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(7388, 7388, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The 18th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Highway Police, a specialized unit of Bangladesh Police that is responsible for law enforcement on roads, will be observed in the country tomorrow in a befitting manner.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On the eve of the day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued a message greeting all members of the Bangladesh Highway Police and wished the programmes of the day a success.</div><div><br></div><div>Marking the day, a discussion will be held at Bangladesh Police Auditorium in city\'s Rajarbagh area at 11 am tomorrow.</div><div><br></div><div>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan will be present in the programme as the chief guest while Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun will preside over it.</div><div><br></div><div>In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said: \"I am happy to know that the 18th anniversary of Bangladesh Highway Police will be celebrated. On this occasion, I convey my sincere greetings and congratulations to all the members of the Highway Police.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that Bangladesh Police has a golden history of glorious sacrifice and heroism in the Great War of Liberation, the premier said responding to the call of the greatest Bangalee ever and the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first armed resistance was formed by the fearless brave policemen on the night of March 25 in 1971.</div><div><br></div><div>She remembered with deep respect the patriotic brave policemen who sacrificed their lives for the independence of the beloved motherland.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Following the footsteps of the Father of the Nation, we have taken all necessary steps for the development and modernization of the police,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>All efforts are being continued to make Bangladesh Police modern, up-to-date, efficient and pro-people by taking effective measures in the areas of increasing the manpower of the force, forming new units, developing physical infrastructures, increasing modern vehicles and logistics facilities, ensuring state-of-the-art training facilities, establishing welfare trusts and banks for the overall welfare of policemen and improving housing and medical facilities, she continued.</div><div><br></div><div>She hoped that every member of the Highway Police would fulfill their duties being imbued with the spirit of the great Liberation War and patriotism, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You will work tirelessly to become the \'People\'s Police\' expected by the Father of the Nation by performing duties with honesty, devotion and humanity,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Through the implementation of \'Vision 2041\' and with the united efforts of all, we will be able to build the \'Smart Bangladesh\' cum golden Bangladesh as dreamt by the Father of the Nation. Insha Allah,\" the premier said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 02:42:13', '2023-06-11 02:42:13'),
(7389, 7389, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Stating that caretaker government is now the most live issue, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said the people of Bangladesh will not be deceived thrice by participating in the next polls under the Awami League regime.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a discussion, he also said Awami League is against the election under a non-party impartial government as the party knows very well that it will not get more than 10 percent votes in credible polls because of its widespread plundering and misdeeds.</div><div><br></div><div>“Awami League leaders and ministers are saying the caretaker government is now a dead issue. Why is it a dead issue? This is the most live issue now,” the BNP leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the people of Bangladesh witnessed the parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2018. “They won’t go back to face that situation again. There’s no question of doing it.”</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad arranged the programme at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), marking the first death anniversary of the organisation’s founding president and former BNP MP and state minister for water resources Advocate Gautam Chakraborty,</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said their party took part in talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina before the 2018 election with the hope of creating an atmosphere for a neutral election through discussions, but they were betrayed.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have been cheated twice (in the 2014 and 2018 elections). We would like to clearly say that the people of the country won’t get cheated again for the third time,” he observed.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the next election must be held under a non-party caretaker government as the current regime has completely destroyed the voting and election system in the country in a planned way.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to Law Minister Anisul Huq’s comment in parliament that no one will be arrested during the next election as the administration will remain under the Election Commission, he said, “Who will believe these words? It is like the story of the cowboy on a tiger. We want to say clearly, no one will be misguided by these words of the current regime. Because you have never kept any promises that you made before the nation.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul urged the government to step down and dissolve Parliament by handing over power to a non-party caretaker government, creating a scope for holding a credible election.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the current ‘usurper’ government has been in power with arrogance though they were not elected by the people. “What they’re saying everyday has no relation with people as they have got isolated from people.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the country’s economy is now in a shamble and under threat due to unprecedented corruption, plundering and siphoning off money abroad. “We have long been saying development without democracy can’t be sustainable.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said the government should step down right now to save the country, economy and institutions.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader alleged that the government is trying to create a fund by plundering public money to spend during the next election.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said the ruling party leaders are now not thinking safe their laundered money in the USA following the visa policy for Bangladesh. “They’ll now get 2.5 percent incentive while taking back the money. The thieves will be rewarded and this is the principle of this regime.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government used to brag about a huge development in the power sector, but now people are facing serious power outgases as power plants are being shut down one after another for lack of fuel energy.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the government has been taking away money from people’s pockets by raising the power tariffs several times. “But where did that money go?</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government has taken various mega projects imprudently only for stealing public money. “They have put entire Bangladesh in danger. So, we are saying repeatedly there’s no ground for this regime to stay in power.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul described Gautam Chakraborty as an honest, humble and good human being and recalled his contributions to politics, democratic movements and the BNP. “He was an asset in politics.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader urged the leaders of the Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad to strengthen their organisation and raise their voices strongly against the growing repression on the minority communities under the rule of the current regime. “You need to do this to protect the interests of your communities. - AP/UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 03:42:13', '2023-06-11 03:42:13'),
(7390, 7390, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Holding its first rally in the capital after a decade, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Saturday demanded holding the next national election under a non-party caretaker government.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The Jamaat leaders also urged the party followers to get ready for taking to the streets to force the government to accept the demand.</div><div><br></div><div>The party’s Dhaka South city unit arranged the rally at the Institution of the Engineers, Bangladesh protesting the price hikes in daily essentials and demanding the restoration of the caretaker government and the release of the party’s arrested leaders and activists.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the first time since 2013 that Jamaat was able to hold a political programme in the capital as the Dhaka Metropolitan Police gave the party permission for the programme on some conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>Huge number of leaders of activists of Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir joined the rally held with the party’s Dhaka south unit president Nurul Islam Bulbul presiding.</div><div><br></div><div>A written statement was read out on behalf of Acting Jamaat Ameer Mujibur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>In the statement, Mujibur Rahman said the country’s people will not accept the next election under the partisan government. “So take steps for holding the election under a caretaker government demonstrating your good sense. There is no alternative to it.”</div><div><br></div><div>He also placed a 10-point demand, including holding the election under the caretaker government, the release of party leaders and workers and reopening all party offices.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at the programme as the chief guest, Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer and former MP Dr Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher said the government is talking about a fair and neutral election, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“We also want a fair and impartial election. Democracy means fair elections…but the election can’t be allowed to hold this time like 2014 and 2-018 ones.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Jamaat leader said the election must be held under the caretaker government this time. “So, come to the discussions to get a solution.”</div><div><br></div><div>He also said their party will take to the streets for establishing the caretaker government. “We’ll do whatever needs to be done for realising the demand for the caretaker government,”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 04:00:14', '2023-06-11 04:00:14'),
(7391, 7391, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has killed a Bangladeshi national along the Bangladesh-India border in Ranisankail, upazila of Thakurgaon.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was Jinnat Ali (52) of Checkpost Colony in Dharmagarh union of the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>The shooting took place near the main pillar number 374/1 of Dharmagarh border around 2:00 pm on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Commander of BGB Thakurgaon-50 Battalion Lt Col Tanvir Ahmed said, “A Bangladeshi named Jinnat Ali crossed the zero line of the Indian border this afternoon and the BSF patrol team opened fire. He was injured and came to the Bangladesh border. He died on the way to Thakurgaon for treatment.”</div><div><br></div><div>Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Ranishankail Police Station Gulfamul Islam Mandal said police recovered his body and sent it to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.</div><div><br></div><div>According to locals, Jinnat Ali and some others entered the Indian border near their house in the afternoon to cut grass. Later, they went to clean the grass in the Nagar River.</div><div><br></div><div>At one point, they got up from the river and went to the Bangladesh border area, the BSF members patrolling the Kukradah camp of the BSF battalion in North Dinajpur district of India opened fire on them. Jannat Ali was shot and fell to the ground. He died on the way to Thakurgaon after being rescued by others, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Jagdal camp commander Abdul Momin said, “A letter has been sent to the BSF calling for a flag meeting to protest against the killing of the Bangladeshi by shooting.” - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 04:09:21', '2023-06-11 04:09:21'),
(7392, 7392, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former US President Donald Trump has called the federal indictment against him \"ridiculous and baseless\" in his first public appearance since the charges were announced.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 37-count indictment made public on Friday accuses him of keeping sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago property.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The indictment amounted to \"election interference\" by the \"corrupt\" FBI and justice department, he said on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has denied any wrongdoing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including some about US nuclear secrets and military plans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The indictment accused him of keeping the files at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago including in a ballroom and a shower.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lied to investigators and tried to obstruct their investigation into his handling of the documents, the indictment alleged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the first ever criminal prosecution against a former US president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a speech on Saturday at a Republican Party convention in Georgia, Mr Trump said: \"They\'re cheating, they\'re crooked, they\'re corrupt - these criminals cannot be rewarded, they must be defeated.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He joked that every time he flies over a \"blue state\" - one controlled by the Democrats - he gets subpoenaed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump, who is running for the White House again in 2024, called the indictment a \"hoax\" by the \"corrupt political establishment\", also describing it as a \"joke\" and a \"travesty\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speech went on for more than an hour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It began with him thanking the \"record crowd\" as well as \"patriots\" from Georgia who had supported his White House bid, and went on to criticise \"sinister forces\" that were running the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re going to stand up to the current political establishment … and we\'re going to finish the job we started, the most successful presidency,\" he said, a line that led to chants of \"USA, USA\" breaking out in the crowd.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I will never yield, I will never be deterred,\" he said, before turning his attention to the groups he said were plotting against him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This included Marxists, communists, \"environmental extremists\", Rinos - Republicans in Name Only - as well as \"open border fanatics\" and \"radical left democrats\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referencing the indictment, he claimed the highly-sensitive documents should have fallen under the Presidential Records Act, rather than the Espionage Act.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives once an administration ends. Regulations require such files to be stored securely.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said \"gun-toting FBI agents\" had raided Mar-a-Lago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Special counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation, has denied the charges are politically-motivated, saying: \"We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laws protecting national defence information were critical and must be enforced, he has said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As momentum starts to build towards the 2024 election, Mr Trump was speaking at a Republican Party convention in Columbus, Georgia, before moving onto another Republican Party event in Greensboro, North Carolina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is currently the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His former vice president Mike Pence - who this week was highly critical of his former boss when announcing his own run for the presidency - spoke earlier at the North Carolina event, although the pair are not expected to cross paths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Georgia is likely to be a key battleground in the race for the White House, and is where Mr Trump narrowly lost to current President Joe Biden in 2020 - it could also be the scene of further legal jeopardy for the former president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials in the state are currently looking into whether Mr Trump broke the law when he asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \"find\" the exact number of votes he needed to flip the vote in his favour. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 12:53:16', '2023-06-11 12:53:16'),
(7393, 7393, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Romania has recalled its ambassador to Kenya and apologised after he compared Africans to monkeys.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dragos Tigau made the comments during a meeting at a UN building in Kenya\'s capital, Nairobi, on April 26.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the AFP news agency, Mr Tigau said \"the African group has joined us\" when he saw a monkey outside a window.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Tigau\'s behaviour was first made public on Thursday by Kenyan foreign affairs official Kamau Macharia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Twitter Mr Macharia said he was left \"appalled and disgusted\" by the incident, and claimed that attempts were made to cover up Mr Tigau\'s behaviour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">African diplomats on Friday demanded a public apology, according to Kenya\'s Standard newspaper, insisting that a private apology was not enough.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, Romania announced that it had only been informed of the incident this week and had now begun \"a procedure to recall its ambassador\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We deeply regret this situation and offer our apologies to all those who have been affected,\" the statement from Romania\'s foreign affairs ministry read.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Any behaviours or comments of a racist nature are completely unacceptable,\" it added, saying it hoped it would not affect its ties with African countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Romania mainly engages with African nations through its membership of the European Union, but it has bilateral trade deals with Egypt among others.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kenyan government has not commented on the decision to recall Mr Tigau.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Romanian media have criticised his behaviour, and say this is not the first time the country has been embarrassed by insults dished out by diplomats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2014, Romania\'s ambassador to Armenia was recalled after making anti-Semitic jokes about Jewish bosses and questioning the morality of same-sex relationships.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following year, Bucharest apologised after invitations to a reception at its Paris embassy accidentally included unflattering descriptions of some guests - labelling them \"ghastly\" and \"undesirable\" among other things. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 13:03:08', '2023-06-11 13:03:08'),
