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(3128, 3128, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone as winter is approaching.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 181 at 8:30am today, Dhaka ranked fifth in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Lahore, India’s Delhi and Pakistan’s Karachi occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 292, 277 and 189, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', 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;\">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/</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-18 06:48:02', '2022-11-18 06:48:02'),
(3129, 3129, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>More 61,694 children aged 5-11 years were vaccinated with the first doses of Covid-19 jabs in Rangpur division on Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A total of 5,913 children aged 5-11 years were also administered with the second doses of Covid-19 jabs on Thursday,\" Acting Divisional Director (Health) Dr Md Habibur Rahman said today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, a total of 16,99,696 students aged 5-11 years of 4759 primary level educational institutions have been administered with the first doses, and among them, 34,048 with the second doses of Covid-19 jabs in the division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the number of administered Covid-19 jabs rose to three crore 46 lakh 38 thousand and 695 with the inoculation of a total of 71,678 doses of the jabs as the first, second and booster doses on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Till Thursday, a total of 1,53,78,052 people got the first doses of Covid-19 jabs, and of them, 1,32,96,750 got the second doses and 59,63,893 as the booster doses,\" Dr. Rahman said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of Covid-19 patients remained steady at 64,948 as no fresh Covid- 19 cases were diagnosed after testing 16 new samples on Thursday in the division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of recovered Covid-19 patients remained steady at 63,621 as no more patients healed during the last 24 hours ending at 8 am today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Besides, the number of casualties also remained steady at 1,293 as no new death was reported from the division during the last 24 hours,\" Dr. Rahman&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">added. BSS</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-18 06:54:24', '2022-11-18 06:54:24'),
(3130, 3130, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged an end to \"confrontation\" as he outlined his vision for France\'s engagement with the Asia-Pacific region.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Macron is attending the 21-strong Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok as he seeks to relaunch France\'s strategy for the region in the face of growing US-China competition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France wants to play a stabilising role in the region to avert confrontation, the French president told a gathering of business leaders on the sidelines of the summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t believe in hegemony, we don\'t believe in confrontation, we believe in stability,\" Macron said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said regional powers including France -- which has overseas territories in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, including Reunion, New Caledonia and French Polynesia -- should play a role.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are in the jungle and we have two big elephants, trying to become more</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">and more nervous,\" Macron said in his speech, which he gave in English.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If they become very nervous and start war it will be a big problem for the rest of the jungle. You need cooperation of a lot of other animals: tigers, monkeys, and so on.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Macron said the international community was facing overlapping crises, from climate change to economic turmoil, and a coordinated response was needed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our Indo-Pacific strategy is how to provide dynamic balance in this environment,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"How to provide precisely a sort of stability and equilibrium which could not be the hegemony of one of those, could not be the confrontation of the two major powers.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Russia\'s war in Ukraine, which he identified as a major source of global instability, he said all countries in Asia and elsewhere needed to recognise their duty to act.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France was working to build \"an increasing consensus in order to say this war is also your problem because it will create a lot of destabilisation\", Macron said. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-18 07:01:12', '2022-11-18 07:01:12'),
(3131, 3131, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Five people including an elderly woman and a minor girl were killed and 15 others injured in road accidents in Gopalganj and Gaibandha disyrcts on Thursday night and Friday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Abu Nayeem Md Mofazzel Hoque, inspector of Bhatiyapara highway police outpost in Kashiyani of the Gopalganj, said&nbsp; a Tungipara-bound bus of ‘Imad Paribahan’ from Dhaka rammed into a sand-laded truck parked in Gopinathpur area under sadar upazila around 11pm, leaving the trio dead on the spot and 15 others injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as Ashik, 25, son of Asaaduzzaman of Tungipara upazila in the district, Sohag, 30, son of Abdur Rahman of Boalmari upazila in Faridpur, Nizamuddin Sardar, 60, son of Alauddin Sardar of Gopalganj Sadar upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On information, members of police and fire service rushed to the spot and sent the injured to Gopalganj General Hospital , he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the deceased, Ashik was the bus’s supervisor; Sohag was the truck driver while Nizamuddin was the bus passenger.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Gaibandha, a Gaibandha-bound bus of Al Riyad Paribahan hit Gaibandha-bound bus of Al Riyad Paribahan knocked down a woman and her drandchild, said Maidul Islam, Sub-Inspector (SI) of Gaibandha Sadar Police Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as Sabina Begum, 45, wife of Ashraful Islam of Boulerpara village in Betkapa union under Gaibandha’s Palashbari upazila and her granddaughter Tiya Moni, 5.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to locals, Sabina used to work at a hotel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She ran after Tiya when the latter was crossing the highway to eat cake. 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, '2022-11-18 07:18:26', '2022-11-18 07:18:26'),
(3132, 3132, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has said Bangladesh, as one of India’s closest development partner, occupies an important place in the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He described the unveiling of the Suborno Jayanti Scholarship this year as an example, where Bangladesh is recipient of 500 dedicated slots for ITEC every year, in addition to several tailor-made programmes for civil servants organised as per the requirement of Government of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The High Commissioner said the ITEC alumni in Bangladesh showcased the strong bonds of friendship between India and Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The High Commission of India, Dhaka hosted a reception-cum-get together on Thursday evening to celebrate the 58th ITEC Day at the the Institution of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq attended the occasion as the chief guest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ITEC, a flagship programme of the government of India, was instituted in 1964 as part of India’s Development Assistance Programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been offering the benefit of India’s development experience and appropriate technologies to more than 160 countries across the globe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every year, more than 10,000 training slots are offered to ITEC partner countries for training courses in various areas like Accounts, Audit, Good Governance Practices, Management, SME, Rural Development, Public Health, Parliamentary Affairs, Judiciary, Election Management, IT, Data Analytics, Remote Sensing, Renewable Energy etc. in premier Indian Institutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is the foremost and valued partner under the ITEC cooperation, said the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The enthusiasm could not be dampened even by COVID pandemic in 2020-21, when a number of courses were organized virtually under e-ITEC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 4,500 young Bangladeshi professionals have undergone such specialized short and medium term courses in India under the ITEC programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These training programmes provide opportunities to share best Indian practices with the brightest minds in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: \"Bangladesh-India are connected through the heart\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ITEC alumni in Bangladesh showcased strong bonds of friendship between Bangladesh, India: Pranay Verma&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, India has been an equal beneficiary, learning especially from the developmental experiences of Bangladesh which is making phenomenal strides both in Economic and Social development, said the High Commission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 250 ITEC alumni from all walks of life, besides guests, attended the ITEC Day event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Few among the distinguished alumni also shared their experiences of their training in India.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A small cultural event – jugalbandi of bhartanatyam and kathak dances – culminated the programme. 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, '2022-11-18 09:08:42', '2022-11-18 09:08:42'),
(3133, 3133, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Friday said Bangladesh would welcome visible Portuguese investments and expertise in the blue economy, including for exploring the potentials for offshore wind power generation.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Portugal’s large-scale and judicious investment in renewable energy over the past years has largely cushioned it from the present energy crisis around the world, he said while speaking at a seminar as the chief guest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have many untapped potentials for economic cooperation between our two countries. We believe that there are opportunities for further expanding two-way investments in each other’s countries,” said State Minister Alam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) organised the seminar titled “Bangladesh-Portugal Relations: Quest for Deeper Bilateral Cooperation”as part of its Eminent Person Lecture Series (EPLS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Francisco André, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Republic of Portugal, attended the seminar as a guest speaker and Shabbir Ahmad Chowdhury, Secretary (West), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was present as a discussant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BIISS Chairman Ambassador Kazi Imtiaz Hossain chaired the programme and its Director General Major General Sheikh Pasha Habib Uddin delivered the welcome remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladeshis face certain constraints with regard to visas - especially for their family members - in the absence of any Portuguese diplomatic or consular mission in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are assured by Dr. André that his administration will work towards finding a pragmatic solution to the issue in the near future. This will indeed have a huge qualitative difference in the substance of our bilateral ties, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh counts on Portugal to speak for Bangladesh within the European Union.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a 27-member body, the EU has many competing priorities, and it certainly helps to have a reliable partner within this critically important institution for Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is reassuring for us that Portugal is favourably disposed to Bangladesh’s obtaining the GSP+ facility in the EU market beyond 2029. I am certain that Portugal will also play a catalytic role over time in realizing our efforts to take our engagements with the EU towards a more strategic direction,” said the State Minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged Portugal to maintain its voice and support for humanitarian assistance, justice and accountability, and safe and dignified repatriation of the Rohingya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh thanked Portugal for its forward-leaning approach to climate action, including for its support for the ‘loss and damage’ agenda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We look forward to working with Portugal on conserving and protecting our oceans from climate change impacts. We have taken due note of Portugal’s desire to serve the cause of international peace and security as an elected member of the UN Security Council in 2027-28,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State Minister laid emphasis on continued investment in people-to-people connectivity between the two countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two countries will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have agreed to draw up plans from now on to commemorate the occasion through befitting events,” Alam said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the renewed journey and engagements that they have started with Portugal this year will mark the beginning of a “mature, vibrant and multi-dimensional interface” in the years to come.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speakers shed light on the historic tie between Bangladesh and Portugal which can be traced back to the 16th century.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They highlighted the growing trade relations between these two countries and emphasised on advancing the current economic relationship by exploring new avenues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speakers also stressed on expanding the overall bilateral relations in the diverse areas that include renewable energy, green transition, sustainable development, manpower export. 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(3134, 3134, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Nora Fatehi Bollywood actor finally arrived in Dhaka on Friday afternoon on the invitation of Women Leadership Corporation.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Canadian-born Indian actor landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 1:20pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will participate in the \'Global Achievers Award-2022\' program organised by Women Leadership Corporation at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) at 6:30 pm today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gate will open for visitors at 4 pm and the program\'s media partner is ‘Somoy Television’.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will leave Bangladesh on Saturday (November 19) afternoon after completing the scheduled program.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-18 10:19:18', '2022-11-18 10:19:18'),
(3135, 3135, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A two-day bus strike enforced by Sunamganj District Transport Owners and Workers’ Association began on Friday morning, causing suffering of the commuters.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the strike was enfoced ahead of BNP\'s divisional rally slated for Saturday, the party leaders alleged that the strike was called as per the government\'s directive to thwart their political programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The association leaders said they are observing the strike to realise their four-point demand, which includes withdrawal of tolls on Lamakazi bridge on the Sunamganj-Sylhet road, banning batter-run three-wheelers and unlicensed CNG-run autorickshaws from the highways, banning BRTC buses and renovation and modernization of Sunamganj Bus Terminal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP’s Sylhet divisional rally, slated at the Government Alia Madrasa field in the city, has been plagued with transport strikes called by several organisations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Habiganj Motor Owners’ group on Thursday called for an indefinite strike on movement of buses, demanding an end to “administrative harassment” and halting illegal three-wheelers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the other hand, Sylhet district Workers’ Solidarity Council called a 12-hour strike from 6:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday on movement of all types of vehicles to press home their four-point demands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, Sylhet district Road Transport Owners’ Association also called a dawn to dusk strike on Saturday in Sylhet on their two-point demand including for not issuing any new license for CNG-run auto rickshaw.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fazlur Rahman, president of Habiganj Motor Owners’ group, at a press conference at Habiganj municipality bus terminal on Thursday claimed that there was no link between their strike and the BNP rally. 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, '2022-11-18 10:30:21', '2022-11-18 10:30:21'),
(3136, 3136, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Rescuers searched for more victims on Friday after a fuel tank explosion that killed at least 11 people and caused a house to collapse in northern Iraq, according to local authorities.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The blast in Sulaimaniyah occurred Thursday evening and left at least 11 dead and 13 injured, the city\'s emergency response chief Saman Nader told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He blamed the blast on \"a gas leak from a tank\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much of war-ravaged Iraq\'s infrastructure is dilapidated and tragedies are common. The country also suffers from poorly enforced safety standards, particularly in the transport and construction sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nader said four people had still not been freed from under the rubble of the collapsed three-storey house, in the second largest city of Iraq\'s autonomous Kurdistan region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our teams have been working for more than 15 hours to rescue the people trapped under the collapsed house,\" Nader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local residents watched on Friday morning as emergency workers, assisted by a backhoe, continued the rescue effort among collapsed white bricks and twisted metal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The explosion shattered the windows and blackened the facade of a neighbouring building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An earlier toll issued Friday morning by Sulaimaniyah\'s health authorities had reported 10 deaths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least one child is among the victims, according to Sulaimaniyah Governor Haval Abu Bakr, who declared a day of mourning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of October, at least nine people were killed and 13 others injured when a tanker transporting gas accidentally exploded in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In April 2021, more than 80 people died in a Baghdad hospital fire when improperly stored oxygen cylinders exploded. 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, '2022-11-18 11:02:08', '2022-11-18 11:02:08'),
(3137, 3137, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Three more deaths from dengue were reported by health authorities on Friday morning, raising this year’s total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease to 220.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the period, 250 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The number usually drops significantly in the counts released on Fridays.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new patients, this year’s dengue caseload rose to 51,602, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the latest deaths, two were reported from Dhaka and one from Mymensingh, raising the death toll in the two divisions to 133 and 6, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, death toll remained unchanged at eleven in Khulna, nine in Barishal, six in Rajshahi and 55 in Chattogram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read: Dengue death toll reaches 217</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the new patients, 171 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 79 outside it, according to the DGHS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 2,712 dengue patients, including 1,538 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 Directorate has recorded 48,670 recoveries so far this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 8, this year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease reached 182, exceeding all previous records in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously the highest 179 deaths from Dengue in a year was recorded in 2019. 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, '2022-11-18 11:10:02', '2022-11-18 11:10:02'),
(3138, 3138, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>World Cup organizers will ban the sale of all beer with alcohol at the eight stadiums used for the soccer tournament, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The decision comes only two days before games start in Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Non-alcoholic beer will still be available for fans at the 64 matches, the person said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The person spoke on condition of anonymity because organizers have not yet announced the decision.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Budweiser’s parent company, AB InBev, pays tens of millions of dollars at each World Cup for exclusive rights to sell beer. The company’s partnership with FIFA started at the 1986 tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Qatar launched its bid to host the World Cup, the country agreed to respect FIFA’s commercial partners, and again when signing contracts after winning the vote in 2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the host country was forced to change a law to allow alcohol sales in stadiums. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-18 11:21:44', '2022-11-18 11:21:44'),
(3139, 3139, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said there will be no benefit by issuing threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she never fears the showdown of BNP.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"To intimidate Sheikh Hasina will yield no result...although BNP leaders are in defensive mood in words, an aggressive showdown remains in their hearts,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, made the remarks while addressing as the chief guest the national conference of Bangabandhu Sainik League at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KBI) Auditorium in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asking the BNP leaders why the BNP is defensive now ahead of December 10 programme, he said it seems as if they (BNP leaders) have come to power, Hawa Bhaban is back and victory procession will be brought on city streets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AL general secretary said the BNP leaders also threatened in the past that they would oust the government through movement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Claiming that the BNP is the master of the politics of revenge, he said Ziaur Rahman had started the politics of revenge in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said the development and achievements carried out under the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\'s government across the country have intensified the internal burning of the BNP leaders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leaders do not find any development of the government as they see darkness of night during the daytime, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh will never go towards uncertainty, Quader said, adding that it seems that the BNP is moving towards uncertainty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL publicity and publication secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap and newly elected president of Bangabandhu Sainik League Harunur Rasid, among others, spoke at the conference with Sainik League convener Shirin Ahmed in the chair. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-18 12:05:07', '2022-11-18 12:05:07'),
(3140, 3140, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh recorded on Friday zero Covid-19 death while it reported 19 coronavirus positive cases.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bangladesh reported 0.66 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 2,880 samples were tested during the last 24 hours,\" a daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus infection in Dhaka district and the capital is eight while zero Covid-19 death was reported during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official tally showed that the virus killed a total of 29,430 people and infected 20,36,325 so far, the statement added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recovery count rose to 19,84,486 after another 96 patients were discharged from the dedicated hospitals during the last 24 hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the beginning of the pandemic, 97.45 percent Covid-19 patients recovered among the infected people while 1.45 percent died, the DGHS statistics showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the 29,430 fatalities, 12,944 occurred in Dhaka, 5,903 in Chattogram, 2,160 in Rajshahi, 3,735 in Khulna, 993 in Barishal, 1,355 in Sylhet, 1,429 in Rangpur and 911 in Mymensingh divisions. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-18 12:49:45', '2022-11-18 12:49:45'),
(3141, 3141, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in Economic Zones (EZs) on Sunday, marking 50 years of independence.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Talking to BSS, Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) Executive Chairman Shaikh Yusuf Harun said the Prime Minister will virtually inaugurate 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in the EZs across the country and BEZA will have the event at eight venues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"These include commercial operations of four factories at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) in Chattogram and eight factories in different privately-run EZs,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said these industrial units have already invested over US$967.73 million and will make further investments of nearly $331.27 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He informed that the PM will also lay the foundation stone of 29 industrial units in different EZs, which have so far invested $610 million and are in the process to invest $1,922.39 million more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EZ facilities, to be inaugurated, include administration buildings of BSMSN, Jamalpur Economic Zone, Srihatta EZ, and Sabrang Tourism Park, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the BEZA chief said, the PM will also formally open the 20-kilometre Sheikh Hasina Sarani, 230-KVA gridline and substation at the BSMSN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will also lay the foundation stone of a water treatment plant having 50 million litres per day (MLD) capacity, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the industrial plants, which will be inaugurated, four establishments are at the Bangabandhu Shilpa Nagar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">McDonald Steel Industries Ltd, one of these, produces prefabricated structural steel, used in steel bridges and steel high-rise buildings, factories and power plants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nippon &amp; McDonald Steel Industries Limited produces MS Plate manufacturing from imported steel, purlin, slitting sheets and coil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asian Paints Bangladesh Limited, which produces paints and allied products, emulsions, has invested $34 million in the economic zone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samuda Construction Limited, the manufacturer of phc pile, is constructing their factory on 4-acre of land with an investment of $8.2 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BEZA aims to establish economic zones in all potential areas in Bangladesh, including backward and underdeveloped regions, with a view to encouraging rapid economic development through the increase and diversification of industry, employment, production and export.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the planned 100 economic zones, the government has approved 97 economic zones, 28 of which are currently under development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, 12 privately owned economic zones have received licenses to operate and nearly $4 billion have been invested in these economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The goal is to create employment for 10 million people directly and indirectly. It is also expected to produce and export products worth $40 billion annually in these economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investors can avail of tax holidays, and duty-free imports of raw materials and machinery at the economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economic zones have attracted foreign direct investments from different countries, including Japan, China, India, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, America, the United Kingdom, Singapore, South Korea and Norway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the inauguration schedule was on October 26. But, the scheduled inauguration of the operations of the industrial units as well as laying foundation stones of various infrastructures at the economic zones was postponed due to inclement weather deriving from Cyclone Sitrang. 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, '2022-11-18 13:09:47', '2022-11-18 13:09:47'),
(3142, 3142, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today held a meeting with his Indian counterpart Amit Saha here this afternoon when they discussed various aspects relating to border management and common security-related issues.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two home ministers held the meeting on the sidelines of \'No Money for Terror\' (NMFT) Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, which began here today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Both sides had productive exchanges on border management and common security-related issues,\" the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs tweeted this evening after the meeting.  </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, Bangladesh delegation sources said that the two home ministers also discussed the issue to bring down border killings to a \"zero\" level.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the repatriation of Rohingyas, who were forcibly displaced from their homeland Myanmar, the Indian side assured that India will continue its cooperation for the peaceful repatriation of the Rohingya people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both home ministers expressed the hope that they will stand beside each other during the need of time in future like in 1971 when the people of the two countries fought together against the Pakistani occupation forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Md Mustafizur Rahman, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Bangladesh Abu Hena Mostafa Zaman, Deputy High Commissioner Md Nural Islam, Minister (Consular) Selim Md. Jahangir, among others, were present at the meeting.      </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asaduzzaman arrived here on Thursday on a three-day official visit to attend the third \'No Money for Terror\' (NMFT) Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the two-day conference at Hotel Taj Palace here this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As many as 450 delegates from 76 countries across the world have been attending the conference to discuss issues on terror financing and other related issues. Home ministers of 20 countries including Bangladesh, the Russian Federation, France, Australia, Indonesia, and Singapore attended today\'s sessions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bangladesh home minister is leading a 3-member delegation to the conference, which \"will offer a unique platform for participating nations to deliberate on effectiveness of the current international regime on Counter Terrorism Financing and steps required to address emerging challenges\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the first day of the conference today, deliberations were held in the first and second sessions on \'Global Trends in Terrorism and Terrorist Financing\' and \'Use of Formal and Informal Channels of Funds for Terrorism\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The third and fourth sessions will be held tomorrow on \'Emerging Technologies and Terrorist Financing\' and \'International Co-operation to Address Challenges in Combating Terrorist Financing\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh presented a paper on Terror financing through MTSS, Hawala/Hundi networks in the second session today. Joint Secretary Public Safety Division Abu Hena Mostafa Zaman presented the paper on behalf of Bangladesh. 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, '2022-11-18 13:35:23', '2022-11-18 13:35:42'),
(3143, 3143, '<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>BNP\'s divisional rally in Sylhet began on Saturday morning, with presence of thousands of leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies.</div><div><br></div><div>The rally, organised by Sylhet city unit of BNP, formally began at 11:10am on the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasa field.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite transport strike and other obstacles, the rally venue has been teeming with the opposition leaders and activists since Friday night, as they gathered there in advance from adjacent districts – fearing obstacles and hassles caused by the bus strike.</div><div><br></div><div>Police and other security officials have been deployed around the rally venue and at different points of the town to prevent any untoward incident.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Sylhet Metropolitan Police, 19 check-posts have been installed at the entry points of Sylhet city and hundreds of plainclothes policemen will perform their duties on Saturday to maintain the law and order situation.</div><div><br></div><div>Leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies from four districts — Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj and Sylhet — under the division have joined the rally.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP activists were seen coming to the rally venue in small processions shouting anti-government slogans since early morning.</div><div><br></div><div>The organisers said the rally was meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuels, the death of five party men in previous police action in Bhola, Narayanganj, Munshiganj and Jashore, and to ensure the freedom of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP has long been demanding that the next general election be held under a caretaker government, not under any political government – a demand sharply rejected by the ruling Awami League.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP senior leaders, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and some standing committee members, are expected to address the rally.</div><div><br></div><div>The rally in Sylhet is the 7th by BNP at the divisional level following Chattogram, Mymensingh, Khulna, Rangpur, Barishal and Faridpur.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP will conclude the divisional rallies through a mass gathering in Dhaka city on December 10, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 08:36:55', '2022-11-19 08:36:55');
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(3144, 3144, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least three people were dead when a truck hit a motorbike near Khilgaon flyover in Dhaka early Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;The deceased were identified as Joj Mia, 36; Al Amin, 34; and Mehedi Hasan, 28.</div><div><br></div><div>The accident occurred around 3:30 am when the truck hit the motorbike carrying three people, leaving them injured.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Later, they were taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where the doctors declared them dead, said Zahurul Islam, sub-inspector of Khilgaon Police Station.</div><div><br></div><div>Zahurul said five friends on two motorbikes attended a party at a friends’ in Rampura and the trio met the tragic accident while returning to their respective homes at the dead of the night. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 08:42:16', '2022-11-19 08:42:16'),
(3145, 3145, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Malaysians headed to the polls on Saturday with jailed ex-leader Najib Razak\'s scandal-hit party seeking to cement its grip on power in a race analysts say is too close to call.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who campaigned on a platform of fighting corruption, said he was \"cautiously confident\" his coalition would win a simple majority in the 222-member parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>\"A win today would certainly be gratifying after more than two decades of fighting to win the hearts and minds of the people,\" Anwar told AFP before casting his vote in Penang state.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Let us be clear: this would be a victory for the people.\"</div><div><br></div><div>About 21 million registered voters will troop to polling centres throughout the day amid fears heavy monsoon rains could disrupt the polls in certain areas.</div><div><br></div><div>In the rural town of Bera in Pahang state, women in traditional Malay headscarves arrived in cars and on motorcycles, while some of the elderly came in wheelchairs.</div><div><br></div><div>Nurul Hazwani Firdon, a 20-year-old tutor, said the economy was her top priority as she went to cast her ballot.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I want a strong government and a stable economy so that there will be more job opportunities for the youth,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mohamed Ali Moiddeen, 60, a scrap metal picker, said he simply wanted honest leadership.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We just want someone who is trustworthy and able to do the job properly,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Najib\'s United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) usually dominates politics in the Southeast Asian country, but suffered a major defeat in the 2018 general election after a massive corruption scandal at state fund 1MDB.</div><div><br></div><div>The two governments that succeeded UMNO, however, were plagued by infighting, allowing the party to creep back into power last year. Now, UMNO will be seeking a stronger mandate in an election called ten months ahead of schedule.</div><div><br></div><div>Anwar, 75, leads the ethnically-diverse Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) coalition and is campaigning on an anti-corruption platform.</div><div><br></div><div>With age catching up, this election could be the perennial opposition leader\'s last chance to fulfil his 20-year dream of leading Southeast Asia\'s third-largest economy.</div><div><br></div><div>He is up against the ruling Barisan National coalition, which is dominated by UMNO and led by Najib loyalist and ex-interior minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. It also includes caretaker prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.</div><div><br></div><div>UMNO remains hobbled by corruption allegations. Najib, who was at the centre of the 1MDB scandal, is currently serving a 12-year jail term.</div><div><br></div><div>Corruption was a key issue at campaign rallies, where opposition parties repeatedly warned that Najib could walk free and corruption charges against Zahid and other party leaders could be dropped if UMNO wins.</div><div><br></div><div>The scandal, where billions in state funds were diverted to Beverly Hills properties, a superyacht, a Hollywood film and Najib\'s own bank account, sparked investigations from Singapore, Switzerland and the United States.</div><div><br></div><div>Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, 97, and another ex-leader, 75-year-old Muhyiddin Yassin, head two other coalitions contesting the elections.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Fragmented political landscape\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Analysts said there was no clear frontrunner among the four coalitions seeking the 222 parliamentary seats at stake.</div><div><br></div><div>Malaysians will choose from a record 945 candidates across the largely Muslim nation, which also includes the states of Sabah and Sarawak on Borneo island.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Voters can expect a plethora of candidates on their ballot papers such that they will have a hard time deciding between candidates with similar positions,\" said Oh Ei Sun of the Pacific Research Center of Malaysia.</div><div><br></div><div>The number of eligible voters has risen from 18 million four years ago to more than 21 million after the voting age was lowered in 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>About 1.4 million of the new additions are first-time voters aged between 18 and 20.</div><div><br></div><div>The majority of voters live in rural areas, where patronage politics continues to hold sway.</div><div><br></div><div>Analysts said the multi-racial country would be in for further political instability if no coalition wins a clear majority.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Unless Pakatan Harapan can clinch an outright parliamentary majority... the dominant UMNO party or one of the Malay Muslim parties would get to form a coalition government,\" Oh told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Voters are likely to look forward to a similarly fragmented political landscape after the election, with a lot of horse-trading to form the next ruling coalition.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The election comes as Malaysians face soaring food prices, and parts of the country continue to be battered by flash floods due to monsoon rains.</div><div><br></div><div>Skies were overcast and drizzly in the capital Kuala Lumpur, and the meteorological department forecasted rain and thunderstorms around the country. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 08:53:44', '2022-11-19 08:53:44'),
