one day Laksh would make it on the show as an adult, \"Bigg boss 40 contestant… Golla (grinning face emoji).\" Another shared, \"Gola ka launch on Bigg Boss (heart eyes and fire emojis).\" The episode with Bharti, Haarsh and Laksh airs on Friday on ColorsTV. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 11:38:25', '2023-01-13 11:38:25'),
(4442, 4442, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Noting Chattogram as the heartbeat of the country\'s economy, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said it will become \"one city with two towns\" after completion of the Bangabandhu Tunnel, being constructed beneath the Karnaphuli River.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is the first tunnel in South Asia. About 95.50 percent work of the tunnel project has been completed so far and it will be inaugurated on February 24,\" he said while exchanging views with journalists at local the circuit house here.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Quader, also the general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL), said once upon a time, none thought that Bangabandhu Tunnel would turn Chattogram into \"one city with two towns\" like Shanghai in China.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said revealed that the feasibility study of metro rail project in Chattogram will be completed on January 31.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangabandhu\'s daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has taken the responsibility of country\'s development giving economic freedom to the people of the country, he said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AL general secretary said when the World Bank withdrew its funding from the Padma Bridge project, the dream was going to be broken.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then Sheikh Hasina stood in the House and announced that Padma Bridge would be constructed with own funding, he said, adding: \"Padma Bridge is no longer a dream but a reality now.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said: \"We are going through a difficult and challenging time. Russia-Ukraine war is going on, and sanctions and counter-sanctions of Europe and America are being imposed on each other, and as a result, one-third of the world\'s countries are now moving towards a big rescission\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that the living cost in Europe has reached a record 40-year high, he said Sri Lanka\'s foreign reserve stands at the bottom while Pakistan\'s reserve is also in a critical condition now.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there is no doubt that the prices of all commodities have increased in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid the global economic crisis, Bangladesh\'s reserve is still in a good position due to the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Quader added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the reserve of Bangladesh, a developing country, is now US$ 34 billion and still it has the capacity to import goods for five months with the reserve.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chattogram City AL Acting President Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury and its General Secretary AJM Nashir Uddin, Chattogram North District AL President MA Salam, its General Secretary Sheikh Ataur Rahman, Chattogram South District AL General Secretary Mofizur Rahman, Chatogram Development Authority Chairman Zahirul Alam Dubash, Chattogram Jilla Parisad Chairman ATM Paiyrul Islam and Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Abul Basar Mohammad Fakhruzzaman were, among others, present at the function. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 12:00:12', '2023-01-13 12:00:12'),
(4443, 4443, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The electricity tariff in Bangladesh hiked by 5 percent at the retail level is still less than that of many developed countries, said Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A slight increase in electricity tariff is proposed to adjust the subsidy borne by the government, he told the reporters at Rajshahi Circuit House.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our government is counting thousands of crores in subsidies for the power sector so that the people do not suffer and can get electricity at a cheap price.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rising fuel prices in Europe and the UK are driving electricity rationing, driving up prices. But in Bangladesh, the price has not been increased in that way as the power sector is still dependent on fossil fuels, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has raised the electricity tariff by 5 percent at the retail level that will be effective from January 1.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now the average tariff for all consumers will go up by Tk0.36 to Tk7.49 from Tk7.13, the Power Division said in a media statement Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the prime minister’s rally in Rajshahi on January 29, Hasan said the rally will be in a field, but the whole city will turn into a rally that day. There will be millions of people joining the rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We believe in the power of the people. And they (BNP) believe in conspiracy and the power of arms. So, all evil forces should be eliminated by the power of the people and that should be shown in the rally of Rajshahi on January 29.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marking the PM’s rally here, Hasan Mahmud arrived in Rajshahi this morning for an exchange of views with local leaders and a field visit. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 14:50:38', '2023-01-13 14:50:38'),
(4444, 4444, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Bank (BB) is going to announce a new monetary policy on Sunday in line with the advice of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Bangladesh requested the IMF for a loan of $4.5 billion last July, and the global lending agency agreed to give it to Bangladesh subject to conditions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before lending, the IMF gave several conditions for reforming Bangladesh’s financial sector including setting a monetary policy for every quarter of a fiscal year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In line with the IMF conditions, the central bank has decided to announce a monetary policy twice in a year, which was announced for a single time during a fiscal year under former Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BB announced the new monetary policy for the remaining period of the current fiscal year, which will be very challenging as inflation and liquidity crisis are mounting, experts say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former BB Governor Dr Atiur Rahman told UNB that the economic situation is changing frequently due to variables and volatile geopolitical situations and financial conditions involving Russia-Ukraine war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central bank’s decision to return to the announcement of the monetary policy twice a fiscal year is a good initiative, he said. However, it should be kept under close watch to readjust the policy instruments as the market conditions are so unstable, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Atiur said curbing demand for goods and services and increasing supply lines are necessary tools for controlling inflation. This is a challenging job given the fast changing external and domestic financial conditions, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central bank should remain cautious about the multiplier effects of creating more reserve money as the private credit growth and public borrowing level have already reached their targeted limits, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indeed, containing inflation should remain the top objective of the upcoming monetary policy as the low and middle income groups of people are in troubled water due to this, said Dr Atiur, who also teaches at the Dhaka University.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former IMF official and economist Dr Ahsan H. Mansur told UNB that the monetary policy cannot bring any impact as the interest rate cap is fixed at maximum 9 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Policy interest rate rising will bring a little change in the economy while lending interest rate is a big tool of monetary policy to control money supply and reducing consumption’s demand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the fixed interest rate, the monetary policy cannot make any change in the economy, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mansur said that the central bank is bringing high power money (HPM) in the market, which will have multiple impacts, and the exchange rate of domestic currency (taka) will also fall then.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[High powered money or powerful money refers to that currency that has been issued by the central bank]</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the exchange rate will fall, inflation would go up and liabilities of external payment would definitely increase, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new monetary policy will be announced as per the IMF\'s wishes. As a part of lending, a team of IMF held a series of meetings in Dhaka from October 26 to November 9.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IMF team led by Rahul Anand (Bangladesh’s mission chief) met with the Bangladesh Bank, the Ministry of Finance, the Energy Division, BBS, the planning ministry, BSEC, NBR, and BERC to know the latest economic situation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of this, the IMF DMD Antoinette Monsio Sayeh is arriving in Dhaka to review the update and finalize the loan deal with Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BB is announcing monetary policy during her Dhaka visit starting on January 14.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A team led by Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rauf Talukder met with the IMF on the side-lines of the World Bank-IMF annual meeting in Washington last October. After the meeting, the governor told reporters that Bangladesh will get the loan from the IMF. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 14:55:21', '2023-01-13 14:55:21'),
(4445, 4445, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has on Friday described the government\'s decision to hike the electricity tariff as \'anti-people\'.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He demanded the immediate cancellation of the decision, in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The government has taken the unjustified decision to increase the power tariff in the extreme distress of the people since it is unelected. This is an imprudent and anti-people decision,” the said.</div><div><br></div><div>He alleged that the government is raising the price of electricity step by step in the name of monthly price adjustment. “This is just a retail trick with the people.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul called upon their party leaders and workers&nbsp; and the common people to participate in the rally and procession programme in all cities and upazilas on January 16 to protest the power price hike decision.</div><div><br></div><div>The government on Thursday hiked the retail price of electricity by 5 percent, effective from January.</div><div><br></div><div>The last time the electricity price was hiked at retail level was in February 2020, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul Islam told the power price was increased at a time when people\'s lives are in a state of disarray due to the extreme increase in the prices of all commodities, including rice, pulses, oil and sugar, when people\'s living expenses are increasing uncontrollably and when people are losing their jobs. “So, the power hike move will only intensify the suffering of people.”</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that the fresh hike in the price of electricity at the retail and earlier at bulk level will increase the cost of living and the price of everything, including irrigation and the production cost in mills and factories.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader alleged that the people are actually paying the price for unlimited corruption and irregularities in the power sector.</div><div><br></div><div>The government is taking money from people’s pockets as the cost of power generation has increased due to corruption, wastage and mismanagement, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-13 16:34:11', '2023-01-13 16:34:11'),
(4446, 4446, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, arrives in Dhaka today for a 5-day visit.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She will stay in Dhaka till January 18. During her visit, Sayeh will meet with the prime minister, finance minister, governor of Bangladesh Bank and other senior officials of the government.</div><div><br></div><div>According to finance ministry sources, Sayeh is coming to Dhaka from Delhi after completing her current Indian visit.</div><div><br></div><div>The IMF DMD will visit Padma Bridge on January 18. A meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled for January 16. Sayeh will report to the IMF headquarters regarding the $4.5 billion loan for Bangladesh to combat the global recession.</div><div><br></div><div>The report will be presented at the IMF board meeting. Based on this, the process of providing the loan will be finalized.</div><div><br></div><div>The government has reached an in-principle agreement on the loan with the IMF. Now only the formalities remain.</div><div><br></div><div>Some conditions have already been implemented. Electricity prices were hiked by an average of 5 percent on Thursday to implement another IMF condition.</div><div><br></div><div>The government will seek some time to implement some other IMF conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Bangladesh Bank will announce the new monetary policy for the period from January to June of the current financial year tomorrow in accordance with the conditions of the IMF. It will give the impression of raising the loan interest rate to a limited extent. At the same time, monetary policy will be used to control the rate of inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>For this reason, the matter of increasing the policy interest rate of the central bank is also in the process.</div><div><br></div><div>The government hopes to receive the first installment of the IMF loan in February. For the first installment, $45.45 crore will be received. Thereafter one installment will be made every six months. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 08:10:13', '2023-01-14 08:10:13'),
(4447, 4447, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The first phase of Bishwa Ijtema, one of the biggest congregations of Muslims in the world, in Tongi is continuing for the second day today (January 14, 2023) - drawing devotees in the lakhs.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The three-day congregation began on the bank of the Turag river after Fajr prayers on Friday with sermons delivered by noted Islamic scholar Maulana Ziaul Haque of Pakistan.</div><div><br></div><div>Several lakhs of Muslim devotees, both from home and abroad, are converging at the venue and attending the prayers - reciting the names of Allah and hearing the sermons.</div><div><br></div><div>Maulana Khurshidul Haque of Pakistan delivered sermons after Fajr prayers and Maulana Ibrahim Deula of India also delivered sermons in the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Maulana Iftar Zaman will deliver sermons in English.</div><div><br></div><div>Devotees from different parts of the country are still coming to the Ijtema venue by buses, trucks, boats and on foot.</div><div><br></div><div>The first phase of Ijtema will end tomorrow (Sunday) with Akheri Munajat (final prayers).</div><div><br></div><div>Ijtema is being held in two phases from 2012 to ease accommodation issues.</div><div><br></div><div>The second phase of Ijtema is scheduled to be held on January 20-22 at the same place.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, six devotees died in separate incidents at the Ijtema venue on Thursday, Friday and today.</div><div><br></div><div>A mass wedding ceremony will be held today at the ground after Asr prayers.</div><div><br></div><div>Gazipur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mollah Nazrul Islam said additional police personnel have been deployed in and around the Ijtema venue to ensure the security of the devotees. The venue has been brought under closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera surveillance.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, thousands of volunteers are working round the clock to make sure the event runs smoothly.</div><div><br></div><div>Several health centres have been set up at different parts of the venue along with beds and almost all first aid and other treatment facilities with doctors doing round-the-clock duties at each centre.</div><div><br></div><div>Special measures have also been taken to ensure uninterrupted electricity during the three-day Ijtema.</div><div><br></div><div>Tabligh Jamaat has been organising the congregation at the Tongi venue since 1967. In 2011, it divided Ijtema into two phases to accommodate a large number of attendees. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 08:32:00', '2023-01-14 08:32:00'),
(4448, 4448, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A total of 41 civilians and one police officer have died during nationwide clashes between supporters of former President Pedro Castillo and security forces in Peru that have lasted more than a month, the Attorney General\'s Office said Friday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the wave of protests, especially in the southern region, 531 people were injured, including 355 civilians and 176 National Police agents, while 329 people have been arrested, the office said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The political unrest in the South American country began following the impeachment and arrest of the left-wing president on December 7 and the swearing-in of Vice President Dina Boluarte to replace Castillo.</div><div><br></div><div>Castillo\'s supporters asked Boluarte to resign and demanded the release of Castillo as well as early presidential and congressional elections.</div><div><br></div><div>On December 14, the new president declared a nationwide 30-day state of emergency to stem the violence.</div><div><br></div><div>In Ayacucho, one of the regions hit the hardest in December, police arrested Rocio Leandro Melgar, president of the Ayacucho People\'s Defense Front on Thursday night. Melgar is under investigation for violent acts, the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Attorney General\'s Office added that it has opened eight investigations into the deaths to determine responsibility, Xinhua reported.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 08:42:43', '2023-01-14 08:42:43'),
(4449, 4449, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary died of a heart attack during Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab this morning. He was 76.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Santokh Singh Chaudhary, the party\'s MP from Jalandhar, collapsed during the foot march in Punjab\'s Phillaur when he was walking with Rahul Gandhi.</div><div><br></div><div>The veteran Congress leader was taken to a hospital in Phagwara where he was declared dead on arrival.</div><div><br></div><div>Rahul Gandhi left the march midway and rushed to the hospital where Mr Chaudhary had been taken, a party leader said. He also met Mr Chaudhary\'s family members at his home in Jalandhar\'s Dhaliwal.</div><div><br></div><div>The yatra has been suspended for now, said Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, adding Mr Chaudhary\'s cremation will be done tomorrow morning.</div><div><br></div><div>He said Mr Chaudhary was very excited about the yatra as it was passing through his area.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Gandhi later shared a photo collage from today\'s yatra in which Mr Chaudhary is seen walking with him and other party leaders, reports PTI.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled Mr Chaudhary\'s death, saying \"he will be remembered for his efforts to serve the people of Punjab.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Pained by the passing away of MP Shri Santokh Singh Chaudhary Ji. He will be remembered for his efforts to serve the people of Punjab. Condolences to his family and supporters. Om Shanti,\" PM Modi tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 10:14:32', '2023-01-14 10:14:32'),
(4450, 4450, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina today firmly reiterated that her party always fulfills pledges made to the nation ahead of national elections, reports UNB.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said this while delivering her introductory speech at the joint meeting of the AL Working Committee, National Committee and Advisory Council at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>“Before every election, Awami League places its election pledges, and Awami League always fulfills its election pledges,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that the government is working for the country and its people as per its election pledges. </div><div><br></div><div>“We work for the welfare of the nation and people are benefiting from the results,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, she said that the development of the country does not make them happy. </div><div><br></div><div>Regarding corruption, she referred to her recent speech at the Parliament - asking to give her specific information on where the corruption is happening.</div><div><br></div><div>“Give me information, and I will take action. This won’t just be lip service,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said that the discussion on corruption is coming from those who are corrupt and turned Bangladesh into “a champion in corruption” during their regime.</div><div><br></div><div>“Or doing microcredit business to overburden people with high interests against their loans - forcing them to leave their houses or commit suicide,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that through the ‘My House My Farm’, people won’t need to take loans from the microcredit lenders with high interest rates.</div><div><br></div><div>Briefly describing the development activities of the government, she said, “Through developing every sector of the country, we have been able to reduce the poverty rate and generate employment.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Anyone can remain unemployed if that person wants to remain so, but there is no scope to remain unemployed as we have created so many opportunities,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In this connection, she mentioned the freelancing opportunities across the country through which youths can earn money from their rural homes. </div><div><br></div><div>In the future, she said, the country’s exports will include food items and processed food, digital devices, and small mechanical items.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will be able to increase exports through the investments that are coming into our one hundred economic zones across the country,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>She also said that due to the pragmatic and timely steps of the government in the last 14 years, people are now enjoying a better life.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 10:33:51', '2023-01-14 15:08:48'),
(4451, 4451, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) has issued some directives regarding traffic movement to reduce suffering of Biswa Ijtema devotees.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Movements of vehicles on some roads in Gazipur will remain suspended for around six hours due to the ongoing Biswa Ijtema.</div><div><br></div><div>GMP Commissioner Mollah Nazrul Islam disclosed this in a press briefing at police control room set up at the Ijtema venue saying that the traffic movement has been rearranged as devotees from remote areas of the country will join the Akheri Munajat (final prayers) on Sunday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of the rationalized traffic system, movement of vehicles will remain suspended from 12am on Saturday till the Akheri Munajat (Sunday morning) from Tongi to Bhogra Bypass on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, Khamarpara road, Abdullahpur to Bypile on Ashulia road, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Read more: Commuters asked to avoid airport road for BRT work till Saturday midnight</div><div><br></div><div>The GMP commissioner requested people to use the bypass road to avoid traffic gridlock.</div><div><br></div><div>The first phase of Biswa Ijtema started on Friday morning and it will end through the Akheri Munajat on Sunday morning. According to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 10:39:06', '2023-01-14 10:39:06'),
(4452, 4452, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two Palestinians were killed on Saturday during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The two young men were shot dead by Israeli forces \"during an assault on the village of Jaba, south of Jenin\" in the north of the West Bank, the ministry said.</div><div><br></div><div>No further details were provided on the circumstances surrounding their deaths.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli army said in a brief statement that it had launched \"counterterrorism activity\" near the village, during which \"suspects shot live fire\" at them from a passing vehicle.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The soldiers responded with live fire. Hits were identified,\" it said, adding that no Israeli soldiers were reported injured.</div><div><br></div><div>The Palestinian health ministry named the two young men killed as Ezzedine Bassem Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Adnan Khaliliya, 23. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 11:05:04', '2023-01-14 11:05:04'),
(4453, 4453, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Three people were killed in separate road accidents at Koiargachi of sadar upazila and at Murotola of Shailkupa upazila on Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Shakil Hossain, 22, son of Rabiul Islam Moni, Rakib Hossain Rocky, 21, son of Mitul Hossian and Tushar Biswas, 35, son of Sohrab Biswas.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Mohammed Sohel Rana, officer-in-charge of Jhenaidah Sadar police station, said Shakil and Rakib were going to Jhenaidah Sadar on a motorbike.</div><div><br></div><div>A truck loaded with bricks hit their motorcycle at Koiargachi on Jhenidah-Jashore highway, leaving them dead on spot in the morning, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>In another accident, another motorcyclist, Tushar Biswas, 35, was seriously injured after a bus of&nbsp; Golden Line Paribahan hit his motorcycle, said Shailakupa thana OC Aminul Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 11:33:56', '2023-01-14 11:33:56'),
(4454, 4454, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Tetulia of Panchagarh recorded the season’s lowest temperature in Bangladesh at 6.1 degrees Celsius, in 24 hours till this morning (January 14, 2023) as a mild cold wave is sweeping across parts of the country.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, Dhaka recorded 14.7 degrees Celsius temperature during this period with world\'s worst air.</div><div><br></div><div>Though a mild cold wave is sweeping across most of the divisions including Rajshahi and Rangpur, it may abate within the next one to two days, Hafizur Rahman, a meteorologist of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), told UNB this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins and adjoining area and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere over the country from midnight to morning and it may continue at places till noon, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Night temperature may remain nearly unchanged and day temperature may rise by 1-2° Celsius over the country, the meteorologist said, adding that weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Temperature between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius is considered a mild cold wave, 6 to 8 degrees Celsius a moderate cold wave and less than 6 degrees Celsius a severe cold wave. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 12:32:21', '2023-01-14 12:32:21'),
(4455, 4455, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, who sustained injuries fatally by Shibir attacks, got a job at Rajshahi University (RU) with the generosity of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</b></span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>After getting instruction from the Prime Minister\'s Office the RU authorities gave appointment to Abdullah Al Masud on December 20 last.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Subsequently, Masud joined as store officer equal to section officer at RU Medical Centre on December 22 last.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On April 29, 2014, a gang of Islami Chhatra Shibir men attacked Masud and chopped him indiscriminately, severing his knee from right leg in front of Zia Hall while he was going to attend his class.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Meanwhile, Masud met Rajshahi City Mayor and Awami League Presidium Member AHM Khairuzzaman Liton at his city bhaban office today.</div><div><br></div><div>He also expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the job.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking on the occasion, Mayor Liton said the shibir terrorists\' unleashed attacks on many BCL leaders and workers cutting the tendons of both hands and legs, reports BSS.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He also said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina kept information of the grassroots leaders and workers of Awami League and its associate organisations and their whereabouts.</div><div><br></div><div>The city mayor also said they are very happy as Masud got the job at RU expressing his heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the Premier.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 12:48:48', '2023-01-14 12:48:48'),