(7394, 7394, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said his team\'s maiden Champions League title was \"written in the stars\" after their final victory over Inter Milan on Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rodri\'s 68th-minute strike proved enough for City to finally get their hands on club football\'s biggest trophy, despite having to ride their luck as Inter missed several second-half chances.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s so difficult to win it,\" Guardiola told BT Sport after the nervy 1-0 victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They (his players) are really good. Be patient, I said at half-time. You have to be lucky. (Goalkeeper) Ederson or they miss it, they could draw. This competition is a coin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was written in the stars. It belongs to us.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guardiola has now won the trophy three times as a coach after his previous triumphs with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">City\'s victory also clinched a treble following their Premier League and FA Cup successes this season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"After the World Cup the team made a step forward and we were there,\" added Guardiola, whose side complete the campaign with just one loss in their last 28 matches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re going to celebrate in the hotel with family and friends. Monday the parade is in Manchester. With this competition, the treble is so difficult.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is just the second coach to lead an English club to such a treble, following in the footsteps of Alex Ferguson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is an honour for me to be alongside Sir Alex Ferguson in that situation,\" he told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have to say I got a message from him this morning on my phone that touched me a lot. It is an honour for me to be with him. It is so nice.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">City had suffered several near-misses in the Champions League since being taken over by their Abu Dhabi backers in 2008, including a defeat by Chelsea in the final two years ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also lost in the semi-finals last season in dramatic circumstances to Real Madrid, following other unexpected defeats in recent years against the likes of Lyon and Tottenham Hotspur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You have to win in Europe to be considered a really good team, and we did it,\" Guardiola admitted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Inter is an exceptional team, but sometimes you need this type of luck that in the past against Tottenham, in other games, in the final against Chelsea, that we didn\'t have.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'A big relief\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 52-year-old, who also won the competition as a player with Barcelona in 1992, admitted he was looking forward to a break now but said he hoped this would just be the start for City in Europe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t want after one Champions League to disappear, so we have to work harder next season and be there,\" he insisted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are teams that win the Champions League and after one or two seasons, they disappear. We have to avoid it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Knowing me, this will not happen, but at the same time I have to admit it is a big relief for this club, this institution, for everyone to have this trophy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Now finally they are not going to ask me if we are going to win the Champions League.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next target will be retaining the trophy, something only Madrid have done in the past three decades. \"No don\'t talk about it. Give me a break please,\" he joked when asked about getting ready to go again next season, when the final will be played at Wembley.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My chairman said \'Oh London is next season, the final of the Champions League\'. I don\'t tell you my answer to him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have time. Now is time to celebrate.\" 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, '2023-06-11 14:41:08', '2023-06-11 14:41:08'),
(7395, 7395, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The partial collapse of a textile factory near Morocco\'s commercial capital of Casablanca has killed five people, a labour union said on Saturday in a revised toll.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local authorities had initially reported two fatalities and five \"seriously injured\" in the incident early on Thursday in the town of Tit Mellil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The tragedy has claimed the lives of five workers,\" the textile and clothing branch of the Democratic Confederation of Labour said in a statement on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said they had been working on the construction of \"four additional floors above the factory, in conditions that do not meet basic safety regulations\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The labour union called for those responsible to be brought to justice, including any officials who had approved the construction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing local authorities, state news agency MAP reported on Thursday that an investigation has begun into what caused the collapse. 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, '2023-06-11 14:43:28', '2023-06-11 14:43:28'),
(7396, 7396, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">More than 3,400 women were reported missing in Peru between January and April this year, the Ombudsman\'s Office reported on Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the office\'s report -- titled \"What happened to them?\" -- the first four months of 2023 saw 3,406 complaints of missing women filed. Only 1,902 were found, and 1,504 are still missing, the report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peru\'s \"situation... as to disappearances would be classified as a situation of imminent danger,\" said Isabel Ortiz, deputy for the Ombudsman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The State is not taking action to prevent these types of events,\" which happen each year in the Andean nation of 33 million people, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The State is not making the issue of disappearances (mostly kidnappings and abductions) a priority agenda item.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2022, more than 5,380 women, mostly girls and teenagers, were reported missing, a figure 9.7 percent lower than in 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to various feminist NGOs, the police and the prosecutor\'s office do not sufficiently investigate many cases because they believe that the women fled voluntarily. 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, '2023-06-11 14:45:36', '2023-06-11 14:45:36'),
(7397, 7397, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Cameron Green insisted he had taken a fair catch to dismiss India\'s Shubman Gill as Australia pressed for victory in the World Test Championship final at The Oval on Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia declared midway through the fourth afternoon, leaving India needing what would be a new Test record fourth-innings winning total of 444.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India still had an outside chance at 164-3 at stumps, with star batsman Virat Kohli 44 not out heading into Sunday\'s scheduled last day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India made a rousing start to their daunting chase, scoring 41 runs in under eight overs before Gill fell to an outstanding catch by Green off seamer Scott Boland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But there was sufficient doubt over the validity of the all-rounder\'s low, one-handed, grab for the on-field umpires to call in TV official Richard Kettleborough.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kettleborough ruled Gill was out, a decision met with jeers and chants of \"cheat\" from a largely pro-India crowd.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replays indicated Green had his fingers under the ball, but Gill posted a less definitive still image of the catch on Twitter shortly after stumps. That picture was accompanied by two magnifying glasses and a \'face palm\' emoji.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India seamer Mohammed Shami was also unhappy with what he thought was a rushed decision by Kettleborough, telling the post-match press conference: \"We could have taken some time. It\'s the World Test Championship final, not a normal match that you let go.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It should have been checked better, zoomed in, but it\'s okay, it\'s part of the game. It is all about the umpires. They take a call.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Green, who took an equally brilliant, if less controversial catch, to dismiss Ajinkya Rahane in India\'s first innings, had no qualms over Gill\'s exit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I definitely thought I caught it\", said the 24-year-old.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In the heat of the moment I thought it was clean, threw it up and obviously showed no sign of any doubt. Then it\'s left up to the third umpire and he agreed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prolonged India resistance with the bat may be the last thing Australia\'s pace attack want just days before the first Ashes Test against England at Edgbaston starts on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Green, set to play his part as fourth seamer, was adamant there would be no let-up in Australia\'s bid to capture the one major men\'s global title that has so far eluded them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'ve been working so hard for two years to have any doubts about pushing in this game,\" he said. 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, '2023-06-11 16:07:56', '2023-06-11 16:07:56'),
(7398, 7398, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka has once again topped the list of cities with the worst air quality, with an AQI of 157 at 8:30 am today (June 11, 2023).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air was classified as \'unhealthy\'.</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 301-400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">United Arab Emirates’ Dubai, Israel’s Tel Aviv and Vietnam’s Hanoi occupied the second, third and fourth spots in the list, with AQI scores of 156, 154 and 153, respectively.</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, '2023-06-11 16:11:20', '2023-06-11 16:11:20'),
(7399, 7399, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Election Commission (EC) has completed all preparations ahead of the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election, scheduled to be held tomorrow.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Distribution of all electoral materials from the city’s Divisional Mohila Krira Complex will start from 11 am today.&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Returning Officer Md Alauddin said voting at all centres in the KCC election will be held using electronic voting machines (EVM).&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said five candidates for mayoral post, 136 for general councillors for 31 wards and 39 for reserved seats will compete in the election.&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Two councillors for wards 13 and 24 have been elected unopposed, he said, adding that voting will start at 8 am and will continue till 4pm, without any break.&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Khandaker Yasir Arefin, deputy commissioner of Khulna, said 11 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were deployed to ensure security in the KCC election and they have been patrolling since this morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Each platoon comprising 20 members of the BGB will assist 11 executive magistrates in conducting mobile court, the DC said.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Campaigning for the election started on May 26 with the allocation of election symbols and stopped on Saturday midnight as per order of the EC.&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The whole city has been wearing a festive look during the electioneering.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">A total of 5,35,528 people are supposed to exercise their franchise in the 31 wards of Khulna city and there are 1,732 polling booths under 289 polling stations. UNB</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 16:14:26', '2023-06-11 16:14:26'),
(7401, 7401, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Heavy rains swept through Pakistan\'s northwest on Saturday, causing several houses to collapse and leaving at least 25 people dead and 145 injured, authorities said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rains and hail hit the Bannu, Lakki Marwat and Karak districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, senior rescue officer Khateer Ahmed said, uprooting trees and knocking down electrical transmission towers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials were working to provide emergency relief to the injured, Ahmed said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, monsoon rains and flooding devastated Pakistan, killing more than 1,700 people, affecting around 33 million people and displacing nearly 8 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To mitigate the effects of natural disasters, the government in its national budget draft presented Friday allocated $1.3 billion for climate resilience.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday expressed grief over the loss of life loss from the storm and directed authorities to pick up the pace of the relief operation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Sharif ordered officials to put in place emergency measures in advance of the approaching Cyclone Biparjoy in the Arabia Sea. The \"severe and intense\" cyclone with wind speeds of 150 kilometers per hour (93 miles per hour) was on a course toward the country\'s south, Pakistan\'s disaster management agency said. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 17:33:45', '2023-06-11 17:33:45'),
(7402, 7402, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a counteroffensive against Russian forces was underway, while declining to give specifics on his troops\' operations.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine: at which stage I will not talk in detail,\" Zelensky said on Saturday, commenting after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Kyiv\'s operation was already failing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia has reported thwarting Ukrainian attacks in the east and south.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s interesting what Putin said about our counteroffensive. It is important that Russia always feels this: that they do not have long left, in my opinion,\" Zelensky said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that he was in daily touch with military commanders, including armed forces chief Valery Zaluzhny, and \"everyone is positive now -- tell that to Putin!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, Kyiv\'s forces conducted counteroffensive operations in at least four front-line areas, according to the Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces have tactical advantages in conducting assaults at night due to Western-provided equipment with superior night optics systems,\" ISW said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To shore up that stockpile, Zelensky secured fresh pledges of military aid while meeting with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Held to account\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trudeau, 51, and Zelensky, 45, hugged and used each other\'s first names as the Canadian leader made his second unannounced visit to Kyiv since full-scale war broke out in February last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canada, which hosts a large Ukrainian diaspora, has been one of Kyiv\'s key allies since the Russian invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has provided Ukraine with significant military aid, trained more than 36,000 soldiers and adopted sanctions against Moscow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, the Canadian leader said he would provide Can$500 million (US$375 million) in fresh military assistance to Kyiv, and pledged Canada would be part of the multinational effort to train Ukraine\'s fighter pilots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trudeau also urged international organisations to come to the aid of those in Russian-occupied territories after flooding from the breached Kakhovka dam forced thousands to flee their homes and sparked fears of humanitarian and environmental disasters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up the dam on Tuesday, while Moscow says Kyiv fired on it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked why he stopped short of blaming Russia for the dam collapse, Trudeau said: \"I know there are investigators and there are a lot of questions and intelligence being analysed on what exactly happened to have this dam collapse.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But there is no doubt in my mind that absent Russia\'s invasion of last February, that dam would still be standing today.