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(6016, 6016, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles Monday, South Korea\'s military said, the latest in its flurry of weapons tests in recent weeks.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The launch comes as Seoul and Washington are carrying out a joint amphibious landing exercise, and just days after they wrapped up their largest combined military drills in five years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea views all such exercises as rehearsals for invasion and has repeatedly warned it would take \"overwhelming\" action in response.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our military detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired from around Junghwa area in North Hwanghae province from 07:47 am (2247 GMT) towards the East Sea,\" South Korea\'s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our military has strengthened surveillance and vigilance against additional launches, while maintaining a full readiness posture through close cooperation between South Korea and the United States,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan\'s defence ministry also confirmed the launch, with Japanese media citing officials as saying both missiles are believed to have flown on an irregular trajectory before falling outside of Japan\'s exclusive economic zone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Excuse for more missles -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, North Korea\'s state media claimed the joint training between Seoul and Washington were practice for \"occupying\" North Korea, which called for \"stronger war deterrents\" including \"the more developed, multi-faceted and offensive nuclear attack capability\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pyongyang has carried out military drills of its own in response, including test-firing a new nuclear-capable underwater drone and conducting its second intercontinental ballistic missile launch this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts previously said North Korea would likely use the exercises as an excuse to carry out more missile launches and perhaps even a nuclear test.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea\'s state media said Friday the \"underwater nuclear attack drone\" drill, which was personally overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, was staged \"to alert the enemy to an actual nuclear crisis\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weapon\'s mission is to \"stealthily infiltrate into operational waters and make a super-scale radioactive tsunami ... to destroy naval striker groups and major operational ports of the enemy,\" the Korean Central News Agency reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agency also said Pyongyang had fired strategic cruise missiles \"tipped with a test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead\" on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Irreversible\' nuclear power –</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts questioned North Korea\'s claims, saying that they were not the same as a credible demonstration of capability.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But they added that Pyongyang was moving on from simply stockpiling nuclear warheads and attempting to advance and diversify launch mediums.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a record-breaking year of weapons tests and growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang in 2022, Seoul and Washington have ramped up security cooperation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has also pushed South Korea and Japan to mend fences over historical disputes and try to boost security cooperation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea last year declared itself an \"irreversible\" nuclear power and Kim recently called for an \"exponential\" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kim also ordered the North Korean military this month to intensify drills to prepare for a \"real war\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 03:24:44', '2023-03-27 03:24:44'),
(6017, 6017, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers have vowed to meet before the end of the holy month of Ramadan to implement a landmark bilateral reconciliation deal, Riyadh said on Monday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, held their second phone call in less than a week and discussed \"a number of common issues... in light of\" the surprise agreement brokered by China and announced on March 10, the officials Saudi Press Agency reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The two ministers also agreed to hold a bilateral meeting between them during the current month of Ramadan\", which this year ends in the third week of April, SPA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report did not specify the exact date or location of the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi officials have said the meeting is the next step in restoring ties seven years after they were severed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riyadh cut relations after Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in 2016 following the Saudi execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr -- just one in a series of flashpoints between the two longstanding regional rivals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deal is expected to see Shiite-majority Iran and mainly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia reopen their embassies and missions within two months and implement security and economic cooperation deals signed more than 20 years ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Iranian official said on March 19 that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had favourably received an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia from King Salman, though Riyadh has yet to confirm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amir-Abdollahian told reporters the same day that the two countries had agreed to hold a meeting between their top diplomats and that three locations had been suggested, without specifying which.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The detente between Saudi Arabia, the world\'s biggest crude oil exporter, and Iran, strongly at odds with Western governments over its nuclear activities, has the potential to reshape relations across a region characterised by turbulence for decades. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 03:37:13', '2023-03-27 03:37:13'),
(6018, 6018, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh will continue its \'tactical aggressive\' cricket for another success as they face off Ireland in three-match T20 International series.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The series opening game begins today (Monday) at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since being consigned to ODI series defeat to England for the first time after 2016 by losing first two matches, Bangladesh won six straight matches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In their period they won the last ODI against England to avoid ODI whitewash and then swept English in three-match T20 series emphatically. The success continued as they won the ODI series against Ireland by 2-0 and more importantly in every game, they rewrote records.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It appeared that Bangladesh are going through new era of cricket, specially the way they were playing of late. But according to head coach ChandikaHathurusingha all those were possible for the \'tactical aggressive\' cricket, which made cricketers hungrier for success, something which was instrumental in team\'s clinical performance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t see this as a new era. That\'s how we wanted to play our cricket going forward. We won\'t play aggressive cricket. Aggressive cricket, as I explain, it doesn\'t mean we go and hit hard further as we can,\" Hathurusingha said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s aggressive in every sense of the word. Our selection (should be) aggressive field placing, our body language, our fielding, batting (Should be aggressive). Tactically we\'re going to be aggressive. We want to play the best way we can. I think when we play like that-- like with aggression and with freedom, this team will do well always.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Psychological safety also brought out the best of the players to make them hungry for success, Hathurusingha clarified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"One word I can sum up is psychological safety. it\'s a big word. There\'s a lot of things in behind that like if you can create the environment that the players can do their best without worry about outcomes, without worry about repercussion. Not only coaches, not only selectors even from their peers, if they can be free of trying things and if they fail it\'s still okay, they are the same players and we trust them,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given their past record against Ireland and the recent success, it is expected Bangladesh would sweep the T20 series also. The two sides played five matches in this format so far with the last on 2016. Ireland won the first match between the two sides in 2009 T20 World Cup in England but Bangladesh later whitewashed Ireland in three-match series in 2012 that too on Ireland soil. Their last game in 2016 World Cup in Dharmashala was washed out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We want the same result ideally. That\'s what we talk about as well. We are going to do the same processes that are in place for us. If we do our process right, we are a very good team and that\'s all we can ask from the players. And we\'re trying to improve those processes everyday,\" Hathurusingha made his intention clear.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (Captain), Liton Das, Rony Talukdar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Rishad Hossain and Jaker Ali Anik</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ireland: Andrew Balbirnie (C), Mark Adair, Ross Adair, Curtis Campher, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Graham Hume, Matthew Humphreys, Barry McCarthy, Conor Olphert, Paul Stirling, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker, Ben White and Craig Young. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 04:13:13', '2023-03-27 04:13:13'),
(6019, 6019, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Canada\'s Bianca Andreescu heads into Monday\'s last-16 of the Miami Open brimming with confidence and feeling she has finally refound her love for tennis.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andreescu burst onto the scene with a stunning US Open win as a teenager in 2019 and rose to number five in the world that year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But then her career stalled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Injury in 2020 sidelined her and then the COVID pandemic blocked any chance of regaining momentum and at the end of the following year she decided to take six months off.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was honestly me wanting to figure out if I really want to continue playing tennis because I was literally about to just drop my racquets and just say, screw this,\" she said on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I wasn\'t happy at all. I wasn\'t happy basically for the full year of 2021 and I thought that if I continue like this, it\'s just going to get worse.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So I was like, OK, let\'s take a break. Hopefully that helps. And it really did. My heart did grow fonder for the sport and now I appreciate it in a much different way than I did before that break,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Tough Draw -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Miami, Andreescu has had a tough draw but has beaten two other former Grand Slam winners in Emma Raducanu and Sofia Kenin as well as seventh seed Maria Sakkari.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday she will face Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova for a place in the quarter-finals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those results leave her unsurprisingly in a positive mood, but she says one of the keys to her overall happiness and balanced approach to the sport has been how she handles setbacks and defeats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Obviously there were ups and downs, but for the most part, I was very, I guess, level throughout 2022, even with the losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I was like, it\'s fine. I\'ll go have dinner with my team. I\'ll go watch a movie, whatever, and not lock myself in the room for three days like I used to,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andreescu practises meditation and is more than comfortable talking about spirituality and mental well-being and she says her performances flow from her happiness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think everything physical comes from the mental side of everything, emotional, spiritual, all that. So I feel like it\'s mainly in my head.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think that\'s been the toughest part because I know if everything\'s good in my head, everything will be good physically,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andreescu has talked in the past of feeling a little unwelcome in the locker-room as a youngster and she says she would be happy to help new players settle into the sport.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One player she says she would particularly like to talk to is 2021 US Open winner Raducanu, who is experiencing similar difficulties to those the Canadian confronted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I would love to talk to her about what happened after US Open with all the success, all the media, stuff like that, how she dealt with it, how I dealt with it, how we can maybe help each other in that way,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Also, I know that we both haven\'t been having, I guess, results we wanted. I don\'t want to speak on behalf of her, but I\'m sure she wants to do better than she is, just kind of help each other out in that sense. How can we get better, basically?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While there would no doubt be much the British player could learn from that conversation, one simple truth is that Andreescu has simply matured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I feel like I had a lot of time to really settle down and just kind of figure out what\'s best for me,\" she said, reflecting on her return to form.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I know it wasn\'t going to come overnight. I mean, four years later, I hope that I can, you know, get another Grand Slam as soon as I can.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 04:29:09', '2023-03-27 04:29:09'),
(6020, 6020, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kenyans were bracing on Monday for a new round of anti-government demonstrations over the high cost of living, after the opposition vowed the action would go ahead despite a police ban.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has urged people to take to the streets every Monday and Thursday, even after protests a week ago turned violent and paralysed parts of the capital, Nairobi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But police on Sunday announced the rallies would be banned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will not allow violent demonstrations,\" Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The demonstrations they plan tomorrow (Monday) are illegal and will not be allowed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A university student was killed by police fire during the previous Monday\'s clashes while 31 officers were injured as running battles erupted between riot police and demonstrators in Nairobi and opposition strongholds in western Kenya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 200 people were arrested, including several senior opposition politicians, while protesters -- including Odinga\'s own convoy -- were hit with tear gas and water cannon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the first major outbreak of political unrest since President William Ruto took office more than six months ago after defeating Odinga in an election his rival claims was \"stolen\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the police ban, Odinga on Sunday called on Kenyans to join what he has called \"the mother of all demonstrations\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want to tell Mr Ruto and the IG Koome that we are not going to be intimidated,\" he said. \"We are not going to fear tear gas and police.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Paralysing business\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruto has called on his rival to halt the action.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am telling Raila Odinga that if he has a problem with me, he should face me and stop terrorising the country,\" he said Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Stop paralysing the businesses of mama mboga, matatu and other Kenyans,\" he said, referring to women stallholders and private minibus operators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruto himself will be out of the country on Monday for a four-day trip to Germany and Belgium during which he will meet national and EU leaders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many Kenyans are struggling to put food on the table, battling high prices for basic goods as well as a plunging local currency and a record drought that has left millions hungry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the election campaign, Ruto portrayed himself as champion of the downtrodden and vowed to improve the lot of ordinary Kenyans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he has since removed subsidies for fuel and maize flour -- a dietary staple.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And last week, Kenya\'s energy regulatory body announced a hike in electricity prices from next month, despite Ruto insisting in January there would be no such increase.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week\'s protests proved costly, with Nairobi losing more than half its daily revenue as businesses shut their doors and people kept away from the heart of the city, the city\'s governor Johnson Sakaja said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua said they cost the country $15 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said on Friday they had launched a manhunt for suspects involved in last week\'s riots, and published photographs showing people throwing rocks at police, burning tyres and vandalising property.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But an AFP Fact Check investigation found that a number of the photographs were old and unrelated to Monday\'s events.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And on Saturday, a red-faced Directorate of Criminal Investigations issued an apology on Twitter for what it said was a \"mix-up of images\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 04:39:34', '2023-03-27 04:39:34'),
(6021, 6021, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A fire that broke out at the Shattola slum in Dhaka’s Mohakhali area early today is now under control.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire broke out at the slum around 6:48 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On information, nine firefighting units reached the spot at around 7 am, said Anwarul Islam, warehouse inspector of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters media cell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire was brought under control at around 8:10 am. No report of death or injuries so far in the fire. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 05:15:07', '2023-03-27 05:15:07'),
(6022, 6022, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States will likely enter a recession this year and face high inflation well into 2024, a majority of economists predicted in their response to a semiannual survey.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than two-thirds of respondents to the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Policy Survey also see inflation remaining above four percent at the end of this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The survey summarized the responses of 217 NABE members, and was conducted between March 2 and March 10, the organization said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US Federal Reserve has raised rates 4.75 percentage points in a bid to tackle rising inflation, which reached its highest level in decades last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Price rises slowed slightly to an annual level of 6.0 percent in February, which is well above the Fed\'s long-term target of two percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid the gloomy economic forecast, there was also some good news, with just five percent of respondents believing the US is currently in the midst of a recession, \"far fewer\" than the 19 percent in its previous economic survey, the NABE president Julia Coronado said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economists also slightly raised the chances of the Fed achieving a so-called \"soft landing\" -- bringing down inflation while avoiding a recession -- from 27 percent in August to 30 percent in March this year. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 05:40:37', '2023-03-27 05:40:37'),
(6023, 6023, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality is in the \'unhealthy\' zone this morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 155 at 8:30 am, Dhaka ranked seventh 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 150 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thailand’s Chiang Mai, India’s Delhi, and Pakistan’s Lahore occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 195, 173, and 167, respectively.</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;\">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 recognized as increasing a person’s chances of developing heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 05:45:49', '2023-03-27 05:45:49'),
(6024, 6024, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Over 4.34 lakh tonnes of mustard seeds have been harvested during the current harvesting season, up by 1.27 lakh tonnes compared to the previous season, in the division.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Shamsul Wadud said the mustard cultivation was achieved on around 2.77 lakh hectares of land in all eight districts of the division, while the previous year\'s acreage was 2.13 lakh hectares.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DAE had set the target to bring 2.47 lakh hectares of land under the cash crop farming but the enthusiastic farmers cultivated it on around 2.77 lakh hectares of land exceeding the target by 28,878 hectares.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suitable climate conditions, high yielding varieties, modern technologies and government\'s incentive were reasons for exceeding the targets of both acreage and yield this season, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agriculturist Wadud said most of the lands were brought under cultivation of high yielding varieties including BARI Sharisha-9, BARI Sharisha-11, BARI Sharisha-13, BARI Sharisha-16, BARI Sharisha-17 and BARI Sharisha- 18.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said 2.07 lakh farmers were given seeds and fertilizers worth around Taka 5.58 crore free of cost for cultivating mustard in the division under the government\'s agriculture incentive programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to the DAE, various other research and development organisations like Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and many NGOs had taken adequate steps in collaboration with other line departments to boost the mustard yield.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BARI has released 16 high yielding mustard seed varieties. Farmers in the barind tract are seen cultivating three of those - BARI Sharisha-14, BARI Sharisha-17 and BARI Sharisha-18 varieties for the last couple of years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, BARI Sharisha 14 has become popular for its bold grain, high yielding, yellow colour, high oil extraction percentage and less-water consuming characteristics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this breakthrough, the landless and marginal farmers had brought vast tracts of the sandy char lands under mustard cultivation in the Ganges basins and the crops had grown up excellently everywhere in the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">DASCOH Foundation, an NGO, on behalf of its Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project has been working for promoting various less-water consuming crops like mustard supported by Switzerland, said Jahangir Alam Khan, coordinator of the project.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said mustard seed is a water-saving crop and its expansion in the Barind area is very important towards lessening the gradually mounting pressure on its underground water.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I had cultivated mustard on four bighas of land and harvested six to seven maunds of seed per bigha on an average,\" said Sabbir Ahmed, a grower of Bijoynagar area under Godagari upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He used the \"Barisharisha 14\" variety which is higher yielding than that of the conventional ones including \"Tory 7\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rashidul Hassan, 45, another farmer of Kakonhat village, has become successful through cultivating the cash crop for the last couple of years. This year, he cultivated the crop on four bighas of land.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cultivation of mustard requires only one or two times irrigation while about Taka 1,900 to Taka 2,000 is needed to cultivate the crop on one bigha depending on soil condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On an average six maunds of mustard are produced on a bigha of land, Hassan said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bachhu Mian, 45, of Amnura area in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila, had brought three bighas of land under the cash crop cultivation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;He got six maunds of yield after rowing the \"Barisharisha-17\" which is another newly released high yielding variety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another farmer Abdul Mazid, 35, of Nandigram village under Durgapur upazila, had cultivated mustard seed on three bighas of land this year and got yield of six mounds per bigha.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the easy cultivation process and lower production cost compared to other Rabi crops is also a reason behind the popularity of mustard farming among the farmers in the region including its vast Barind tract. 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(6025, 6025, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tunisia\'s coastguard said Sunday the bodies of 29 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries had been recovered after three vessels capsized, the latest in a string of such tragedies.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A series of shipwrecks has left dozens of migrants dead and others missing in the country that serves as a key conduit for migrants seeking to reach nearby European shores.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes after President Kais Saied made an incendiary speech last month, accusing sub-Saharan Africans of representing a demographic threat and causing a crime wave in Tunisia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coastguard said in a statement Sunday that it had \"rescued 11 illegal migrants of various African nationalities after their boats sank\" off the central eastern coast, citing three separate sinkings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In one, a Tunisian fishing trawler recovered 19 bodies 58 kilometres (36 miles) off the coast after their boat capsized.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A coastguard patrol off the coastal city of Mahdiya also recovered eight bodies and \"rescued\" 11 other migrants after their boat sank as it headed towards Italy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fishing trawlers in Sfax meanwhile recovered two other bodies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Black migrants in the country have faced a spike in violence since Saied\'s speech and hundreds have been living in the streets for weeks in increasingly desperate conditions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People fleeing poverty and violence in Sudan\'s Darfur region, West Africa and other parts of the continent have for years used Tunisia as a springboard for often perilous attempts to reach safety and better lives in Europe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Migratory wave\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Italian island of Lampedusa is just 150 kilometres (90 miles) off the Tunisian coast, part of the Central Mediterranean route described by the United Nations as the most deadly in the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rome has pressured Tunisian authorities to rein in the flow of people, and has helped beef up the coastguard, which rights groups accuse of violence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italy\'s hard-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni warned Friday that Tunisia\'s \"serious financial problems\" risked sparking a \"migratory wave\" towards Europe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also confirmed plans for a mission to the North African country involving the Italian and French foreign ministers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meloni echoed comments earlier in the week by Josep Borrell, the European Union\'s foreign policy chief, who warned Tunisia risks economic collapse that could trigger a new flow of migrants to Europe -- fears Tunis has since dismissed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since Saied\'s speech, hundreds of migrants have been repatriated in flights organised by their embassies, but many say they fear going home and have called on the UN to organise evacuation flights to safe third countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tunisia is in the throes of a long-running socio-economic crisis, with spiralling inflation and persistently high joblessness, and Tunisians themselves make up a large proportion of the migrants travelling to Italian shores.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The heavily indebted North African country is in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a $2-billion bailout package, but the talks have been stalled for months and there is no sign a deal is any closer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Wednesday that unless they reach an agreement, \"the economy risks falling off the deep end\". 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(6026, 6026, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to China after contracting pneumonia, the presidential palace said on Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula, 77, was admitted to a hospital in the capital of Brasilia with flu-like symptoms and was diagnosed with “bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia due to influenza A,” the palace said in a statement, quoting a medical note signed by Dr. Ana Helena Germoglio.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leftist leader’s health was reassessed on Saturday and, despite improvement, he was advised to “postpone the trip to China until the cycle of viral transmission ends,” the medical note said. His press office later confirmed that the trip had been canceled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinese authorities have been informed, “with the reiteration of the desire to schedule the visit on a new date,” the palace said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula had been expected to leave for China on a multi-day visit on Friday or Saturday, but the trip was pushed back on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A delegation composed of ministers, senators, lawmakers and hundreds of businessmen - including more than 100 from the agricultural sector - had been set to accompany Lula during his first state visit to Brazil’s biggest trade partner since taking office in January.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trip’s cancellation is “bad news” for the government as the visit was “an opportunity for Lula to reconnect with business elites, especially in the agribusiness, who have been very much pro-Bolsonaro,” said Oliver Stuenkel, a political scientist from the Getulio Vargas Foundation think tank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Brazilian president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping were scheduled to meet next Tuesday. Trade, investment and climate change were on the agenda and 20 bilateral agreements had been expected to be signed, according to a statement Thursday from the presidential palace.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula, who rarely postpones or cancels trips due to health reasons, traveled to Argentina in January and the US in February, marking a departure from Brazil’s foreign policy under former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who showed little interest in international affairs or travel abroad. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 06:31:20', '2023-03-27 06:31:20'),
(6027, 6027, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted the countrymen vowing to build poverty-hunger free Smart and Sonar Bangladesh marking the 53rd Independence and National Day.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bangladesh is marching ahead on the highway of development. Let us build poverty and hunger free \"Sonar Bangladesh\" being inspired by the Father of the Nation\'s ideal. Bangladesh will be a smart country,\" she said in an Independence Day message.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 51-second message of greetings, the premier said: \"Assalamualaikum, I am extending my heartiest greetings to all Bangladeshi citizens staying at home and abroad marking the Independence Day.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She recalled with due honour all the martyrs including the great Liberation War ones on the occasion of the Independence Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said, \"We achieved the victory through a 23-year political struggle and a Liberation War of nine months and got an independent and sovereign country under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier concluded the message saying: \"Stay well, stay healthy\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The audio-visual message was sent to each of the mobile phone users of the country and aired on different media including online platforms. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 06:52:56', '2023-03-27 06:52:56');
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(6028, 6028, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Storm-ravaged Mississippi struggled on Sunday with the aftermath of a huge tornado that tore across the southern US state, killing at least 25 people, with devastated communities bracing for a fresh bout of extreme weather.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Search-and-rescue workers surveyed the damage of shredded homes, flattened buildings and smashed cars in Rolling Fork, a small town all but wiped out by nature\'s wrath.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After President Joe Biden freed up disaster aid, the National Weather Service (NWS) warned residents of Mississippi and neighboring Alabama of potential new \"supercell thunderstorms\" through late Sunday that could \"produce a few strong tornadoes and very large hail.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NWS gave Friday\'s tornado -- which left a trail of havoc more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) long across the state -- a rating of four out of five on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with ferocious winds of up to 200 miles (320 kilometers) per hour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dozens of people have also been injured, and officials say the death toll could rise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under warm spring sunshine and cloudless blue skies, stunned residents walked among obliterated homes, sifting through debris and comforting one another as crews fought fires, conducted searches and cleared emergency routes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before-and-after satellite images released late Sunday showed utter ruin across parts of Rolling Fork, with homes destroyed and trees ripped out of the earth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The American Red Cross moved into a National Guard building in Rolling Fork hours after the storm razed much of the town, home to around 2,000 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An area was set up as an infirmary and boxes full of food and medical supplies were shuttled in to support storm victims who had lost everything, said John Brown, a Red Cross official for Alabama and Mississippi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anna Krisuta, 43, and her 16-year-old son Alvaro Llecha took shelter at the site, saying their house was in pieces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Heartbreaking\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The severe weather also left a man dead in Alabama when he was trapped under an overturned trailer, the sheriff\'s office in Morgan County said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials including US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas gathered in Rolling Fork Sunday afternoon, praising rescue efforts and pledging support \"for the long haul.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is heartbreaking to hear of the loss of life, to see the devastation firsthand,\" Mayorkas told a press conference held with Governor Tate Reeves and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) head Deanne Criswell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned that the country is seeing \"extreme weather events increasing... in gravity, severity and frequency and we have to build our communities to be best prepared for them.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier Sunday, Criswell said on ABC that the tornado zone was \"still very much in life-saving, life-sustaining mode.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She praised first responders, saying some \"may have lost their homes themselves,\" and that FEMA had sent teams, with more on their way, to \"help plan for and start the recovery process.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden\'s emergency order to support recovery efforts will provide grants for temporary housing, home repairs and low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, the White House said on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Emergency supplies -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reeves thanked Biden on Twitter \"for recognizing the scale of the damage in Mississippi and quickly approving our disaster declaration -- a critical step in disaster response.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Electricity repairs were underway Sunday to restore service, but by evening the number of customers without power rose to 61,000 total in thunderstorm-hit Mississippi and Alabama, monitor poweroutage.us reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volunteers poured in from surrounding towns, including Lauren Hoda, who traveled 70 miles from Vicksburg to help.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"When I woke up this morning, I wanted to cry for the people of this town because I don\'t think they had much time before (the tornado) came,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She spent Saturday night in Rolling Fork bringing donations of water, food, canned goods, diapers, wipes, medicine and toothpaste from collection points.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similar destruction plagued twister-hit Silver City, where residents were seen salvaging what they could from their destroyed homes</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tornadoes, a weather phenomenon notoriously difficult to predict, are relatively common in the United States, especially in the central and southern parts of the country. 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(6029, 6029, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ireland captain Paul Stirling asked Bangladesh to bat first in the three-match T20 International series opener after winning the toss at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium here today.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After walloping Ireland in three-match ODI series which they won by 2-0 with record breaking victory in both matches, Bangladesh wants to continue its unbelievable form.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The T20 is not Bangladesh preferred format but still they have been in form in this format, following their epic 3-0 sweep over world champions England at home den earlier this month. Paul Stirling will lead the Ireland side in T20 series after regular captain Andrew Balbirnie was given rest. Ireland believes the format, which suits them more than the ODI, will give them an opportunity to hit back into winning way.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Line Ups: Bangladesh: Liton Das (wk), Rony Talukdar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Mehidy Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman and Hasan Mahmud.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ireland: Paul Stirling (capt), Ross Adair, Lorcan Tucker (wk), Harry Tector, Curtis Campher, George Dockrell, Gareth Delany, Mark Adair, Craig Young, Graham Hume and Ben White. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 08:42:04', '2023-03-27 08:42:04'),