(4456, 4456, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP on Saturday announced a 10-day programme to observe the 87th birth anniversary of its founder Ziaur Rahman on January 19.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programmes after a joint meeting of the party and its associate bodies at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>“In the current context, Ziaur Rahman is not only relevant but also an important. That’s why we on behalf of the party have taken various programmes to commemorate the day,” said Fakhrul.</div><div><br></div><div>“Let us remember the person with due respect who proclaimed independence and who showed us the way. We’ll celebrate the day to build a free and prosperous Bangladesh and build a safe abode for our next generation,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have to remember that we fought the Liberation War of Bangladesh, they talk about the spirit of the Liberation War but they have totally forget it and destroyed it. The spirit was building a free society and a democratic state but they destroyed it,” said the BNP leader.</div><div><br></div><div>“People of the country have now waken up, already 15 leaders and activists of BNP died in police firing and by the torture carried out by the Awami League led criminals. More than 600 leaders of BNP have been made disappeared in the past 15 years while thousands of leaders and activists have been killed. False cases have been filed against 34-40 lakh people and still more than 1000 BNP leaders including Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Abdus Salam, Khairul Kabir, Shimul Biswas are in jail,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The programmes include placing of wreaths at Zia\'s grave at Sher-e-Banglanagar at 11 am and discussions at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in memory of Zia at 3 pm on January 19.</div><div><br></div><div>Mohila Dal will hold a discussion on January 17, Sramik Dal on January 21, Muktijoddha Dal on January 22, Krishak Dal on January 23, Jubo Dal on January 24 and Swechchashebak Dal on January 26.</div><div><br></div><div>An art competition, organised by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, will be held on January 18.A milad mahfil, organised by Ulama Dal will held on the same day.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan BNP (North-South) will distribute winter clothes on January 19.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, a cultural programme will be held on January 20 arranged by Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas), reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Born on January 19, 1936 at Bagbari in Bogura, Ziaur Rahman founded the party in 1978 and became the country\'s 7th president.</div><div><br></div><div>Zia was assassinated by a group of army officers at Chittagong Circuit House on May 30, 1981.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 13:15:16', '2023-01-14 13:15:16'),
(4457, 4457, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A large container vessel having a draught of 10 metres and length of 200 metres will anchor at the Chittagong Port for the first time on trial basis on Sunday, according to Chattogram port officials.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Enhancement of the port’s berthing capabilities will increase its container handling capacity, reduce transport costs and turnaround times- the time required for loading and unloading of goods at the port, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>The port authorities have completed all kinds of preparations including increasing the depth of the Karnaphuli River estuary and skills development training of the operators.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the port authorities, vessels having only 9.5 metres draught and 195 metres length have been anchored at the port jetty since 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>However, after receiving a positive response from the survey of UK-based consultancy firm \'HR Wallingford\', the port took the initiative to handle larger vessels.</div><div><br></div><div>The 10-metre draught ships will be able to carry 3,500 TEUs containers to the port and bring down the overall cargo handling costs.</div><div><br></div><div>Chief Hydrographer of Chittagong port authority Commander Arifur Rahman, said in view of the report provided by the research institute, the large vessels\' berthing trial run will begin on Sunday.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"If it becomes successful in this trial operation, the port will soon notify local and global shipping companies to operate bigger vessels on this route. Later, we will allow berthing when big ships arrive, added the commander\"</div><div><br></div><div>With the development, Chattogram port will notify shipping companies for allowing ships with bigger draught on this route, said Khairul Alam Suzan, vice-president of the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Bigger ships will reduce the cost of import-export significantly and huge money will be saved annually, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Having the capacity to handle larger vessels&nbsp; is essential for expanding trade, he said adding people involved sector and export-import trade have long been demanding an increase in the berthing capacity of the Chattogram port but the port authorities did not do it without a proper survey, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 14:57:32', '2023-01-14 14:57:32'),
(4458, 4458, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Preparations are underway to inaugurate 50 more model mosques and Islamic cultural centres across the country on Monday (January 16).</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate 50 model mosques along with Islamic cultural centres on January 16,\" an official of Religious Affairs Ministry said today.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the Prime Minister will inaugurate the 50 model mosques and Islamic cultural centres in the second phase virtually at around 11am on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Religious Affairs M Faridul Haque Khan said, imbued with the spirit of Islam and following the footsteps of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come up with the idea of constructing 564 model mosques across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has set a rare example in the world history by building 564 model mosques and Islamic centres in every district and upazilas throughout the country,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the ministry information, the model mosques include separate places for aju and namaj along with air-conditioned system. Besides, there will be registration and training arrangements for Haji pilgrims, Imam training centre, research centre and Islamic library, autism corner, rituals before burial, car parking facility, hifzakhana, pre-primary education and Quran learning arrangement, conference room for Islamic cultural activities and Islamic dawat, Islamic books sale centre, boarding facility for local and foreign guests along with the mosques.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Earlier, on June 10, 2021, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the first phase of 50 model mosques, out of total 564, simultaneously across the country, aimed at preaching the true messages of Islam to eliminate religious misconceptions.</div><div><br></div><div>The purpose of the project is publicity of Islamic brotherhood and its values as well as disseminating the essence of Islam against extremism and militancy as the religion never supports those.</div><div><br></div><div>It would also put concentration on creating awareness against terrorism and violence against women along with disseminating development activities of the government.</div><div><br></div><div>Under category A, some 69 four-storey mosques having the elevator facility and a floor space of 2,360.09 square metres each are being constructed in 64 districts and city corporation areas.</div><div><br></div><div>Under category B, 475 mosques are being built with a floor space of 1680.14 square metres each, while 16 mosques under C category in coastal areas will have a floor space of 2,052.12 square metres each.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangabandhu had established the Islamic Foundation and enacted Islamic Foundation Act, 1975. In line with Bangabandhu\'s thinking, the project also focused on building a strong Islamic organizational structure by setting up these mosques and Islamic cultural centers across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the ministry information, the mosques and Islamic cultural centres are located at Bhanga upazila, Nagarkanda in Faridpur, Kapasia in Gazipur, Sadar upazila in Gopalganj, Sadar upazila, Katiadi in Kishoreganj, Gheor upazila, Saturia in Manikganj, Sadar upazila, Monohardi in Narsingdi, Goalanda upazila in Rajbari, District headquarters, Bhedarganj upazila in Shariatpur, Dhunat upazila, Nandigram oin Bagura, Niamatpur upazila in Naogaon, Boraigram upazila in Natore, Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj, Bhangura and Sujanagar upazila in Pabna, Kazipur in Sirajganj, Rajshahi city Corporation, Gangachara and Kaunia in Rangpur, Sadar upazila in Thakurgaon, Sadar upazila in Sherpur, District headquarters in Pirojpur, Sadar upazila and Koshba in Brahmonbaria, Sadar upazila and Manikchhari in Khagrachhari, Chandina and Chouddagram in Cumilla, Rupsha in Khulna, Khoksha and Bheramara in Kushtia, District headquarters and Gangni in Meherpur, Debhata in Satkhira, Goainghat in Sylhet, District headquarters and Jagannathpur in Sunamganj, Chunarughat in Habiganj district. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 15:07:57', '2023-01-14 15:07:57'),
(4459, 4459, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh Bank (BB) will announce its Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) tomorrow (Sunday) for the second half of the financial year 2022-23 (FY23).</b></span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>BB Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder will formally announce the MPS at a press conference at the central bank headquarters in the capital, a press release said today.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The governor will also brief journalists on the outcome of the current MPS in managing inflation, driving inflow of private sector credit and propelling economic growth.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Earlier on June, 2022, the BB unveiled a \'cautious\' MPS for the fiscal year 2022-23 (FY23).&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In the MPS, the central bank projected a domestic credit growth ceiling at 18.2 percent in the fiscal FY23 accommodating 14.1 percent credit growth in the private sector and 36.3 percent in the public sector. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 15:14:55', '2023-01-14 15:14:55'),
(4460, 4460, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The 16th death anniversary of “Natyacharya” Selim Al Deen is being observed on Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>JU Drama and Dramatics department has taken up various programmes to commemorate the renowned playwright and theatre artiste.</div><div><br></div><div>As the part of the programme, they organised a three-day ‘Selim Al Deen drama festival’. Three dramas will be staged at Selim Al Deen Muktomancha on the campus.</div><div><br></div><div>Other programmes included a seminar, song performance from his dramas and recalling the memories of the dramatist.</div><div><br></div><div>He was born on 16the August 1949 in Sen Khil of Sonagazi upazila in Feni district.</div><div><br></div><div>The Department of Drama and Dramatics was established at Jahangirnagar University in 1986 at his initiative. He was made the chair of department when it started journey.</div><div><br></div><div>Selim al-Deen received numerous national and international awards. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984, the National Film Award in 1997 and the Ekushey Padak in 2006.</div><div><br></div><div>He died on the day in 2008 at a private hospital in Dhaka. He was buried near the Central Mosque on the campus of Jahangirnagar University. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 15:33:20', '2023-01-14 15:33:20');
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(4461, 4461, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh Women\'s Under-19 made an epic start in the first ever ICC Under-19 Twenty20 World Cup, crushing mighty Australia by 7 wickets at Benoni in South Africa today, reports BSS.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dilara Akter, the wicket-keeper batter was instrumental in the landmark victory, hitting a 42 ball-40 runs knock that included seven fours.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to her serene innings, Bangladesh reached the victory target with 132-3, overhauling Australia\'s 130-5.</div><div><br></div><div>But Bangladesh made a disastrous start, losing opener Misty Shaha in the first ball of the innings. Dilara then took the anchor role and rescued Bangladesh from the precarious state, ably supported by Afia Prottasha who scored 24 off 22 with two fours and two sixes.</div><div><br></div><div>Australia\'s Chloes Ainsworth broke the partnership with the wicket of Dilara but not before then the batter paved Bangladesh\'s platform of a historical victory.</div><div><br></div><div>The rest was done by Shorna Akter and Sumaiya Akter who utilized the platform set by Dilara well to add an 61-run for the unbeaten fourth wicket stand as Bangladesh women\'s team won their first match against Australia in any format of the cricket at any level.</div><div><br></div><div>Claire Moore earlier helped Australia recover from a shaky start to post a good total on the board, hitting 51 ball-52, an innings studded with seven fours. Australia lost two openers in fourth over with 22 runs on the board.</div><div><br></div><div>Ella Hayward was the other notable scorer with 35 and shared 76-run with Moore to set the tune. But despite their effort, Australia lost the match as Bangladesh girls came up with more spirited show.</div><div><br></div><div>Marufa Akter and Disha Biswas took two wickets apiece. Bangladesh will take on Sri Lanka in their next match on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 15:40:08', '2023-01-14 15:40:08'),
(4462, 4462, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) believe they have cracked a hitherto clueless murder in the city\'s Dakkhin Khan, arresting six gangsters from Dhaka and Moulvibazar.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The arrestees were identified as Md. Khaled Khan Shubo, Md. Tipu, Md. Hasanul Islam alias Hasan, Md. Jahangir Hossain, Abdul Majid and Md. Sumon.</div><div><br></div><div>The detectives also recovered a Swiss gear, an autorickshaw used by the victim  and a mobile phone from their custody.</div><div><br></div><div>Based on secret information, the Airport Zonal team of DB (Uttara division) carried out simultaneous drives in a number of places in Dhaka city and Rajanagar thana areas of Moulvibazar district on Friday and early Saturday and arrested the six gangsters.</div><div><br></div><div>Briefing reporters at DMP\'s media center on Saturday, Additional Commissioner (Detective) of DMP Mohammad Haroon-ur-Rasheed said at around 9pm on December 7 last year, victim Md. Mustafa came out from his Dakkhin Khan residence to drive his battery-powered autorickshaw. As he did not return at night, his mother registered a general diary with Dakkhin Khan police station.</div><div><br></div><div>Later on December 17 at around 1.45 am, the victim\'s mother came to know through a local that an unidentified dead body was found on a vacant plot in Asian City under Dakkhin Khan police station. The victim\'s mother and father quickly went to the spot and identified their son Mustafa. </div><div><br></div><div>In this incident, the victim\'s mother then filed a murder case at Dakkhin khan police station.</div><div><br></div><div>The DB chief said that the airport zonal team of DB (Uttara Division) started a shadow investigation of the case. During the investigation, the accused involved in the incident of the case were identified using information technology. </div><div><br></div><div>After that raids were conducted in Rajnagar Thana area of Moulvibazar district along with various areas of the capital and arrests were made. - UNB </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 15:43:32', '2023-01-14 15:44:09'),
(4463, 4463, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government is working tirelessly to spread Bangalee nation\'s traditions, culture and heritage of thousand years worldwide and expand and flourish the native culture.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>She said this in a message on the eve of the month-long Folk Craft Fair and Folk Festival 2023.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Folk Arts and Craft Foundation will arrange the month-long festival.</div><div><br></div><div>In her message, the premier extended heartiest greetings to all concerned with the fair and folk festival.</div><div><br></div><div>She said art and culture bears a nation\'s self-identity and enriches conscience.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Centering 1948-52 Language Movement, Bangalee nationalism movement had begun under the leadership of Greatest Bangalee of All Times Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said artistes had played a robust role to take ahead the movement.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>After the independence, under the patronization of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and sincere efforts of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, Bangladesh Folk Arts and Craft Foundation was founded in 1975, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Since the inception, the foundation has been playing a pioneering role in research, collection, conservation, exhibition and regeneration of folk arts and craft.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said her government has implemented massive programme for the development of the foundation in the last 14 years.</div><div><br></div><div>Work is underway to turn Sonargaon Museum into a world class one through expansion of the museum building of the Bangladesh Folk Arts and Craft Foundation and construction of other physical infrastructures at a cost of Taka 147 crore under Annual Development Programme (ADP) of the government, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina hoped that the month long fair of the foundation will play an important role in the expansion of native cultures, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>She also expressed her optimism that craft artists will uphold the cultural heritage of Bangalee nation through arranging rural games which are almost on the verge of extinction, puppet show, folk songs of neglected singers of rural areas as well as famous singers, jari-sari, bhawaiya, murshidi, marfati, kavigan and palagan which will encourage all in building a Sonar Bangladesh as dreamt by Father of the Nation.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">She wished all-out success of the fair and festival.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 16:38:04', '2023-01-14 16:38:04'),
(4464, 4464, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed his firm belief that the government will be brought down through a peaceful movement, no matter how repressive its tactics to survive become, reports UNB.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We’re passing through a bad time when a barbaric and monstrous force is destroying all our achievements, around 40 lakh of our people have been implicated in false cases while six thousand leaders and activists were killed and several thousand leaders and activists have been staying in jail,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a programme at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office to provide assistance to the families of some BNP leaders who were killed in the recent movement on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said their party rank and file remain upbeat and morally strong to continue the current anti-government movement despite widespread repressive acts.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’ll defeat this terrible monster (the govt) through a peaceful movement, defying any sort of repression and suppression. We’ll establish a truly democratic state here.&nbsp; We’ll surely win the struggle we’re carrying out,” the BNP leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul expressed his sympathy to the families of the slain BNP leaders and said their party will always remain beside them.</div><div><br></div><div>He said those who have sacrificed their lives have done it for an ideal and for achieving a goal:&nbsp; “That ideal and goal is to free our country from misrule and to establish the rights of all people for making Bangladesh a truly democratic state.”</div><div><br></div><div>He claimed that 15 BNP leaders and activists have so far been killed in the current movement since August 22 last year, in police firing or the torture of Awami League ‘cadres’.</div><div><br></div><div>“They (slain opposition activists) have embraced martyrdom but like heroes.&nbsp; None of them were killed while running away as they stood at the front and gave chests to take bullets. Their sacrifices imbued with patriotism will be written in golden letters in the democratic history of this country,” Fakhrul predicted.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-14 17:00:42', '2023-01-14 17:00:42'),
(4465, 4465, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Opener Ross Adair struck a brisk 65 as Ireland levelled a three-match Twenty20 series against Zimbabwe with a six-wicket victory in Harare on Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zimbabwe made 144 with captain Craig Ervine top scoring on 42 and Ireland knocked off the runs with two balls to spare, setting up a series decider on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from Adair, fellow opener and skipper Andy Balbirnie (33) and Harry Tector (26) made significant contributions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Ulster rugby player, Adair faced 47 deliveries and struck four sixes and two fours at Harare Sports Club.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a huge change of fortunes for him as he made only five runs in his international debut on Thursday, with Zimbabwe winning by five wickets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adair departed after trying to clear long-on off left-arm quick Richard Ngarava, miscuing his shot and picking out Wessly Madhevere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My switch to cricket was purely for fun, then I started scoring runs and took it more seriously,\" said Adair, whose younger brother Mark was also part of the winning team.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I took my time today and it paid off. I knew if I was patient, the boundaries would come. We pat ourselves on the back, and come back again tomorrow.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Balbirnie atoned for a poor showing in the first match with his runs coming off 31 balls in an innings that included a six and three fours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Adair departed, Ireland were 119-3 and needed 26 runs from four overs to win. Tector departed with nine still required before George Dockrell hit a six to secure victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leg spinner Ryan Burl was the best of the Zimbabwe bowlers, taking two wickets for 26 runs in his four-over spell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With former England Test batter Gary Ballance ruled out by concussion and star Sikandar Raza playing franchise cricket in Bangladesh, Ervine assumed the mantle of chief run-getter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Put in to bat after losing the toss and one wicket down with just six runs on the board, Ervine took charge with his 40-ball innings, which included four fours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was undone when attempting a scoop shot off a back-of-a-length delivery from Graham Hume, top-edging it to fine leg where Tector made the catch.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We worked pretty hard to set a decent platform of 160, 170, 180 runs,\" said Ervine. \"But Ireland bowled well and made it difficult for us to get boundaries.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa-born Hume, promoted in place of Barry McCarthy, was the most effective of the Irish bowlers taking three for 17 while Tector took two for 22. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 04:03:22', '2023-01-15 04:03:22'),
(4466, 4466, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The residents of six villages near the Sundarbans are literally living in fear for their lives as a hundred footprints of two tigers were spotted in Sonatala village of Bagerhat’s Sharonkhola.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Two tigers left the Sundarbans and crossed the Bhola river and entered the village early hours of Thursday (January 12) and roamed over an area of about one kilometer of Sonatala village, said Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Sundarbans East Division Muhammad Belayet Hossain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the forest department, Village Tiger Response Team (VTRT), Community Patrolling Group (CPG) and villagers searched various areas throughout the day in search of the tigers. However, no tiger was found in that village till Thursday evening, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two tigers went back to the forest after roaming different places in that village, claimed the Forest Department after tracing all the footprints the tigers left on the ground. However, villagers were advised to stay on alert, and have just spent an anxious weekend remaining vigilant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this, tigers have left the Sundarbans and entered the locality more than 50 times in the last 15 years. During this time, both man and tiger have lost their lives due to counter-attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villagers demanded effective measures to prevent tigers from entering the locality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harun Bhadda of Sonatala village said that he woke up early in the morning and saw hundreds of the unmistakable imprints of the tiger\'s paw around his house. Ever since seeing them, his entire family has been gripped by fear of tigers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Sonatala village, the Bhola River has almost filled up with silt and has only two to two-and-a-half feet of water. In the Tajur Gate area under the Bhola camp of the Sharonkhola range of the Sundarbans East Division, countless tiger footprints were spotted on the river bed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of small and large tiger footprints were also spotted in various areas including Harun Bhadda and Abul Hossain’s houses along the river, crop fields and muddy roads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are parts of the Sundarbans in the locality along the river. From Khuriakhali to Sonatala, the forest covers about 6 km in the locality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the two tigers entered the locality, the villagers of Sonatala, Bakultala, North Tafalbari, Rasulpur and Rajapur expressed the fear of the tiger among them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked why tigers entered the locality, DFO Belayet said tigers roam in their home range in the Sundarbans. Perhaps the two tigers crossed the Bhola River and entered the locality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even in different areas of the Sundarbans, tigers are seen roaming more than before, he said. They believe that the number of tigers in the Sundarbans has increased.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, some villagers claimed that many times wild animals including tigers, deers leave the Sundarbans and enter the locality due to the activities of poachers in the forest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, more than half of the total area of the Sundarbans is reserved forest. And the Royal Bengal Tiger is more or less roaming the entire Sundarbans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tigers are under threat here now due to poaching activities, climate change and increasing salinity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the last fiscal year 2017-18, the number of tigers in the Sundarbans Bangladesh part was determined to be 114 through camera trapping. Tiger counting is going on in the Sundarbans through camera trapping to determine the latest population of tigers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the information from the Forest Department, from 2001 to 2022, 28 tigers died in various ways in the Sundarbans East Division. Of these, 14 were killed by miscreants, five by mob lynching, eight natural deaths and one in Cyclone Sidr. Besides, 19 hides of tigers were recovered. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 04:07:06', '2023-01-15 04:07:06'),