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pledging Can$10 million in flood relief, Trudeau also said Russia \"will be held to account\" for its actions in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the day, Trudeau placed flowers by a wall of remembrance displaying photos of soldiers killed in combat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Oleksandr Polishchuk handed Trudeau a box that he said held shrapnel from a rocket that fell on the Black Sea port city of Odesa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the gift was intended to remind Trudeau of Ukraine\'s suffering from Russian strikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Iran must \'end support\' for Russia -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three people were killed early Saturday in a fire sparked by debris from shot-down Russian drones in the Odesa region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi to \"immediately end\" Tehran\'s support for Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine, which involves supplying Moscow with attack drones, the Elysee said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Macron in a telephone call underlined the serious \"security and humanitarian consequences\" of Iran\'s drone deliveries \"and urged Tehran to immediately end the support it thus gives to Russia\'s war of aggression against Ukraine\", said a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The call came a day after White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Russia was receiving materials from Iran to build a drone factory that \"could be fully operational early next year\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has said that Russia has received hundreds of Iranian attack drones to hit Kyiv and \"terrorise\" Ukrainians, a charge denied by Tehran. 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(7403, 7403, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, MP, has urged the students to be science-minded and innovative for building Smart Bangladesh envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;He said there is no alternative to practice sciences for building smart Bangladesh and facing the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. To this end, the government has been working. Simultaneously, the students should be attentive towards science practice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;State Minister Shahriar Alam came up with the observation while addressing a ceremony related to course closing of the second honours batch and giving honour to the retired principals of Bagha Shahdowla Government College in the district on Saturday as chief guest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Principal of the college Prof Abu Bakar Siddique in the chair, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Upazila Nirbahi Officer Sharmin Akhter and Upazila Awami League General Secretary Ashraful Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister Alam said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\'s government is working with the determination to build a smart Bangladesh. \"Digital Bangladesh has already been built and time has come to build Smart Bangladesh with the prudent and farsighted leadership of the Premier,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said many of the youths are earning foreign currencies through freelancing and this is smart Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The present government has established Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-tech Park in Rajshahi and it has already started becoming an employment hub for youths creating enthusiasm among the young generation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;At present, around 400 youths have been engaged in various works, including software development, site maintenance of famous companies and file works as per demand from abroad, generating working atmospheres in the park.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the state minister distributed bank cheques worth Taka 8.5 lakh among 17 distressed people on behalf of the department of social services, while 32 bundles of corrugated sheets and Taka 96,000 among 16 other helpless people on behalf of the department of relief and rehabilitation. 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, '2023-06-11 17:41:15', '2023-06-11 17:41:15'),
(7404, 7404, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said Nagad, a leading mobile financial service provider in Bangladesh, has grown into a billion-dollar company within the first three years of its journey.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state minister made the remark during his inaugural speech as a special guest at the two-day ‘Smart Bangladesh Summit and Expo’ that began at the International Convention City Bashundhara on Friday. Junior Chamber International (JCI) Bangladesh organised the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“At least five more unicorns [billion dollar start-ups] will emerge in Bangladesh by 2025. Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given us a solid foundation where talented, courageous and problem-solving entrepreneurs can lead the world from Bangladesh in doing business,” Palak also said, adding that Nagad leads by example.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nagad, an MFS of Bangladesh Postal Department, embarked on its journey on March 26 in 2019. At the outset, it shook the entire financial industry by innovating electronic know-your-customer (e-KYC). In the e-KYC system, customers can open an MFS account using their smartphone in less than a minute just by taking a photo of their national identity card and a selfie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the state-owned MFS operator came up with an even easier way to open an MFS account just by dialing *167# on a feature phone. The ground-breaking innovations have brought an end to cumbersome paperwork.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other MFS operators and financial institutions have also adopted the Nagad-innovated e-KYC system and thus reduced their operational costs to a great extent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nagad’s success reflects its use of state-of-the-art technologies that allow the delivery of various services at minimal charges. In some cases, Nagad provides its customers with free of cost services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nagad now has several plans lined up with a view to speeding up Bangladesh’s transition to a cashless society.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In four years of its journey, Nagad’s registered customers now stand at 7.5 crore, with its daily transactions hitting more than Tk 1,200 crore on average.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2020, the state-owned mobile money carrier scooped the ‘WITSA Global ICT Excellence Award-2019’ for its innovation of account opening just by dialing *167# on a feature phone. 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, '2023-06-11 17:50:30', '2023-06-11 17:50:30'),
(7405, 7405, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Priyanka Chopra is a happy mommy as her daughter Malti Marie Chopra Jonas wore a lehenga for the first time. She took to Instagram to share photos of Malti in her cute new outfit. The actor held a special pooja at home on her father\'s death anniversary.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharing a photo of Malti walking while holding someone\'s hand, Priyanka wrote with her post, “Someone found her belly button in her gorgeous lehenga by @poojarajpaljaggiofficial.” The photo showed Malti digging a finger into her belly button while wearing a cute light purple lehenga. It had a top with straps, a lehenga made of lace and even a small dupatta that she wore around her neck.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a second picture, Malti was seen picking up flowers from the floor after the pooja. “Puja time, miss you Nana,” Priyanka wrote with her post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>More about Malti</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malti was born to Priyanka and Nick via surrogacy in January 2022. The duo, in a joint statement, had announced the birth of their first child on social media.\"We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank you so much (sic),\" the statement read.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malti made her first public appearance alongside Priyanka in January this year. They attended the Jonas Brothers\' Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony together on January 30 in Los Angeles, where the one-year-old sat on Priyanka\'s lap as her father and uncles Kevin and Joe Jonas accepted their star.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the promotion of Citadel in India, Priyanka brought the little one with her. She also took her to Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai and sought blessings from God. 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, '2023-06-11 18:08:39', '2023-06-11 18:08:39'),
(7406, 7406, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 5.0-magnitude earthquake on Sunday struck near Johannesburg, shaking buildings across South Africa\'s most populous province, the Unites States Geological Survey reported.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tremor struck at 2:38 am (0038 GMT) around 10 kilometres (six miles) below the surface, the USGS said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buildings shook across the province of Gauteng, where Johannesburg, the country\'s largest city and commercial hub, is located.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Residents across the province felt the tremor and some posted pictures on social media showing minor structural damages of walls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August 2014, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit a gold mining town near Johannesburg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last major quake to hit South Africa was a 6.3-magnitude tremor that struck the Western Cape province in 1969. 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, '2023-06-11 18:41:17', '2023-06-11 18:41:17'),
(7407, 7407, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The 1st ‘Commonwealth Trade and Investment Forum’ will be held in Dhaka on September 13-14 to foster partnerships, promote innovation, and explore avenues for sustainable and inclusive economic development for Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the Forum which will see participants from Commonwealth nations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC) briefed the media on Sunday in this regard at a Dhaka hotel.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salman F Rahman, Private Industry and Investment Adviser to the Prime Minister; Lord Swire KCMG, Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom and Deputy Chairman of the CWEIC; Md. Shahriar Alam, State Minister for Foreign Affairs; Zillur Hussain MBE, Strategic Advisor, Bangladesh, CWEIC, among others, were present at the press conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first Commonwealth Trade and Investment Forum to be organized in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously the Forum was organized in other member states of the Commonwealth such as United Kingdom, Singapore, Kenya, Rwanda, Malta etc.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 countries united by common values and is a home to one-third of the world\'s population. Bangladesh joined the Commonwealth as its 34th Member in 1972.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the event, Salman F Rahman said, “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, right after the independence of the country, joined the Commonwealth with the vision of gaining mutual cooperation from the member states.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Bangladesh joined the Commonwealth, he said, the country was in its infant stage – struggling with a war-torn economy and a ravaged infrastructure in the aftermath of the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over time, Bangladesh attained tremendous development on its economic fronts, Rahman said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the able leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh is graduating into a middle-income country in 2026.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This achievement became possible with the immense hard work of the nation, along with support from its development partners like the Commonwealth members. Some of the largest trade partners of Bangladesh are Commonwealth members,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lord Swire KCMG, Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom and Deputy Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC), said, “The Commonwealth is an amazing opportunity for Bangladeshi companies to explore – 56 countries of untapped potential and limitless possibilities.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there will be plenary and roundtable discussions focusing on key economic issues. “We hope it will be an exciting and fruitful event,” Lord Swire KCMG said, adding that they are expecting 400-500 delegates at the Forum.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said that the Commonwealth must address the vulnerabilities of LDCs, LLDCs, SIDS, and countries with special needs, focusing on areas such as the continuation of their trade-related GSPs beyond LDC graduation, private capital flows and flexible financing for green technology transfer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He hoped that the Forum will offer an excellent opportunity to build new partnership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State Minister highlighted the facilities and said the government is committed to removing bottlenecks, if any.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) executive chairman Lokman Hossain Miah said the Forum will be showcasing multi-billion dollar investment opportunities in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“For us, it is a deeply significant and exciting opportunity. It is a strong recognition of our economic progress and future potential, which we have achieved under the visionary and dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” Lokman Hossain said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the country’s apex investment promotion agency, he said, BIDA will take full advantage of the opportunities that this Forum will create.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We will also seamlessly deliver investment services to businesses that are interested to explore opportunities in Bangladesh,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zillur Hussain MBE, Strategic Advisor, Bangladesh, Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, said heads of the states, political and business leaders of the Commonwealth members will be attending the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Forum this year in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“So, the Forum will offer a platform for promoting trade, investment, and economic growth. It aims to foster partnerships, promote innovation, and explore avenues for sustainable and inclusive economic development for Bangladesh,” he said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-11 19:05:25', '2023-06-11 19:05:25'),
(7408, 7408, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the students to groom themselves properly to take the country forward, further raising their heads with self-dignity on the world stage, not bowing to anyone.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;“We’ll have to keep in mind that we’ll take the country forward. Inshallah, this Bangladesh and Bengali nation will move, raising their heads in the world arena with self-dignity and self-esteem. We’ll not bow our heads to anyone. It is our promise,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this while inaugurating the distribution of stipends, tuition fees and awards among insolvent and meritorious students at her office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She opened the distribution of stipend and tuition fees among the insolvent and meritorious students from the secondary to graduate (pass) and its equivalent-level. She also conferred the awards to the most talented students of Bangabandhu Srijanshil Mridha Oneshan-2023 (Bangabandhu Creative Talent Search-2023) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Scholarship Award-2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing at the students, the PM asked them to keep it in mind always that they belong to a victorious nation which gained independence in the Liberation War and the people here don’t bow their heads to anyone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Today Bangladesh is a role model for development.&nbsp; So, we also show the path. Our meritorious children will take the country forward this way?” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Hasina said the country will be built as a smart Bangladesh by 2041. Smart people, smart government, smart economy and smart society would be there in the country, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that today is the age of science, technology and research, she asked the students to prepare themselves to move, keeping pace with the constantly changing world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that Bangladesh gained enough success in agricultural research, she stressed the need for giving more importance to medical science research now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’re moving forward in all sectors. But our research is lagging behind to some extent in one area and that is the health sector. We’re putting importance to medical science research… I think it needs to give more importance to it,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina said her government has extended the area of research. The government has given importance to oceanographic research and the blue economy as it will make a significant contribution to the development of the country’s economy in future, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said today the talented students have got scope to flourish their talents and their innovative power gets exposed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the speeches delivered by several students in the event, Sheikh Hasina said, “I am really optimistic that none can take this country backwards anymore.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said her government was successfully able to keep the higher educational institutions free from session-jams and arms violence.&nbsp; There was session-jams for 6-8 years and the regular clatter of arms in the educational institutions in the past, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We can at least claim that we could free the campus from that environment, coming to power in 2009,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said a democratic trend has continued since 2009, which is the first time in the 50-year history of Bangladesh. Thanks to the continuation of the democratic trend, the country is moving forward in the development journey, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our literacy rate has risen to 75 percent and we’ve been able to ensure food security,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing that now the people are suffering worse throughout the world, she said though the people here in Bangladesh are also facing the brunt of high inflation, food grains are available here. There is no shortage (of food grains).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Education Minister Dipu Moni and Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury also spoke on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 5,360,000 students from the secondary, higher secondary and graduation (pass) and equivalent institutions are receiving a total of Tk 1,200 crore as stipends and tuition fees, said Managing Director of Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust Smrity Karmaker in her welcome speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stipends and tuition fees are being disbursed through mobile financial service to the students.