(3146, 3146, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There is a thread that connects the three leading favourites to win the World Cup starting in Qatar on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Brazil, Argentina and holders France have been cited as the main contenders for good reason, not least because of the identity of their star players.</div><div><br></div><div>Lionel Messi captains an Argentina team on a 36-game unbeaten run, Neymar leads a formidable Brazil side and France\'s hopes of retaining the trophy will depend to a large extent on Kylian Mbappe.</div><div><br></div><div>The trio of Messi, Neymar and Mbappe have been united at Paris Saint-Germain by the wealth of the French club\'s Qatari owners.</div><div><br></div><div>Their relationship has dominated headlines in France this season, and their performances have been outstanding.</div><div><br></div><div>Qatar created shockwaves in December 2010 when it won the right to host this year\'s World Cup. A little over six months later, Qatar Sports Investments bought PSG.</div><div><br></div><div>Fast forward a decade and they have been transformed from an ailing club into a major force.</div><div><br></div><div>Mbappe and Neymar became the two most expensive signings in football history when they moved to PSG in 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>Messi joined them in Paris last year following his departure from Barcelona.</div><div><br></div><div>They are one of the favourites to win this season\'s Champions League, with Messi, Mbappe and Neymar having scored 46 goals between them in PSG\'s 22 games so far.</div><div><br></div><div>The World Cup has been cited as a reason for their superb form, in particular in the case of Messi and Neymar.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Messi is the best\' -</div><div><br></div><div>At 35, Messi knows he is unlikely to get another chance to win it. \"It\'s my last World Cup, surely,\" he told ESPN Argentina recently.</div><div><br></div><div>A brief walk along Doha\'s Corniche or in the nearby Souq Waqif marketplace is enough to gauge Messi\'s popularity in Doha.</div><div><br></div><div>Supporters, often from Qatar\'s large South Asian population, sport Argentina shirts with Messi\'s name and number on the back as they sample the atmosphere on the eve of the tournament.</div><div><br></div><div>Some waited outside Argentina\'s base into the early hours of Thursday, hoping for a glimpse of Messi as Lionel Scaloni\'s squad arrived in Doha.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Messi is the best. We like how Argentina are playing at the moment and with Messi they are the best,\" one fan, a 36-year-old finance worker called Shabi originally from the Indian state of Kerala, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>Like Messi, Neymar is among the players whose images adorn the giant buildings in downtown Doha.</div><div><br></div><div>- Neymar\'s past trauma -</div><div><br></div><div>At 30, Neymar might have at least one more World Cup in him after this one, even if he has previously hinted that this could be his last.</div><div><br></div><div>Injury ruined the 2014 World Cup for him before Brazil lost to Belgium in the quarter-finals in 2018.</div><div><br></div><div>Since then injuries have hampered him in Paris. Until this season, when he has appeared fitter and sharper than ever.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The World Cup is my greatest dream,\" Neymar told British newspaper The Daily Telegraph this week. \"It has been since I understood what football was.\"</div><div><br></div><div>- Mbappe represents the future -</div><div><br></div><div>In stark contrast to his two club colleagues, Mbappe has already won the World Cup and was still a teenager when he did so with France in 2018.</div><div><br></div><div>It is he who represents the future, which is why PSG splashed huge sums to persuade him to sign a new deal at the end of last season rather than join Real Madrid.</div><div><br></div><div>Le Parisien recently reported that Paris would be paying Mbappe 630 million euros ($652m) before tax over the duration of the three-year contract he signed in May.</div><div><br></div><div>PSG dismissed that report as \"sensationalist\", but the figures mentioned highlight Mbappe\'s status.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Kylian is an extraordinary player,\" his France teammate Lucas Hernandez said on Friday. \"It is an honour to have him in our team.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Mbappe\'s France ended the hopes of Messi\'s Argentina in the last 16 in 2018.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a chance they could meet again at the same stage this time. A semi-final between Argentina and Neymar\'s Brazil is another possibility.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We don\'t discuss it very much but sometimes we joke about crossing paths with each other in the final,\" Neymar told the Daily Telegraph.</div><div><br></div><div>Whatever happens, only one of PSG\'s trio can leave Doha as a World Cup winner.</div><div><br></div><div>Assuming the hosts don\'t go all the way, the French club\'s Qatari owners will be delighted to see any of them lifting the trophy at the Lusail Stadium on December 18. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 09:09:04', '2022-11-19 09:09:04'),
(3147, 3147, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">FIFA president Gianni Infantino blasted the \"hypocrisy\" of Western critics of Qatar\'s human rights record on Saturday, making a passionate defence of the World Cup in the Gulf state on the eve of the kick-off, reports AFP.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The build-up to the tournament has been dominated by concerns over Qatar\'s treatment of migrant workers, women and the LGBTQ community, to the visible annoyance of organisers.</div><div><br></div><div>Qatar officials say their country has been the target of \"racism\" and \"double standards\" and they point to the reforms on working conditions and safety that have been hailed as groundbreaking in the region.</div><div><br></div><div>Football itself again took a back seat on Saturday, with the focus firmly on off-field politics just 24 hours before hosts Qatar were due open the tournament against Ecuador.</div><div><br></div><div>Infantino, speaking at his opening press conference of the tournament in Doha, had harsh words for critics of Qatar.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This moral lesson-giving -- one-sided -- is just hypocrisy,\" said the Swiss.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I don\'t want to give you any lessons of life, but what is going on here is profoundly, profoundly unjust.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He added: \"For what we Europeans have been doing for the last 3,000 years we should apologise for the next 3,000 years before starting giving moral lessons to people.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Infantino also expressed his support for marginalised communities.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Today I feel Qatari, today I feel Arab, today I feel African, today I feel gay, today I feel disabled, today I feel a migrant worker,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Another issue that has dominated the build-up to the tournament is the sale of beer in the Islamic state, which severely restricts alcohol consumption.</div><div><br></div><div>Organisers on Friday performed a dramatic U-turn, banning beer sales around stadiums just 48 hours before kickoff.</div><div><br></div><div>World governing body FIFA gave no reason for the surprise decision but media reports said there had been an intervention by Qatar\'s ruling family.</div><div><br></div><div>Dozens of Budweiser beer tents had already been set up at grounds ahead of the first game.</div><div><br></div><div>Infantino made light of the ruling on the last-minute change on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think personally if for three hours a day you cannot drink a beer, you will survive,\" he said. \"The same applies in France, Spain, Scotland.\"</div><div><br></div><div>- Ronaldo arrives -</div><div><br></div><div>Cristiano Ronaldo jetted into Qatar late on Friday, desperate to focus on football after an explosive tirade against his club, Manchester United.</div><div><br></div><div>The Portugal forward, who has dominated global football for the past 15 years alongside Argentina\'s Lionel Messi, will be playing in his fifth and likely final World Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>The 37-year-old, who has a world-record 117 international goals, is aiming to become the first man to score in five World Cups.</div><div><br></div><div>Ronaldo appears to be headed for the exit door at Old Trafford but earlier this week pledged \"total and absolute focus on the work of the national team\" in a social media post.</div><div><br></div><div>Almost all of the football\'s heavyweight teams have now arrived in Qatar, with the notable exception of five-time winners Brazil, who are due to land late on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Brazil, boasting a star-studded forward line led by Neymar, are favourites to win the tournament for the first time since 2002, with Messi\'s Argentina and France also heavily fancied.</div><div><br></div><div>Croatia, surprise World Cup finalists in Russia in 2018, warned they have what it takes to go deep in the tournament again.</div><div><br></div><div>Led by inspirational captain Luka Modric, Croatia reached the final four years ago in Russia before losing 4-2 to France, reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think we have a really good chance to repeat something similar to what we did in Russia,\" said forward Marko Livaja.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 10:59:32', '2022-11-19 10:59:32'),
(3148, 3148, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A man was killed and seven others were injured in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy at Gazariakandi village in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi district on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Azgar Mia, 55 of the village.</div><div><br></div><div>Azizul Islam, officer-in-charge of Raipura police Station, said Shah Alam Mia, former member of Srinagar union and Abdul Khalek, current member of the union, had been at loggerheads over establishing supremacy in the area.</div><div><br></div><div>As sequel to the enmity, the supporters of both groups equipped with fishing spears (teta) attacked each other, leaving one person dead on the spot and seven others injured.</div><div><br></div><div>On information, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control by dispersing the activists.</div><div><br></div><div>A tense situation has been prevailing in the area following the incident. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 11:05:26', '2022-11-19 11:05:26'),
(3149, 3149, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday dismissed the idea of a \"short truce\" with Russia, saying it would only make things worse.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Russia is now looking for a short truce, a respite to regain strength. Someone may call this the war\'s end, but such a respite will only worsen the situation,\" the Ukrainian leader said in remarks broadcast at the Halifax International Security Forum, reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"A truly real, long-lasting and honest peace can only be the result of the complete demolition of Russian aggression,\" Zelensky said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 11:25:08', '2022-11-19 11:25:08'),
(3150, 3150, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The European Union on Saturday rejected as \"unacceptable\" a proposal from COP27 host country Egypt for a deal at the climate summit, with a French official saying it was insufficiently ambitious on reducing carbon emissions.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"At this stage, the Egyptian presidency is calling into question gains made in Glasgow on emissions reduction,\" the official from the French energy transition ministry told AFP, referring to the outcome of last year\'s COP26. \"This is unacceptable for France and for European Union countries.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 12:41:37', '2022-11-19 12:41:37'),
(3151, 3151, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 55-member Parliamentary delegation from Assam including 35 MLAs arrived here on an official visit on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Iqbalur Rahim MP, Whip of Bangladesh National Parliament, received the delegation at a city hotel.</div><div><br></div><div>Biswajit Daimary, Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly, will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>He assumed office on May 21, 2021. He is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party.</div><div><br></div><div>They will visit Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat and meet Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Speaker will host lunch for the entire delegation.</div><div><br></div><div>In the afternoon, they will meet Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi at his residence.</div><div><br></div><div>The delegation members will visit Tungipara, Gopalganj and Bangabandhu Mausoleum Complex to pay tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>The delegation members are scheduled to leave for Assam on November 22. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 13:45:30', '2022-11-19 13:45:30'),
(3152, 3152, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz has accepted the invitation to visit Bangladesh at a convenient time in 2023.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This&nbsp; would be a&nbsp; landmark event in the history of bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia leading to the consolidation of ties specially in trade and commerce, investment and economic cooperation.</div><div><br></div><div>Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh&nbsp; Essa Yussef Essa Al Duhailan revealed this, while paying a courtesy call on with the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter’s official residence Ganabhaban here today.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Jahid Tusher briefed reporters after the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>In the meeting, the Saudi envoy handed over an acceptance letter from the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia to the Prime Minister as the Crown Prince has given consent&nbsp; to the proposed visit to Bangladesh in response to the&nbsp; invitation made by the Bangladesh Prime Minister on 30 August this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The envoy stated that&nbsp; it would be the first ever visit of any Saudi Crown Prince to Bangladesh after 1985 when the then Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz visited Dhaka.“So, this visit will be very significant for both the countries and the date and schedule of the visit will be fixed through diplomatic channels,” Essa Yussef was quoted as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>Now the foreign ministries of both the&nbsp; countries will remain seized in working out the modalities&nbsp; of the visit.</div><div><br></div><div>A good number of bilateral instruments -- MoUs and agreements—will be signed during the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince, which would strengthen the bilateral ties between the two countries significantly, the envoy hoped.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Describing the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and&nbsp; Saudi Arabia as special, Sheikh Hasina said this bilateral engagement would be further strengthened and expanded to new areas of collaboration with the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince.</div><div><br></div><div>In reply, the envoy said that Saudi Arabia enjoys a special place in the hearts of Bangladeshi people. “Our relations are growing from higher to higher over time,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister called for more Saudi investment in different sectors of Bangladesh, including establishing an oil refinery in Bangladesh, investment in agro-processing and food-processing and halal food industries.</div><div><br></div><div>She stated that Bangladesh is ready to allocate special land in Bangladesh for Saudi entrepreneurs, especially in the Mirsarai special economic zone and also&nbsp; an exclusive economic zone in the country’s southern region.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier further added that the purchasing power of Bangladeshi people has gone up. If Saudi Arabia makes investments here, it will get a good return, she said assuring that Saudi investment will receive all-out support from the Bangladesh government.</div><div><br></div><div>In response, the Saudi Ambassador appreciated the gesture&nbsp; from the Prime Minister saying that he would suitably brief the relevant authorities in Saudi Arabia. He further apprised the meeting that there are indeed some&nbsp; Saudi investment initiatives going on in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>He said several Saudi brands including Saudi fast-food service company “Herfy” is doing very good business in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re working hard to make an effective collaboration between the the two Muslim brotherly countries, ” he was quoted as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>The diplomat said the Saudi investors are keenly interested to participate in the mega projects of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>He said last month the Saudi Prince allocated more than US$ 10 billion fund for implementation of mega projects in five countries. Bangladesh could be one such country to&nbsp; benefit from Saudi investment if such funds come for its mega projects. “This is a huge area of cooperation unexplored,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In response, the Prime Minister appreciated the increasing interests from Saudi Arabia to invest in&nbsp; the mega projects in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh has been maintaining friendly-relations with all the Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia for the greater welfare of the Muslim Ummah as well as the&nbsp; people of Bangladesh.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Saudi diplomat lauded the leadership of Sheikh Hasina particularly for giving shelter to 1.1 million displaced Rohingya people despite having many limitations. “It is so generous (gesture)” he was quoted.</div><div><br></div><div>He assured that Saudi Arabia supports the stance of Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue in the international forums.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh is facing various problems caused by the long stay of Rohingya. “It is a big burden for Bangladesh,” she was quoted.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister then floated the idea of&nbsp; &nbsp;setting up fertilizer factories in Saudi Arabia as&nbsp; joint ventures between Bangladeshi and Saudi investors.</div><div><br></div><div>In response, the Saudi envoy said, “We need to&nbsp; work on the proposal.”</div><div><br></div><div>During the meeting, the Prime Minister made the proposal to allow Bangladesh purchase&nbsp; oil, both crude and refined with a deferred payment schedule. “If Saudi Arabia considers the proposal, it would be better for us to meet the demand of the growing industries. We need some support,” she was quoted.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina asked the Saudi envoy to convey her sincere thanks and greetings to the King of Saudi Arabia and the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques His Majesty Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador-at-Large Mohammad Ziauddin and Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus were present during the call-on by the Ambassador. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 13:48:28', '2022-11-19 13:48:28'),
(3153, 3153, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two new readymade garment (RMG) factories, operating under Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association (BGMEA), have received LEED certification (certificate for green factories) from United States Green Building Council (USGBC).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The green certified factories are Barnali Collections Limited from Narayanganj, with 64 points out of 110, and Bangladesh Export Import Company Limited (Beximco) from Gazipur, with 85 points out of 110.</div><div><br></div><div>The information was made public on Saturday by Md Mohiuddin Rubel, Director of BGMEA.</div><div><br></div><div>“With two new factories getting LEED certification, the total number of green factories in the country now stands at 178 with 13 having platinum certifications. This achievement will help us in developing our brand image to the international buyers,” said Rubel.</div><div><br></div><div>Rubel added that green factories increase the confidence of the buyers to procure more RMG products from Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>“At a time when our orders have decreased by 20-30 percent due to the ongoing global economic slowdown, the fact that we’ve been considered once again for safest factories will boost our business. Besides, green factories consume less energy than the traditional factories, which is a must as the country struggles with energy supply to factories,” added Rubel.</div><div><br></div><div>Rubel further said the LEED certification will help the country’s RMG producers to compete in the global market and get best prices. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 14:17:53', '2022-11-19 14:17:53'),
(3154, 3154, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hip hop star Nicki Minaj has teamed up with Colombian singer-songwriter Maluma and Lebanese singer Myriam Fares for the latest addition to the official soundtrack of the World Cup in Qatar.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The single “Tukoh Taka,” with lyrics in English, Spanish and Arabic, was released on Friday, two days ahead of the start of the tournament.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s the latest in a series of songs by artists from around the world released as part of FIFA’s official soundtrack of the 2022 World Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>Maluma and Myriam Fares will perform at the opening of the FIFA fan festival in Doha on Saturday. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 14:24:06', '2022-11-19 14:24:06'),
(3155, 3155, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed her optimism that people would not have to suffer much for electricity and fuel from the next month.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Due to the war in Ukraine, it is difficult to buy fuel oil and procure gas. Not only our country, but also the UK, America, Germany - everywhere - they are looking at saving energy. . .  So, we had to suffer for some days. Inshallah, there will be no more suffering from next month,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier expressed this optimism at a meeting of Awami League Advisory Council at her official residence Ganabhaban.   </div><div><br></div><div>Urging everyone to maintain austerity, Sheikh Hasina, also the president of ruling Awami League, said, \"I would tell all that they should exercise austerity in using oil and water. Be frugal, because there is economic recession all over the world. We are not free from its impact.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Reiterating her call to increase production, she said, \"I have called upon all of you that as we have land, so one inch of land should not be left vacant rather produce whatever you can, even at the rooftop gardens.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that the economic situation across the world is very bad, she said, \"If we can increase our own production, we will never have to face famine in Bangladesh. This is the reality. We have to do it for ourselves.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that the production in the country is more than the requirement, the head of government said, \"We are finding out ways… We have increased food production. We are producing more than what we need. We always keep more food in stock for emergencies so that the people of my country don\'t suffer.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Talking about providing free and low-cost food to people, she said, \"We are buying all the things at a high price and providing those to people at a low price so that none suffers from food shortages.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that Awami League works for the welfare of people, Sheikh Hasina said, \"Our work is for the welfare of all people. Awami League works for the welfare of the people. We didn\'t come here to make our own fortune rather we are building the destiny of the people of Bangladesh.\"</div><div> </div><div>She said that Awami League, after assuming power, has restored the democratic process as the people of this country did not have the real democracy or democratic rights.  </div><div> </div><div>\"The people of this country didn\'t have real democracy or democratic rights before Awami League came to power.  Since AL government assumed the office, we started the democratic process,\" she said.</div><div>   </div><div>Sheikh Hasina said, \"The transparency and accountability that have been ensured in the election are the result of our (AL) movement and struggle.\"</div><div> </div><div>Regarding the other political parties\' opportunities of doing politics during the AL regime, she said, \"In our time, all the parties are getting the chance to do their politics.  We\'ve provided that facilities.\"</div><div> </div><div>Referring to the BNP-era elections, the Prime Minister said that after the formation of the government by BNP with Jamaat in 2001, they committed all types of misdeeds such as murder, militancy, corruption, money laundering and so on in the country.</div><div> </div><div>\"If anyone remembers the elections of 2001 or the by-elections of Magura, Mirpur or Dhaka-10, then it is enough to see what happened in the name of elections during the tenure of BNP,\" she added.</div><div> </div><div>She said that there were various misdeeds such as sealing the ballot boxes during their (BNP) tenure that is why transparent ballot boxes, voter list with pictures have been arranged.  </div><div> </div><div>Mentioning that BNP had registered 1.23 crore fake voters to hold election in 2006, she surprised that now they are speaking about democracy and moving to establish democracy, reports BSS</div><div> </div><div>Sheikh Hasina said that today Bangladesh is recognized as a role model for development all over the world although some people of the country don\'t see any development in their eyes.  </div><div> </div><div>\"They don\'t like anything. They don\'t want a democratic government rather they like the undemocratic process as their value increases,\" she added.</div><div> </div><div>She said that Bangladesh is moving forward and got that status again in the world because of the continuation of democratic trend after the 2008 elections.</div><div> </div><div>Stating that she is working day and night for the country, Sheikh Hasina said, \"A lot of criticisms had to be endured. . .the outsiders see the development that I have pulled Bangladesh where it is today. But, some people inside our country don\'t even see it in life, they won\'t see it. I don\'t know whether they get many advantages if there is another type of government.\"</div><div> </div><div>\"The welfare of the people of the country is our main goal,\" she said, adding after the election of 2008 when the Awami League came to power, the democratic process continued till 2022 and Bangladesh has improved much. \"Otherwise there would not have been so much progress. We have been able to bring significant success in all areas starting from food production,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 14:31:45', '2022-11-19 14:32:25'),
(3156, 3156, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A deal was reached at the UN climate talks on Saturday on creating a fund to cover the losses suffered by vulnerable countries hit by extreme weather, AFP reported, citing an EU source.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Countries had been deadlocked over setting up a \"loss and damage\" fund, threatening to \"derail\" the COP27 summit, but the European Union source said the issue had now been \"agreed.\" -  AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 14:40:18', '2022-11-19 14:44:41'),
(3157, 3157, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Six dengue patients died while 559 patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours (till 8am today).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On November 3, Bangladesh logged nine dengue deaths, the highest in a single day, this year.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As many as 320 dengue patients were hospitalized in Dhaka city and 239 patients were admitted to hospitals outside Dhaka during the past 24 hours,\" a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"A total of 226 people died from dengue disease between January 1 and November 19. The first death from dengue was reported on June 21, this year,\" the daily statement of the DGHS said.</div><div><br></div><div>With the new cases, the total number of dengue patients this year rose to 52,169 while some 49,171 patients were released from the hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>The DGHS sources said Mirpur, Uttara, Mugda, Jatrabari, Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur in Dhaka city have been identified as dengue hotspots. It said the highest number of cases has been detected in Cox\'s Bazar after Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne illness that occurs in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Outbreak of the disease is usually seasonal, peaking during and after rainy seasons.</div><div><br></div><div>The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies dengue as one of the top 10 threats to public health. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-19 14:46:18', '2022-11-19 14:46:18'),
(3158, 3158, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Never before has a sitting US president faced 80 candles on a birthday cake -- and the milestone that Joe Biden reaches on Sunday has undeniable ramifications as he ponders running again in 2024.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House so far has not revealed any celebration plans, focusing instead on preparations for the wedding on Saturday of Biden\'s granddaughter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden himself jokes about the big 8-0. \"I can\'t even say the age I am going to be,\" he said on MSNBC. \"I can\'t even get it out of my mouth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And he brushes off questions about whether he should seek reelection that would put him in power until aged 86, responding with two words: \"Watch me.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Fit for duty\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A year ago, after an extensive medical checkup, doctors said Biden had only a few minor ailments and concluded that he was \"fit for duty.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The slender president neither smokes nor drinks, remains physically active and hasn\'t had any major health concerns since having surgery for two life-threatening brain aneurysms in 1988. 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, '2022-11-20 03:59:13', '2022-11-20 03:59:13'),
(3159, 3159, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Malaysia\'s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Sunday his coalition had mustered enough seats to form the country\'s next government after a hotly contested general election, potentially paving the way for him to become prime minister.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin -- who heads the rival Perikatan Nasional (National Alliance) grouping -- said he too was in talks to form the next government after Saturday\'s election, with no outright winner emerging.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts have warned that the multi-racial country, Southeast Asia\'s third-largest economy, could face further political instability if there is no clear winner and if coalition-building talks took time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have now the majority to form a government,\" Anwar told reporters at a dawn news conference after hours of frenzied horse-trading negotiations through the night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When pressed about who would enter into an alliance with him, the 75-year-old Anwar did not name names, but said their commitments were made in writing which will be submitted to the king for endorsement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Majority means more than 111,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With votes for all 219 contested seats counted, Anwar\'s Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) coalition won 82 and Muhyiddin grabbed 73, official results showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The once mighty Barisan Nasional -- dominated by jailed ex-leader Najib Razak\'s United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party -- trailed far behind with 30, official results showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Smaller regional parties, including those in Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo island, are the ones expected to become kingmakers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were supposed to be 222 seats at stake, but two candidates died and voting in one district was suspended due to bad weather.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are willing to work with any party,\" Muhyiddin told reporters at a buoyant press conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Anwar claimed it would be \"impossible\" for Muhyiddin\'s bloc to form a majority.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the biggest casualties of the election was former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, 97, who was roundly defeated in his constituency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Big turnout -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anwar campaigned on a promise to fight corruption in Malaysia, where people are struggling with soaring food prices, and where Najib\'s graft-tainted party had hoped to cement its grip on power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With age catching up, this may be his last chance to fulfil his 20-year dream of leading Malaysia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A win today would certainly be gratifying after more than two decades of fighting to win the hearts and minds of the people,\" Anwar told AFP before casting his vote in Penang state.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anwar, a perennial runner-up in Malaysian politics, endured two prison terms and had been on the cusp of power a few times in his long struggle for the country\'s top job.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voter turnout was high -- two hours before polling closed, it was already at 70 percent -- and those who spoke to AFP said they hoped for political stability and economic improvement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want a strong government and a stable economy so that there will be more job opportunities for the youth,\" Nurul Hazwani Firdon, a 20-year-old tutor, said as she went to cast her ballot in the rural town of Bera in Pahang state.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social media posts showed people lining up in knee-deep waters outside a voting centre in Sarawak state on Borneo island.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest results represented the latest humiliation for UMNO at the hands of voters, after it suffered a stunning defeat in the 2018 general election due to anger over the 1MDB scandal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Najib, who was at the centre of the storm, is currently serving a 12-year jail term.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because of infighting in the two successive governments since 2018, UMNO crept back into power last year despite lingering corruption allegations, and had sought a stronger mandate from the election -- called 10 months ahead of schedule.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Corruption a key issue -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Corruption was a key issue during the campaign, with opposition parties repeatedly warning that if UMNO wins, Najib could walk free and graft charges against other party leaders could be dropped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1MDB scandal -- in which billions of dollars in state funds were diverted to Beverly Hills properties, a superyacht, a Hollywood film and Najib\'s own bank account -- sparked investigations in Singapore, Switzerland and the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malaysia lowered its voting age from 21 to 18 last year, a move that added six million voters to the rolls for this election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 1.4 million of total registered voters are aged 18-20.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts have said young voters lean towards the opposition\'s more progressive politics. 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, '2022-11-20 04:11:14', '2022-11-20 04:11:14');
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(3160, 3160, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">France\'s hopes of successfully defending the World Cup were dealt a huge blow late on Saturday as Ballon d\'Or winner Karim Benzema was ruled out of the tournament in Qatar with an injured left thigh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 34-year-old Real Madrid striker had been struggling with the injury for some time and had played less than half an hour of football in his club\'s last six games before the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, he took part in full training for the first time since the World Cup holders gathered last week ahead of the tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was forced to withdraw from the session at the home stadium of Qatari champions Al Sadd with the injury and was taken for tests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The French Football Federation (FFF) later said in a statement that the injury \"will require a recovery period of three weeks\", ruling out any prospect of him being fully fit for the tournament which finishes on December 18.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am extremely sad for Karim, for whom this World Cup was a major objective,\" France coach Didier Deschamps was quoted as saying in the FFF statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Despite this new blow for the France team I have full faith in my squad. We will do all we can to rise to the huge challenge that awaits us.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 36-year-old Olivier Giroud is set to benefit from Benzema\'s absence by coming into the France attack alongside Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, under FIFA rules Deschamps can still call up a replacement for an injured player until Monday, on the eve of their first game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France begin their defence of the trophy on Tuesday, when they take on Australia in Al Wakrah.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will also play Denmark and Tunisia in Group D as they aim to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to retain the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Pogba, Kante, Nkunku already out -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benzema\'s injury is a major blow for Deschamps, whose preparations for the tournament had already been hampered by fitness problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">France have come to Qatar without the key duo of Paul Pogba and N\'Golo Kante, their starting midfield pairing from the successful 2018 World Cup campaign, who were both ruled out due to injury before Deschamps named his squad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back-up goalkeeper Mike Maignan and centre-back Presnel Kimpembe also withdrew before RB Leipzig forward Christopher Nkunku had to pull out after suffering a knee injury in France\'s final training session before departing for Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkunku was replaced in the squad by Eintracht Frankfurt forward Randal Kolo Muani.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manchester United defender Raphael Varane has also been struggling to prove his fitness since coming off in tears with a leg injury in a game against Chelsea on October 22.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benzema, who will turn 35 next month, had targeted the World Cup to cap off a remarkable career renaissance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He won the Ballon d\'Or after scoring 44 goals in 46 games for Real Madrid last season as the Spanish club won the Champions League and La Liga.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benzema had previously been frozen out of the France team for five-and-a-half years because of his involvement in a blackmail scandal over a sex tape involving his former teammate Mathieu Valbuena.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That saw him miss France\'s victorious 2018 World Cup campaign and led to him being handed a one-year suspended prison sentence as well as a fine of 75,000 euros.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On winning the Ballon d\'Or he said: \"There are things that are still left to be done. I hope to be in the squad for Qatar, to go to the World Cup and do everything to win it.\" 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, '2022-11-20 04:18:22', '2022-11-20 04:18:22'),
(3161, 3161, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Twitter\'s new owner Elon Musk has said Donald Trump\'s account has been reinstated after running a poll in which users narrowly backed the move.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The people have spoken,\" tweeted Mr Musk, saying that 51.8% of more than 15 million Twitter users voted for the ban to be lifted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the former US president may not return to the platform, earlier saying: \"I don\'t see any reason for it\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His account was suspended in 2021 due to the risk of incitement of violence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter\'s previous management acted just days after Donald Trump\'s supporters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of rioters entered the complex as the US Congress attempted to certify Joe Biden\'s victory in the presidential election. The ensuing violence led to the deaths of four civilians and a police officer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after the riots, Donald Trump\'s Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts, which all had tens of millions of followers - were also suspended.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several months later, he launched his own social media platform, Truth Social.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week, the Republican announced that he would once again run for the US presidency in 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk, the world\'s richest man, took control of Twitter in October in a $44bn (£37bn) deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He immediately embarked on a series of radical changes within the social media giant, amid concerns that he might loosen Twitter\'s regulations on hate speech and misinformation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With just over a week before the US midterm elections on 8 November, he responded to questions about whether he would reinstate Mr Trump\'s account by tweeting: \"If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if Trump is coming back on this platform, Twitter would be minting money!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week, he told employees that the company\'s office buildings would be temporarily closed, with immediate effect.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement comes amid reports that large numbers of staff were quitting after Mr Musk called on them to sign up for \"long hours at high intensity\" or leave.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elon Musk had clearly decided that it was easier, and arguably more democratic, to simply ask Twitter followers whether the former president should return.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Donald Trump felt the poll was significant, urging his followers on Truth Social to \"vote now with positivity, but don\'t worry, we aren\'t going anywhere. Truth Social is special\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s an odd statement. If Mr Trump isn\'t thinking of returning, why urge his followers to vote?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth Social has relatively few users compared with Twitter. In September, app analysts Sensor Tower estimated that just 92,000 people downloaded Truth Social. Nearly 15 million people downloaded Twitter over the same period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump would love to have his megaphone back: Twitter was his favourite app, a platform he used to drum up support, and dominate the news cycle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But while he would have a far greater reach on Twitter, he has a financial interest in making Truth Social succeed. The app is owned by the Trump Media & Technology Group, and if he were to go back to Twitter, it\'s hard to see how Truth Social could continue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That helps to explain why we are not seeing Donald Trump clamouring to return to Twitter - yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in the longer term, he will have to weigh up financial decisions with political ones, and with intentions to run for president again - don\'t rule him out returning. 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, '2022-11-20 04:23:48', '2022-11-20 13:17:46'),