(4467, 4467, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine said Russia had unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles Saturday, killing at least 14 people, as Britain became the first Western country to offer it the heavy tanks it has long been seeking.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The British move drew a swift reaction from Moscow, which warned it would only \"intensify\" the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moldova meanwhile, said debris from the latest Russian missiles had landed on its territory and condemned the attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine also insisted Saturday that the fighting in Soledar was continuing, a day after Russia\'s claim that it had captured the ravaged eastern town following a long battle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Victory there would be a rare achievement for Moscow after a series of military setbacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian officials denounced the latest wave of deadly Russian missiles strikes across the country, as the country celebrated the Old New Year, a popular holiday in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 14 people, including a 15-year-old girl, were killed and 64 wounded when an apartment building was hit in the eastern city of Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on messaging app Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven children were among the wounded, the youngest three years old, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far 38 people had been pulled from the rubble and the search operation was continuing, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescuers were also working through the night to free a woman trapped under the rubble of a destroyed house in Dnipro after hearing her voice, the state emergency service said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strike on the Dnipro apartment block destroyed dozens of flats, leaving between 100 and 200 people homeless while around 1,700 were without electricity and heating, the deputy head of presidency Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- UK sending first heavy tanks -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier Saturday, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to provide Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, the first Western country to supply the heavy tanks Kyiv has been crying out for.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tanks would arrive in Ukraine in the coming weeks, Sunak\'s Downing Street office said in a later statement, adding that Britain would also begin training the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use the tanks and guns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s embassy in the UK swiftly issued a warning that \"bringing tanks to the conflict zone, far from drawing the hostilities to a close, will only serve to intensify combat operations, generating more casualties, including among the civilian population\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in his evening address on Saturday, Zelensky argued that Russian \"terror\" could only be stopped on the battlefield.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This can and must be done on our land, in our sky, in our sea,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moldova, Ukraine\'s southwestern neighbour, said Saturday it had found missile debris on its territory after the latest Russian strikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Russia\'s brutal war against Ukraine directly impacts Moldova again,\" President Maia Sandu tweeted, posting photos of the wreckage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We strongly condemn today\'s intensified attacks.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Energy infrastructure hit -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s energy facilities operator Ukrenergo said it was working on \"eliminating the consequences\" of the latest Russian strikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Kyiv, AFP journalists heard several explosions, while Ukrainian officials reported strikes on a power facility.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is a hit to an infrastructure facility, without critical destruction or fire,\" the Kyiv city administration said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the northeastern Kharkiv region, \"the enemy launched another missile attack on critical infrastructure and industrial facilities,\" governor Oleg Synegubov said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emergency blackouts were applied in \"most regions\" of Ukraine due to the fresh barrage of attacks, energy minister German Galushchenko said Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attacks were also reported in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky said Ukraine had managed to shoot down 20 of the more than 30 Russian missiles fired.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Unfortunately, energy infrastructure facilities have been also hit,\" he added, with the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions suffering the most.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Soledar\'s status disputed -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was still uncertainty about the fate of Soledar, a salt mining outpost that Russia claimed to have captured, against denials from Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides have conceded heavy losses in the battle for the town.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s military governor in the embattled eastern region of Donetsk insisted Saturday that \"Soledar is controlled by Ukrainian authorities, our military controls it.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \"battles continue in and outside of the city\", he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was responding to claims by Russia\'s defence ministry on Friday that it had \"completed the liberation\" of Soledar the previous day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The industrial town with a pre-war population of about 10,000 has now been reduced to rubble through intense fighting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Capturing Soledar could improve the position of Russian forces as they push towards what has been their main target since October -- the nearby transport crossroads of Bakhmut. 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(4468, 4468, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the maze-like streets of Old Dhaka, the rooftops of high-rise buildings host a festival unlike any other. Starting with the iconic, highly competitive kite-flying in the afternoon, the revelry is just getting started as night descends.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Residents celebrate the southward journey of the sun from the tropic of Capricorn to the tropic of Cancer. The festival, which usually takes place from January 14 to 15, is also known as Makar (Capricorn) Shankranti. The annual celebration marks the end of the ninth month of the Bengali calendar – Poush.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shakrain – a celebration of kites and lights – is one of the oldest festivals of Bangladesh, which dates back to the Mughal period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival, a jewel in the crown of Old Dhaka traditions, is not only about the colour, performance and competition, but also a source of happiness and pride for Old Dhaka dwellers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the past, kings and royals would host Shakrain to entertain the populace during the harvest. But now the day is also known as Poush Sankranti and Shakrain or Ghuri Utshob, with kites being the central feature of it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shakrain is celebrated mostly in the southern part of Dhaka city where colourful kites of all shapes and sizes speckle the precious bright blue sky, their threads forming an invisible cat\'s cradle overhead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of people get on their rooftops to fly kites, transforming the sky into a glittery kaleidoscope of hundreds of thousands of kites. They also have kite fights with their neighbours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the sun bids farewell, countless \"fanoosh\" (colourful paper lanterns) dot the sky like small fireflies. The celebrations turn merrier when people are greeted with pitha (cake) and traditional cuisine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The colours of Shakrain shine brighter across different parts of Old Dhaka as the winter sun starts setting. The light shows, paper lanterns, and fireworks that illuminate the sky take over the festivities as rooftops are abuzz with fire-breathing stunts – all meant to keep the heart of an Old Dhaka heritage beating.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music awakens the whole town, and flamboyant groups arrange daylong programmes, including concerts and parties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This day is also celebrated by Hindus in India, Nepal and Bangladesh in many cultural forms, with different names – \"Maghesangkranti,\" (Nepal), \"Saakrat\" (Delhi and Haryana), \"Uttarayan\" (Gujarat), \"Maghi\" (Punjab) and many more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A UNB Photojournalist captured the colours and lights of Shakrain at Old Dhaka on Saturday. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 04:15:20', '2023-01-15 04:15:20'),
(4469, 4469, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Awami League retains a “significant level of support” and there is still a lot for the government in Bangladesh to point to as a success story amid current challenges, says Michael Kugelman, director of the newly created South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have to keep in mind that the ruling party Awami League has been in power since 2009 and it retains a significant level of support,” he said, noting that the party has been able to bring success stories on the economic front and in countering terrorism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kugelman said that even if someone talks about all the bad things happening in Bangladesh, the bottom line is that there is still a lot for the government in Bangladesh which helps it sustain a significant level of success and there are people who see reasons to support it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Goldberg recently sat down with Kugelman to discuss the recent protests in Bangladesh. The Foreign Policy magazine published the podcast recently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a question, Kugelman said Bangladesh has been a regional success story for its economic growth. “It\'s a global success story.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He described what had happened over the last few months, including consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war, high level of inflation, rising fuel cost and responses from the government like rationing electricity amid power shortages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kugelman said disruption in electricity supply was a major strain on the economy and sudden fall in economic productivity was an opportunity for the opposition to take to the street.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Corruption, one of the realities in Bangladesh, scandals in the financial sector could be another trigger for the opposition, he said, adding that economic problems and corruption gave the opposition opportunity to draw more attention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kugelman, however, said the protests launched by the opposition parties “was not a mass protest” but a partisan protest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign affairs expert said the government had the opportunity to explain the “temporary consequences” of external factors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kugelman said Bangladesh has demonstrated success in the area of counterterrorism and noted that there was a period when it was a significant problem in the country which had experienced series of deadly attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the Awami League government took initiatives to crackdown really hard on the militants, and terrorism has not been a problem in Bangladesh over the last few years. “That’s another success story.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh has become a much bigger player on the global stage, including its role in peacekeeping operations and with its non-aligned and balanced foreign policy, he observed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a question on “democratic backsliding” he said it is important to look back at the broader history of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the past, he said, BNP (when it was in power) was resorting to similar types of tactics and there were crackdowns as well as reports of enforced disappearances.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kugelman said many things that are happening today were also happening when BNP was in power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said “undemocratic tactics” happen in many countries, including Bangladesh and elsewhere in South Asia, and described them as “hybrid democracy”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to another question, he said he does not think that there will be a Sri Lanka-like situation in Bangladesh as there are safety measures in the latter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kugelman said Bangladesh\'s economy is much more resilient than Sri Lanka’s has been.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also responded to questions on Bangladesh’s next national election which he hoped will be held as per the constitution. 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(4470, 4470, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December, offering hard numbers for an unprecedented surge that was apparent in overcrowded hospitals and packed crematoriums, even as the government released little data about the status of the pandemic for weeks.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those numbers may still underestimate the toll, though the government said the “emergency peak\" of its latest surge appears to have passed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The toll included 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and 54,435 fatalities from other ailments combined with COVID-19 since Dec. 8, the National Health Commission announced. It said those “deaths related to COVID” occurred in hospitals, which means anyone who died at home would not be included in the numbers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report would more than double China’s official COVID-19 death toll to 10,775 since the disease was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019. China has counted only deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a narrow definition that excludes many deaths that would be attributed to COVID-19 in much of the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China stopped reporting data on COVID-19 deaths and infections after abruptly lifting anti-virus controls in early December despite a surge in infections that began in October and has filled hospitals with feverish, wheezing patients. Hospitals in Beijing across the country have been overwhelmed with patients, and funeral homes and crematoriums have struggled to handle the dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Health Organization and other governments appealed for information after reports by city and provincial governments suggested as many as hundreds of millions of people in China might have contracted the virus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Infection numbers now appear to be falling based on a decline in the number of patients visiting fever clinics, said a National Health Commission official, Jiao Yahui.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The daily number of people going to those clinics peaked at 2.9 million on Dec. 23 and had fallen by 83% to to 477,000 on Thursday, according to Jiao.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“These data show the national emergency peak has passed,” Jiao said at a news conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether China truly has passed a COVID-19 peak is hard to assess, said Dr. Dale Bratzler, chief COVID officer at the University of Oklahoma and head of quality control at the university’s hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“That’s difficult to know,” Bratzler said. “China quarantined people indoors, there are many people unvaccinated, the people are vulnerable.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Albert Ko, an infectious disease physician and professor of public health at the Yale School of Public Health, said the number of COVID-19 deaths China is reporting may be a “significant underestimation” because of how they define them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They’re using a very narrow case definition for (COVID) deaths,” Ko said. “They have to have respiratory failure ... in order to be counted as a case you have to be at a place where they can say you fulfilled all the requirements, and that’s at a hospital.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hospitals in China, Ko said, are located mostly in large cities where COVID outbreaks have been reported, not in isolated rural areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is the Lunar New Year, people are traveling, going to the countryside where the population is vulnerable,” Ko said. “We’re really worried about what’s going to happen in China as this outbreak moves to the countryside.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For nearly three years, China had kept its infection rate and deaths far lower than those of the United States and some other countries at the height of the pandemic with a “zero-COVID” strategy that aimed to isolate every case. That shut down access to some cities, kept millions of people at home and sparked angry protests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those rules were suddenly eased in early December after some of the largest shows of public dissent against the ruling Communist Party in more than 30 years. That set off new problems in a country that relies on domestically developed vaccines that are less reliable than others used globally, and where older people — those more susceptible to dying from the virus — are less likely to be vaccinated than the general population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Health Commission said the average age of people who died since Dec. 8 is 80.3 years, and 90.1% are aged 65 and above. It said more than 90% of people who died had cancer, heart or lung diseases or kidney problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The number of elderly patients dying from illness is relatively large, which suggests that we should pay more attention to elderly patients and try our best to save their lives,” said Jiao.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States, South Korea, Japan and several other countries have imposed virus testing and other controls on people arriving from China. Beijing retaliated on Wednesday by suspending issuance of new visas to travelers from South Korea and Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This month, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said agency officials met with Chinese officials to underline the importance of sharing more details about COVID-19 issues, including hospitalization rates and genetic sequences. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 04:26:01', '2023-01-15 04:26:01'),
(4471, 4471, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka has topped the list of cities around the world with the worst air quality this morning (January 15, 2023).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 285 at 9:30 am on Sunday, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with worst air.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s Delhi, Bishkek of Kyrgyzstan occupied the second and third places with an AQI of 193 and 190 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 04:51:04', '2023-01-15 04:51:04'),
(4472, 4472, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\'s new government to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court — a step that critics say will destroy the country\'s democratic system of checks and balances.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protest presented an early challenge to Netanyahu and his ultranationalist national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has ordered police to take tough action if protesters block roads or display Palestinian flags.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli media, citing police, said the crowd at Tel Aviv\'s Habima Square swelled to at least 80,000 people, despite cool, rainy weather. Protesters, many covered by umbrellas, held Israeli flags and signs saying “Criminal Government,\" “The End of Democracy” and other slogans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They are trying to destroy the checks and balances of the Israeli democracy. This will not work,” said Asaf Steinberg, a protester from the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. “And we will fight until the very last minute to save the Israeli democracy.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No major unrest was reported, though Israeli media said small crowds scuffled with police as they tried to block a Tel Aviv highway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, has made overhauling the country’s legal system a centerpiece of his agenda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In office for just over two weeks, his government, which is comprised by ultra-Orthodox and far-right nationalist parties, has launched proposals to weaken the Supreme Court by giving parliament the power to overturn court decisions with a simple majority vote. It also wants to give parliament control over the appointment of judges and reduce the independence of legal advisers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netanyahu\'s justice minister says unelected judges have too much power. But opponents to the plans say the proposed changes will rob the judiciary of its independence and undermine Israeli democracy. Israeli opposition leaders, former attorney generals and the president of Israel\'s Supreme Court have all spoken out against the plan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The legal changes could help Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, evade conviction, or even make his trial disappear entirely. Since being indicted in 2019, Netanyahu has said the justice system is biased against him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police beefed up their presence ahead of the march. Israeli media quoted police as saying officers had been instructed to be “very sensitive” and allow the protest to proceed peacefully. But they also vowed a tough response to any vandalism or violent behavior.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Smaller protests also took place in the cities of Jerusalem and Haifa. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 05:02:06', '2023-01-15 05:02:06');
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(4473, 4473, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh and Nigeria agreed to explore the possibility of signing a framework agreement on a free-trade agreement (FTA) or preferential trade agreement (PTA), the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sides also agreed to consider signing an agreement between the apex chambers of the two countries and establishing cooperation in the IT and ICT sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the invitation of Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, a 17-member government and private sector delegation of Nigeria is in Dhaka now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nigerian delegation, led by Communication and Digital Economy Minister Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, comprises government representatives from the economic, trade and investment department, Communication and National Identity Management commissions, the education department, the High Commission of Nigeria in New Delhi, private sector representatives from the Nigeria-Bangladesh Trade and Technology Forum and businessmen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pantami had a bilateral meeting with Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The commerce minister said mutual trade between Bangladesh and Nigeria is steadily growing and the Bangladesh government is making efforts to augment trade and commerce with Nigeria.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tipu said there is a huge potential for cooperation in economic areas like manufacturing and garments industries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He underlined the importance of more contacts among the chambers and businesses of the two countries and suggested the formation of a joint business council.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pantami talked about Bangladesh\'s excellence in the IT and garments sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tipu sought continued support from the Nigerian government on the Rohingya issue as well as at different UN elections where Bangladesh has launched candidature.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also urged the Nigerian government to set up a diplomatic mission in Dhaka. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 05:40:03', '2023-01-15 05:40:03'),
(4474, 4474, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk\'s bid to move or delay a trial over a misleading tweet about a potential buyout of the electric automaker, setting the stage for the mercurial billionaire to be thrust into a legal drama amid the turmoil of his Twitter takeover.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The decision by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen came during a hearing held in San Francisco federal court to go over the final details of a trial scheduled to begin Tuesday with jury selection.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk\'s attorneys last week asked Chen to transfer the trial to a federal court in Texas, where Tesla moves its headquarters in 2021, arguing that negative coverage of Musk since his $44 billion purchase of Twitter in October had poisoned the jury pool in the San Francisco Bay Area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Chen brushed aside those concerns Friday, and expressed confidence that a panel of impartial jurors could be drawn from a region populated by millions of people. He also noted that a jury was pulled together for trial in the highly publicized criminal trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose transformation from a Silicon Valley star to accused swindler was the subject of an HBO documentary and book before those proceedings began in nearby San Jose, California.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Holmes, 38, is now facing more than 11 years in federal prison of being convicted of investor fraud and conspiracy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk\'s upcoming trial revolves around a civil lawsuit brought on behalf of Tesla shareholders who allege they were duped by a n Aug. 7, 2018 tweet in which he indicated he had lined up financing for a Tesla buyout — a deal that never materialized and resulted in a $ 40 million settlement with U.S. securities regulators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chen already has determined that Musk’s buyout tweet was false, leaving it to a jury to decide whether he acted recklessly by posting it and whether it caused financial harm to Tesla shareholders. After adjusting for two stock splits made since 2018, Tesla’s shares are now worth nearly six times more than at the time of Musk’s tweets about the bogus buyout.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tesla\'s stock was even worth even more before Musk decided to buy Twitter for a price that even he conceded was far more than the company was worth. Tesla\'s shares, currently hovering around $120, have lost nearly half their value since Musk took control of Twitter, partially affecting investor concerns that he is spending too much time running privately held Twitter instead of focusing at the automaker responsible for most of his fame and wealth at a time it\'s facing tougher competition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk, 51, has said he will step down as Twitter\'s CEO as soon as he can find a replacement, but has not set a timetable for handing off the reins. To help reduce Twitter\'s losses and reduce the massive debt stemming from the purchase, Musk has laid off about half of that company\'s staff and is facing allegations of refusing to pay the rent at some offices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Media coverage of mass layoffs and other cutbacks at Twitter were one of the main reasons that Musk\'s lawyer, Alex Spiro, argued for the trial to be moved or at least delayed until the backlash to the harsh measures died down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the lawyers representing Tesla shareholders in the case argued Musk only has himself to blame for any negative perceptions, largely because of his frequent activity on Twitter, the social media platform that he now owns and runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“For better or worse, Musk is a celebrity who garners attention from the media around the globe,” the shareholders’ attorneys wrote in their 19-page opposition to the transfer request. “His footprint on Twitter alone is partially to blame for that. If ‘negative’ attention was all that was required to disqualify a jury pool, Musk would effectively be untriable before a jury given his knack for attracting ’negative” coverage.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After sifting through about 200 juror questionnaires submitted earlier this week, Spiro argued many of them were peppered with derogatory remarks about Musk that underscored how difficult it will be for him to get a fair trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of those unflattering remarks surfaced during Friday\'s hearing as Chen pored through the questionnaires in preparation for Tuesday\'s jury selection. The judge disqualified jurors who he said had variously described Musk as an “idiot\" and a “buffoon.\" AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 05:44:27', '2023-01-15 05:44:27'),