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, 15 talented students of the Class-VI to Class-XII, who were found out through the Bangabandhu Srijanshil Mridha Oneshan-2023, were awarded, while 22 post graduate-level students were conferred with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Scholarship Award-2022, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 15 students each received a crest, certificate and Tk 2 lakh, while the 22 students, selected for the scholarship award-2022, each received a crest, certificate and Tk 3 lakh. 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(7409, 7409, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said no one could pull Bangladesh back again if children of the country are given the opportunity to flourish their talent.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If we give the opportunity to develop the talent of our children, no one can take this country back again,\" she said while addressing the opening ceremony of the distribution of stipends, tuition fees and awards among insolvent and meritorious students at her office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina mentioned that her government has given stipends to increase research and innovation, saying \"Our children are very much meritorious and the stipend, given to the students to develop their talent, would contribute to our socioeconomic development.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are putting the highest emphasis on it,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister said Bangabandhu Creative Talent Search is a great initiative for the flourish of talent from where a good number of talented children are being nurtured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today, our children have got the opportunity to flourish their talent and now their innovative power is being bloomed,\" she said, adding \"None can take the country back, pull the country into darkness.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina asked the students to groom themselves properly to take the country forward, further raising their heads with self-dignity on the world stage, not bowing down to anyone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'ll have to keep in mind that we\'ll take the country forward. Inshallah, this Bangladesh and Bengali nation will move forward, raising their heads in the world arena with self-dignity and self-esteem. We\'ll not bow down our heads to anyone. It is our promise,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing at the students, the Premier asked them to always keep in mind that this country is a victorious nation in the Liberation War and they didn\'t bow their heads down to anyone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today, Bangladesh is a role model for development. So, we also show the path. Our meritorious children will take the country forward this way,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina said the country will be built as a smart Bangladesh by 2041. Smart people, smart government, smart economy and smart society would be there in the country, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that today is the age of science, technology and research, she asked the students to prepare themselves to move ahead, keeping pace with the constantly changing world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that Bangladesh gained enough success in agricultural research, she stressed the need to give more importance to medical science research now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re moving forward in all sectors. But, our research is lagging behind to some extent in one area and that is the health sector. We\'re putting importance to medical science research... I think it needs to give more importance to the sector,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that the incumbent government has extended the area of research, Sheikh Hasina said the government has given importance to oceanographic research and the blue economy as it will make a significant contribution to the development of the country\'s economy in future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the speeches delivered by several students in the event, Sheikh Hasina said, \"I am really optimistic that none can take this country backwards anymore.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina said her government is successfully able to keep the higher educational institutions freed from session jam and armed violence. There was a session-jam for 6-8 years and the regular clatter of arms in educational institutions in the past, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We can at least claim that we could free the campus from that environment, coming to power in 2009,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said a democratic trend has been continuing since 2009, which is the first time in the 50-year history of Bangladesh. Thanks to the continuation of the democratic trend, the country is moving forward in the development journey, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our literacy rate has risen to 75 percent and we\'ve been able to ensure food security,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing that now the people are suffering worse throughout the world, she said though the people in Bangladesh are also facing the brunt of high inflation, food grains are available here. There is no shortage of food grains.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was arranged to inaugurate the distribution of stipends and tuition fees among the insolvent and meritorious students from secondary to graduation (pass) and its equivalent institutions, as well as to confer the awards to the most talented students of Bangabandhu Srijanshil Mridha Oneshan-2023 (Bangabandhu Creative Talent Search-2023) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Scholarship Award-2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni in the chair, Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury also spoke as special guest on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 5,360,000 students from the secondary, higher secondary and graduation (pass) and equivalent institutions are receiving a total of Taka 1,200 crore as stipends and tuition fees, said Managing Director of Prime Minister\'s Education Assistance Trust Smrity Karmaker in her welcome speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stipends and tuition fees are being disbursed through mobile financial services for the students.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, 15 talented students from Class-VI to Class-XII, who were found through the Bangabandhu Srijanshil Mridha Oneshan-2023, were awarded, while 22 post-graduate-level students were conferred with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Scholarship Award-2022, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 15 students received a crest, certificate and Taka 2 lakh each, while the 22 students, selected for the scholarship award-2022, received a crest, certificate and Taka 3 lakh each.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reshmi Kaniz, a class VII student of Hazaribagh Girls School and College, Tashdik Ahmed Tonmoy, a class IX student of Government Laboratory High School, Rajshahi, Queen, student of Rajbari Government College, Dr Rakibul Amin Bijoy of National Cardiovascular Institute and Hospital and Mahbuba Ahmed of Bangladesh Engineering University also spoke on behalf of the award recipients. 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(7410, 7410, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said that there will be no compromise on the question of neutral government, and it would be resolved on streets, if necessary.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The government has started shaking. They made one statement in the morning and another in the evening. The issue of a neutral government will not be subject to negotiation, the decision will be taken on the streets through procession,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Addressing the biennial conference of Gazipur Metropolitan BNP as the chief guest on Sunday, Mirza Fakhrul also said that Awami League would not be able to get even 10 seats, if there is a caretaker government.</div><div><br></div><div>That is why the ruling party\'s General Secretary termed the caretaker government as a dead issue, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“But no, the issue of a caretaker government has remained alive. The whole world wants a free and fair election in Bangladesh,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Marking the Awami League as a terrorist party, the secretary general said, “Awami League is not a people’s party. That’s why they don’t want an election. Their body language proves that they are nothing but terrorists.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul criticised the ruling parry, saying it has established an autocratic rule, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The Awami League government has ruined our dream,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-12 02:26:58', '2023-06-12 02:26:58'),
(7411, 7411, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said that the policy of the Awami League remains unchanged although Jamaat has been allowed to hold rally after a decade.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“While unregistered political parties are permitted to hold indoor events, they must adhere to certain guidelines. In this case, the Commissioner verified that Jamaat intended to hold an indoor rally,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He made the remarks while talking to reporters&nbsp; after attending the 18th foundation anniversary ceremony of Highway Police at Rajarbagh on Sunday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Jamaat is an unregistered political party and various unregistered&nbsp; political parties in the country frequently organize different programs, said Asaduzzaman, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“There has been no change in Awami League\'s policy. Unregistered political parties can hold their meetings indoors,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-12 04:02:10', '2023-06-12 04:02:10'),
(7412, 7412, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine says it has liberated three villages in the south-east of the country in the first victories of its much-anticipated counter-offensive.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Footage on social media showed Ukrainian troops celebrating in the neighbouring settlements of Blahodatne and Neskuchne in the Donetsk region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv\'s deputy defence minister said nearby Makarivka was also taken.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the counter-offensive had begun.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These three settlements would be the first liberated since his comments, but not the first that Ukraine has recaptured since Monday, when pockets of its forces began to advance in the country\'s south.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow has yet to confirm the fall of any of the villages, instead speaking of repelling Ukrainian assaults in the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elsewhere, Ukraine says Russia has blown up another dam in the Zaporizhzhia region, following the destruction of the major Nova Kakhovka on Monday, which caused widespread flooding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine says the dam was blown up by Russian forces, who have controlled it since February 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Valeriy Shershen, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military, said Moscow\'s forces had chosen to blow up a second dam near the village of Novodarivka, which \"led to the flooding on both banks of the Mokri Yaly river\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Shershen said Russia was deliberately blowing up dams in the region to halt Ukraine\'s advance towards occupied areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia has denied it blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam and has blamed Ukraine instead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>\'Under the Ukrainian flag again\'</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In footage shared by pro-Ukrainian accounts on social media, troops could be seen raising the Ukrainian flag outside a burned out building in Blahodatne.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And the state border guard published videos showing Kyiv\'s forces announcing that \"Neskuchne of the Donetsk region is under the Ukrainian flag again\", before shouting the now standard battle cry of \"Glory to Ukraine\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar claimed in a Telegram video that Ukraine\'s forces had also taken the village of Makarivka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An army spokesperson said the gains were the first localised victories of the counter-offensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the capture of the three villages mark the biggest advances of recent days, the settlements are relatively small. Blahodatne had a pre-war population of just 1,000 residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The village, which has been the centre of intense fighting in recent days, sits on the road towards the city of Mariupol, and some analysts have suggested that Ukraine could seek to recapture the port city in the coming months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others have speculated that Kyiv wants to break the land bridge between occupied Crimea and Donetsk, isolating Russian troops on the peninsula.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further east, Ukrainian troops are also said to have advanced near the ruined city of Bakhmut, the scene of a long and bloody battle between Ukrainian forces and Russian troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior officials in Kyiv have refused to comment on the specifics of the advance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s enigmatic head of intelligence Kyrylo Budanov released a video on Sunday repeating the catchphrase \"plans love silence\", which has symbolised the secrecy behind the counteroffensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The extent of Ukraine\'s operations remain unclear, but the US-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said on Saturday that Kyiv\'s forces were attacking in at least four front-line areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has suffered some setbacks when probing Russian fortifications. A group of Ukrainian soldiers told the AFP news agency that they had lost several new American-made Bradley fighting vehicles in an attack in the southeast of Zaporizhzhia province on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six of the nine vehicles were wrecked, they said, adding that they feared someone had leaked information on their plans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts have highlighted the difficulties Ukraine faces in trying to pierce lines that Russia has been fortifying for months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in other areas Kyiv\'s troops are said to have breached the front lines in mechanised attacks over the weekend, with German Leopard-2 tanks said to have been deployed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile in Russia\'s Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, rail traffic was suspended after a freight train derailed on Saturday night. Belgorod\'s border areas have been hit by drones, shelling and cross-border raids in the past weeks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further north, the governor of the Kaluga region, Vladislav Shapsha, said there had been two drone crashes - one near the village of Strelkovka and the other in a forest. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-12 12:55:00', '2023-06-12 12:55:00'),
(7413, 7413, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 10 people have died and 25 others are in hospital after a wedding bus crashed in an Australian wine region.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The passengers were returning from a wedding at a winery on Sunday night when their coach overturned on Wine County Drive near Greta in Hunter Valley, New South Wales.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The driver of the bus, a 58-year-old man, has been arrested.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NSW Police Acting Assistant Commissioner Tracy Chapman said the guests were travelling to Singleton \"presumably for their accommodation\". The crash occurred around 23:30 local time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of fatalities could increase, with 25 passengers taken to hospital - two of them airlifted from the crash, Ms Chapman said. She added that the bus is still on its side and people could be trapped underneath.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Chapman said there was \"sufficient information\" for police to charge the coach driver.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'s under arrest. He\'s been the driver of a motor vehicle collision where there have been fatal injuries and there will be charges pending,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it is \"so cruel, so sad and so unfair\" for a \"joyous day in a beautiful place like that to end with such terrible loss of life\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"People hire a bus for weddings in order to keep their guests safe, and that just adds to the unimaginable nature of this tragedy,\" he said at a press conference in Canberra.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Albanese said some of the injured passengers are at John Hunter Hospital, but many have been flown to Sydney.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NSW Premier Chris Minns said the loss of so many lives was \"nothing short of heartbreaking\", adding: \"For this horrific crash to have occurred on a day that should have been filled with love and happiness only adds to the heartbreak\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For a day of joy to end in such devastating loss is cruel indeed. Our thoughts are also with those who have been injured,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hunter Valley is known for its vineyards and native bushland, making it a popular spot for wine tourists and group outings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A guest at the wedding said the day had been a \"fairy tale\" until news of the accident broke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We all started panicking,\" he told 7 News.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said they are still working to identify the crash victims and contact their next of kin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Family and friends of a person who may have been on board the bus are urged to contact Cessnock Police Station,\" they said in a statement. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-12 12:58:29', '2023-06-12 12:58:29');