(3162, 3162, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>President Joe Biden welcomed guests to the White House Saturday for the wedding of his granddaughter Naomi -- an unprecedented ceremony that was closed to the press.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Naomi Biden, a 28-year-old lawyer in Washington, married Peter Neal, 25, a law graduate, on the White House South Lawn, suitingly decorated with white flowers, as invitees in rows looked on, according to photos taken from far away by AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden is the daughter of the president\'s son Hunter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not unheard of for the presidential mansion with America\'s most stately address -- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- to be decorated with white flowers for a wedding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House Historical Association says 18 weddings have been performed at the mansion, including those of Richard Nixon\'s daughter Tricia in 1971 and Barack Obama\'s official photographer, Pete Souza, in 2013.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The association says four times the White House has also hosted receptions for weddings held elsewhere, for instance that of George W. Bush\'s daughter Jenna in 2008.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But this is the first time a president\'s granddaughter is getting hitched there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- \'Pop\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House has given few details on this wedding, which is classified as strictly private and is closed to the press. This has raised some eyebrows.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The White House press has covered weddings held there through history because the space belongs to the American people and a president\'s participation is an event of national interest,\" Kelly O\'Donnell, an NBC reporter slated to become the next president of the White House Correspondents Association, said Thursday on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The New York Times has reported a few tidbits about the bride and groom and the wedding: Biden and Neal are actually living at the White House for the time being, and they will exchange vows before a luncheon, to be followed by a big gala dinner in the evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naomi Biden announced her wedding plans in September on her Instagram account, which features photos of vacations, the Biden clan and her day-to-day life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden is very close to his grandchildren, who call him Pop and are often seen with him, even at some official events.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naomi is named after the president\'s first daughter, who died as a baby in a car crash in 1972 that also claimed the life of his first wife.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US press reports have said Naomi Biden plays an important role in the president\'s inner circle and pressed him, for instance, to run for president in 2020. 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, '2022-11-20 04:31:21', '2022-11-20 04:31:21'),
(3163, 3163, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">The 2022 FIFA World Cup is set to start in Qatar on Sunday, marking the 22nd edition of the global football tournament supervised by FIFA.</span></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The opening match of the championship in Qatar is scheduled to start tonight at 7pm (Doha time) (Dhaka time at 10pm) between Group A teams Qatar and the national squad of Ecuador. The match will be played at the 60,000-seat capacity Al-Bayt Stadium.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world championship was initially scheduled to start on November 21 with a match between the national teams of The Netherlands and Senegal, which also play in Group A.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, FIFA Council\'s bureau announced a decision on August 11 to move the championship\'s opening game to November 20, stating that it respected the heritage of FIFA\'s traditions and each World Cup should start with an opening ceremony and inaugural match involving the host country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Russian national football team is not taking part in the upcoming FIFA World Cup. It finished second in its group at the qualifying stage with 22 points after 10 matches, which saw the Russian squad proceeding to the playoffs, where they had another chance to qualify for the world\'s largest football tournament.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) announced on February 28 that the Russian national team and all professional clubs representing the country were barred from taking part in FIFA tournaments, including the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On April 1, a draw for the group stage of the World Cup was held, placing all participating teams into the following groups:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group B: England, Iran, the United States, Wales</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group D: France, Tunisia, Denmark, Australia</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group stage matches are scheduled to run across numerous fields in Qatar between November 20 and December 2.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup on December 2, 2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March 2015, FIFA officially announced that the 22nd edition of FIFA\'s flagship event would be played in November and December of 2022, with the final match set for December 18, 2022, coinciding with - Qatar National Day. The objective, in principle, was to hold the tournament over 28 days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qatar is set to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup between November 20 and December 18 at eight stadiums in five cities across the country. The eight stadiums at the issue are Al Bayt Stadium, Khalifa International Stadium, Al Thumama Stadium, Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, Lusail Iconic Stadium, Stadium 974, Education City Stadium, Al Janoub Stadium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FIFA World Cup is held every four years. The inaugural event was hosted by Uruguay in 1930. The national football team of Brazil has participated in all 22 editions of the FIFA World Cup beginning in 1930, winning five of them (in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The national teams of Germany and Italy are each four-time World Cup winners (Germany - in 1954, 1974, 1990, 2014; Italy - in 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The previous FIFA World Cup was hosted by Russia in 2018. The championship kicked off in Moscow with a remarkable opening show at Luzhniki Stadium on the evening of June 14, 2018 and ended on July 15 with a spectacular final match, also played at Luzhniki Stadium, where France defeated Croatia 4-2 to win the much-coveted World Cup Trophy.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The championship took place at 12 stadiums in 11 cities across Russia, namely in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On July 15, 2018, during an official ceremony in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin passed the baton of the FIFA World Cup\'s host country to Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in the presence of FIFA President Gianni Infantino. 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(3164, 3164, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defence technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine\'s snow-blanketed capital for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air-defense package, which Britain valued at 50 million pounds ($60 million), comes as Russia has been pounding Ukraine\'s power grid and other key infrastructure from the air, causing widespread blackouts for millions of Ukrainians amid frigid weather.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The package includes radar and other technology to counter the Iran-supplied exploding drones that Russia has used against Ukrainian targets. It comes on top of a delivery of more than 1,000 anti-air missiles that Britain announced earlier this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.K. has been one of the staunchest Western backers of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion. Speaking alongside Zelenskyy, Sunak noted that the U.K. has given 2.3 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) in military aid and pledged: “We will do the same again next year.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Your homes, your hospitals, your power stations are being destroyed,\" Sunak said in announcing the new air-defence package. “You and your people are paying a heavy price in blood.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking through a translator, Zelenskyy said Russian strikes have damaged around half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As snowflakes fell, Zelenskyy greeted Sunak at a presidential palace for their talks. He called the two countries “the strongest of allies.” Walking in the snow, they also inspected captured Russian tanks and other destroyed and rusting military hardware used by the invasion forces that are displayed in a Kyiv square.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“With friends like you by our side, we are confident in our victory. Both of our nations know what it means to stand up for freedom,” the Ukrainian leader said on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who stepped down in July, won wide praise in Ukraine for his backing. Sunak is keen to reassure Ukraine’s leaders that there will be no change of stance under his leadership, although when he was U.K. Treasury chief under Johnson he was considered resistant to demands for higher defense spending.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The courage of the Ukrainian people is an inspiration to the world,” Sunak said. “In years to come, we will tell our grandchildren of your story.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He pledged that Britain \"will stand with you until Ukraine has won the peace and security it needs and deserves and then we will stand with you as you rebuild your great country.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunak also laid flowers at a memorial for the war dead, lit a candle at a memorial for victims of a deadly Soviet-era famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and met first responders at a fire station, his office said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunak\'s visit came in the wake of a major recent battlefield success for Ukraine: the recapture of the southern city of Kherson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The restoration of rail connections brought further joy Saturday to Kherson\'s residents, who excitedly waited for the first train from Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is the beginning of a new life,” said 74-year-old Ludmila Olhouskaya, who didn’t have anyone to meet off the train but went to the station to show support. “Or rather, the revival of a former one.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the battlefield, Russian forces launched 10 airstrikes, 10 missile strikes and 42 rocket attacks on Ukraine in the last day, the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Kherson, the major southern city that Ukrainian forces recaptured more than a week ago, two Russian missiles struck an oil depot — the first time a depot was hit in the city since the Russians withdrew, according to firefighters at the scene. AP reporters said a huge fire and billowing black smoke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There was a strong explosion,” said Valentyna Svyderska, who lives nearby. “We were scared, everyone was scared ... Because this is an army that is at war with the civilian population.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local authorities were struggling to respond to the blaze, the firefighters said, because Russian forces took the city\'s fire trucks and ambulances when they retreated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia is pressing an offensive in the eastern Donetsk region, and Ukraine reported heavy fighting around the city of Bakhmut, the town of Avdiivka and the village of Novopavlivka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian forces claimed to have repelled a Ukrainian counteroffensive to take back the settlements of Pershotravneve, Kyslivka and Krokhmalne in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv province.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian forces said they killed or wounded scores of Russian soldiers during an attack on the village of Mykhailivka in the southern Kherson region, and the wounded were taken to hospitals in Crimea. The claim could not be independently verified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian forces also reported they conducted deadly strikes on the Kinburn Spit in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv province, a key site for Russian electronic warfare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia kept up its strikes on critical infrastructure, with a rocket attack overnight causing a fire at a key industrial facility in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, according to the region\'s chief. Some parts of the regional capital of Zaporizhzhia were left without heat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of Ukraine’s biggest private energy firm told the BBC that Ukrainians who can afford it should consider leaving the country to relieve pressure on its war-damaged power system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“If they can find an alternative place to stay for another three or four months, it will be very helpful to the system,” said Maxim Timchenko, chief executive of DTEK. “If you consume less, then hospitals with injured soldiers will have a guaranteed power supply.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Poland, a funeral was held Saturday for one of the two men who died when a missile landed there this week, according to the state news agency PAP. A military honor guard and Polish and Ukrainian representatives joined the man’s family and members of the community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance have both said the missile strike in an eastern farming region appeared to be unintentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine. Russia had been bombarding Ukraine at the time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.K. Ministry of Defense noted Saturday that Russia conducted its largest ever-debt issuance in a single day, raising $13.6 billion on Wednesday. It said debt issuance is a key mechanism to sustain defense spending. 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(3165, 3165, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in the Economic Zones (EZs) across the country.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She opened the industrial establishments in the EZs virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence in the capital this morning, marking the Golden Jubilee of the country\'s Independence and the Birth Centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four factories at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) in Chattogram and eight factories in different private EZs were launched among the 50 industrial facilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These industrial units have already invested over US$967.73 million in the economic zones and will make further investments of nearly $331.27 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier laid the foundation stone of 29 industrial units in different EZs, which have so far invested $610 million and are in the process to invest $1,922.39 million more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Administration buildings of BSMSN, Jamalpur Economic Zone, Srihatta EZ, and Sabrang Tourism Park were inaugurated as well.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister also formally opened the 20-kilometre Sheikh Hasina Sarani, 230-KVA gridline and substation at the BSMSN and laid the foundation stone of a water treatment plant having 50 million litres per day (MLD) capacity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, PM\'s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman, Chattogram-1 constituency lawmaker Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Vice-Chairman of the Bashundhara Group Safwan Sobhan spoke at the function at BSMSN end in Chattogram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) Executive Chairman Shaikh Yusuf Harun gave the address of welcome.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the development activities of the BEZA was screened at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BEZA aims to establish economic zones in all potential areas in Bangladesh, including backward and underdeveloped regions, with a view to encouraging rapid economic development through the increase and diversification of industry, employment, production and export.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the planned 100 economic zones, the government has approved 97 economic zones, 28 of which are currently under development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, 12 privately owned economic zones have received licenses to operate and nearly $4 billion have been invested in these economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The goal of the economic zones is to create employment for 10 million people directly and indirectly. It is also expected to produce and export products worth $40 billion annually from these economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investors can avail of tax holidays, and duty-free imports of raw materials and machinery at the economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economic zones have attracted foreign direct investments from different countries, including Japan, China, India, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, America, the United Kingdom, Singapore, South Korea and Norway. 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, '2022-11-20 06:01:52', '2022-11-20 06:01:52'),
(3166, 3166, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russian Ambassador in Dhaka Alexander Mantytskiy instead of the country’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will represent his country at the IORA meeting scheduled for November 24.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is likely to have a telephone conversation with his Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam confirmed this to UNB on Sunday as there is a revised decision regarding his planned Dhaka visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bangladesh side was taking preparation for a bilateral meeting between Foreign Minister Momen and his Russian counterpart apart from a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the Russian side conveyed its revised decision to Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason behind the revised decision could not be known.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian Foreign Minister was scheduled to visit Bangladesh on November 23 mainly to attend the 22nd IORA Council of Ministers (COM) meeting to be held in Dhaka on November 24.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia is a dialogue partner of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) while Bangladesh is the current chair of IORA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will brief the media on the upcoming IORA meeting on Monday. 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, '2022-11-20 06:09:05', '2022-11-20 13:18:13'),
(3168, 3168, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A woman has been shot dead allegedly by police during a clash between police and drug peddlers when the later snatched a drug case accused from the law enforcers in Chandgaon of Chattogram city.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased was identified as Nazma Aktar, 30, sister of accused Md Hanif of ‘Hanif Bahini’.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Drug peddler Hanif was arrested with 5,000 Yaba pills on Saturday evening and some of his associates snatched him from police after attacking the police outpost at the Kalurghat area, said Chandgaon Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mainul Hossain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">‘Hanif Bahini’ members clashed with police, forcing the law enforcers to open fire that left Nazma and five policemen wounded, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I have heard the news of the death of the woman who was injured in the clash. However, we did not find the body at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH).”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Panchlaish Police Station Inspector (Investigation) Sadekur Rahman said a woman with bullet injuries was brought to CMCH from Kalurghat area and then she was taken to a private hospital in the city where doctors declared her dead around 11pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body was kept at CMCH morgue, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, preparations steps have been take to file a case over snatching the accused after attacking police, said OC Mainul. 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, '2022-11-20 06:20:18', '2022-11-20 13:17:13'),
(3169, 3169, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday (November 20, 2022) said fuel import from India through pipeline will start from next year.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Bangladesh wanted to import fuel from India through pipeline, and hopefully it will be done in the next year,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister said this while Assam Legislative Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was leading a four-member delegation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 130km India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL) project aims to export oil products from the Siliguri Marketing Terminal in West Bengal state to Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina also said that the border haats between Bangladesh and India, in different parts of the border of the two countries, will resume function as those were stopped during the pandemic. 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, '2022-11-20 06:45:41', '2022-11-20 06:45:41'),
(3170, 3170, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Actor Anupam Kher has shared a video collage from the reunion bash, held recently in Mumbai, in which 1980s actors partied together. Taking to Instagram, Anupam posted a clip in which all the actors posed together for group pictures.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the video, Anupam also sat with Chiranjeevi as they gave poses for the camera. Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff also gave different poses for the photo. Chiranjeevi, Anil, and Madhoo also danced to different songs in the clip. The text on the clip read, \"Class of 80s (red heart emoji) 12-11-2022.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharing the clip, Anupam captioned the post, \"\'We age not by years, but by our stories!\' It was the most amazing, and joyous experience to meet class actors and actresses of 80’s at a reunion in Mumbai a week back. Unbelievably explosive talent under one roof! Wah (Wow)! Maza aa gaya (Had fun)! Spot your favourite in this priceless video! (red heart emojis).\" He also added the hashtags – Class of 80s, actors, gold and talent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anupam also added the song Hum Bane Tum Bane from the 1981 film Ek Duuje Ke Liye as the background music. Reacting to the post, actor Sudhanshu Pandey commented, \"Fantastic.\" Actor Delnaaz Irani said, \"Wow.\" A fan wrote, \"80\'s is goldies.\" Another person said, \"How amazing and nostalgic the feeling must be.\" \"Sir you all are superb,\" read a comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, over 40 stars from the Indian film industry who have been entertaining audiences with their acting since the 1980s gathered together under one roof for a reunion bash thrown by Jackie Shroff and Poonam Dhillon. Apart from Chiranjeevi, Anupam, and Anil, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sarathkumar, Bhagyaraj, Suhasini Maniratnam, Khushboo, and Ramya Krishnan were also part of the bash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From dancing to singing and participating in some fun games and quizzes put together by Poonam Dhillon, the reunion saw veteran actors having a gala time with each other. Raj Babbar, Venkatesh and Tina Ambani were also a part of the reunion. The last time the 80s actors met was in 2019 for the 10th-year reunion which was hosted by Chiranjeevi. 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, '2022-11-20 07:17:04', '2022-11-20 07:17:04'),
(3171, 3171, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">According to a recent study from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, patients with a particular type of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the main cause of blindness in the United States, are also very likely to have advanced heart valve disease, carotid artery disease linked to certain types of strokes, or underlying heart damage from heart failure and heart attacks.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This study is the first to pinpoint the specific high-risk cardiovascular and carotid artery diseases that are connected to the eye condition. It was published on November 17 in BMJ Open Ophthalmology. The results may lead to enhanced screening in order to save vision, identify undiagnosed heart disease, and stop harmful cardiovascular events.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For the first time, we have been able to connect these specific high-risk cardiovascular diseases to a specific form of AMD, the one with subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDDs),\" explains lead author R. Theodore Smith, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This study is the first strong link between the leading cause of blindness, AMD, and heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Furthermore, we also have strong evidence for what actually happens: the blood supply to the eye is directly diminished by these diseases, either by heart damage that diminishes blood supply throughout the body or from a blocked carotid artery that directly impedes blood flow to the eye.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A poor blood supply can cause damage to any part of the body, and with these specific diseases, the destroyed retina and leftover SDDs are that damage. Retinal damage means vision loss, and can lead to blindness.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central region of the retina known as the macula, which is crucial for reading and driving vision, is damaged in AMD, which is the main cause of visual impairment and blindness in persons over 65.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Small, yellow cholesterol deposits known as drusen, which develop behind the retinal pigment epithelium, are one of the main symptoms of early AMD (RPE). They may rob the retina of blood and oxygen, which could result in blindness. The production of drusen can be slowed down with the right vitamin intake. Subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDDs), the other main type of early AMD, are less well known and can only be found using sophisticated retinal imaging.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These deposits, which accumulate above the RPE and immediately below the light-sensitive retinal cells, are made up of a distinct type of cholesterol and are where the damage and loss of vision take place. SDDs have no known treatments. Initially, Dr Smith and a group of Mount Sinai researchers discovered that SDDs were more prevalent in individuals with cardiovascular illness or stroke. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 07:51:40', '2022-11-20 07:51:40');
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(3172, 3172, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday called for developing a cooperative mechanism among the littoral states of the Indian Ocean to promote collaboration for reaping maximum benefits of&nbsp; the blue economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Bangladesh believes that the regional vision for the blue economy must be supported by a balanced integration of the economic, social and environmental elements of development,\" he told the IORA (Indian Ocean Rim Association) Business Forum Leadership Summit at a city hotel.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Momen said optimal use of the marine resources – categorized as blue economy- has been recognized as one of the key components of sustainable development.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh, he said, considers blue economy as one of the cornerstones of its economic growth and socio-economic development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of the Indian Ocean Rim Business Forum Sheikh Fazle Fahim and Secretary-General IORA Ambassador Salman Al Farisi also spoke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh, as the current chair of IORA, is going to host the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Ministers (COM) under the theme “Harnessing the opportunities of the Indian Ocean sustainably for inclusive development” on November 24.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I believe the council will definitely take note of the suggestions of this business forum regarding the recovery from the impact of pandemic,\" Momen said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there is a need for a sustained dialogue among business leaders, scholars, practitioners and policy makers to identify and deliberate on various economic challenges confronting the region, identify mechanisms to address those and evolve new frameworks for co-operation with the regional countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">IORA has evolved into an important regional group spanning the Indian Ocean through sustained dialogue and cooperation and now is playing as a key driving force to ensure development, peace and stability in the region, Momen 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, '2022-11-20 08:26:55', '2022-11-20 08:26:55'),
(3173, 3173, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Traffic movement will remain restricted inside the Dhaka Cantonment area on Monday due to observance of the ‘Armed Forces Day 2022’.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movement will be restricted in the area from 7am to 11am and 12pm to 7pm, according to a notification from the Inter Service Public Relation Directorate (ISPR) issued on November 16.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All types of vehicles, except vehicles carrying HSC candidates, people staying inside the cantonment area and invited guests at the event, are requested to avoid the Shaheed Jahangir gate to the staff road during the period, it 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, '2022-11-20 08:37:32', '2022-11-20 08:37:32'),
(3174, 3174, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the industrialists to keep their factories running to ensure that the people of Bangladesh don’t suffer amid the global economic recession.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Many countries have announced that they are suffering from economic recession. But I can say that Bangladesh is still not in such a bad condition,” she said. The government is taking measures to keep the wheels of the country’s economy running.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this while inaugurating and laying foundation stones of 50 industrial units and commercial infrastructures in different economic zones on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the country’s independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She unveiled the plaques at an event arranged by Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority (BEZA) at \'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar\' in Mirsarai of Chattogram, joining it through a videoconference from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I would like to request the industrialists to continue efforts to meet the demands of the country’s people by running their industries,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She reminded the industrialists of the days of corruption and the harassments they used to suffer during the rule of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during 2001-2006.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Now there is no Hawa Bhaban anymore. You don’t have to make payments of Hawa Bhaban or run from door to door to get your work done,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hawa Bhavan, better known as a second centre of power during&nbsp; then premier Khaleda Zia’s rule, used to be run by her son BNP leader Tarique Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">said her government has been able to bring the country under all sorts of rules and disciplines. The government is developing a business-friendly atmosphere and providing all sorts of scopes and facilities for businesses, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“You should work for the wellbeing of the country’s people. We will extend support as much as you work for the welfare of the people. But don’t do anything that would lead the people to suffer,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said the prices of commodities in the international markets and transport costs soared due to the Ukraine-Russia war, sanctions and counter-sanctions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina referred to Vision-2021 (the political manifesto of the Bangladesh Awami League to develop Bangladesh).&nbsp; “Bangladesh is a changed Bangladesh now. Those who have eyes can see it,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling her Awami League government a business-friendly one, the PM said her party is putting importance to the private sector, industrialization and increasing agricultural production for the country’s development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She urged the entrepreneurs, particularly the youth, to come forward to new sectors like agricultural and food-processing industries as Bangladesh has potential to export processed food items.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM also briefly cited the opportunities created by her government for the youths and women to develop as entrepreneurs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said all including the youths and women would have to work together to transform Bangladesh into a developed and prosperous country by 2041.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I would like to ask our young generation not to run after for only. Rather you develop your own industries and businesses,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister stressed the need for a planned industrialisation by protecting the arable lands to ensure economic prosperity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’ll have to continue the food production and also develop industrial zones at the same time…. No industry can be developed indiscriminately…. the arable lands and triple-crop lands can in no way be destroyed,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said her government is setting up 100 economic zones in different parts of the country and has already approved 97 economic zones. Of them, 28 economic zones are currently under development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said some 10 million people would be directly and indirectly employed in the economic zones. The government has set a target of goods production and export earnings worth around US$ 40 billion from the zones, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the economic zones, 29 industrial establishments are already in commercial production and 61 others are under construction. So far, some 45,000 jobs have been created in the economic zones and about US$ 4 billion have been invested in the private economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the proposed investment in all economic zones is more than US$ 26 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the 50 industrial or business establishments, four industrial units have started production at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar while eight others at different privately-run Economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, Karnaphuli Drydock Special Economic Zone, the administrative buildings of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN), Jamalpur Economic Zone, Srihatta Economic Zone and Sabrang Tourism Park, 20-kilometre Sheikh Hasina Sarani, 230-KVA gridline and substation at BSMSN were opened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, the foundation stones of 29 industrial units in different economic zones and a water treatment plant having 50 million litres per day (MLD) capacity in the BSMSN were laid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, PM’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman, Chattogram-1 MP Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and President of Bangladesh Economic Zone Investors Association and also vice chairman of Bashundhara Group Safwan Sobhan also spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BEZA Executive Chairman Sheikh Yusuf Haroon delivered the welcome speech. 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(3175, 3175, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bollywood actress Tina Datta twisted her ankle in Bigg Boss 16 on November 17 that lead to a huge fight between Shalin Bhanot and MC Stan.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Both her friends instead of taking Tina’s care indulged into a nasty fight. The actress who was in intense pain took medicines and tried her best to settle this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>But ironically Shalin blamed her to be faking that pain. Today, when Salman raised this issue, Shalin once again enacted Tina and questioned her pain. To which, Salman came to Datta’a rescue.</div><div><br></div><div>Tina mentioned that she did an X-ray and also took many pain killers to relieve that pain. Salman backed her saying that pain killers are to kill the pain and hence Tina could stand on her feet after seeing the doctor. Salman slammed Shalin for his ruthless actions against Tina. Khan also mentioned that instead of taking Tina’s care both the boys were busy abusing and have a dirty fight.</div><div><br></div><div>Salman also expressed that Tina has always tried explaining Shalin the right points.</div><div><br></div><div>During the episode, Tina vocally presented her points and was clear that Sumbul’s obsession didn’t allow her to explain her points to Shalin. Tina has always presented her points upfrontly and caught the attention of audiences, The Statesman reported.</div><div><br></div><div>While everyone was blaming Tina, Salman told she was absolutely right and everyone wronged her.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 09:48:04', '2022-11-20 09:48:04'),
(3176, 3176, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four people died Friday after a small plane appeared to have broken up in midair before striking the ground east of Harvey Field Airport in Snohomish County, US state of Washington, investigators announced on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The accident happened about an hour after the Cessna 208B plane took off from Renton.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday morning, the Snohomish County Sheriff\'s Office confirmed that all the four people aboard the plane had died.</div><div><br></div><div>The Snohomish County medical examiner has been identifying the victims, and the crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the Federal Aviation Administration website, the crashed plane with identifier tail number N2069B was owned by Copper Mountain Aviation of Alaska, Xinhua reported.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 09:59:49', '2022-11-20 09:59:49'),
(3177, 3177, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">According to a report Motorcycle accidents in the country witnessed an increase by 21.17 per cent and fatalities by 19.28 per cent this year compared to last year.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>At least 2,097 people were killed and 1,286 others injured in 2,003 motorcycle accidents from January to October this year in the country while some 1,758 people were killed in 1,653 such mishaps in the same period, according to a report published by Road Safety Foundation (RSF).</div><div><br></div><div>Among the victims, some 16.54 per cent (347 people) were in the age group of 13 to 17 years whereas some 73.10 per cent (1,533 people) were between 18 to 50 years.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 764 students were killed in the accidents, which are estimated as 36.43 per cent.&nbsp; As many as 92 pedestrians died in motorcycle collisions, which is 4.38 per cent of the total fatalities.</div><div><br></div><div>The RSF prepared the report based on news published in nine national dailies, seven online news portals, and electronic media.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 10:39:17', '2022-11-20 10:39:17'),
(3178, 3178, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Suryakumar Yadav struck an imperious century as India posted 191-6 in the second Twenty20 international against New Zealand at Mount Maunganui on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Suryakumar made shot-making look easy in an unbeaten 111 off 51 balls, illustrating why he is ranked the world\'s best T20 batter.</div><div><br></div><div>The 32-year-old struck 11 fours and cleared the Bay Oval ropes seven times as he compiled his second century in the format, having posted 117 against England at Nottingham four months ago.</div><div><br></div><div>He has become the first Indian to score 1,000 T20 runs in a calendar year, improving his career strike rate to an extraordinary 181.64 in the process.</div><div><br></div><div>This was his seventh time past 50 in 11 innings, helping India recover from a modest start after being sent in to bat in damp conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>Opener Ishan Kishan provided the next-highest Indian score with 36 off 31.</div><div><br></div><div>Suryakumar ensured the run rate accelerated as the innings progressed and the last two overs provided the most action of the innings.</div><div><br></div><div>Lockie Ferguson conceded 22 in the penultimate over, all from the bat of Suryakumar, who reached his ton in the process.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim Southee struck back in the final over with his second career hat-trick, dismissing Indian captain Hardik Pandya before removing Deepak Hooda and Washington Sundar for golden ducks.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The opening fixture of the three-match series in Wellington on Friday was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of wet weather. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 11:21:13', '2022-11-20 11:21:13'),
(3179, 3179, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh police announced Tk 10 lakh for information on each men, convicted to death in publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, who escaped from the lock-up of a Dhaka court earlier today.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>AIG of media, Police Headquarters, Md Manzur Rahman told UNB that a total of Tk 20 lakh as prize money has been announced from police for assisting in catching the militants who fled court premises.</div><div><br></div><div>The escapees are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran, said Harun or-Rashid, Chief of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The convicts sprayed something on the eyes of two policemen and escaped while they were being taken to the court. We’re searching for them in the nearby areas. This is the first time something like this has happened in the country,” said Harun.</div><div><br></div><div>Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in the city on October 31, 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>A case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station the following day and later the case was transferred to Detective Branch.</div><div><br></div><div>Police on November 15, 2019, pressed charges against the eight Ansar-Al-Islam&nbsp; men in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>On February 10, 2021, Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal sentenced eight militants to death.</div><div><br></div><div>The six other death-row convicts in the case are Md Abdus Sabur alias Abdus Samad alias Sujan alias Raju alias Sad, Khairul Islam alias Jamil alias Rifat alias Fahim alias Jisan, Mozammel Hossain alias Saimon alias Shashriar, Md Sheikh Abdullah alias Jubayer alias Jayed alias Javed, Syed Ziaul Hoque, a suspended major of Bangladesh Army who is known as Sagar alias Ishtiaq alias Borobhai, and Akram Hossain alias Hasib alias Abir alias Adnan alias Abdullah.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the convicts, Sayed Ziaul Hoque and Akram Hossain-- have been absconding since the killing. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 11:48:15', '2022-11-20 11:48:15'),