(6030, 6030, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou departed for a 12-day tour of China Monday, a day after Taiwan lost another of its 14 diplomatic partners to China.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The ex-president is visiting in a private capacity, bringing a delegation of academics and college students for exchanges, as well as members of his family, but the trip is loaded with political meaning.</div><div><br></div><div>Ma’s policies brought Taiwan and Beijing to their closest relationship ever, but his exit from office was overshadowed by massive protests against a trade deal with the mainland and his successor has focused on defending the autonomy of the democratically-governed island that China claims as part of its own territory.</div><div><br></div><div>Ma’s visit comes amid rising tensions. Beijing has exerted a long-standing campaign of pressure against Taiwan, poaching its diplomatic allies while also sending military fighter jets flying toward the island on a near daily basis. On Sunday, Honduras established diplomatic relations with China, leaving Taiwan with only 13 countries that recognize it as a sovereign state.</div><div><br></div><div>Ma, a member of the opposition Nationalist Party (Kuomingtang), will land in Shanghai before starting his visit in nearby Nanjing. He is expected to tour the mainland from March 27 to April 7, stopping in Wuhan and Changsha, as well as other cities. He is bringing college students from Taiwan to meet with fellow students from Shanghai’s Fudan University and Changsha’s Hunan University.</div><div><br></div><div>Ma has framed the visit as a bid to lower the tensions in cross-strait relations through people to people exchange. “I hope through the enthusiasm of the youth and their interactions to improve the cross-strait mood, so bring peace faster, and earlier,” he said to reporters ahead of his departure on Monday afternoon. He also said it would be his first time visiting China.</div><div><br></div><div>His trip has not drawn much controversy in Taiwan, where the public is used to seeing Kuomingtang politicians visit China. However, it has been criticized by some political opponents and activists.</div><div><br></div><div>A former mainland student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen square protests called on Ma to cancel his trip. “If you have even a strand of affection for Taiwan ... you should announce the cancelation of your trip,” said Wang Dan, a Chinese dissident who previously lived in Taiwan, on his Facebook page.</div><div><br></div><div>A handful of protesters from a pro-independence group held a demonstration at the departures area at Taoyuan airport before Ma’s departure. “Ma Ying-jeou is humiliating our nation and forfeiting its sovereignty,” they shouted before police carried them out. “You are a stinky beggar.”</div><div><br></div><div>On the other side, a small group of people from the pro-unification camp also came to the airport to show their support. “Cross-strait relations are like flowers blossoming in spring and both sides are a family,” they shouted.</div><div><br></div><div>The trip is also a chance for him to honor his ancestors, ahead of Tomb Sweeping Day on April 5. During the festival, which is celebrated in Taiwan and China among other countries, families visit ancestral graves to maintain the burial grounds and remember the dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Ma will not go to Beijing, but may meet with Chinese officials.</div><div><br></div><div>Ma met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Singapore in 2015, while he was still in office. The meeting was the first between the leaders of the two sides since Taiwan split from mainland China in 1949 during the Chinese civil war, but was considered more symbolic than substantive.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2016, the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won national elections and Beijing cut off contact with Taiwan’s government, citing President Tsai Ing-wen’s refusal to endorse the idea that Taiwan and China are one country. According to AP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 09:44:43', '2023-03-27 09:44:43'),
(6031, 6031, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Health Minister Zahid Maleque said doctors would be allowed to practice at public hospitals taking fees from March 30, after their scheduled office time.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Doctors of public hospitals can see patients taking fees from 3pm to 6pm,\" he told reporters after a meeting on finalizing institutional practice policy-2023 in the conference room of the health ministry, an official release said.</div><div><br></div><div>Secretary of Medical Education and Family Welfare Division Md Azizur Rahman, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam and director general of the Directorate General of Medical Education Prof Dr Md Tito Mia, among others, were present at the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said under pilot project, the government will introduce the institutional practice at 10 districts and 20 upazilas from March 30.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"In order to provide better healthcare services at district and upazila level hospitals at reasonable cost, we decided to allow institutional practices,\" he said, adding relevant organizations and platforms of medical professionals including Bangladesh Medical Association joined the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The government has taken decision for introducing the institutional practices of doctors in a limited scale and it will be expanded in large scale after reviewing outcome of the pilot project, Maleque added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Under the institutional practice programme, Taka 400 has been fixed for professors, Taka 300 for associate professors and Taka 200 for junior consultants, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>The health minister also said that the government has also fixed the fees of different medical testing services at those hospitals under the pilot programme.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 13:24:28', '2023-03-27 13:24:28'),
(6032, 6032, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">University of South Alabama (USA) Faculty Senate President Delaware Arif today made a courtesy call on Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni at her official residence here.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>During the call on, they discussed on the possibility of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the University of South Albama and the Bangladesh government on enhancing mutual cooperation.</div><div><br></div><div>The visiting US faculty senate president also praised the initiatives which have already been taken by the present government for building the next generation of the country as the world worthy citizens. According to BSS reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 14:09:10', '2023-03-27 14:09:10'),
(6033, 6033, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Emmanuel Macron summoned government ministers for a crisis meeting on Monday, as tensions ran high a day before another major day of strikes and protests against his pension reforms.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Nearly two weeks after Macron rammed the new law through parliament using a special provision sidestepping any vote, unions have vowed no let-up in mass protests to get the government to back down.</div><div><br></div><div>They have called for another big day of action on Tuesday, the 10th such mobilisation since protests started in mid-January against the controversial law, which includes raising the retirement age to 64 from 62.</div><div><br></div><div>Macron, whose approvement ratings in opinion polls are at a low point, said last week he accepted the \"unpopularity\" that came with the reform.</div><div><br></div><div>His prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, meanwhile said that while there was no plan to drop the legislation, she was ready for fresh dialogue with unions.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have to find the right path... We need to calm down,\" she told AFP in an interview on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Starting on Monday, Borne has scheduled talks over three weeks, including with members of parliament, political parties, local authorities and unions.</div><div><br></div><div>A state visit to France by Britain\'s King Charles III, which had been due to begin on Sunday, was postponed because of the current unrest.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Very big move\' -</div><div>Instead of hosting the UK monarch for a day of pomp and ceremony, Macron was instead due to meet Borne, other cabinet ministers and senior lawmakers for the crisis talks at the Elysee from 1:15 pm (1115 GMT), the presidency said.</div><div><br></div><div>Borne was to present the plan for consultations to the president at Monday\'s meeting, and then take it to Macron\'s allies and cabinet members, presidential sources said.</div><div><br></div><div>If unions accept her offer for talks, Borne is expected to put new measures on the table designed to ease the impact of the pensions law targeting physically demanding jobs, conditions for older workers and retraining.</div><div><br></div><div>But early reactions were not promising for the prime minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Laurent Berger, the head of the moderate CFDT union, who has taken an unexpectedly hard line against the pension reform, said he would accept the offer of talks but only if the reform was first \"put to one side\".</div><div><br></div><div>Berger called on the government to come up with a \"very big move on pensions\".</div><div><br></div><div>Left-wing firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon said on Sunday that there was \"a very simple way\" to return to peaceful relations, and that was \"to withdraw the law\".</div><div><br></div><div>The protest movement against the pension reform has turned into the biggest domestic crisis of Macron\'s second mandate, with police and protesters clashing regularly in Paris and other cities since the reform was forced through.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Highly disrupted\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Last Thursday, the previous major protest day, police reported 457 arrests across France and injuries to 441 police officers.</div><div><br></div><div>Government spokesman Olivier Veran called Melenchon and his party \"profiteers of anger\", while Green party lawmaker Sandrine Rousseau accused Macron and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin of stoking the unrest.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Paris mass transit operator RATP, metros and suburban trains will be \"highly disrupted\" on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Rubbish collectors in the capital are continuing their strike, with close to 8,000 tonnes of garbage piled up in the streets as of Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>France\'s civil aviation authority has told airlines at Orly airport in Paris, as well as the Marseille, Bordeaux and Toulouse airports, to cancel 20 percent of flights for Tuesday and Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>French police have meanwhile come under severe criticism for heavy-handed tactics during recent demonstrations.</div><div><br></div><div>The Council of Europe said on Friday that peaceful protesters and journalists had to be protected from police violence and arbitrary arrest.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday the IGPN, the internal affairs unit of the French police, said it had launched 17 investigations into incidents since the protests began. Source: AFP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 14:21:43', '2023-03-27 14:22:13'),
(6034, 6034, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh beat Ireland by 22 runs in the rain-affected first T20 in Chattogram Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, Ireland\'s target was revised to 104 runs in eight overs, but they could only manage to score 81 for five wickets, with Taskin Ahmed registering a career-best 4-16.</div><div><br></div><div>Ireland, who scored 18 and 14 runs off the first two overs bowled by Nasum Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman respectively, lost their first wicket in the third over when Hasan Mahmud removed Ross Adair for 13.</div><div><br></div><div>Taskin struck thrice in the next over, ripping through Ireland\'s middle order.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the match was interrupted by rain when Bangladesh had scored 207 for 5 in 19.2 overs, the highest T20I total in Chattogram.</div><div><br></div><div>After an hour and 23 minutes of delay because of rain, the pitch covers were removed. But it started raining again within three minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>After another 40-minute delay, the match restarted with a revised target for Ireland.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, put in to bat first Bangladesh reached 100 runs in just nine overs. Litton Das scored 47 off 23 deliveries before being caught by Harry Tector off Craig Young in the eighth over.</div><div><br></div><div>Rony Talukdar scored 67 off just 38 balls before being dismissed by Graham Hume in the 14th over.</div><div><br></div><div>Najmul Hossain Shanto and Shamim Hossain scored 14 and 30 runs, respectively.&nbsp; Towhid Hridoy scored a quickfire 13 off just eight balls.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Skipper Shakib Al Hasan remained unbeaten on 20 off 13 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>Craig Young was the most successful bowler for Ireland, taking two wickets.</div><div><br></div><div>The next two matches of the series will be played on March 29 and 31. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 14:45:29', '2023-03-27 14:45:29'),
(6035, 6035, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The first tea auction for 2023-24 auction year in the country is going to begin at Chattogram Tea Auction Center on April 17.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The second auction will be held on April 26 at Srimangal, the second tea auction center in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The decision was taken at a meeting of the Tea Sales Co-ordination Committee&nbsp; held with Bangladesh Tea Board Chairman Major General Ashraful Islam in the chair, said a press release here.</div><div><br></div><div>It was informed in the meeting that a total of 46 tea auctions will be held in Chattogram and 23 in Srimangal in the 2023-24 fiscal year.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking on the occasion, Asharaful Islam said that tea production and auction activities were normal in the country in the last auction year due to various initiatives taken by the Tea Board and implementation of various plans and sincere efforts of the tea industry stakeholders.</div><div><br></div><div>The Tea Board Chairman urged all concerned stakeholders to work in unison to keep normal the auction operations and the market of tea in the 2023-24 auction year.</div><div><br></div><div>BTB Member for Finance and Commerce Mohammad Nurullah Nuri, Deputy Director Muhammad Madhul Kabir Chowdhury, Marketing Officer Ahsan Habib, Assistant Director Mohammad Abdullah Al Borhan, Tea Traders Association of Bangladesh Chairman Shah Moinuddin Hasan were present, among others, at the meeting. According to BSS reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 15:16:52', '2023-03-27 15:16:52'),
(6036, 6036, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>US President Joe Biden has said his country made a commitment to finding long-term solutions to the Rohingya refugee crisis and holding perpetrators of the atrocities accountable.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“You set an example for the world of empathy and generosity in practice,” the US President wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>The US Embassy in Dhaka shared the letter on Sunday which was originally sent on March 21.</div><div><br></div><div>The US president said Bangladesh has opened its arms and welcomed nearly one million Rohingya refugees.</div><div><br></div><div>In a message to PM Hasina, Biden on behalf of the United States, wished her and the people of Bangladesh a happy Independence Day.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladeshis understand deeply the value of freedom and independence, as they fought courageously in 1971 to choose their own fate and to speak their own language, Biden wrote in the letter.</div><div><br></div><div>As Bangladesh approaches its next election, the US president said, he is reminded of the “deep value” both the nations place on “democracy, equality, respect for human rights, and free and fair elections.”</div><div><br></div><div>He applauded Bangladesh’s demonstrated commitment to protecting the most vulnerable as the largest contributor to peacekeeping operations.</div><div><br></div><div>“We thank Bangladesh for cohosting the Global Action Plan ministerial that significantly elevated the political commitment to end the global pandemic,” Biden said.</div><div><br></div><div>In over 50 years of diplomatic relations, the United States and Bangladesh have achieved a lot together – advancing economic development, strengthening people-to-people ties, addressing global health and climate issues, partnering on the humanitarian response to Rohingya refugees, and committing to a prosperous, secure, democratic, and independent Bangladesh, said the US president. According to UNB reports </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas </div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-27 15:53:56', '2023-03-27 15:54:51'),
(6037, 6037, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 20 people were killed when a packed bus hit a bridge, overturned and burst into flames in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Monday, Saudi state media reported.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Ekhbariya TV said 29 other people were injured in the crash and aired footage showing the charred remains of the bus. It said the crash occurred when the vehicle’s brakes failed in southwestern Asir province bordering Yemen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crash occurred during the first week of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk. Many people travel to enjoy nightly feasts with family and friends during the Muslim holy month. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 03:53:01', '2023-03-28 03:53:01'),
(6038, 6038, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality is again in the \'unhealthy\' zone this morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 193 at 9:20 am, the capital of Bangladesh ranked third on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\'s Lahore and Thailand\'s Chiang Mai occupied the first and second spots on the list, with AQI scores of 212 and 206, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is considered ‘unhealthy’ while 201–300 is ‘very unhealthy’, and 301+ is \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, informs people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI in Bangladesh is based on five 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.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, mainly due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 04:07:29', '2023-03-28 04:07:29'),
(6039, 6039, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly — places filled with children of tender ages, older students aspiring to new heights and the teachers planting the seeds of knowledge, their journeys all cut short.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If a mass shooting is defined as resulting in the death of four or more people, not including the perpetrator, 175 people have died in 15 such events connected to U.S. schools and colleges — from 1999′s Columbine High School massacre to Monday’s shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. That’s according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, in addition to other AP reporting:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">THE COVENANT SCHOOL, March 2023, 6 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 28-year-old female shooter wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol killed three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville. The suspect also died after being shot by police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ROBB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, May 2022, 21 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two adults, officials said. Law enforcement killed the attacker.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL, November 2021, 4 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sophomore student is accused of killing four people and wounding others at his school in Oxford, Michigan, near Detroit. His parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter; authorities say they failed to secure a gun and ignored the mental health needs of their son before the shootings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL, May 2018, 10 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A shooter opened fire at a Houston-area high school, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. The 17-year-old suspect has been charged with murder.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL, February 2018, 17 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An attack left 14 students and three staff members dead at the school in Parkland, Florida, and injured many others. The shooter was sentenced to life without parole.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, October 2015, 9 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man killed nine people at the school in Roseburg, Oregon, and wounded nine others, then killed himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARYSVILLE-PILCHUCK HIGH SCHOOL, October 2014, 4 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 15-year-old used text messages to draw several cousins and friends to his cafeteria table at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington state. He fatally shot four of them before killing himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, May 2014, 6 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 22-year-old college student frustrated over sexual rejections fatally stabbed or shot six students near the school in Isla Vista, California, and injured several others before he killed himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, December 2012, 27 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 19-year-old man killed his mother at their home in Newtown, Connecticut, then went to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 first graders and six educators. He took his own life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OIKOS UNIVERSITY, April 2012, 7 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former nursing student fatally shot seven people at the small private college in East Oakland, California. He died in prison in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, February 2008, 5 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 27-year-old former student shot and killed five people and wounded more than 20 others at the school in DeKalb, Illinois, before killing himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">VIRGINIA TECH, April 2007, 32 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 23-year-old student killed 32 people on the campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, in April 2007; more than two dozen others were wounded. The gunman then killed himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WEST NICKEL MINES AMISH SCHOOL, October 2006, 5 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 32-year-old man entered an Amish schoolhouse near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, dismissed the boys, bound the girls, and fatally shot five of them before killing himself. Five others were wounded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RED LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, March 2005, 9 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 16-year-old student killed his grandfather and the man’s companion at their Minnesota home, then went to nearby Red Lake High School, where he killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before shooting himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL, April 1999, 13 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two students killed 12 of their peers and one teacher at the school in Littleton, Colorado, and injured many others before killing themselves. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 04:18:48', '2023-03-28 04:18:48'),
(6040, 6040, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The total number of recorded Covid-19 cases around the world has now surpassed 683 million.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count is 683,393,282, while the death toll reached 6,827,486 this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US has reported 106,109,844 Covid-19 cases so far, while 1,153,816 people have died from the virus in the country — both highest counts globally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India logged 1,890 new coronavirus cases, the highest in 149 days, while the active cases increased to 9,433, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country recorded 2,208 cases in a single day on October 28 last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death count has increased to 530,831 with seven deaths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the ministry data, the Covid-19 case tally was recorded at 44,704,147.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, France and Germany have registered 39,758,771 and 38,338,298 Covid-19 cases so far, occupying the third and fourth positions in the world number-wise, and 165,534 and 170,493 people have died in the European countries, as per Worldometer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh reported seven more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Monday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new numbers, the country\'s total caseload rose to 2,038,008, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the official death toll from Covid-19 remained unchanged at 29,445 as no new fatalities were reported in Bangladesh. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 04:29:08', '2023-03-28 04:29:08'),
(6041, 6041, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">All the 20 landless and homeless families have become happy after getting homes for the first time in Char Asariadaha village (riverbed) under Godagari Upazila in the district.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were given the houses with special design of earthquake resilient and portable in the fourth phase of Ashrayan-2 project to mark the Mujibbarsha very recently thanks to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the benevolent works.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are vacant places for cultivating vegetables and other crops in the project area. The rehabilitated families will get scope of improving their living and livelihood condition through homestead gardening and rearing cattle, goat and poultry birds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Togora Begum, one of the beneficiaries, said they had to live in a roadside thatched house before getting the new one. She had to suffer a lot due to the lack of a house. But, the worst situation has changed now. She along with her family members are having happy days in the house.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I never thought that I would be an owner of a brick-built house,\" she said with a smiling face, adding that the house gave them a new life expressing deep gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her benevolent initiative.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another beneficiary Aklema Begum said she has attained permanent address with the noble gesture of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The PM\'s housing gift has enhanced our social dignity side by side with boosting the level of confidence as a whole,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There was no thought even in the dream of getting a brick-built house in the char area,\" said Farida Begum, another beneficiary, adding they had to live in a thatched house on other land for a long time in the past.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four-member family is now happy after getting the house as they availed a permanent house for living.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assistant Commissioner (Land) Sabuj Hassan told BSS that there was a big challenge in the field of building houses in the char area but the task has been successful through facing the challenges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priority was given to widow, divorcee, bagger, persons with disability, ethnic minority and third gender side by side with other distressed people in terms of scrutinizing beneficiaries for their proper rehabilitation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Commissioner Abdul Jalil said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared the Rajshahi district as freed from landless and homeless people through handing over homes to 4,321 families.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the fourth phase, houses were allocated to 8,314 families in all eight districts under Rajshahi division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commissioner of Rajshahi division GSM Zafaruallah said there were 31,930 homeless and landless families in \'KA\' class in the division. Already, 21,762 of those were rehabilitated in the first, second and third phases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of three districts-- Rajshahi, Chapainwabganj and Joypurhat-- and 32 upazilas were declared as freed of landless and homeless people in the division taking the number to 42, out of 67, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Main thrust of the initiative is to improve the standard of living, ensure basic education, health care and skill development on income generating activities of the beneficiary people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The floors and walls of the houses are brick-built as the roofs were made of corrugated sheet. The houses were made colorfully and eye-catching. The disaster resistant houses reveal the images of laudable and lasting development activities of the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the initiative of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the government has provided them with the houses to alleviate their poverty through giving shelters and human resource development activities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;On behalf of Ashrayan Project-2 of the Prime Minister\'s Office, the Department of Disaster Management (DDM) has built the houses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each of the semi-pucca houses with two bedrooms, one kitchen, one toilet, common space and veranda are built at a cost of Taka 2.59 lakh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commissioner Zafarullah said the construction of the houses is a laudable step of the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All the government\'s line departments, including agriculture, fisheries, livestock, youth development, cooperatives, women affairs and social development, have started expanding their activities to the Ashrayan villages to improve the living and livelihood conditions of the settlers. 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(6042, 6042, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Germany and Britain have delivered Western heavy tanks to Ukraine, officials said Monday, providing a key infusion of armored firepower that will aid Kyiv\'s battle against invading Russian troops.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tanks -- long an item on Ukraine\'s military equipment wish list -- were promised to Kyiv earlier this year and have arrived in time for an expected spring offensive by Ukraine\'s forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Ukraine gains conventional firepower, the Kremlin vowed to follow through on a plan announced by President Vladimir Putin to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, an initiative which has drawn widespread criticism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told journalists on Monday that Berlin had provided \"very modern\" Leopard battle tanks to Kyiv, with the defence ministry later saying 18 were delivered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our tanks have made it into the hands of our Ukrainian friends as promised and on time,\" German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are joined by Challenger tanks from Britain, a spokeswoman for the defence ministry in Kyiv said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov had said earlier that he inspected a \"new addition\" to the country\'s forces -- Challenger tanks as well as Germany\'s Marder infantry fighting vehicles, plus Cougar armoured trucks and Stryker armoured personnel carriers from the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A year ago, no one would have thought that our partners\' support would be so strong,\" Reznikov said on Facebook.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Planned nuclear deployment -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Western criticism of Putin\'s tactical nuclear weapon announcement \"cannot influence Russian plans\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in a televised interview two days earlier, Putin said Moscow would station the tactical nuclear weapons \"without violating our international agreements on nuclear non-proliferation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday told the visiting head of the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was not possible to restore safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant with Russia still in control, ahead of Rafael Grossi\'s visit to the site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Without the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and personnel from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and adjacent territory, any initiatives to restore nuclear safety and security are doomed to failure,\" Zelensky told Grossi, according to a statement from the presidency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grossi is expected to visit the nuclear plant later this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I met Zelensky today in Zaporizhzhia City and had a rich exchange on the protection of the Zaporizhzhia NPP (nuclear power plant) and its staff,\" he said on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I reiterated the full support of the IAEA to Ukraine\'s nuclear facilities,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Missile strikes -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In eastern Ukraine, Russian missiles punched through buildings in the town of Sloviansk, killing two people in their cars and wounding more than 30, police said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A blood-stained cap lay at the side of the street, next to a parked car whose front seat was covered with blood and shattered glass.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said the missiles were Russian-made S-300s, which are designed for air defence but have been used by Moscow to carry out ground attacks amid reported shortages of other munitions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Adviika, a battered frontline town in the eastern Donetsk region, a Ukrainian official said Monday that municipal workers were being withdrawn as Russian forces claim incremental gains nearby.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a shame to admit, but Avdiivka looks more and more like a scene from post-apocalyptic movies,\" the head of the town\'s administration Vitalii Barabash said on social media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Therefore, a difficult decision was made to evacuate... municipal workers, who at least somehow tried to maintain the cleanliness and vitality of the city.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian forces have been working to capture the entire eastern Donetsk region for several months, with the focus of fighting centering on Bakhmut, north of Avdiivka. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 05:22:21', '2023-03-28 05:22:21'),
(6043, 6043, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>US President Joe Biden has no fears that Israel will devolve into civil war after weeks of unrest over a controversial judicial overhaul, the White House said Monday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The president believes that one of the great things about Israel is its strong history of democracy,\" White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In many ways, you\'re seeing the same traditions,\" he said, referring to the massive protests over the moves by the hard-right government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the United States has \"concerns\" about the Netanyahu government\'s plans for the judiciary, \"the president is not concerned that Israel was going to devolve into any kind of civil war,\" Kirby said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 05:26:07', '2023-03-28 05:26:07'),
(6044, 6044, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly — places filled with children of tender ages, older students aspiring to new heights and the teachers planting the seeds of knowledge, their journeys all cut short.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If a mass shooting is defined as resulting in the death of four or more people, not including the perpetrator, 175 people have died in 15 such events connected to U.S. schools and colleges — from 1999′s Columbine High School massacre to Monday’s shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. That’s according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, in addition to other AP reporting:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">THE COVENANT SCHOOL, March 2023, 6 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 28-year-old female shooter wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol killed three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville. The suspect also died after being shot by police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ROBB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, May 2022, 21 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two adults, officials said. Law enforcement killed the attacker.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL, November 2021, 4 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sophomore student is accused of killing four people and wounding others at his school in Oxford, Michigan, near Detroit. His parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter; authorities say they failed to secure a gun and ignored the mental health needs of their son before the shootings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL, May 2018, 10 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A shooter opened fire at a Houston-area high school, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. The 17-year-old suspect has been charged with murder.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL, February 2018, 17 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An attack left 14 students and three staff members dead at the school in Parkland, Florida, and injured many others. The shooter was sentenced to life without parole.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, October 2015, 9 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man killed nine people at the school in Roseburg, Oregon, and wounded nine others, then killed himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARYSVILLE-PILCHUCK HIGH SCHOOL, October 2014, 4 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 15-year-old used text messages to draw several cousins and friends to his cafeteria table at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington state. He fatally shot four of them before killing himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, May 2014, 6 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 22-year-old college student frustrated over sexual rejections fatally stabbed or shot six students near the school in Isla Vista, California, and injured several others before he killed himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, December 2012, 27 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 19-year-old man killed his mother at their home in Newtown, Connecticut, then went to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 first graders and six educators. He took his own life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OIKOS UNIVERSITY, April 2012, 7 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former nursing student fatally shot seven people at the small private college in East Oakland, California. He died in prison in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, February 2008, 5 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 27-year-old former student shot and killed five people and wounded more than 20 others at the school in DeKalb, Illinois, before killing himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">VIRGINIA TECH, April 2007, 32 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 23-year-old student killed 32 people on the campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, in April 2007; more than two dozen others were wounded. The gunman then killed himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WEST NICKEL MINES AMISH SCHOOL, October 2006, 5 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 32-year-old man entered an Amish schoolhouse near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, dismissed the boys, bound the girls, and fatally shot five of them before killing himself. Five others were wounded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RED LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, March 2005, 9 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 16-year-old student killed his grandfather and the man’s companion at their Minnesota home, then went to nearby Red Lake High School, where he killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before shooting himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL, April 1999, 13 dead</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two students killed 12 of their peers and one teacher at the school in Littleton, Colorado, and injured many others before killing themselves. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 06:38:04', '2023-03-28 06:38:04'),