(4475, 4475, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the High Court order granting bail to Sonia Akter Smrity, a Mahila Dal leader of Rajbari, in a case filed over posting \"offensive\" content on Facebook against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Hasan Foyez Siddiqui passed the order withdrawing the stay order of the Chamber Court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior Advocate AJ Mohammad Ali, Barrister Kayser Kamal and Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal appeared in the court for Smriti. Additional Attorney General Sheikh Mohammad Morshed represented the state.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now there is no bar to the release of the Mahila Dal leader, Barrister Kayser Kamal said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Smrity, wife of Md Khokon Mia of No 3 Beradanga area of Rajbari Sadar, is a member of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal’s Rajbari district unit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 2 last year, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division, M Enayetur Rahim, stayed the bail order granted by the High Court till November 7.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The High Court granted interim bail to Smrity in the case on November 1.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police arrested Smrity on October 4 in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for posting offensive status on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arefin Chowdhury, member secretary of Rajbari district Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, lodged an FIR against her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 5, Judge Kaisun Nahar Surma of Rajbari No 1 Judicial Magistrate Court rejected Smrity’s bail plea and ordered to send her to jail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 26, Rajbari Sessions Judge Court also denied bail to Smrity which prompted her to seek bail from the HC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her bail plea, Smrity requested the HC to consider her as a woman and a mother of two children.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the FIR, the accused BNP activist made \"insulting remarks\" about PM Sheikh Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, from her personal Facebook account in two separate statuses on August 31 and September 28. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 05:50:20', '2023-01-15 05:50:20'),
(4476, 4476, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An aircraft with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal on Sunday, Yeti Airlines and a local official said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"There are 68 passengers on board and four crew members... Rescue is underway, we don\'t know right now if there are survivors,\" the airline\'s spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the plane crashed between the old and new Pokhara airports in central Nepal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wreckage was on fire and rescue workers were trying to put out the blaze, said local official Gurudutta Dhakal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Responders have already reached there and trying to douse the fire. All agencies are now focused on first dousing the fire and rescuing the passengers,\" Dhakal said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nepal\'s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it has been plagued by poor safety due to insufficient training and maintenance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Union has banned all Nepali carriers from its airspace over safety concerns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Himalayan country also has some of the world\'s most remote and tricky runways, flanked by snow-capped peaks with approaches that pose a challenge even for accomplished pilots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aircraft operators say Nepal lacks infrastructure for accurate weather forecasts, especially in remote areas with challenging mountainous terrain where deadly crashes have taken place in the past.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather can also change quickly in the mountains, creating treacherous flying conditions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May 2022, all 22 people on board a plane operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air -- 16 Nepalis, four Indians and two Germans -- died when it crashed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air traffic control lost contact with the twin-propeller Twin Otter shortly after it took off from Pokhara and headed for Jomsom, a popular trekking destination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its wreckage was found a day later, strewn across a mountainside at an altitude of around 14,500 feet (4,400 metres).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 60 people were involved in the search mission, most of whom trekked uphill for miles to get there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After that crash authorities tightened regulations, including that planes would only be cleared to fly only if there was favourable weather forecast throughout the route.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines plane crash-landed near Kathmandu\'s notoriously difficult international airport, killing 51 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That accident was Nepal\'s deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane died when it crashed on approach to Kathmandu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just two months earlier, a Thai Airways aircraft had crashed near the same airport, killing 113 people. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 06:47:40', '2023-01-15 06:47:40'),
(4477, 4477, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least six people, including four children, were killed late Saturday night in a gas cylinder blast in Pakistan\'s southwest provincial capital of Quetta, local media reported on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;According to the reports, the blast occurred when a family member attempted to light a heater in the Satellite Town area of Quetta, the provincial capital of the country\'s southwest Balochistan province.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies to a hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;According to the rescue personnel, all the deceased, including a couple and their four children, died on the spot following the blast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Local police told the media that the blast occurred due to gas leakage from the cylinder, which also damaged the house seriously.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Most parts of Balochistan, including Quetta, are facing intense cold weather with temperatures dropping up to minus 15 degrees centigrade. Xinhua</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 07:00:13', '2023-01-15 07:00:13'),
(4478, 4478, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members, the newspaper reported, quoting a spokesperson for Yeti Airlines.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the plane was flying from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara in central Nepal, and urged security personnel and the general public to help with the rescue efforts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Images and videos shared on Twitter showed plumes of smoke billowing from the crash site as rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 07:10:18', '2023-01-15 07:10:18'),
(4479, 4479, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was admitted to Dhaka\'s Evercare Hospital this morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He was admitted to the hospital for a health checkup around 10:30am as he was feeling unwell, BNP\'s Media Cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul has been suffering from various health complications, including heart problems, which intensified during his recent imprisonment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He walked out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on January 9 after the bail order reached the jail authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 8, the Appellate Division upheld the High Court order granting bail to Fakhrul and BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a case filed over the clash between police and the party activists at Nayapaltan on December 7 last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 9, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital, a day before the party’s much-talked about rally in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, they were shown arrested in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital\'s Nayapaltan on December 7, centring the rally. A Dhaka court sent them to jail rejecting their bail pleas. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 07:35:20', '2023-01-15 07:35:20'),
(4480, 4480, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 41 people were killed when a passenger aircraft of domestic carrier Yeti Airlines crashed in Nepal\'s Pokhara, an army spokesperson said, as per news agency Reuters.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“We expect to recover more bodies. The plane has broken into pieces,” ,\" Krishna Bhandari said. There were 72 people on aircraft including two infants, four crew members and some foreign nationals, airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are ten points on the Nepal plane crash:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plane had 5 Indians, 4 Russian, 1 Irish and two South Korean nationals onboard when it crash, Nepal airport official said, as per news agency Reuters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescue operations continued at the crash site local media reported thick black smoke could be seen billowing from the crash site in videos widely shared on social media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft which was 15 years old, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), Yeti Airlines\' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu\'s Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pokhara is a major tourist destination in Nepal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plane crashed on the bank of the Seti river between the old and the new airport while landing, local media reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Tek Bahadur KC, Chief District Officer of the Kaski district, the plane crashed into the Seti river gorge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nepal prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal \'Prachanda\' called an emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers following the crash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also expressed sadness over the crash and directed the Home Ministry, security personnel and all the government agencies to carry out immediate rescue and relief operations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last major air accident in Nepal happened last year on May 29 when all 22 people onboard were killed as a Tara Air plane crashed in Nepal\'s Mustang district. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 08:20:43', '2023-01-15 09:04:01'),
(4481, 4481, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The death toll rose to at least 20 on Sunday after a strike on a residential building in Dnipro Saturday, a city in center-east Ukraine, the Ukrainian regional governor said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Twenty innocent victims...” Dnipropetrovsk governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on messaging app Telegram, after posting that 73 were wounded and that “the rescue operation continues. The fate of more than 40 people remains unknown.”</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine reported a fresh barrage of Russian missiles and civilian deaths Saturday, as Britain became the first Western country to offer it the heavy tanks it has long been seeking.</div><div><br></div><div>The British move drew a swift reaction from Moscow, which warned it would only “intensify” the conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>Moldova meanwhile, said debris from the latest Russian missiles had landed on its territory and condemned the attacks.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine also insisted Saturday that the fighting in Soledar was continuing, a day after Russia’s claim that it had captured the ravaged eastern town following a long battle.</div><div><br></div><div>Victory there would be a rare achievement for Moscow after a series of military setbacks.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian officials denounced the latest wave of deadly Russia missiles strikes across the country, as the country celebrated the Old New Year, a popular holiday in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak called for Russia to be expelled from the UN Security Council. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 09:35:27', '2023-01-15 09:35:27'),
(4482, 4482, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The announcement Saturday was the first official death toll since the ruling Communist Party abruptly dropped anti-virus restrictions in December despite a surge in infections that flooded hospitals.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>That left the WHO and other governments appealing for information, while the United States, South Korea and others imposed controls on visitors from China.</div><div><br></div><div>The government said 5,503 people died of respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and there were 54,435 fatalities from cancer, heart disease and other ailments combined with COVID-19 between Dec. 8 and Jan. 12.</div><div><br></div><div>The announcement “allows for a better understanding of the epidemiological situation,” said a WHO statement. It said the WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, talked by phone with Health Minister Ma Xiaowei.</div><div><br></div><div>“WHO requested that this type of detailed information continued to be shared with us and the public,” the agency said.</div><div><br></div><div>The National Health Commission said only deaths in hospitals were counted, which means anyone who died at home wouldn’t be included. It gave no indication when or whether it might release updated numbers.</div><div><br></div><div>A health official said the “national emergency peak has passed” based on an 83 percent decline in the daily number of people going to fever clinics from a Dec. 23 high.</div><div><br></div><div>The report would more than double China’s official COVID-19 death toll to 10,775 since the disease was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019. China has counted only deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official toll, which excludes many fatalities that might be attributed to the virus in other countries. - Arab News</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 09:54:00', '2023-01-15 09:54:00'),
(4483, 4483, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least 44 people have been killed after an aircraft carrying 72 people crashed in Nepal.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The plane was flying from the capital Kathmandu to Pokhara on Sunday when it crashed. Pokhara is a bustling tourist town about 200km (124 miles) west of Kathmandu.</div><div><br></div><div>There were 72 people on the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, including four crew members, said airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula.</div><div><br></div><div>Nepal Police Spokesperson, Tek Prasad Rai, told Al Jazeera that the death toll has gone up to 44, adding that no survivors have been found so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Jagannath Niroula, spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority, confirmed the figure.</div><div><br></div><div>“Thirty bodies have been recovered and sent to hospital,” Niroula told Reuters news agency. “Another 14 bodies are still lying at the crash site and authorities are bringing in a crane to move them.”</div><div><br></div><div>Local television showed thick black smoke billowing from the crash site as rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft.</div><div><br></div><div>“Responders have already reached there and trying to douse the fire. All agencies are now focused on first dousing the fire and rescuing the passengers,” local official Gurudutta Dhakal said.</div><div><br></div><div>The craft made contact with the airport from Seti Gorge at 10:50am (05:05 GMT), the aviation authority said in a statement. “Then it crashed.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Half of the plane is on the hillside,” said Arun Tamu, a local resident, who told Reuters he reached the site minutes after the plane went down.</div><div><br></div><div>“The other half has fallen into the gorge of the Seti river.”</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking to Al Jazeera from Kathmandu, Ramyata Limbu said locals in Pokhara asserted weather and visibility was “good” when the plane crashed.</div><div><br></div><div>“So its [the crash] shocking and surprising,” said Limbu. “Eyewitnesses said the plane was having problems before it crashed into a gorge close to the airport.”</div><div><br></div><div>Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called an emergency cabinet meeting after the plane crash, a government statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>“I am deeply saddened by the sad and tragic accident of Yeti Airlines ANC ATR 72 which was flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara with passengers,” he posted on Twitter.</div><div><br></div><div>“I sincerely appeal to the security personnel, all agencies of the Nepal government and the general public to start an effective rescue.”</div><div><br></div><div>A committee to investigate the crash has been formed by the government.</div><div><br></div><div>The crash is Nepal’s deadliest since March 2018, when a US-Bangla Dash 8 turboprop flight from Dhaka crashed on landing in Kathmandu, killing 51 of the 71 people on board, according to Aviation Safety Network.</div><div><br></div><div>In May, a plane owned by Tara Air crashed less than 20 minutes after taking off from Pokhara.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 309 people have died since 2000 in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal – home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest – where the weather can change suddenly and make for hazardous conditions. According to Al Jazeera reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 10:32:13', '2023-01-15 10:32:13'),
(4484, 4484, '<div><b><br></b></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the affluent section of the society to stand beside the destitute people as her government has been working to arrange houses for all homeless people of the country, reports UNB.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the representatives of the Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) during a meeting at her office here.</div><div><br></div><div>“Not a single person will remain landless and homeless in Bangladesh. That is our goal,” she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, in the meeting 36 banks donated a total of Tk 113.25 crore for the construction of houses for homeless people under Ashrayan-2 project, said PM’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon while briefing reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said most of the country\'s homeless and landless people have already been given houses and the remaining people will also get abodes. “Nothing can be greater than the smile and satisfaction of the people who got Ashrayan houses,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>She said many people who got Ashrayan houses on two-decimal lands are also growing vegetables, rearing chickens, opening cottage industry and shops there.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“They’re finding a way to make a (decent) living. The life of the people is changing for the better,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Not only the government, but we all together will take the country forward on the path of development,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM thanked the BAB and bankers for providing donations on different occasions saying, “I don\'t even need to tell you (for providing assistance). You all come spontaneously and help during any disaster and crisis.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 11:57:56', '2023-01-15 11:57:56'),
(4485, 4485, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Chattogram court on Sunday granted bail to Md Mostakim who was arrested during protests against the recent hike in dialysis fee at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Metropolitan Magistrate Oliullah passed the order when Advocate Zia Habib filed a bail petition in the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation appointed a lawyer for Mostakim.</div><div><br></div><div>Mostakim was arrested during a protest and the court granted his bail unitl submission of a chargesheet in the case, said Advocate Zia.</div><div><br></div><div>The kidney patients and their relatives staged demonstrations in front of the dialysis centre of the hospital for several days protesting the hike in dialysis fee.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrested Mostakim from the spot and a casewas filed against 60 people including Mostakim with Panchlaish police station on charge of attacking police. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 12:32:38', '2023-01-15 12:32:38'),
(4486, 4486, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh Bank (BB) today announced ‘cautiously accommodative’ Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the second half of the current fiscal year 2022-23 (H2FY23).</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“BB’s monetary and credit programs for H2FY23 will pursue a cautiously accommodative policy stance to contain inflationary and exchange rate pressures, support desired economic growth, ensuring the necessary flow of funds to the economy’s productive and employment generating activities,” said BB Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder while unveiling the MPS at BB headquarters in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>In the new policy, private sector credit growth was kept unchanged to 14.1 percent while the public credit growth ceiling increased to 37.7 percent for June from the previous ceiling of 36 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>In his speech, Talukder said the world economy has been facing a complex situation owing to the war in Ukraine, zero-Covid policy in China, energy shortages in Europe, protectionism in the United States and skyrocketing debt burden in developing countries.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The new wave of Covid-19 in North-East Asia, particularly in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Russia, is also a great concern for the world economy. Bangladesh is no exception, facing inflationary, liquidity, and exchange rate pressures during the last few months, mainly due to external shocks. The high NPL ratio and the issue of good governance in banks and NBFIs are also matter of concern for the financial stability of the economy,” he added.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>To overcome these challenges, he said, BB has already taken a series of policy initiatives, which include raising the policy interest rate amid quantitative tightening through the selling of a huge amount of dollars in the market; continuing the repo and liquidity support facilities for banks and NBFIs, and extending the refinance facilities to neutralize the tight liquidity condition; discouraging imports of luxury and non-essential commodities; enhancing the facilities to improve the export receipts and inward remittances; and engaging with concerned commercial banks and NBFIs to deal with NPLs and good governance issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Talukder, however, said BB has decided to increase its policy rates by 25 basis points, the repo rate to 6.00 percent from 5.75 percent, and the reverse repo rate to 4.25 percent from 4.00 percent as a part of its current policy stance.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“BB emphasizes raising production and employment opportunities by providing necessary funds to various productive sectors of the economy. BB’s monetary policy also seeks to promote import-substituting economic activities and dissuade imports of non-essential commodities to reduce the exchange rate pressure, protect foreign exchange reserves and control imported inflation,” he mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>Considering the current market conditions, he informed, the lending rate cap for consumers’ credit has been relaxed to vary up to 3.00 percentage points, along with the complete removal of the deposit floor rate.</div><div><br></div><div>There is no cap for credit card loans, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In the presence of a suitable economic condition, he said, the removal of the remaining lending rate cap will be considered,&nbsp; reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>He said BB is taking necessary measures to gradually move towards a market-based, flexible, and unified exchange rate regime (within a 2.00 percent variation) by the end of this fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>Talukder said the central bank is taking necessary measures to gradually move towards a market-based, flexible and unified exchange rate regime by the end of the ongoing fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 14:13:26', '2023-01-15 14:13:26'),
(4487, 4487, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka as they look to sweep the series in the third one-day international on Sunday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The hosts, who took an unassailable 2-0 lead after their victory on Thursday, made two changes in Thiruvananthapuram.</div><div><br></div><div>Hardik Pandya and Umran Malik have been rested, with Twenty20 sensation Suryakumar Yadav and Washington Sundar making the team.</div><div><br></div><div>Sri Lanka have also made two changes in their bid for a consolation win. Ashen Bandara and Jeffrey Vandersay come in for Dhananjaya de Silva and Dunith Wellalage.</div><div><br></div><div>India: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj</div><div><br></div><div>Sri Lanka: Avishka Fernando, Nuwanidu Fernando, Kusal Mendis (wk), Ashen Bandara, Charith Asalanka, Dasun Shanaka (capt), Wanindu Hasaranga, Jeffrey Vandersay, Chamika Karunaratne, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Kumara</div><div><br></div><div>Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (IND), Nitin Menon (IND)</div><div><br></div><div>TV Umpire: Anil Chaudhary (IND)</div><div><br></div><div>Match Referee: Javagal Srinath (IND) - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 14:24:15', '2023-01-15 14:24:15'),
(4488, 4488, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred till February 14 the submission of the probe report in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Islam Mallik fixed the fresh date as the investigating officer of the case failed to submit the report today.</div><div><br></div><div>Amatullah Bushra, a friend of Fardin and also a 3rd year student of East West University, who secured bail in the case recently, appeared before the court.</div><div><br></div><div>Fardin was a 3rd year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology’s civil engineering department and a resident of Qutubpur area in Narayanganj\'s Fatullah.</div><div><br></div><div>Police recovered Fardin’s body from the Shitalakhkhya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, said there were several injury marks on Fardin’s head and body.</div><div><br></div><div>Kazi Nuruddin Rana, Fardin’s father, filed a case in connection with his son’s killing with Rampura Police Station on the same day and the case was later transferred to Detective Branch (DB) Police.</div><div><br></div><div>After a long 38-day investigation, the DB chief said on December 14 that Fardin roamed alone in different areas of Dhaka before he went missing, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“Fardin was not murdered, he committed suicide by jumping into the river from Sultana Kamal Bridge On November 4 out of desperation,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 14:56:33', '2023-01-15 14:56:33'),
(4489, 4489, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday conveyed to the United States that they, as a government, want a “free, fair, transparent and credible” election and there should be no doubt about that.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Momen told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, adding that Bangladesh Awami League came to power always through democratic process.</div><div><br></div><div>“No country is perfect, not even the USA. We are trying hard to improve,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, visiting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu had meetings with Foreign Minister Momen, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen at the MoFA to discuss strengthening Bangladesh-US relations and the importance of human rights for all, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said they will accept if they get any good suggestions and Bangladesh has shown that sign already.</div><div><br></div><div>He said, they will take care of those issues if they find any weaknesses anywhere. “We want people’s welfare.”</div><div><br></div><div>“They are our good friends. Among the friends we can talk about issues very openly without any reservations. That’s what we did,” Momen said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Foreign Minister said there are transparent ballot boxes and a stronger and independent Election Commission.</div><div><br></div><div>We believe in people. We want peace across the world. We had very good discussions on many issues, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 15:14:34', '2023-01-15 15:14:34'),