(3180, 3180, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">All applicants wishing to apply for a UK visa in Bangladesh must make payment online on the official UK government website prior to submitting their passports and biometrics at their designated Visa Application Centre from November 28.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“In line with Bangladesh’s impressive ongoing digitisation, now is the time to adopt a fully digital approach and streamline the visa payment process for all applicants,” said British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) will shortly move all visa application payments online, said the British High Commission in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently, customers have the choice to pay online or cash at the Visa Application Centre.</div><div><br></div><div>Dickson said the UK is a popular choice for those wishing to work, study or just visit.</div><div><br></div><div>In the year ending June 2022, he said, over 24,400 visas were issued to Bangladeshi nationals, an 84 percent increase on the previous year.</div><div><br></div><div>UKVI apologises to customers affected for any inconvenience caused and encourages all new applicants to ensure they have the correct payment method available prior to beginning their visa application. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 12:48:44', '2022-11-20 12:48:44'),
(3181, 3181, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday issued separate messages, greeting members of the armed forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day to be celebrated in the country on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In his message, the President recalled the memories of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman under whose leadership Bangladesh achieved final victory on December 16, 1971 following a nine-month-long armed Liberation War.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He also recalled the memories of 1971 martyrs, particularly the seven recipients of the highest gallantry awards \"Bir Shreshtha\", and prayed for the eternal peace of the departed souls and conveyed deep sympathy to the injured freedom fighter military officials and the family members of the martyred members of the armed forces.</div><div><br></div><div>President Hamid, also the supreme commander of the armed forces, said, \"The armed forces, born through the Great War of Liberation, are the symbol of confidence and pride of the nation\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The members of the armed forces are playing a pivotal role in various national activities, including facing national disasters in aid of the civil administration, along with safeguarding the independence and sovereignty of the country, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Even members of the armed forces have also brightened the country\'s image before the world through participating in the peacekeeping missions of the United Nations and performing their responsibility with utmost sincerity, honesty, discipline and professional expertise, the President said.</div><div><br></div><div>During the coronavirus pandemic, he said, members of the armed forces played laudable and active roles in preventing the viral infection by engaging themselves in the field.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid said that the government has formulated the \'Forces Goal-2030\' aiming to modernize the armed forces. \"Under the plan, modern military equipments are being included for the forces that will undoubtedly make the armed forces more modern, efficient and dynamic,\" he added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Recalling the glorious founding day of the armed forces, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her message said members of the army, navy and air force had retaliated against the occupation forces on November 21 in 1971 during the Liberation War conducted under the leadership of the Awami League government.</div><div><br></div><div>The freedom fighters, members of different paramilitary forces and the patriotic people had carried out an integrated attack jointly and compelled the occupation forces to surrender, she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We achieved the final victory on December 16 in 1971 after defeating the occupation forces. And the \'Armed Forces Day\' is being observed every year on November 21 as a landmark of the victory and success of the Bangalee nation in the great Liberation War,\" the premier said.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had started building the modern and smart armed-forces after the Liberation War, Sheikh Hasina said, \"For Bangladesh Army, Bangabandhu established Military Academy, Combined Armed School and training schools for every corps and more military institutions and formed different units\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He (Bangabandhu) inaugurated the Isha Khan Base for Bangladesh Navy in Chattogram, the premier said, adding \"Bangabandhu procured two navy ships from Yugoslavia at his own initiatives. He also collected Supersonic Mig-21 fighter jet, helicopter, passenger plane and radar from the then Soviet Union\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Since assuming the office in 2009, the Awami League (AL)-led government has been working relentlessly to modernize the armed forces, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the defence policy formulated in 1974 at the directive of by Father of the Nation for an independent and sovereign country, \'Forces Goal 2030\' has been formulated, the PM said, adding the modernization of the three services is being implemented gradually under the policy.</div><div><br></div><div>She hoped that being imbued with the spirit of the Liberation War, the members of the armed forces will be discharging their respective duties sincerely with patriotism, professionalism and higher moral ideology.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"With the collective efforts of all, we will be able to build a hunger-poverty-free and happy-prosperous \'Sonar Bangladesh\' as dreamt by Bangabandhu, Insha-Allah,\" Sheikh Hasina said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister wished success of all the programmes taken on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day-2022. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 13:12:12', '2022-11-20 13:12:12'),
(3182, 3182, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A case was filed on Sunday accusing 150 BNP men of attempting to snatch away arms from police during a clash with supporters of the main opposition BNP in Bancharampur upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Afzal Hossain Khan, sub-inspector of Bancharampur police station, filed the case, naming 17 BNP men including the upazila unit’s former Organising Secretary Md Rafiql Islam and 137 others without names.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies held a protest procession in the upazila and demanded justice for the murder.</div><div><br></div><div>A tense situation was prevailing in the upazila over the Saturday’s clash that left a Jatiyatabi Chattra Dal leader dead and several others injured.</div><div><br></div><div>Molla Md Shaheen, additional superintendent of the district police, said a case was filed on behalf of the police over the attempts to snatch arms from police.</div><div><br></div><div>“An investigation was going on to unearth the reason for the murder and the exact reason will be known after getting the autopsy report,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday afternoon, the JCD leader was shot to death in a clash between police and the BNP men over the arrest of one of their leaders in the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Nayon Miah, 22, vice president of Sonarampur union parishad unit JCD and son of Rahmat Ullah of Charshibpur under the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>Several people including six policemen and BNP activists were also injured in the clash while two BNP men were detained in this connection.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP men distributed leaflets among general people to woo them to join their Cumilla’s grand rally slated for November 26.</div><div><br></div><div>After the publicity, they brought out a procession led by local leader VP Sayeduzzaman from the Molla Bari area and again gathered there after parading several roads.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, a team of police led by the OC took a position in front of the Bari and tried to pick Sayeduzzaman up from the spot while the BNP men were resisting.</div><div><br></div><div>At one stage, the police and the BNP men locked into an altercation which resulted in pelting brickbats and opening several rounds of bullets around 4pm, they claimed.</div><div><br></div><div>Nayon fell down after being hit by a bullet and several others also sustained injuries in the attack,</div><div><br></div><div>He was first rushed to Bancharampur Upazila Health Complex. Later he was shifted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where physicians pronounced him dead on arrival around 7:30pm. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 14:29:40', '2022-11-20 14:29:40'),
(3183, 3183, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government and the United Nations in Bangladesh on Sunday discussed ways to strengthen the Bangladesh-UN cooperation to support development that leaves no one behind.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) was discussed at the joint steering committee meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting was co-chaired by the Secretary of the Economic Relations Division of the Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and the UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Gwyn Lewis and Secretary of the Economic Relations Division of the Bangladesh Ministry of Finance, Sharifa Khan, spoke about the importance of the framework.</div><div><br></div><div>UN Resident Coordinator Lewis said, “This is a critical time globally, and in Bangladesh’s development trajectory.”</div><div><br></div><div>She said in face of the triple crises driven by the Covid pandemic, the Ukraine war, and catastrophic climate change, the policy choices they make today will determine the development prospects of the country for years to come.</div><div><br></div><div>“The UN in Bangladesh is committed to supporting the government and the people of Bangladesh in ensuring sustainable and inclusive development as the country proceeds to graduate out of least developed countries (LDCs) category,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Recalling Bangladesh’s five decades of close partnership with the United Nations, Secretary Sharifa Khan said in these difficult global circumstances they have to go the extra mile to make sure that no one is left behind in Bangladesh’s rapid development.</div><div><br></div><div>She also emphasised on more expenditure towards implementation than policy intervention and to avoid duplication in development activities.</div><div><br></div><div>Launched in November 2021, the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2022-2026 aims to assist Bangladesh in overcoming the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and accelerating progress towards the sustainable development goals in line with the Eighth Five Year Plan.</div><div><br></div><div>At the meeting, the joint steering committee consisting of the government officials from 16 ministries and 15 UN agencies focal points in Bangladesh approved the 2023 joint work plan of the UNSDCF, detailing the activities that the UN will undertake during the year.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting included discussions on the implementation of strategic priorities of the framework set to reflect Bangladesh’s 8th Five-Year Plan.</div><div><br></div><div>The joint steering committee will meet again in the first quarter of 2023, according to the UN Information Centre, Dhaka. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 15:04:45', '2022-11-20 15:04:45'),
(3184, 3184, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tyler Adams will captain the United States team at the World Cup, at 23 the youngest of this year’s tournament and the youngest for the Americans at the soccer showcase since Walter Bahr in 1950.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The last of the 32 captains announced for this year’s World Cup, Adams is only the second under 30 years old. England forward Harry Kane is 29 and has captained the Three Lions since the 2018 World Cup, when he was 24.</div><div><br></div><div>United States coach Gregg Berhalter made the annoucement Sunday, the day before the Americans play Wales in their first World Cup match since 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>“He leads by his actions and his words,” Berhalter said.</div><div><br></div><div>Adams, from Wappinger, New York, has captained the national team nine times previously, including seven wins, one loss and one draw.</div><div><br></div><div>Berhalter had rotated the armband since he was hired in December 2018. Christian Pulisic has captained the Americans 11 times, including seven victories, one defeat and three ties, and Walker Zimmerman has captained the United States six times.</div><div><br></div><div>Adams was captain in seven of 14 World Cup qualifiers, Pulisic four and Zimmerman three.</div><div><br></div><div>Different players captained the United States national team for each game in 1950. Bahr was 23 years, 3 months, 2 days for the 5-2 loss to Chile on July 2, 1950. Adams will be 23 years, 9 months, 8 days on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Ed McIlvenny (25) wore the armband for the famous 1-0 upset of England in Belo Horizonte and Harry Keough (22) for the opening loss to Spain.</div><div><br></div><div>Previous World Cup captains included 24-year-old Mike Windischmann in 1990, 25-year-old Tony Meola in 1994, 37-year-old Thomas Dooley in 1998, 28-year-old Claudio Reyna in 2002 and Reyna again in 2006, 31-year-old Carlos Bocanegra in 2010 and 31-year-old Clint Dempsey in 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>Earnie Stewart, then 33, captained the United States in the 2002 opener against Portugal because of Reyna’s strained right quadriceps.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re not a group of guys that it’s like, oh, I want to be captain,” Weston McKennie said Saturday.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Whoever has it, has it. The mission is still the same. The goal is still the same, and we just need all 26 players no matter their role to be on the same page and have the same role at the end of the day, which is to compete and win games.” - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 15:25:06', '2022-11-20 15:25:06'),
(3185, 3185, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lack of sleep, stress, ageing, pollution, damaging sun rays, excessive smoking, alcohol consumption, and eating a poor diet rob the skin of its natural glow, leaving it looking shabby and lifeless, Hindustan Times.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Dimple Jangda, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Founder of Prana Healthcare Centre, India, shared three effective Ayurvedic remedies for glowy skin in her recent Instagram post:</div><div><br></div><div>Saffron and honey mask: The antioxidants present in saffron help in keeping the skin healthy and protect it from sun damage. Soak a few strands of Saffron in one tablespoon of honey. Apply on the face and neck and wash it off after 10 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>Sandalwood and rose water: The antiseptic properties in Sandalwood prevent acne from developing and help in removing dark spots. Mix two spoons of Sandalwood powder and Rose Water in a bowl. Apply the paste all over the face and neck and rinse it after 15 to 20 mins.</div><div><br></div><div>Turmeric and gram flour mask: Turmeric keeps the skin supple and glowing by enhancing collagen production. Gram flour makes the skin clean and bright by gently cleansing it. Mix and apply the paste to your face and neck and leave it on for about 15 to 20 mins.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 15:41:06', '2022-11-20 15:41:06'),
(3186, 3186, '<div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that the government has issued red alert&nbsp; at all the entry and exit points of the country to arrest the two Ansar al-Islam members who escaped from the premises of Dhaka Court Sunday noon.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Minister said this while talking to journalists at his office at the Secretariat.</div><div><br></div><div>“Police are looking for them everywhere. I hope we’ll be able to arrest them soon. We’ve told law enforcement agencies to beef up their surveillance at the border areas so that they can’t leave the country,” Asaduzzaman said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Minister added that exemplary punishment will be given to those who’ll be found responsible for negligence in duties.</div><div><br></div><div>“Militants escaping from the hands of police is an unfortunate incident. We’ll form a probe body and take necessary steps so that such occurrences don’t happen again,” added Asaduzzaman.</div><div><br></div><div>Two members of banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, who were sentenced to death in Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, escaped from the premises of Dhaka Court on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The escapees are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran, said Harun or-Rashid, Chief of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).</div><div><br></div><div>“The convicts sprayed something on the eyes of two policemen and escaped while they were being taken to the court. We’re searching for them in the nearby areas. This is the first time something like this has happened in the country,” said Harun.</div><div><br></div><div>Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in the city on October 31, 2015. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-20 15:55:47', '2022-11-20 15:55:47'),
(3187, 3187, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>World Cup hosts Qatar have had a disappointing start to their campaign, with a 2-0 defeat to Ecuador leaving them facing an uphill struggle to make it out of their group in their first-ever World Cup.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It looked like Qatar had conceded a goal within three minutes of kick-off in the match at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al Khor on Sunday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But a header from Ecuador’s Enner Valencia, from a long-distance free-kick attempt from Pervis Estupinan close to the halfway line, was struck off by the video assistant referee (VAR).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it was only a temporary reprieve for Qatar, playing in front of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, other Qatari royals, and several foreign leaders in a crowd of 67,372.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After just 15 minutes of play, Valencia was brought down in the box by Qatari goalkeeper Saad al-Sheeb and the referee pointed to the spot without hesitation. Slotting in the penalty to the right of the keeper, Valencia became Ecuador’s all-time highest World Cup goal scorer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifteen minutes later, Valencia again found the net – doubling Ecuador’s advantage with a header from a cross from just outside the box on the right.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With half an hour gone, Qatar were two-nil down, and had not even had a touch of the ball in the Ecuadorian box.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hosts settled as half-time approached, but could not manage to convert increased comfort into much meaningful attacking play after the break. Ecuador were forced to keep their defensive shape tight as Qatar dominated possession in the second half.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the game in the final quarter, the ailing double-goal scorer Valencia, the recipient of a few rough challenges, was substituted for Jose Cifuentes. Ecuador, who also face Senegal and the Netherlands in their bid to get out of this group, will hope their star player has not been seriously injured. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 02:06:07', '2022-11-21 02:06:07'),
(3188, 3188, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Two prominent Iranian actresses have been arrested for publicly supporting mass anti-government protests, the country\'s state-run media reports.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi are accused of collusion and acting against Iran\'s authorities, Irna news agency says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both women earlier appeared in public without their headscarves - a gesture of solidarity with demonstrators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protests erupted in September after the death of a woman in police custody.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahsa Amini, 22, was detained by morality police in the capital, Tehran, for allegedly breaking the strict hijab rules. She died on 16 September, three days later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were reports that officers beat her with a baton and banged her head against a vehicle, but police denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered a heart attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Ghaziani and Ms Riahi - both multiple-award winning actresses - were detained on Sunday on the orders of Iran\'s prosecutor\'s office, Irna says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the arrest, Ms Ghaziani wrote on social media that \"whatever happens, know that as always I will stand with the people of Iran\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This maybe my last post,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The actresses are among a number of high-profile Iranian public figures to have expressed support for the protesters rallying against the country\'s clerical establishment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Sunday, Ehsan Hajsafi, captain of Iran\'s national football team at the World Cup in Qatar, said that \"we have to accept that the conditions in our country are not right and our people are not happy\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Separately, the head of Iran\'s boxing federation, Hossein Soori, announced that he would not be returning home from a tournament in Spain due to the violent suppression of the protests in his home country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human rights activists have said that some 400 demonstrators have been killed and 16,800 others arrested in a crackdown by security forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran\'s leaders say the protests are \"riots\" orchestrated by the country\'s foreign enemies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least five protesters have been sentenced to death in connection with the demonstrations. 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, '2022-11-21 02:32:22', '2022-11-21 02:32:22');
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(3189, 3189, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least five people have been killed and 25 injured after a gunman opened fire inside a gay club in the US state of Colorado on Saturday night.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A suspect is in police custody and is being treated for injuries. Two \"heroic\" people in the club subdued the attacker, police say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Club Q, in Colorado Springs, wrote on Facebook that it was \"devastated by the senseless attack\" on its community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Joe Biden said Americans \"cannot and must not tolerate hate\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police asked people to be patient while they worked to identify victims and finalise the number of casualties, adding that some people had taken themselves to hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officers received an initial emergency call about an active shooter at 23:57 (06:57 GMT) on Saturday, they said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspect was found inside the club. Two firearms were found at the scene, and the attacker is thought to have used a long rifle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police did not suggest a motive for the shooting but said the investigation would consider whether it was a hate crime, and if more than one person was involved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fire department spokesman said casualties had been transported to hospitals very quickly because of training for such events.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FBI in nearby Denver said it was assisting local police with the incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police chief Adrian Vasquez thanked the two club-goers who intervened to stop the shooter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Initial evidence and interviews indicate that the suspect entered Club Q and immediately began shooting at people inside as he moved further into the club,\" he told a news conference on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While the suspect was inside of the club, at least two heroic people inside the club confronted and fought with the suspect and were able to stop the suspect from continuing to kill and harm others. We owe them a great debt of thanks.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement on the Club Q Facebook page thanked \"the quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The club was hosting a dance party at the time, and had planned to hold a performance event on Sunday evening to celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joshua Thurman, 34, was in the club at the time of the shooting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first he thought the shots were part of the music, he told the Colorado Sun, but he later ran to take shelter in the club dressing room.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"When I came out there were bodies on the floor, shattered glass, broken cups, people crying,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There was nothing keeping that man from coming in to kill us. Why did this have to happen? Why? Why did people have to lose their lives?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Thurman, who lives near the club, said it was an important part of the local gay community. He believes he knows one person who was killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colorado Springs mayor John Suthers called the event a tragedy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are a strong community that has shown resilience in the face of hate and violence in the past, and we will do that again,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspect in custody was named as Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2015, three people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state of Colorado has seen other mass shootings, including at a supermarket in Boulder in 2021 in which ten people were killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governor of Colorado Jared Polis, who is gay, praised the \"brave individuals who blocked the gunman, likely saving lives in the process\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Colorado stands with our LGTBQ Community and everyone impacted by this tragedy as we mourn,\" he wrote in a Facebook post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement from the White House, President Biden said: \"Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence. Yet it happens far too often. We must drive out the inequities that contribute to violence against LGBTQI+ people.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Club Q\'s Facebook page has been inundated with comments and condolences from around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One person wrote that the club had been \"like a home\" for her for many years, and she was \"absolutely shattered\" by the news.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"[I] met so many great people, I literally met my husband there, so it holds such a special place in my heart. Everyone was always so welcoming and kind through the years,\" she wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am so broken by this news,\" another comment added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Club Q has been the heart of our community for so long and I am devastated and angered that this happened.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2016, 49 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a shooting at the Pulse gay club in Orlando, Florida. At the time it was the deadliest mass shooting in US history. 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, '2022-11-21 03:19:36', '2022-11-21 03:19:36'),
(3190, 3190, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">North Korea’s foreign minister called U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “a puppet of the United States” as she slammed the U.N. chief for joining U.S.-led condemnation of the North\'s recent intercontinental ballistic missile test.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier issued a statement strongly condemning North Korea’s ICBM launch on Friday and reiterating his call on the North to “to immediately desist from taking any further provocative actions.” Guterres’s statement came after the United States and other countries issued similar criticism of the North\'s ICBM test that showed an potential to strike anywhere in the continental U.S.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I often take the U.N. secretary-general for a member of the U.S. White House or its State Department,” North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said in a statement carried by state media. “I express my strong regret over the fact that the U.N. secretary-general has taken a very deplorable attitude, oblivious of the purpose and principles of the U.N. Charter and its proper mission which is to maintain impartiality, objectivity and equity in all matters.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Choe accused Guterres of overlooking the U.S. and its allies taking the North’s ICBM test to the U.N. Security Council, saying that “This clearly proves that he is a puppet of the U.S.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Monday morning on North Korea’s ICBM launch at Japan’s request. But it’s unclear if it can impose new economic sanctions on North Korea because China and Russia, two of the council’s veto-wielding members, have opposed the previous U.S. and its allies’ moves to toughen sanctions on the North over its banned tests of ballistic missiles earlier this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized democracies issued a joint statement calling for strong steps by the U.N. Security Council in reaction to the North Korean missile launch. “(North Korea’s) actions demand a united and robust response by the international community, including the need for further significant measures to be taken by the U.N. Security Council,” said the statement by foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Friday’s ICBM launch was the latest in North Korea’s ongoing torrid run of missile tests that experts say are meant to boost its nuclear capability and increase its leverage in future diplomacy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un observed Friday\'s launch of its Hwasong-17 missile and called it another \"reliable and maximum-capacity” weapon to contain U.S. military threats. Some experts say the Hwasong-17 is still under development but it\'s the North\'s longest-range missile and is designed to carry several nuclear warheads to overcome U.S. missile defense systems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea has argued its testing activities are a warning to the United States and South Korea over their series of military drills that the North believes were an invasion rehearsal. Washington and Seoul have maintained their exercises are defensive in nature.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her statement Monday, Choe again defended her country’s missile tests, calling them “legitimate and just exercise of the right to self-defense” against “provocative nuclear war rehearsals” by the United States and its allies. She said it’s “most amazing and deplorable to me” as Guterres still blamed North Korea for a recent flare-up in tensions on the Korean Peninsula, not the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day before her country’s ICBM test, Choe threatened to threatened to launch “fiercer” military responses to steps by the U.S. to bolster its security commitment to South Korea and Japan. 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, '2022-11-21 04:09:36', '2022-11-21 04:09:36'),
(3191, 3191, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid glowing tributes to the martyred members of the Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day-2022.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The prime minister paid the homage by placing a wreath at the Shikha Anirban (flame eternal) in Dhaka Cantonment this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After laying the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the armed forces martyrs, who made supreme sacrifices during the War of Liberation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A smartly-turned out contingent drawn from Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force presented a guard of honour at that time, while the bugle played the last post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, Sheikh Hasina, also in-charge of the Ministry of Defence, signed the visitors’ book kept on the premises of Shikha Anirban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on her arrival at the Shikha Anirban, the premier was received by Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan and Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division (AFD) Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the wreath-placing ceremony, the prime minister went to the Armed Forces Division (AFD) where her Security Adviser Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique and chiefs of the three services made a courtesy call on her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On her arrival at the AFD, Sheikh Hasina was received by the PSO and director generals of the AFD.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On this day during the War of Liberation in 1971, the Bangladesh Armed Forces, comprising Army, Navy and Air Force, came into being and launched an all-out attack on the Pakistani occupation forces which sped up the victory in the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the independence of the country, this historic day is being observed as the Armed Forces Day every year. 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, '2022-11-21 04:13:42', '2022-11-21 04:13:42'),
(3192, 3192, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Drishyam 2 has taken a strong start at the box office, earning ₹37 crore nett in the domestic market in just two days. As per industry insiders, the Sunday collections are likely to exceed ₹27 crore, meaning the film will sail past the ₹100-crore mark in a few days. The demand for tickets in certain cities is such that theatres have added shows late in the night and early morning as well.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mumbai and Maharashtra added midnight shows after high demand was seen on the first day i.e. Friday. Delhi followed suit on Sunday as well, with shows slated as late as 12:00 am. While Mumbai added early morning shows as well (as early as 7am) there were only a few 8am shows in NCR and other metros.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, the addition of extra shows at these timings shows the high demand of tickets for Drishyam 2. The last film to see additional late night and early morning shows was Brahmastra, which ended up as the highest-grossing Hindi film of the year. “The demand for Drishyam 2 tickets has taken the industry by surprise. Generally films do not take 40-50% jumps after such a strong opening,” says an exhibitor from Maharashtra.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Industry trackers are predicting a bumper Sunday for Drishyam 2 with most estimates putting its nett India collections for the weekend at around ₹60-65 crore. This would make it the second best opening weekend for a Bollywood film this year, behind Brahmastra ( ₹98 crore) and ahead of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 ( ₹56 crore). What has driven this film is the return of family audiences to the cinema halls, say industry insiders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about the buzz for the film, Gautam Dutta, CEO, PVR Limited, says, “We are seeing the trend of families coming back to cinemas and Drishyam 2 pre-sales substantiates this trend. After a subdued Q2, Q3 is turning out well with a huge line up of movies covering all genres. Movies like Uunchai have given the push to family-oriented movies and we expect this phenomenon to continue. Drishyam 2’s success debunks the thinking that only ‘larger than life’ or ‘horror comedies’ will work, mid-size drama/ thrillers etc will struggle in cinemas.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drishyam 2 is expected to hold well into the week and any drop less than 60% on Monday would be a huge win for the film. Trade analysts are already predicting a ₹300-crore worldwide gross for the film even though a lifetime gross is too early to call right now. However, one thing is certain. After a long time, Bollywood has a clean box office hit with the film. 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, '2022-11-21 04:22:02', '2022-11-21 04:22:02'),
(3193, 3193, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Veganism is not a trend but rather a lifestyle choice that many people are adopting for better health and animal welfare. A vegan diet is entirely plant-based, which avoids animal-based products such as meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products whereas according to the Indian National Family Health Survey, 75% of Indians are non-vegetarian.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Shreya Goel, Nutritionist at Continental Greenbird, shared, “Animal-based products are frequently thought to be high in protein. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, this is not true because many plant-based foods are high in protein, such as chickpeas (1 cup provides 14.5 g of protein), lentils, beans, tofu, hemp seeds, and so on. A non-vegetarian diet is not necessarily bad but it is not ideal either because most people are unaware that meat, specifically \'industrial meat,\' is harmful to the environment.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She explained, “Meat consumption contributes to the emission of greenhouse gases such as methane, CO2, and nitrous oxide. Climate change, such as global warming, is exacerbated by these gases. According to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation, the meat and dairy industries account for approximately 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In addition, meat production requires large amounts of water; a whopping four times when compared to producing other forms of protein e.g. lentils. Meat consumption is a major cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss. The consumption of meat also leads to deforestation and the destruction of natural habitats. The industrial meat industry is contributing to the extinction of thousands of species, many of which haven’t even been discovered yet.”\\</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The health expert asserted that these things are having a huge impact on the environment but when we talk about meat consumption’s impact on human health, the case is no different. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Shreya Goel elaborated, “Although meat is indeed a great source of protein but a diet high in red and processed meats, high-fat dairy foods, and processed foods lead to diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. However, the good news is that a plant-based diet can be a solution to meet one’s protein needs.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She highlighted, “Products made from peas and chickpeas provide more fibre and are high in protein. Chickpeas have a low glycemic index which helps to control blood sugar levels, helps lower cholesterol, are low in saturated fat and calories and are a great source of calcium and magnesium. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Switching to an all-vegetable diet gives your body a chance to absorb all the nutrients it needs for optimal functioning. The environment is not the only thing that benefits when consumers switch to plant-based meats, your body benefits immensely too.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Studies show that a plant-based diet boosts our immune system by increasing the levels of vitamins and minerals in our system. Shreya Goel suggested, “People who crave the taste and flavour of meat can opt for plant-based meat brands. They look like meat but are purely plant-based. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">So they can enjoy the taste and experience of meat, without affecting the environment, animals or their health. So make a responsible choice and opt for plant-based foods to improve your health and protect animals and the planet as a whole.” HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 05:17:54', '2022-11-21 05:17:54'),
(3194, 3194, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid glowing tributes to the martyred members of the Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day-2022.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister paid the homage by placing a wreath at the Shikha Anirban (flame eternal) in Dhaka Cantonment this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After laying the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the armed forces martyrs, who made supreme sacrifices during the War of Liberation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A smartly-turned out contingent drawn from Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force presented a guard of honour at that time, while the bugle played the last post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, Sheikh Hasina, also in-charge of the Ministry of Defence, signed the visitors’ book kept on the premises of Shikha Anirban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on her arrival at the Shikha Anirban, the premier was received by Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan and Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division (AFD) Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the wreath-placing ceremony, the prime minister went to the Armed Forces Division (AFD) where her Security Adviser Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique and chiefs of the three services made a courtesy call on her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On her arrival at the AFD, Sheikh Hasina was received by the PSO and director generals of the AFD.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this day during the War of Liberation in 1971, the Bangladesh Armed Forces, comprising Army, Navy and Air Force, came into being and launched an all-out attack on the Pakistani occupation forces which sped up the victory in the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the independence of the country, this historic day is being observed as the Armed Forces Day every year. 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, '2022-11-21 05:21:07', '2022-11-21 05:21:07'),