(6045, 6045, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia\'s defence ministry said Tuesday that its navy had fired test anti-ship missiles at mock targets in the Sea of Japan during military exercises.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s Pacific Fleet drills came a week after Tokyo\'s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In the waters of the Sea of Japan, missile boats of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target,\" the ministry said on Telegram early on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said two ships took part in the exercise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The target, located at a distance of about 100 kilometres (62 miles), was successfully hit by a direct hit from two Moskit cruise missiles.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow said its naval aviation oversaw the \"safety of the combat exercise.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, Russia said two of its Tu-95 strategic bomber planes performed \"flights in the airspace over neutral waters in the Sea of Japan.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bomber jet flights came after Japan\'s Kishida visited Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan has joined Western allies in sanctioning Russia over its offensive in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s far eastern Pacific coast is separated from Japan by the narrow Sea of Japan. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 06:50:57', '2023-03-28 06:50:57'),
(6046, 6046, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Met Office has predicted rain or thunder showers in parts of the country over 24 hours, starting from 9 am today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Rain or thunder shower accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattrogram and Sylhet divisions,” said the Met Office bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather may remain mostly dry, with partly cloudy skies elsewhere in the country, according to the forecast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country, as per the bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 14.9 degrees Celsius in Tetulia of Panchagarh district while the highest temperature was recorded at 35 degrees Celsius in Rajshahi\'s Sadar upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather office recorded the highest 16 mm rainfall in Barishal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a trough of westerly low lies over India’s West Bengal and adjoining area. Seasonal low lies over the South Bay.&nbsp; UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 06:57:42', '2023-03-28 06:57:42'),
(6047, 6047, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Allu Arjun, who is currently busy with the shoot of Pushpa: The Rule, on Tuesday took to Instagram to share a note as he completed 20 years in the industry. He went on to express his gratitude for all the people who shaped his career and particularly remembered the love of his fans. He made his acting debut with a lead role in 2003 Telugu romantic drama Gangotri, which was directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film released in theatres on March 28.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Today, I complete 20 years in the film industry. I am extremely blessed &amp; have been showered with love. I am grateful to all my people from the industry. I am what I am bcoz of the love of the audience, admirers &amp; fans. Gratitude forever (sic).”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the comments section of his post, Samantha wrote: “There’s going to be fireworks soon (sic).” Reacting to Samantha’s comment, some fans wrote that they want to see them together as a pair. “We want to see you as a pair in a mass movie (sic),” one user wrote. “It is nice to know how you both admire and respect each other (sic),” wrote another. Singer Shreya Ghoshal wrote for Allu, “Congratulations to you! What a journey.” Australian cricketer David Warner also wrote, “Well done mate”. Actor Lakshmi Manchu wrote, “More power to you bunny!”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the makers of Pushpa: The Rise, the second part in the film’s franchise, are set to release the first glimpse of the movie in the form of a teaser on the occasion of Allu Arjun’s birthday on April 8. The team recently completed filming a major schedule in Visakhapatnam in which they shot plenty of action sequences.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per reports, the makers have made a 3-minute-long teaser from the action sequences shot so far and plan to release it on April 8th to coincide with Allu Arjun’s birthday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second part will focus on the face-off between Allu Arjun and Fahadh Faasil, who was introduced as the prime antagonist towards the end of the first part. The film also stars Rashmika Mandanna, who plays the character Srivalli. In the film, Allu Arjun was seen playing a lorry driver cum sandalwood smuggler. The film grossed over ₹300 crore worldwide. The film minted over ₹100 crore from its dubbed Hindi version alone. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 07:48:33', '2023-03-28 07:48:33'),
(6048, 6048, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Tuesday said that the Election Commission (EC) invited BNP for informal meeting, not for any formal dialogue.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We sent an invitation letter to BNP as they can participate in informal discussion, not formal dialogue,” said the CEC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said these while talking to reporters at a press briefing at the EC Secretariat in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have not invited them for dialogue. Dialogue is a formal matter,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Thursday, the CEC sent a demi-official letter to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for taking part in a views-exchange meeting on the next national election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Current EC, led by Awal, held two rounds of talks with the political parties since its formation last year. However, BNP and some other political parties did not participate in the talks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mirza Fakhrul on Saturday said the Election Commission\'s (EC’s) letter inviting BNP to talks is nothing but the latest strategy of the government to hold another election depriving people of their voting rights. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 07:57:08', '2023-03-28 07:57:08'),
(6049, 6049, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A huge landslide swept over an Andean community in central Ecuador, burying dozens of homes, killing at least seven people and sending rescuers on a frantic search for survivors, authorities said Monday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the day, officials had reported 16 deaths, but President Guillermo Lasso put the confirmed toll at seven as he arrived Monday night at the scene of the disaster in Alausí, about 137 miles south of the capital, Quito. Officials also raised the number of people reported missing to 62.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lasso lamented the tragedy and promised people in the town that “we will continue working\" on the search effort.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ecuador’s Risk Management Secretariat said more than 30 people were rescued after the mountainside collapsed around 10 p.m. Sunday. It said 23 people were injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“My mother is buried\" under the mud, said Luis Ángel González, 58, who also lost other family members Sunday. \"I am so sad, devastated. There is nothing here, no houses, no anything. We are homeless (and) without family.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The risk management agency estimated 500 people and 163 homes were affected by the disaster, which also destroyed a portion of the Pan-American Highway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor of Chimborazo, Ivan Vinueza, told The Associated Press that some of the injured were taken to area hospitals. He said officials had urged people to evacuate the area after landslides and cracks began to develop about two months ago. Some followed the advice, and by Saturday, as tremors intensified, others fled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Area residents told local media they heard tremors on the mountain before the landslide, which was estimated to be about 150 meters (490 feet) wide and nearly a half mile (700 meters) long. It swept away trees, homes and other buildings. More than fifty houses were buried under tons of mud of debris.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The emergency response agency said 60% of potable water service in the area was affected by the landslide. The communication’s office of the presidential office said some schools would be switching to online classes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Firefighters from a half dozen cities were dispatched to the area to help. Rescuers focused on the flanks of the landslide where they found traces and debris of houses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescuer and paramedic Alberto Escobar said it was unlikely more survivors would be found because of the time that had elapsed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the search would continue as long as it did not rain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Video from cameras connected to the country’s emergency service network showed people fleeing their homes with help from neighbors. It also showed people transporting appliances and other belongings in vehicles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Survivors, many housed in temporary shelters, cried over their misfortune.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among them was the Zuña family, who were staying at the Iglesia Matriz de Alausí, where rooms for catechism or parish meetings were adapted with bunk beds days ago after authorities declared an emergency in the area due to the risk of landslides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sonia Guadalupe Zuña said her mother was reluctant to leave what they had built over the years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We went to the shelter, but my mother didn’t want to,” Zuña said. “Later, my daughter went to convince her. When they walked along the rails, everything collapsed. They arrived covered in dirt and crying.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Save for the clothes they had on, Zuña\'s family lost everything.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I don’t know where, but we’re all leaving,\" she said crying. \"My parents taught us that by working hard, you get material things, but being together is priceless.” AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 08:07:12', '2023-03-28 08:07:12'),
(6050, 6050, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Director General of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) AHM Shafiquzzaman said that the price of broiler chicken has been reduced by Taka 100 per kilogram due to the countrywide drive and vigilance by the Directorate.</span><br></b></div><div><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div>He also claimed that the market for essential commodities has remained stable this year.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Talking to journalists, Shafiquzzaman said that the price of broiler chicken went up abruptly and it was being sold at Taka 280 per kg. \"In this regard, we conducted drives, sat with the business people and took various initiatives. As a result, poultry chicken is now being sold at Taka 180 per kg,\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Claiming that the market for essential items remains stable during the holy month of Ramadan, he said that the Directorate has been conducting drives in various parts of the country every day, while such kind of drive would continue throughout this month to keep the kitchen market stable.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Urging valued consumers not to resort to \'panic buying\', the DNCRP director general said the consumers must become more responsible to keep the market stable.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>If any consumer falls victim of cheating, he suggested the consumers make a complaint to the directorate saying that a hearing will be held on each complaint.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Referring to the allegation of selling clothes at hiked prices through changing the tag or sticker, the director general said that they would sit with the business community on Thursday so that such an incident could not take place this time. He also cautioned that stern action would be taken if such an allegation is proved against any business entity or businessman.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>It is mentionable that following an abnormal price hike for broiler chicken, the DNCRP had recently sat with four big companies, like Kazi Farms Ltd, CP Bangladesh, Aftab Multipurpose Farms Ltd and Paragon Poultry and Hatchery Ltd. During the meeting, the companies announced to reduce the price of poultry chicken. After that, the price of poultry chicken was reduced at retail level. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 14:57:31', '2023-03-28 14:57:31'),
(6051, 6051, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The political party led by Myanmar\'s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to face automatic dissolution by the military-appointed election commission on midnight Tuesday because it declined to register for a planned general election it denounced as a sham.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Critics say the polls will be neither free nor fair in a country ruled by the military that has shut free media and arrested most of the leaders of Suu Kyi\'s National League for Democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We absolutely do not accept that an election will be held at a time when many political leaders and political activists have been arrested and the people are being tortured by the military,\" said Bo Bo Oo, a former party lawmaker.</div><div><br></div><div>Suu Kyi, 77, is serving prison sentences totaling 33 years after being convicted in a series of politically tainted prosecutions brought by the military. Her supporters say the charges were contrived to keep her from actively taking part in politics.</div><div><br></div><div>The party won a landslide victory in the November 2020 general election, but less than three months later, the army kept her and all the elected lawmakers from taking their seats in Parliament, and top members of her government and party were detained.</div><div><br></div><div>The army said it acted because of a massive poll fraud, though independent election observers did not find any major irregularities. Some critics of Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who led the takeover and is now Myanmar\'s top leader, believe he acted because the vote thwarted his own political ambitions.</div><div><br></div><div>No date has been set for the new polls. They had been expected by the end of July, according to the army\'s own plans. But in February, the military announced an unexpected six-month extension of its state of emergency, delaying the possible legal date for holding an election. It said security could not be assured. The military does not control large swaths of the country, where it faces widespread armed resistance to its rule.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Amid the state oppression following the 2021 coup, no election can be credible, especially when much of the population sees a vote as a cynical attempt to supplant the landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi\'s National League for Democracy (NLD) in 2020,\" said a report issued Tuesday by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group think tank.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The polls will almost certainly intensify the post-coup conflict, as the regime seeks to force them through and resistance groups seek to disrupt them.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The military government enacted a new political party registration law in January that makes it difficult for opposition groups to mount a serious challenge to its favored candidates. It sets conditions such as minimum levels of membership and candidates and offices that any party without the backing of the army and its cronies would find hard to meet, especially in the repressive political atmosphere.</div><div><br></div><div>The new law declared that existing political parties had to re-apply for registration with the election commission within two months after it took effect — by March 28 — and those that fail will be \"automatically invalidated\" and considered dissolved. It also says the party has to entrust its properties to the government if it is dissolved of its own volition or when its registration is canceled under the law.</div><div><br></div><div>The National League for Democracy rejected the law just days after it was announced, saying at the same time that the military-planned polls are illegal and amount to a \"sham election.\" It declared that any individuals and entities cooperating in the polls with the military will be deemed as accomplices in high treason.</div><div><br></div><div>Bo Bo Oo said that a March 21 meeting of the party\'s Central Working Committee reaffirmed the decision not to register, and considers the election commission and registration law illegitimate.</div><div><br></div><div>The state-run Myanma Alinn daily newspaper reported on Saturday that a total of 52 political parties had applied to the election commission for registration under the new law. Twelve applied to contest at the national level and 40 at the level of regions and states. The commission must approve their applications. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 15:00:32', '2023-03-28 15:00:32'),
(6052, 6052, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Alibaba announced Tuesday that it would split into six business groups in one of the most significant overhauls of a leading Chinese tech firm to date.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The Hangzhou-based firm is one of China\'s most prominent tech giants, with business operations spanning cloud computing, e-commerce, logistics, media and entertainment, and artificial intelligence.</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel Zhang, the company\'s chairman and CEO, said in a statement that the restructuring would enable each separate business to pursue its own fundraising and public listing plans.</div><div><br></div><div>Alibaba claimed the moves were intended to \"unlock shareholder value and foster market competitiveness\".</div><div><br></div><div>Under the new arrangement, each of the six newly established units will be managed by its own CEO and board of directors.</div><div><br></div><div>A key exception to the restructuring is Taobao Tmall Commerce Group -- the operator of one of China\'s top online purchasing platforms -- which will remain wholly owned by Alibaba Group.</div><div><br></div><div>Zhang will remain in his post as CEO of the company, although day-to-day operations of the individual business units will be ceded to the new management bodies.</div><div><br></div><div>The company said the new structure would bring greater market visibility to the value of its diverse business operations.</div><div><br></div><div>These changes will not affect Alibaba shares currently listed in New York and Hong Kong, the firm said.</div><div><br></div><div>Aiming for a more \"nimble structure\", the reorganisation will also involve cuts to the firm\'s middle and back office functions.</div><div><br></div><div>Recent years have seen the internet giant face unprecedented headwinds as Beijing has imposed tighter restrictions on the domestic tech industry.</div><div><br></div><div>Combined revenue at China\'s internet companies shrank by just over one percent to 1.46 trillion yuan ($212 billion) in 2022, the first contraction in almost a decade, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.</div><div><br></div><div>Alibaba founder Jack Ma has kept a low profile since late 2020, when a speech he made attacking Chinese regulators was followed by Beijing pulling the plug on Alibaba affiliate Ant Group\'s planned IPO.</div><div><br></div><div>Having ballooned into a sprawling corporate behemoth since its founding in 1999, the company has been seeking new ways to drive growth and reinvigorate its development.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the plan as a \"transformation\", Zhang said in the statement that it would make Alibaba \"more agile, enhance decision-making, and enable faster responses to market changes\".</div><div><br></div><div>Ma has been spotted around the world over the past two years, but made a rare public appearance in China on Monday after his fall from grace.</div><div><br></div><div>The celebrity entrepreneur has recently emphasised the need for Alibaba to embrace artificial intelligence technology, as new tools such as ChatGPT appear poised to reshape the global industry. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 15:09:33', '2023-03-28 15:09:33'),
(6053, 6053, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Chinese authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that broke out at an abandoned refrigerated warehouse in the northern industrial province of Hebei, killing 11 people, the local government said Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Cang County government said the blaze started Monday afternoon when the warehouse was being dismantled. Firefighters extinguished the fire at about 11 p.m. and rescuers recovered 11 people, but none showed signs of life, it said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>A relative of one of the victims learned from others who managed to escape that the 11 people were among 14 workers who were demolishing the warehouse, according to Jimu News, part of the Chinese government-owned Hubei Daily Media Group. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 15:13:20', '2023-03-28 15:13:20'),
(6054, 6054, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Popular Odia actress and singer Ruchismita Guru was found dead at his uncle\'s house in Bolangir district on March 26.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to several media reports, Ruchismita was found hanging from the ceiling fan of a room. Her body was sent for post-mortem on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The late actress\' mother told Odishatv that they had a quarrel over the preparation of \'aloo paratha\'. As per the report, her mother said that she had asked her to cook aloo paratha at 8 pm, but she said she would prepare it at 10 pm.</div><div><br></div><div>They had a quarrel over this and later, Ruchismita was found dead. Her mother also added that her daughter had attempted suicide earlier as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Reportedly, the cops have launched an investigation to find out the reason behind her mysterious death.</div><div><br></div><div>Ruchismita has acted in a number of music albums. She has also performed several stage shows. Source: India Times</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 15:17:24', '2023-03-28 15:17:24'),
(6055, 6055, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Cabinet on Tuesday in principle approved the draft of \'Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2023\' with a provision of two to seven years of imprisonment for hampering election observers and journalists to perform their “lawful” duty during the election.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The approval came from the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>“If anyone obstructs media workers and election observers to perform their lawful works, the person may face two to seven years of rigorous imprisonment,” said Secretary (Coordination &amp; Reforms) at the Cabinet Division Mahmudul Hossain Khan while briefing reporters at the Bangladesh Secretariat after the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the draft law, an aspirant needs to clear all utility bills at least a day before the submission of nomination papers, otherwise the candidature would be canceled, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The aspirant needs to attach a TIN certificate and receipts of tax payment with a nomination paper as well, said the Secretary.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the existing law, now a person shall be disqualified for election if he personally has failed to pay the telephone, gas, electricity, water or any other bill of any service providing organisation of the government seven days before the day of submission of nomination papers.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the Cabinet in principle approved the draft of the Land Development Tax Act, 2023 with a provision to collect land development tax through electronic system in every fiscal year instead of Bangla calendar year.</div><div><br></div><div>“All land development taxes will have to be paid online,” he said, adding that the owners of less than 25 bighas (8.25 acres) won’t require paying tax.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahmudul said the Union land assistant officer (Tahsildar) will prepare a list mentioning the specific amounts of tax for every landowner and send the list to the assistant commissioner (Land) to display it in the latter’s office. If anyone is aggrieved with the amount of tax, the person can lodge an objection before the AC land and also the district collector. The district collector will dispose of it within 15 days, he noted.</div><div><br></div><div>The Cabinet approved the President\'s draft speech to be delivered in the special session of the 11th Parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>The Parliament will go into a special session on April 06 next to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad. According to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-28 16:15:49', '2023-03-28 16:15:49');
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(6056, 6056, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven weapons in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before carrying out the attack by firing indiscriminately at victims and spraying gunfire through doors and windows, police said Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The violence Monday at The Covenant School was the latest school shooting to roil the nation and was planned carefully. The shooter had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspect, Audrey Hale, 28, was a former student at the school. Hale did not target specific victims — among them three 9-year-olds and the head of the school — but did target “this school, this church building,” police spokesperson Don Aaron said at a news conference Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hale was under a doctor\'s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder and was not known to police before the attack, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at the news conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If police had been told that Hale was suicidal or homicidal, “then we would have tried to get those weapons,\" Drake said. “But as it stands, we had absolutely no idea who this person was or if (Hale) even existed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tennessee does not currently have a “red flag” law, which lets police step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday night, Tennessee\'s governor said one of the victims, 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, was a close friend of his wife, Maria, and that the two had been scheduled to have dinner after Peak taught that day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Maria woke up this morning without one of her best friends,” Gov. Bill Lee said, adding that his wife once taught with Peak and another victim, Katherine Koonce, and the women and “have been family friends for decades.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hale legally bought seven firearms from five local gun stores, Drake said. Three of them were used in Monday’s shooting. Police spokesperson Brooke Reese said Hale bought the guns between October 2020 and June 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hale\'s parents believed their child had sold one gun and did not own any others, Drake said, adding that Hale “had been hiding several weapons within the house.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hale\'s motive is unknown, Drake said. In an interview with NBC News on Monday, Drake said investigators don\'t know what drove Hale but believe the shooter had “some resentment for having to go to that school.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drake, at Tuesday\'s news conference, described “several different writings by Hale” that mention other locations and The Covenant School.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked at a Senate hearing whether the Justice Department would open an investigation into whether the shooting was a hate crime targeting Christians, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said federal officials were working with local police to identify a motive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police have released videos of the shooting, including edited surveillance footage that shows the shooter\'s car driving up to the school, glass doors being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additional video, from Officer Rex Engelbert\'s bodycam, shows a woman meeting police outside as they arrive and telling them that all the children were locked down, “but we have two kids that we don\'t know where they are.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The woman then directs officers to Fellowship Hall and says people inside had just heard gunshots. Three officers, including Engelbert, search rooms one by one, holding rifles and announcing themselves as police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video shows officers climbing stairs to the second floor and entering a lobby area, followed by a barrage of gunfire and an officer yelling twice: “Get your hands away from the gun.\" Then the shooter is shown motionless on the floor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police identified Engelbert, a four-year member of the force, and Michael Collazo, a nine-year member, as the officers who fatally shot Hale. The White House said President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday with Drake, Engelbert and Callazo to thank them for their bravery.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny after the attack in Uvalde, Texas, in which 70 minutes passed before law enforcement stormed the classroom. In Nashville, police said about eight minutes passed from the initial call to when officers arrived at the scene.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surveillance video shows a time stamp of just before 10:11 a.m., when the attacker shot out the doors. Police said they got the call about a shooter at 10:13. Aaron said in an email Tuesday that dispatch records show officers arrived on campus shortly before 10:22.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At about 10:24, officers engaged the suspect, the chief said during the news conference. Within two minutes of that, the suspect was down, according to the dispatch records.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There were police cars that had been hit by gunfire. As officers were approaching the building, there was gunfire going off,” Drake said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We feel, our response right now, from what I’ve seen, I don’t have a particular problem with it. But we always want to get better. We always want to get there in two or three minutes,” he said, adding that traffic was “locked down” at the time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traffic was indeed stopped along a nearby two-lane road with a turning lane as police tried to weave their way to the school.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police have given unclear information on Hale\'s gender. For hours Monday, police identified the shooter as a woman. Later in the day, the police chief said Hale was transgender. After the news conference, Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale identified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an email Tuesday, police spokesperson Kristin Mumford said Hale “was assigned female at birth. Hale did use male pronouns on a social media profile.” Later Tuesday, at the news conference, Drake referred to Hale with female pronouns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities identified the dead children as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. The adults were Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the school since July 2016. Peak was a substitute teacher, and Hill was a custodian, according to investigators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Koonce was remembered as someone who would run toward danger, not away from it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I guarantee you if there were kids missing (during the shooting), Katherine was looking for them,” friend Jackie Bailey said. “And that’s probably how she got in the way — just trying to do something for somebody else. She would give up her own life in order to save somebody else’s.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, the school is in the affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville. It has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade and roughly 50 staff members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before Monday’s violence in Nashville, there had been seven mass killings at K-12 schools since 2006 in which four or more people were killed within a 24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. In all of them, the shooters were males.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The database does not include school shootings in which fewer than four people were killed, which have become far more common in recent years. Last week alone, for example, school shootings happened in Denver and the Dallas area within two days of each other. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 03:28:33', '2023-03-29 03:28:33'),
(6057, 6057, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin\'s stated plan to deploy nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, branding it \"dangerous\" talk.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is dangerous kind of talk and it\'s worrisome,\" Biden told reporters at the White House.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kremlin leader announced on Saturday that he was ordering the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, run by fellow authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko as one of Russia\'s closest allies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington has denounced the plan, which follows more than a year of Moscow\'s attempt to conquer pro-Western Ukraine -- a neighbor of both Russia and Belarus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, US officials say they have seen no sign of Russia actually moving nuclear weaponry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They haven\'t done that yet,\" Biden said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 03:51:36', '2023-03-29 03:52:56'),
(6058, 6058, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dancing around a campfire in bright feather headdresses, a group of Indigenous eco-warriors prepares the painstaking process of planting the Brazilian pine tree, fighting to save the critically endangered species -- and their way of life.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Xokleng Indigenous group, who live on a threatened reservation in south Brazil, depend on the Araucaria angustifolia tree for food, use its medicinal properties to treat illness and consider it a central element of their spirituality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the majestic evergreen, also known as the candelabra tree, is dangerously close to extinction: just three percent of the forests where it was once found survive today, according to the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Without the araucaria, the Xokleng do not exist,\" says Carl Gakran, a 32-year-old resident of the Ibirama-Laklano reservation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is helping lead the effort to save the Brazilian pine by planting tens of thousands of seedlings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the tree goes extinct, \"our people and our culture are at risk of extinction, too,\" he says, wearing a traditional headdress of red and blue feathers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Standing up to 40 meters (130 feet) tall, with sweeping branches that fan out from the top, the tree lives to be about 400 years old on average.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its seeds, which resemble large pine nuts, are a staple food for the 2,200 Xokleng.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it is also prized by loggers for its quality wood -- helping drive it toward extinction, along with the clear-cutting of forests for farmland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alarmed by its decline, Gakran and his wife, Gape, founded an organization to save it: the Zag Institute, after the Xokleng word for the tree.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is our mother, our sacred tree,\" says Gape, 36, wearing a headdress similar to her husband\'s and nursing her baby daughter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And we are its guardians.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Protection ritual -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They estimate they have planted more than 50,000 seedlings so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a delicate, time-consuming and highly ritualized process.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seeds take around a year to germinate. Once planted, a young tree takes 12 to 15 years to produce seeds of its own.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before planting them, the Xokleng perform a ritual, singing and dancing around a campfire to call for the seedlings\' protection.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like many Indigenous peoples in Brazil, the Xokleng have suffered decades of persecution and the encroachment of farmers and loggers on their land.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their reservation, which they share with the Guarani and Kaigang peoples, is at the center of a massive legal dispute in Brazil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The territory partly lost its protected status when a court ruled the Indigenous groups did not have the right to claim territory where they were not present in 1988, the year Brazil\'s current constitution was ratified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indigenous groups argue they were forced to leave by Brazil\'s military regime (1964-1985), and still have rightful claim to their ancestral lands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case became top news under far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), who left office in December having followed through on his vow not to allow \"one more centimeter\" of Indigenous reservations in Brazil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, whose ruling could establish a precedent for all Indigenous lands in Brazil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Xokleng see planting araucarias as another form of resistance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I learned from my grandparents that Indigenous peoples are born to protect the land. We\'re the guardians of the Earth, the forests and the araucarias,\" says Carl.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We need everyone\'s help to protect them.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 03:58:38', '2023-03-29 03:58:38'),