(4490, 4490, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 68 people were killed Sunday when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, a government official said, the country’s deadliest plane crash in more than 30 years.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Seventy-two people – four crew members and 68 passengers – were on board the ATR 72 plane operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines when it crashed, Yeti Airlines spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Thirty-seven were men, 25 were women, three were children and three were infants, Nepal’s civil aviation authority reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Search efforts were called off after dark, Army spokesman Krishna Prasad Bhandar said, and will resume Monday morning. Hundreds of first responders had been still working to locate the remaining four individuals before then, Bhandar said.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the dead is at least one infant, according to the Nepal’s civil aviation authority.</div><div><br></div><div><iframe frameborder=\"0\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/94IbbjcEbBk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"note-video-clip\"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sunday’s incident was the third-deadliest crash in Himalayan nation’s history, according to data from the Aviation Safety Network. The only incidents in which more people were killed took place in July and September 1992.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Those crashes involved aircraft run by Thai Airways and Pakistan International airlines and left 113 and 167 people dead, respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>The civil aviation authority said that 53 of the passengers and all four crew members were Nepali. Fifteen foreign nationals were on the plane as well: five were Indian, four were Russian and two were Korean. The rest were individual citizens of Australia, Argentina, France and Ireland.</div><div><br></div><div>The aircraft had been flying from the capital of Kathmandu to Pokhara, the country’s second-most populous city, the country’s state media The Rising Nepal reported. Pokahara is located some 129 kilometers (80 miles) west of Kathmandu.</div><div><br></div><div>The plane was last in contact with Pokhara airport at about 10:50 a.m. local time, about 18 minutes after takeoff. It then went down in the nearby Seti River Gorge. First responders from the Nepal Army and various police departments have been deployed to the crash site and are carrying out a rescue operation, the civil aviation authorities said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he was “deeply saddened by the sad and tragic accident.”</div><div><br></div><div>“I sincerely appeal to the security personnel, all agencies of the Nepal government and the general public to start an effective rescue,” Dahal said on Twitter.</div><div><br></div><div>Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Sunday he was “deeply grieved” to hear about the crash and that his thoughts were “with the affected families.”</div><div><br></div><div>Nepal’s Yeti Airlines said it was canceling all regular flights on Monday, January 16, in mourning for the victims of the crash.</div><div><br></div><div>The Himalayan country of Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest, has a record of air accidents. Its weather can change suddenly and airstrips are typically sited in difficult-to-reach mountainous areas.</div><div><br></div><div>Last May, a Tara Air flight carrying 22 people crashed into a Himalayan mountain at an altitude of about 14,500 feet. That was the country’s 19th plane crash in 10 years and its 10th fatal one during the same period, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.</div><div><br></div><div>The aircraft involved in Sunday’s crash was an ATR 72-500, a twin-prop turbojet often used in the Asia-Pacific region, especially among low-cost carriers. Planes made by ATR, a joint partnership between European aeronautics companies Airbus and Leonardo, typically have a good reputation.</div><div><br></div><div>However, they have been involved in crashes before. Two ATR 72s operated by the now-defunct Taiwanese airline Transasia were involved in deadly crashes in July 2014 and February 2015.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The second prompted Taiwanese authorities to temporarily ground all ATR 72’s registered on the island.</div><div><br></div><div>In total, the ATR 72’s various models had been involved in 11 fatal incidents before Sunday’s crash in Nepal, according to the Aviation Safety Network.</div><div><br></div><div>ATR said in a statement Sunday that it had been informed of the accident.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this,” the statement read. “ATR specialists are fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.” - CNN</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 15:55:17', '2023-01-15 15:55:17');
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(4491, 4491, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">More than 80,000 people took to the streets Saturday to protest the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding proposed judicial reforms.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Police said crowds were in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv which has witnessed anti-government demonstrations for two straight Saturdays.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the demonstrators were several opposition politicians including Former Defense Minister Benny Gantz.</div><div><br></div><div>Israelis in West Jerusalem and Haifa also joined demonstrations this week, although in smaller numbers.</div><div><br></div><div>Thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Presidential Residence in West Jerusalem and Netanyahu’s official residence.</div><div><br></div><div>The first mass protest against the far-right government that took office earlier this year was held in Tel Aviv last Saturday with nearly 10,000 demonstrators.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael, 24, who did not want to reveal his last name, was among those participating in West Jerusalem. He told Anadolu that the government was “trying to destroy the authority of the Supreme Court” with the new judicial regulation.</div><div><br></div><div>He described the reform that the government is trying to pass as “completely absurd.” He added that democracy needs “judges and members of the Supreme Court who will defend everyone\'s rights.”</div><div><br></div><div>Another protestor, Sharon, 25, said the high judiciary should not be “in the hands of the coalition government and should remain impartial.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Judiciary, Sharon said, should not be made up of people with “prejudices.”</div><div><br></div><div>She described the Netanyahu government as a “dark government.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The proposed changes will severely limit the power of the Supreme Court of Justice, give the government the power to choose judges and end the appointment of legal advisers to ministries by the Attorney General. - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-15 16:11:32', '2023-01-15 16:11:32'),
(4492, 4492, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The mayor of Dnipro has warned there may be no further survivors after Saturday\'s Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack left 30 dead while a further 44 are missing, city officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov said there was \"minimal\" chance of finding anyone else alive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to state TV in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that military operations were going to plan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa were also hit on Saturday in attacks which Moscow said were targeted at Ukraine\'s military and energy infrastructure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The devastating strike in Dnipro hit the entrance of a nine-storey building, turning several floors into smouldering rubble.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Filatov said that around 70 people required medical treatment and of those 10 were \"in a difficult condition\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the missile strikes \"inhuman\", adding that \"Russia intentionally keeps on committing war crimes against civilians\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on state TV, Mr Putin said \"everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the ministry of defence and the general staff\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his evening address on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted he had received many messages of sympathy from around the world and condemned the Russian people\'s \"cowardly silence\" over the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Switching to Russian during his message, he said he wanted to address those \"who even now could not utter a few words of condemnation of this terror\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Your cowardly silence, your attempt to \'wait out\' what is happening, will only end with the fact that one day these same terrorists will come for you.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added the victims of the strike included a 15-year-old girl and that two children had been left orphans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been two weeks since the last wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine\'s power grid. On Saturday, Mr Zelensky said energy infrastructure in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions had been badly hit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the attacks, Ukrainian state energy company Ukrenergo temporarily imposed round-the-clock consumption limits for all regions. Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko said the next few days would be \"difficult\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that Ukraine could expect more deliveries of heavy weapons from Western countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Recent pledges for heavy warfare equipment are important - and I expect more in the near future,\" Mr Stoltenberg told German media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s missile barrage came on the same day that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his government would give Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv\'s armed forces in a bid to help \"push Russian troops back\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response, Moscow said providing more weapons to Ukraine would lead to intensified Russian operations and more civilian casualties. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 02:51:49', '2023-01-16 02:51:49'),
(4493, 4493, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The U.S. military\'s new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday, with a goal of getting a battalion of about 500 troops back on the battlefield to fight the Russians in the next five to eight weeks, said Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Milley, who plans to visit the Grafenwoehr training area on Monday to get a first-hand look at the program, said the troops being trained left Ukraine a few days ago. In Germany is a full set of weapons and equipment for them to use.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until now the Pentagon had declined to say exactly when the training would start.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The so-called combined arms training is aimed at honing the skills of the Ukrainian forces so they will be better prepared to launch an offensive or counter any surge in Russian attacks. They will learn how to better move and coordinate their company- and battalion-size units in battle, using combined artillery, armor and ground forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to two reporters traveling with him to Europe on Sunday, Milley said the complex training — combined with an array of new weapons, artillery, tanks and other vehicles heading to Ukraine — will be key to helping the country\'s forces take back territory that has been captured by Russia in the nearly 11-month-old war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This support is really important for Ukraine to be able to defend itself,” Milley said. “And we’re hoping to be able to pull this together here in short order.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The goal, he said, is for all the incoming weapons and equipment to be delivered to Ukraine so that the newly trained forces will be able to use it “sometime before the spring rains show up. That would be ideal.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new instruction comes as Ukrainian forces face fierce fighting in the eastern Donetsk province, where the Russian military has claimed it has control of the small salt-mining town of Soledar. Ukraine asserts that its troops are still fighting, but if Moscow’s troops take control of Soledar it would allow them to inch closer to the bigger city of Bakhmut, where fighting has raged for months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia also launched a widespread barrage of missile strikes, including in Kyiv, the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the southeastern city of Dnipro, where the death toll in one apartment building rose to 30.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milley said he wants to make sure the training is on track and whether anything else is needed, and also ensure that it will line up well with the equipment deliveries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The program will include classroom instruction and field work that will begin with small squads and gradually grow to involve larger units. It would culminate with a more complex combat exercise bringing an entire battalion and a headquarters unit together.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until now, the U.S. focus has been on providing Ukrainian forces with more immediate battlefield needs, particularly on how to use the wide array of Western weapons systems pouring into the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. has already trained more than 3,100 Ukrainian troops on how to use and maintain certain weapons and other equipment, including howitzers, armored vehicles and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS. Other nations are also conducting training on the weapons they provide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In announcing the new program last month, Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said the idea “is to be able to give them this advanced level of collective training that enables them to conduct effective combined arms operations and maneuver on the battlefield.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milley said the U.S. was doing this type of training prior to the Russian invasion last February. But once the war began, U.S. National Guard and special operations forces that were doing training inside Ukraine all left the country. This new effort, which is being done by U.S. Army Europe Africa’s 7th Army Training Command, will be a continuation of what they had been doing prior to the invasion. Other European allies are also providing training. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 02:56:43', '2023-01-16 02:56:43'),
(4494, 4494, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Scores of rescue workers and onlookers crowded near a steep gorge outside a resort town in central Nepal where a regional passenger plane crashed Sunday, as rescuers combed the wreckage on the edge of the cliff and in the ravine below.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, 68 people have been confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara, according to an announcement posted by the country’s Civil Aviation Authority to Twitter. It’s the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was not immediately clear what caused the accident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A witness said he saw the aircraft spinning violently in the air after it began to attempt a landing, watching from the terrace of his house. Gaurav Gurung said the plane fell nose-first towards its left and then crashed into the gorge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the crash site near the Seti River, about 1.6 kilometers (nearly a mile) away from Pokhara International Airport, rescuers sprayed fire hoses and heaved ropes down to another smoldering part of the wreck below. Some bodies, burned beyond recognition, were carried by firefighters to hospitals, where grief-stricken relatives had assembled.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At Kathmandu airport, family members appeared distraught as they were escorted in and at times exchange heated words with officials as they waited for information.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The plane caught fire after the crash. There was smoke everywhere,” Gurung said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aviation authority said the aircraft last made contact with the airport from near Seti Gorge at 10:50 a.m. before crashing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, was flying from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara, a 27-minute flight. It was carrying 68 passengers including 15 foreign nationals, as well as four crew members, Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The foreigners included five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France. No survivors have been found yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tek Bahadur K. C., a senior administrative officer in the Kaski district, said he expected rescue workers to find more bodies at the bottom of the gorge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Images and videos shared on Twitter showed plumes of smoke billowing from the crash site as rescue workers, Nepali soldiers, and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft to find survivors. The aircraft’s fuselage was split into multiple parts that were scattered down the gorge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who rushed to the airport after the crash, set up a panel to investigate the accident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">”The incident was tragic. The full force of the Nepali army, police has been deployed for rescue,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it’s still trying to confirm the fate of two South Korean passengers and has sent staff to the scene. The Russian Ambassador to Nepal, Alexei Novikov, confirmed the death of four Russian citizens who were on board the plane.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The type of plane involved, the ATR 72, has been used by several airlines around the world for short regional flights. Introduced in the late 1980s by a French and Italian partnership, the aircraft model has been involved in several deadly accidents over the years. In 2018, an ATR 72 operated by Iran’s Aseman Airlines crashed in a foggy, mountainous region, killing all 65 aboard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Taiwan two earlier accidents involving ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircrafts happened just months apart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In July 2014, a TransAsia ATR 72-500 flight crashed while trying to land on the scenic Penghu archipelago between Taiwan and China, killing 48 people onboard. An ATR 72-600 operated by the same Taiwanese airline crashed shortly after takeoff in Taipei in February 2015 after one of its engines failed and the second was shut down, apparently by mistake.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2015 crash, captured in dramatic footage that showed the plane striking a taxi as it hurtled out of control, killed 43, and prompted authorities to ground all Taiwanese-registered ATR 72s for some time. TransAsia ceased all flights in 2016 and later went out of business.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ATR identified the plane involved in Sunday’s crash as an ATR 72-500 in a tweet. According to plane tracking data from flightradar24.com, the aircraft was 15 years old and “equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data.” It was previously flown by India’s Kingfisher Airlines and Thailand’s Nok Air before Yeti took it over in 2019, according to records on Airfleets.net.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yeti Airlines has a fleet of six ATR72-500 planes, company spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pokhara, located 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Kathmandu, is the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit, a popular hiking trail in the Himalayas. The city’s new international airport began operations only two weeks ago. It was built with Chinese construction and financial support. The Chinese ambassador to Nepal, Chen Song, said in a tweet he was “very shocked” to learn of the accident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“At this difficult time, our thoughts are with Nepali people. I would like to express my deep condolences to the victims, and sincere sympathies to the bereaved families,” he wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday’s crash is Nepal’s deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it plowed into a hill as it tried to land in Kathmandu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest, has a history of air crashes. According to the Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety database, there have been 42 fatal plane crashes in Nepal since 1946.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, 22 people died when a plane crashed on a mountainside in Nepal. In 2016, a Tara Air Twin Otter flying from Pokhara to Kathmandu crashed after takeoff, killing all 23 people aboard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2012, an Agni Air plane flying from Pokhara to Jomsom crashed, killing 15 people. Six people survived. In 2014, a Nepal Airlines plane flying from Pokhara to Jumla crashed, killing all 18 on board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1992, all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it plowed into a hill as it tried to land in Kathmandu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Union has banned airlines from Nepal from flying into the 27-nation bloc since 2013, citing weak safety standards. In 2017, the International Civil Aviation Organization cited improvements in Nepal’s aviation sector, but the EU continues to demand administrative reforms. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 03:02:04', '2023-01-16 03:02:04'),
(4495, 4495, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that stern action will be taken against Yaba traders after verifying the list which was recently published by an intelligence agency on Cox\'s Bazar\'s Yaba traders.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minister said this while talking to the reporters after attending the 26th meeting of the Standing Committee on Ministry of Home Affairs held at the office of the Deputy Commissioner (DC) in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have heard about different crimes recently occurring in Cox’s Bazar. Steps must be taken over the incidents. None will get a chance of committing robbery, theft and abduction,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the different names including journalists, public representatives, politicians listed in Yaba smugglers, the Home Minister said, \"We will first check them. If someone is guilty then we will take action against the person whoever they are.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the meeting, the minister visited Shahpori Island in Teknaf on Saturday which is known as a hotspot for human and drug trafficking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, members of the parliamentary committee visited the disputed Ghumdhum border and Kutupalong Rohingya camp on Thursday and Friday, respectively. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 03:13:31', '2023-01-16 03:13:31'),
(4496, 4496, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia\'s Sumatra island early Monday, the US Geological Survey reported.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The epicentre of the quake was 48 kilometres (30 miles) south-southeast of the city of Singkil in Aceh province, at a depth of 37 kilometres, USGS said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It occurred around 6:30 am local time (2230 GMT), and USGS revised it up from its initial measurement at 6.0 magnitude with a 48 kilometres depth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indonesia\'s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) also put it at 6.2 and said there was no threat of a tsunami, while the country\'s disaster agency said there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The earthquake caused people to panic. It was felt between 3-10 seconds in four districts in Aceh and North Sumatra province,\" Abdul Muhari, a spokesman for the BNPB disaster mitigation agency, said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indonesia experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\", where tectonic plates collide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 21, a 5.6-magnitude quake hit the populous West Java province on the main island of Java, killing 602 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the victims were killed as buildings collapsed or landslides were triggered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of Sumatra island\'s deadliest quakes occurred on December 26, 2004, setting off an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people including victims as far away as Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That powerful 9.1-magnitude quake triggered 30-metre (100-foot) waves that hit the shore of Banda Aceh on Sumatra. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 04:03:45', '2023-01-16 04:03:45'),
(4497, 4497, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The bullet-riddled bodies of three women from an Afro-Caribbean minority group were found slain on a beach, the National Human Rights Commission of Honduras said on Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The women were all members of the Garifuna community, whose members live along coastal Honduras and Belize and are descended from an Afro-Indigenous population that migrated from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent more than two centuries ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The three Garifuna women were found shot to death on a beach in the village of Travesia in Puerto Cortes,\" Commission Director Blanca Izaguirre said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A commission statement said the women were sitting on the beach \"when heavily armed men arrived and shot them without saying anything.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three new slayings bring to 17 the number of women murdered in Honduras so far in 2023, the commission said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the commission\'s tally, between 2002 and 2022, more than 7,500 women in Honduras lost their lives \"in violent circumstances.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Honduras has the highest homicide rate in Central America. Last year, the country tallied 35.8 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, according to official figures. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 04:07:03', '2023-01-16 04:07:03'),
(4498, 4498, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kylian Mbappe made his return from a post-World Cup holiday but Paris Saint-Germain went down 1-0 away to Rennes in Ligue 1 on Sunday, a result which leaves them just three points clear at the top of the table halfway through the season.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rennes captain Hamari Traore scored the game\'s only goal in the 65th minute in the rain in Brittany to condemn PSG to a second successive away league loss after they went down 3-1 at second-placed Lens on New Year\'s Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to that they had gone unbeaten through their first 23 matches this season in all competitions and this latest setback gives their rivals hope in the title race.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am disappointed with our performance because we conceded too many chances and created nothing,\" said PSG coach Christophe Galtier, who complained of a \"total absence of a presence in the penalty box\" after opting to leave Mbappe on the bench at kick-off.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the first time that Mbappe, Lionel Messi and Neymar had appeared on the pitch together since PSG\'s superstar attacking trio returned from the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi had been afforded an extended holiday after guiding Argentina to glory in Doha and scored on his return in a 2-0 win against Angers in midweek.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe, scorer of a hat-trick for France in the World Cup final as they lost on penalties to Argentina, had played in his club\'s first two games after the tournament before missing their last two as he took a holiday in New York with teammate Achraf Hakimi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was expected to start on Sunday but instead began on the bench as the 20-year-old Hugo Ekitike played in front of Messi and Neymar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without their leading scorer PSG were blunt up front and Rennes goalkeeper Steve Mandanda did not have a save of note to make until he kept out a Danilo Pereira header three minutes into the second half.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe replaced Ekitike in the 56th minute and did so to applause from the home fans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet Rennes went ahead soon after as their Malian right-back Traore swept in a cutback from Adrien Truffert, and Mbappe -- making his 200th Ligue 1 appearance -- then squandered a chance to equalise when he burst through on goal but blazed over with just the goalkeeper to beat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Neymar and Messi struggle -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Neymar again ineffective and Messi not having the expected impact, it was Juan Bernat who came closest to equalising for PSG with a shot that was tipped over by Mandanda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Galtier will hope his attacking trio can rediscover their early-season form quickly with a Champions League last-16 showdown with Bayern Munich now just a month away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For eight weeks the squad has been scattered about all over the place, with players learning different ways of playing with their national teams,\" said Galtier when asked if he was worried about his side\'s current form.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We had two training sessions this week in which everyone worked together. We will need time and we will have time to work together and get back to playing the same direct style as before.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rennes, who recently lost top scorer Martin Terrier for the rest of the season with a serious knee injury, have now won nine successive home league games.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are fifth in the table, behind Monaco in fourth only on goals scored after the principality side crushed Ajaccio 7-1 earlier in the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wissam Ben Yedder scored a hat-trick in Monaco\'s win, while Canada\'s Jonathan David netted twice as Lille crushed Troyes 5-1 to sit sixth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lens are PSG\'s closest challengers after beating Auxerre 1-0 on Saturday for their 10th consecutive home win.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marseille are third, two points behind Lens and five clear of both Monaco and Rennes, after defeating Lorient 3-1 on Saturday. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 04:32:28', '2023-01-16 04:32:28'),