(3195, 3195, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Habiganj Bus Owners and Workers Union continued their strike for fourth consecutive day on Monday, demanding the authorities allow them to use Salamatpur bus terminal.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shankha Shuvo Roy, general secretary of Habiganj Motor Owners’ Group, said the indefinite strike was called from Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 4, it was decided in a joint meeting of transport owners and workers that they can use Salamatpur bus terminal in Nabiganj upazila, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“But due to the reluctance of the administration, no bus from Habiganj is being allowed to enter the terminal,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the movement of three-wheelers on the highways has not been banned, said the transport leader.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Habiganj\'s bus services with Dhaka and nine routes inside the district have been halted due to the strike. About 400 passenger buses ply daily on these nine routes in the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Long-haul passengers are suffering the most as no bus left the municipal bus terminal this morning (Monday).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many people are trying to reach their destinations in CNG-run auto rickshaws and other three wheelers paying extra fare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We will continue strike until our demands are met,” said Shankha. 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, '2022-11-21 05:32:09', '2022-11-21 05:32:09'),
(3196, 3196, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Novak Djokovic said winning a record-equalling sixth ATP Tour Finals title on Sunday was a \"deeply satisfying\" ending to his troubled and truncated year.</span></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Serb beat Norwegian Casper Ruud 7-5, 6-3 in Turin to match Roger Federer\'s record of six titles in the year-ending tournament for the top-ranked players.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 35-year-old Serb, the oldest player to win the Finals, ended in style after a season in which he missed two majors because of his vaccine status.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It feels deeply satisfying and, at the same time, a huge relief because of the circumstances that I have been through this year, situations earlier this year, of course, with Australia,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t need to go back. We know what happened.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In January, Djokovic was detained and deported from Australia over his Covid non-vaccinated status and missed the Australian Open.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"That had an effect obviously on my start of the year. For the first several months, I was trying to find that balance game-wise but also mentally in order to be able to come back to the court and find that tennis level that I need.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Djokovic was initially barred from returning to Australia before 2025 but earlier in the week the new government in Canberra said the nine-time Australian Open champion would be free to compete in January\'s tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t know what the future holds but I know that what I hold in my mind is a huge hunger still to win trophies,\" said Djokovic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The win in Turin, which also brings a cheque for $4.7 million, came seven years after his last ATP Finals victory and will lift him from eighth to fifth in Monday\'s new rankings at the end of a season in which he also won Wimbledon. Carlos Alcaraz, who missed the finals injured, is number one.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In my mind I always see myself as the best player in the world, of course,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m not. I\'m fifth. This week I probably am. Overall the rankings are showing who had the best year, and Alcaraz is the No. 1 in the world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Djokovic and his wife brought his eight-year-old son and five-year-old daughter to Turin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Extremely special for me,\" he said. \"I don\'t get to have these moments on the tour with them so much.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I took both of my children, particularly my son, a lot to the tennis training sessions, warmups, matches. He was very loud, I must say. I was very surprised. I could hear his voice the entire time.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They both are now aware of what\'s going on, what the father is doing.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">- \'Close points\' -</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the 23-year-old Ruud it was a third near-miss of the year. He also lost the finals of the French and US Opens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In the end it\'s been disappointing to end up losing these big finals,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Overall if you gave me an offer to end the year at No. 3, play the finals that I\'ve played, at the first of January this year, I would probably sign the contract right away.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'ve overachieved compared to my own mind, so I\'m very happy about that.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruud has never taken a set from either Djokovic or his French Open final conqueror Rafael Nadal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They have this sort of ability in them to step up when they really have to that I don\'t have,\" Ruud said. \"They always seem to win the close points, the close sets.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The American Rajeev Ram and Britain\'s Joe Salisbury took the doubles title with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 win over the Croatian pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ram and Salisbury lost in last year\'s final to French pair Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herber. 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(3197, 3197, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">For the first time in history, a sitting president turned 80 years old in the White House on Sunday but did not celebrate in any public way</b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn\'t until mid-afternoon that First Lady Jill Biden posted an affectionate message, with two photos of the couple dancing in tuxedos and gala attire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There\'s no one else I\'d rather dance with than you. Happy Birthday Joe! I love you,\" Jill Biden tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the sole mention from the White House of the birthday, and with no public event scheduled no indication emerged of how, or even if, the president would celebrate his birthday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just a day earlier, the Biden family hosted a large-scale fete at the White House -- the wedding of Biden\'s granddaughter Naomi, which was closed to the press.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden does have an important matter to discuss with his family in the coming days -- whether he will seek re-election in 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said at a press conference November 9 that he \"intends\" to run, and said he and his wife will \"sneak away\" for a week at some point between Thanksgiving and Christmas to decide with his family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He promised to make his decision public in early 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various recent polls say a majority of Americans do not want Biden to run again.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While influential figures who are over 70 or even 75 years old are ample in the American political landscape, the midterm elections have brought some initial generational change in the Democratic Party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rep. Nancy Pelosi, 82, announced her decision Thursday not to run for a new term as speaker of the House of Representatives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden underwent a thorough medical checkup about a year ago, and the results concluded that he was \"a healthy, vigorous\" man who is fit to serve as president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the rigors of the Oval Office also have made their mark on Biden, who walks now with a stiffer gait and suffers moments of confusion. 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, '2022-11-21 05:39:18', '2022-11-21 05:39:18'),
(3198, 3198, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least 12 people, including women and children, were killed on Sunday night when a speeding truck ploughed into a religious procession at Nayaganj of Vaishali district in India’s Bihar, officials said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident took place around 9 pm in Vaishali district, about 30 kms from the state capital, and local RJD MLA Mukesh Roushan, who had rushed to the spot, said \"12 people died. Nine of them were killed on the spot. Three others succumbed to injuries while being rushed to a hospital\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vaishali Superintendent of Police Manish Kumar said, \"At least four of the deceased are children. The truck driver, whom we are trying to pull out of the mangled vehicle, may also have died\". PTI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 05:59:39', '2022-11-21 05:59:39'),
(3199, 3199, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has reiterated his call to the diplomats stationed in Dhaka to follow diplomatic norms.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is an independent and sovereign country and they should remember it, said Momen adding, the culture must be changed, today or tomorrow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made the remarks while responding to a question at a media briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said around 16 countries will have minister and state minister-level participation at 22nd IORA Council of Ministers meeting, to be held in Dhaka on November 24.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen said India will have state minister-level participation at the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the ministers and state ministers will jointly meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during their stay in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IORA Council of Ministers meeting, to be hosted by Bangladesh, will be preceded by the 24th meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials, to be held on November 22-23.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is the current chair of IORA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and Secretary (Maritime Affairs Unit), Secretary (East) and Secretary (West) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were present at the media briefing. 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, '2022-11-21 06:35:42', '2022-11-21 06:35:42'),
(3200, 3200, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bulk power tariff has been raised by about 20 percent – to Tk 6.20 per kilowatt hour (each unit) from the previous Tk 5.17 – with effect from December 2022.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) Md Abdul Jalil announced the decision to raise the power tariff, disposing of the review appeal of the state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) to raise bulk power tariff on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the new power tariff will not be effective for retail consumers. It will be effective only for power distribution companies and for some other bulk consumers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BPDB filed the review appeal to BERC on November 14 – within 30 working days after its proposal was rejected by the regulator on October 13.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: BERC’s TEC commends a 57.83pc hike in bulk power tariff rejecting BPDB’s 65.57pc</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before submitting the proposal, BPDB received a nod from the government’s highest policy level, the media release from BERC said. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid also approved the review appeal on bulk power tariff. 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, '2022-11-21 07:25:31', '2022-11-21 07:25:31'),
(3201, 3201, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Awami League (AL) never forget the contribution of the freedom fighters, adding her government is building the country with the spirit and ideology of the War of Liberation.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We never forget the contribution of the freedom fighters (FFs). And that is why we\'ve taken initiative to build Bangladesh with the spirit and ideology of the War of Liberation,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this while addressing a reception accorded to the gallantry award winning freedom fighters of the armed forces and their heirs, marking the Armed Forces Day-2022 at Dhaka Cantonment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said they are searching out the FFs who are in negligence and are taking all out measures to ensure their facilities such as FF allowance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s our duty to work for those who had taken arms in their hands in reply to the clarion call of my father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to make the country independent,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She continued that there might be different ideologies among the FFs, \"but we didn\'t look down on their contribution and didn\'t show any negligence to them\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of government said, \"We will remember your (FFs) contribution forever. We are working to preserve the memories of the War of Liberation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added that if the young generation knows the history of victory by seeing the memories of the War of Liberation, they will be inspired and will try to know how to work for the nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also said the government is establishing Muktijoddha Complex in each Upazila and has also taken measures to preserve the historic Suhrawardy Udyan where the Father of the Nation had given historic March 7 speech, delivered directives to govern the country after the independence and where Pakistani occupation forces surrendered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So, any one will never disrespect the FFs. None will see the FFs and their families in the eyes of negligence in future,\" the premier added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also mentioned that her government has increased the allowance for FFs and it will continue from generation to generation. 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, '2022-11-21 08:03:18', '2022-11-21 08:03:18'),
(3202, 3202, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday cleared the way for actress Nipun Akter to serve as the general secretary of the Bangladesh Film Artistes’ Association (BFAA).</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A three-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Hasan Foyez Siddiqui passed the order staying the High Court (HC) verdict declaring actor Zayed Khan\'s candidacy for the post of general secretary in the election legal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, the court accepted Nipun\'s leave to appeal petition against the verdict of the High Court allowing her to file an appeal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior Advocate Ahsanul Karim and Nahid Sultana Juthi stood for Zayed while Senior Advocate Rokonuddin Mahmud and Barrister Mostafizur Rahman Khan for Nipun.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on March 6, Justice Obaidul Hassan, chamber judge of the Appellate Division stayed the HC order that validated Zayed as general secretary of the BFAA for four weeks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chamber judge also ordered status-quo over holding the post.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 2, the HC cleared the way for Zayed to serve as the general secretary of the BFFA after striking down the decision of the Election Appeal Board of the association.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nipun again took the fight to the court and filed an appeal before the Appellate Division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The association election was held on January 28.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zayed was declared the winner for the general secretary post, after he defeated Nipun in a close contest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Nipun launched a legal fight challenging legality of Zayed\'s candidacy and accusing him of vote fraud. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 08:29:57', '2022-11-21 08:29:57'),
(3203, 3203, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Nearly 20 people have been killed and at least 300 injured in an earthquake that rattled Indonesia\'s main island of Java on Monday, a local official from the town worst-hit by the tremor told local media.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The information I got for now, in this hospital alone, nearly 20 died and at least 300 people are being treated. Most of them had fractures from being trapped by the ruins of buildings,\" the head of Cianjur\'s administration, Herman Suherman, told broadcaster Metro TV. 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, '2022-11-21 08:54:14', '2022-11-21 08:54:14'),
(3204, 3204, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">More than 45 people have been killed in an earthquake that rattled Indonesia\'s main island Java on Monday, a local spokesperson told the media.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"There have been dozens of people killed. Hundreds, even maybe thousands of houses are damaged. So far, 44 people have died,\" Adam, spokesman for the local administration in Cianjur town in West Java, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, reports AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 09:44:17', '2022-11-21 09:44:17');
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(3205, 3205, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least five people were killed in a fire at a warehouse in central Moscow near three railway stations linking the Russian capital to major cities, according to Russian emergency services.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The fire broke out at a two-storey brick warehouse on Sunday afternoon near the usually busy stations connecting Moscow to cities such as Saint Petersburg in the north-west, Kazan in the east or Vladivostok in the Far East.</div><div><br></div><div>The blaze was fully extinguished late on Sunday.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"Unfortunately, during the inspection of the debris, five people were found dead and one person was injured,\" Moscow\'s branch of the emergency situations ministry said on social media late on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia\'s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said the number of victims was still being clarified and attributed the blaze to the \"violation of fire standards\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Citing a source in emergency services, state news agency TASS reported that seven people were killed in the fire.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Accidental fires are common in Russia due to ageing and dilapidated infrastructure and non-compliance with safety standards. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 10:20:07', '2022-11-21 10:20:07'),
(3206, 3206, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to accept an award for standing up to \"structural racism\" in the royal family. The couple has won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award for challenging the royal family\'s \"power structure\".</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>John F Kennedy\'s niece Kerry Kennedy, who is set to host the awards, said the pair took a brave stand against the royals. This comes as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had earlier made bombshell claims about racism within the Royal Family during an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.</div><div><br></div><div>The pair alleged a senior royal made a racist comment about the skin colour of their son Archie. Prince William was forced to defend the royal family after the interview, saying, \"We are very much not a racist family\".</div><div><br></div><div>Buckingham Palace also issued a statement that read, \"While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.\" Source: Hindustan Times</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 11:11:21', '2022-11-21 11:11:21'),
(3207, 3207, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The 30th annual council of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the ruling Awami League, will be held on December 8 and 9.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The council will be held at the Suhrawardy Udyan,\" BCL’s central committee president Al Nahiyan Khan joy told a press conference on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>AL president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given her consent to join the annual conference at Suhrawardy Udyan, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The BCL organised the event at the Madhur Canteen of Dhaka University where the leaders and activists from different hall units and college units were present.</div><div><br></div><div>Joy said that the council of Dhaka University Chhatra League Unit will also be held on December 3 at the premises of Oporajeyo Bangla sculpture in front of the historical Arts Building of Dhaka University.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the council for Dhaka city (north and south) Chhatra League will be held on December 2 and 3 at the Suhrawardy Udyan near Dhaka University.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked about illegal money transactions for posts, Joy said they are merely allegations without any proof, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“If anyone makes complaints against us with proper documents and proof, we will take action. Bangladesh Chhatra League is an organisation that executes its activities following the ideals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 11:38:14', '2022-11-21 11:38:14'),
(3208, 3208, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the country’s economy keeps rolling although the world has been going through a global crisis and economic recession, hoping that Bangladesh must move ahead confronting the global crisis with cooperation of all.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Amidst global economic recession, our economy is still moving and pulsating. But, with cooperation of all, we will overcome the situation,” she said while speaking at a reception ceremony marking the Armed Forces Day-2022 at the Senakunja in Dhaka Cantonment.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said although the world recognised Bangladesh as a role model of development, the country has fallen to some troubles due to the Coronavirus, Russia-Ukraine war, sanctions and counter sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>She reiterated her call to all in bringing every inch of land under cultivation to grow own food aimed at overcoming the global crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said the entire world from the United States, Europe and Great Britain is going through an economic meltdown and Britain has already announced that it is facing an economic recession.</div><div><br></div><div>“Pray to Allah as we can protect Bangladesh from the economic recession and looming famine,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>As the world is reeling from the Coronavirus, she said the earth has been rattled by the Russia-Ukraine war for which the prices of various commodities that included fuel, edible oil, wheat, maize have increased manifolds alongside the transportation costs.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said despite the fact her government has been trying its best to keep people out of the sufferings.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re trying as the people of our country cannot suffer from the global crisis. So, we’re purchasing the goods from anywhere in the world by paying how much their prices are,” she said.   </div><div><br></div><div>On her arrival at the Senakunja, the Premier was received by Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan.</div><div><br></div><div>PM\'s Security Affairs Adviser Major General (rtd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique was present on the dais. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 13:25:41', '2022-11-21 16:40:09'),
(3209, 3209, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The man who led the group in snatching two death row convicts and members of banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam from Dhaka court premises using pepper spray on police members on Sunday has been identified.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Md Asaduzzaman, Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) of Dhaka Metropolitan police told this to reports at a press briefing on Monday at capital\'s DMP media center.</div><div><br></div><div>“We got the name of the man and some of his associates. But will not disclose it for the sake of investigation,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have received intelligence information on how the escape of those two militants was planned. Arresting them is our main target at the moment,” said the CTTC chief.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question he said, “They planned to snatch all four militants who got down from the police van first but were able to take only two. If all 12 militants had got down from the van at once they would have tried to take them all. Further information on their plan can be known after arresting the miscreants involved in the operation.”</div><div><br></div><div>CTTC chief Asaduzzaman said both the convicts were top level militants of Ansar-al-Islam who were arrested by CTTC in 2016. “Arresting them again is equally important to us as before,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to another question he said “We are maintaining the highest alert to arrest them but I don’t believe there is any such word as ‘Red Alert’ in police jargon. All the points have been alerted to ensure the militants cannot leave the country.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said no new militant outfit was involved in Sunday\'s incident&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, two members of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, who were sentenced to death in Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, escaped from the premises of Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court (Dhaka CMM Court).</div><div><br></div><div>The escapees are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran.</div><div><br></div><div>Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in Dhaka on October 31, 2015. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 16:07:38', '2022-11-21 16:07:38'),
(3210, 3210, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Renowned writer, television anchor and cultural personality Ali Imam passed away on Monday at the age of 72.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in Dhanmondi in the evening, according to his son Tanvir Imam. He was suffering from various complications including pneumonia.</div><div><br></div><div>Born in December 31, 1950 in Brahmanbaria, Ali Imam is credited with&nbsp; more than 600 publications.</div><div><br></div><div>He also served as the general manager of Bangladesh Television (BTV).</div><div><br></div><div>He was the General Manager of Bangladesh Television (BTV) from 2004-2006 and the now-defunct Channel One (2007-2008) before serving as the CEO of several satellite TV channels at the end of his career.</div><div><br></div><div>However, Imam was best known as the anchor of \"Hello Apnake Bolchhi\" at BTV, regarded as the first live show of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>He was also the producer of Bangladesh Television\'s famous documentary educational program \'Dekha Hoy Nai Chokkhu Melia\' (1980-1987).</div><div><br></div><div>From 1998 to 2004, he was the director of UNICEF\'s \'Mother and Child Development Communication Program\' for 7 years.</div><div><br></div><div>He received the Bangla Academy Award for his child literature in 2001. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 16:11:02', '2022-11-21 16:11:02'),
(3211, 3211, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">DOHA: Bukayo Saka scored twice as England thrashed Iran 6-2 to open their World Cup campaign in style on Monday in Qatar.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Teenager Jude Bellingham, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford and Jack Grealish were also on target as England eased to an emphatic victory in Doha to underline their title credentials.</div><div><br></div><div>Mehdi Taremi scored both consolation goals for Iran, the second a penalty. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-21 16:17:57', '2022-11-21 16:17:57'),
(3212, 3212, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>An earthquake on the main Indonesian island of Java has killed scores of people and injured hundreds, say officials.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 5.6 magnitude quake struck Cianjur town in West Java, at a shallow depth of 10km (6 miles), according to US Geological Survey data.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scores of people were taken to hospital, with many treated outside.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescuers have worked through the night to try to save others thought to still be trapped under collapsed buildings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The area where the quake struck is densely populated and prone to landslides, with poorly built houses reduced to rubble in many areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exact number of people killed so far remains unclear. Indonesia\'s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has said their official death toll was 62, adding that another figure given by regional governor Ridwan Kamil - 162 - remains unverified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to local media, Mr Kamil said some 326 people had been injured in the quake, noting that \"most of them sustained fractures from being crushed in ruins\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he warned some residents remained \"trapped in isolated places\" and said officials were \"under the assumption that the number of injured and deaths will rise with time\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The West Java governor added that more than 13,000 people had been displaced by the disaster, and the BNPB said more than 2,200 homes had been damaged by the quake.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herman Suherman, the head of administration in Cianjur town, said most injuries were bone fractures sustained from people being trapped by debris in buildings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The ambulances keep on coming from the villages to the hospital,\" he was quoted by AFP news agency as saying earlier in the day. \"There are many families in villages that have not been evacuated.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the injured were treated outside in a hospital car park after the hospital was left without power for several hours following the quake, West Java\'s governor said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday night, Mr Kamil wrote on Twitter that it could take up to three days for power to be fully restored to the area. He added that mobile phone reception remained poor and was causing \"a lot of problems\" for officials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tremor could also be felt in the capital Jakarta about 100km away, where people were evacuated from high-rise buildings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Office workers rushed out of buildings in the civic and business district during the tremor, which started at 13:21 Western Indonesian time (WIT) on Monday, the agency said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I was working when the floor under me was shaking. I could feel the tremor clearly. I tried to do nothing to process what it was, but it became even stronger and lasted for some time,\" lawyer Mayadita Waluyo told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An office worker named Ahmad Ridwan told news agency Reuters: \"We are used to this [earthquakes] in Jakarta, but people were so nervous just now, so we also panicked.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earthquakes are common in Indonesia, which sits on the \"ring of fire\" area of tectonic activity in the Pacific. The country has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake. 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, '2022-11-22 02:16:38', '2022-11-22 02:16:38'),
(3213, 3213, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Netherlands left it late to snatch a 2-0 victory over Senegal in their Group A World Cup match, in a game that was high in industry but largely lacking quality.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not every game can be a six-goal thriller, but most viewers were probably expecting a few more highlights from a meeting between two top-20-ranked teams at Doha’s Al Thumama Stadium on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Netherlands edged an evenly matched, fluid first half, despite Ismaila Sarr sending in a cracking curling shot for Senegal in the 24th minute that was deflected wide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the game slowed in a largely pedestrian second half before a flurry of late chances preceded an 85th-minute goal from Cody Gakpo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number 8 did well to get to Barcelona starlet Frenkie de Jong’s enticing cross ahead of Senegal’s keeper, Edouard Mendy, and nod the ball into the net.\\</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Substitute Davy Klaassen added a second in the ninth minute of second-half stoppage time after Mendy failed to gather a shot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senegal struggled without the influence of star forward Sadio Mane although Sarr, moved across to the left, shone as he attempted to make up for the absence of their injured talisman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the African champions came close on occasions, they met stiff resistance in the shape of Netherlands goalkeeper Andries Noppert, who made a flurry of strong saves in his first game for the national team.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dutch fans said they were happy with the result but acknowledged the overall performance left a lot to be desired.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I thought it would be easy but it wasn’t,” Ron Tubee, a fan, told Al Jazeera at the Al Thumama Stadium. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 02:36:13', '2022-11-22 02:36:13'),
(3214, 3214, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine urged residents of Kyiv and several other areas to limit electricity use as it seeks to recover from Russian strikes on the power grid while the elderly and vulnerable were preparing for a voluntary evacuation of war-ravaged Kherson.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Citizens in the recently liberated southern city of Kherson, where Kyiv says Russian troops destroyed critical infrastructure before leaving earlier this month, can apply to be relocated to areas where security and heating issues are less acute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainians are most likely to live with blackouts - a daily occurrence across the country - at least until the end of March, the head of a major energy provider said on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s response to military setbacks in recent weeks has included a barrage of missile strikes against power facilities that left millions without electricity as winter sets in and temperatures drop below freezing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that half of the country\'s power capacity had been knocked out by Russian rockets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his nightly video address, he urged people to conserve energy, particularly in hard-hit areas such as Kyiv, Vinnytsia in the southwest, Sumy in the north and Odesa on the Black Sea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The systematic damage to our energy system from strikes by the Russian terrorists is so considerable that all our people and businesses should be mindful and redistribute their consumption throughout the day,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"...Try to limit your personal consumption of electricity.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a Telegram message for Kherson residents - especially the elderly, women with children and those who are ill or disabled - Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk posted a number of ways residents can express interest in leaving.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You can be evacuated for the winter period to safer regions of the country,\" she wrote, citing both security and infrastructure problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the blackouts and Russia\'s strikes on energy infrastructure are the consequences of Kyiv being unwilling to negotiate, the state TASS news agency reported late last week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday evening, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said that Russia was bombarding Kherson from across the Dnipro River, now that its troops had fled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is no military logic: they just want to take revenge on the locals,\" he tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow denies intentionally targeting civilians in what it calls a \"special military operation\" to rid Ukraine of nationalists and protect Russian-speaking communities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv and the West describe Russia\'s actions as an unprovoked war of aggression.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Battles continued to rage in the east following Russian troop movements into the industrial Donbas region from around Kherson in the south.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s military said late on Monday that Russian forces had tried to make advances around Bakhmut and Avdiivka in Donetsk, and bombarded nearby towns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow has been reinforcing the areas it still holds and pressing an offensive of its own along a stretch of front line west of the city of Donetsk held by its proxies since 2014.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia and Ukraine on Monday traded blame for at least a dozen explosions at Ukraine\'s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which has been under Russian control since soon after it invaded the country on Feb. 24 but is across the Dnipro River from areas controlled by Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine narrowly escaped disaster during fighting at the weekend that rocked the plant, Europe\'s largest, with a barrage of shells. Some fell near reactors and damaged a radioactive waste storage building, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelenskiy urged NATO members to guarantee protection from \"Russian sabotage\" at nuclear facilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of Russia\'s state-run nuclear energy agency, Rosatom, said it had discussed Sunday\'s shelling with the IAEA, and said there was a risk of a nuclear accident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">IAEA experts toured the site on Monday, and the agency said they found widespread damage but nothing that compromised the plant\'s essential systems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reactors are shut down but there is a risk that nuclear fuel could overheat if the power driving the cooling systems is cut. Shelling has repeatedly cut power lines.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s defence ministry said Ukraine fired at power lines supplying the plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s nuclear energy firm Energoatom said Russia\'s military shelled the site, accusing it of nuclear blackmail and actions that were \"endangering the whole world\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reuters could not immediately verify which side was responsible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Repeated shelling of the plant during the war has raised concern about a grave disaster in the country that suffered the world\'s worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chornoby meltdown. Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 03:00:53', '2022-11-22 03:00:53'),
(3215, 3215, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The World Health Organization (WHO) is launching a global scientific process to update the list of priority pathogens - agents that can cause outbreaks or pandemics - to guide global investment, research and development (R&amp;D), especially in vaccines, tests and treatments.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In a statement, the WHO on Monday said that starting with a meeting held last Friday, November 18, WHO is convening over 300 scientists who will consider the evidence on over 25 virus families and bacteria, as well as \"Disease X.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disease X is included to indicate an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic. The experts will recommend a list of priority pathogens that need further research and investment. The process will include both scientific and public health criteria, as well as criteria related to socioeconomic impact, access, and equity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The list was first published in 2017 and the last prioritization exercise was done in 2018. The current list includes COVID-19, Crimean-Cong haemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Rift Valley fever, Zika and Disease X.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Targeting priority pathogens and virus families for research and development of countermeasures is essential for a fast and effective epidemic and pandemic response. Without significant R&amp;D investments prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it would not have been possible to have safe and effective vaccines developed in record time,\" said Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director of WHO\'s Health Emergencies Programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those pathogens identified as priority, the WHO R&amp;D Blueprint for epidemics has developed R&amp;D roadmaps, which lay out knowledge gaps and research priorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Where relevant, target product profiles, which inform developers about the desired specifications for vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests, are developed. Efforts are also made to map, compile and facilitate clinical trials to develop these tools. Complimentary efforts - such as to strengthen regulatory and ethics oversight - are also considered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This list of priority pathogens has become a reference point for the research community on where to focus energies to manage the next threat,\" said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO Chief Scientist.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is developed together with experts in the field, and is the agreed direction for where we--as a global research community--need to invest energy and funds to develop tests, treatments and vaccines. We thank our donors like the US government, our partners, and the scientists who work with WHO to make this possible.\" HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 03:10:09', '2022-11-22 03:10:09'),