(6059, 6059, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The UN General Assembly on Wednesday is expected to adopt a resolution calling for a top court to outline legal obligations related to climate change, an \"unprecedented challenge of civilizational proportions.\"</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pushed for years by Vanuatu and Pacific islander youth, the measure asks the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to lay out nations\' obligations for protecting Earth\'s climate, and the legal consequences they face if they don\'t.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the resolution passes -- as is widely expected since more than half of UN member states have co-sponsored it -- Vanuatu\'s Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau told AFP he will be \"elated.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Global warming is en route to Armageddon,\" warned the leader, whose Pacific nation faces rising sea-levels and experienced back-to-back cyclones earlier this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that leaders must \"react very quickly, urgently\" to address the climate crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government of Vanuatu started lobbying for the climate resolution in 2021, after a campaign initiated by a group of students from a university in Fiji in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Co-sponsored by some 120 nations, the resolution asks the ICJ to clarify the \"obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A week ago, the UN\'s panel of climate experts (IPCC) warned that global average temperatures could reach 1.5C above the pre-industrial era by as early as 2030-2035, underlining the need for drastic action this decade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While nations have no legal obligation under the Paris Agreement to meet emission reduction targets, backers of the new climate resolution hope other instruments, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, could offer some pathways for enforcement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ICJ opinions are not binding, but they carry significant legal and moral weight, and are often taken into account by national courts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The future ruling \"will serve as an important accountability tool,\" Harjeet Singh of Climate Action Network, an international NGO, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He hailed the resolution\'s apparent success as \"potentially one of the biggest climate diplomacy and multilateral successes in the recent past.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His enthusiasm however is not shared by all.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t see anything useful that the Court could say. On the other hand, I see scenarios where this request would be counterproductive,\" Benoit Mayer, a specialist in international law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned of a possible \"disaster scenario,\" if the ICJ opinion is \"clear and precise, but contrary to what the supporters of the request wanted.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Particularly vulnerable\' islands -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another unknown factor is the position of the two largest emitters of greenhouse gasses, China and the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During negotiations on the Paris Agreement, US diplomats secured the addition of a clause specifying that the text \"does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a critical issue in the debate over paying for the so-called \"loss and damage\" costs borne by the poorest countries, which have contributed the least to global warming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN resolution notably asks the ICJ to clarify the \"legal consequences\" for states which \"have caused significant harm to the climate system and other parts of the environment.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It specifically asks the court to weigh obligations to \"small island developing States,\" which are \"particularly vulnerable\" to climate change, as well as obligations to future generations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the UN considers the resolution on Wednesday, it will be a \"test moment for states around the world to really show where they stand,\" said Nikki Reisch, of the Center for international environmental law (Ciel).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will also be an emotional day for the Pacific youth, who spearheaded the initiative.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This was an opportunity to do something bigger than ourselves, bigger than our fears, something important for our future,\" said Cynthia Houniuhi, president of the group Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 04:05:21', '2023-03-29 04:05:21'),
(6060, 6060, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Undeterred by a crowded Gulf market, Saudi Arabia is going all in on an aggressive aviation expansion, with a massive jet order and the launch of a new national carrier.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project aligns with a bid to remake the once closed-off kingdom as a business and tourism magnet, but analysts say that even with official backing, its path to success is complicated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This month Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia\'s de facto ruler, unveiled Riyadh Air, the new airline which is intended to transform the capital into \"a gateway to the world\", according to state media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two days later, officials said Riyadh Air and Saudia, the kingdom\'s existing flag-carrier based in Jeddah, would purchase 78 Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deal, which the White House valued at \"nearly $37 billion\" with options for up to 121 planes, constitutes the fifth largest by commercial value in Boeing\'s history.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riyadh Air\'s chief executive, Tony Douglas, told AFP that the airline would serve the international, regional and domestic markets -- putting it in direct competition with Gulf heavyweights Emirates and Qatar Airways.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That raises hard questions about how Riyadh Air will grab market share, especially at a time when long-haul non-stop flights that avoid the Middle East altogether are on the rise, said independent aviation analyst Alex Macheras.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Replicating and then building on the successful business models of Gulf airline neighbours is going to be tricky in a crowded market where passengers are spoilt for choice,\" Macheras said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- New role for Riyadh -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudia, also known as Saudi Arabian Airlines, was founded in 1945, receiving its first jet as a gift from US President Franklin Roosevelt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time, instead of Riyadh, foreigners were more likely to enter the kingdom via Jeddah on the Red Sea coast, which remains the \"Gateway to Mecca\", welcoming millions of Muslims performing the hajj and umrah pilgrimages each year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign embassies did not relocate to Riyadh, in central Saudi Arabia, until the 1980s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These days, however, Riyadh is at the heart of Prince Mohammed\'s \"Vision 2030\" reform agenda intended to help transition the world\'s biggest crude oil exporter away from fossil fuels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials talk it up as a rival to Gulf business hub Dubai, predicting that its current population of eight million will balloon to 15-20 million by 2030.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last November, officials announced plans for a new airport in Riyadh that is set to accommodate 120 million travellers per year by 2030, up from roughly 35 million today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The projected growth makes Saudia\'s current model -- in which it effectively has two hubs, Jeddah and Riyadh -- untenable, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Jeddah alone needs one airline to concentrate on it with the hajj and umrah... So you need an airline that is focused on Riyadh,\" Jadaan said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new airline and airport reflect a mentality of \"if you build it, they will come\", said Robert Mogielnicki of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The question of what the demand side of this equation looks like has yet to be settled, but the Saudis must be pretty confident to push ahead with such a massive aircraft order,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Late to the party\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The convenient location of airports in the Middle East -- well-placed for flights to Europe, Asia and Africa -- has helped fuel their rise as major hubs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trade group Airports Council International predicts the region\'s airports will see 1.1 billion passengers by 2040, up from 405 million in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia is also launching NEOM Airlines, to be based in the planned $500 billion futuristic megacity of the same name.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Klaus Goersch, the airline\'s CEO, wrote in a recent blog post that it \"will be operational at the end of 2024\" and that NEOM itself could eventually become \"a global aviation hub\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia\'s expansion strategy hinges partly on tapping its roughly 35 million-strong population, which officials see as a major advantage over less-populated rivals like the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But according to analyst Macheras, the Boeing order suggests Riyadh Air\'s vision is \"long-haul driven, which is consistent with its goals of operating as a transit hub carrier\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Competitors are taking note.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Riyadh Air will certainly eat up part of the market share in the region and the Asian markets in particular,\" said an official at Qatar Airways, requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are poised to face a tycoon-to-be.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps Riyadh Air\'s biggest advantage is its owner -- the deep-pocketed Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which Macheras said will \"cushion what will inevitably be an incredibly capital-heavy first phase\" ahead of inaugural flights in early 2025.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s clear the airline, although late to the party, thinks there is room for one more at the table,\" he said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 04:08:56', '2023-03-29 04:08:56'),
(6061, 6061, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Asian stocks were broadly up on Wednesday to buck losses on Wall Street, led by massive gains for Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba after it announced it would split into six business groups.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Hangzhou-based firm said the changes were intended to \"unlock shareholder value and foster market competitiveness\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Alibaba is one of China\'s most prominent tech firms, with operations spanning cloud computing, e-commerce, logistics, media and entertainment, and artificial intelligence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">By 10 am Wednesday (0200 GMT), its Hong Kong-listed shares were up by nearly 14 percent. Its New York-listed shares were also up in the previous session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Investors could get hyped on the positive side in the short term,\" said Willer Chen, senior research analyst at Forsyth Barr Asia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Alibaba\'s shakeup plan may also lead investors to think of the potential for other tech firms like Tencent to follow suit.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tencent and Baidu also advanced, as did Tokyo-listed Softbank, which owns a large stake in Alibaba.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">By mid-morning, the Hang Seng Index was up by more than two percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 was up by just under half a percentage point, while Taipei and Bangkok also rose.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Shanghai and Sydney posted small losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Following a flattish day on European bourses Tuesday, US stock indices finished modestly lower, shrugging off a better-than-expected consumer confidence reading.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The closely watched consumer confidence index increased in March to 104.2 from 103.4 last month, The Conference Board said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"While consumers feel a bit more confident about what\'s ahead, they are slightly less optimistic about the current landscape,\" said Ataman Ozyildirim, senior director for economics at The Conference Board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">All three major US indices declined, with the S&amp;P 500 losing 0.2 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The gains followed last week\'s rout over concerns that the turmoil in the sector -- which sparked the UBS takeover of Credit Suisse -- could hit other major institutions, such as German giant Deutsche Bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, whose institution ramped up interest rates last week, sounded a note of caution over banking-sector upheaval.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We are very vigilant. We are in a period of tension, tightness and alertness,\" he told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He added: \"My very strong view about the UK banking system is that it is in a strong position, both capital and liquidity wise.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">- Key figures around 0215 GMT -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 0.39 percent at 27,625.99</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: UP 2.06 percent at 20,191.68</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Shanghai - Composite: DOWN 0.16 percent at 3,240.21</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">London - FTSE 100: UP 0.2 percent at 7,484.25 (close)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">New York - Dow: DOWN 0.1 percent at 32,394.25 (close)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.0839 from $1.0850</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.2328 from $1.2341</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Euro/pound: UP at 87.92 from 87.89 pence</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Dollar/yen: UP at 131.63 yen from 130.90 yen</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">West Texas Intermediate: UP 0.59 percent at $73.63 per barrel</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Brent North Sea crude: UP 0.33 percent at $78.91 per barrel</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">-- Bloomberg News contributed to this story - AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 04:17:37', '2023-03-29 04:17:37'),
(6062, 6062, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least thirteen Bangladeshi pilgrims were killed and 17 others were injured in an accident that killed around 24 omrah hajj pilgrims and injured around 23 people at the southwestern region of Saudi Arabia on Monday, said an official of Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as Shahidul Islam, son of Shariat Ulla in Senbagh, Noakhali district, Mamun Mia, son of Abdul Awal and Russel Molla of Muradnagar in Cumilla district, Mohammad Helal of Noakhali district, Sabuj Hossain of Laxmipur district, Md Asif and Sifat Ullah of Maheshkhali in Cox’s Bazar district, Md Imam Hossain Rony, son of Abdul Latif in Gazipur district, Ruk Mia, son of Kalu Mia of Chandpur district, Gias Hamid of Debidwar in Cumilla district, Mohammad Nazmul, son of Kawsar Mia and Rony, son of Iskandar of Jashore district and Mohammad Hossain of Cox’s Bazar district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 24 people died and 23 others were injured in a bus accident on Monday in Saudi Arabia, authorities said..</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bus was carrying 47 omrah hajj pilgrims to Makkah and among them thirty-five passengers were Bangladeshi nationals, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Seheli Sabrin said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident occurred in Saudi Arabia’s Asir province - around 650 km away from Jeddah - at around 4:00 PM on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to media reports, the bus collided with a bridge following a breake failure, overturned and burst into flames.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hospital authorities said that it is very difficult to determine the nationality due to the burning and disfiguring of the bodies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A team of the Consulate was sent to find out detailed information about Bangladeshis involved in the accident, according to a press release sent from Bangladesh Consulate General in Jeddah.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is deeply saddened to receive the unfortunate news of death of thirteen Bangladeshi migrant workers and the injury of seventeen others in a tragic bus accident in the Abha district of Asir Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two officers of the Bangladesh Consulate General, Jeddah visited the area immediately after the incident and are trying to identify the victims and contact their family members in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs extended its heartfelt condolences to the relatives of those who have lost their lives in this tragic accident and remains connected with the wounded and hospitalised and is working for the early repatriation of the dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the horrific bus crash that killed around 24 omrah hajj pilgrims and injured around 23 people at the southwestern region of Saudi Arabia on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a condolence message, she prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed souls and quick recovery of the injured persons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked the Foreign Ministry officials and the Saudi Mission personnel to take necessary actions for recovering the bodies of Bangladeshi nationals and ensure proper treatment for the injured. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 04:32:02', '2023-03-29 04:32:02');
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(6063, 6063, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>A fire started by migrants in an apparent protest against deportations killed at least 40 people at a Mexican immigration detention center near the US border, authorities said Tuesday, prompting demands for justice.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blaze broke out late Monday at the National Migration Institute (INM) facility in Ciudad Juarez, prompting the mobilization of firefighters and dozens of ambulances.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The migrants were believed to have lit the fire as a demonstration because they feared they would be deported, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"They put mats at the door of the shelter and set them on fire as a protest, and did not imagine that it would cause this terrible tragedy,\" he told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi expressed solidarity with relatives of the victims, and appealed to countries in the region \"to deal in a humane, just, effective manner with growing population flows through the Americas.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anger grew outside the detention facility, with relatives chanting demands for justice near a makeshift shrine dedicated to the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Every migrant has the right to be safe, to be protected,\" said Fran Martin Perez, from Venezuela.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Because we\'re not criminals,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Amnesty International said the fire was \"a consequence of the restrictive and cruel immigration policies\" of Mexico and the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These devastating events lay bare a truly inhumane system of immigration enforcement. How is it possible that the Mexican authorities left human beings locked up with no way to escape the fire?\" said the rights group\'s Americas director, Erika Guevara-Rosas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Video raises questions -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Video surveillance footage, broadcast by several media and authenticated by a government minister, appeared to show guards at the detention center leaving as flames engulfed a cell with migrants trapped inside.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We had this video since last night. But in order not to hinder the investigations, out of respect for the victims, we must be careful,\" Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez said about the images.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Venezuelan woman who gave her name as Viangly waited desperately for information about her 27-year-old husband.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A family member can die and they don\'t tell you he\'s dead,\" she said, her voice cracking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 40 immigrants were killed and 28 were injured, according to the INM, which said the center housed 68 adult males from Central and South America.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dead and injured included people from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia and Ecuador, Mexican authorities said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro told reporters that 28 citizens of his country were killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a \"thorough investigation\" into the fire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He pledged \"to continue working with the authorities of countries where mixed movements of people occur to establish safer, more regulated, and organized migration pathways,\" a spokesman said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Unnecessary danger\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ciudad Juarez, which neighbors El Paso, Texas, is one of the border towns where numerous undocumented migrants seeking refuge in the United States remain stranded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fed up with waiting at the border, hundreds of the migrants attempted to storm an international bridge on March 13 but were blocked by US agents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Deteriorating conditions in migrant facilities along the border mean vulnerable asylum seekers are in unnecessary danger,\" the International Rescue Committee humanitarian organization said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Stronger systems along Mexico\'s migration corridors are critical to provide asylum seekers with the protection they need,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said the tragedy was \"a reminder to the governments of the region of the importance of fixing a broken migration system and the risks of irregular migration.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Joe Biden\'s administration has been hoping to stem the record tide of migrants and asylum seekers undertaking often dangerous journeys organized by human smugglers to get to the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 200,000 people try to cross the border from Mexico into the United States each month, most of them fleeing poverty and violence in Central and South America.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 7,600 migrants have died or disappeared in transit in the Americas since 2014.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of those, around 4,400 people perished or went missing on the US-Mexican border crossing route, according to the UN agency. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 05:17:41', '2023-03-29 05:17:41'),
(6064, 6064, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After her 2018 Koffee With Karan episode, fans started to assume that things might finally be well between Karan Johar and Priyanka Chopra. However, her latest appearance on Dax Shepherd\'s podcast, on which she spoke about getting bullied in Bollywood and having ‘beef’ with some people in the industry, has reignited the controversy.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the podcast, Priyanka said, “I was being pushed into a corner in the industry (Bollywood). I had people not casting me, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break.\" Later, actor Kangana Ranaut tweeted that Priyanka was clearly speaking about Karan Johar. “This is what ⁦@priyankachopra⁩ has to say about Bollywood, people ganged up on her, bullied her and chased her out of film industry a self made woman was made to leave India. Everyone knows Karan Johar had banned her,” she tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since, Kangana\'s tweet, many have been wondering what really happened between Karan Johar and Priyanka Chopra. Let us tell you that the feud started back in April 2012. It was also around the time that rumours of Priyanka\'s affair with Shah Rukh Khan were circulating. Karan, being Shah Rukh\'s and his wife Gauri Khan\'s best friend, was said to have been trying to ‘push\' Priyanka out of the scene. Later, one of Priyanka\'s friends gave an interview to Mumbai Mirror about Karan\'s treatment of the actor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"At a recent party, while he (Karan) was feeding her cupcakes, she heard rumours of him b*tching her out-all this is very hurtful,” a close associate of the actress told the tabloid. They also believed that a powerful clique of star wives was behind the anti-Priyanka stories. “Priyanka has done nothing wrong. If these women are insecure about their relationships with their husbands, they should sort it out with them, at home. Why should they attack her?” Priyanka\'s close friend had told the tabloid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upset at the story against him, Karan took to Twitter to share some fiery tweets without naming anyone. \"Using their hired PR machinery and hiding behind so called \'friends\' to get news into tabloids is nothing but spineless and lame,\" he wrote. \"Some people need to wake up and smell the KOFFEE!!! Get a reality check before it\'s too late!!! Grow up!!! and don\'t mess with goodness....,\" he further added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, soon after in September, Karan told Hindustan Times in an interview that all was well between him and Priyanka. \"Well, I can say that there is absolutely no problem between Priyanka and me\", he said, adding, \"We have had an extremely good professional and personal experience over the years. I hope it continues that way.\" HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 05:32:53', '2023-03-29 05:32:53'),
(6065, 6065, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy’ zone this morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 160 at 9:04am, Dhaka ranked seventh in the list of cities around the world with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thailand’s Chiang Mai, Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Delhi occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 253, 227 and 214, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 150 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, 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;\">AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</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;\">With the advent of winter, Dhaka’s air quality starts deteriorating sharply due to the massive discharge of pollutant particles from construction work, rundown roads, brick kilns, and other sources. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 05:36:58', '2023-03-29 05:36:58'),
(6066, 6066, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nur E Alam Siddique, convener of Swadhin Bangla Kendriya Chhatra Sangram Parishad and former president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (1970-1972), is no more. He was 79.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Member of Parliament passed away at 4:37 am today, confirmed his press secretary Aniket Rajesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siddique was one of the leaders of Mujib Bahini.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noor-e-Alam Siddiqui played an active role in all the political activities of the time, including participation in the six-point movement and Language Movement. He was elected MP from Jashore-2 constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League in the first parliamentary election of 1973.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He contested from Jhenaidah-2 constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League in the 7th and 8th parliamentary elections of 1996 and 2001. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 05:39:36', '2023-03-29 05:39:36'),
(6067, 6067, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Argentina captain Lionel Messi on Tuesday scored his 100th international goal for the reigning world champions as they romped to a 7-0 friendly win over outclassed Curacao.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven-time Ballon d\'Or winner Messi opened the scoring against the Caribbean island minnows on 20 minutes in Santiago del Estero.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It came 17 years after he opened his Argentina account in a 3-2 defeat to Croatia in March 2006.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 35-year-old soon added another just after the half-hour mark to make it 3-0, and then completed his hat-trick on 37 minutes with the fifth as Argentina toyed with their overmatched opponents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was his seventh hat-trick for the national team.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You cannot describe Messi in words,\" said fellow goalscorer Nicolas Gonzalez.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'s the best in the world and he shows it match after match, day after day. Every time he touches the ball, he makes you smile.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi came into the game not just as his country\'s all-time record goalscorer, but with more goals than the next two top marksmen -- Gabriel Batistuta on 56 and Sergio Aguero with 41 -- put together.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Argentina\'s second match since winning the World Cup in dramatic style against France in Qatar in December -- triumphing 4-2 on penalties after a thrilling 3-3 draw -- and it was always going to be about Messi reaching 100 goals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now with 102, he remains third in the all-time list, behind great rival Cristiano Ronaldo (122) of Portugal and Iran\'s Ali Daei (109).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Straight to the museum\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi had come up short on Thursday last week when he notched his 99th goal for the Albiceleste as Argentina toiled in their homecoming celebration match against Panama.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Central Americans had held out until the 78th minute before 21-year-old MLS sensation Thiago Almada broke their resistence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi then scored direct from a free-kick a minute from time -- his 800th goal in professional football -- in front of 83,000 delirious fans in Buenos Aires.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Curacao, ranked 86th by world governing body FIFA, could only hold out for 20 minutes before Messi took a pass from Giovanni Lo Ceslo, cut inside his marker onto his weaker right foot and fired a low shot into the bottom corner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The referee was then seen on live television throwing the ball to someone on the side of the pitch as DirecTV commentators speculated that it was heading \"straight to the museum.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three minutes later Gonzalez outjumped goalkeeper Eloy Room to head home from four yards.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gonzalez turned provider as Messi scored the first of three goals in four minutes, this time with his left foot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He then laid off the ball for Enzo Fernandez to make it four with a shot from distance before Lo Celso released Messi behind the defense to notch his treble.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentina took their foot off the gas in the second half, with only a generously-awarded Angel Di Maria penalty and close-range finish from Gonzalo Montiel adding to the score.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the 42,000 fans present remained in party mood throughout, waiting for their heroes to lift the World Cup trophy in front of them. 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(6068, 6068, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the authorities concerned to transform land management into a digital one to put an end to the social and family problems regarding ownership of land and ensure hassle-free services.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Land distribution system has to be digitalised to specify the ownership of land and thus the family and social problems over the issues would be solved,\" she said while inaugurating the country\'s first-ever three-day National Land Conference at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that it is very common in society that both brothers and sisters deprive each other of paternal property resulting in attacks, killings and conflicts.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If a proper land management system can be ensured, the problem would be solved,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said that her government has taken measures to protect the ownership of land of all the people staying at home and abroad.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Your (countrymen) property will remain yours wherever you stay at home and abroad. We have taken measures to secure and protect your rights,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Premier said people must not experience hassle while getting land-related services, adding, \"The problem will not exist anymore as we are building a digital land system.\"</div><div><br></div><div>At the same function, the Prime Minister also launched seven innovative initiatives, such as the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Monument and the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Guchhagram Complex in Laksmipur, Registration-Mutation Interconnection, Smart Land Map, Smart Land Records, Smart Land Pedia, Smart Land Service Centre and Modern Land Offices at 400 upazilas across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Each of the seven initiatives, taken by our Land Ministry, will play a significant role in building a developed, prosperous and smart Bangladesh,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister asked all concerned to work with sincerity to render hassle-free and quick land-related services to the people.</div><div><br></div><div>Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, MP, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq, and Law Secretary Md. Golam Sarwar, spoke at the function, arranged by the Ministry of Land.</div><div><br></div><div>Land Secretary Md Mustafizur Rahman PAA gave the address of welcome while Assistant Commission (Land) of Rajbari Sadar Upazila Nurjahan Akhter Sathi expressed her feelings on behalf of the assistant commissioners.</div><div><br></div><div>A video documentary on the activities of the land was screened at the function.</div><div><br></div><div>The aim of the conference is to highlight the role of the Land Ministry in building a smart Bangladesh and find out the future challenges of digitization of land services.</div><div><br></div><div>Other objectives of the National Land Conference include informing citizens, government agencies, and stakeholders about the steps taken by the Ministry of Land, creating awareness among them about land management, and giving an idea about the existing laws and regulations related to land. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 09:39:11', '2023-03-29 09:39:11'),
(6069, 6069, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has recovered the body a 10-year old girl, who was abducted while going to school on March 21, at Pahartali Wireless Chicken Farm area of the Chattogram city.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Body of Abida Sultana Ayoni was recovered from a pond early Wednesday and it is suspected that she was raped before murder, said PBI SP Nayeema Sultana.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime suspect in this case Rubel was interrogated and according to his information, Abida’s body was recovered from the pond, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Details will be revealed through a press conference today, said the PBI SP.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case statement, the 4th grader was going to school on that day. When she reached Kazir Dighi\'s Sagarika Road area, local vegetable seller Rubel lured her to give kittens and abducted her which was caught on CCTV footage. Since then the girl remained untraced. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 09:51:13', '2023-03-29 09:51:13'),
(6070, 6070, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday has said that members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested vernacular daily Prothom Alo’s reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams in a case.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The minister came up with the remarks while responding to questions from journalists after an event at the ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>“Police can take measures if anyone being aggrieved seeks justice and lodges case at police station,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“However I am not fully clear about the matter but something happened centering the case,” the minister said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Terming the Prothom Alo’s report as baseless, he said, “You journalists through Ekattor TV reported that the baseless news was prepared with ill motive.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“I will inform you of the details after knowing all,” the minister added.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Wednesday, Shamsuzzaman was picked up by CID members from his Savar residence.</div><div><br></div><div>Witnesses and family members said 16 Criminal Investigation Department (CID) members in plainclothes picked him up from his residence in Ambagan area adjacent to Jahangirnagar University around 4:30 am.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 10:39:55', '2023-03-29 10:39:55'),
(6071, 6071, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been asked to vacate his government-allotted bungalow at 12, Tughlaq Lane by April 22, days after he stood disqualified as a Lok Sabha member, Hindustan Times reported.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to the rule, a disqualified parliamentarian isn\'t entitled to a government accommodation, and is given a 30-day period to vacate the official bungalow.</div><div><br></div><div>This was Rahul Gandhi\'s forth term as Lok Sabha MP, first elected in 2004 from Uttar Pradesh\'s Amethi constituency. In 2019, he lost in Amethi to Union minister Smriti Irani, however managed to win from Kerala\'s Wayanad seat.</div><div><br></div><div>The Congress leader was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on March 23 after he was convicted for a two-year term in a criminal defamation case. According to the Article 102 1(e) of the Constitution and Section 8(3) of the Representation of People Act, 1951, when read together, a Member of Parliament can be disqualified if he or she is convicted of any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for two or more years. The notice to vacate the bungalow was served by the Housing Committee of Lok Sabha.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 11:00:50', '2023-03-29 11:00:50'),
(6072, 6072, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three Rohingyas were killed on Wednesday after heavy chunks of mud from a hill collapsed on them while cutting a hill at Muhuripara in Ukhiya Upazila of Cox’s Bazar.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Two of the deceased were identified as Jahid Hossain, 23, son of Abdul Motaleb, resident of Rohingya camp east-1, Syed Akbar, 20, son of Md. Owares, resident of Rohingya camp-3. The identity of another deceased couldn’t be known yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Locals said, a team of Rohingya labourers were cutting a hill near Nesar Ahmed’s house.</div><div><br></div><div>Suddenly, some heavy chunks of mud collapsed on them, leaving the trio dead on the spot.</div><div><br></div><div>On information, police and a fire service team rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Mohammad Ali, Officer-in-Charge of Ukhiya Police Station, said that they brought the bodies to the police station, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The bodies will be sent to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital for autopsy, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 12:55:08', '2023-03-29 12:55:08'),