(4499, 4499, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka’s air has been ranked the third most polluted in the world this morning (January 16, 2023).</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 197 at 9:40 am on Monday, Dhaka’s air is deemed ‘unhealthy’.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Mumbai occupied the first and second places with an AQI of 234 and 211 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 05:02:56', '2023-01-16 05:02:56'),
(4500, 4500, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Barcelona convincingly beat Real Madrid 3-1 in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to win the Spanish Super Cup, their first trophy since coach Xavi Hernandez took over.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inspired by teenager Gavi, who scored himself and set up goals for Robert Lewandowski and Pedri Gonzalez, the Catalans produced one of their best performances in years against their bitter Clasico rivals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having enjoyed great success as a player at Barca, Xavi returned in November 2021 and after a summer of heavy spending this emphatic victory is a sign his project is moving in the right direction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karim Benzema netted a late consolation for Madrid, who have been far from their best since the World Cup break and also fell three points behind Barcelona in La Liga last weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti suffered his first defeat in a final since 2014, with Los Blancos surrendering the trophy they earned last season to Barcelona, who have now won the Super Cup a record 14 times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We knew it was a chance we had to take, we have lived through an era of changes at the club and in the dressing room, and this will reinforce us to keep fighting for more titles,\" Barca captain Sergio Busquets told Movistar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You know how (Gavi) competes, he\'s very young -- most players at his age would be in the youth team -- and he\'s playing at an incredible level, giving assists, getting goals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He has a brilliant future ahead of him and a lot of room to improve. I hope he\'s a player who marks an era at Barca.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xavi crucially deployed four central midfielders, with 18-year-old Gavi drifting inside off a nominal starting position on the left and frequently giving Madrid right-back Dani Carvajal the slip.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Toni Kroos played as Madrid\'s deepest midfielder with Aurelien Tchouameni out injured, and he was overrun.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made a brilliant early save to deny Lewandowski, tipping his low drive against the post, while Benzema headed narrowly off-target.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona broke the deadlock when Busquets pressed well after a loose Antonio Rudiger pass, leading to Lewandowski feeding Gavi, who slotted home confidently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pedri and Ousmane Dembele were also involved in an exchange of slick passes before Lewandowski teed up Gavi, whose clever run went untracked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gavi turned provider for the second, running on to De Jong\'s pass and sliding the ball across for Lewandowski to finish clinically.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Catalans\' dominance brought back memories of their 4-0 win over Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu last season, which had been the highlight of Xavi\'s time in charge, until now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Real \'weaknesses\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gavi, who won the Golden Boy award in 2022, was the game\'s outstanding performer and showed Barcelona are in good hands both now and for years to come.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madrid\'s own young star Vinicius Junior was shackled by Ronald Araujo, the Uruguayan playing at right-back to directly subdue the Brazilian\'s threat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Courtois denied Dembele after a brilliant Alejandro Balde run and the overworked Belgian stopper was keeping Madrid\'s slim hopes alive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By contrast, Barcelona\'s Marc-Andre ter Stegen went untested until the 70th minute, when he collected a long-distance Kroos effort, by when his side had netted their third.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lewandowski released Gavi, who crossed for Pedri to tap home at the back post as Barcelona romped to a compelling victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pedri, 20, also won the Golden Boy award in 2021 and is another emblem of the maturing young talent at Xavi\'s disposal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only blot on Barcelona\'s copybook was a late Benzema strike, finishing after his first effort was blocked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have to learn, it\'s a difficult moment and that\'s it,\" Ancelotti told Movistar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t have to do too much. We knew before the game the team wasn\'t at its very best.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The game exposed some weaknesses, it\'s a blow, we have to recover and prepare for the next game.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biggest blow for Madrid may prove to be the morale boost the victory is for their rivals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Xavi will ultimately be judged on his performance in major competitions -- and Barcelona have already been eliminated from this season\'s Champions League -- he will take heart from this victory. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 05:07:35', '2023-01-16 05:07:35');
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(4501, 4501, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kyiv can expect more deliveries of heavy weapons from Western countries soon, NATO said Sunday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his forces after their claimed capture of a Ukraine town.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dramatic rescue efforts unfolded at a tower block in the eastern city of Dnipro, shattered by a Russian missile strike that left 30 people dead and an estimated 34 people missing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian people\'s \"cowardly silence\" over the attack, noting that Ukraine had received messages of sympathy from around the world over \"this terror.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine could expect more heavy weapons following Kyiv\'s requests to its allies for the vehicles, artillery and missiles it says are key to defending itself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The recent pledges for heavy warfare equipment are important -- and I expect more in the near future,\" Stoltenberg told Germany\'s Handelsblatt daily, ahead of a meeting this week of a group that coordinates arms supplies to Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Days after Russia claimed to have taken Soledar in eastern Ukraine, a salt-mining outpost home to 10,000 before the conflict, Putin hailed it as a major success.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is a positive dynamic, everything is developing according to plans,\" Putin said, in an interview broadcast Sunday. \"I hope that our fighters will please us more than once again.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s defence ministry announced this week it had \"completed the liberation\" of Soledar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This could be a key gain as Russian forces push towards what has been their main target since October: the nearby transport crossroads of Bakhmut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Rivalries in Soledar -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has denied Moscow\'s claims, insisting that heavy fighting continues in Soledar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But on Sunday, the US-based Institute for the Study of War said \"Ukrainian forces are highly unlikely to still hold positions within the settlement of Soledar itself\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s victory there, if that is what it proves to be, follows months of humiliating setbacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides have conceded heavy losses in the battle for the town.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescuers in Dnipro meanwhile continued their search for survivors of Saturday\'s missile strike on a tower block that has so far claimed 30 lives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dozens of people were also wounded in the attack, said regional adviser Natalia Babachenko in televised comments.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 15-year-old girl was among the dead, officials said, after dozens of people were pulled from the rubble, including a woman brought out by rescuers Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Babachenko said that \"between 30 an 40 people are still under the rubble.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Survivor Kateryna, 17, said she was at home with her father when the missile struck.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I fell into a stupor, I didn\'t even know what to do. I started crying and screaming a lot,\" recalled Kateryna, wrapped in a powder-blue puffer jacket and hat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Ukrainian army, the block was hit by an X-22 Russian missile that it lacked the capacity to shoot down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Only anti-aircraft missile systems, which in the future may be provided to Ukraine by Western partners... are capable of intercepting these air targets,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington joined a growing chorus of condemnation for the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Yesterday\'s strikes are another example of the brutal and barbaric war Russia is waging against the Ukrainian people,\" said a US National Security Council spokesperson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Weapons promised -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, Zelensky pleaded for more Western weaponry, saying that Russian \"terror\" could be stopped only on the battlefield.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, France, Germany and the United States respectively promised French AMX-10 RC light tanks, 40 German Marder infantry vehicles, and 50 Bradley fighting vehicles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, pressure is growing on the allies to go further and agree to delivery of battle tanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Saturday to provide 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, making it the first Western country to supply the heavy tanks Kyiv has been calling for.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s embassy in Britain warned that \"bringing tanks to the conflict zone... will only serve to intensify combat operations, generating more casualties, including among the civilian population\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Power cuts -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine on Sunday was still reeling from Saturday\'s barrage, the 12th wave of large-scale missile attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Energy operator Ukrenergo said infrastructure was \"being restored\" but that the attacks had meant power cuts might increase.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of the military administration in the southern Kherson region, Yaroslav Yanushevych, said it was again under \"massive attack\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian strikes had hit civilian and critical infrastructure, including Red Cross premises and a centre for disabled children, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s army said it targeted \"the military command and related energy facilities... all targets were reached\". 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(4502, 4502, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After bagging a Golden Globe award for best song, SS Rajamouli\'s blockbuster Telugu film RRR has registered a double win at the 28th Critics Choice Awards. The film won the Critics Choice Award for Best Song for the hit Ram Charan and Jr NTR dance number, Naatu Naatu, and also for the Best Foreign language film. The event was held Los Angeles on Sunday (Monday in India).&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after, the official Twitter handle of RRR shared a video with the caption, \"Naatu Naatu Again!! Extremely delighted to share that we won the #CriticsChoiceAwards for the BEST SONG #RRRMovie Here\'s @mmkeeravaani\'s acceptance speech!!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naatu Naatu composer MM Keeravani is heard saying in the video, \"Thank you so much I am very overwhelmed with this award. I am here to receive this wonderful award by the critics. Thank you all the critics, on behalf of my chorographer, lyrics writer, my singers, my programmers and of course my director.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Twitter handle of Critics Choice Award had also shared a post congratulating the RRR team on the win. The tweet read: \"Congratulations to the cast and crew of @RRRMovie- winners of the #criticschoice Award for Best Foreign Language Film. #CriticsChoiceAwards.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alia Bhatt also took to her Instagram Stories to express her happiness on the same. Sharing a tweet by RRR\'s account which informed that James Cameron has also admired the film, Alia wrote, “Ufff what a beautiful morning!” HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 05:55:54', '2023-01-16 05:55:54'),
(4503, 4503, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Gunmen shot dead an Afghan former lawmaker and one of her bodyguards in the capital Kabul in a night-time attack at her home, police said on Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the US-backed government that was overthrown by the Taliban in August 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house,\" Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The security forces have started a serious investigation into the incident,\" he said, adding that a brother of the former lawmaker was also wounded in the attack, which took place during the night between Saturday and Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nabizada was a \"fearless champion for Afghanistan\", former lawmaker Mariam Solaimankhil said on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A true trailblazer - strong, outspoken woman who stood for what she believed in, even in the face of danger,\" she wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Despite being offered the chance to leave Afghanistan, she chose to stay and fight for her people,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nabizada, 32, hailed from the eastern province of Nangarhar, and had been elected as a member of parliament from Kabul in 2018.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am sad and angry and want the world to know!\" tweeted Hannah Neumann, a member of the European parliament, in response to the killing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"She was killed in darkness, but the Taliban build their system of gender apartheid in full daylight.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women had worked in prominent positions across Afghan society in the two decades since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, with many becoming judges, journalists and politicians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many women in such professions have fled the country, however, since the Taliban returned to power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taliban authorities have rapidly squeezed women out of almost all areas of public life, banning them from secondary and higher education, public sector work and even from visiting public parks and baths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have also ordered women to cover their bodies in public, ideally in an all-encompassing burqa. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 06:03:13', '2023-01-16 06:03:13'),
(4504, 4504, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated 50 more model mosques and Islamic cultural centres in the country.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She opened the model mosques joining virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With opening those in the second phase, the premier so far inaugurated 100 mosques out of 564 being built at a cost of Taka 9435 crore across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She earlier opened 50 mosques in the first phase on June 10 in 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina is expected to open 50 more mosques and Islamic cultural centre in the third phase at the end of February next.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The construction of the remaining mosques and Islamic cultural centre is scheduled to be completed in June, 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newly opened model mosques and Islamic cultural centres are located at Bhanga upazila, Nagarkanda in Faridpur, Kapasia in Gazipur, Sadar upazila in Gopalganj, Sadar upazila, Katiadi in Kishoreganj, Gheor upazila, Saturia in Manikganj, Sadar upazila, Monohardi in Narsingdi, Goalanda upazila in Rajbari, district headquarters, Bhedarganj upazila in Shariatpur, Dhunat upazila, Nandigram in Bogura, Niamatpur upazila in Naogaon, Boraigram upazila in Natore, Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj, Bhangura and Sujanagar upazila in Pabna, Kazipur in Sirajganj, Rajshahi city Corporation, Gangachara and Kaunia in Rangpur, Sadar upazila in Thakurgaon, Sadar upazila in Sherpur, district headquarters in Pirojpur, Sadar upazila and Koshba in Brahmonbaria, Sadar upazila and Manikchhari in Khagrachhari, Chandina and Chouddagram in Cumilla, Rupsha in Khulna, Khoksha and Bheramara in Kushtia, district headquarters and Gangni in Meherpur, Debhata in Satkhira, Goainghat in Sylhet, district headquarters and Jagannathpur in Sunamganj and Chunarughat in Habiganj district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The model mosques and Islamic cultural centres include separate places for aju (ablution) and namaj along with air-conditioned system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, there will be registration and training arrangements for Hajj pilgrims, Imam training centre, research centre and Islamic library, autism corner, ritual system before burial, car parking facility, hifzakhana, pre-primary education and Quran learning arrangement, conference room for Islamic cultural activities and Islamic dawat, Islamic books sale centre, boarding facility for local and foreign guests along with the mosques.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan and its Secretary Kazi Enamul Hassan spoke at the function from the Osmani Smriti Auditorium here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajshahi, Shariatpur and Chouddagram sites of Cumilla district were also connected to the programme as the local lawmakers, public representatives, political parties\' leaders, government officers, alem-ulama and common people were present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video-documentary on the model mosques and Islamic cultural centres was screened at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being imbued with the spirit of Islam and following the footsteps of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina has come up with the idea of constructing 564 model mosques across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The purpose of the project is to publicize Islamic brotherhood and its values as well as disseminate the essence of Islam against extremism and militancy as the religion never supports those.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would also put concentration on creating awareness against terrorism and violence against women along with disseminating development activities of the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under category A, some 69 four-storey mosques having the elevator facility and a floor space of 2,360.09 square metres each are being constructed in 64 districts and city corporation areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under category B, 475 mosques are being built with a floor space of 1680.14 square metres each, while 16 mosques under C category in coastal areas will have a floor space of 2,052.12 square metres each.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Father of the Nation had established the Islamic Foundation and enacted Islamic Foundation Act, 1975.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In line with Bangabandhu\'s thinking, the project also focused on building a strong Islamic organizational structure by setting up these mosques and Islamic cultural centers across the country. 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(4505, 4505, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu has emphasised the government and the opposition “working together peacefully” to ensure the freedom of assembly as Bangladesh moves towards the next national election.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We as Americans, we will condemn violence when we see it – if it is on the part of the opposition, or it is on the part of government security forces. At the same time, we are going to focus on whether there is any intimidation during the election… we will say this publicly,” he told Channel 24 in an interview before wrapping up his visit on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lu referred to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s commitment to a fair election and said US also wants a free and fair election without “violence and intimidation.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday conveyed to the United States that they, as a government, want a “free, fair, transparent and credible” election and there should be no doubt about that.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lu also expressed US’ commitment to upholding democracy and human rights. “We will speak when we see problems and when we can offer suggestions. We will stand up for freedom of speech, freedom of expression. And we look forward to working very closely with our partners here in Bangladesh,” he told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a question, the US Assistant Secretary told Channel 24 that they did not designate more individuals from the Rab to face individual sanctions. “We did not do that because we recognize the progress being made by the government and by the Rab itself.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to reporters at MoFA, Lu said they had “quite a good discussion” about the Rab. “If you have seen the statement this week by the Human Rights Watch, they recognised and we recognised tremendous progress in the area of reducing extrajudicial killings by the Rab,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the security of diplomats, Lu said they take the security of Bangladeshi diplomats in the US very seriously.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We spend a lot of time making sure that they are safe. We expect the same treatment from Bangladesh,” he said, adding that he was given assurance from every meeting he attended during his Bangladesh visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has also said civil society voices in every country are crucial to upholding people’s right to freedom and dignity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assistant Secretary Donald Lu and US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas hosted a dinner on Sunday night and listened to the work of human rights advocates in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lu left Dhaka early Monday (2am), wrapping up his quick visit with a series of meetings. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 07:51:49', '2023-01-16 07:51:49'),
(4506, 4506, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">International Monetary Fund (IMF) will continue support for Bangladesh to accomplish its aspiration to become a developed, prosperous and higher income country by 2041.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Bangladesh has aspiration to become a developed, prosperous and higher income country by 2041, and IMF will continue its support,\" said the lending agency\'s Deputy Managing Director Antoinette Monsio Sayeh while paying a call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antoinette Monsio said IMF cherishes the long standing partnership with Bangladesh, and she came here to further strengthen the relationship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister\'s Speech Writer Md. Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said Bangladesh does not want any assistance from the IMF for bail-out, rather the country has wanted the support as a preemptive measure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t\' want any bail-out. Our this programme is not a bail-out,\" she added. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 08:06:45', '2023-01-16 08:06:45'),
(4507, 4507, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to consider approving $4.5 billion loan for Bangladesh on January 30.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">IMF Deputy Managing Director Antoinette M. Sayeh, who arrived here on Sunday on a 5-day visit to discuss the loan, said this in a press statement today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I am very pleased to have had the opportunity to meet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today, and Finance Minister Mustafa Kamal and Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder yesterday,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I congratulated them on Bangladesh’s impressive economic growth and social development in last decades, which have allowed steady progress in poverty reduction and significant improvements in living standards. Macroeconomic policies in recent years have helped keep inflation stable, debt-to-GDP ratio low, and external buffers adequate.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just like countries around the world, Bangladesh is now dealing with the impact of global shocks – first from the pandemic and then from the ongoing war in Ukraine, she said, adding, “We discussed the impact of these shocks on Bangladesh’s economy, and I welcomed Bangladesh’s comprehensive set of measures to deal with them – including their focus on ensuring protection for the vulnerable during these difficult times.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh and the IMF recently reached a staff-level agreement under the Extended Credit Facility, Extended Fund Facility, and the IMF’s new Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), to support the authorities’ home-grown reform agenda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In our discussion, we focused on the key elements of this program, including the long-standing challenges of raising tax revenues, and building a more efficient financial sector. Reforms in these areas, combined with measures to facilitate private investments and export diversification will help create conditions to make Bangladesh’s economy more resilient and support long-term, inclusive and sustainable growth,” reads the statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We also discussed Bangladesh’s plans to address the longer-term challenges related to climate change that could threaten macroeconomic stability,” it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IMF’s RSF aims to provide affordable, long-term financing to support Bangladesh’s climate investment needs, catalyze climate financing, and reduce balance of payment pressures from import-intensive climate investment, the statement added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 08:40:12', '2023-01-16 08:40:12'),