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(7424, 7424, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Jatiya Party (Ershad)-backed mayoral candidate Md Shafiqul Islam Madhu has alleged that his agents are being barred from entering polling centres by supporters of Awami League (AL) candidate as Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election is underway.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made the allegation while talking to the media after casting his vote at the Collegiate School centere, under ward 17 in Sonadanga Residential Area of Khulna city, around 10:30 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expressing doubts about a fair election, the Jatiya Party-backed candidate said that a fair election under the current government is not possible, UNB\'s Barishal correspondent reported from the spot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the process to vote was slow at the polling stations, and the environment was not festive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about his next course of action, Md Shafiqul Islam said, “I will officially inform you (journalists) about my stance after visiting a few more centres.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voting in the KCC election began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break. Electronic voting machines are being used at all the centres to take votes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five candidates are vying for the mayoral post, 136 for councillors in 29 general wards, and 30 for reserved seats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Awami League-backed candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque cast his vote at Pioneer Secondary Girls School centre on the city’s South Central Road around 9:10 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After voting, the mayoral candidate said the election is being held in a free, fair manner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I will accept whatever result coming from the voters,” he said, hoping that people will vote for him for continuation of the development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) are carrying out their duty to ensure security in the KCC election along with 8,080 members from police, Ansar and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). 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, '2023-06-12 18:10:15', '2023-06-12 18:10:15'),
(7425, 7425, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Joe Biden is welcoming outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to the White House for talks on Monday as the competition to find his successor to lead the military alliance heats up.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stoltenberg, who has led the NATO since 2014 and has had his tenure extended three times, said earlier this year he would move on when his current time expires at the end of September. The jockeying to replace him is intensifying as leaders of the 31-member military alliance are set to meet next month for their annual summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made the case for U.K. Defense Minister Ben Wallace directly to Biden. The U.S. president also met with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, another potential contender.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about the NATO job at a news conference with Sunak by his side, Biden called Wallace \"very qualified\" but noted that the conversation among NATO leaders to find a \"consensus\" pick to replace Stoltenberg was ongoing. Biden\'s opinion carries enormous weight as the U.S. spends more than any other member in the alliance on defense.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frederiksen sought to play down her candidacy after she met with Biden last week. She declined to say whether she discussed the coming vacancy with him, telling reporters that she did not want to go \"further in these speculations about NATO.\" The alliance has never had a female secretary-general.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A British government official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said ahead of Sunak\'s visit that the British leader wants to be sure the next secretary general \"carries on Stoltenberg\'s good work of modernization but also understands the importance of defense spending at this critical time.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Denmark has lagged behind NATO\'s target for members to spend 2% of gross domestic product on military budgets by 2030. But the centrist government announced late last month that it would look to invest some 143 billion kroner ($20.6 billion) in the country\'s defense over the next decade, citing a \"serious threat picture.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden and Stoltenberg are also expected to discuss Russia\'s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and efforts to persuade fellow NATO member Turkey to back off blocking Sweden from joining the military alliance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sweden and Finland, both historically unaligned militarily, jointly sought NATO membership after being rattled by Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine. Turkey initially blocked both countries from joining the alliance before agreeing to membership for Finland while continuing to object to Sweden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In public comments since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was reelected last month, Biden has spoken with a measure of certainty that Sweden will soon join the alliance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It will happen. I promise you,\" Biden said of Sweden\'s NAT0 ascension earlier this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stoltenberg and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken have both expressed hope that Sweden will be brought into the NATO fold by the time allied leaders meet in Lithuania on July 11-12. 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, '2023-06-12 18:13:46', '2023-06-12 18:13:46'),
(7426, 7426, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The charcoal makers in the forests of northern Uganda fled into the bush, temporarily abandoning their precious handiwork: multiple heaps of timber yet to be processed.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workers were desperate to avoid capture by local officials after a new law banned the commercial production of charcoal. They risked arrest and beatings if they were caught.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But what\'s really at stake for the charcoal makers is their livelihood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are not going to stop,\" said Deo Ssenyimba, a bare-chested charcoal maker who has been active in northern Uganda for 12 years. \"We stop and then we do what? Are we going to steal?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The burning of charcoal, an age-old practice in many African societies, is now restricted business across northern Uganda amid a wave of resentment by locals who have warned of the threat of climate change stemming from the uncontrolled felling of trees by outsiders. In reality, not much has changed as charcoal producers skirt around the rules to keep supply flowing and watchful vigilantes take matters into their own hands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much of northern Uganda remains lush but sparsely populated and impoverished, attracting investors who desire the land mostly for its potential to sustain the charcoal business. And demand is assured: charcoal accounts for up to 90% of Africa\'s primary energy consumption needs, according to a 2018 report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the charcoal ban, local activists formed vigilante groups in districts such as Gulu, where a former lawmaker recently led an attack on a truck that was dispossessed of 380 bags of charcoal. Although Odonga Otto was then charged with aggravated robbery, the country\'s chief justice praised him as a hero.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have not heard anybody who is destroying our environment being charged,\" said Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo, who is from northern Uganda. \"If you steal from a thief, are you a thief?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The week after Owiny-Dollo\'s public comments, President Yoweri Museveni issued an executive order banning the commercial production of charcoal in northern Uganda, disrupting a national trade that has long been influenced by cultural sensibilities as much as the seeming abundance of idle land. Commercial charcoal production is still permitted in other regions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ban follows a climate change law, enacted in 2021, that empowers local authorities across the country to regulate activities deemed harmful to the environment. Trees suck in planet-warming carbon dioxide from the air, but burning charcoal emits the heat-trapping gas instead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Days after Museveni\'s order, a team of Associated Press journalists walked into a charcoal-burning enclave in a remote part of Gulu, 335 kilometers (208 miles) from the Ugandan capital of Kampala.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One local official, Patiko Sub-County Chairman Patrick Komakech, gave chase when he heard fleeing footsteps. A small patch of bamboo opened up to an almost bare patch where trees were being cut, juicy stumps still fresh here and there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Komakech was agitated and on the verge of tears.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Timber had been heaped like contraband ivory in different spots, and grey smoke rose from one pile being processed. Beside it stood loaded bags of charcoal. The charcoal makers slept in little tarp tents draped in dry leaves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am completely perturbed (by) all this destruction,\" Komakech said, speaking of charcoal makers who \"are actually imported and put in this community, and they do this thing without the mercy of leaving any vegetation.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He kicked at felled logs, saying they were those of the African Shea tree, a plant prized by the region\'s Acholi people for its fruit as well as its oil, often used in cosmetics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The charcoal burners eventually approached Komakech, who wished to destroy the heaps of timber with kerosene, and said they were simply earning a living and responding to demand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uganda\'s population explosion has heightened the need for cheap plant-based energy sources, especially charcoal. In this east African country of 45 million people, charcoal is preferred in households across the income spectrum but especially in those of the urban poor — seen as ideal in the preparation of certain dishes that require slow cooking. Middle-class families maintain both gas cookers and charcoal stoves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Even those policemen who are coming to beat us, they are cooking with charcoal,\" said Peter Ejal. \"We are not here to spoil the environment. We are here by their orders, those people who are selling these trees.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His colleague, the ragtag charcoal maker Ssenyimba, said bluntly, \"When we finish this place we will go to another place.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One charcoal maker asserted that charcoal from northern Uganda was likely used even in the State House. Others charged that they were cutting the trees with the complicity of landlords who sell charcoal-making rights by the acre to interested dealers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The industry can be lucrative for landowners and investors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In nearby towns a bag of charcoal fetches about $14, but the price rises further as the goods approach Kampala. Ssenyimba said he\'s paid about $3 for every bag he makes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An acre of property with plenty of trees goes for up to $150 in Gulu, although the sum can be much smaller in remote but vegetation-rich ranches owned by the poorest families. The investors then deploy men armed with power saws and machetes, working over specific places and leaving when they have cut down all the trees they were sold.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">District councils in the region raise revenue from licensing and taxes, and corrupt members of the armed services have been protecting charcoal truckers, according to Museveni and Otto, the former lawmaker now leading vigilantes against charcoal makers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Otto has helped cause the impounding of multiple trucks in recent weeks, including two recently seized ones parked outside a police station where a crowd gathered one recent afternoon, hoping to grab the goods.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he plans to serve hundreds of local officials with letters of intent to sue for any lapses in protecting the environment. Otto told the AP his goal is to make the rest of Uganda \"lose appetite\" for charcoal from his region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We go to the fields where the charcoal ovens are and we destroy the bases,\" he said. \"We managed to make the business risky. As of now, you drive a hundred kilometers and you will not find any single truck carrying charcoal.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ban on commercial production in northern Uganda is almost certainly bound to push up the retail price of charcoal. Otto and others were concerned that charcoal dealers would avoid authorities by ferrying charcoal bags in small numbers — on the backs of passenger motorcycles — to towns where the merchandise could be stealthily loaded into trucks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfred Odoch, an environmental activist in the region, said he supports the work of vigilantes, describing charcoal making as \"the biggest threat\" since the end of a rebel insurgency in the region two decades ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vigilantes pressurize charcoal burners as well as local officials to minimize \"mass tree cutting\" in northern Uganda, said Odoch. Charcoal making, he said, should be acceptable only as a small business by families selling \"two or three sacks\" in a week or so.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My fellow vigilantes who are doing a lot of work to stop this, I support them,\" he said. \"The fight for environmental justice is not only (for) one person.\" 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, '2023-06-12 18:59:57', '2023-06-12 18:59:57'),
(7427, 7427, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Dhaka South City Awami League’s senior advisor Abdul Huq Sabuj.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was also former joint secretary of undivided Dhaka City Awami League.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a condolence message, the Prime Minister prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdul Huq died of kidney ailments at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital here last night. He was 68.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabuj was admitted to the BSMMU on June 8 with kidney ailments and later shifted to the ICU on Sunday as his physical conditions deteriorated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabuj was elected as Vice President (VP) of Habibullah Bahar College Central Students\' Union twice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His first Namaj-e-Janaza was held at a mosque in capital’s Shanirakhra.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, his body was taken to his ancestral home at Kalai Sardarer Char Village of Purba Enayet Nagar Union at Kalkini upazila in Madaripur district where he will be laid to eternal rest beside his parents\' graves following his namaj-e-janaza there. 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, '2023-06-12 19:26:25', '2023-06-12 19:26:25'),
(7428, 7428, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As the day unfolded, the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election witnessed a decline in voter turnout, with many polling centres looking deserted.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to presiding officers, UNB\'s Khulna correspondent reported that on average, 11 percent votes were cast as of 11 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaheed Suhrawardy College centre under ward 25 witnessed a particularly low voter turnout with a voting rate of 9.02 percent. Ranjit Kumar Biswas, presiding officer of the centre, said only 135 votes had been cast by 11 am, despite a total of 1,493 registered voters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, under ward 18, the Darul Quran Siddiquia Kamil Madrasa centre also saw a low voter turnout with a rate of 10.25 percent. Mohammad Manik, presiding officer of the centre, said that out of 1,658 registered voters, a mere 170 had cast their votes by 11 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In ward 19, the National High School centre reported an 11 percent voter turnout. Two presiding officers from ward 27 said that the PTI women\'s centre had witnessed a 7.02 percent polling rate, while the men\'s centre had recorded a 9 percent turnout by 11 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, an exception was observed at the Khulna College centre, in ward 17. Out of 2,868 registered voters at that centre, 533 had cast their votes by 11 am, reflecting a polling rate of 18.58 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of five candidates are vying for the mayoral post in Khulna city, 134 for 31 general councillors, and 39 for 10 reserved female councillors\' posts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">SM Khurshid Ahmed Tona in ward 13 and ZA Mahmud Don in ward 24 were elected unopposed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The total number of registered voters in Khulna City Corporation is 5,35,528. 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, '2023-06-12 20:08:21', '2023-06-12 20:08:21'),
(7429, 7429, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday unveiled a book containing 200 speeches of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The book titled “Bhayera Amar” was unveiled at the beginning of the Cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister\'s office.</div><div><br></div><div>The name “Bhayera Amar (My Brothers)” has been given by the prime minister herself, according to a release from PMO Press Wing.</div><div>She also wrote the introduction of the book.</div><div><br></div><div>All the speeches have been collected, compiled and edited by PM\'s speech writer M Nazrul Islam. The book has been published by Genius Publications.</div><div><br></div><div>The main feature of this collection of speeches of the Father of the Nation is that it includes all the speeches available so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the two hundred speeches in the book, more than one hundred have been collected from audio tapes/CDs obtained from the archives of Bangladesh Betar.</div><div><br></div><div>The accuracy and reliability of each speech has been duly verified.</div><div><br></div><div>The book highlights the important parts of each speech and displays them separately.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the content, year and date of each speech are mentioned in the index.</div><div><br></div><div>The press release said speeches of Bangabandhu, the greatest Bengali ever born, is an invaluable document not only in Bangladesh but also in the world.</div><div><br></div><div>In the introduction of the book, the prime minister mentioned, \"The new generation, especially the leaders, activists and supporters of Awami League, should not only read Bangabandhu\'s speeches, but also understand their meaning and practice it in their own lives.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The PM also mentioned that Bangabandhu wanted his golden people to build a golden Bangla.</div><div><br></div><div>“To become this golden man, it is essential to practice the ideals and lifestyle of the father of the nation,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Editor of the book Nazrul commented that the entire speeches will be very important documents for politicians, teachers, researchers, students and the next generation. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-12 20:47:31', '2023-06-12 20:47:31'),