(6073, 6073, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Uttara South and Shewrapara stations of the metro rail are ready to open for commuters from March 31.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL) has already taken steps to open these two stations, said sources of DMTCL, which operates the metro rail service.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>With the opening of Uttara South and Shewrapara stations, commuters will be able to enjoy the metro rail ride using all nine stations from Uttara to Agargaon.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"We\'ve formed two teams which will coordinate with the operation teams of the Uttara South and Shewrapara stations for operation,\" said a DMTCL official.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On December 28 last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country\'s first ever elevated metro rail, setting a milestone in the country\'s communication history.</div><div><br></div><div>She opened the 11.73 km part of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 of the metro rail project from Diabari to Agargaon by unveiling its plaque at Diabari in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>At present, the metro rail is operating its service from 8:30am to 12:30pm.&nbsp; - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 14:03:45', '2023-03-29 14:03:45'),
(6074, 6074, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh beat Ireland by 77 runs in the second T20 Wednesday in Chattogram to win the series with one match to spare.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Put in to bat first, the Tigers Bangladesh scored 202 for three after the match was reduced to 17 overs per side due to rain.</div><div><br></div><div>Litton Das and Rony Talukdar scored 124 runs in just 9.2 overs in the first wicket stand. Litton smashed 10 fours and three sixes to score 83 off 41 balls before falling to Ben White in the 12th over.</div><div><br></div><div>The wicketkeeper-batter Litton hit fifty off 18 balls, the fastest fifty by a Bangladeshi in T20s. He broke the 20-ball fifty record of Mohammad Ashraful in 2007.</div><div><br></div><div>Talukdar, too, played a free-flowing knock of 44 off 23 balls before being caught by Mark Adair off Ben White.</div><div><br></div><div>After that, skipper Shakib Al Hasan and Towhid Hridoy continued to pile on the runs. Shakib struck three fours and three sixes in his unbeaten knock of 38 off 24 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>For Ireland, White was the pick of the bowlers, taking two wickets for 28 runs in his four overs. Adair also managed to pick up a wicket but conceded 52 runs in his four overs.</div><div><br></div><div>Chasing 203, Ireland failed to offer any resistance against Bangladesh\'s quality attack. The in-form Taskin Ahmed picked up the wicket of Ireland captain Paul Stirling off the first ball of the innings.</div><div><br></div><div>After Taskin\'s first wicket, Shakib bagged five wickets in his first three overs and returned the figures of five for 22 in four overs. With this, he became the highest wicket-taker in T20s, surpassing New Zealand\'s Tim Southee.</div><div><br></div><div>Shakib now has 136 wickets in the format in 114 matches while Southee has 134 in 107 matches. After Shakib\'s bowling spell, Taskin took two more wickets and took three for 27 in four overs.</div><div><br></div><div>Curtis Campher hit an unbeaten fifty off 30 balls for Ireland.</div><div><br></div><div>Both teams will now compete in the solitary Test in Dhaka, starting on April 4. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 15:40:33', '2023-03-29 15:40:33'),
(6075, 6075, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will&nbsp; mechanise the agriculture through multipurpose rural cooperatives to boost production of food and other crops.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We are taking an initiative to mechanise the agriculture through multipurpose rural cooperatives system which was initially taken up by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister was addressing the three-day first-ever National Land Conference 2023 along with launching seven initiatives of the land ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>The programme was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) with Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>The conference (March 29-31) will focus on the role of the land ministry in building a smart Bangladesh and to find out the future challenges of digitization of land services.</div><div><br></div><div>Other objectives of the conference include informing citizens, government agencies, and stakeholders about the steps taken by the land ministry, creating awareness among them about land management, and giving an idea about the existing laws and regulations related to land.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the 7 initiatives that the prime minister is set to inaugurate is the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Monument and the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Guchchagram Complex.</div><div><br></div><div>The remaining 6 initiatives include Registration-Mutation Interconnection, Smart Land Map, Smart Land Records, Smart Land Pedia, Smart Land Service Center, and Union Land Office.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said that under the planned cooperatives system one portion of the harvest will go to the owners of the lands, one portion to the engaged labourers while one portion to the government.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that the government will utilise its portion for the land preservation and maintenance.</div><div><br></div><div>“Already, the cooperatives ministry has been instructed to make a policy regarding this matter. We want that,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She also said that there will be no demarcation separating one plot of land from another. But there will be no problem regarding the ownership of the lands as digital mapping will specify the ownership.</div><div><br></div><div>“Although there will be no demarcation, all lands will be cultivated collectively, as there will be digital map, ownership will be specifically indicated, owners will get their share as per their lands’ proportion,” she narrated.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said that if this system is established the people of Bangladesh will never be poor and hungry and they will not suffer from food scarcity.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will not need to beg to anyone for foods, rather we will be able to help others,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Hasina said that from Pahela Boishakh 1430 (April 14, 2023) the land development tax across the country will be fully collected through online.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that Awami League is the servant of the people as it emerged from the struggle to materialise the rights of the people.</div><div><br></div><div>“From the very beginning Awami League is continuing its struggle to establish the rights of the people. And while in power we are doing our job with the motto of serving the people,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that the government has taken steps to remove the land-related hassles that created problems among the family members.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Our aim is to ensure the welfare of the people. Many people face many problems while taking land related services, Inshallah in the digital and smart Bangladesh people will not suffer anymore. We want that all sorts of irregularities will be removed from Bangladesh.”</div><div><br></div><div>Recalling the arson attacks of BNP and its allies during 2013-15 period that killed many innocent people in the name of anti-government movement, she said that they burnt down 60 public offices, including six land offices.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Later the government built around 400 land offices across the country and in every upazila there is now modern land office with record preservation system.</div><div><br></div><div>“Their (BNP and Jamaat) job is to demolish while Awami League’s is to create for the welfare of the people. And our prime aim is to serve the people,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister put emphasis on the proper sharing of wealth and lands among the successors to avoid future complexities.</div><div><br></div><div>“The shares of the successors can be specified through digital means solving many family problems,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Anisul Haq, Law secretary Md. Golam Sarwar, Land secretary Md Mustafizur Rahman and Assistant Land Commissioner Rajbari Noor Jahan Alther Sathi also spoke at the programme.</div><div><br></div><div>Four seminars/panel discussions on various topics related to land management have been scheduled to take place during the afternoons of the day of inauguration ceremony and the following two days, according to the press release.</div><div><br></div><div>The second and third day events of the conference will be held at BIAM Foundation in the capital. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 16:15:54', '2023-03-29 16:15:54'),
(6076, 6076, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted by consensus and to cheers a landmark resolution calling for the world body\'s top court to lay out nations\' legal obligations in combatting climate change.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Together, you are making history,\" UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, emphasizing that even if non-binding, an opinion from the International Court of Justice \"would assist the General Assembly, the UN and member states to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our world so desperately needs.\" Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-29 16:30:42', '2023-03-29 16:30:42'),
(6077, 6077, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit Rolling Fork, Mississippi on March 31, a week after it was devastated by a tornado that ripped through the southern state, killing at least 25 people.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The President and the First Lady will visit with first responders, state and local officials, and communities impacted by the devastation from recent storms, survey recovery efforts, and reaffirm their commitment to supporting the people of Mississippi as long as it takes,\" the White House said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather system, mixed with thunderstorms and driving rain, left a trail of havoc across the southern state late Friday, slamming several towns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Weather Service gave the tornado a rating of four out of five on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with ferocious winds of up to 200 miles (320 kilometers) per hour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a matter of seconds, Rolling Fork -- a town of about 2,000 people -- saw homes shredded, buildings flattened and cars smashed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Red Cross official described Rolling Fork on Sunday as being \"like a war zone.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It looks like a bomb went off,\" said John Brown, whose organization has set up an aid center in the town.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden on Sunday approved a federal disaster declaration for Mississippi, freeing up aid to help the state recover.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials, including Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, gathered in the leveled town on Sunday afternoon, praising rescue efforts and pledging support \"for the long haul.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is heartbreaking to hear of the loss of life, to see the devastation firsthand,\" Mayorkas told a press conference held with Governor Tate Reeves and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) head, Deanne Criswell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reeves, a Republican, thanked Biden on Twitter \"for recognizing the scale of the damage in Mississippi and quickly approving our disaster declaration -- a critical step in disaster response.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The severe weather also left a man dead in Alabama when he was trapped under an overturned trailer, as well as injuring dozens more in Mississippi, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tornadoes, a weather phenomenon notoriously difficult to predict, are relatively common in the United States, especially in the central and southern parts of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trip to Mississippi on Friday will be only two days after Jill Biden flew to Nashville, in the neighboring state of Tennessee, where she attended a vigil for the three children and three adult staff killed in a recent school shooting. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 03:32:26', '2023-03-30 03:32:26');
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(6078, 6078, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The chief of the UN atomic watchdog said on Wednesday he was working on a compromise security plan for the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and warned of increased military activity around it.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are persistent fears over the safety of the plant in the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, where there has been frequent shelling since Russian troops invaded last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a rare visit to the facility, Europe\'s largest, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said he was working to find a compromise that would suit both Moscow and Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am trying to prepare and propose realistic measures that will be approved by all parties,\" Grossi told reporters during a press tour organised by Moscow at the plant, which is controlled by Russian forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We must avoid catastrophe. I am an optimist and I believe that this is possible,\" said Grossi, who arrived at the plant in a Russian armoured vehicle, surrounded by soldiers in full combat gear.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he also warned of increasing military activity around the nuclear plant and expressed hope that Russia and Ukraine would agree on safety principles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the visit to the plant was \"extremely useful.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The idea is to agree on certain principles, certain commitments, including not to attack the plant,\" he separately told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of shelling the plant, increasing fears of a disaster. Russian soldiers stationed at the plant told AFP during Grossi\'s visit Wednesday that they have been preparing for a possible attack from Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their main task is \"to prevent an armed takeover\" of the site by Ukrainian \"saboteurs\", one soldier told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine denies any such plans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations has called for a demilitarised zone around the site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Anything can happen\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grossi said his team had previously focused on the possibility of establishing a security zone around the plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Now the concept is evolving,\" he said, with his team focusing on the protection of the plant itself rather than \"on territorial aspects which pose certain problems.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the visit Grossi took a guided tour through the huge facility, which had been fortified. He was followed by around 30 journalists. The Moscow-installed director of the plant, Yury Chernichuk, showed Grossi damage the plant sustained during the hostilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ukrainian nuclear power operator Energoatom earlier in the day distributed footage of a convoy of civilian and military vehicles marked with the letter Z, a symbol emblazoned on Russian military hardware in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Grossi\'s second visit to Zaporizhzhia since Russia invaded Ukraine last February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agency has had a team of experts inside the plant since September 2022, but Grossi has said the situation \"is still precarious\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week, Grossi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said it was not possible to restore safety at the plant with Russia in control.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Renat Karchaa, an advisor to Russia\'s nuclear power operator Rosenergoatom said Wednesday ahead of the visit that it was unlikely to bring about major breakthroughs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are far from having any illusions that Grossi\'s visit will dramatically change anything. For us, this is an ordinary working event,\" he was cited as saying by Russian news agencies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Complete withdrawal -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plant needs a reliable electricity supply to ensure essential nuclear safety and security functions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it has suffered repeated electricity outages during the war, causing alarm in the IAEA and the international community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian invasion has caused devastation across swathes of the country, and despite more than 13 months of gruelling battles, Ukraine\'s top diplomat on Tuesday struck a defiant tone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Russia has to withdraw from every square meter of Ukrainian territory,\" Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a virtual session ahead of the Summit for Democracy, which US President Joe Biden kicked off on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There should be no misinterpretation of what the word withdrawal implies.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Ukraine\'s eastern Donetsk region, fighting in recent months has concentrated on the eastern city of Bakhmut, with Kyiv saying it is holding out in the urban hub to exhaust Russian troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">General Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a news conference in Washington that Russia has not made \"any progress whatsoever\" around Bakhmut in the last roughly three weeks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a slaughter-fest for the Russians,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The key military objective of Russia\'s invasion is the complete capture of Donetsk, which it already claimed to have annexed last year, even as fighting there is ongoing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian authorities said Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had used US-supplied HIMARS systems to strike Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city controlled by Moscow lies around 65 kilometres from the front line and analysts have said it could be a target for a highly-anticipated Ukrainian counter offensive. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 03:39:32', '2023-03-30 03:39:32'),
(6079, 6079, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The possible indictment of former president Donald Trump in New York could take several more weeks as a grand jury breaks from the case through most of April, US media reported Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 18 Trump declared he was three days away from being charged over a hush-money payment to a porn star.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But since then the panel convened by Manhattan\'s chief local prosecutor has continued to hear witnesses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, with other cases to deal with, holidays including Easter, Passover and Eid al-Fitr ahead, and a scheduled two-week break from April 10, the grand jury might not consider the case again before the end of the month, according to the Washington Post and Politico, citing sources close to the matter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Post said the earliest date for resuming the grand jury -- a citizens\' panel tasked with deciding whether there is a case to answer -- would be April 24.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The probe centers on $130,000 paid weeks before the 2016 election to adult film star Stormy Daniels to stop her from going public about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump a decade earlier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump\'s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who has testified before the grand jury, told Congress in 2019 that he made the payment on Trump\'s behalf and was later reimbursed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors say the checks were not properly registered, which might normally result in a misdemeanor charge of falsifying business records.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But that could be upgraded to a felony if the district attorney can persuade the grand jury that the payment and the suspect accounting were part of a cover-up, intended to benefit Trump\'s election campaign by burying the scandal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expectations were that the New York investigation could be the first to reach a charging decision out of three major probes into the former president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No US president, in or out of office, has ever been indicted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump also faces felony investigations in Georgia relating to the 2020 election and in Washington over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by the ex-president\'s supporters, who hoped to keep him in office after his election loss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump, who is seeking to be the Republican Party\'s presidential nominee again in 2024, has branded all of the investigations \"witch hunts\" and political persecutions. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 03:43:56', '2023-03-30 03:43:56'),
(6080, 6080, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The first crewed flight of Boeing\'s Starliner space capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in July, Boeing and NASA officials said Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CST-100 Starliner mission, which had previously been planned for April, will take place no earlier than July 21, the officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'ve deliberated and decided that the best launch attempt is no earlier than July 21 for CFT,\" the crew flight test, Steve Stich, the manager of NASA\'s Commercial Crew Program, told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We feel pretty confident with that date,\" added Mark Nappi, the Starliner program manager at Boeing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stich said more time was needed to certify the parachute system designed to bring the astronauts and the spacecraft safely back to Earth, and a ground test of the parachutes will be conducted in May.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Starliner will carry two NASA astronauts, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the ISS, where they are expected to stay for at least eight days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spacecraft is to launch into space on an Atlas V rocket made by United Launch Alliance from Cape Canaveral in Florida.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the mission is successful, the Boeing capsule will finally be certified and begin operational flights, at a date yet to be determined.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boeing had hoped to make its first manned flight of the CST-100 Starliner in 2022 but has experienced a number of delays.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company finally succeeded in May 2022 in reaching the ISS for the first time -- without a crew on board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA awarded fixed-price contracts of $4.2 billion to Boeing and $2.6 billion to SpaceX in 2014, shortly after the end of the Space Shuttle program, during a time when the United States was left reliant on Russian Soyuz rockets for rides to the ISS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA is looking to certify Starliner as a second \"taxi\" service for its astronauts to the space station -- a role that Elon Musk\'s SpaceX has provided since succeeding in a test mission of its Dragon capsule in 2020. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 03:58:41', '2023-03-30 03:58:41'),
(6081, 6081, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was informed with updates on the preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games and the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games on the second day of the Executive Board (EB) meeting at Lausanne, Switzerland, on Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After achieving a 3.25-million record ticket sales in France\'s individual sporting event, the Paris 2024 celebrated 500 days to go by starting registration for the draw for phase 2 of ticket sales. Registration for volunteers was also opened, with plans to recruit 45,000.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Test events will start this summer and several operational training exercises will take place as well for the Paris 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milan Cortina 2026 presented a new governance structure, including a new Executive Board of Directors and the Government\'s Interministerial Committee, which oversees the infrastructure development and organizational plan for the Games.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zhang Hong, Chair of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Youth Olympics, provided updates on Gangwon 2024, including the unveiling of the official mascot at the one-year-to-go milestone, the six new ambassadors and the appointment of two Olympic gold medallists as Co-Presidents. XINHUA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 04:03:08', '2023-03-30 04:03:08'),
(6082, 6082, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A ferry carrying more than 200 people caught fire in southern Philippines late Wednesday night, killing at least 10 passengers, a local official said on Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing an initial report, Nixon Alonzo, the chief of disaster reduction and management office in Basilan province, told a local radio that seven passengers who jumped into the sea remained missing. At least 195 passengers and 35 crew have been rescued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said rescuers found four bodies on the vessel, while six were brought to the shore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The passengers died from drowning after jumping into the water. Some suffered burns,\" Alonzo said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alonzo said the ferry, M/V Lady Mary Joy, was headed to Zamboanga City from Jolo when it caught fire in the waters off Baluk-Baluk Island in Hadji Muhammad town of Basilan province past 10 p.m. local time on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Philippine Coast Guard confirmed the incident, saying it deployed personnel and its vessel to help in the search and rescue operations but did not give details about the casualties. XINHUA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 04:21:24', '2023-03-30 04:21:24'),
(6083, 6083, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 171 at 8:50 am today (March 30, 2023), Dhaka ranked 4th in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thailand’s Chiang Mai, India’s Delhi and Pakistan’s Lahore occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 245, 197, and 173 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is considered ‘unhealthy’ while between 201–300 is ‘very unhealthy’, and 301–400 is \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, informs people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI in Bangladesh is based on five pollutants: particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, mainly due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 04:25:28', '2023-03-30 04:25:28'),
(6084, 6084, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine\'s president invited his powerful Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to visit his nation, saying they haven\'t been in contact since the war began and he is \"ready to see him here.\"</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want to speak with him,\" Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Associated Press on Tuesday, the week after Xi visited Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. China had no immediate response about whether a Xi visit to Ukraine would happen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China has been economically aligned and politically favorable toward neighboring Russia across many decades and Beijing has provided Putin diplomatic cover by staking out an official position of neutrality in the war. Xi, a powerful leader who commands the resources of the world\'s most populous nation, is an important player in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and even China\'s lack of involvement is a potent statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelenskyy spoke to the AP aboard a train shuttling him across Ukraine, to cities near some of the fiercest fighting and others where his country\'s forces have successfully repelled Russia\'s invasion. Zelenskyy rarely travels with journalists, and the president\'s office said AP\'s two night train trip with him was the most extensive since the war began.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelenskyy has extended invitations to Xi before in recent months, but this explicit call to visit comes days after the Chinese leader visited Putin in Russia last week. But the Ukrainian leader said he hasn\'t communicated with Xi for the duration of the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are ready to see him here,\" Zelenskyy said. \"I had contact with him before full-scale war. But during all this year, more than one year, I didn\'t have.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning was asked whether Xi would accept an invitation from Zelenskyy — or whether one had been officially extended. She told reporters she had no information to give. She did say that Beijing maintains \"communication with all parties concerned, including Ukraine.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked whether a meeting between Xi and Zelenskyy would be useful to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, said Russian authorities \"highly appreciate\" China\'s balanced position on the issue and \"have no right to come up with any advice\" on whether the two should meet. \"The Chinese leader himself decides the appropriateness of certain contacts,\" Peskov said during his daily conference call with reporters Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Washington, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the United States supports talks between Xi and Zelenskyy, \"and my goodness, we\'ve been saying that for weeks.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi\'s Russia visit last week raised the prospect that Beijing might be ready to provide Moscow with the weapons and ammunition it needs to refill its depleted stockpile. But Xi\'s trip ended without any such announcement. Days later, Putin announced that he would be deploying tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, which neighbors Russia and pushes the Kremlin\'s nuclear stockpile closer to NATO territory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelenskyy suggested Putin\'s move was intended to distract from the lack of guarantees he received from China.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What does it mean? It means that the visit was not good for Russia,\" Zelenskyy speculated. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 04:30:02', '2023-03-30 04:30:02'),
(6085, 6085, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The editor of the country’s leading newspaper, Prothom Alo, has been sued alongside other staff members under the Digital Security Act.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prothom Alo itself reported the development at 3.19am (Thursday) on its website.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the case was filed at 1.30am at Ramna police station by a lawyer named Abdul Malek (Mashiur Malek), accusing the paper’s editor and publisher Matiur Rahman, reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams, an unnamed ‘assistant cameraman’, and unnamed others of ‘using print, online, and electronic media to tarnish the image and reputation of the state’.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was filed under sections 25, 31 and 35 of the DSA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is worth mentioning that Shams, the paper’s Savar correspondent, was sued in a separate case under the DSA just a day earlier on Wednesday afternoon, around 10 hours after being picked up from his house near Jahangirnagar University by members of the Criminal Investigation Department of police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That case was filed at Tejgaon police station by one Golam Kibria, a resident of Mirpur in the capital, accusing Shams of publishing a fake and fabricated news on the country’s Independence Day, as reported by UNB yesterday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prothom Alo managed to speak to the plaintiff in the latest case, Abdul Malek, who said, “I filed a first information report (FIR). Don’t know if it (case) has been filed. They (police) have contacted different places. You know how it is with the police.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However Ramna police was unwilling to provide the daily with any information, it reports, adding that two of its reporters went to the police station at around 12:30am, but failed to enter the station despite trying for one-and-a-half hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper was asked to go back in the morning to collect a copy of the FIR.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ramna Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) could not be reached for a comment on the matter. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Section 25 of the DSA criminalizes publishing or propagating “any information with the</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">intention of tarnishing the image of the nation,” as well as knowingly publishing false or distorted information.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Section 31 refers to publishing or propagating in digital format any file that creates “hostility, hatred or adversity among people or destroys communal harmony or creates unrest or disorder or deteriorates or threatens to deteriorate law and order” in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Section 35 covers aiding or abetting any of the offences listed under the act. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 04:41:23', '2023-03-30 05:02:21'),
(6086, 6086, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams was taken to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court today, in connection with a case filed against him under Digital Security Act.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A team of police took him to the court around 10:10 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Criminal Investigation Department (CID) men in plainclothes picked up Shams from his residence in Ambagan area, adjacent to Jahangirnagar University, around 4:30 am on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same day, a Jubo League leader filed a case under the Digital Security Act against Shams, accusing him of publishing a \"false and fabricated report\" in the daily Prothom Alo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said that members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested the Prothom Alo reporter in a case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, opposition party BNP has denounced Shams\' arrest, saying it is a \"dreadful incident\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rights body Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation also condemned the arrest of the Prothom Alo journalist.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, editor of the leading daily Prothom Alo, Matiur Rahman, has been sued alongside other staff members under the Digital Security Act. Prothom Alo reported the development at 3:19 am today on its website. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 05:31:56', '2023-03-30 05:31:56'),
(6087, 6087, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Left leaning student organisations held a rally, protesting the arrest of Prothom Alo journalist Samsuzzaman Shams.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rally was held at the base of Anti-terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture of Dhaka University where activists from different units of Chhatra Union and other left leaning student organisations joined in around 5:30 pm on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a symbolic protest, demonstrators covered their mouths with black cloth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On behalf of the protesters, vice president of Chhatra Union, Meghmollar Bosu, said, \"It is too late to protest. You know that a journalist of Prothom Alo, Samsuzzaman Shams, has been arrested by law enforcers.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Journalism is not a crime. Then why did they arrest Shams? We are living in a country where we can\'t call a spade a spade. When someone raises his voice against people\'s misery, against corruption, he becomes a target. Some other media then starts trying to prove the fallacy of such reports, but they do not report crimes like money laundering, corruption and mismanagement in different sectors,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Demanding release of Shams, the protestors said, irrespective of political background it is now time to fight against this. Later, they formed a procession which marched around TSC area to National Museum. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 06:41:24', '2023-03-30 06:41:24'),
(6088, 6088, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The actress had previously declined to clarify her reasons for leaving Bollywood, but recently told Dax Shepard on the podcast “Armchair Expert” that she was “tired of the politics and certain cliques” that needed to be “grovelled” to.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priyanka described how “dark skinned” actresses, such as her, were treated in Bollywood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I was lightened up in many movies. Through makeup and then blasting lighting. There was a song which I still remember. It was called Chitti Dudh Kudi which means a girl who is as white as milk and I ain’t that but I was playing her and I was really lightened up in the movie,” she was quoted as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priyanka Chopra said that fair-skinned actresses had a higher chance of getting picked for lead roles and succeeding, and that even a celebrity like her suffered prejudice. “If you were darker – I’m not even that dark – for darker girls it was: ‘Let’s lighten you up’.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priyanka, who is married to American musician and actor Nick Jonas, expressed guilt for appearing in an early advertisement for a fairness cream, said the Guardian report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She now believes that such advertisements are harmful to the self-esteem of Indians with dark complexion. She said she then agreed to the ad because big cosmetic companies give prominence and revenue for female celebrities. “A beauty brand is a really big part of an actress’s trajectory,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moving to Hollywood is risky for Indian actors, but Priyanka has had success – appearing in US TV shows such as “Quantico” and starring in the film “The White Tiger”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Priyanka has maintained a large fan base in India, and her comments have gained widespread attention. They are unlikely to alter much, either in the Bollywood film industry or in wider society, where light skin is still regarded as more attractive, the report said. 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, '2023-03-30 06:48:08', '2023-03-30 06:48:08'),