(4508, 4508, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon Alem and Olama (Islamic scholars) to instil humanitarian values among people and guide them against terrorism, militancy and drug addiction.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“These are destroying families and the society as well,” she said while virtually inaugurating 50 more model mosques across the country from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She also requested all, particularly the children, not to get involved in militancy, saying, “Militancy is dishonouring Islam instead of dignifying it.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina urged the guardians and teachers of educational institutions to be cautious as children and youths are targeted by militants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We can develop our society in a beautiful manner by erasing miseducation, differences, conflicts, terrorism, and militancy through realising the true sense of Islam,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said that through the model mosques and Islamic cultural centres, people would get true knowledge on Islamic values and culture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This will help in not being misled in the name of religion, alongside contributing immensely to stop terrorism, militancy and repression on women, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said that the government has undertaken the projects of constructing model mosques so that no one can mislead people in the name of Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said the model mosques would enhance people’s knowledge of Islam – a religion of peace, fraternity and friendship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It would help stop terrorism, militancy and repression on women, with imparting the true knowledge of Islamic values and culture on people,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Describing the Alem and Olama as the “Orasatul Ambia”, she said people of the country respect the Khatibs and Imams of mosques.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Make sure that none can mislead people using our religion. You can educate people to refrain from getting involved in social ills that include drug addiction, child marriage, repression of women, food adulteration and corruption through your daily sermons and khutba during Jummah,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said religion cannot be used as a political weapon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our target is to put an end to torture and repression, using religion,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said Islam ensures free exercise of religions by people of all faiths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Irrespective of political identity and opinion, we can build a developed, prosperous and ‘Smart Bangladesh’ – with equal respect to every religion and with the non-communal spirit,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina said that Awami League has always been a “servant of Islam”, and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman stopped racing, gambling and alcohol sales.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She mentioned that Bangabandhu established madrasa board, allocated land for Baitul Mukarram Mosque and Ijtema ground – to uphold Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Bangabandhu had taken initiatives to hold Bishwa Ijtema in Bangladesh and incorporate the country as a member of the OIC,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the ideals of the Father of the Nation, she said they have taken various programmes to dignify Islam that includes constructing 564 model mosques at each of the upazilas and districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said that she has so far opened 100 model mosques across the country while the rest will be opened in phases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government is now building three storey model mosques and Islamic cultural centres in every upazila and four storey mosque in every district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Religious Affairs Ministry Md Faridul Haque Khan and its Secretary Kazi Enamul Hassan spoke at the function from the Osmani Memorial Auditorium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajshahi, Shariatpur and Chouddagram of Cumilla district sites were also connected to the programme, where the local lawmakers, public representatives, political parties, government officers and common people were present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video-documentary on the model mosques and Islamic cultural centres was screened at the function. 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(4509, 4509, '<div><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The minimum temperature in the capital, Delhi, dropped to 1.4C early on Monday as parts of northern India were hit by a cold spell.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>The weather department has warned that cold wave conditions are likely to continue over the next two days.</div><div><br></div><div>Delhi saw a cold snap just days ago when the minimum temperature dipped to 1.9C.</div><div>India\'s weather department declares a cold wave when the temperature drops below 4C.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, Delhi experienced its coldest day of the season, with temperatures plummeting below 2C in several parts of the city. BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 09:36:39', '2023-01-16 09:36:39'),
(4510, 4510, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Islamic preacher Mufti Kazi Ibrahim today pleaded guilty and sought mercy from the court in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Today was fixed for charge hearing against him.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Judge AKM Zulfikar Hayat passed an order accepting his clemency plea and sentenced him to the time he had served in prison since his arrest (1 year, 3 months and 19 days) as he pleaded guilty.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 28, 2021, Detective Branch (DB) of police in an overnight raid detained Mufti Kazi Ibrahim from his Mohammadpur residence in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>Additional Deputy-Commissioner (media) Iftekharul Islam of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told BSS that he was taken to the DB headquarters for interrogation for some of his controversial recent speech on social media, which sparked debate countrywide.</div><div><br></div><div>Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Sufian Md Noman granted two-day remand for Mufti Ibrahim as he was produced before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate\'s Court on September 29.</div><div><br></div><div>He was sent to jail on October 2 of the same year. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 10:59:03', '2023-01-16 10:59:03'),
(4511, 4511, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon the country\'s Islamic scholars to teach the people, especially the children, true humanitarian values to keep them away from terrorism, militancy and drug addiction.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“These vices are destroying families and the society as well,” she said while virtually inaugurating 50 more model mosques across the country from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>She also appealed to all particularly the children not to get involved in militancy, saying, “Militancy is dishonouring the Islam instead of dignifying it.”</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina urged the guardians and teachers of the educational institutions to be cautious so their children cannot get involved in militancy.</div><div><br></div><div>“We can build our society in a beautiful manner by erasing wrong learning, differences, conflicts, terrorism, and militancy by understanding the true spirit of&nbsp; Islam,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said that through the newly opened model mosques and Islamic cultural centres people would get true knowledge of the Islamic values and culture.</div><div><br></div><div>This will help people to stay away from those who mislead them in the name of religion besides contributing immensely to stop terrorism, militancy and repression on the women, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that the government has taken the projects of constructing model mosques for creating awareness among the people about the Islamic values.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said the model mosques would increase the knowledge of the people about&nbsp; Islam, which is a religion of peace, brotherhood and friendship.</div><div><br></div><div>“The mosques would also help stop terrorism, militancy and torture on women by imparting the people with true knowledge of Islamic values and cultures,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Describing the Alem and Olamas as the “Orasatul Ambia”, she said the people of the country will respect the Khatibs and Imams of the mosques.</div><div><br></div><div>“Make sure none can mislead the people using our religion. You can aware people to refrain themselves from getting involved in irregularities in the society that include drug addiction, child marriage, repression on women, food adulteration and corruption in your daily sermons and Jummah’s khutba,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said religion cannot be used as a political weapon.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our target is to put an end to stop torture and repression on the people abusing the religion,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said&nbsp; Islam ensures free practice of religion by people of every faith.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“We all irrespective of party and opinion can build a developed, prosperous and “Smart Bangladesh” having equal respect to every religion and with the non-communal spirit,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister mentioned that the Awami League is always a servant of the Islam and said that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman stopped playing race and gambling and taking liquor.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that Bangabandhu established madrasah board, gave places for Baitul Mukarram Mosque and Ijtema ground to serve the Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangabandhu had taken initiatives to hold Biswa Ijtema in Bangladesh and incorporate Bangladesh as a member of the OIC,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the ideal of the Father of the Nation, she said they have taken various programmes to dignify the Islam that included constructing of 564 model mosques at each of the upazilas and districts.</div><div><br></div><div>PM Hasina said that she has so far opened 100 model mosques across the country while the rest of the mosques will be opened in phases.</div><div><br></div><div>The government is now building three-storey model mosques and Islamic cultural centres in every upazila while four-storey mosque in every district.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan and the ministry\'s secretary Kazi Enamul Hassan spoke at the function from the Osmani Memorial Auditorium.</div><div><br></div><div>Rajshahi, Shariatpur and Chouddagram of Cumilla district sites were also connected to the programme, where the local lawmakers, public representatives, political parties, government officials and common people were present.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A video-documentary on the model mosques and Islamic cultural centres was screened at the function. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 11:38:28', '2023-01-16 11:38:28'),
(4512, 4512, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Thirteen more people were hospitalised with dengue in the 24 hours till Monday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, nine were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and four outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 112 dengue patients, including 47 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, the DGHS has recorded 412 dengue cases, 297 recoveries, and three deaths this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The country recorded 281 dengue deaths in 2022 – the highest on record after 179 deaths recorded in 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, the DGHS recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries in the last year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 11:45:32', '2023-01-16 11:45:32'),
(4513, 4513, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Afia Prottasha and Shorna Akter hit half-centuries as Bangladesh Women\'s team kept their winning spree in the ICC Women\'s Under-19 World Cup, edging Sri Lanka past by 9 runs at Benoni in South Africa today.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>In their first game, they stunned Australia by 7 wickets and now their second consecutive victory meant, they are extremely favorite to go to the next round as group champions. The junior Tigresses will take on USA on Wednesday in their last match of the group phase.</div><div><br></div><div>Prottasha struck 53 off 43 with five fours and three sixes while Shorna showed her power-hitting skill in his 50 not out from 28 balls, as Bangladesh women\'s compiled a hefty 165-2 after being asked to bat first.</div><div><br></div><div>They then restricted Sri Lanka to 155-4 to achieve a famous victory.</div><div><br></div><div>Shorna smashed three fours and two sixes in her innings which helped the side propel past 150 runs mark after Prottasha gave the side a whirlwind start. Prottasha\'s fellow opener Misty Shaha however was run out for 14.</div><div><br></div><div>Dilara Akter also played her part well with 36 off 27, an innings studded with three fours and one six.</div><div><br></div><div>Marufa Akter took 2-19 to run through Sri Lanka\'s batting line up. But Sri Lanka still kept them in the hunt thanks to captain Vishmi Gunaratne\'s 60 not out and Dewmi vihanga\'s 55.</div><div><br></div><div>They kept the side close in on a victory but the Bangladeshi youngsters held the nerve in the death overs to help the side script yet another stunning victory. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 13:01:15', '2023-01-16 13:01:15'),
(4514, 4514, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal&nbsp; said that the US sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will be lifted soon as the US assistant secretary Donald Lu expressed his satisfaction over RAB\'s recent activities.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"I have discussed some issues with the US assistant secretary Donald Lu with cordial atmosphere yesterday and informed him about dealing of terrorism, militancy and Islamic extremism,\" he told reporters at his secretariat office here.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said Donald Lu appreciated Bangladesh and its law enforcement agencies for its activities.</div><div>Quoting the US assistant secretary, Kamal said he (Donald Lu) assured Bangladesh that sanctions on RAB will be lifted soon through a process.</div><div><br></div><div>During the meeting with Bangladesh Home Minister, Donald Lu assured that American government\'s support will be continued for development of Bangladesh, as the country is moving forward for development.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The US wants to see Bangladesh as a more prosperous country, Kamal added.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said the US official wants better improvement of human rights of Bangladesh. \"We have discussed arson attacks, violence and militancy. They want fair elections in this country. None should engage for violence,\" the minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The US delegation informed Kamal that the way you are going in the right direction. We (US) think the sanctions may be lifted soon. We hope it will be over soon. We are not in favour of imposing sanction anyone,\" he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The United States also wants Bangladesh to move forward. The visiting Donald Lu praised actions of the government in combating militancy, terrorism, arson, radicalism.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the national election, the minister said, \"We have said them that according to the constitution the Election Commission (EC) will conduct the national election.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Before 90 days the EC will take over everything for holding a fair election. Ministers will only do routine work. They (US delegation) also applauded the preparations for the fair elections,\" he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Kamal, however, said that the US does not like vandalism, arson attacks and occupies of the roads in the name of public meeting.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding Rohingya repatriation, the minister said that the US delegation assured for their further support to Bangladesh for forcibly displaced Myanmar national-Rohingya- repatriation and will continue their financial support.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In reply to a question, Kamal said that every political party is doing their programmes and the government never create obstacle and will not do, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>But if any party creates barriers on the streets, damaged properties, set fire and took lives in the name of programmes then the law enforcers will take action, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 13:54:58', '2023-01-16 13:54:58'),
(4515, 4515, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The High Court on Monday granted BNP leaders Abdus Salam and Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie six months’ interim bail in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan on December 7 last year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The HC bench of Justice Md Akram Hossain Chowdhury and Justice Shahed Nuruddin passed the bail order.</div><div><br></div><div>The court issued a rule questioning why the BNP leaders should not be granted permanent bail.</div><div><br></div><div>Senior lawyer Zainul Abedin and lawyer Zahirul Islam Sumon appeared for the two BNP leaders in the court.</div><div><br></div><div>On December 7 last year, a Swechchasebak Dal leader was killed and around 50 others were injured in a clash between police and the BNP activists in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office, ahead of its December 10 rally.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrested 470 BNP activists and leaders in connection with the clash and they were sued in two cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP\'s Dhaka Metropolitan South convener Abdus Salam and publication secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie were arrested on the same day following the clash.</div><div><br></div><div>A Dhaka court sent 445 BNP leaders and activists including Annie and Salam to jail in two cases filed over the violence and order to give division in jail to the five leaders on the following day.</div><div><br></div><div>Party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Chairperson’s Special Assistant Shimul Biswash, Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokon, former organizational secretary Fazlul Haque Milon, Co-Organisational Secretary Selimuzzaman, are among others who were sent to jail in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 15:10:58', '2023-01-16 15:10:58');
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(4516, 4516, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>India\'s Virat Kohli won praise from the cricketing world on Monday after his third one-day international century in four matches silenced critics doubting his place in the team.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kohli, 34, smashed an unbeaten 166 to lead India to the biggest-ever ODI win by 317 runs against Sri Lanka on Sunday, his 46th ODI ton and 74th in all formats.</div><div><br></div><div>The former captain ended last year with an ODI century against Bangladesh and began 2023 with another 113 in the Sri Lanka opener to announce his return as a run machine in style.</div><div><br></div><div>Kohli went through an extended lean patch last year, failing to reach three figures in over 1,000 days.</div><div><br></div><div>He quit as T20 skipper in late 2021 and in January 2022 was sacked from the ODI captaincy and gave up leading the Test side too.</div><div><br></div><div>\"King Kohli\" last week spoke again about his mental struggles during his dry phase, including how he had been \"snappy\" around his Bollywood actress wife Anushka Sharma.</div><div><br></div><div>\"In my case, in denial, frustration was creeping in. I was very cranky, very snappy in my space,\" Kohli told the Indian cricket board\'s website bcci.tv.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It was not fair on Anushka, my close ones, it\'s not fair on the people who support you. So I had to take responsibility and kind of put things in perspective.\"</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Different level\' -</div><div>But he hit his first century after 1020 days in the Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament in September last year and hasn\'t looked back since.</div><div><br></div><div>Veteran commentator Harsha Bhogle said, \"the king is back to doing what he does best, scoring hundreds\".</div><div><br></div><div>Kohli\'s long-time IPL friend and former teammate at Royal Challengers Bangalore AB de Villiers tweeted: \"Virat Kohli! Different level.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s wonderful to see Virat Kohli back at his best in white-ball cricket, this unbeaten 166 was special even by his lofty standards,\" batting great VVS Laxman wrote on Twitter.</div><div><br></div><div>Sri Lanka batsman Angelo Mathews called Kohli a \"modern great\" and Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal said \"he is the boss of this era\".</div><div><br></div><div>Senior Indian journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, son of former India cricketer Dilip Sardesai, hailed Kohli as the greatest ever ODI player.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Recall how only a few months ago there were those questioning @imVkohli future, esp (especially) in white ball cricket,\" Sardesai wrote on Twitter.</div><div><br></div><div>But citing Kohli\'s tournament-leading run tally at the T20 World Cup and two ODI centuries against Sri Lanka, Sardesai wrote: \"the King is back\". - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 15:30:22', '2023-01-16 15:30:22'),
(4517, 4517, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lalit Modi recently disclosed that he is on 24×7 external oxygen support. The founder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) shared a post via Instagram on Friday with a message that his health worsened after getting infected by COVID-19 twice in two weeks, accompanied by influenza and deep pneumonia, The Statesman reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lalit Modi was then airlifted to London from Mexico after three weeks of imprisonment. Sharing an update about his health, he added that he still needs time to recover and that he is presently on 24×7 outer oxygen support.</div><div><br></div><div>Soon after Lalit Modi shared the post, wishes for Lalit Modi’s quick recovery began pouring in. His alleged girlfriend Sushmita Sen’s brother, Rajeev Sen, also reacted to his Instagram post.</div><div><br></div><div>Lalit Modi on Instagram shared a series of photos and videos of himself from the hospital. In his caption, he wrote, “After 3 weeks in confinement with a double Covid in 2 weeks accompanied by influenza and deep pneumonia – and post trying several times to leave.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Finally landed via air ambulance accompanied by two doctors and superstar super efficient son who did so much for me back in london. The flight was smooth. Unfortunately still on 24/7 external oxygen. Thank u to all at @vistajet for going the extra mile. I am extremely grateful to all. Love to all. Big hug.”</div><div><br></div><div>Sushmita Sen’s brother Rajeev Sen commented, “Wishing you a speedy recovery Lalit. Stay strong,” while cricketer Harbhajan Singh wrote, “Get well soon.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 15:56:17', '2023-01-16 15:56:17'),
(4518, 4518, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Bangladesh Public Service Commission Bill -2022 was passed in the Parliament today incorporating the punishment for involvement in any irregularities in any examination under PSC.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain moved the bill in the House which was unanimously passed by voice votes with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>The maximum punishment for involvement in leaking the question paper of any PSC examination will be 10 years\' jail or financial penalty or both, according to a draft law.</div><div><br></div><div>According to section 8 of the draft law, those who will be involved in leaking the question paper of any examination to be held under the Public Service Commission, they might face the highest 10 years\' jail, financial punishment or both.</div><div><br></div><div>While placing the bill, some opposition lawmakers including Fakhrul Imam of Mymensingh-3, Mujibul Huq of Kishorganj-4, Dr Rustum Ali Faraji of Pirojpur-3, Begum Raushan Ara Mustafiz of women seat-47, Shamim Haider Patwary of Gaibandha-1and independent lawmaker Rezaul Karim Bablu of Bogura-7 spoke on the bill and urged to seek public review.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Bill will replace the Bangladesh Public Service Commission Ordinance, 1977 in line with a judgment of the High Court over the laws of military regimes.</div><div><br></div><div>The maximum punishment for adopting unfair means in examination and engagement in answer sheet forgery would be two years\' jail or financial penalty or both.</div><div><br></div><div>The penalty is the same for helping any examinees to take any unfair means in the examination hall, fake examinees and tampering with any answer sheet.</div><div><br></div><div>The penalty is one year of jail or financial penalty or both for creating obstacles in taking examinations and creating anarchy.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the bill, apart from the question paper leak crime, other crimes will also be punished by the mobile court. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 16:10:31', '2023-01-16 16:10:31'),
(4519, 4519, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Lawmakers today said country\'s GDP now exceeded Malaysia and Singapore with securing 35th position in ranking of the world economy.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh has made significant progress and now stands above Malaysia and Singapore in terms of GDP, they said while taking part in the discussion on thanksgiving motion of the President\'s speech at the Jatiya Sangsad here with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>Taking part in the discussion, the lawmakers highlighted different development activities in various sectors including communication, socio-economic, education, youth and sports, information and communication technology (ICT) under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>The President in his 168-page speech on January 5 last, on the first day of the maiden session in 2023 of the 11th parliament, focused on the country\'s massive successes in different sectors.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The overall GDP during the BNP regime was only USD 60 billion while it now has reached to USD 465 billion and it is more than that considering the GDP of Malaysia and Singapore\", said Foreign Affairs Minister AK Abdul Momen.</div><div><br></div><div>Whereas the GDP of Singapore now reaches all time high of 396.99 USD billion and it is 372.98 USD billion for Malaysia, Momen also a lawmaker of Sylhet-1.</div><div><br></div><div>Participating in the discussion, Faruque Khan of Gopalganj-1 said Bangladesh now becomes a medium income country upgrading from the least developed country with the befitting leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh will be smart one and a prosperous country by the stipulated timeframe of 2041 under the leadership of incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\", said Ganoforum lawmaker Sultan Muhammed Mansur Ahmed of Maulvibazar-2.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The per capita income during thirty-six years since 1971 was only US$600, but it was reached to US$2400-in the last fourteen years-which was significant, said Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh lawmaker Abdul Mannan of Laxmipur-4, adding that it was possible due to befitting leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,</div><div>Sharply criticizing the role of BNP-Jammat, Akhtaruzzaman of Khulna-6 said the new generation has wake up and the misrule of the BNP-Jammat will never come in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the chief whip Nur-E Alam Chowdhury came up with a proposal for holding discussion on thanksgiving motion of the President\'s speech in the House and then it was seconded by treasury bench lawmaker Shamsul Huq Tuku.</div><div><br></div><div>Treasury bench lawmakers including Moslem Uddin of Mymensingh-6, Khadizatul Anwar of Women seat-6, Zakia Tabassum of Women seat-32, Anwarul Azim (Anar) of Jhenaidah-4, Zafar Alam of Cox\'s Bazar-1, Ratna Ahmed of Women seat-43, Gazi Mohammad Shahnewaz of Hobiganj-1 and Independent lawmaker Rezaul Karim Bablu of Bogura-7, attended the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>The lawmakers also thanked the President for giving a timely speech highlighting the success stories of the government and guiding the nation towards peace, progress and prosperity.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, they paid a rich tribute to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for his contribution to establishing an independent Bangladesh. According to BSS reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-16 16:20:25', '2023-01-16 16:20:25'),