(7430, 7430, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine announced that its forces have retaken three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk, the first reported gains of their new offensive.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>But three people were killed and at least another 23 wounded as Russia shelled a rescue boat evacuating civilians from Russian-controlled territory, the Kherson region prosecutors\' office said on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Analysts at Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War say that Kyiv\'s forces have launched counteroffensive operations in at least four front-line areas.</div><div><br></div><div>After months of building expectations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Saturday that a counteroffensive against Russian forces had begun.</div><div><br></div><div>Then on Sunday, they announced the recapture of the three villages, the first significant gains in the new campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Neskuchne of the Donetsk region is under the Ukrainian flag again,\" said the state border guard service.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier Sunday, Ukraine\'s army said its troops had taken the nearby village of Blagodatne. Ground forces released a video showing soldiers hoisting a Ukrainian flag over a destroyed building.</div><div><br></div><div>Military spokesman Valeriy Shershen said in televised remarks the village sat on the border of the eastern region of Donetsk and the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, where Moscow has reported heavy Ukrainian assaults over the past week.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine\'s forces had captured several Russian and pro-Russian troops, Shershen added.</div><div><br></div><div>Later Sunday, deputy defence minister Ganna Malyar said Ukraine\'s forces had retaken a third village, Makarivka, northwest of Blagodatne.</div><div><br></div><div>Major Ukrainian military successes in the Zaporizhzhia region could potentially enable its forces to break through the land bridge that connects Russia with the Crimean peninsula it annexed from Ukraine. This would be a major reversal for Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia\'s defence ministry said Ukraine had made an unsuccessful attack Saturday night on a Russian warship in the Black Sea. The Priazovye is on patrol duties monitoring the natural gas pipelines there.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry said the attack, by drone boats, had been repelled and its vessel was not damaged.</div><div><br></div><div>- Worst disaster \'since Chernobyl\' -</div><div><br></div><div>The civilians killed and wounded in the shelling of the rescue boat were caught in the fallout from Tuesday\'s destruction of the Russian-controlled Kakhovka dam along the front line in the southern Kherson region.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian officials say seven people died and 35 people, including seven children, are still missing following the devastating flood unleashed by the dam\'s destruction.</div><div><br></div><div>While Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up the dam on the Dnipro River, Moscow says Kyiv fired on it.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is the worst environmental catastrophe since Chernobyl so we are investigating not only a war crime but also an ecocide,\" Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said after visiting the site with representatives of the International Criminal Court.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 450 tonnes of turbine oil have spilled into the waters of the Dnipro and the Black Sea, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said 77 towns and villages had been flooded in Kherson, where five people died, and Mykolaiv, where two died, while 162,000 people were without water supplies.</div><div><br></div><div>Zelensky said 4,000 people had been evacuated in the two regions.</div><div><br></div><div>- Dropping water levels -</div><div>An employee at Kherson\'s meteorological agency, Lora Musiyan, said the level of water had dropped by 1.7 meters (5.5 feet) from its peak measurements recorded last week.</div><div><br></div><div>In Kherson city, the largest population centre near the dam, the water has begun to subside enough to allow locals to return to assess the damage, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The losses are significant. I don\'t even know what to do now,\" said Oleksiy Gesin, surveying the scene after his grocery store was flooded to chest height.</div><div><br></div><div>Damage to the dam may also be a problem for an upstream reservoir used to cool nearby reactors at Europe\'s largest nuclear power plant.</div><div><br></div><div>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said its experts need access to a location near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to assess \"a significant discrepancy\" in water level measurements, as well as to the electrical switchyard at the thermal power plant.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Even though the (plant) has not been producing electricity for several months now, it still needs access to water and power for cooling and other essential safety and security functions and to avoid the risk of a potential fuel meltdown and release of radioactive material,\" the IAEA said in a statement. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-12 23:40:30', '2023-06-12 23:40:30'),
(7431, 7431, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is due to leave for Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday to attend the two-day \"World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All\" to be held in the Swiss city on June 14-15.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister is scheduled to take off from left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10am.</div><div><br></div><div>The flight is expected to land at Geneva International airport at 5:30pm local time.</div><div>On June 14, UNHCR chief Flippo Grandi will call on the prime minister at the bilateral room of Hotel President Wilson.</div><div><br></div><div>Later the PM will call on President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset at Palais de Nations. After the call-on there will be a possibility of signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Knowledge and Skills enhancement between Bangladesh and Switzerland.</div><div><br></div><div>In the afternoon, the prime minister will address the Plenary of ‘World of Work Summit 2023’ at Palais de Nations.</div><div><br></div><div>On her arrival there, she will be greeted by ADG and Regional Director of ILO.</div><div><br></div><div>There will be a red carpet reception and Guard of Honour from the gate to the meeting venue.</div><div><br></div><div>She will also have a call on with President of Malta Dr. George Vella.</div><div>In the evening, the PM will attend a dinner with high level dignitaries hosted by the DG ILO at its headquarters.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 15, she will attend the ‘A talk at the WEF’, followed by a meeting with founder of WEF Prof Klaus Schwab at WEF Office.</div><div><br></div><div>There, she will address at the event on “New Economy and Society in Smart Bangladesh” organised by the World Economic Forum.</div><div><br></div><div>In the evening, WTO DG Dr. Okonjo- Iweala will call on her at Hotel President Wilson. She will also attend a community event in the evening.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina will leave Geneva at 11am on June 16 and she is expected to arrive in Dhaka in the early hours of June 17.</div><div><br></div><div>“The World of Work Summit 2023: Social Justice for All” is a high-level forum for global voices to address the need for increased, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice.</div><div><br></div><div>It will provide an opportunity to discuss and inform the proposal to forge a Global Coalition for Social Justice, which was welcomed by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office at its 347th Session.</div><div><br></div><div>A number of high-level guests, including former President of France, François Hollande, former President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, as well as representatives of employers and workers, will address the Conference.</div><div><br></div><div>The two-day summit will highlight the key role of social justice in creating a more sustainable and equitable world and will discuss strategies for increased and better-aligned joint action to advance social justice and ensure policy coherence.</div><div><br></div><div>It will provide a forum for participants to share their vision of, and priorities for, social justice and to showcase the actions they are taking and they commit to take to advance social justice.</div><div><br></div><div>It is expected that the outcomes of the summit will inform discussions in other multilateral forums of the centrality of and strategies to achieve greater social justice, such as, in 2023, the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, the G20 and the summits of the BRICS countries.</div><div><br></div><div>The Summit will feature addresses by Heads of State and Government, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the ILO Director-General and high-level representatives of employers’ and workers’ organisations.</div><div><br></div><div>Four panel discussions with high-level representatives of governments and employers’ and workers’ organisations, UN entities and other international organisations to identify and amplify actions towards social justice across the multilateral system and commit to a joint, coherent and coordinated engagement. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 00:51:20', '2023-06-13 00:51:20'),
(7432, 7432, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Superstar Shah Rukh Khan\'s blockbuster spy movie \"Pathaan\" will be released in 3000 plus screens across Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The movie, which hit Indian theatres on January 25, is directed by Siddharth Anand and also stars John Abraham and Deepika Padukone. It has earned over Rs 1,000 crore at the global box office.</div><div><br></div><div>\"@yrf\'s historic blockbuster #Pathaan creates another record - gets widest release for an Indian film in dubbed version across Russia &amp; CIS! It will be released on July 13 in this region across 3000+ screens,\" the press note read.</div><div>CIS countries include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. - PTI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 02:09:00', '2023-06-13 02:09:00'),
(7433, 7433, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on Monday said that there is no food shortage in the country at present.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>In response to a tabled question from Awami League MP Ali Azam, the minister said in Parliament that according to the information provided by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in the last financial year 2021-22, a total of 392.31 tonnes of rice and wheat including 381.45 tonnes of rice and 10.86 tonnes of wheat were produced in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the total rice productions, Boro production was 201.86 tonnes, Aush 30.01 tonnes and Aman 149.58 tonnes.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said that according to the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES 2022) conducted by the BBS, the average daily food intake of people is 351.8 grams (rice 328.9 grams and wheat 22.9 grams).</div><div><br></div><div>Accordingly, in the financial year 2021-22, if the total population of the country is 169.82 million, the total food grain requirement is 217.58 lakh tonnes (rice 203.94 lakh tonnes and wheat 13.64 lakh tonnes) which is lower than the total production of food grains in 2021-22 fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>Considering the country\'s population growth rate of 1.22 percent, the total population of the country on January 1, 2023 stood at 171.90 million (estimated), the food minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>Considering this, the total demand of food grains in the country will be 220.73 lakh tonnes.</div><div><br></div><div>“There is no fear of food shortage in the country if the previous pattern of foodgrain production is maintained in the financial year 2022-23, [Source: Census 2022 by BBS],” the minister also said.</div><div><br></div><div>The food minister said that in the financial year 2022-23 till June 4, 2023, the government has imported 6.34 lakh tonnes of rice and 6.80 lakh tonnes of wheat meaning that 13.14 lakh tonnes of food grains were imported.</div><div><br></div><div>Under private arrangement, 4.22 lakh tonnes of rice and 27.24 lakh tonnes of wheat meaning a total of 31.46 lakh tonnes of food grains have been imported, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>According to the information of the Food Department, at present (as on 4 June 2023), the government food grain stock is 17.44 lakh tonnes (13.83 lakh tonnes of rice and 3.61 lakh tonnes of wheat), the food minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 02:49:41', '2023-06-13 02:49:41'),
(7434, 7434, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A fourth-year pharmacy student of Dhaka University went missing while taking bath at the Gorai River in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district on Monday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The student was identified as Tanvir, 23, fourth-year student of pharmacy department of Dhaka University and resident of Barguna district.</div><div><br></div><div>The incident took place at Koya Gorai railway bridge area of Kumarkhali on Kushtia-Rajbari railway line around 4:45pm on Monday. Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Saidul Islam visited the spot. Tanvir is a resident of Barguna district.</div><div><br></div><div>According to fire service and Kumarkhali police station sources, 13 students of pharmacy department of Dhaka University went to visit various places of Meherpur and Kushtia. The incident took place while three of them went to Gorai River to take bath and Tanvir drowned.</div><div><br></div><div>On information, Kumarkhali fire service personnel immediately started the rescue operation.</div><div><br></div><div>Mohsin Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kumarkhali Police Station, said among thirteen, twelve are okay now. He acknowledged Tanvir is still missing, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Efforts are on to rescue him, the OC said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 03:13:31', '2023-06-13 03:13:31'),
(7435, 7435, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the upcoming national poll will be challenging, urging the leaders and activists of Awami League to make the party stronger and well-organised at the grassroots so that it could remain in power to keep running the continuity of development.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"My only strength is the party. Without organisational strength, no great achievement is possible. So, the party has to be well-organised at the grassroots,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In this context, she instructed the party leaders to pay special attention to the leaders-activists who were beside the party during the bad times so that they are not be neglected.</div><div><br></div><div>The Premier told a meeting of leaders and activists of Dhaka North City Awami League (AL) at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina, also the President of ruling AL, asked her party leaders and workers to work unitedly to bring Awami League in power again to maintain the continuity of development.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If any party other than AL comes to power, the country and its development will be destroyed,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>To this end, everyone should be vigilant so the anti-state, killer, fanatic groups and anti-liberation war forces can\'t come to power, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said, \"We\'ve proved that when AL is in power, the country becomes develop and people\'s living standard improves. The country is moving forward as AL is in the power, and esteem and status of Bangladesh abroad has increased a lot\".</div><div><br></div><div>She continued that the changes that have been visible since 2009 till date has been possible as AL has been in power consistently. \"We\'ve come to power by winning people\'s hearts,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina mentioned that AL didn\'t avenge the unjust torture that has been done to its leaders and workers from 1975 to 2008.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are responding to injustice through development,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The government, she said, has carried out planned development in every district, resulting the number of poor people in the village is very negligible.</div><div><br></div><div>\"All the progress we\'ve made in the last fourteen and a half-years will be destroyed if the continuity of the government is not maintained,\" she opined.</div><div><br></div><div>The AL President directed the party leaders and workers to publicise the developments made by their government.</div><div><br></div><div>\"At the same time, it has to be highlighted before the people that why does AL need to be brought to power again,\" she said, adding that people\'s trust and confidence must be earned alongside telling the story of development to the people.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that many conspiracies have started regarding Bangladesh, the Prime Minister said, many vested quarters don\'t want Bangladesh to move forward.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the international conspiracy in this context, she said that those who provoked the BNP today will not put them in power rather \"they will just use them\".</div><div><br></div><div>She said that many attempts have been made to destroy AL by killing Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family on August 15, 1975. \"But, that attempt was never successful. AL today has become a powerful organisation by winning people\'s hearts.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Commenting on the need to strengthen Awami League, the Prime Minister said, \"After losing my parents and my brothers, Awami League is my family.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said that people of Bangladesh are her strength. \"They (people) are my only hope. We are working tirelessly to improve their quality of life. AL is the only party that has contributed the most on the side of the people during the Covid-19 pandemic.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Introducing AL nominated candidate Mohammad A Arafat for Dhaka 17 constituency by-election, she said, \"I\'ve handed over Arafat to you and everyone will have to work together to ensure the victory of the boat\".</div><div><br></div><div>AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Presidium Members Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque and Col. Faruk Khan (read.), Joint Secretaries Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, and Prime Minister\'s Private Industry and Investment Affairs Adviser Salman F Rahman, among others, were present. According to BSS reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 03:30:05', '2023-06-13 03:30:05'),