(6089, 6089, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The globally famed Bloomberg news agency has praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her “timely reform steps” to negate impacts of the worldwide economic crisis in Bangladesh, predicting the initiatives to elect her government for fourth straight term in next general elections.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“She is expected to win a fourth straight term in the elections,” the international finance biased news service wrote in an article, simultaneously suggesting Sheikh Hasina “needs to push more reforms to receive all funds”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Sheikh Hasina is widely expected to win a fourth straight term in national polls expected by January 2024 — not least because many of her opponents are behind bars or ensnared in legal cases”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bloomberg published the article against the backdrop of Bangladesh’s receipt of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans which it attributed to the South Asian country’s timely reforms to maintain economic stability ahead of the next national election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article commented that Sheikh Hasina’s victory was expected not merely “because many of her opponents are behind bars or ensnared in legal cases” but due to her success in ensuring economic stability.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following is the full Bloomberg article headlined “Bangladesh Leader Bets IMF-Mandated Rigor Will Pay Off in Polls” with two sub-heads:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina needs to push more reforms to receive all funds</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is expected to win a fourth straight term in the elections</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government leaders across the world have often balked at implementing reforms agreed with the International Monetary Fund for fear of being penalized at the ballot box. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina isn’t one of them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her quick execution of IMF mandates have stood out in South Asia where Pakistan is still fiddling with fuel subsidies just as it inches closer to reviving a bailout. Sri Lanka has delayed local municipal polls as it raised taxes and interest rates to clinch IMF funds last week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh, which in July became the last of the three countries to ask for IMF support, was the first to get loans approved after swiftly raising energy prices. Hasina, 75, made no apologies for the move.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Gas and electricity supply can be provided if all agree to pay the purchasing costs,” she said a week $4.7 billion in IMF loans were secured on Jan. 31. “How much subsidy can be given? And why should we continue subsidies?”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such comments are typically unheard of as elections approach: All three nations face key votes over the next 18 months. But unlike leaders in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Hasina is widely expected to win a fourth straight term in national polls expected by January 2024 — not least because many of her opponents are behind bars or ensnared in legal cases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“If the ruling party manages to maintain economic stability, that could preempt anger or public sentiment that works against the government,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the Wilson Center’s South Asia Institute. “Hasina certainly has the credibility to pull this off.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In contrast, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif polled low in a survey ahead of elections later this year and has been blamed by voters for the economic crisis. While Sri Lankan leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has pushed through reforms, he depends on the support of a party run by a powerful clan and will need to seek a new mandate in presidential elections due September 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina is banking on her government’s move to go to the IMF to show to markets and voters that she has prevented the $460 billion Bangladeshi economy from going the way Sri Lanka has with a default. Pakistan is also facing the prospect of a default.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh went to the IMF as it grappled with an energy crisis with commodity prices soaring last year due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, while the rising costs of imports widened the trade deficit. The local currency depreciated by a fifth and reserves fell to the lowest in three years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By winning access to IMF funds, Hasina’s government is gaining some time to fix the economy before the elections. Signs of a weakening economy could well trigger public anger against the premier who has overseen growth of more than 6% on average for the past 14 years though it slowed to about 3.5% during the pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first review of the IMF program is set for the second half of 2023, and Bangladesh Mission Chief Rahul Anand sees the authorities “taking comprehensive steps” to unwind subsidies and move to a market-driven exchange rate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh has received $476 million under the facility so far. Further disbursements depend on the government ensuring reforms for the financial sector, ranging from the central bank pursuing an independent monetary policy to reducing non-performing loans and spurring climate change funding. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 07:17:11', '2023-03-30 07:17:11'),
(6090, 6090, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday emphasised enhancing economic cooperation between Bangladesh and Vietnam for the mutual benefit of the two countries.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She made the observation while outgoing Ambassador of Vietnam Pham Viet Chien called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban, PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said during the meeting they expressed satisfaction the growing bilateral relations between the two countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina mentioned that Bangladesh and Vietnam have many common issues like victorious struggle for the liberation of their countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The people of the country admired the Vietnamese struggle for independence, the PM said adding, during their Liberation War against Pakistani military junta, people of Bangladesh used to chant slogans ‘Bangla will be Vietnam’.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about the agricultural sector, she said that Bangladesh is a densely populated country and it has a huge population, so researchers have been engaged for boosting agro production.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM put emphasis on improving connectivity with South Asian countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She thanked the Vietnamese envoy for completing his tenure successfully.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She congratulated the Vietnamese envoy on the success of his country in the socioeconomic arena.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Viet Chien termed himself as the friend of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said apart from the Vietnam government the Vietnam Communist Party has relation with Bangladesh Awami League.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On behalf of Vietnamese leader the ambassador invited the prime minister to visit Vietnam to mark the 50 years of the diplomatic relation of the two countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the trade between Bangladesh and Vietnam was USD 1.5 billion while Bangladesh’s export to Vietnam increased by 30 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PMO secretary Mohammad Salahuddin was present during the meeting. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 08:12:44', '2023-03-30 08:12:44');
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(6091, 6091, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The UN General Assembly has adopted a consensus resolution requesting the International Court of Justice to provide advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution, tabled by a core group of countries including Bangladesh, is a landmark achievement for countries advocating for climate justice and equity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Introduced by the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, the resolution requests the ICJ to provide its opinion based on existing international law including international human rights law and the recognized principles, the legal obligations of the States to ensure the protection of climate system and the rights of the present and future generations to be protected from the effects of climate change.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ICJ is also requested to advise on the legal consequences of the acts or omissions that have caused significant harm to the climate system with respect to the States that are, due to their geographical circumstances and level of development, are injured or specially affected by or are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Secretary Ambassador Masud Bin Momen represented the Bangladesh delegation to the session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his statement Foreign Secretary Momen stated that, “despite clear warnings on the devastating and irreversible threats of climate change, global response to climate change is nowhere close to what is needed for the survival of humanity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This resolution and the subsequent advisory opinion will provide better understanding of the legal obligations of States in respect of climate change and rights of affected States and the people to be protected from climate change.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that the Court’s advisory opinions have tremendous importance, the Secretary General in his remarks stated that such an opinion, if and when given, would assist the General Assembly, the UN and Member States, to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our world so desperately needs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution has received overwhelming support from the member States as well as international civil society organizations, including climate activists and the youth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The core group, founded by Vanuatu, led an intense campaign throughout the process which included multiple negotiations with the broader UN membership in an open and transparent manner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh, as a member of the core group, remained actively engaged in the drafting and negotiations process as well as in the outreach efforts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is a defining moment for climate justice. We are thankful to the member States for their interest and engagement throughout the process, which testifies their deep commitment towards addressing the climate crisis”, said the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh Ambassador Muhith, who played an instrumental role in securing support from a number of key member States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in the evening the Foreign Secretary participated in a reception organized by Vanuatu to celebrate the adoption of the resolution. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 08:43:39', '2023-03-30 08:43:39'),
(6092, 6092, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said that the Digital Security Act was misused in the case of Naogaon’s Jasmine Sultana, who died in Rab custody on March 24.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“I want to make it clear that when the woman was detained from Naogaon; there was no case against her under the Digital Security Act. The case was filed after a day later. So, in this case the Digital Security Act was misused,” the minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister made these remarks while speaking with reporters after a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on the premises of the Law Ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>But, my point is that the woman wasn’t caught under the Digital Security Act, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Digital Security Act is being misused in one or two cases, said the minister, adding, “Wherever we see that this law is being misused, we are taking steps.”</div><div><br></div><div>Sultana, 38, an office assistant of Naogaon Municipality-Chandipur Union Land Office, was picked up by a RAB-5 patrol team on March 22.</div><div><br></div><div>Later she was taken to Naogaon Sadar Hospital and then to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, where she died on March 24, according to hospital authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the arrest of Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams the Law Minister said, “The cases which were filed or are being filed are not against journalists, but against injustice. I admit that you are fearless journalists. If you publish the truth to people, the government will never obstruct”, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, On March 29, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) men in plainclothes picked up Shams from his residence in Ambagan area, adjacent to Jahangirnagar University, around 4:30 am.</div><div><br></div><div>The same day, a Jubo League leader filed a case under the Digital Security Act against Shams, accusing him of publishing a \"false and fabricated report\" in the daily Prothom Alo.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, he was sent to jail by a Dhaka court. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 16:00:01', '2023-03-30 16:00:01'),
(6093, 6093, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Left leaning student organisations held a rally, protesting the arrest of Prothom Alo journalist Samsuzzaman Shams.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The rally was held at the base of Anti-terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture of Dhaka University where activists from different units of Chhatra Union and other left leaning student organisations joined in around 5:30 pm on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>As a symbolic protest, demonstrators covered their mouths with black cloth.</div><div><br></div><div>On behalf of the protesters, vice president of Chhatra Union, Meghmollar Bosu, said, \"It is too late to protest. You know that a journalist of Prothom Alo, Samsuzzaman Shams, has been arrested by law enforcers.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Journalism is not a crime. Then why did they arrest Shams? We are living in a country where we can\'t call a spade a spade. When someone raises his voice against people\'s misery, against corruption, he becomes a target. Some other media then starts trying to prove the fallacy of such reports, but they do not report crimes like money laundering, corruption and mismanagement in different sectors,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Demanding release of Shams, the protestors said, irrespective of political background it is now time to fight against this. Later, they formed a procession which marched around TSC area to National Museum. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 16:05:26', '2023-03-30 16:05:26'),
(6094, 6094, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Neymar lost €1 million while playing online casino on Tuesday night. The Brazilian was live when he lost money in a two-hour session and reacted hilariously.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The PSG star has been ruled out for the season with an ankle injury and has been spending time online to keep himself occupied. He has been spotted at McDonald\'s, playing in poker competitions, and more this season, even before he got injured.</div><div><br></div><div>On Tuesday night, Neymar lost €1 million while gambling in an online casino. The PSG star was not upset at the loss and instead reacted hilariously and mimicked the sad flute. Source:  Sportskeeda</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-30 16:15:19', '2023-03-30 16:18:48'),
(6095, 6095, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The UN General Assembly has adopted a consensus resolution urging the International Court of Justice to provide advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution, tabled on March 29 by a core group of countries including Bangladesh, is a landmark achievement for countries advocating for climate justice and equity, said a release of the UN\'s Permanent Mission of Bangladesh today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Introduced by the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, the resolution requested the ICJ to provide its opinion based on existing international law, including international human rights law and the recognized principles, the legal obligations of the states to ensure the protection of climate system and the rights of the present and future generations to be protected from the effects of climate change, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ICJ is also requested to advise on the legal consequences of the acts or omissions that have caused significant harm to the climate system with respect to the States, due to their geographical circumstances and level of development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Secretary Ambassador Masud Bin Momen represented the Bangladesh delegation to the session. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 13:13:22', '2023-03-31 13:13:22'),
(6096, 6096, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka dwellers have experienced a slight improvement in the city’s air quality this morning after last night’s rain.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The capital’s air quality has turned ‘moderate’ today with an air quality index (AQI) score of 82 at 9 am, ranking 29th in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thailand’s Chiang Mai, Nepal’s Kathmandu and South Korea\'s Incheon occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 316, 184, and 164, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 150 is considered \'unhealthy\', AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ 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.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 13:16:02', '2023-03-31 13:16:02'),
(6097, 6097, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A New York grand jury on Thursday indicted Donald Trump over hush money payments made to a porn star during his 2016 campaign, making him the first former US president to face criminal charges.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The historic indictment of the 76-year-old Republican -- who denies all wrongdoing in connection with the payments made ahead of the election that sent him to the White House -- is certain to upend the current presidential race in which Trump hopes to regain office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And it will forever mark the legacy of the former leader, who survived two impeachments and kept prosecutors at bay over everything from the US Capitol riot to missing classified files -- only to land in court over a sex scandal involving Stormy Daniels, a 44-year-old adult movie actress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump\'s lawyer Susan Necheles told AFP she expects he will be arraigned on Tuesday next week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\'s office confirmed that it had contacted Trump\'s lawyers Thursday evening to \"coordinate his surrender\" in New York -- with the felony charges against him to be revealed at that point.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump slammed the indictment as \"political persecution and election interference,\" raging against prosecutors and his Democratic opponents and vowing that it would backfire on his successor, President Joe Biden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surrendering for arraignment over what CNN has reported could be as many as 30 counts related to business fraud would normally involve being fingerprinted and photographed, potentially even handcuffed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Republican camp, Trump\'s allies and sons denounced what they say is a vendetta aimed at derailing his 2024 campaign -- while his expected challenger for the party nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, slammed the indictment as \"un-American.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the House of Representatives, said the indictment had \"irreparably damaged\" the country. Trump\'s former vice president and possible 2024 challenger Mike Pence called it an \"outrage\" that would only \"further serve to divide\" the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the top Democrat Adam Schiff -- lead prosecutor of Trump\'s first impeachment in 2019 -- called it \"a sobering and unprecedented development.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The indictment and arrest of a former president is unique throughout all of American history,\" Schiff said in a statement. \"But so too is the unlawful conduct for which Trump has been charged.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daniels welcomed the development with her characteristic aplomb.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have so many messages coming in that I can\'t respond...also don\'t want to spill my champagne,\" she tweeted while also plugging her #TeamStormy merchandise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Possible protests –</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 18, Trump had declared he expected to be arrested within days over the payment to Daniels -- who received $130,000 weeks before the election that brought Trump to power, to stop her from going public about a tryst she claims they had a decade earlier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In predicting his indictment, Trump also issued a call for demonstrations and dark warnings that it could lead to \"potential death &amp; destruction\" that \"could be catastrophic for our Country.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His statement set New York on edge for possible protests but the prospect of a quick indictment appeared to recede as the grand jury panel continued to hear witnesses -- until Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A media scrum quickly gathered outside the district attorney\'s office, along with a handful of anti-Trump protesters -- but the situation was calm overall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump\'s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who has testified before the grand jury, told Congress in 2019 that he made the payment to Daniels on Trump\'s behalf and was later reimbursed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors argued the checks were not properly registered, and the jury was asked to consider if there had been a cover-up, intended to benefit Trump\'s campaign by burying the scandal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The New York investigation is the first to reach a decision on charges out of three major probes into the former president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump also faces felony investigations in Georgia relating to the 2020 election and in Washington over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by the ex-president\'s supporters, who hoped to keep him in office after his election loss to Joe Biden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Republican frontrunner -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump, who is seen to be the frontrunner to be the Republican nominee in the 2024 election, has branded all of the investigations political persecution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impact of an indictment on his election chances is unpredictable, with critics and adversaries alike voicing concerns about the legal merits of the hush money case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Detractors worry that if Trump were cleared, it could make it easier to dismiss as a \"witch hunt\" any future indictment in arguably more serious affairs -- such as Trump\'s efforts to overturn Georgia\'s election results.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Manhattan charges will also likely juice turnout among Trump\'s base, boosting his chances in the party primary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump staged his first presidential campaign rally in Texas on Saturday, addressing several thousand supporters -- far fewer than the 15,000 he had expected -- in the city of Waco, Texas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The innocence of people makes no difference whatsoever to these radical left maniacs,\" he told the fired-up crowd. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 13:20:31', '2023-03-31 13:20:31'),
(6098, 6098, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Metro rail’s Shewrapara and Uttara South stations opened to the public on Friday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the opening of the two stations, all 9 stations on the Uttara-Agargaon route are now operational.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, MAN Siddique, the managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) said metro rail will run from 8 am to 2 pm instead of 8:30 am to 12:30 pm from April 5.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Considering the passengers\' demand and aiming to provide more services, the timing has been changed,” he said in a press conference on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said the metro rail will start in full swing from July this year and people can enjoy the metro service from dawn to midnight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to DMTCL, the&nbsp; operation from Uttara to&nbsp; Motijheel may start by the end of 2024, and Kamalapur by 2025. By December 2024, the metro rail will start operation from Agargaon to Kamalapur route with 24 trains.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 28, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country\'s first-ever elevated metro rail, setting a communication milestone in the country. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 15:41:21', '2023-03-31 15:41:21'),
(6099, 6099, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh has recommended that the policymakers, and development partners collaborate to ensure greater inclusion of diasporas in policy debates in their host countries, including on issues of official development assistance (ODA).</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the contribution of skilled diasporas to the economic development of host and home countries, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen urged the development partners to nurture the innovative ideas and business models of diasporas and invest more in skills development in developing countries, especially in ICT education.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was speaking at the panel discussion \"Empowering Diaspora, Migrants and Displaced Persons as Development Agents\" organised by International Organization for Migration (IOM) during its 2023 International Dialogue on Migration held at the United Nations Headquarters on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh\'s journey from a war-ravaged LDC to a \"robust development model\" has been marked by the significant contribution of migrants and diasporas, said Masud.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlighting the whole-of-society approach to migration management adopted by the government, Masud shared the experience of Bangladesh in engaging diasporas in mobilising financial flow, especially through remittance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the consumer of the home country\'s products, diasporas represent a major export market, he added. \"They contribute to developing business models and support their country by sending money to the family and businesses they run in Bangladesh.\" UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 15:44:11', '2023-03-31 15:44:11'),
(6100, 6100, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Canadian House of Commons has passed Bill S-214 on International Mother Language Day (IMLD) Act.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By adopting this bill, Canada will now officially honour IMLD on February 21 every year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a historic moment for Bangladeshi Canadians and the proponents of mother tongues globally, said the Bangladesh High Commission in Canada on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion, the high commission acknowledged the contribution of late Rafiqul Islam, Abdus Salam and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for getting IMLD adopted by UNESCO in 1999 and later by the UN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We also recognise the contribution of Aminul Islam to take the initiative to get Bill S-214 passed by the Canadian parliament,\" said the mission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh to Canada Khalilur Rahman was present at the House of Commons during the discussion and passing of the bill.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Ken Hardie MP, who introduced the bill to the House, and Mobina S Jaffer, a senator, who led the passing of the Bill earlier by the Canadian Senate, were also present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The high commission acknowledged the initiative and contribution of the Mother Language Lovers of the World Society and its President Aminul for persisting with Bill S-214 with the MPs and senators for almost a decade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Adoption of Bill S-214 highlights Canada\'s commitment to linguistic diversity and cultural heritage. The bill recognises that language is an essential aspect of one\'s identity and cultural heritage, and linguistic diversity should be celebrated, promoted, and preserved,\" the Bangladesh mission said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 15:47:39', '2023-03-31 15:47:39'),
(6101, 6101, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two US Army helicopters crashed during a nighttime training mission in Kentucky, killing all nine soldiers on board, a general said Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The crash -- which involved variants of the Black Hawk designed for medical evacuation -- was the deadliest such incident in more than eight years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The aircraft were flying in formation with pilots using night vision goggles during a routine training exercise, and were steered to land in an open field across from a residential area, avoiding deaths or injuries on the ground, Brigadier General John Lubas told a news conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The crash \"resulted in the death of all nine service members aboard the aircraft,\" all of them members of the 101st Airborne Division, which is based at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Lubas said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Five soldiers were on one helicopter and four on another, with the military still working to notify all the families of those killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an investigative team heading to Fort Campbell from the base where US Army Aviation is headquartered in Alabama, it was still unknown whether the two helicopters collided.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement he is \"saddened by this tragic loss,\" while White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told journalists that \"we stand with all who are grieving in the wake of this terrible, truly terrible, accident.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 16:03:11', '2023-03-31 16:03:11'),
(6102, 6102, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that Finland would formally become a member within days, as he congratulated its president on clearing the final obstacle to joining.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I look forward to raising Finland\'s flag at NATO HQ in the coming days. Together we are stronger and safer,\" Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After months of delays, Turkey\'s parliament on Thursday removed the last hurdle for Finland by becoming the last member of the US-led military alliance to ratify its application.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stoltenberg said in separate statement that \"Finland has highly capable forces, advanced capabilities, and strong democratic institutions.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So Finland will bring a lot to our alliance,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO foreign ministers are meeting at the alliance\'s headquarters in Brussels next week, when it is expected the membership could be formalised.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine last year upended European security and pushed Finland and its neighbour Sweden to drop decades of non-alignment and seek to join NATO\'s protective umbrella.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stockholm application remains stuck, however, because of ongoing resistance from both Turkey and Hungary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Stoltenberg insisted that \"all allies agree that a rapid conclusion of the ratification process for Sweden will be in everyone\'s interest,\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I look forward to also welcoming Sweden as a full member of the NATO family as soon as possible,\" he said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 16:09:28', '2023-03-31 16:09:28'),
(6103, 6103, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A total of 2,400 small and marginal farmers in Zanjira upazila of the district were given seeds and fertilizers free of cost as agro incentive for the cultivation of Aush paddy in the current Kharif-1 season.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The amount of incentive support and the number of farmers have been increased significantly in the current financial year 2022-23 in the district, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zanjira Upazila Parishad Chairman Mobarak Ali Sikdar handed over the incentive among the farmers as the chief guest yesterday afternoon at a function at the upazila parishad premises with Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md. Kamrul Hasan Sohel in the chair.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zanjira Municipality Mayor Md. Idris Madbar, Upazila Women Vice-Chairman Parveen Akhter, Upazila Awami League President GM Nurul Haque and its General Secretary Abu Taleb Chowkidar, among others, were present as special guests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bilaspur Union Parishad Chairman Abdul Quddus Bepari, Additional Agriculture Officer Md. Nazmul Huda and members of various Union Parishads and hundreds of farmers were also present on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the programme, each farmer was given five kilograms of Ufsi Aush paddy seed, 10-kg of Di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) fertilizers and 10-kg of Muriate of potash (MOP) fertilizers free of cost for cultivating one bigha of land, upazila agriculture officer agriculturist Md. Jamal Hossain said. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 17:03:24', '2023-03-31 17:03:24'),
(6104, 6104, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The broiler chicken was selling at a slightly higher price of Tk220-210,&nbsp; up from the recent price of Tk200- 210 a kilo in the kitchen markets of Dhaka city.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After a recent meeting with broiler suppliers and the Director General of Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) on March 23, its price was lowered to Tk200 per kg from Tk 260-270 per kg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The retailers said the price of broiler chicken has increased at wholesale and middlemen level, which impacted on retail prices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sonali (cock) was selling at Tk 350-360 per kg, while Pakistani Sonali chicken below 1 kg weight was sold at Tk 330-340 per kg on Friday in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Layer (mother) broiler chicken price was also stable at Tk 330-340 per kg, while the domestic rearing (indigenous) chicken was sold at Tk 580 to Tk640 per kg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egg price decreased slightly and it was selling at Tk 130 per dozen on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beef was selling at Tk750 to 800 per kg based on quality in the city’s kitchen market on Friday while mutton was selling at Tk1000-1100 per kg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fish prices were also stable at higher prices but the presence of customers in the fish was thin on Friday compared to other times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This correspondent found this scenery of chicken items visiting different areas including Karwan Bazar, Khilgaon, Malibag, Shantinagar, Rampura, Basabo and Fakirapol of Dhaka City.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prices of different types of vegetable and fruits items are still stable at higher prices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ratan Hawlader, a vegetable trader of Karwan Bazar told UNB that the price of vegetables is slightly higher as the production of all kinds of vegetables has fallen in this season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the arrival of new vegetables, the price will fall gradually, but not below Tk 40 per due to higher transportation and production cost, he said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 17:08:31', '2023-03-31 17:08:31'),
(6105, 6105, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Broadcast Journalist Center (BJC) has protested the Digital Security Act (DSA) case filed against Prothom Alo journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams and his arrest over a report published on March 26.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If someone is aggrieved by any report published in the newspaper, redress can be sought from Bangladesh Press Council, a press release from BJC said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But going beyond that process, a case under the much contested DSA was filed against Shams despite the government making a clear commitment towards not misusing the law, the press release signed by BJC Chairman Rezwanul Haque and Member Secretary Shakil Ahmed said Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Demanding immediate release of the arrested journalist, BJC said it was not \"lawful to pick Shams up from his residence in the dead of the night and later show him arrested.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, BJC also pointed to the questions raised regarding the Prothom Alo report and stressed the need for \"responsible journalism.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 29, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) men picked up Shams from his residence in the Ambagan area, adjacent to Jahangirnagar University, around 4:30 am. The same day, a Jubo League leader filed a case under the DSA against Shams, accusing him of publishing a \"false and fabricated report\" in Prothom Alo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Dhaka court on Thursday sent the Prothom Alo reporter to jail in the case filed under Digital Security Act after rejecting his bail petition. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 17:58:26', '2023-03-31 17:58:26'),
(6106, 6106, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif today said if anyone hits the country\'s independence, it will be the government\'s responsibility to take proper measures to this end.</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"...a quote of someone was printed in a newspaper disrespecting the Independence Day although he did not make the statement. The quote was taken by giving him money, which was a criminal offense and was a conspiracy against the state and the government,\" he told a function at Kushtia Sadar Upazila auditorium here.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The function was arranged to distribute tablet computers as gifts of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Hanif said it is the responsibility of the government to take legal action against those involved in such incidents. \"If anyone gets hurt after taking legal action, then they are also the part of this conspiracy,\" he added.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The AL joint general secretary said journalists have been enjoying optimum facilities during the tenure of the incumbent government.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Mass media has flourished significantly. None has any problem with the fact that the journalists are regularly writing and criticising the government as per their will, but it is the responsibility of the government to take action once attack comes on the country\'s independence. And the people expect that too,\" he said.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kushtia Sadar Upazila Parishad Chairman Ataur Rahman Ata, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Sadhan Kumar Biswas, Upazila Statistics Officer Sukhen Kumar Pal, Zila Awami League Joint General Secretary Advocate Sheikh Hasan Mehdi and Sadar Upazila AL General Secretary Rezaul Haque were, among others, present. BSS</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</p>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 18:01:25', '2023-03-31 18:01:25'),
(6107, 6107, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams, who has been sued under the Digital Security Act (DSA), was taken to Kashimpur Central Jail from Dhaka Central Jail on Friday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A prison van carrying him reached Kashimpur Jail around 1:30pm, said Shahjahan Ahmed, superintendent of Kashimpur Jail 1.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the journalist was presented before a Dhaka court on Thursday which ordered him to be sent to jail denying bail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) with Ramna police</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, he was taken to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 29, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) men in plainclothes picked up Shams from his residence in Ambagan area, adjacent to Jahangirnagar University, around 4:30 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same day, a Jubo League leader filed a case under the Digital Security Act against Shams, accusing him of publishing a \"false and fabricated report\" on the Prothom Alo website. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 19:31:40', '2023-03-31 19:31:40'),