(4520, 4520, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the hours after Nepal\'s deadliest plane crash for 30 years, a video went viral in India - it showed one of the victims, Sonu Jaiswal, livestreaming from the plane just seconds before the crash.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was part of a group of four friends from Ghazipur in India who were visiting Nepal, and were on the flight from Kathmandu to Pokhara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the footage, Pokhara airport\'s surroundings are visible from the doomed plane as it comes into land, those on board unaware they are just moments from death.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">None of the 72 people on board are believed to have survived the crash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video shows the plane gliding gently over the honeycombs of buildings dotting brown-green fields, before the man filming it turns the camera around and smiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He then turns it around again to show other passengers in the aircraft.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following details could be distressing to some readers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moments pass, then there\'s a deafening crash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Within seconds huge flames and smoke fill the screen as the camera keeps recording. What sounds like the screeching of an engine is audible, as well as breaking glass and then screams before the video ends.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Friends and family members of Sonu Jaiswal told reporters that they had watched the video on his Facebook account, confirming its authenticity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Sonu did the [livestream] when the plane crashed in a gorge near the Seti River,\" Mukesh Kashyap, Jaiswal\'s friend, told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local journalist Shashikant Tiwari told the BBC that Kashyap showed him the video on Jaiswal\'s Facebook profile, which is set to private.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not clear how Jaiswal accessed the internet to stream from the plane.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abhishek Pratap Shah, a former lawmaker in Nepal, told Indian news channel NDTV that rescuers had recovered the phone on which the video was found from the plane\'s wreckage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It [the video clip] was sent by one of my friends, who received it from a police officer. It is a real record,\" Mr Shah told NDTV.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials in Nepal have not confirmed his claim or commented on the footage, which could help crash investigators in their work.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for the loved ones of the four men - Jaiswal, Abhishek Kushwaha, Anil Rajbhar and Vishal Sharma - none of this matters. They say they are \"too shattered\" to care.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The pain is hard to explain,\" said Chandrabhan Maurya, the brother of Abhishek Kushwaha.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The government needs to help us as much as they can. We want the bodies of our loved ones to be returned to us.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities in Ghazipur in northern Uttar Pradesh state said they are in touch with the four families and the Indian embassy in Kathmandu to offer any possible help.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have also told the families that if they want to travel to Kathmandu, we will make all the arrangements for them,\" district magistrate Aryaka Akhauri told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several villagers remembered the four men as \"kind, fun-loving souls\". They said they were devastated by the tragedy that had struck their otherwise quiet lives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of them also joined protests, demanding compensation for the families.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four men, all thought to be in their 20s or early 30s, had been friends for many years, and often spent time together.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Locals say they had gone to Nepal on 13 January to visit the Pashupatinath temple, a grand shrine on the outskirts of Kathmandu which is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trip was reportedly Jaiswal\'s idea - a father of three, he wanted to pray at the temple for another son.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After visiting the temple, the friends set off on Sunday to Pokhara - a picturesque tourist town nestled near the Annapurna mountain range - to paraglide. They planned to return to Kathmandu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But fate had something else in store for him,\" an unnamed relative of Jaiswal\'s told news agency PTI.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four men were among five Indians on board. Officials said 53 of the passengers were Nepalese, along with four Russians and two Koreans. Others on board are reported to have included one passenger each from the UK, Australia, Argentina and France.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, social media in India was awash with images from the crash site and of the video shot by Jaiswal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jaiswal\'s father, Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal, said he could not bear to watch the clip himself. \"I have only heard about it from Sonu\'s friends. Our lives have come crashing down.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While groups of mourners stood around the neighbourhood in disbelief, Anil Rajbhar\'s father stayed away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His son had left for Nepal on 13 January without informing his family. While his father was busy in the family\'s fields, Anil quietly packed his bags and left with his friends, neighbours said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His father is still in disbelief at the news. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-17 02:30:58', '2023-01-17 02:30:58'),
(4521, 4521, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Monday was just Day Two for Ukrainian soldiers at the U.S. military’s new training program, but the message was coming through loud and clear.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are urgent times. And the lessons they will get in the next five weeks on weapons, armored vehicles and more sophisticated combat techniques are critical as they prepare to defend their country against the Russian invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is not a run of the mill rotation,” U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday afternoon as he met with commanders. “This is one of those moments in time where if you want to make a difference, this is it.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milley, who visited the sprawling Grafenwoehr training area to get his first look at the new, so-called combined arms instruction, has said it will better prepare Ukrainian troops to launch an offensive or counter any surge in Russian attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He spent a bit less than two hours at “Camp Kherson” — a section of the base named after a city in Ukraine where Ukrainian troops scored a key victory against Russia last year. More than 600 Ukrainian troops began the expanded training program at the camp just a day before Milley arrived.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first time since the war began nearly a year ago, reporters were given broad access to watch various portions of the training. The reporters were allowed to follow Milley and watch his interactions with Ukrainian and U.S. troops and commanders, but were not allowed to report specific conversations with the Ukraine forces or take any photos or video. The restrictions reflect ongoing U.S. concerns about escalating Russian anger over the West’s involvement in the war or triggering a wider conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. has conducted training at Grafenwoehr for years, including for allied forces in Europe. But limited instruction for Ukrainian forces began last year, shortly after the Russian invasion. At the time it was focused specifically on various weapons systems that were being supplied by the U.S., such as the howitzer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, the Pentagon announced it would expand the training in an effort to hone the skills of the Ukrainian forces. The five-week course will teach them to effectively move and coordinate their company- and battalion-size units in battle, using combined artillery, armor and ground forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will include classroom instruction and field work that will begin with small squads and gradually grow to involve larger units. It will culminate with a more complex combat exercise bringing an entire battalion and a headquarters unit together.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The training at Grafenwoehr is being done by the 7th Army Training Command.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to two reporters traveling with him to Europe on Sunday, Milley said the complex training — combined with an array of new weapons, artillery, tanks and other vehicles heading to Ukraine — will be key to helping the country’s forces take back territory that has been captured by Russia in the nearly 11-month-old war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, as he walked through the training area, Milley bantered with troops, asking them about their combat experience and talking to them about their mission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The urgency was clear,” said Army Col. Dave Butler, Milley\'s spokesman. “These soldiers are going off to defend their country in combat.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milley said Sunday that the goal is for incoming weapons and equipment to be delivered to Ukraine so the newly trained forces will be able to use it “sometime before the spring rains show up. That would be ideal.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new instruction comes as Western analysts point to signs that the Kremlin is digging in for a drawn-out war, and say the Russian military command is preparing for an expanded mobilization effort.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Across the battlefield, Ukrainian forces face fierce fighting in the eastern Donetsk province, where the Russian military has claimed it has control of the small salt-mining town of Soledar. Ukraine asserts that its troops are still fighting, but if Moscow’s troops take control of Soledar it would allow them to inch closer to the bigger city of Bakhmut, where fighting has raged for months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia also launched a widespread barrage of missile strikes over the weekend, including in Kyiv, the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the southeastern city of Dnipro, where the death toll in one apartment building rose to 40. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-17 02:36:26', '2023-01-17 02:36:26'),
(4522, 4522, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Images of a bright, family kitchen in Ukraine, which was exposed to the world when a Russian missile strike tore off its external wall, have caused shock and sadness on social media.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The apartment was home to well known boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky, who was killed in Saturday\'s attack. His wife and children reportedly survived.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video of Korenovsky celebrating a recent birthday with his family in the same flat has also been published.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strike in Dnipro killed 40 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victims included three children, with more than 30 people still unaccounted for on Monday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image is striking for the stark contrast between the normal and the abnormal; the everyday domesticity of the cosy kitchen is framed by the sudden and total devastation delivered by a Russian attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The modern-looking kitchen with bright yellow cupboards remained remarkably intact after the strike, despite the total destruction of its external wall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A bowl of apples sits on the table, dishes lie next to the sink waiting to be washed and oven gloves still hang neatly from a line of hooks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Here people cooked, had kitchen conversations, celebrated holidays, laughed, argued,\" Kyiv MP Zoya Yarosh wrote on Facebook.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She compared the destruction of the building to the fate of her country: \"These are the wounds on the body of Ukraine. Wounds on our homes.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On social media, many people highlighted the small details in the photograph, suggesting a family getting on with their life as best they could, despite the raging war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"When I look at this kitchen all I see is the flat I grew up in, the flat my grandparents lived in, the flat my cousins lived in, because we all had two stools tucked under the kitchen table just like that,\" wrote Ukrainian Alina on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the missile strike, the kitchen seems to have been at the centre of a happy family moment - a child\'s birthday party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video published online and reposted by Ukraine\'s armed forces, a young girl smiles as she is presented with a huge birthday cake, and blows out her four candles. The same yellow cupboards are clearly visible, as are the oven gloves and television on the wall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those in the video are believed to be Mykhailo Korenovsky\'s family, who reportedly survived the strike, while the boxing coach did not.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not clear when the video was filmed, but it is a stark reminder of how suddenly war can destroy lives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Perhaps it was him [Korenovsky] who bought those apples for his family, left standing on the table after the building collapsed,\" said BBC Russian journalist Liza Fokht. \"Or perhaps it was him who left a plate in the sink - there\'ll always be time to wash it later.\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-17 02:54:51', '2023-01-17 02:54:51'),
(4523, 4523, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan. But in a way, they are also a small show of resistance and creativity by Kabul’s dress merchants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially, the Taliban wanted the mannequins to be outright beheaded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not long after they seized power in August 2021, the Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue decreed that all mannequins must be removed from shop windows or their heads taken off, according to local media. They based the order on a strict interpretation of Islamic law that forbids statues and images of the human form since they could be worshipped as idols — though it also meshes with the Taliban\'s campaign to force women out of the public eye.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some clothes sellers complied. But others pushed back.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They complained they’d be unable to display their clothes properly or would have to damage valuable mannequins. The Taliban had to amend their order and allowed the shop owners to cover the mannequins’ heads instead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shop owners then had to balance between obeying the Taliban and trying to attract customers. The variety of solutions they came up with are on display on Lycee Maryam Street, a middle-class commercial street lined with dress shops in a northern part of Kabul. The store windows and showrooms are lined with mannequins in evening gowns and dresses bursting with color and decoration — and all in various types of head coverings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In one shop, the mannequins’ heads were cloaked in tailored sacks made out of the same material as the traditional dresses they modeled. One, in a purple dress beaded with cowrie shells, had a matching purple hood. Another, in a red gown elaborately embroidered in gold, was almost elegant in a mask of red velvet with a gold crown on her head.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I can’t cover the mannequins’ heads with plastic or ugly things because it would make my window and shop look ugly,” said Bashir, the owner. Like other owners, he spoke to The Associated Press on condition he be identified only by his first name for fear of reprisals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shop owners need keep things attractive — the economy has collapsed since the Taliban takeover and the ensuing cutoff of international financing, throwing almost the entire population into poverty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elaborate dresses have always been popular in Afghanistan for weddings, which even before the Taliban were usually gender-segregated, giving women a chance to dress in their finest in the country’s conservative society. Under the Taliban, weddings are one of the few remaining opportunities for social gatherings. But with incomes so strained, they have become less elaborate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bashir said his sales are half what they used to be.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Buying wedding, evening and traditional dresses is no longer a priority for people,” he said. “People think more about getting food and surviving.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another shop owner, Hakim, shaped aluminum foil over his mannequins’ heads. It adds a certain flash to his merchandise, he decided.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I made an opportunity out of this threat and ban and did it so the mannequins are even more attractive than before,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not all can be so elaborate. In one shop, the mannequins in sleeveless gowns all had black plastic sacks over their heads. The owner said he couldn\'t afford more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another shop owner, Aziz, said agents of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue regularly patrol shops and malls to make sure the mannequins are beheaded or covered. He was dismissive of the Taliban’s justification for the rules. “Everyone knows mannequins aren’t idols, and no one’s going to worship them. In all Muslim countries, mannequins are used to display clothes.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Australia pulls out of Afghanistan cricket series</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A small number of male mannequins can be seen in display windows, also with their heads covered, suggesting that the authorities are applying the ban uniformly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Taliban initially said they would not impose the same harsh rules over society as they did during their first rule in the late 1990s. But they have progressively imposed more restrictions, particularly on women. They have banned women and girls from schooling beyond the sixth grade, barred them from most jobs and demanded they cover their faces when outside.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a recent day, a woman shopping on Lycee Maryam Street looked at the hooded mannequins.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“When I see them, I feel that these mannequins are also captured and trapped, and I get a sense of fear,” said the woman, who gave only her first name, Rahima.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I feel like I see myself behind these shop windows, an Afghan woman who has been deprived of all her rights.”&nbsp; AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-17 03:18:47', '2023-01-17 03:18:47'),
(4524, 4524, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least six people were killed as an ambulance collided head-on with a speeding truck near Padma Bridge South police station in Shariatpur\'s Zajira upazila early Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, said Selim Miah, deputy assistant director of Shariatpur Fire Service and Civil Defence Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victims were passengers in the ambulance, he added. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident occurred around 3:45 am when the driver of the ambulance carrying six people, coming from Barishal, lost control and hit the Dhaka-bound truck loaded with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), leaving them dead on the spot, said the officer. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-17 03:39:08', '2023-01-17 14:48:58'),
(4525, 4525, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Search teams retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders Monday of a passenger plane that plummeted into a gorge on approach to a new airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, officials said, as investigators looked for the cause of Nepal\'s deadliest plane crash in 30 years.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 69 of the 72 people aboard were killed, and officials believe the three missing are also dead. Rescuers combed through the debris, scattered down a 300-meter-deep (984-foot-deep) gorge, for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the passengers on Sunday\'s flight were returning home to Pokhara, though the city is also popular with tourists since it\'s the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit hiking trail. On Monday evening, relatives and friends were still gathered outside a local hospital, some shouting at officials to speed up the post mortems so they could hold funerals for their loved ones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s still not clear what caused the crash, which took place less than a minute\'s flight from the airport on a mild day with little wind.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In footage taken by a passenger out of a window as the plane came in for a landing, buildings, roads and greenery are visible below. The video, by Sonu Jaiswal and verified by The Associated Press, then shows a violent jolt and a series of jerky images accompanied by yelling before flames fill the screen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft last made contact with the airport, which began operations only two weeks ago, from near Seti Gorge. A witness who recorded footage of the plane’s descent said it looked like a normal landing until the plane suddenly veered to the left.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I saw that, and I was shocked,\" said Diwas Bohora. “I thought that today everything will be finished here after it crashes, I will also be dead.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After it clashed, red flames erupted and the ground shook violently, Bohora said. “Seeing that scene, I was scared,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amit Singh, an experienced pilot and founder of India’s Safety Matters Foundation, said Bohora\'s video appears to show a stall, a situation in which a plane loses lift, especially likely at low airspeeds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, was completing the 27-minute flight from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west. It was carrying 68 passengers, including 15 foreign nationals, as well as four crew members, Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The foreigners included five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jagannath Niraula, a spokesman for the authority, said the flight recorders will be handed over to investigators. Pemba Sherpa, spokesperson for Yeti Airlines, confirmed that both the flight data and the cockpit voice recorders were found.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nepal is home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest. A pilot who routinely flies an ATR 72-500 plane from India to Nepal said the region’s topography, with its mountain peaks and narrow valleys, raises the risk of accidents and sometimes requires pilots to fly by sight rather than relying on instruments.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pilot, who works for a private Indian airline and insisted on anonymity due to company policy, called the ATR 72-500 an “unforgiving aircraft” if the pilot isn’t highly skilled and familiar with the region’s terrain and wind speeds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of people have gathered outside the Pokhara Academy of Health and Science, Western Hospital, where the bodies are being kept.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bimala Bhenderi said was planning to meet her friend, Tribhuban Paudel, on Tuesday when she heard that his flight had crashed. “I’m so sad, I can’t believe it still,” she said in tears.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bikash Jaiswal said he could only identify his wife\'s brother only by the ring he wore, and that he had yet to tell his wife, who just gave birth to their daughter. Sanjay Jaiswal, who worked as a marketing agent for a private pharmaceutical company in Kathmandu, was flying to Pokhara for the birth. More than 24 hours after the crash, his body lay in the same hospital where his niece was born.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“He was a hardworking person, and now there’s no one left in his family to earn,” Bikash said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Park Dae-seong, a minister and spokesperson of the Won Buddhist order, confirmed on Monday the deaths of Arun Paudel and his daughter, Prasiddi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arun Paudel, 47, had worked as a police officer in Nepal before being introduced into the religion by his brother. He studied the religion for years at a South Korean university before becoming a minister in 2009. He then returned to Nepal and established a school in the Lumbini province in 2013 where children received English, Korean and information technology instruction. Park said Paudel was returning to Nepal for work related to the school, called the Vishow Ekata Academy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Civil Aviation Authority said that 41 people have been identified. Gyan Khadka, a police spokesperson in the district, said the bodies would be handed over to family after officials finish post mortem reports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The type of plane involved, the ATR 72, has been used by airlines around the world for short regional flights since the late 1980s. In Taiwan, two accidents involving ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircrafts in 2014 and 2015 led to the planes being grounded for a period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ATR identified the plane involved in Sunday’s crash as an ATR 72-500 in a tweet. According to plane tracking data from flightradar24.com, the aircraft was 15 years old and “equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data.” It was previously flown by India’s Kingfisher Airlines and Thailand’s Nok Air before Yeti took it over in 2019, according to records on Airfleets.net. ATR has not responded to a request for comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Safety Matters Foundation’s data, there have been 42 fatal plane crashes in Nepal since 1946.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday’s crash is the country\'s deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it plowed into a hill as it tried to land in Kathmandu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Union has banned airlines from Nepal from flying into the 27-nation bloc since 2013, citing weak safety standards. In 2017, the International Civil Aviation Organization cited improvements in Nepal’s aviation sector, but the EU continues to demand administrative reforms. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-17 04:01:33', '2023-01-17 04:01:33'),
(4526, 4526, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A senior US official traveled Monday to Kyiv where she met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and assured him of Washington\'s \"steadfast commitment\" to Ukraine, the State Department said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman led a delegation to the Ukrainian capital to discuss assistance to bolster Ukraine\'s security posture, improvements to its econony, and ways to develop an enduring bilateral trade partnership with the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US group met with Zelensky, members of his presidential office, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and other senior Ukrainian officials, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The purpose of the visit is \"to reaffirm the United States\' strong and steadfast commitment to Ukraine and its defense against Russia\'s unprovoked aggression,\" State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation also \"heard from young Ukrainians who have adapted their businesses and advocacy to support their fellow citizens even as they look ahead to Ukraine\'s recovery and reconstruction,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sherman\'s visit came as clashes have ratcheted up in Ukraine in the 11th month of a bitter and deadly war, and as Moscow\'s forces stand accused of firing a missile that leveled part of a residential apartment bloc in the central city of Dnipro, killing at least 40 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month Zelensky visited President Joe Biden at the White House where he made the case for some $45 billion in emergency military and economic aid for Ukraine. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-17 04:11:30', '2023-01-17 04:11:30');