(7436, 7436, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The head of Radio New Zealand has apologised for publishing what he called \"pro-Kremlin garbage\".</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A journalist has been placed on leave after it was discovered several online stories about the war in Ukraine had been altered in favour of Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief executive Paul Thompson said about 250 stories had already been forensically reviewed since staff were alerted on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sixteen stories have been edited and thousands more are to be scrutinised.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is so disappointing. I\'m gutted. It\'s painful. It\'s shocking,\" he told RNZ\'s Nine to Noon programme. \"We have to get to the bottom of how it happened.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Thompson announced there would be an external review of the organisation\'s editing processes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The journalist in question claims to have been editing news agency copy published on the RNZ website for years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement on RNZ - which is state-owned - said after uncovering issues in the 16 stories, they had now been republished with corrections and editor\'s notes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Thompson has apologised to listeners, readers, staff and the Ukrainian community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s so disappointing that this pro-Kremlin garbage has ended up in our stories,\" Mr Thompson told Nine to Noon. \"It\'s inexcusable.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The edited articles\' claims included that Russia had illegally annexed Crimea after a referendum - but Russia\'s occupation of Ukraine\'s southern peninsula is not recognised by Ukraine and the wider international community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations has passed a resolution, emphasising the illegitimacy of the referendum. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 13:21:26', '2023-06-13 13:21:26');
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(7437, 7437, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mexico\'s foreign minister and the capital city\'s mayor both resigned Monday to focus on running for president next year, with the ruling leftist party favored to win.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister, Marcelo Ebrard, and Mexico City\'s Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced within minutes of each other that they were stepping down as they seek to become the Morena party\'s candidate to succeed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the June 2024 vote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheinbaum, 60 and of Bulgarian and Lithuanian descent, said she wants to be \"the first woman in the history of Mexico to lead the fates of the nation.\" Her resignation takes effect Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ebrard said last week he would be leaving the foreign ministry and made it official Monday in a meeting with the president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Starting today, I will dedicate myself to another very important task,\" said 63-year-old Ebrard, referring to the work of pushing on with Lopez Obrador\'s leftist policies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other hopefuls to be the Morena candidate include Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presidential, congressional and gubernatorial voting is scheduled for June of next year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Morena party is scheduled to choose its candidate through a national poll over the course of several days in late August and early September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheinbaum has been mayor of Mexico\'s sprawling capital since 2018. If she wins, she would become the first woman to govern the country with Latin America\'s second largest economy, after that of Brazil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the Morena hopefuls for president, Sheinbaum is seen as the one closest to Lopez Obrador, whose party is favored to hold on to the presidency for another six-year term, no matter who the candidate ends up being, according to polling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mexican presidents can serve only one term.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The early polls that have been carried out put us in first place and I am sure it will stay this way,\" Sheinbaum said Monday. 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, '2023-06-13 14:06:30', '2023-06-13 14:06:30'),
(7438, 7438, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 58-year-old wedding bus driver is scheduled to appear in an Australian court Tuesday, charged with dangerous driving that caused the deaths of 10 guests.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acting assistant police commissioner David Waddell said prosecutors will allege the man was driving \"too quick\" in what were believed to be foggy conditions just before midnight Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bus carrying 35 passengers lost control on a roundabout and careened onto its side, killing nine people almost instantly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moments earlier, they had been celebrating the wedding of a young couple at the nearby Wandin Estate Winery in Australia\'s picturesque Hunter Valley wine region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another passenger later died in hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fourteen guests are still hospitalised, including two in intensive care.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victims are aged between 20 and 60 years and suffered injuries ranging from lacerations to breaks and fractures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police say they are still piecing together their investigation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But they have already charged the man, who is due to appear in Cessnock court after being denied bail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police have said that initial alcohol testing came back negative, but officers pointed blame at \"erratic\" speeding that some passengers had reportedly complained about before the crash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'ve obviously now charged that 58-year-old bus driver, we\'ve charged him with 11 charges,\" said Waddell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He entered that roundabout in a manner that was inconsistent with the conditions,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Obviously, the speed was too quick for him to negotiate that roundabout, causing the vehicle to fall on its left side, and causing those injuries.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The road crash was Australia\'s worst in 16 years and has caused widespread shock, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leading condolences to the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For a joyous day like that in a beautiful place to end with such terrible loss of life and injury is so cruel and so sad and so unfair,\" 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, '2023-06-13 14:11:45', '2023-06-13 14:11:45'),
(7439, 7439, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>French star Kylian Mbappe told Paris Saint-Germain on Monday he would not be taking up an option to extend his contract by one year beyond 2024, a source close to the negotiations said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That opens the door to the 24-year-old\'s possible exit from Parc de Princes during this summer\'s transfer window, the source added, confirming a report in French sports daily L\'Equipe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe\'s confirmation by letter comes a little over a year since he snubbed Real Madrid by signing a surprise extension to his contract to remain at the French champions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PSG will not entertain allowing their prize asset to leave for free when his existing deal runs out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which raises the possibility of the World Cup runner-up switching clubs if talks with the PSG hierarchy break down between now and the end of July.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe\'s letter comes hot on the heels of Lionel Messi\'s departure to Inter Miami.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It came as little surprise as reports had suggested he would not exercise an option to stay until 2025.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At an awards ceremony last month where he was voted the Ligue 1 player of the season for the fourth successive time after helping Paris Saint-Germain win a record 11th French title he was asked about his future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I will be here again next season\" was his reply. 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, '2023-06-13 14:16:16', '2023-06-13 14:16:16'),
(7440, 7440, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, will arrive in Kyiv on Tuesday to meet Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky before heading to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the conflict\'s start IAEA chief Grossi has warned of the potential for a nuclear accident at the plant, which he has previously visited twice and where a permanent IAEA team is based.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitting on the Dnipro river, the Russian-held Kakhovka dam, which was breached last week in an incident blamed by Kyiv on Moscow, forms a reservoir that provides the cooling water for the Russian-occupied plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IAEA has warned that the Kakhovka dam disaster which claimed at least 10 lives and has left dozens missing further \"(complicated) an already precarious nuclear safety and security situation at the\" plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"On my way to Ukraine to meet President\" Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted Grossi on Monday with a picture of him and his team leaving Vienna where the IAEA headquarters is based.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I will present a programme of assistance in the aftermath of the catastrophic Nova Kakhovka dam flooding,\" Grossi said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I will assess the situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,\" and \"conduct a rotation of ISAMZ,\" he added referring to the IAEA\'s Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhia (ISAMZ), \"with a strengthened team\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday Grossi repeated his demand for full access to the plant for IAEA experts to measure the reservoir\'s water levels and produce an \"independent\" evaluation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will \"clarify the reason for a significant discrepancy between different measurements of the height of the reservoir that is supplying water to cool the facility\'s six reactors and spent fuel storage\", Grossi 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, '2023-06-13 14:18:38', '2023-06-13 14:18:38'),
(7441, 7441, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine on Monday said 41 people were still missing in the floods caused by a dam breach that it blamed on Russia, and which killed 10 people in the southern Kherson region.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Currently, we know about 10 dead in Kherson and the region,\" Ukrainian interior minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram. \"We are also reporting 41 people as missing.\" 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, '2023-06-13 14:58:55', '2023-06-13 14:58:55'),
(7442, 7442, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka early Tuesday (June 13, 2023) as she fell sick.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP chief left her Gulshan residence around 1:20am and reached the hospital around 1:40am, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said she was admitted to the Evercare Hospital as per the decision of her medical board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Madam (Khaleda) was taken to the hospital as she fell ill suddenly,” said BNP\'s health affairs secretary Dr Rafiqul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party sources said Khaleda’s personal doctors, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and some senior leaders went to her residence at midnight after hearing the news of her illness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, she was taken to the hospital as per the suggestion of the medical board formed earlier for her treatment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP chief’s younger brother Shamim Eskandar drove her to the Hospital in a&nbsp; private car.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She last went to the same hospital on April 29 last and received treatment there for five days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP chief received treatment at the hospital seven times since she was infected with Coronavirus in April, 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khaleda, a 78-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart and eye problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since her conditional release in 2020, the BNP chief has been receiving treatment at the hospital under a medical board headed by cardiologist Prof Shahabuddin Talukder.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 10 last year, the BNP chief suffered a heart attack due to a 95 percent block in her left artery and a stent was placed there by removing the blockage at the same hospital the following day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also Read: Khaleda Zia under close observation at Evercare, says her physician Zahid</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doctors also found two more blocks in her blood vessels, but they could not remove those due to her health complications.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khaleda was sent to the Old Dhaka Central Jail as a lower court sentenced her to five years\' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later, she was found guilty in another corruption case the same year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she will stay in her Gulshan house and will not leave the country. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 15:12:28', '2023-06-13 15:12:28'),
(7443, 7443, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday morning to attend the two-day \"World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All\" to be held in the Swiss city on June 14-15.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10.01 am. The flight is scheduled to land at Geneva International airport at 5:30 pm local time (9:30 pm Bangladesh Time).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 14, UNHCR chief Flippo Grandi will call on the prime minister at the bilateral room of Hotel President Wilson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later the PM will call on President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset at Palais de Nations. After the call-on there will be a possibility of signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Knowledge and Skills enhancement between Bangladesh and Switzerland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the afternoon, the prime minister will address the Plenary of \'World of Work Summit 2023\' at Palais de Nations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On her arrival there, she will be greeted by ADG and Regional Director of ILO.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be a red carpet reception and Guard of Honour from the gate to the meeting venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will also have a call on with President of Malta Dr. George Vella.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, the PM will attend a dinner with high level dignitaries hosted by the DG ILO at its headquarters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 15, she will attend the \'A talk at the WEF\', followed by a meeting with founder of WEF Prof Klaus Schwab at WEF Office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There, she will address at the event on \"New Economy and Society in Smart Bangladesh\" organised by the World Economic Forum.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, WTO DG Dr. Okonjo- Iweala will call on her at Hotel President Wilson. She will also attend a community event in the evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina will leave Geneva at 11am on June 16 and she is expected to arrive in Dhaka in the early hours of June 17.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The World of Work Summit 2023: Social Justice for All\" is a high-level forum for global voices to address the need for increased, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice, according to organisers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will provide an opportunity to discuss and inform the proposal to forge a Global Coalition for Social Justice, which was welcomed by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office at its 347th Session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A number of high-level guests, including former President of France, Francois Hollande, former President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, as well as representatives of employers and workers, will address the conference. 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, '2023-06-13 15:37:49', '2023-06-13 15:37:49'),
(7444, 7444, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka has once again topped the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, with an AQI of 167 at 9:15 am today (June 13, 2023).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air was classified as \'unhealthy\'.</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 considered \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\'s Delhi, Pakistan\'s Lahore and Karachi occupied the second, third and fourth spots in the list, with AQI scores of 162, 158 and 139, respectively.</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, '2023-06-13 15:41:41', '2023-06-13 15:41:41'),