(6108, 6108, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said ill-attempts are being made to spread confusion in the country regarding the economic prosperity.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Many people do not like the economic prosperity of Bangladesh, which has been achieved under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the worthy daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. That is why attempts are being made to create confusion in the country,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said this while briefing journalists on contemporary affairs at his Dewanji Pukur Par residence in the port city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasan, also Joint General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL), said Bangladesh is continuously moving towards prosperity as the poverty rate is decreasing in the country day by day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Some newspapers are publishing purpose-oriented negative news. Identified persons from abroad are trying to mislead people by spreading fabricated information against Bangladesh. But this propaganda can not restrain Bangladesh from making progress,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that the diplomat\'s intervention in the internal affairs of the country is not appropriate, Hasan said they will be made aware of the Vienna Convention, if it is necessary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said the country is not seeking help from others for the national budget, rather they are showing interest in helping the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AL leader also said various newspapers of the world are praising the way the country is moving forward despite the corona epidemic and the global recession.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"Recently, Bloomberg published a report, where it said that due to economic prosperity and maintaining economic stability despite the Corona pandemic, there is a chance of Sheikh Hasina to win the next election and she is going to be elected for the fourth consecutive term,\" the information minister added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The day before yesterday, our planning minister told a press conference that when we formed the government in 2009 the number of people living below the poverty line was 41 percent of the entire population. It has now dropped to 16 percent amid the corona-virus pandemic and global recession. Poverty rate in the United States is 17 percent,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the IMF report, the country\'s per capita income surpassed India during this Corona pandemic,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Hasan said : \"Bangladesh\'s economy stood at the 60th position among economies in the world when we formed the government in 2009. Now we are the 35th economy in the world in terms of GDP.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have crossed 25 countries in the last 14 years. Malaysia\'s economy is one of them,\" he added. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 19:48:06', '2023-03-31 19:48:06');
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(6109, 6109, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan refused to give up their aggressive approach despite it backfired, resulting in their seven-wicket defeat to Ireland in the third and final T20 today at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The defeat denied Bangladesh a second consecutive T20 series sweep but Shakib was unfazed by it, saying that there is a way that they could compromise with their current approach.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh were bowled out for 124 in 19.2 overs, paying the price of their aggressive cricket and Ireland rode on captain Paul Stirling\'s 41 ball-77 gunned it down in just 14 overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We didn\'t bat well, kept on losing wickets. But that happens with the way we want to play our cricket,\" Shakib said here today after losing the game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Don\'t want to change our approach. If we want to be a very good team, that\'s the way we have to play. Might fail in some games. We\'ll be playing Test match in few days time, travel to Dhaka, and see what we can do. We played very well after the England series. Today wasn\'t our day but credit to Ireland,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh won the first game by 22 runs through DLS method and second game by 77 runs. On both occasions, they put up 200 plus scores despite full overs match were not possible due to rain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In third game, they opted to bat first and tried to put the bowlers on sword from the words go but the strategy didn\'t work. Paul Stirling however credited their bowlers to curb the aggression of the Bangladeshi batters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This was set up by the bowlers. All five bowlers deserve this award. Full credit to them. To come back from what we\'ve been through in the last two weeks,\" Stirling said after playing the match-winning knock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We showed the character. We\'ll only improve the more we play. Feel like we got better as the tour went on. It\'s been a few years since we last played a Test. Everyone\'s excited.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh fast bowler Taskin Ahmed however was adjudged man of the match for his eight wickets in the matches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He expected that the Bangladeshi fast bowling group will rule the world in future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I keep belief in myself. It doesn\'t matter if the wicket is flat or not. I was backing my strengths. End of the day I bowled well and helped the team. We\'ve been working very hard. From there we\'re getting our belief. We\'ll become the best group of fast bowlers in the world hopefully.\" BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-03-31 22:11:56', '2023-03-31 22:11:56'),
(6110, 6110, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A large tornado tore through Arkansas on Friday causing \"significant damage,\" the governor of the southern US state tweeted, as rescuers rushed to aid residents and hospitals said they were bracing for casualties.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote that police and emergency services were working to \"assist anyone injured,\" and called for residents to stay aware as the National Weather Service forecast more storms later in the afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Significant damage has occurred in Central Arkansas,\" Sanders wrote.</div><div>The New York Times reported that the tornado had touched down near the state capital, Little Rock, and had torn down trees and damaged houses.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>More than 70,000 people were without power across the state, according to Poweroutage.us.</div><div><br></div><div>The city\'s mayor, Frank Scott, tweeted that the storm had been \"devastating\" and said he had asked Sanders\' office to send National Guards to help with cleanup.</div><div><br></div><div>The governor\'s office could not immediately confirm any casualties to AFP, but a local hospital told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that it had already begun to receive patients, including \"a few\" in critical condition.</div><div><br></div><div>The spokesperson for the Baptist Health hospital said it was preparing to treat injuries, the newspaper reported.</div><div><br></div><div>The University of Arkansas hospital was also on standby, a spokesperson there told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We haven\'t seen people come in quite yet but we know that emergency services have had trouble reaching people because of downed trees,\" the spokesperson said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We expect people to come throughout the night.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Tornadoes are common in the United States, especially in the center and south of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>A week ago, a tornado swept through Rolling Fork, a small town in Mississippi, killing 13 people and causing extensive property damage.</div><div><br></div><div>President Joe Biden visited the area on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>In December 2021, about 80 people were killed by tornadoes in Kentucky. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 14:09:37', '2023-04-01 14:09:37'),
(6111, 6111, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mozambique is going through its worst cholera outbreak in more than a decade in the wake of Cyclone Freddy, the World Health Organization said Friday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"While cholera outbreaks regularly occur in Mozambique between October to April, with almost 21,000 cases and 95 deaths, this is the largest outbreak in more than a decade,\" said Severin von Xylander, the WHO\'s representative in the southeast African country.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The outbreak is still expanding geographically,\" he told reporters in Geneva in a briefing via video link from Maputo. Eight of the country\'s 11 provinces have been affected.</div><div><br></div><div>Quelimane is the worst-affected city and in the last 24 hours, 132 people have been admitted to cholera treatment centres and 350 people have received cholera care visits.</div><div><br></div><div>\"After the landfall of Freddy, the number of cases exploded from less than 20 a day and increased tenfold\" in the city, Von Xylander said.</div><div><br></div><div>A first cholera vaccination campaign started in late February in four provinces. More than 715,000 people were given a single shot.</div><div><br></div><div>A second campaign was launched Thursday in Quelimane, targeting 410,000 people.</div><div><br></div><div>Vaccination programmes will be extended to other provinces, with more than 1.35 million people currently being targeted.</div><div><br></div><div>WHO teams are responding to five concurrent health emergencies in Mozambique: besides cholera and the Cyclone Freddy flooding, polio, Covid-19 and an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the north are causing a situation that is \"overwhelming\" health systems, said Von Xylander.</div><div><br></div><div>Cyclone Freddy destroyed more than 132,000 homes and 184,000 people were displaced, and while the floods are now receding, access to safe water is \"challenging\", he said, while around a third of crops have been destroyed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"In the coming weeks, the number of malaria cases will drastically increase and the malnutrition rate -- already very high -- will go up,\" said Von Xylander, reports AFP</div><div><br></div><div>\"I don\'t intend this brief to be a scaremonger, but I hope to raise the alarm for a concerning situation currently lived here by millions of individuals,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 16:00:39', '2023-04-01 16:00:39'),
(6112, 6112, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Saturday predicted light to moderate rain or thundershowers in parts of country in the next 24 hours commencing 9am.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty squally wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at many places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over the country,\" said the BMD bulletin.</div><div><br></div><div>The Met office also predicted that day temperature may fall slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The highest temperature on Friday was recorded 34.3degree Celsius at Bandarban, while today\'s minimum temperature was 18.0 degree Celsius in Nikli.</div><div><br></div><div>Highest rainfall for the last 24 hours till 6am today was recorded 77 millimeters (mm) at Madaripur.</div><div><br></div><div>The sun sets at 6:14 pm today and rises at 5:50 am tomorrow in the capital. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 16:21:31', '2023-04-01 16:21:31'),
(6113, 6113, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The government has approved the commercial cultivation of vannamei shrimp -- also known as king prawn -- in Bangladesh.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock approved the cultivation of vannamei shrimp in a letter to the Director General of the Fisheries Department on March 29. At the same time, guidelines for commercial shrimp cultivation in Bangladesh were provided.</div><div><br></div><div>Vannamei shrimp now accounts for 77 percent of the world\'s shrimp trade. This species of shrimp – also known as the whiteleg shrimp is now being commercially cultivated in 62 countries. Of these, 15 are in Asia.</div><div><br></div><div>The demand for vannamei shrimp in the global market is high as the price is lower than that of Bagda shrimp.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh’s shrimp export has been in decline in the past few years as the country mainly cultivates and exports freshwater shrimp species such as black tiger shrimp, or ‘bagda’, and scampi shrimp, or ‘galda’.</div><div><br></div><div>Exporters have been urging the government to allow commercial cultivation of King Prawn. The shrimp exporters of Khulna thanked the authorities for implementing their long-standing demand.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, local shrimp producers have expressed concern over the development as they’re not well equipped to produce vannamei shrimp locally.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdur Rahim, a local shrimp producer from Khulna’s Paikgacha upazila said: “If the commercial cultivation of vannamei shrimp starts locally, we will face a huge loss in terms of shrimp production as the demand will decrease in the market.”</div><div><br></div><div>Among the shrimp exporting countries of Asia, commercial cultivation of the king shrimp was banned only in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Following approval from the Fisheries Department of the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry, Vannamei Shrimp has been harvested experimentally in six ponds of Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) in Khulna’s Paikgacha upazila. And it has demonstrated significant commercial potential.</div><div><br></div><div>What is vannamei shrimp?</div><div><br></div><div>The vannamei species of shrimp, popularly known as the king prawn, is originally from the US state of Hawaii.</div><div><br></div><div>Neighbouring India began commercial cultivation of vannamei shrimp in 2008. Meanwhile, in 1998, Thailand and China started commercial vannamei shrimp cultivation.</div><div><br></div><div>In 1987, the Philippines initiated commercial vannamei shrimp cultivation. Myanmar and Vietnam entered the market in the year 2000.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Global Aquaculture Alliance, The global vannamei shrimp production in 2018 was 35.5 lakh metric tons, while the bagda and galda shrimp production was 5.5 lakh metric tons and 2.4 lakh metric tons respectively. Apart from this, 3 lakh metric tons of other species of shrimps have been produced.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the total global production of vannamei shrimp in 2018, 23.91 lakh metric tons were produced in China, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In 2019, production in these countries increased to 31.12 lakh metric tons while Bangladesh\'s contribution to the market remained zero.</div><div><br></div><div>According to experts, commercial production and export of Vanami shrimp can earn 3 to 4 billion US dollars in revenue and it will help Bangladesh regain its position in the global shrimp market. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 18:44:43', '2023-04-01 18:44:43'),
(6114, 6114, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The International Farakka Committee (IFC) has welcomed the government of Bangladesh for sending a note verbale to New Delhi seeking to know about their plan to construct two new canals to divert water of the Teesta River.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Simultaneously the government should implement the Teesta Master Plan because efforts for a treaty on the river have remained fruitless and its entire dry season water is being diverted for the least two decades, said the IFC in a statement on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>It said Dhaka should not put on hold its efforts for shared management of the Transboundary River because the greater part of its basin lies in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Yet it cannot leave over two crore people living on its two sides helpless and suffer from severe drought in the dry season and devastating floods and river-bank erosion in the summer, IFC said in the statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The Teesta is practically a dead river in Bangladesh because of excessive siltation as it has been deprived of its natural flow for decades and the surrounding environment has been damaged adding to the suffering of the people.</div><div><br></div><div>Drought in the Teesta Basin takes a devastating turn in the dry season when people can cross the river on foot.</div><div><br></div><div>In the wet season the entire flow of the river is released through the sluice gates of the Gajal Doba Barrage in India when it cannot carry this excess load of water due to lack of depth.</div><div><br></div><div>As a result this causes devastating floods and bank erosions every year. Four waves of flood last year pauperised the people living on its two banks.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite continuous assurances the Bangladesh part of the river continues to be deprived of water in the dry season.</div><div><br></div><div>Now fresh moves have surfaced for two more canals to divert its water. As time passes the share of the river’s flow looks more and more remote.</div><div><br></div><div>Against this backdrop, the Power China Company of the People’s Republic of China at the instance of Bangladesh Water Development Board has prepared a Taka 100 billion comprehensive project not only to mitigate the annual flood and erosion damages but also to ensure the overall socio-economic development of the people of the Northwestern region.</div><div><br></div><div>The project stands for sustainable development along the 102 kilometre length of the river from the Teesta Barrage at Dalia of Nilphamari district to its outfall in the Brahmaputra via Mohipur and Kaunia. According to Bangladesh Water Development Board sources the project is likely to be implemented under a loan agreement. But a final go ahead is yet to be given.</div><div><br></div><div>IFC leaders said it’s not wise to continue to remain idle waiting for release of water as the process of desertification is getting from bad to worse in the northwestern region of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>The Teesta project is no substitute for the natural flow of the river to keep it alive. Yet the move to mitigate the annual flood and river-bank erosion and improvement of the quality of life of the people of the region through integrated development activities cannot be left to uncertainties.</div><div><br></div><div>When the compulsion of restoring the natural flow of the river will arise upstream due to the law of nature, the Bangladesh part of the Teesta will have a new lease of life.</div><div><br></div><div>IFC leaders said, the overall development of the Northwestern region of Bangladesh can be accelerated if the Teesta project is expanded to include the old and original Teesta Basin covering The Atrai, The Korotoa and The Punarbhaba rivers.</div><div><br></div><div>If this is done the command area of the project will cover 28 thousand square kilometres as against the present four thousand square kilometres.</div><div><br></div><div>The huge Chalan Beel can be used to retain water and facilitate fish and duck farming in the wet season and irrigation in the dry season. The groundwater level in the region will go up and help keep all tubewells operational throughout the year.</div><div><br></div><div>The statement has been signed by IFC New York chairman Atiqur Rahman Salu, secretary general Sayed Tipu Sultan, IFC Bangladesh president Prof. Jasim Uddin Ahmad, senior vice-president Dr. S.I. Khan, general secretary Irfanul Bari and IFC coordinator Mostafa Kamal Majumder. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 18:49:05', '2023-04-01 18:49:05'),
(6115, 6115, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Leaders and activists Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of different hall units of Dhaka University demanded arrest of Prothom Alo editor Motiur Rahman blocking Shahbagh intersection for about two hours on Saturday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The BCL men under the banner of \'general students\' blocked the area around 10.20 am and continued till 12.30 pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Jaman Sami, a student of 2017-18 academic session of Law department also organisational secretary of Sir AF Rahman hall Chhatra League, said, \" Today we came here to protest yellow journalism practiced by Prothom Alo. Motiur Rahman, the editor of the daily, has been accused of child exploitation, killing a student of Dhaka Residential Model College and so more.\"</div><div><br></div><div>“We, the conscious students of Dhaka University, are protesting this heinous activities of Prothom Alo. For doing such heinous acts, Motiur Rahman have to be arrested soon,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 26, Prothom Alo published a ‘ graphic card’ with a photograph and a quotation of a day labourer Zakir Hossain for sharing a news report on Facebook. However, the national daily later removed the post from online due to a discrepancy regarding the photo that was used with the news.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the report was republished with necessary amendments and a note below the report regarding the correction.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, Shamsuzzaman Shams, the paper’s Savar correspondent, who wrote the report was sued in a separate case under the DSA on Wednesday afternoon, around 10 hours after being picked up from his house near Jahangirnagar University by members of the Criminal Investigation Department of police.</div><div><br></div><div>Editor of the country’s leading daily Motiur Rahman was also sued under the Digital Security Act. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 18:53:52', '2023-04-01 18:53:52'),
(6116, 6116, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four more people were hospitalised with dengue in the 24 hours till Saturday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, four were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>Twenty-five dengue patients, including 16 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, the DGHS has recorded 847 dengue cases, 813 recoveries, and nine deaths this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The country logged 281 dengue deaths in 2022 – the highest on record after 179 deaths recorded in 2019. Also, it recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries last year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 18:57:49', '2023-04-01 18:57:49'),
(6117, 6117, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A series of avalanches in Norway\'s far north has claimed the lives of four people, police say.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the most deadly incident, a house and barn were swept into the sea on the island of Reinøya.</div><div><br></div><div>Two people were confirmed killed and 140 goats were in the barn at the time, according to the authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>Two tourists were killed in two other avalanches. Both are believed to be foreigners, although their nationalities are not yet known.</div><div><br></div><div>In the first avalanche, in Lyngen, one person died and two others were hurt.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There were fiv people of foreign origin that were on an outing in the area. We can confirm that one person is deceased,\" police spokesman Morten Pettersen told journalists.</div><div><br></div><div>Two others were hurt, one critically and one with \"moderate injuries\", the spokesman added.</div><div><br></div><div>Later in the evening, police said a fourth person had been killed in another avalanche at Storslett in the Nordreisa area. According to BBC reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 19:04:50', '2023-04-01 19:04:50'),
(6118, 6118, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh could soon start trading with India using rupee instead of US dollar, trial for which has been done by Bangladesh Bank recently.</b></span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The ministry of commerce has placed a written recommendation at the last cabinet meeting regarding the possibility and opportunity of using rupee instead of dollar.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently Bangladesh exports goods to India worth around USD 2 billion.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The use of rupee will start with Bangladesh\'s $2 billion trade with India. Bangladesh Bank has almost finished all kinds of trials in this regard. Trading in rupee will be introduced in both countries only after bilateral decision on some issues,” an executive director of Bangladesh Bank told UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Wishing anonymity, he said that banking systems in India and Bangladesh have to sign separate agreements on using rupee.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI) has submitted the total trade account to the central bank in the form of a proposal. This initiative is being taken to overcome the existing dollar crisis, sources said.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Bank spokesperson Md Mezbaul Haque said that India-Bangladesh trade, using rupee instead of US dollar, is still in the experimental stage. Some issues still need to be settled.</div><div><br></div><div>“There are some bilateral issues that need to be resolved. Then the banks have to prepare. But there will be a positive decision in this regard,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to a question whether there will be a fixed annual dollar quota for opening LCs, he said, LCs will be opened according to the needs of businessmen. But the only source of rupees is from the export earnings of Bangladeshi goods in India.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are importing more from India than we export. This is why there is a trade deficit. As a result, the amount of rupee is also being considered,” Mezbaul said.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently India is trading in rupees with Russia, Mauritius, Iran and Sri Lanka.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>At the Bangladesh-India ministerial meeting on trade, held in the Indian capital New Delhi on December 22-23 last year, India proposed to introduce the rupee as a medium of trade for both countries.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, on the sidelines of the meeting of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors held in Bengaluru, India on February 24-25, there was a discussion between the two countries about moving the dollar as an exchange currency.</div><div><br></div><div>There, Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rauf Talukder and Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das discussed the possibility of such a system using rupee instead of US dollar. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fsa</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-01 19:10:56', '2023-04-01 19:10:56'),
(6119, 6119, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>South Africa\'s governing ANC party said Saturday that it had sent senior officials to Russia to discuss \"recalibration of the global order\" with President Vladimir Putin\'s party.</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The visit follows an invitation from United Russia Party, Russia\'s largest political party and a longstanding ally and friend to the ANC,\" the South African party said.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The engagements... will include discussions on the recalibration of the global order to reverse the consequences of neo-colonialism and the previously prevailing unipolar world.\"</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Moscow has been looking for years to bolster its political and economic ties with countries across Africa, and on Friday, Putin signed off on a new foreign policy aimed at curtailing Western \"dominance\".</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">South Africa, for its part, has refused to condemn the invasion of Ukraine that has largely isolated Moscow on the world stage, saying it wants to stay neutral and prefers dialogue to end the war.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The ANC delegation led by Obed Bapela, who heads the ANC\'s international relations commission, arrived on Thursday and is expected to stay until Sunday.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">South Africa is due in August to host a BRICS summit, the bloc grouping the emerging economic heavyweights Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">In February, South Africa hosted a controversial joint military exercise with Russia and China, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov paid an official visit to Pretoria in January.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">South Africa\'s ties with Russia date back decades, when the Kremlin backed the ANC in its fight against apartheid. AFP</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 09:29:49', '2023-04-02 09:29:49'),
(6120, 6120, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The death toll from a major storm system that has produced tornadoes and devastating winds across several southern and central US states has risen to 18, officials said Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesperson for the emergency management agency in Tennessee, one of the states hardest hit by a series of storms which have struck since Friday, confirmed seven weather-related fatalities to AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials across states including Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana and Alabama had earlier counted a total of 11 fatalities. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 09:33:41', '2023-04-02 09:33:41'),
(6121, 6121, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Aston Villa climbed above Chelsea and into the top half of the Premier League table with a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ollie Watkins gave Villa an early lead before a superb strike by John McGinn, fresh from starring in Scotland\'s shock Euro 2024 win over Spain, made it 2-0 in the 56th minute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defeat saw Chelsea drop into the bottom half of the table to increase the pressure on Blues manager Graham Potter, with the London club booed off the field by their own supporters at full-time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Villa\'s fifth away win since Unai Emery became manager of the Birmingham club in October and they have now won 16 points on the road, a tally equalled only by champions Manchester City in that period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All 10 of Chelsea\'s league wins this season have come against bottom-half opponents, but this reverse meant they drop into 11th place in the table.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villa moved up into ninth, one point off Liverpool in eighth, and just two points off a European place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emery\'s men almost gifted Chelsea the lead soon after kick-off when goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez rolled the ball short to Boubacar Kamara, who was dispossessed by Mykhailo Mudryk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ukrainian, however, was denied by Martinez when one-on-one with the Argentina World Cup-winner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villa responded quickly, Watkins pulling a shot wide before McGinn hit the crossbar in the 15th minute with a curling shot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the in-form Watkins broke the deadlock in the 18th minute, capitalising on a slack header from Marc Cucurella before lobbing the ball over Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Martinez preserved Villa\'s lead by diving low to his left to deny Kai Havertz.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chelsea were on top, playing attractive and attacking football but with no goals to show for their efforts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the match as a whole, Villa only had five shots on target to Chelsea\'s 27 but, significantly, they made two of them count.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villa captain McGinn doubled the lead in style with a well-struck curling effort from 25 yards out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chelsea worked hard but rarely threatened a goal, with the one consolation for the Blues the sight of defender N\'Golo Kante, a 2018 World Cup winner with France, coming off the bench in the 57th minute as he made his first senior appearance for the Blues under Potter, having been sidelined since August. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 09:36:41', '2023-04-02 09:36:41'),
(6122, 6122, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kusal Perera returned from a long-term injury in style with a half-century as Sri Lanka posted 196-5 in the first T20 against New Zealand in Auckland on Sunday.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perera scored 53 not out off 45 balls while Charith Asalanka top-scored with a lively 67 off 41 as the tourists peppered the Eden Park boundary after being asked to bat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pair dominated the middle stages of the innings, combining for 103 runs after some early fireworks from opener Kusal Mendis, who blasted 25 rapid-fire runs off just nine balls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The experienced Perera, a former Sri Lanka ODI captain, hasn\'t played any format for his country since the 2021 T20 World Cup nearly 18 months ago due to a long-standing shoulder problem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 32-year-old batter underlined his return to form by hitting four fours and a six.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His role supported Asalanka, who cleared the short boundaries six times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka\'s innings began in disastrous fashion when Pathum Nissanka was caught behind off the first ball, from paceman Adam Milne.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mendis got the innings under way with two sixes and two fours off Milne\'s next over.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tourists are chasing the first victory of their month-long visit to New Zealand after losing the Test and one-day international series by the same 2-0 scoreline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opening batter Chad Bowes and pace bowler Henry Shipley are making their New Zealand debuts in the format. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 09:56:34', '2023-04-02 09:56:34'),
(6123, 6123, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka\'s air quality is ‘unhealthy’ this morning (April 2, 2023).</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 125 at 9 am, Dhaka ranked 10th in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thailand’s Chiang Mai, China’s Beijing and India’s Delhi occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 254, 166 and 160, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 150 is considered \'unhealthy\', AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ 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.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 10:02:52', '2023-04-02 10:02:52'),
(6124, 6124, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Scaffolding and green pipes envelop a refinery in the port of Rotterdam where Finnish giant Neste is preparing to significantly boost production of sustainable aviation fuel.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Switching to non-fossil aviation fuels that produce less net greenhouse gas emissions is key to plans to decarbonise air transport, a significant contributor to global warming.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Neste, the largest global producer of SAF, uses cooking oil and animal fat at this Dutch refinery.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sustainable aviation fuels are being made from different sources such as municipal waste, leftovers from the agricultural and forestry industry, crops and plants, and even hydrogen.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">These technologies are still developing and the end product is more expensive.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">But these fuels will help airlines reduce CO2 emissions by up to 80 percent, according to the International Air Transport Association.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Global output of SAF was 250,000 tonnes last year, less than 0.1 percent of the more than 300 million tonnes of aviation fuel used during that period.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"It\'s a drop in the ocean but a significant drop,\" said Matti Lehmus, CEO of Neste.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We\'ll be growing drastically our production from 100,000 tonnes to 1.5 million tonnes next year,\" he added.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">There clearly is demand.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The European Union plans to impose the use of a minimum amount of sustainable aviation fuel by airlines, rising from two percent in 2025 to six percent in 2030 and at least 63 percent in 2050.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Neste has another site for SAF in Singapore which will start production in April.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With the production facilities of Neste in Rotterdam and Singapore, we can meet the mandate for EU in 2025,\" said Jonathan Wood, the company\'s vice president for renewable aviation.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Vincent Etchebehere, director for sustainable development at Air France, said that \"between now and 2030, there will be more demand than supply of SAF\".</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">- \'Need to mature technologies\' -</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Air France-KLM has reached a deal with Neste for the supply of one million tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel between 2023 and 2030.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">It has also lined up 10 year-agreements with US firm DG Fuels for 600,000 tonnes and with TotalEnergies for 800,000 tonnes.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">At the Rotterdam site, two giant storage tanks of 15,000 cubic metres are yet to be painted.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">They lie near a quay where the fuel will be transported by boat to feed Amsterdam\'s Schiphol airport and airports in Paris.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Franco-Dutch group has already taken steps to cut its carbon footprint, using 15 percent of the global SAF output last year -- or 0.6 percent of its fuel needs.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Neste\'s Lehmus said there was a great need to \"mature the technologies\" to make sustainable aviation fuel from diverse sources such as algae, nitrocellulose and synthetic fuels.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Air France CEO Anne Rigail said the prices of sustainable aviation fuel were as important as their production.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sustainable fuel costs 3,500 euros ($3,800) a tonne globally but only $2,000 in the United States thanks to government subsidies. In France, it costs 5,000 euros a tonne.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We need backing and we really think the EU can do more,\" said Rigail. AFP</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 10:21:38', '2023-04-02 10:21:38');