(3216, 3216, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Fish traders in Jashore have started to earn much needed foreign currency by selling fish scales.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fish scales are sold at a rate of Tk 15 a kg in the fish markets of the district. After some processing, these residual parts of fishes are exported to many south-east Asian countries including China and Japan.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Export Promotion Bureau statistics, Bangladesh exports fish scales worth Tk 200 crore every year. Fish scales are used to produce batteries, electrical products, artificial cornea and bones, medicines, fish and poultry feed and various cosmetics items.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visiting many fish markets in Jashore, UNB found fish scales in high demand. Besides charging Tk 10 for cutting a 1kg fish, fish cutters of Jashore earn Tk 20,000 extra per month by selling the scales.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Not only scales but we also sell fish galls. Galls are used to produce fish feed, while gills of fishes are used to make soups after drying,” said Md Jahid, a fish cutter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Md Bablu is a warehouse owner who collects fish scales from various fish markets of Jashore on a daily basis. Talking to UNB, Bablu said that he sells fish scales to traders in Chattogram, who then export the item to other countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I sell fish scales at a rate of Tk 2500 to Tk 3000 per maund (1 maund = approx. 40kg). The business was first started by a Dhaka-based trader named Shamsul Alam. Fish scales contain chemical components like collagen fibre and amino acid, which are necessary to produce cosmetics items and medicines,” said Bablu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After talking to some traders, UNB learned the process by which fish scales are prepared for selling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, fish scales are collected and washed in clean or warm water to get rid of oily substances. After washing, wet scales are dried in the open to make them crispy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some people grind the scales in mixers and sell them as powder.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prices of fish scales vary according to the type and size of fish from which they come.  Scales of big fish are sold at high rates, while those of small fish like shrimp are sold at a different rate. Besides, the prices of fish galls and gills are also different from the prices of scales.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority, only 10-12 traders are involved in exporting fish scales. However, around 5,000 people are directly involved with the trade. A total of 2,500 tons of fish scales are exported every year, which brings home foreign currencies worth Tk 200 crore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fish scale traders said that their business has the potential to grow more if they receive priority and focus from the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I’ll talk to the respective authorities so that fish scale business can be expanded,” said Tamijul Islam Khan, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Jashore. 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, '2022-11-22 03:27:44', '2022-11-22 15:11:12'),
(3217, 3217, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Thirty-eight people were killed and two were injured after a fire at a plant in central China, state media said Tuesday, citing local authorities.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The fire broke out at a plant in Anyang City in Henan Province on Monday afternoon, news agency Xinhua reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State media said rescue services first received reports of a fire at 4:22 pm (0822 GMT) at Kaixinda Trading Co., Ltd.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"After receiving the alarm, the municipal fire rescue detachment immediately dispatched forces to the scene,\" CCTV reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Public security, emergency response, municipal administration, and power supply units rushed to the scene at the same time to carry out emergency handling and rescue work,\" it said, adding the fire was extinguished by around 11 pm local time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Footage from the scene shared by state media showed thick plumes of black smoke from the fire, with at least two trucks in position to battle the flames.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another video showed the charred hull of the building after the fire was extinguished.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to the dead, two were sent to hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, the state-run People\'s Daily said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities said \"criminal suspects\" had been taken into custody in connection with the fire, but did not provide further details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No reason has been given for the cause of the blaze.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Weak safety standards -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Industrial accidents are common in China due to weak safety standards and corruption among officials tasked with enforcing them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">News of the Anyang City fire followed reports of an explosion at a chemical factory in nearby Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Videos posted on social media showed a fire at the industrial site spewing dense grey smoke into the sky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other images showed nearby buildings strewn with shards of glass and frightened locals fleeing the blast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Personnel were dispatched to the scene, the fire was extinguished, and the human toll is not yet known,\" Dahebao -- an official daily based out of neighbouring Henan -- reported on the Twitter-like Weibo platform, citing authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June, one person was killed and another injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in Shanghai.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire at a Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. plant in the outlying Jinshan district sent thick clouds of smoke over a vast industrial zone as three fires blazed in separate locations, turning the sky black.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And last year, a gas blast killed 25 people and reduced several buildings to rubble in the central city of Shiyan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March 2019, an explosion at a chemical factory in Yancheng, located 260 kilometres (161 miles) from Shanghai, killed 78 people and devastated homes in a several-kilometre radius.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four years prior, a giant explosion in northern Tianjin at a chemical warehouse killed 165 people, in one of China\'s worst-ever industrial accidents. 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, '2022-11-22 03:48:26', '2022-11-22 03:48:26'),
(3218, 3218, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rescuers on Tuesday struggled to find more bodies from the rubble of homes and buildings toppled by an earthquake that killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds on Indonesia’s main island of Java.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More heavy equipment reached the hardest-hit city of Cianjur in the country’s most densely populated province of West Java, where the magnitude 5.6 land-based quake struck Monday afternoon. Terrified residents fled into the street, some covered in blood and debris.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damaged roads and bridges, power blackouts and lack of heavy equipment previously hampered Indonesia’s rescuers after the quake set off a landslide that blocked streets and buried several houses and motorists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Power supplies and phone communications have begun to improve in the quake-hit areas on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the dead were public school students who had finished their classes for the day and were taking extra lessons at Islamic schools when the buildings collapsed, West Java Gov. Ridwan Kamil said as he announced the latest death toll in the remote, rural area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hospitals were overwhelmed by injured people, and the toll was expected to rise. No estimates were immediately available because of the area\'s far-flung, rural population, but many structures collapsed, and residents and emergency workers braced for grim news.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Operations were focused on about a dozen locations in Cianjur, where people are still believed trapped, said Endra Atmawidjaja, the Public Works and Housing spokesperson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are racing with time to rescue people,” Atmawidjaja said, adding that seven excavators and 10 large trucks have been deployed from neighboring Bandung and Bogor cities to continue clearing trees and soils that blocked roads linking Cianjur and Cipanas towns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cargo trucks carrying food, tents, blankets and other supplies from the capital, Jakarta, were arriving early Tuesday for distribution in temporary shelters. Still, thousands spent the night in the open fearing aftershocks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Buildings were completely flattened,\" said Dwi Sarmadi, who works for an Islamic educational foundation in a neighboring district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roughly 175,000 people live in the town of Cianjur, part of a mountainous district of the same name with more than 2.5 million people. Known for their piety, the people of Cianjur live mostly in towns of one- and two-story buildings and in smaller homes in the surrounding countryside.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kamil said that more than 13,000 people whose homes were heavily damaged were taken to evacuation centers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emergency workers treated the injured on stretchers and blankets outside hospitals, on terraces and in parking lots. The injured, including children, were given oxygen masks and IV lines. Some were resuscitated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of people gathered outside the Cianjur regional hospital building, waiting for treatment</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I was working inside my office building. The building was not damaged, but as the quake shook very strongly, many things fell. My leg was hit by heavy stuff,” Sarmadi said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarmadi was waiting near a tent outside the hospital after some overwhelmed clinics were unable to see him. Many people were coming in worse shape.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I really hope they can handle me soon,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasan, a construction worker who, like many Indonesians, uses one name, is also one of the survivors that is being taken to the hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I fainted. It was very strong,\" said Hasan. “I saw my friends running to escape from the building. But it was too late to get out and I was hit by the wall.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The magnitude 5.6 quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) below the Earth\'s surface, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It also caused panic in the greater Jakarta area, about a three hour-drive away, where high-rises swayed and some people evacuated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In many homes in Cianjur, chunks of concrete and roof tiles fell inside bedrooms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shopkeeper Dewi Risma was working with customers when the quake hit, and she ran for the exit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The vehicles on the road stopped because the quake was very strong,\" she said. \"I felt it shook three times, but the first one was the strongest one for around 10 seconds. The roof of the shop next to the store I work in had collapsed, and people said two had been hit.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency recorded at least 25 aftershocks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country of more than 270 million people is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin known as the “Ring of Fire.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed at least 25 people and injured more than 460 in West Sumatra province. In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed more than 100 people and injured nearly 6,500 in West Sulawesi province.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A powerful Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia. 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, '2022-11-22 05:06:37', '2022-11-22 05:06:37');
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(3219, 3219, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi will embark on Tuesday on what will surely be his last chance to win the World Cup, with Argentina and holders France both in action in Qatar.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After England thumped Iran 6-2 to showcase their title credentials, day three of one of the most controversial World Cups in history will have four matches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi and his strongly fancied Argentina side are up first when they face Saudi Arabia in Group C, followed by Denmark versus Tunisia in Group D.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The evening matches are Robert Lewandowski\'s Poland against Mexico in Group C and the last game of the day tees up reigning champions France, spearheaded by Kylian Mbappe, versus Australia in Group D.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much of the attention though will be on forward Messi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 35-year-old has won pretty much it all and is one of the greatest footballers of all time, but World Cup glory has eluded him and this is surely his last time to rectify that glaring omission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is probably my last World Cup, my last chance to land this great dream that we all have,\" Messi told reporters in Doha on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t know if this is my happiest moment, but I feel great.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m older, more mature, I want to make the most of everything, to live it with the maximum intensity and to enjoy every moment that I have.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent days, Messi has twice trained apart from the rest of the squad but he moved to dispell any concerns amongst Argentines that he might not be fit for Saudi Arabia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I trained apart because I had a knock, it was precautionary, but nothing unusual,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentina head into the tournament as Copa America holders and unbeaten in 36 matches dating back to 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Mbappe the difference -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">If Messi is approaching the end of one of football\'s greatest careers, his Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Mbappe is only still starting his.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And the 23-year-old could be in for a field day against an Australia side who are lacking the stars of yesteryear and needed an extra qualifier to reach Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like when Argentina face Saudi Arabia, anything other than a victory for holders France would be a huge shock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Didier Deschamps is missing Paul Pogba and Ballon d\'Or winner Karim Benzema, both out of the tournament through injury, and the French coach said that puts even more onus on Mbappe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He has always had the ability to make the difference and we will need that,\" said Deschamps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He has the ability to be decisive at any moment, unlike many other players.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe, who turns 24 next month, will lead a French attack in which Olivier Giroud is now expected to start in the absence of Benzema.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lewandowski is the third of the three world-class attackers on display on Tuesday, but for his all goalscoring exploits down the years, the 34-year-old is yet to score at a World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Barcelona predator has struck 25 times across the last two World Cup qualifying campaigns, but has yet to open his account at the finals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny believes Lewandowski will break his duck in Qatar as Poland aim to reach the knockout phase for the first time since 1986.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think it\'s definitely important for him (to score),\" Szczesny told reporters on the eve of Poland\'s opening game against Mexico.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'s very motivated before the World Cup. No one doubts that Robert is one of the best players in the world right now.\" 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, '2022-11-22 05:38:44', '2022-11-22 05:38:44'),
(3220, 3220, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone on Tuesday morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 196 at 10:20 am, the metropolis ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Pakistan’s Lahore and Karachi occupied the first and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 317 and 184, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', 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;\">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, '2022-11-22 05:48:26', '2022-11-22 05:48:26'),
(3221, 3221, '<div style=\"\"><div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"\"><div class=\"x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi xjkvuk6 x1swvt13\" data-ad-comet-preview=\"message\" data-ad-preview=\"message\" id=\"jsc_c_dqv\" style=\"padding: 4px 16px;\"><div class=\"x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u\" style=\"margin-top: -5px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px;\"><div class=\"xu06os2 x1ok221b\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"word-break: break-word; max-width: 100%; display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; min-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3333;\"><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a\" style=\"margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><div dir=\"auto\" style=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli are known as the power couple. They also keep making their fans drool often with snippets from their personal diaries together. Be it spending quality time with daughter Vamika at home, or traveling to a stunning country together, their family albums are goals for us. </b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;\">Virat and Anushka are also known for their airport looks. The couple believes in keeping it casual, comfortable and stylish. Anushka is loved for her sartorial sense of fashion, and so is Virat. The couple often keep dropping cues of fashion with their public appearances with each other. They also love to share snippets from their personal diaries on their Instagram profiles to update their fans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br></span></div><span style=\"font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Anuska and Virat recently flew back to the city in style. A day back, Anushka and Virat were photographed by paparazzi outside Mumbai International Airport, as they walked together in style. Anushka and Virat recently took off from Mumbai. However, now they are back in comfy casuals. With their recent airport look, they again proved that while flying, comfort should be the main criteria for choosing the look. \r\n\r\nAnushka looked chic in a navy-blue sweatshirt with graphic prints, and a pair of black trousers with wide legs. Virat, on the other hand, complemented his lady in a white T-shirt and a pair of black casual trousers. The couple twinned when it came to matching shoes. They decked up in matching white sneakers. \r\n\r\nAnushka and Virat also opted to accessorise their casual looks in caps. Virat opted for a white cap, while Anushka looked stylish in a wine-red cap. Anushka also wore tinted shades. HT\r\n\r\nbnbd24/kh</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><div class=\"x168nmei x13lgxp2 x30kzoy x9jhf4c x6ikm8r x10wlt62\" data-visualcompletion=\"ignore-dynamic\" style=\"overflow: hidden; border-radius: 0px 0px 8px 8px; font-family: inherit;\"><div style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><div style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><div style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><div class=\"x1n2onr6\" style=\"position: relative; font-family: inherit;\"><div class=\"x6s0dn4 xi81zsa x78zum5 x6prxxf x13a6bvl xvq8zen xdj266r xktsk01 xat24cr x1d52u69 x889kno x4uap5 x1a8lsjc xkhd6sd xdppsyt\" style=\"justify-content: flex-end; padding: 10px 0px; margin: 0px 16px; font-size: 0.9375rem; align-items: center; display: flex; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--divider); color: var(--secondary-text); line-height: 1.3333; font-family: inherit;\"><div class=\"x1c4vz4f x2lah0s xci0xqf\" style=\"flex-grow: 0; flex-shrink: 0; width: 7px; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(101, 103, 107);\"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 06:02:47', '2022-11-22 06:02:47'),
(3222, 3222, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United Nations\' top rights body will hold an urgent meeting this week to consider launching an international </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">investigation into the deadly crackdown on mass protests rocking Iran.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The UN Human Rights Council is due to host a special session on Thursday on <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"the deteriorating human rights situation\", following a request by Germany </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">and Iceland.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The meeting follows two months of protests in Iran sparked by the death of <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">22-year-old Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested for an alleged breach of the </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">country\'s strict dress rules for women based on Islamic sharia law.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At least 378 people, including 47 children, have been killed in the crackdown <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">since Amini\'s death, according to the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">(IHR).</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The demonstrations have spread across the country and grown into a broad <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">movement against the theocracy that has ruled Iran since the fall of the shah </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">in 1979.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Thousands of peaceful protesters have also been arrested, according to UN <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">rights experts, including many women, children and journalists, and six </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">people have so far been handed death sentences over the demonstrations.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Gender dimensions\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">During Thursday\'s session, diplomats will consider a draft resolution <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">presented by Germany and Iceland calling on the council to create a high- </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">level international investigation to probe all alleged violations connected </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">with the ongoing protests in Iran.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The so-called independent international fact-finding mission should include <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"the gender dimensions of such violations\" in its investigations, according </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">to the text.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The draft resolution, which could still change, calls for the investigators <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">to \"collect, consolidate and analyse evidence of such violations, and to </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">preserve evidence,\" with a view to future prosecution.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who will be present for the <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">session, stressed recently on Twitter that such an investigation is vital </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">because we \"know how important it is for the victims that those responsible </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">are held accountable.\"</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The draft text called on Tehran to \"cooperate fully\" with the investigators, <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">who it said should present a full report in March 2024.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rights groups hailed the special session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We\'re seeing such serious abuses in response to the protests,\" Lucy McKernan <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">of Human Rights Watch told AFP.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"It is incumbent on the council to react,\" she said, voicing hope that <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">countries would back the investigation, \"so that at least in the future there </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">is a chance of accountability\".</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The support of 16 of the Human Rights Council\'s 47 members -- more than a <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">third -- is required to convene a special session.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Germany and Iceland have so far received the backing of 50 countries for <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">their request for Thursday\'s session, including 17 council members.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Enough votes? -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But just days before the event, it remained unclear if they will muster the <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">votes needed to pass their resolution.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Human Rights Council has seen growing push-back from countries including <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">China, Russia and Iran against often Western-led efforts to hold individual </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">countries to account for alleged violations.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Last month Western countries and their allies suffered a crushing defeat in <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">the council when their attempt to simply get the issue of China\'s alleged </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">widespread abuses in its Xinjiang region on the agenda was thwarted.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Iran may have a harder time blocking Thursday\'s resolution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It does not hold the same sway over many of the council members as Beijing <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">does.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">And while China has never even featured on the council\'s agenda, the body <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">appointed a so-called special rapporteur on Iran as far back as 2011, and has </span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">voted each year since then to renew that mandate.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Thursday\'s meeting will also provide a first opportunity for the new UN <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">rights chief Volker Turk to speak before the council.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He is due to open the session at 0900 GMT, followed by statements by the <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">special rapporteur and likely representatives of Iranian civil society. AFP</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 07:39:18', '2022-11-22 15:12:16'),
(3223, 3223, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police recovered the body of a 55-year old man from a paddy field in Sheikhpura area of Dinajpur Sadar upazila Tuesday morning.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The identity of the deceased could not be ascertained yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Golam Mawla Shah, inspector of Kotwali Police Station, said they recovered the body from the paddy field adjacent to the road of Sheikhpura Union Parishad building after being informed by village police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body was sent to M Abdur Rahim Medical College morgue for an autopsy, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mominul Islam, chairman of the local union parishad, said that locals saw the man roaming around the area on Monday. He might have been suffering from mental illness, added the chairman. 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, '2022-11-22 08:02:01', '2022-11-22 08:02:01'),
(3224, 3224, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, a gallantry award-recipient valiant freedom fighter, has said that along with safeguarding the independence and sovereignty of the country, members of the armed forces have also earned global appreciation for maintaining peace and stability in conflict-torn regions of the world.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Chowdhury, also an adviser to the prime minister on power, energy and mineral resources, said Bangladesh’s armed forces is making huge contributions to the country’s ongoing development under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC hosted a reception on Monday to celebrate the 51st Armed Forces Day. Chowdhury, who is currently in USA, attended the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gabe Camarillo, Under Secretary of US Army, was present at the function. Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA, Muhammad Imran, also spoke at the event held at Bangabandhu Auditorium of the Embassy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lieutenant General Michael T. Plehn, President of National Defence University, USA; and Afreen Akhter, US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, were also present at the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme began with the playing of the national anthems of Bangladesh and USA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A short documentary on the activities of the Bangladesh Armed Forces was screened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Chowdhury greeted the members of the armed forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day and recalled with profound respect the great sacrifice and long struggle of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who led the nation to achieve its long-cherished independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also recalled with deep respect the bravery and supreme sacrifice of the valiant freedom fighters – both military and civilians – in the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under Secretary of US Army Gabe Camarillo said USA and Bangladesh celebrated the 51st anniversary of Bangladesh Armed Forces and 50 years of friendly relations between the two countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that Bangladesh is the world\'s largest troop contributors to the UN Peacekeeping Operation, he said the United States recognises the sacrifice of the Bangladesh Armed Forces both for defence of the country in Bangladesh and maintaining peace and stability around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Imran paid deepest homage to the architect of Bangladesh, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman under whose leadership Bangladesh achieved final victory on December 16, 1971 following a nine-month-long armed Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He noted with satisfaction the multifaceted cooperation between the armed forces of Bangladesh and the United States – in terms of UN peacekeeping operations, sharing of knowledge and experiences, training, procurement and exchange of visits, etc.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diplomats and Defence Attaches from a number of countries, senior officials from the Pentagon, Department of State, and other US organizations, members of Bangladeshi diaspora and Embassy officials and employees attended the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defence Attaché of Bangladesh Embassy Brigadier General Md Shahedul Islam welcomed the guests at the reception and thanked the USA for the support and cooperation extended that is mutually beneficial for the two countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister (Political-1) Dewan Ali Ashraf conducted the programme. 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, '2022-11-22 08:30:23', '2022-11-22 08:30:23'),
(3225, 3225, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has collected Tk 90901.99 crore revenue in the July-October period of the current fiscal year (2022-23), against the target of Tk 97306.86 crore.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to NBR’s latest data, revenue collection has grown by 14.17 percent on average so far in October, compared to last fiscal year (FY 22).</div><div><br></div><div>In the fiscal year 2021-2022, the revenue collected in July-October was Tk 79622.66 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Though the revenue collection target saw a shortfall of Tk 6404.87 crore, the overall revenue collected in the July-October period is encouraging for the revenue board, said an NBR member today.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that the negative impact of the global economy has also hit Bangladesh. Despite various crises, NBR’s revenue collection has been satisfactory so far, the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>In the current fiscal year (July-June), NBR’s revenue collection target has been set at Tk 3.70 lakh crore. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 09:46:01', '2022-11-22 09:46:01'),
(3226, 3226, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A small plane carrying eight people crashed into a residential area of Colombia\'s second-largest city Medellin on Monday, killing all on board, airport authorities said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The aircraft took off from the Olaya Herrera airport in the morning and reported an engine failure before crashing into a house, sending thick plumes of black smoke into the air.</div><div><br></div><div>The airport\'s Twitter account reported that the eight people in the plane -- six passengers and two crew -- had been reported as \"fatalities.\"</div><div><br></div><div>There was no indication if anyone had been injured or killed in the house.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There has been a plane accident in the Belen Rosales sector. The full capacity of government has been activated to assist the victims,\" Mayor Daniel Quintero wrote on Twitter earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the plane was a twin-engine Piper heading from Medellin to the municipality of Pizarro in the neighboring department of Choco.</div><div><br></div><div>The plane \"signaled engine failure on takeoff and did not manage to return to the Olaya Herrera airport,\" one of two in Medellin.</div><div><br></div><div>The aircraft crashed into a house, destroying its upper floors, according to images shared by the emergency services. Firefighters were working to douse flames amid scattered tiles and collapsed brick walls.</div><div><br></div><div>Medellin lies in a narrow valley, surrounded by the Andes mountains.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2016, a plane carrying Brazil\'s Chapecoense football team ran out of fuel and crashed in the mountains near the city, killing 71 of the 77 people on board, including 16 players. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 10:21:42', '2022-11-22 10:21:42'),
(3227, 3227, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Many children killed when their schools collapsed are among the 252 dead from an earthquake that devastated a town on Indonesia\'s main island of Java, officials said on Tuesday, as rescuers raced to reach people trapped in the rubble.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of people were injured in the Monday quake and officials warned the death toll was likely to rise.</div><div><br></div><div>The shallow 5.6-magnitude quake struck in mountains in Indonesia\'s most populous province of West Java, causing significant damage to the town of Cianjur and burying at least one village under a landslide.</div><div><br></div><div>Landslides and rough terrain were hampering rescue efforts, said Henri Alfiandi, head of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).</div><div><br></div><div>\"The challenge is the affected area is spread out ... On top of that, the roads in these villages are damaged,\" Alfiandi told a news conference, adding that more than 13,000 people had been evacuated.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Most of the casualties are children, because at 1 pm they were still at school,\" he said, referring to the time the quake hit.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of the fatalities resulted from people trapped under collapsed buildings, officials said.</div><div><br></div><div>President Joko Widodo flew into Cianjur on Tuesday to encourage rescuers.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My instruction is to prioritise evacuating victims that are still trapped under rubble,\" said the president, who is known as Jokowi.</div><div><br></div><div>He offered his condolences to the victims and pledged emergency government support. Reconstruction should include earthquake-proof housing, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Survivors gathered overnight in a Cianjur hospital parking lot. Some of the injured were treated in tents, others were hooked up to intravenous drips on the pavement as medical workers stitched up patients under torchlight.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Everything collapsed beneath me and I was crushed beneath this child,\" Cucu, a 48-year-old resident, told Reuters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Two of my kids survived, I dug them up ... Two others I brought here, and one is still missing,\" she said through tears.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Many dead bodies are lying on the hospital grounds, it\'s very crowded,\" said her relative, Hesti.</div><div><br></div><div>Footage from Kompas TV showed people holding cardboard signs asking for food and shelter, with emergency supplies seemingly yet to reach them.</div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of police officers were deployed to help the rescue effort, Dedi Prasetyo, a national police spokesperson told the Antara state news agency, reports Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Today\'s main task order for personnel is to focus on evacuating victims,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 11:16:34', '2022-11-22 11:16:34'),
(3228, 3228, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Arabia produced one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history to beat Argentina 2-1 in their Group C opener with goals by Saleh Al-Shehri and Salem Al-Dawsari stunning the favourites on Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 51st-ranked Saudis were trailing to Lionel Messi\'s 10th minute penalty, but Al-Shehri squeezed in an angled shot in the 48th minute after punishing poor Argentine defending.</div><div><br></div><div>Saudi Arabia\'s fans were then sent into delirium five minutes later as Al-Dawsari curled a stunning shot into the top corner from the edge of the area.</div><div><br></div><div>Argentina were on course to match Italy\'s record 37-match unbeaten run after the mercurial Messi opened his fifth and final World Cup by stroking home a 10th-minute penalty.</div><div><br></div><div>But for three goals being chalked off for offside, one for Messi and two for Lauturo Martinez, Argentina would have been home and dry before halftime but the game was turned on its head after the break in extraordinary fashion. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 12:18:09', '2022-11-22 12:18:09'),
(3229, 3229, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After the recent escape of two death-row militants from their custody at Dhaka court, police recommended the prison authorities to put the militants, high-profile prisoners or people convicted in multiple cases on shackles (dandaberi) during their transport to and from the court.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Confirming the matter to BSS, deputy commissioner Jasim Uddin of Dhaka Metropolitan Police\'s (DMP\'s) prosecution wing said they have sent a letter to the prison authorities in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Incidents of convict\'s escape have taken place during their court production as they were not put on shackles. It would have been possible to thwart such incidents if they were on shackles. We have sent a letter to prison authorities to take steps in this regard,\" the police official said.</div><div><br></div><div>The police authorities also called upon the prison authorities to take steps in transporting the militants, high-profile prisoners, convicts or people convicted in multiple cases, on separate prison vans.</div><div><br></div><div>Death-row convicts Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim, members of banned militant outfit Ansar-al Islam, were whisked away by their associates by beating police and spraying some chemical on their eyes at Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court arena on November 20. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 12:24:11', '2022-11-22 12:24:11'),
(3230, 3230, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iranian security forces on Monday were using heavy weapons to suppress protests in Kurdish-populated regions in Iran’s west, intensifying a crackdown that has killed a dozen people over the last 24 hours, rights groups said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Kurdish-populated provinces of western and northwestern Iran have been major hubs of protest since the onset of the movement sparked by the death in September of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by morality police in Tehran.</div><div><br></div><div>There have been particularly intense anti-regime demonstrations in several towns in the last few days, largely sparked by the funerals of people said to have been killed by the security forces in previous protests.</div><div><br></div><div>The Norway-based Hengaw rights group said Iranian forces had shelled the cities of Piranshahr, Marivan and Javanroud, posting videos with the thud of heavy weaponry and sound of live gunfire.</div><div><br></div><div>It said 13 people had been killed in the region by the security forces over the last 24 hours, including seven in Javanroud, four in Piranshahr and two more in other locations.</div><div><br></div><div>Among six people killed by fire from the security forces on Sunday was 16-year-old Karwan Ghader Shokri, Hengaw said.</div><div><br></div><div>Another man was killed when security forces fired on crowds as the teenager’s body was being brought to the mosque, it added.</div><div>The latest violence came amid continued concern over the situation in Mahabad.</div><div><br></div><div>Activists warn Iran was planning to use capital punishment as a means to quell the protest movement by spreading a climate of fear in the population.</div><div><br></div><div>Amnesty said the authorities’ pursuit of the death penalty is “designed to intimidate those participating in the popular uprising ... and deter others from joining the movement.”</div><div><br></div><div>The strategy aims to “instill fear among the public,” it added, condemning a “chilling escalation in the use of the death penalty as a tool of political repression and the systematic violation of fair trial rights in Iran.”</div><div><br></div><div>Iraq condemned attacks on its northern Kurdistan region. - Arab News</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 12:45:04', '2022-11-22 12:45:04'),
(3231, 3231, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Security Services Division of the Home Ministry has formed a four-member committee to probe the escaping of two death row convicts, also members of banned militant group Ansar al-Islam, from the premises of a Dhaka court on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The ministry issued a notification in this regard on Sunday (November 20).</div><div><br></div><div>The committee, headed by additional secretary (Prison sub-division) of the Security Services Division, has been asked to submit its report within seven working days, said the notification.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, two members of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, who were sentenced to death in Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, escaped from the premises of Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court (Dhaka CMM Court).</div><div><br></div><div>The escapees are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran.</div><div><br></div><div>Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in Dhaka on October 31, 2015. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 12:47:30', '2022-11-22 12:47:30'),
(3232, 3232, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With three more deaths from dengue recorded in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, the official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 237 this year.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this time, 515 more patients, including 266 in Dhaka city, were hospitalised, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>All three deaths were reported from Dhaka division.</div><div>The latest numbers took Dhaka division’s death toll to 145.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 2,231 dengue patients, including 1,243 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>DGHS has recorded 53,928 dengue cases and 51,460 recoveries so far this year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 14:30:20', '2022-11-22 14:30:20'),
(3233, 3233, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked all concerned to undertake and thus implement development projects without harming nature.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Premier also directed the authorities concerned to implement the development schemes maintaining ecological balance as well as implementing those in a speedy manner avoiding unnecessary revision.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister gave the directives while chairing a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) held at the NEC Conference Room in the city\'s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area today.</div><div><br></div><div>Ministers, State Ministers, Planning Commission members and secretaries concerned attended the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Briefing reporters after the meeting, Planning Minister MA Mannan said that the Premier while giving approval to a Taka 2,580 crore Coastal Town Climate Tolerance Project today said that the coastal belt is usually a sensitive area.</div><div><br></div><div>In this regard, she asked the authorities concerned to implement this project carefully without disturbing the natural balance.</div><div><br></div><div>Turning to the issue of boosting agricultural productivity in the wake of global situation, Mannan said that the Premier stressed not only for boosting agricultural production, but also for ensuring production of quality food grains and nutrition enriched crops.</div><div><br></div><div>She also asked the concerned ministries to pay attention on stockpile of food grains in godowns as well as pursuing higher technology in preservation of those as the Netherlands has better technical know-how in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that the government has fared better during the COVID-19 pandemic, the planning minister hinted that the GDP growth rate in the current fiscal year would reach near 7 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>The planning minister said that the Premier stressed again for avoiding revision of projects time and again alongside completing the ongoing projects in a speedy manner within the timeframe.</div><div><br></div><div>She also asserted that the canals in the capital should have to be kept free to ensure their usual flow of water.</div><div><br></div><div>Touching upon the inflation situation, Mannan said that the overall inflation trend is now downward while the wage index is also on the uptrend. \"Although it\'s not too much satisfactory, but it\'s a good sign.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said the country is likely to witness a good Harvest of Aman crops this time which is definitely good news for all side by side it would also be helpful to boost the supply side to rein in inflation further.</div><div><br></div><div>Mannan said that million tons of food grains are in the field much to the delight of the farmers.</div><div><br></div><div>Quoting data from the Ministry of Agriculture, he informed that the vegetables production has increased by six times over the years having a wide range of varieties while the production of nutrition enriched various food grains and fruits have started to impact the inflation trend.</div><div><br></div><div>Riding on the good supply side, he noted that the general point to point inflation would come down further in November and thus continue to fall in December, in next January and February also before the declining trend might get slow down in next March.</div><div><br></div><div>He also informed that the Prime Minister has expressed her satisfaction over the current inflationary situation.</div><div><br></div><div>The planning minister said due to various steps taken by the government and also from the central bank, the gap in the current account balance is gradually narrowing down while the overall inward remittance and exports earnings are still in the positive trend.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question, he said that the Bangladesh Bank through giving some circulars are working to check under invoicing and over invoicing while the BFIU is also working to this end.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam said that the inward remittance flow during the July-October period of the current fiscal year (FY23) totaled $7.198 billion which is higher than the corresponding period of the last fiscal year (FY22).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>While commenting on the foreign currency reserve situation, Mannan said that the reserve has slightly increased and thus urged the media to properly highlight the situation of the stable macroeconomic indicators.</div><div><br></div><div>In this connection, he noted whatever steps that the head of the government has undertaken over the years have yielded better in the end.</div><div><br></div><div>Answering to another question, the planning minister said that a vested quarter is out to create indiscipline in the country, but the concerned government agencies have maintained their strong vigil in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Planning Division Secretary Mamun-Al Rashid said that the Prime Minister in the meeting asked the authorities concerned to make land acquisition as least as possible and thus saving the farm land. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 14:34:12', '2022-11-22 14:34:12'),
(3234, 3234, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">France, Germany and Italy, the three biggest contributors to the European Space Agency, said Tuesday they have agreed to guarantee the future of the next-generation Ariane 6 and Vega-C rocket launcher systems.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The countries also reaffirmed a preference for launches carried out by European rockets, after the agency was forced to turn to US firm SpaceX for two future scientific missions.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministers in charge of space for the ESA\'s 22 member states are meeting in Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday to determine the agency\'s funding for the next three years, with a 3.2-billion-euro ($3.3-billion) plan for European space launchers high on the agenda.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The public funding necessary to equilibrate the Ariane 6 and Vega-C institutional and commercial exploitation will be reviewed in order to take into account the evolution of market prices, institutional prices, economic conditions,\" said a joint ministerial statement from France\'s Bruno Le Maire, Germany\'s Robert Habeck and Italy\'s Adolfo Urso.</div><div><br></div><div>The ESA has had to scramble to find a way to get its missions into space after Russia withdrew its Soyuz rockets in response to European sanctions over Moscow\'s war in Ukraine earlier this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The agency has also been affected by delays to Ariane 6, which is planned to replace the successful Ariane 5.</div><div><br></div><div>The maiden flight of Ariane 6 was originally scheduled for 2020, but it has now been pushed to the end of 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>For Ariane 6 and the smaller Vega-C, \"the allocation of funding will be commensurate to the commercial risks taken\" to ensure their long-term competitiveness, the ministers said.</div><div><br></div><div>The proposal would also \"involve starting a reflection with concerned states on the conditions for the industrial and geographical distribution of work\", it added.</div><div><br></div><div>The three countries also proposed allowing the ESA to use European-made micro and mini launch systems -- which are currently being developed by Germany and France.</div><div><br></div><div>The final decision on a way forward would be agreed by December 2023, the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>Le Maire, France\'s economy minister, had earlier called for Europe to \"be united\" in space as competition grows.</div><div><br></div><div>\"At the end of these discussions, there must be a single Europe, a single European space policy and unfailing unity in the face of Chinese ambitions and American ambitions,\" he said at the start of the ministerial council.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There is a price for independence. If we want to be independent, we have to put money on the table.\" - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 15:50:14', '2022-11-22 15:50:14');
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(3235, 3235, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Argentina forward Lautaro Martinez said Tuesday\'s shock 2-1 World Cup defeat to Saudi Arabia hurt badly as the Copa America champions\' long unbeaten run came to a shuddering halt.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lionel Messi gave Argentina -- who came into the match on a 36-game unbeaten streak -- an early lead from the penalty spot in Doha.</div><div><br></div><div>But Saleh Al-Shehri equalised early in the second half and Salem Al-Dawsari struck a sensational winner.</div><div>Argentina had three goals ruled out for offside in the opening period as their World Cup opener fell flat.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s clear we lost the game because of our own mistakes, above all in the second half,\" said Martinez, who plays for Inter Milan.</div><div><br></div><div>\"In the first half we should have scored more than one goal, but that\'s the World Cup. Now we have to rest and think about what\'s ahead. Those are two finals now.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Two-time World Cup winners Argentina came into the tournament as one of the favourites but now face a battle to get out of Group C, with matches to come against Mexico and Poland.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Without doubt (the next two games will be difficult),\" said Martinez.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Today was a difficult opponent too. We started like that and then in the second half we made mistakes. They make the difference in games. We have to correct them for the games to come.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"(It hurts) a lot. We wanted to start the World Cup with a win,\" he added. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 16:13:06', '2022-11-22 16:13:06'),
(3236, 3236, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Light fog is expected to feature the early hours tomorrow while the weather would largely remain dry during the rest of the day as the winter apparently sets in gradually across the country, the met office said here today.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country.&nbsp; Light fog may occur at places over the country during early morning,” the forecast said.</div><div><br></div><div>The met office today recorded maximum 30.2 degrees Celsius temperature in Sylhet and minimum 13.3 degrees in Rajshahi.</div><div><br></div><div>“Night temperature may fall slightly and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country,” it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Sun will set in Dhaka at 5-11pm tomorrow and will rise at 6-19am on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>The met office, meanwhile, reported the depression over Southwest Bay and adjoining West central Bay to have weakened as it moved west northwestwards covering areas of neighbouring India’s Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu coast, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>“It is likely to move west-northwestwards further and weaken gradually. One of its associated troughs extends up to North Bay,” the forecast said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-22 16:17:21', '2022-11-22 16:17:21'),
(3237, 3237, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The earthquake, which struck at a shallow depth of 10km (six miles), was followed by dozens of aftershocks which caused more damage as poorly built homes collapsed.</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the village of Cibereum, a family was trying to retrieve the body of their eldest son - a 28-year-old man who had been crushed when the other levels of the home fell on him.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rescuers struggled to sift the rubble.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"We have to dig through the concrete of the second floor that crushed the victim. But we have seen the body,\" a military official, Sergeant Payakun told the BBC.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Cucu, a 48-year-old resident, told the Reuters news agency that she survived after being crushed beneath a child.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"Two of my kids survived, I dug them up ... Two others I brought here, and one is still missing,\" she said through tears.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"Many bodies are lying in the hospital grounds, it\'s very crowded,\" said her relative, Hesti.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In one area, victims held cardboard signs asking for food and shelter.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Joko Widodo visited the remote disaster zone on Tuesday where he was pictured with responders.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"My instruction is to prioritise evacuating victims that are still trapped under rubble,\" he said.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hundreds of police and other rescuers are taking part in the rescue effort. Mr Jokowi pledged compensation to affected communities.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Save the Children said that at least 80 schools had been damaged.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"Children are terrified and we need to get food, water and shelter to them and ensure they\'re not at risk of separation from parents and caregivers,\" a spokesperson said.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Earthquakes are common in Indonesia, which sits on the \"ring of fire\" area of tectonic activity in the Pacific.</span></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The country has a history of devastating tremors and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 people killed in a 2018 earthquake on the island of Sulawesi. BBC</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 02:00:33', '2022-11-23 02:00:33'),
(3238, 3238, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The US Supreme Court has clear the way for former President Donald Trump\'s tax forms to be released to a Democratic-controlled congressional committee.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The justices rejected Mr Trump\'s bid in October to block a lower court\'s ruling that granted the panel\'s request for his financial records.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The move is a blow to Mr Trump, who has for years kept his returns sealed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Trump became the first president in 40 years not to release his taxes after announcing his first presidential run.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has been seeking access to his records since 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Trump, who launched his third campaign for the White House last week, is facing multiple investigations related to his business practices. He denies any wrongdoing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Supreme Court\'s brief response on Tuesday did not note dissent from any of the judges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The decision means the US treasury department can deliver the tax returns from 2015-20 for Mr Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It comes just before the Republicans take control of the House after this month\'s midterm elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Donald Trump was almost able to run out the clock on the congressional request to view his tax returns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With just over a month left of Democratic control of the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court has given the green light for the treasury department to provide the documents to the Ways and Means Committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Given that the treasury department is run by the Biden administration, the process of handing over the documents should proceed expeditiously. Democrats won\'t have long to review them before Republicans take over on 3 January, however. And coming up with any proposed changes to federal law regarding presidential tax returns - the stated purpose of the congressional request - seems a pointless effort with the little time remaining before congressional adjournment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But a few weeks may be long enough to unearth evidence of any unusual or potentially improper accounting by Mr Trump - and for those details to leak to the public. And that, many assume, was the real motive behind the request.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Trump has had two other defeats this year from the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, three of whose justices he appointed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In October, the court refused to weigh in on the legal fight over the FBI search of Mr Trump\'s Mar-a-Lago home. Agents served a warrant at the estate on suspicion that the former president may have improperly handled classified documents. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In January, the court refused to act to stop the National Archives from handing over documents to the committee investigating the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol by Trump supporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Trump has rejected the Ways and Means Committee\'s hunt for his taxes as politically motivated. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Last year, a Trump-appointed judge on the court of appeals in Washington DC ruled that the House did have a legitimate need to review the forms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The committee has argued that it needs to see Mr Trump\'s records to determine whether tax officials are properly auditing presidential candidates, and whether any new legislation is necessary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">They had argued to the lower court that Mr Trump\'s refusal blocked Congress from conducting oversight of the executive and judicial branches. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 02:07:51', '2022-11-23 14:31:28'),
(3239, 3239, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine\'s security service has raided a historic monastery in Kyiv in an operation it says was aimed at stopping Russian agents using the site for sabotage, intelligence or weapons.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Christian monastery dates back to the 11th Century and is a seat of Ukraine\'s Orthodox Church (UOC).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Church split from the Moscow patriarchate after Russia\'s invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The schism was prompted by Russian Patriarch Kirill\'s support of the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Despite this, some of the UOC\'s top clergy have been accused of still covertly supporting Moscow, using their position to influence churchgoers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Kremlin said the raid was another attack by Kyiv on Russian Orthodoxy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The SBU security service in Kyiv announced on Tuesday it was conducting \"counter-intelligence measures\" to target the \"subversive activities\" of Russian special services. It said there was an increased risk of attack, sabotage and hostage-taking in places that attracted large groups of citizens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The monastery, which is a Unesco World Heritage site, was one of a number of Orthodox churches raided on Tuesday, as authorities responded to complaints that clergy had been glorifying Russia and could be in league with the Kremlin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A criminal inquiry was opened a week ago after a video emerged of pro-Russian propaganda being sung, referring to the awakening of Mother Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Days later the head of a diocese in the Vinnytsia area of central Ukraine was charged with preparing propaganda leaflets backing Russia\'s invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Ukraine of being \"at war\" with the Orthodox Church for a long time. Patriarch Kirill condemned an \"act of intimidation of believers\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As head of the Russian Church, the patriarch is widely seen as an ally of President Vladimir Putin and has given his full backing to the Russian war in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Shortly after the invasion began, he painted the war as a struggle of \"metaphysical significance\" against sin and Western pressure to hold \"gay parades\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More recently he said any Russian who enlisted for combat in Ukraine was committing \"an act that is tantamount to a sacrifice\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In Ukraine the raids were broadly welcomed, because the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) split from Moscow only six months ago after centuries under its control, leaving a suspicion that it is still used by the Kremlin to sway public opinion in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Since 2018, many Orthodox parishes in Ukraine have been joining a new Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which was granted independence by the global Orthodox movement a year later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, talks aimed at unifying the country\'s Orthodox community are yet to yield any tangible results.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ukrainian political analyst Valentyn Hladkykh said the clergy and believers of the UOC ultimately had to decide who they served: \"God or the Kremlin executioner.\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 02:44:33', '2022-11-23 02:44:33'),
(3240, 3240, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>French striker Olivier Giroud scored twice to become his country’s joint record goalscorer as France opened their World Cup defence with a 4-1 Group D win over Australia.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Australia’s Socceroos had shocked the world champions by scoring a ninth-minute goal, with Craig Goodwin side-footing the ball into the top corner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The underdogs would no doubt have drawn inspiration from this morning’s shock defeat of Argentina by Saudi Arabia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With French fullback Lucas Hernandez limping off after being injured while attempting to block the cross that led to the first goal, France could not have asked for a worse start.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But Hernandez’s brother, Theo, took his place in France’s defensive line and less than 20 minutes later was instrumental in setting up Adrien Rabiot’s first goal for Les Blues – snuffing out Australia’s early confidence which saw Mitch Duke hit a shot just wide of the uprights.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Five minutes later, with a little more than half an hour on the clock, Giroud, who at 36 became France’s oldest player in World Cup history, found himself with a near-empty goal as a result of an excellent French press.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A chance for Australia’s Jackson Irvine in the dying moments of the first half, coming against the run of play, rattled off the post, sending a warning through a French team at risk of complacency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">France continued to dominate in the second half. Though Australia posed a threat on the counterattack, they invited pressure by sitting deep.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Spectacular defending by the Socceroos saw an effort from Antoine Griezmann cleared off the goal line but their defence was not enough to stop Kylian Mbappe from using his head to find his goal in the 67th minute. Five minutes later, Mbappe broke down the left and put in a cross headed home by Giroud for France’s fourth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“We got a scare but reacted quickly afterwards. Even if we could have scored more goals, we found each other, we were efficient,” said Giroud.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“It’s very good for our self-confidence to have turned things around. We’ll have to learn from these little mistakes however.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Giroud, now tied with Thierry Henry on a record 51 goals for France, was in the starting 11 due to the injury of Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema, who will miss the entire World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Injuries hit France hard ahead of the opening match – with midfielders N’Golo Kante and Paul Pogba and forward Christopher Nkunku also ruled out of the tournament – and French coach Didier Deschamps lamented Lucas Hernandez’s injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“He needs to do some tests but it seems pretty serious. That’s the big black spot tonight,” Deschamps said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">France lead Tunisia and Denmark in the table by two points after they played out a 0-0 draw earlier on Tuesday</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile, Australia coach Graham Arnold said his team ran out of gas against a superior side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Look, at the end of the day, they’re are a quality side. They are world champions for a reason,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“I thought the first half, we did well. Second half, we ran out of legs a bit, but that’s the type of level of those players play at.” Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 03:06:02', '2022-11-23 03:06:02'),
(3241, 3241, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck northwest Turkey during Wednesday\'s early hours, the US Geological Survey said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The shallow tremor struck about 170 kilometres (105 miles) east of Istanbul, the country\'s largest city, according to the USGS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It gave a time of 4:08 am (0108 GMT) and a depth of 10 km. The USGS uses a \"fixed depth\" of 10 km when initial quake data is \"too poor to compute\", according to its website.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu posted on Twitter that there was no information on loss of life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Turkey is situated in one of the world\'s most active earthquake zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A magnitude 6.8 quake hit Elazig in January 2020, killing more than 40 people. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 03:49:18', '2022-11-23 03:49:18'),
(3242, 3242, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine\'s Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula was targeted by a drone attack on Tuesday, Kremlin-installed authorities said, adding that Moscow\'s forces there were \"on alert\".</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The strike came as Kyiv claimed another territorial victory and just days after Moscow said it was strengthening its position on the Crimean peninsula.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"There is an attack with drones,\" the governor of the Sevastopol administrative region in Crimea, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Our air defence forces are working right now.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Razvozhayev said no civilian infrastructure had been damaged and called on residents to \"remain calm.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014 after nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations that led to the ouster of Ukraine\'s Kremlin-friendly president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Moscow says on alert after Crimea hit by \'drone attack\'</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It used the peninsula, which hosts several important Russian military bases, as a launching pad for its February invasion of Ukraine.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But in recent months Ukrainian forces have been pushing a counter-offensive in the south towards Crimea and earlier this month reclaimed Kherson, the capital of the region bordering the annexed peninsula.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">There have been several explosions at or near Russian military installations in Crimea since February, including a coordinated drone attack on a key Russian naval port at Sevastopol in October.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Last week the Moscow-aligned governor of the territory, Sergei Aksyonov, said authorities were strengthening positions on the peninsula.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Fortification work is being carried out... with the aim of guaranteeing the security of all Crimeans,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- \'Not tired\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ukraine said Tuesday it had recaptured almost the entire region of an isolated peninsula off the Black Sea, where fighting is ongoing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We are restoring full control over the region. We have three settlements left on the Kinburn Split to officially no longer be a region at war,\" said Mykolaiv regional governor Vitaly Kim on social media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The southern split jutting into the Black Sea is divided in two: in the west, as part of the Mykolaiv region and to the east as part of the Kherson region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It is cut off from territory controlled by Ukraine\'s forces by the Dnipro river, which flows through the Kherson region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the European Union in an online press conference that its support was crucial, warning against \"fatigue\" towards the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"If we Ukrainians are not tired, the rest of Europe has neither moral nor political right to be tired,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Aid and gas -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kuleba called on the EU to implement a fresh round of sanctions against Russia, urging particular attention to measures that slow down and stop Russia\'s missile industry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I call on my colleagues in the EU... to put aside any doubts or, as the fashionable phrase goes, \'fatigue\' and to start and quickly conclude the ninth sanctions package,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The US government said Tuesday it would provide another $4.5 billion in financial backing for \"supporting core government services.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As much of Ukraine\'s energy grid is pounded by Russian strikes, the World Bank has warned the country faces severe energy supply disruption amid frigid weather.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The Kremlin wants to transform the cold this winter into a weapon of mass destruction,\" Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky told a meeting of French mayors in a video message.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile Russian energy giant Gazprom accused Ukraine of diverting natural gas supplies transiting to Moldova, and threatened to curtail deliveries through a key pipeline to Europe in response.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The allegations marked the latest point of tension over energy deliveries between Kyiv, European capitals and Moscow -- which has reduced consignments to Europe in response to Western sanctions over the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ukraine denied the allegations, saying that all the gas bound for Moldovan consumers had been transferred in full. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 04:27:19', '2022-11-23 04:27:19'),
(3243, 3243, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>More rescuers and volunteers were deployed Wednesday in devastated areas on Indonesia’s main island of Java to search for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 268 people.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable and more than 1,000 people injured in the 5.6 magnitude quake, the death toll was likely to rise. Hospitals near the epicenter on the densely populated island were already overwhelmed, and patients hooked up to IV drips lay on stretchers and cots in tents set up outside, awaiting further treatment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More than 12,000 army personel were deployed Wednesday to increase the strength of search efforts that being carried out by more than 2,000 joint forces of police, the search and rescue agency and volunteers, said Suharyanto, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency chief.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Television reports showed police, soldiers and other rescue personnel using jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands and farm tools, digging desperately in the worst-hit area of Cijendil village where tons of mud, rocks and trees were left from a landslide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, said aid was reaching thousands of people left homeless who fled to temporary shelters where supplies can be distributed only by foot over the rough terrain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In several hard-hit areas, water as well as food and medical supplies were being distributed from trucks, and authorities have deployed military personnel carrying food, medicine, blankets, field tents and water tankers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Volunteers and rescue personnel erected more temporary shelters for those left homeless in several villages of Cianjur district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Most were barely protected by makeshift shelters that were lashed by heavy monsoon downpours. Only a few were lucky to be protected by tarpaulin-covered tents. They said they were running low on food, blankets and other aid, as emergency supplies were rushed to the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said more than 58,000 survivors were moved to shelters and more than 1,000 people were injured, with nearly 600 of them still receiving treatment for serious injuries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said rescuers had recovered 268 bodies from collapsed houses and landslides that triggered by the earthquake, and at least 151 still reported missing. But not all of the dead have been identified, so it’s possible some the bodies pulled from the rubble are of people on the missing list.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rescue operations were focused on about a dozen villages in Cianjur, where people are still believed trapped, Suharyanto said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In a virtual news conference on Tuesday evening, Suharyanto said that more than 22,000 houses in Cianjur were damaged and the agency was still collecting data on damaged houses and buildings in the town.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Indonesia is frequently hit by earthquakes, many much stronger than Monday’s whose magnitude would typically be expected to cause light damage. But the area is densely populated, and experts said the shallowness of the quake and inadequate infrastructure contributed to the severe damage, including caved-in roofs and large piles of bricks, concrete, and corrugated metal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The quake was centered on the rural, mountainous Cianjur district, where one woman said her home started “shaking like it was dancing.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“I was crying and immediately grabbed my husband and children,” said Partinem, who goes by only one name. The house collapsed shortly after she escaped with her family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“If I didn’t pull them out, we might have also been victims,” she said, gazing over the pile of broken concrete and timber.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More than 2.5 million people live in Cianjur district, including about 175,000 in the main town of the same name.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Many of the dead were public school students who had finished their classes for the day and were taking extra lessons at Islamic schools when the buildings collapsed, West Java Gov. Ridwan Kamil said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">President Joko Widodo visited Cianjur on Tuesday and pledged to rebuild infrastructure, including the main bridge connecting Cianjur to other cities, and to provide government assistance up to 50 million rupiah ($3,180) to each resident whose house was damaged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The country of more than 270 million people is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin known as the “Ring of Fire.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In February, a magnitude-6.2 earthquake killed at least 25 people in West Sumatra province. In January 2021, a magnitude-6.2 earthquake killed more than 100 people in West Sulawesi province.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In 2004, an earthquake measuring at least 9.1 magnitude struck west of Indonesia and set off an Indian Ocean tsunami in a disaster that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 04:46:00', '2022-11-23 04:46:00'),
(3244, 3244, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The overall number of global Covid-19 cases is gradually nearing 644 million.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 643,874,295 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,629,034 on Wednesday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The US has recorded 100,279,698 cases so far, while 1,103,355 people have died from the virus in the country, both highest counts around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">India reported 294 new COVID-19 cases, official data showed on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The daily caseload was down from 406 cases the previous day, according to the federal health ministry data.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The country also logged five more COVID-19 related deaths, taking the death toll to 530,591 since the beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile, the Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 2,641 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tuesday saw no new deaths from COVID-19, with the total death toll at 5,231.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Covid in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Bangladesh reported 23 more Covid cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With the new numbers, the caseload rose to 2,036,416, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,431 as no death was reported during this period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The daily case test positivity rate rose to 0.89 per cent from Monday’s 0.66 per cent as 2,578 samples were tested during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 percent, while the recovery rate rose to 97.48 per cent. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 04:54:22', '2022-11-23 04:54:22'),
(3245, 3245, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Sara Ali Khan took to her Instagram Stories to dedicate a rare post to Kartik Aaryan who turned a year older on Tuesday. Sara and Kartik dated once and later parted ways, as confirmed by Karan Johar on his show Kofee With Karan earlier this year. However, Sara and Kartik never confirmed their dating rumours.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Kartik’s special day, Sara reposted a picture of Kartik from a cake cutting ceremony that he had shared earlier in the day. She added to him, “Happiest birthday @kartikaaryan (smiley emojis) Hope this year is all that you’ve hoped for and may all your dreams continue coming true.” She also dropped some more emojis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sara had mentioned Kartik Aaryan’s name as an actor she found attractive on Karan Johar\'s show Koffee With Karan. Later, the two actors starred together in Love Aaj Kal and reportedly, that is where their romance bloomed. However, they split in 2020.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In an interview with India Today, Karan had confirmed their relationship. He had said, “I call this couch the couch of manifestation. I was like telling Kriti (Sanon) the other day, I said just say a name! Because Katrina (Kaif) on this couch said that she thought she would look good with Vicky (Kaushal), then Vicky collapsed and then the next thing we know is that they are married. Sara (Ali Khan) mentioned Kartik (Aaryan) and they started dating. Alia (Bhatt) has mentioned Ranbir (Kapoor) season after season and she is married to him today and is going to have his beautiful baby. So it’s fantastic that this couch has actually manifested so many relationships.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sara will be next seen in Laxman Utekar\'s untitled film, opposite Vicky Kaushal. She is also a part of Pawan Kriplani\'s Gaslight, with Vikrant Massey and Chitrangda Singh. Kartik has films like Satyaprem Ki Katha and Shehzada in pipeline. He will next seen in Freddy, which releases next month. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 06:24:55', '2022-11-23 06:24:55'),
(3246, 3246, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Large-scale protests broke out at Foxconn\'s vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, central China, images circulating Wednesday on Weibo and Twitter showed.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Beijing\'s unrelenting zero-Covid policy has caused fatigue and resentment among wide swathes of the population, some of whom have been locked down for weeks at factories and universities, or unable to travel freely.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the videos, which AFP was not able to independently verify, hundreds of workers can be seen marching on a road in daylight, with some being confronted by riot police and people in hazmat suits.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Others show hundreds of people in hazmat gear standing on a road near what appears to be factory residential buildings, while the person filming the clip from an adjacent apartment building says: \"It\'s starting again, from last night to this morning.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Several security personnel in protective garb appeared to be kicking a worker lying on a main road in another clip.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Video from a separate livestream showed dozens of workers at night confronting a row of police officers and a police vehicle with flashing lights, shouting: \"Defend our rights! Defend our rights!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As clouds of smoke emanate from the vehicle, the streamer can be heard saying: \"They are rushing in! Smoke bombs! Tear gas!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A clip of the same nighttime protest taken from another angle shows workers setting off fire extinguishers towards police just out of frame.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">One photo taken during the day showed the charred remains of a gate, apparently burned down during the night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Weibo hashtag \"Foxconn riots\" appeared to be censored by Wednesday noon, while some text posts referencing large-scale protests at the factory remained live.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Foxconn, also known by its official name Hon Hai Precision Industry, is the world\'s biggest contract electronics manufacturer, assembling gadgets for many international brands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Taiwanese tech giant, Apple\'s principal subcontractor, recently saw a surge in Covid-19 cases at its Zhengzhou site, leading the company to shutter the vast complex in a bid to keep the virus in check.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Since then, the huge facility of some 200,000 workers -- dubbed \"iPhone City\" -- has been operating in a \"closed loop\" bubble.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Footage emerged this month of panicking workers fleeing the site en masse on foot in the wake of allegations of poor conditions at the facility, with multiple employees recounting scenes of chaos and disorganisation at the complex of workshops and dormitories.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The company did not respond to an AFP request for comment on the latest unrest. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 06:37:52', '2022-11-23 06:37:52'),