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(6125, 6125, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">When Donald Trump steps before a judge this coming week to be arraigned in a New York courtroom, it will not only mark the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges. It will also be a reckoning for a man long nicknamed “Teflon Don,” who until now has managed to skirt serious legal jeopardy despite 40 years of legal scrutiny.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump, who is the early front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, is expected to turn himself in Tuesday. He faces charges including at least one felony offense related to hush money payments to women during his 2016 campaign. Like any other person facing trial, he will be booked, fingerprinted and photographed before being given the chance to enter a plea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spectacle that is sure to unfold will mark an unprecedented moment in American history that will demonstrate once again how dramatically Trump — who already held the distinction of being the first president to be impeached twice — has upended democratic norms. But on a personal level, the indictment pierces the cloak of invincibility that seemed to follow Trump through his decades in business and in politics, as he faced allegations of fraud, collusion and sexual misconduct.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Boy, after all this time it’s a bit of a shock,” Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio said of the indictment. “You know I always thought of him as the Gingerbread Man, shouting, ‘You can’t catch me!’ as he ran away.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Given his track record,” he said, “I had trouble imagining he would ever be held accountable.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“These are not things that Donald Trump ever thought in his entire life, nor I, for that matter, that he would ever be confronted with,” Michael Cohen, Trump\'s longtime fixer and a key witness in the case who served jail time for the payments, told CNN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, some of the celebration by Trump\'s detractors may be premature. Trump could seek to have a judge quickly dismiss the case. Even if it moves forward, there\'s no guarantee of conviction. Intensifying investigations in Atlanta and Washington are seen as potentially more serious legal threats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, Trump and his team were caught by surprise when word of the New York indictment broke Thursday evening, following news reports that the grand jury hearing the case was set for a weekslong hiatus. As the deliberations dragged on, some in Trump\'s orbit had become convinced that the case had stalled and that charges might never be brought. That included Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina, who said Friday morning he had hoped the “rule of law would prevail.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump, he said on the “Today\" show, was “initially was shocked” by news of the charges, but quickly pivoted to his usual pushback playbook.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“After he got over that,\" he said, Trump \"put a notch on his belt and he decided we have to fight now. And he got into a typical Donald Trump posture where he’s ready to be combative on something that he believes is an injustice. ... I think he’s now in the posture that he’s ready to fight this.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the meantime, Trump and his team have tried to use the news to his advantage, hoping to energize his loyal base by painting the investigation as part of a larger plot to derail his candidacy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Already, the charges have been a boon to his struggling fundraising. The campaign announced Friday evening that it had raised over $4 million in the 24 hours after the indictment became public, far smashing its previous record after the FBI search of Trump\'s Mar-a-Lago club.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 25% of donations, according to the campaign, came from first-time donors. The average contribution: $34.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His campaign also continued to blast out supportive statements from dozens of top Republicans who have rallied behind Trump, including several of his declared and likely challengers, underscoring his continued hold on the party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in a speech Saturday to conservatives meeting in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, accused the Democratic prosecutor in New York, Alvin Bragg, of weaponizing the law “for political purposes” in bringing a case against “a former president.” DeSantis said the district attorney had indicted “a former president on misdemeanor offenses” that he was “straining to try to convert into felonies.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump has been in contact by phone with key congressional allies, including members of House leadership and top committees, according to people familiar with the conversations, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the response.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump ally Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who formally endorsed the former president Friday, said Trump “doesn’t back down\" and was going to \"fight back,\" telling a local radio show it was \"yet another chapter where Donald Trump is going to come back on top in the end.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The media maelstrom has catapulted Trump back into the spotlight he craves, at least temporarily limiting attention being paid to his rivals, including DeSantis, who is widely expected to challenge Trump for the nomination, and has been holding events across the county to promote his book.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump aides have been discussing other ideas to maximize the situation, including the possibility of holding a press event either before or after the arraignment. Trump is expected to travel from Florida to New York on Monday and stay overnight at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan before heading to the courthouse early Tuesday. He will return to Florida after the arraignment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump has long denied that he had a sexual encounter with the porn actor known as Stormy Daniels and has blasted Bragg for pursuing the years-old case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump is also facing continued investigations in Georgia, over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and in Washington, where a special counsel is probing the events of Jan. 6, 2021, as well as Trump\'s handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and potential obstruction of the investigation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Sam Nunberg, a longtime former aide who broke with Trump years ago, said that while he no longer supports Trump, he believes the Manhattan case is “a waste of time,\" given the allegations, which remain under seal. And he said he was skeptical it would ultimately matter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It doesn’t surprise me,\" he said of the indictment. “What would surprise me is if he actually ended up behind bars in prison and I don’t see that happening.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">D’Antonio said that sentiment — and a continued belief that Trump will somehow prevail and dodge the charges — continues among the many people who have reached out to him in the last 24 hours, despite the charges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They\'re like, he\'s going to get away with it,\" he said. \"Somehow, he’s going to get it thrown out.” AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 11:08:31', '2023-04-02 11:08:31'),
(6126, 6126, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The number of people killed in a massive landslide in Ecuador has risen to 27, authorities said on Saturday, adding that rescue teams are still searching for dozens of missing people after the tragedy struck nearly a week ago.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Following torrential rain, a massive chunk of a mountainside broke loose late last Sunday and buried parts of the town of Alausi, destroying or damaging at least 163 homes, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rescuers have spent the last six days digging through the rubble in the southern town some 180 miles (300 kilometers) south of the capital Quito searching for dozens of people, with the death toll steadily climbing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Friday the Secretariat of Risk Management said 23 people had died, 38 were injured and 67 remained missing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But by Saturday the toll had climbed \"27 confirmed deaths after the collapse,\" the national prosecutors\' office said on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Officials said rescue teams were still searching for missing people, though it was not immediately clear how many.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The same region was hit by an earthquake just over a week earlier in which 15 people were killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After months of heavy rains, the government last week declared a two-month state of emergency in 13 of the country\'s 24 provinces, allowing economic resources to be redistributed to affected areas. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 11:23:49', '2023-04-02 11:23:49'),
(6127, 6127, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Satellite imagery has indicated a high level of activity at North Korea\'s main nuclear complex after leader Kim Jong Un ordered the production of weapons-grade nuclear material be ramped up, a US think tank said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington-based 38 North said Saturday that images from March 3 and 17 suggested that an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) at the country\'s Yongbyon site was \"nearing completion\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Construction had started on a new support building, while water discharges were detected from the reactor\'s cooling system, suggesting that the ELWR \"is nearing a transition to operational status\", the report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The images also indicated that a five-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon continued to operate and new construction had started around the site\'s uranium enrichment plant, likely to expand its capabilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These developments seem to reflect Kim Jong Un\'s recent directive to increase the fissile material production to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal,\" the report added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, North Korean state media unveiled photos of Kim inspecting new, smaller nuclear warheads as he ordered an expansion in \"the production of weapon-grade nuclear materials\" for an \"exponential\" increase in the North\'s arsenal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experts said the potential tactical nuclear weapons did indeed show key signs of technical progress, and could indicate an imminent nuclear test.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials in Seoul and Washington have warned since early 2022 that North Korea may conduct its seventh nuclear test.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seoul and Washington have ramped up joint military drills as North Korea conducts ever more provocative weapons tests while blaming the South for the deteriorating security situation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A commentary carried by the North\'s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday slammed the series of joint drills by the allies, warning of its \"nuclear attack capability\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It will be quite clear how the DPRK\'s nukes will be used if the war deterrence does not work on those who are running amuck, not being afraid of nuclear weapons,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The North Korean military has carried out multiple drills in recent weeks, including the test-firing of what state media described as an underwater nuclear-capable drone and the second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, North Korea declared itself an \"irreversible\" nuclear power, while in March, Kim ordered the North Korean military to intensify drills in preparation for a \"real war\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 11:44:58', '2023-04-02 11:44:58'),
(6128, 6128, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A petition for anticipatory bail for Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman has been submitted to the High Court in a case filed under Digital Security Act. The case was filed with Dhaka’s Ramna Police Station on March 29.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defendant’s Counsel Prashanta Kumar Karmakar told UNB that they submitted the petition for anticipatory bail earlier this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of filing this report around 11am, hearing regarding the petition is yet to start, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 29, an FIR was filed by a lawyer named Abdul Malek (Mashiur Malek), accusing Matiur Rahman, Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams, an unnamed “assistant cameraman”, and unnamed others of “using print, online, and electronic media to tarnish the image and reputation of the state.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the FIR, the lawyer also mentioned that the accused were “purposefully spreading misinformation to deteriorate the law and order situation of the country.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was filed under sections 25, 31 and 35 of the DSA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plaintiff said the news reported by Shamsuzzaman Shams went viral on social media which “tarnished the image of the country and triggered criticism at home and abroad.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, there was a possibility of deterioration in the law and order situation in the country over the matter, the case statement said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, Shamsuzzaman Shams, the paper’s Savar correspondent who wrote the report was sued in a separate case under the DSA on March 29, around 10 hours after being picked up from his house near Jahangirnagar University by members of the Criminal Investigation Department of police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Multiple national and international bodies including Editors’ Council, Editors’ Guild of Bangladesh, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation (MSF) and the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) have published separate statements condemning the arrest of Shams. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 12:05:23', '2023-04-02 12:05:23'),
(6129, 6129, '<div><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A case has been filed against BNP leaders and activists in Khulna \"for attacking police and obstructing government work\", police said.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ajit Kumar Das, sub-inspector at Khulna Sadar Police Station, filed the case in connection with the clash between BNP men and police on Saturday during a sit-in programme in front of the party office at Khulna’s KD Ghosh Road to protest the rising gas, electricity, and food prices. Police fired tear shells and rubber bullets during the clash.</div><div><br></div><div>SI Ajit said that a case has been filed against 800 leaders and activists, naming 59 people including its BNP\'s Central Information Affairs Secretary Azizul Bari Helal, Khulna district Unit President Amir Ejaz Khan and General Secretary Monirul Hasan Bappi for attacking police vehicles and obstructing government work on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Eight people have been arrested in connection with the case, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, BNP leaders claimed that 15-20 leaders and activists were injured during the clash on Saturday after the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 12:50:01', '2023-04-02 12:50:01'),
(6130, 6130, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two buses were set on fire after a motorcyclist died in an accident in Savar’s Ashulia today, police said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident occurred at Ashulia’s Jirabo area on the Abdullapur-Bypail highway. According to witnesses, the Bypail-bound motorcyclist died after being stuck between two buses racing to overtake each other. Later, enraged people set both buses on fire and blocked teh road.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On information, fire service and police rushed to the sport and doused the fire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least five people were injured in the incident, according to the police.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kamruzzaman, officer-in-charge at Ashulia Police Station, said the body of the deceased was recovered by the police. Efforts are underway to identify the deceased, the OC said. A case was filed in this regard. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 13:56:18', '2023-04-02 13:56:18'),
(6131, 6131, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for ensuring that seekers of jobs abroad must not fall prey to the frauds and middlemen.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“So we always have to consider that these people could go abroad through proper channel and get appropriate job. It is very much important for us to ensure that these people must not fall prey to the fraudulent people and middlemen,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister was delivering her introductory speech at the second meeting of the Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Affairs National Steering Committee at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked the authorities concerned to find&nbsp; new destinations for sending manpower alongside making them skilled through giving appropriate training on different trades.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have manpower in different countries, but we have to find more destinations,”&nbsp; said the PM.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina said that the government has started sending manpower to some new places. “But, we have to send skilled manpower. We have taken initiatives to provide training,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked the authorities concerned to figure out which country needs what kinds of skilled manpower. “We will provide training to them.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM mentioned that sometimes it is seen that people are selling their&nbsp; houses and lands to pay the unscrupulous middlemen and fraudulent persons for a job&nbsp; abroad.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She put emphasis on creating public awareness against going abroad for jobs through middlemen.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the heavy pressure on economy for coronavirus pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war, the income of the expatriates contributed a lot in the country\'s reserve and overall development, said the prime minister. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 14:00:49', '2023-04-02 14:00:49'),
(6132, 6132, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;Varun Dhawan is furious after the internet dubbed him embarrassing for his antics at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre on Saturday. A video from the small Bollywood concert showed him bringing supermodel Gigi Hadid on stage and spinning her around. Many thought she looked uncomfortable during the whole episode.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Varun, however, says it was all pre-planned. Replying to a person on Twitter (whose original tweet is not visible) he said, “I guess today you woke up and decided to be woke. So lemme burst ur bubble and tell u it was planned for her to be on stage so find a new Twitter cause to vent about rather than going out and doing something about things. Good morning.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His fans thanked him for the clarification. “VD, we fans have known you since years we know it was all planned and scripted. Haters just wanna get clout using your name. Stay the same we\'re there for you always,\" tweeted one. “Thank youu for clarifying, was waiting for you to do this,” wrote another.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few people were still sold on it. “But believe me its too cheap,” wrote one. “Thinking of something like that at first place is still cringe like lifting and swirling her was okay but,” commented another. “She still looks so uncomfy lol,” wrote a person. Another asked, “Was the kiss planned too though?”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The supermodel arrived in India on Friday and also attended the grand launch of NMACC on day 1. Later on day 2, she wore an Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla saree to the event. She even posed for photos with Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Penelope Cruz.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Varun Dhawan arrived for the gala with his wife Natasha Dalal and his mother. He even performed on stage with Ranveer Singh and Shah Rukh Khan. AP Dhillon also sang a few of his most popular songs. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 14:10:30', '2023-04-02 14:10:30'),
(6133, 6133, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Star New Zealand batsman Kane Williamson has been ruled out of the rest of the Indian Premier League season with a knee injury, his franchise Gujarat Titans said Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is sad to lose Kane to injury so early in the tournament. We wish him a speedy recovery, with the hope of seeing him in action very soon,\" Gujarat director of cricket Vikram Solanki said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Williamson will now head home to New Zealand for further assessment. The Gujarat Titans will finalise a replacement for the right-handed batter and an announcement will be made in due course,\" the statement added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Williamson jarred his knee attempting a catch in the opening game of the current IPL on Friday between Gujarat and Chennai Super Kings in front of more than 100,000 fans in Ahmedabad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 32-year-old New Zealand captain tried to get up but couldn\'t and had to be helped off the field by two physios. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 14:21:52', '2023-04-02 14:21:52'),
(6134, 6134, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The High Court on Sunday granted six weeks anticipatory bail to Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Aminul Islam passed the order.</div><div><br></div><div>Senior Advocate Fida M Kamal stood for Matiur Rahman while additional attorney general Mehedi Hasan and deputy attorney general Sujit Chatarjee Bappi represented the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier in the day, a petition was submitted before the court seeking anticipatory bail for Matiur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>The case was filed with Dhaka’s Ramna Police Station on March 29.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 29, an FIR was filed by a lawyer named Abdul Malek (Mashiur Malek), accusing Matiur Rahman, Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams, an unnamed “assistant cameraman”, and unnamed others of “using print, online, and electronic media to tarnish the image and reputation of the state.”</div><div><br></div><div>In the FIR, the lawyer also mentioned that the accused were “purposefully spreading misinformation to deteriorate the law and order situation of the country.”</div><div><br></div><div>The case was filed under sections 25, 31 and 35 of the DSA.</div><div><br></div><div>The plaintiff said the news reported by Shamsuzzaman Shams went viral on social media which “tarnished the image of the country and triggered criticism at home and abroad.”</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, there was a possibility of deterioration in the law and order situation in the country over the matter, the case statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, Shamsuzzaman Shams, the paper’s Savar correspondent, who wrote the report was sued in a separate case under the DSA on March 29, around 10 hours after being picked up from his house near Jahangirnagar University by members of the Criminal Investigation Department of police. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 17:16:59', '2023-04-02 17:16:59'),
(6135, 6135, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has declined by a big margin of Tk 20.37 per kg – to Tk 98.17 from the previous price of Tk 118.54 – for the month of April.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) announced the new price, saying that a 12kg LPG cylinder’s price has been cut substantially by Tk 244. A retail consumer will get it at Tk 1178 instead of Tk 1,422 (including VAT).</div><div><br></div><div>Prices of other sizes of LPG cylinders – from 5.5kg to 45kg – will go down rationally, said Md Nurul Amin, the newly appointed chairman of BERC, during his maiden press briefing today at the BERC office in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>The new prices will be effective from 6 pm today (April 2, 2023).</div><div><br></div><div>However, on the sidelines of the same press briefing, MD Selim Khan, president of Bangladesh LP Gas Traders Cooperative Limited – a representative body of dealers and distributors in the business – complained that though the BERC set the new price, the LPG Operators Association of Bangladesh (LOAB) has verbally set the price at operators’ factory gates (wholesale points) price at Tk 1,200 for a 12kg LPG cylinder.</div><div><br></div><div>“So, a retail trader has to add at least Tk 120 to sell the 12 kg cylinder of gas to accommodate his other costs including transportation and staff costs,” he added.         </div><div><br></div><div>The new BERC chairman, however, said the commission is planning to sit with all stakeholders to address the anomalies in the price fixation.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said, BERC will ask the district administration and law enforcement agencies to check discrepancies in the market and curb price manipulation.   </div><div><br></div><div>BERC officials said the LPG price witnessed a big fall in the local market due to a decline in the prices of Saudi CP (contract price).</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, as per the Saudi CP, the LPG price was $733 per metric ton while the current month’s CP was set at $548.5 per MT, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladeshi LPG operators normally import their products from the Middle-East market on the basis of Saudi CP.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the BERC decision, the price of “auto gas” (LPG used for motor vehicles) also decreased to Tk 54.90 per litre (including VAT) from the previous Tk 66.22 per litre, down by Tk 11.32 per litre.</div><div><br></div><div>The price of LPG, marketed by state-owned LP Gas Company, will remain the same as it is locally produced with a market share of less than 5 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>LPG witnessed the highest price at Tk 1,498 (per 12kg cylinder) in the local market in February this year following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February last year. According to UNB reports </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 17:22:19', '2023-04-02 17:22:41'),
(6136, 6136, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pressure is mounting on an obscure U.N. body based in Jamaica to hit pause on plans to potentially open the world’s deep seas to mining as companies push for permission to extract metals from seabeds in international waters.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The International Seabed Authority on Friday closed two weeks’ worth of negotiations without approving rules and regulations to oversee deep sea mining amid growing calls to pause, ban or place a moratorium on the quest to extract minerals from the Earth’s watery depths that are used in green technology like electric car batteries.</div><div><br></div><div>While the first exploration licenses for deep sea mining were issued in 2001, the authority has yet to receive an application for actual mining.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Individual countries and private companies can start applying for provisional licenses on July 10 if the U.N. body does not approve a set of rules and regulations by July 9, which experts say is highly unlikely since they believe the process could take several years.</div><div><br></div><div>“We know what a crucial period…the council is in at the moment,” Deryck Lance Murray, the authority’s representative for Trinidad and Tobago, said at the closing meeting on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>Scientists worry that deep sea mining would disrupt critical ecosystems that regulate climate change, and a growing number of countries are siding with them, including France, Spain, Germany, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.</div><div><br></div><div>“When in doubt, favor nature,” Edward Aníbal Pérez, the authority’s representative from the Dominican Republic, said at the closing meeting on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>He noted that while he is aware of the importance of certain minerals given that mankind is on the brink of an energetic transition, he said deep sea mining is not the sole alternative to meet growing demand.</div><div><br></div><div>“It is clear there are doubts as to the effects that this activity might cause,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, France’s representative, Olivier Guyonvarch, said a lack of data on deep sea ecosystems and species prevents a fact-based analysis of potential damage that such mining might cause.</div><div><br></div><div>“Scientists are uncovering an extraordinary diversity of life in the largely unexplored and unstudied depths of the ocean,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Guyonvarch noted that scientists already know the deep sea plays a large role in mitigating climate change by storing large amounts of carbon.</div><div><br></div><div>Scientists have warned that deep sea mining would kill species and damage ecosystems by releasing noise, light and dust storms, while companies that support such mining argue it is cheaper and has less of an impact than land mining.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 30 exploration licenses have been issued so far, with activity mostly focused in an area called the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, which spans 1.7 million square miles (4.5 million square kilometers) between Hawaii and Mexico. Exploration there has been occurring at depths ranging from 13,000 to 19,000 feet (4,000 to 6,000 meters).</div><div><br></div><div>The rush and demand for minerals come as a growing number of countries and companies turn to green energy in a bid to reduce pollution.</div><div><br></div><div>The International Energy Agency noted in a report this year that “industries that were in their infancy” in the early 2000s and 2010s such as solar photovoltaic technology and electric vehicles, “have mushroomed into vast manufacturing operations today.”</div><div><br></div><div>Demand for minerals including lithium, cobalt and nickel is expected to increase from less than 10 million metric tons to some 150 million metric tons between 2020 and 2050, according to Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.</div><div><br></div><div>More than a dozen countries have officially called for a ban, pause or moratorium on deep sea mining, although it’s unclear how many other countries support such mining. And while there are 36 members on the authority’s council that have the power to award contracts to governments and private companies, only 12 votes in favor of deep sea mining are needed for it to pass, according to Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, a Netherlands-based alliance of environmental groups.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, the ongoing debate is how would the U.N. body approve or reject an application for a provisional license without guidance from a set of rules and regulations, Matthew Gianni, the coalition’s co-founder, told The Associated Press.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that there is no agreement yet on what a provisional license would allow.</div><div><br></div><div>And even if a provisional license is granted, it’s not yet clear whether that would be an actual green light for mining or just a provisional approval stating that the company or country cannot sign a contract with the U.N. body until a regulatory framework is created.</div><div><br></div><div>“All of that is up in the air,” Gianni said.</div><div><br></div><div>Any decision regarding a provisional license also could be appealed to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 18:03:41', '2023-04-02 18:03:41'),
(6137, 6137, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Trashing speculations about widening discord among their alliance partners, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said there is no laxity among those carrying out the simultaneous movement against the current government.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“We would like to give you a clear idea that there’s no laxity among us and we did not lose the momentum,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul made the remarks while talking to reporters at a press briefing at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office after a meeting between the liaison committee members of BNP and Ganatantra Mancha.</div><div><br></div><div>Though BNP and its all alliance partners observed a two-hour sit-in programme in all cities and district towns on Saturday, Ganatantra Mancha refrained from holding the programme.</div><div><br></div><div>When a journalist drew this issue to Fakhrul’s attention, he said BNP’s progrrammes are observed across the country sometimes simultaneously and they have an understanding that every party can observe the programmes in their own way.</div><div><br></div><div>“But we have been carrying out the simultaneous movement agreeing on the main demands for the resignation of the government, dissolution of parliament, holding the election under the non-party caretaker government and the reforms of the state,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said they will clearly announce which are the programmes of their simultaneous movement and which are their party\'s own programmes from now on.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the joint declaration of their movement will be mainly based on establishing a democratic and welfare state by ousting the current government.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul alleged that many opposition leaders and activists were injured in different districts across the country, especially in Khulna and&nbsp; Natore in attacks by police and ruling party ‘cadres’ during their sit-in programme on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>He said many of the injured have been receiving treatment at different hospitals in critical conditions. “We strongly condemn the attacks and the authoritarian government’s repressive activities to suppress the current movement and dissents.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader alleged that the government has been attacking and killing journalists and arresting, repressing and jailing them in a planned way over the last 14 years to suppress public opinions and snatch press freedom.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“They’re regulating the independence of the media, especially by using the Digital Security Act.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said their meeting condemned the arrest of Prothom Alao reporter Samsuzzaman Shams and the filing of cases against other journalists of the newspapers, including its editor Matiur Rahman, under the Digital Security ACT (DSA).</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said the meeting demanded the withdrawal of the cases against journalists and the annulment of the DSA.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said their meeting also discussed the death of government employee Sultana Jasmine in Rapid Action Battalion custody in Rajshahi on March 24.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they talked about their next course of action of the ongoing simultaneous movement and they focused on making the relations with the partners of the movement stronger further to intensify the street agitation to establish a pro-people government by holding a credible election under a non-party caretaker government.</div><div><br></div><div>Rastra Sanskar Andolan’s chief coordinator and the coordinator of Ganatantra Mancha, Hasnat Quaiyum, said they also talked about the joint declaration of the simultaneous movement, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they hope they will soon be able to present the joint declaration very soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasnat also said they also talked about how to intensify the current movement in unison in the days to come.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 19:17:58', '2023-04-02 19:17:58'),
(6138, 6138, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A High Court (HC) division bench today issued a rule asking why the Hajj package announced by the government this year should not be declared to be against the public interest.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The HC division bench comprising Justice K. M. Kamrul Kader and Justice Mohammad Ali issued the rule.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also sought to know why other airlines besides Bangladesh Biman and Saudi Airlines would not be included in list of airlines for booking tickets for hajj, keeping the affordability of the pilgrims in mind.</div><div>Religious Affairs Secretary, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary, Director General of the Islamic Foundation and Hajj Association of Bangladesh (HAB) have been asked to respond to the rule within the next four weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 6, a legal notice was sent to the government to review the Hajj package price and set it at Tk 4 lakh by Supreme Court lawyer and chief coordinator of Al-Quran Study Center, Advocate Ashraf Uz Zaman.</div><div><br></div><div>The notice which stated that legal action will be taken against the concerned authorities if they don\'t take necessary steps within a week, was also sent to the Religious Affairs Ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Ashraf Uz-Zaman, petitioner of the writ, told BSS that they want the concerned party to amend, change and reschedule the Hajj Package-2023, confining it within Taka four lakh. \"We have pointed out other issues like including other airlines besides Bangladesh Biman or Saudi Airlines, to ease out the burden of the expenses for the pilgrims,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The government fixed the cost of Hajj in the current year at Tk 6.83 lakh. On the other hand, the minimum cost for Hajj pilgrims under private management (without qurbani) has been set at Tk 6.72 lakh.</div><div><br></div><div>With the announced packages, a pilgrim will have to spend around 1.5 lakh taka extra this year, compared to the previous year\'s budget. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 20:06:18', '2023-04-02 20:06:18'),
(6139, 6139, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams, sued under the Digital Security Act (DSA), has been taken back to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj from Kashimpur Central Jail-1.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>A prison van carrying Shams left Kashimpur Central Jail for Dhaka Central Jail around 10am and reached Keraniganj around 12.15pm on Saturday, said Shahjahan Ahmed, superintendent of Kashimpur Jail 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the journalist was shifted to Kashimpur Central Jail from Keraniganj on Friday (31 March). A Dhaka court on Thursday (30 March) sent him to jail in a case filed under Digital Security Act after rejecting his bail petition.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On March 29, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) men in plainclothes picked up Shams from his residence in Ambagan area, adjacent to Jahangirnagar University, around 4:30 am.</div><div><br></div><div>The same day, a Jubo League leader filed a case under the Digital Security Act against Shams, accusing him of publishing a \"false and fabricated report\" on the Prothom Alo website. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 20:15:49', '2023-04-02 20:15:49'),
(6140, 6140, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The FOSWAL Literary Award, conferred to Father the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was handed over to his daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Noted writers and researchers Ramendu Majumdar and Mofidul Haque handed over the award to her at the latter’s official residence Ganabhaban, said PM’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon.</div><div><br></div><div>At the time, the premier was given a letter and book written by Eminent Punjabi novelist and FOSWAL Founder President Ajeet Cour as well as a centenary-old Phulkari cloth sheet (Chadar) as gifts.</div><div><br></div><div>Extending thanks to all the concerned,&nbsp; Hasina said Bangabandhu stood tall like the Himalayas as a politician. Besides, he also had left the signs of the unique talent in his writings, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the historic 7th March speech, the PM said, Bangabandhu\'s speech is today a part of the world’s documentary heritage.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She described this speech as a political epic which inspired the whole nation on the eve of the Liberation War in 1971.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 26, the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) conferred \'Special Literary Award\' to Bangabandhu for his trilogy -- The Unfinished Memoirs, The Prison Diaries, and New China 1952.</div><div><br></div><div>FOSWAL Founder President Ajeet Cour handed over the award to Ramendu Majumder and Mofidul Haque at its 63rd Literature Festival in New Delhi.</div><div><br></div><div>In the citation, it was stated, \"Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of Independent Bangladesh, \'Bangabandhu\' to his people, is a towering figure of national liberation of oppressed people of the world. Like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther king he was brutally murdered by the forces of darkness, but no power on earth can erase him from history.\"</div><div><br></div><div>SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001. According to UNB&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-04-02 20:46:33', '2023-04-02 20:46:33');