(3247, 3247, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Air pollution still remains one of the top-most challenges for Bangladesh and Dhaka was ranked as the fifth most polluted city in the world with ‘unhealthy’ air quality on Wednesday (November 23, 2022) morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) score was 196 at 9.15 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 Lahore, Iraq\'s Baghdad and India’s Delhi occupied the first and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 306, 255 and 223, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</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. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 07:05:50', '2022-11-23 07:05:50'),
(3248, 3248, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Ltd authorities have requested commuters in the capital not to use the route from Khilkhet through airport to Uttara from Thursday (November 24) 6pm to Sunday (November 27) 6am.</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The move comes as traffic situation on the Dhaka Airport-Uttara route is expected to worsen due to development work of the BRT project.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Special road development work for the BRT project will be conducted in the Dhaka airport area during November 24 and 27, said a special traffic advisory signed by ASM Ilias Shah, project director of BRT.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Under the circumstances, all public and private vehicles have been advised to avoid Dhaka Airport-Uttara route during this period. UNB</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 07:29:29', '2022-11-23 07:29:29');
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(3249, 3249, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Michelle Yeoh\'s \"Everything Everywhere All At Once\" and Cate Blanchett\'s \"Tar\" led the Spirit Awards nominations Tuesday, underlining their credentials as the indie films to watch this awards season.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Film Independent Spirit Awards, which consider only low- and mid-budget movies, gave eight nods to Yeoh\'s hit sci-fi about surreal parallel universes, and seven to Blanchett\'s drama set in the cut-throat world of classical music.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Both were nominated for best feature, along with Sarah Polley\'s \"Women Talking,\" which will receive the prestigious Robert Altman Award for a film\'s director, casting director and overall cast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">All three movies are widely tipped to feature at next year\'s Oscars, which take place in March, just one week after the Spirit Awards winners are revealed in an annual ceremony by a Los Angeles beach.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Everything Everywhere All At Once\" has grossed over $100 million worldwide, making it leading indie distributor A24\'s biggest hit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The absurdist film portrays a Chinese-American immigrant family undergoing a tax audit, who are quickly drawn into an inter-dimensional battle to save the multiverse from a powerful villain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Tar\" follows the rise and fall of a fictional, globally renowned conductor who will stop at nothing to succeed in her high-flying career.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Women Talking,\" a drama about women in an ultraconservative religious colony debating how to deal with systemic sexual abuse, features an ensemble cast including Claire Foy, Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rounding out the Spirit Awards\' best feature category were Timothee Chalamet\'s cannibal love story \"Bones and All,\" and African refugee drama \"Our Father, the Devil.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But Chalamet was among several eligible A-listers who notably missed out on acting nominations, along with Jennifer Lawrence (\"Causeway\") and Brendan Fraser, whose acclaimed film \"The Whale\" earned zero nominations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Double Oscar-winner Blanchett and Yeoh both received lead actor nominations, while Mark Rylance (\"Bones and All\") and Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once\") earned supporting nods.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Films with budgets over $30 million are not considered for the Spirit Awards, which aim to celebrate independent filmmaking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Film Independent president Josh Welsh said Tuesday the nominations had looked for \"uniqueness of vision, original provocative subject matter, economy of means, and diversity both on screen and off.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">For the first time, the awards have opted for gender-neutral acting awards.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Spirit Awards take place in a giant tent by Santa Monica beach on March</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">4.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Oscars voting ends three days later, and the season-capping 95th Academy</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Awards take place March 12. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 08:22:35', '2022-11-23 08:22:35'),
(3250, 3250, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 37 people were killed Tuesday when three buses collided outside the northeast Nigerian city of&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Maiduguri, the country\'s road safety agency said.</span></b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The accident happened when two commercial buses had a head-on collision and burst into flames, before a third bus then crashed into them, said Utten Boyi, head of the road safety agency for Borno state.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"So far, 37 people have been confirmed dead and most of them burnt beyond recognition,\" Boyi said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The collision happened near Jakana village, some 35 kilometres (20 miles) outside Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The collision occured when the tyre of one of the buses burst and it hit the vehicle coming from the opposite direction, Boyi said, blaming \"excessive speeding\" for the accident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Accidents are common on the poorly maintained roads of Nigeria, Africa\'s most populated country, due largely to speeding and disregard of traffic rules.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Earlier on Tuesday, 17 people were killed and four injured when their bus crashed into a truck near Nigeria\'s capital Abuja, local media reported, citing a road safety official.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The victims were travelling from northeastern Gombe state, according to the media reports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Nine people drowned on Saturday when their overloaded car plunged into a dam after its tyre burst outside the northern city of Kano, according to fire safety officials. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 08:34:36', '2022-11-23 08:34:36'),
(3251, 3251, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Dhaka and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement for a two-year project for landslide risk management in Cox’s Bazar.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The agreement was signed by UNDP Bangladesh Resident Representative Stefan Liller and Norwegian Ambassador to Bangladesh Espen Rikter-Svendsen on behalf of their respective organisations, at the latter’s office on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">UNDP and Norway have a long and successful history of working together, Espen Rikter-Svendsen said at the signing ceremony.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Our previous pilot initiative to strengthen landslide monitoring and early warning systems in the camps and host communities has helped save a lot of lives,” he said, adding that “We want to build further on that through this project.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“With our technical expertise on early warning systems and UNDP’s expertise in disaster risk management, I believe this project would be able to effectively reduce the consequences of natural disaster.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“As one of our major contributors, we thank the Norwegian government for being with us as our core partner,” UNDP Bangladesh Resident Representative Stefan Liller said at the signing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Landslides remain one of the most substantial damaging and recurrent hazards in Cox’s Bazar,” Stefan Liller said. “In 2019, rainfall-induced landslides affected more than 50,000 refugees with 6,300 temporarily displaced, 10 fatalities and 42 injured.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“It also affects the host community, especially the poor and landless people who settle in the foothill areas. It is estimated that around one million people are currently living with landslide risks in Cox’s Bazar District,” the UNDP Resident Representative pointed out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The two-year project will be addressing the risk by enhancing existing landslide warning systems, strengthening disaster management capacities of local government, humanitarian and first responders, and implementing community-led nature-based solutions in the most vulnerable communities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The embassy’s Deputy Head of Mission Silje Fines Wannebo, Senior Advisor Morshed Ahmed and advisor Zohora Farzana Ahmed Bipasha were present at the signing along with UNDP’s Deputy Resident Representative Van Nguyen, Assistant Resident Representatives Prasenjit Chakma and Sarder M Asaduzzaman and Head of Communications Md Abdul Quayyum. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 08:59:58', '2022-11-23 08:59:58'),
(3252, 3252, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Wednesday said Bangladesh will continue to promote sustainable growth, solidarity, peace and justice.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He underscored Bangladesh’s strong conviction that the SDG 16 on peace and inclusive societies is to be fully implemented globally to rip the benefit for all.</div><div><br></div><div>Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 on peace, justice and inclusion breaks new ground in development thinking.</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh remains keen to work with the international community and the multilateral system to this end,” Alam said, highlighting the guiding principles of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and peace-centric foreign policy.</div><div><br></div><div>The State Minister called upon everyone to work together to unlock newer opportunities for a better and prosperous future for all including the generations ahead; leaving no one behind.</div><div><br></div><div>He was speaking as the chief guest at a programme on “UN Global Compact Network Bangladesh Sustainability Day 2022” held in a Dhaka hotel.</div><div><br></div><div>Farooq Sobhan, Representative of the UN Global Compact Network Bangladesh GCNB), among others, spoke at the event marking the “Sustainability Day 2022”.</div><div><br></div><div>The State Minister said Bangladesh is strongly committed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.</div><div><br></div><div>Before the pandemic, he said, Bangladesh has been right on track to implement the SDGs by 2030 and Bangladesh has undertaken a “whole of society” approach to accelerate the SDG implementation.</div><div><br></div><div>Even amid the pandemic, Bangladesh submitted the second Voluntary National Review (VNR) of SDGs in 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>“Now that we are aiming for a sustainable recovery from the impact of the pandemic, well-coordinated transformative actions are needed to restore our progress of SDGs implementation. We need to accelerate our efforts on all levels and by all stakeholders to fulfill the Agenda 2030,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of the champions of the UN Secretary General’s “Global Crisis Response Group (GCRG)”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has also been working with other global leaders to chart a durable way out of the existing food and energy crisis situation due to conflicts worldwide, said the State Minister.</div><div><br></div><div>He said “Partnership for Goals” is crucially important for successful implementation of SDGs and the SDG Goal 17 on international cooperation is crucial in this regard, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>“To sustain our sustainable growth trajectory, we want to forge effective partnerships locally, regionally and internationally with development partners, civil societies and private sectors,” added the State Minister. </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 09:34:59', '2022-11-23 14:21:34'),
(3253, 3253, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka University (DU) student died on Wednesday morning after falling from the roof of Jagannath Hall of the university,&nbsp; according to source.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Limon Kumar Roy, 23, third-year student of Institute of Education and Research.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the source, the students rushed injured Limon to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 10:30am where the doctor declared him dead after primary health check-up.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bachchu Miah, Inspector and In-charge of DMCH’s police camp, confirmed the matter to media.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 11:08:34', '2022-11-23 11:08:34'),
(3254, 3254, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With three more deaths from dengue recorded in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, the official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 240 this year.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this time, 477 more patients, including 266 in Dhaka city, were hospitalised, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>Among the latest deaths, two were reported from Dhaka division while another from Chattogram division.</div><div><br></div><div>The latest numbers took Dhaka division’s death toll to 147 and Chattogram division’s to 58.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 2,082 dengue patients, including 1,175 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>The DGHS has recorded 54,405 dengue cases and 52,083 recoveries so far this year.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 11:40:52', '2022-11-23 11:40:52'),
(3255, 3255, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Detective Branch (DB) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested two people, including a drug peddler, after some of his associates attacked a police outpost and snatched him away from law enforcers in Chattogram.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The arrestees are Md Hanif, the drug dealer and his brother Yasin, a transgender.</div><div><br></div><div>“The duo was arrested from a Dhaka-bound bus in the district’s Bhatiari area around 11:30pm on Tuesday,” said Mainur Rahman Chowdhury, Officer In-charge (OC) of Chandgaon Police Station.</div><div>Mohammad Ali Hossain, Deputy Commissioner (DB, North) of CMP, said that details will be known after interrogating Hanif.</div><div><br></div><div>The attackers had also taken away a wireless set from Sub-Inspector (SI) Sharif Rokonuzzaman, in-charge of Kalurghat Police Outpost, which was later found abandoned from Moulvibazar Rail Line area of the city.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday evening, Rokonuzzaman detained Hanif and another drug peddler Sharif from the former’s house in Kalurghat with the contraband drug and took them to Kalurghat Police Outpost.</div><div><br></div><div>A while later, Hanif’s associates and some transgender people attacked the outpost and snatched him from police custody.</div><div><br></div><div>A clash between the police and the attackers left Hanif’s sister Nazma dead and two policemen injured, said police.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, police filed two cases against 14 named and 210 unnamed people for attacking and ransacking the police outpost and possessing drugs. So far, police have detained eight people in connection with the incident. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 12:05:54', '2022-11-23 12:05:54'),
(3256, 3256, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a public rally tomorrow here at the district stadium organised by the local Awami League (AL).&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Pinning upon the arrival of the premier, Jashore has now turned into a festive town while people of all strata as well as leaders and activists of AL have been enthusiastic.</div><div><br></div><div>The AL leaders said the arrival of Sheikh Hasina, also the president of AL, has created excitement among the leaders and activists not only in Jashore but also in the entire southern region.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Talking to the reporters at the Jashore stadium, AL Presidium Member Jahangir Kabir Nanak hoped that no people in Jashore and its adjacent districts will remain at home rather they will throng at the district stadium to hear Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as they are eagerly waiting for the occasion.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He said, \"Jashore has now become a place of development in the tenure of AL government which was in the past an area of terrorism.\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Nanak said, \"Jashore town will be turned into human sea tomorrow\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Actually, Jashore will roar from the tomorrow\'s rally against the evil forces - BNP and Jamaat - as well as militancy as they still remain active,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Leaders and activists of AL and its associate bodies are in the final stages of preparation and they are carrying out miking and campaigning ahead of the public meeting of the premier who is attending such a rally outside Dhaka after nearly three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Colourful arches and gates have been constructed on various roads of the town with the posters and banners of Prime Minister. Leaders have hung banners, balloons, festoons and posters welcoming the Prime Minister and the party chief in various areas including Daratana More, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Garibshah Roads and other areas.</div><div><br></div><div>AL leaders said that the Prime Minister in the recent party forum meeting expressed her intention to give more time to the party from now on. The AL chief plans to visit different districts in phages before the 12th National Election. As part of this, the first public meeting is being held at Jashore Stadium.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>They said in Jashore stadium, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had addressed a public meeting on December 26, 1972. His elder daughter Sheikh Hasina will address the public meeting in the same field after 50 years. A public meeting stage is being built there in the shape of a boat.</div><div><br></div><div>Five years ago, Sheikh Hasina addressed the election rally at Jessore Eidgah ground on December 31, 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>Through the public rally in Jashore, campaign of AL Chief Sheikh Hasina across the country will begin. After that, she will address as the chief guest a party rally on December 4 at Polo Ground in Chattogram and on December 7 at the Sheikh Kamal Cricket Stadium in Cox\'s Bazar. In these public meetings, the party president will give new messages to the people as well as AL leaders and activists.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>AL Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim told reporters that all preparations for Sheikh Hasina\'s public rally in Jashore have completed and people of all strata here are ready to receive her.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that the AL chief is taking part at any public rally outside Dhaka after 27 months due to the Coronavirus outbreak and will deliver her directives to steer the country ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The rally would issue message against conspiracy as well as terrorism being perpetrated by the BNP and Jamaat,\" he said, adding that people will also demonstrate their position that they are in favour of War of Liberation.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Leaders of Jashore district Awami League said that there is a target of gathering 1 million people at the public meeting.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Awami League leaders and activists from 10 districts of Khulna division including all upazilas of Jashore and adjacent districts will participate in the public meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will arrive in Jashore tomorrow morning on a day-long visit to attend a number of programmes.</div><div><br></div><div>During the visit, the Prime Minister will attend the President Parade at Bangladesh Air Force Academy.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister will also take salute at the passing out parade at the BAF Academy.</div><div><br></div><div>In the afternoon, the Awami League President will address a public rally organized by Jashore district Awami League at Jashore district stadium.</div><div><br></div><div>Local administration has taken necessary measures on the occasion of the Prime Minister\'s visit and the public rally. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 12:08:58', '2022-11-23 12:08:58'),
(3257, 3257, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lucas Hernandez\'s World Cup campaign is over after the France defender sustained a knee injury in the defending champions\' 4-1 win over Australia in Group D on Tuesday, the French football federation said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The FFF confirmed to Reuters an earlier report from L\'Equipe that said that Hernandez suffered a cruciate knee ligaments injury and that he was ruled out for the rest of the tournament.</div><div><br></div><div>Hernandez limped off the pitch after staying on the grass for a couple of minutes holding his right knee after being beaten to the ball by Mathew Leckie, who delivered the cross for Craig Goodwin\'s opening goal for Australia.</div><div><br></div><div>France lead Group D with three points, two ahead of Tunisia and Denmark, who played out a goalless draw on Tuesday. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 12:55:01', '2022-11-23 12:55:01'),
(3258, 3258, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">James Cameron is sharing some surprising details from the making of his blockbuster hit “Titanic,” which celebrates 25 years of being released next month, reports CNN.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In a new video interview with GQ, the iconic director revealed that he almost didn’t end up casting Leonardo DiCaprio or Kate Winslet - his two romantic leads whose careers as major Hollywood movie stars were cemented by the landmark Oscar-winning film.</div><div><br></div><div>While considering actors to play the roles of his star-crossed lovers on the doomed ocean liner, Cameron explained that he was initially thinking of someone like Gwyneth Paltrow for Rose, and that while Winslet had been proposed as an option, he was afraid she was too much of a typecast.</div><div><br></div><div>“I actually didn’t see Kate at first,” he said in the video. “She had done a couple of other historical dramas as well, and she was getting a reputation as ‘Corset Kate’ doing historical stuff.” (It is true that “The Reader” actress’s three credits prior to “Titanic” were also period costume dramas - “Sense and Sensibility” in 1995, followed by “Jude” and “Hamlet” one year later.)</div><div><br></div><div>Cameron went on to say that he was afraid that putting Winslet in the role “was going to look like the laziest casting in the world,” but that he nonetheless agreed to meet her in the end. Of course, he thought she was “fantastic,” and the rest is history.</div><div><br></div><div>With DiCaprio, meanwhile, there were some initial hiccups.</div><div><br></div><div>After an initial “hysterical” meeting with the heartthrob actor, in which all the women in the production office somehow ended up in the conference room alongside Cameron, DiCaprio was invited back for a screen test with Winslet, who had already been cast at that point.</div><div><br></div><div>But when the “Romeo + Juliet” star came in, he was surprised to learn he’d have to read lines and be filmed alongside Winslet to gauge their chemistry on camera.</div><div><br></div><div>“He came in, he thought it was another meeting to meet Kate,” Cameron described.</div><div><br></div><div>He remembered telling the pair, “We’ll just run some lines, and I’ll video it.”</div><div><br></div><div>But then DiCaprio - who by then had led several movies and scored an Oscar nomination for 1993’s “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” - informed Cameron, “You mean I’m reading?…I don’t read,” meaning that he no longer submitted to having to audition for film roles.</div><div><br></div><div>Without missing a beat, Cameron extended his hand to the star and told him, “Well, thanks for coming by.”</div><div><br></div><div>The director then explained to DiCaprio the enormity of the project before them, how the film was going to take two years out of his life, and how he was “not going to f**k it up by making the wrong decision in casting.”</div><div><br></div><div>“So you’re going to read or you’re not going to get the part,” Cameron said he told the young actor.</div><div><br></div><div>DiCaprio reluctantly submitted, to his credit.</div><div><br></div><div>Cameron remembered how the actor “lit up” and “became Jack,” creating electric chemistry with Winslet later seen plainly in the film itself.</div><div><br></div><div>“Titanic” sailed into theaters on December 19, 1997 and eventually went on to win 11 Academy Awards, including best director for Cameron.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 12:57:32', '2022-11-23 12:57:32'),
(3259, 3259, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has warned that befitting reply will be given if the arson terrorism repeated.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"We have full preparations to thwart any sorts of arson attacks and terrorism if anyone tries to unleash terrorism in the name of movement,\" he further said, while addressing a mass-rally against drugs and terrorism here today as chief guest.</div><div><br></div><div>Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) and City Community Policing Forum jointly hosted the rally at police line parade ground.</div><div><br></div><div>With RMP Police Commissioner Abu Kalam Siddique in the chair, the mass-gathering was addressed, among others, by Vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University Prof Golam Sabbir Sattar, Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner GSM Zafarullah, Deputy Inspector General of Police Abdul Baten, Deputy Commissioner Abdul Jalil and RAB-5 Commanding Officer Lt Col Reaz Shahrier.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>IGP Chowdhury Al-Mamun said they have combated the arson terrorism in strong hand in previous time and the law enforcing agencies are now ready to face such type of terrorism and any other ill-efforts to make the country destabilize.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He also mentioned that forging social resistance against abuse of drugs along with its illicit trafficking and trading can be the best way of protecting the young generation from drug-addiction.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Simultaneously, concerted efforts of all the government and non-government entities concerned and the community has become crucial to ensure a drug abuse free society to attain the cherished goal.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He said the present government has a declaration of zero tolerance against drug-addiction and urged all quarters to come forward to protect the young generation from the grip of social crime.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have to build a healthy society to achieve sustainable development goals,\" he said, adding the movement against drug abuse should be turned into a social movement. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 14:14:20', '2022-11-23 14:14:20'),
(3260, 3260, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Japan defeated Germany 2-1 in a World Cup shock on Wednesday as Takuma Asano\'s 83rd minute winner stunned the four-time champions.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ilkay Gundogan had given Germany a first-half lead from the penalty spot before Ritsu Doan equalised in the 75th minute, giving Japan the chance to set up a famous winning goal. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 15:19:59', '2022-11-23 15:19:59'),
(3261, 3261, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today hoped to see Bangladeshi boys and girls to play the World Cup Football as she addressed the concluding and prize distributing ceremony of Bangabandhu Inter-University Sports Championship-2022.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>About holding nationwide inert-school, inter-college and inter-university sports competition, she said now children are blossoming through the competitions.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our boys and girls will sprout further through competitions - I think we can make more progress in sports on the world state by taking part in the competitions,\" she added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The premier virtually joined the programme organised by the Youth and Sports Ministry at Bangladesh Army Stadium, Dhaka, from her official Ganabhaban residence here,&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"The Word Cup Football competition is going on, but we have no existence there which hurt us. When I get scope, I watch it and at the same time I think when our children will play in the competition,\" she said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Prime Minister, however, expressed her hope that Bangladeshi boys and girls would play the tournament one day, saying that her government has been trying to create every scope to bring out hidden talent of the boys and girls despite having limitation.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-23 16:44:28', '2022-11-23 16:44:28'),
(3262, 3262, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of \"crimes against humanity\" after a new missile barrage caused blackouts across Ukraine.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He told the UN Security Council via videolink that the Russian \"formula of terror\" had forced \"millions of people to stay without energy supplies, without heating, without water\" in sub-zero cold.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strikes killed at least seven people, Ukraine said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nuclear power plants went off-line.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three plants still under Ukrainian control were disconnected from the grid and the Zaporizhzhia plant - Europe\'s largest - was forced again to rely on diesel generators to power its cooling systems and key safety equipment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voiced great concern about the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia plant, which has suffered damage from repeated shelling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neighbouring Moldova also experienced massive blackouts on Wednesday, but was not directly hit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With winter setting in, Moscow has stepped up strikes on Ukraine\'s energy infrastructure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials say Russia\'s missile strikes on power stations have caused \"colossal\" damage and left more than half of the country\'s grid in need of repair.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late on Wednesday Mr Zelensky said the situation in Kyiv remained \"very difficult\" and efforts would continue through the night to restore electricity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 80% of the capital\'s residents had no power or running water.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mr Zelensky said some other cities hit by Russian missiles had managed to restore power, including Lviv, Odesa and Cherkasy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\'Cowardly and inhumane\'</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Russian President Vladimir Putin was \"weaponising winter\" to inflict immense suffering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Having struggled on the battlefield, Moscow is now adopting a cowardly and inhumane strategy that punishes Ukrainian men, women and children,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the southern Zaporizhzhia region, a newborn baby was killed when a missile hit a maternity unit, emergency services said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">General Valeriy Zaluzhniy - the commander of Ukraine\'s armed forces - said 67 cruise missiles were launched by Moscow, with air defences successfully intercepting 51.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia also deployed attack drones again, Ukraine\'s military said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of Ukraine\'s thermal and hydro-electric power plants were also forced to shut down, the energy ministry said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not comment on the attacks during a visit to the Armenian capital Yerevan, but stated that the \"future and success of the special operation\" - Moscow\'s term for its war in Ukraine - \"are beyond doubt\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow has said that attacking Ukraine\'s power grid could weaken Kyiv\'s ability to fight and drive its leaders to the negotiating table.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv requested the UN Security Council meeting, and Mr Zelensky urged the UN to do more to help Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that Russia\'s strikes against civilian infrastructure constituted a war crime, following similar comments from the US.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier the European Parliament designated Russia a \"state sponsor of terrorism\" over its attack on Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after the parliament resolution was passed the Strasbourg assembly\'s website went down, because of what EU officials described as a denial-of-service attack by \"pro-Kremlin\" hackers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Blackouts in Moldova</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than half of Moldova was left without electricity, deputy prime minister Andrei Spinu wrote on Twitter. He said the attack on Ukraine\'s energy infrastructure had caused a \"massive blackout\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Within a few hours power was restored in much of the capital, Chisinau, where a third of the Moldovan population lives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moldova also experienced widespread power cuts as a result of strikes on Ukraine on 15 November, Mr Spinu said. Mobile networks were also badly affected.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Energy policy analyst Sergiu Tofilat said that as Moldova and Ukraine were connected to the European grid in March, one of the connection points on the power line between Moldova and neighbouring Romania shut down automatically if Ukraine was hit to protect the system: \"We reconnect once Ukraine has assessed the damage.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to the outages, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said Russia had \"left Moldova in the dark\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Russia\'s war in Ukraine kills people, destroys residential blocks and energy infrastructure with missiles,\" she wrote on Facebook. \"But the electricity supply can be restored. We will solve the technical problems and we will have light again. All state institutions are working in this direction.\" 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, '2022-11-24 02:46:37', '2022-11-24 02:46:37'),
(3263, 3263, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Chinese state media have given huge attention to the World Cup this week, but the matches are fuelling frustrations that people in the country are being left out of the celebrations.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On top of China\'s men\'s national team not qualifying for the event, scenes of maskless celebrations and raucous gatherings in Qatar have irritated viewers, who have been discouraged from gathering to watch the games.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many have used the World Cup to complain online about China\'s existing strategies. The country maintains a zero-Covid policy, where entire communities are locked down over single cases of the virus, in order to prevent it from spreading.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China is currently experiencing its worst outbreak in six months, and localised lockdowns have surged over the last couple of weeks. In the past 24 hours, China has recorded more than 28,000 new cases; these are in every single provincial-level region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watching from homes and campsites</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Football is very popular in China. President Xi Jinping is known for being a lover of the sport, and he has spoken previously of it being a dream for the country to win the World Cup .</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, matches are being shown on national broadcaster CCTV, and state media have sought to amplify China\'s \"presence\". The Global Times has reported on how China-made products \"ranging from buses to the [Lusail] stadium, and even air conditioning units are well represented at the event\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leading outlets such as CCTV have also promoted the presence of Chinese flagbearers at the opening ceremony, and how two giant pandas arrived in Qatar to \"meet\" visitors arriving for the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it is evident that Covid-19 has put a damper on the celebrations. In major cities, outbreaks have resulted in non-essential businesses once again closing, and people being urged to limit their movements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With no bars to go to, the Global Times newspaper says some fans are \"choosing to watch the games at home with their families\". Others have also reportedly taken to camping sites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flights between Qatar and China also remain severely limited for those hoping to watch the event in person.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>\'On the same planet\'?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An open letter questioning the country\'s continued zero-Covid policies and asking if China was \"on the same planet\" as Qatar quickly spread on mobile messenger WeChat on Tuesday, before being censored.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Comments on the Twitter-like Weibo social network are rife from viewers who speak about how watching this year\'s matches is making them feel divided from the rest of the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some speak of their perception that it is \"weird\" to see hundreds of thousands of people gathering, without wearing masks or needing to show evidence of a recent Covid-19 test. \"There are no separate seats so people can maintain social distance, and there is nobody dressed in white and blue [medical] garb on the sidelines. This planet has become really divided.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"On one side of the world, there is the carnival that is the World Cup, on the other are rules not to visit public places for five days,\" one says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some say they have had difficulty explaining to their children why the scenes from the World Cup are so different to those people face at home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many in China, though, who have been critical of countries overseas opening up while the World Health Organization still calls the Covid-19 virus an \"acute global emergency\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, there is no end in sight to China\'s existing measures. This week, the National Health Commission spokesman \"warned against any slacking in epidemic prevention and control\" and urged \"more resolute and decisive measures\" to bring cases under control.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local governments in major cities have reintroduced mass testing and travel restrictions and ultimately delivered a message that people should try to stay at home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But after three years of such measures, people are frustrated, resulting in protests in the last month in both the cities of Guangzhou and Zhengzhou. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-24 02:53:12', '2022-11-24 02:53:12'),
(3264, 3264, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is projected to have lost her bid for a political comeback after this month\'s midterm elections.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Republican suffered her second defeat in three months to Mary Peltola, a Democrat, in the race for a US House of Representatives seat in Alaska.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senator Lisa Murkowski is meanwhile projected to have beaten a fellow Republican challenger in her election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results won\'t affect which parties will run Congress after the midterms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Republicans will still take over the House, while Democrats retain the Senate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Alaska races took two weeks to be called because the state uses a new ranked-choice voting system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">CBS News, the BBC\'s US partner, projected the result for Alaska\'s at-large House seat on Wednesday night with 88% of votes counted, showing Ms Peltola on 55% and Ms Palin on 45%.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Peltola won the seat by three percentage points in a special election this August, her first victory over Ms Palin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Democrat\'s win is notable in a conservative state that former President Donald Trump, a Republican, took by 10 points in 2020. Mr Trump endorsed Ms Palin in both her House races.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senator Murkowski - an incumbent moderate Republican who voted to impeach Mr Trump for incitement of insurrection after last year\'s US Capitol riot - has also cruised to re-election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With almost all votes counted, she has beaten Trump-endorsed intra-party challenger Kelly Tshibaka by more than seven points, CBS projects. 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, '2022-11-24 02:58:24', '2022-11-24 02:58:24');