(7445, 7445, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Donald Trump arrived in Florida on Monday ahead of a history-making federal court appearance on dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents and thwarting the Justice Department’s efforts to get them back.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump’s Tuesday afternoon appearance in Miami will mark his second time since April facing a judge on criminal charges. But unlike a New York case some legal analysts derided as relatively trivial, the Justice Department’s first prosecution of a former president concerns conduct that prosecutors say jeopardized national security, with Espionage Act charges carrying the prospect of a significant prison sentence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of his court date, he and his allies have been escalating efforts to undermine the criminal case against him and drum up protests. He’s ratcheted up the rhetoric against the Justice Department special counsel who filed the case, calling Jack Smith “deranged” as he repeated without any evidence his claims that he was the target of a political persecution. And even as his supporters accuse the Justice Department of being weaponized against him, he vowed Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate President Joe Biden and his family if Trump is elected to a second term.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump landed in Miami around 3 p.m. Monday and got into a waiting SUV. He was expected to huddle with advisers before his court appearance, as he looks to line up additional lawyers following the departure before his indictment last week of two attorneys who had handled the defense for months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He’s encouraged supporters to join a planned protest at the Miami courthouse Tuesday, where he will face the charges and surrender to authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We need strength in our country now,” Trump said Sunday, speaking to longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone in an interview on WABC Radio. “And they have to go out and they have to protest peacefully. They have to go out.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Look, our country has to protest. We have plenty to protest. We’ve lost everything,” he went on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said there were no circumstances “whatsoever” under which he would leave the 2024 race, where he’s been dominating the Republican primary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other Trump supporters have rallied to his defense with similar language, including Kari Lake, the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona who pointedly said over the weekend that if prosecutors “want to get to President Trump,” they’re ”going to have to go through me, and 75 million Americans just like me. And most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump’s calls for protest echoed exhortations he made ahead of a New York court appearance in April, where he faces charges arising from hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign, though he complained that those who showed up to protest then were “so far away that nobody knew about ’em,” And just like in that case, he plans to address supporters in a Tuesday evening speech hours after his court date.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After his court appearance, he will return to New Jersey, where he’s scheduled a press event to publicly respond to the charges. He’ll also be holding a private fundraiser.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump supporters were also planning to load buses to head to Miami from other parts of Florida, raising concerns for law enforcement officials who are preparing for the potential of unrest around the courthouse. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said the city would be ready, and police chief Manuel A. Morales said downtown could see anywhere from a few thousand up to 50,000 protesters. He said the city would be diverting traffic and possibly blocking streets depending on crowd size.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Make no mistake about it,” Morales said. “We are taking this event extremely serious. We know there is a potential of things taking a turn for the worse but that’s not the Miami way.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Justice Department unsealed Friday an indictment charging Trump with 37 felony counts, 31 relating to the willful retention of national defense information. Other charges include conspiracy to commit obstruction and false statements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The indictment alleges Trump intentionally retained hundreds of classified documents that he took with him from the White House to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after leaving the White House in January 2021. The material he stored, including in a bathroom, ballroom, bedroom and shower, included material on nuclear programs, defense and weapons capabilities of the U.S. and foreign governments and a Pentagon “attack plan,” the indictment says. The information, if exposed, could have put at risk members of the military, confidential human sources and intelligence collection methods, prosecutors said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond that, prosecutors say, he sought to obstruct government efforts to recover the documents, including by directing personal aide Walt Nauta — who was charged alongside Trump — to move boxes to conceal them and also suggesting to his own lawyer that he hide or destroy documents sought by a Justice Department subpoena.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some fellow Republicans have sought to press the case that Trump is being treated unfairly, citing the Justice Department’s decision in 2016 to not charge Democrat Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information through a private email server she relied on as secretary of state. But those arguments overlook that FBI investigators did not find any evidence that Clinton or her aides had willfully broken laws regarding classified information or had obstructed the investigation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, speaking Sunday on CBS News, said there was a “huge difference” between the two investigations but that it “has to be explained to the American people.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Justice Department earlier this month informed former Vice President Mike Pence that it would not bring charges over the presence of classified documents in his Indiana home. A separate Justice Department special counsel investigation into the discovery of classified records at a home and office of President Joe Biden continues, though as in the Clinton case, no evidence of obstruction or intentional law-breaking has surfaced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump’s own former attorney general, William Barr, offered a grim assessment of Trump’s predicament, saying on Fox News that Trump had no right to hold onto such sensitive records.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“If even half of it is true,” Barr said of the allegations, “then he’s toast. I mean, it’s a pretty — it’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here — a victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous.” 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, '2023-06-13 16:33:28', '2023-06-13 16:33:28'),
(7446, 7446, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he is working to extend an agreement that allows grain from war-torn Ukraine to reach the global market and prevent shortages.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That crucial accord granting safe passage for Ukrainian grain to be exported via Black Sea ports despite Moscow\'s invasion was signed in July 2022 by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations. It was renewed again in May but for only two months, until July 17.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow is demanding guarantees on another agreement concerning its own exports, in particular of fertilizer components.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am concerned, and we are working hard in order to make sure that it will be possible to maintain the Black Sea Initiative and at the same time that we are able to go on in our work to facilitate Russian exports,\" Guterres told a press conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accord helped alleviate foot shortages triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a major grain exporter, and its blockade of Ukrainian ports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia said last week that a Ukrainian sabotage group had blown up a section of a pipeline that Russia used to export ammonia -- a key component for making fertilizer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That stretch of the conduit is in Ukraine. The two countries have blamed each other for the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resumption of Russia\'s ammonia exports through the pipeline is one of Moscow\'s conditions to continue with the grain export deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kremlin on Thursday said the blast on the pipeline would have a \"negative\" effect on talks to renew the grain export deal. 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, '2023-06-13 16:36:15', '2023-06-13 16:36:15'),
(7447, 7447, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he is working to extend an agreement that allows grain from war-torn Ukraine to reach the global market and prevent shortages.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That crucial accord granting safe passage for Ukrainian grain to be exported via Black Sea ports despite Moscow\'s invasion was signed in July 2022 by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations. It was renewed again in May but for only two months, until July 17.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow is demanding guarantees on another agreement concerning its own exports, in particular of fertilizer components.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am concerned, and we are working hard in order to make sure that it will be possible to maintain the Black Sea Initiative and at the same time that we are able to go on in our work to facilitate Russian exports,\" Guterres told a press conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accord helped alleviate foot shortages triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a major grain exporter, and its blockade of Ukrainian ports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia said last week that a Ukrainian sabotage group had blown up a section of a pipeline that Russia used to export ammonia -- a key component for making fertilizer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That stretch of the conduit is in Ukraine. The two countries have blamed each other for the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resumption of Russia\'s ammonia exports through the pipeline is one of Moscow\'s conditions to continue with the grain export deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kremlin on Thursday said the blast on the pipeline would have a \"negative\" effect on talks to renew the grain export deal. 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, '2023-06-13 16:36:15', '2023-06-13 16:36:15'),
(7448, 7448, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Jatiya Kabi&nbsp; Kazi Nazrul Islam University has been appointed Tapon Kumar Sarker as the new dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thursday (June 13) , the registrar of the university Dr. Md. This information was informed through an office order signed by Humayun Kabir.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the office order, according to Article 22(5) of Jatiya Kabi&nbsp; Kazi Nazrul Islam University Act 2006 for the next 2 years. Tapon Kumar Sarker has been appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note that, this order will be effective from the date of joining and he will be entitled to honorarium and other benefits as per rules for performance of duties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/jb/kh</div>', NULL, 'Nazrul University correspondent', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 17:33:30', '2023-06-13 17:33:30'),
(7449, 7449, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There will be no shortage of sacrificial animals in Chapainawabganj district this Eid-ul-Azha, and there will be a surplus of around 50,000 animals, concerned authorities have said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Chapainawabganj unit of Department of Livestock, the district has 1,76,690 animals, as 12,159 farmers in five upazilas are currently rearing sacrificial animals for Eid-ul-Azha 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, the demand for sacrificial animals in the district is estimated to be 1,26,379, resulting in a surplus of 50,311 animals for the entire district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These animals have been reared in farms and in homesteads. Of these animals, there are 96,543 cows, 70,319 goats, 9,587 sheep, and 241 buffaloes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eid-ul-Azha 2023: 1,76,690 sacrificial animals ready in Chapainawabganj&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Farmers in the district reared animals, like they do every year, on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. They said that they do not use steroids to fatten up the animals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the farmers, enough cattle farms have been developed in the country. If the government pays attention to this sector, there will be no need to import cows from India or Myanmar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The price of cattle will be high as the cost of animal rearing has doubled compared to last year, they added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Bakkar, a farmer of Ramchandrapur area of Sadar upazila, said every year he buys and rears cows 3 to 6 months before Eid-ul-Azha.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, he reared 80 cows in his farm worth Tk 150,000 to 450,000. \"I never use steroids or injections to fatten cows,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concerns were voiced by Saidur Rahman, manager of Bashari Agro Farm in Sadar upazila\'s Bulanpur area, who said, “We are facing issues as the price of animal feed continues to rise. Additionally, cows coming from India could further affect the market.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Currently, the sale of animals is not so good. But I hope the market will be in better situation within a week. If the supply flow of Indian cows is checked, many traders will come from other districts to buy animals, and farmers will get good prices,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Mostafizur Rahman, an official from the Department of Livestock, said there is no possibility of a shortage of sacrificial animals in Chapainawabganj. Instead, additional animals will meet the needs of other districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, special training and mobile courts are being conducted so that farmers do not resort to unscrupulous means of fattening cows. \"Our field-level officers are working on this,\" the official said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that, at present, the arrival of animals from India has been completely stopped. It is expected that sales at the haat (markets) will increase and farmers will get good profit, Dr. Rahman added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 18:39:14', '2023-06-13 18:39:14'),
(7450, 7450, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday (June 13, 2023) morning to attend the two-day \"World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All\" to be held in the Swiss city on June 14-15.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10.01 am. The flight is scheduled to land at Geneva International airport at 5:30 pm local time (9:30 pm Bangladesh Time).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 14, UNHCR chief Flippo Grandi will call on the prime minister at the bilateral room of Hotel President Wilson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later the PM will call on President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset at Palais de Nations. After the call-on there will be a possibility of signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Knowledge and Skills enhancement between Bangladesh and Switzerland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the afternoon, the prime minister will address the Plenary of \'World of Work Summit 2023\' at Palais de Nations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On her arrival there, she will be greeted by ADG and Regional Director of ILO.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be a red carpet reception and Guard of Honour from the gate to the meeting venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will also have a call on with President of Malta Dr. George Vella.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, the PM will attend a dinner with high level dignitaries hosted by the DG ILO at its headquarters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 15, she will attend the \'A talk at the WEF\', followed by a meeting with founder of WEF Prof Klaus Schwab at WEF Office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There, she will address at the event on \"New Economy and Society in Smart Bangladesh\" organised by the World Economic Forum.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, WTO DG Dr. Okonjo- Iweala will call on her at Hotel President Wilson. She will also attend a community event in the evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina will leave Geneva at 11am on June 16 and she is expected to arrive in Dhaka in the early hours of June 17.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The World of Work Summit 2023: Social Justice for All\" is a high-level forum for global voices to address the need for increased, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice, according to organisers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will provide an opportunity to discuss and inform the proposal to forge a Global Coalition for Social Justice, which was welcomed by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office at its 347th Session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A number of high-level guests, including former President of France, Francois Hollande, former President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, as well as representatives of employers and workers, will address the conference. 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, '2023-06-13 18:42:28', '2023-06-13 18:42:28'),
(7451, 7451, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Earthquake tremors were felt in Delhi-NCR and many parts of north India on Tuesday afternoon. The earthquake of magnitude 5.4 occurred 30km southeast of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quake was at a depth of 60 km (37.28 miles) and the epicentre of the quake was at a distance of 99 km north of Pathankot in Punjab, the EMSC said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quake was felt around 1:30pm. There have been no reports of damage to property and loss of lives so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Tuesday, an earthquake of magnitude 3.7 jolted Myanmar, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NCS said the earthquake occurred in Myanmar on Tuesday at 2:53 am (IST) and at a depth of 10 kilometres. NCS tweeted, \"Earthquake of Magnitude:3.7, Occurred on 13-06-2023, 02:53:06 IST, Lat: 26.31 &amp; Long: 95.20, Depth: 10 Km, Location: Myanmar.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on May 31, an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 hit Myanmar, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 19:48:39', '2023-06-13 19:48:39');
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(7452, 7452, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Yash, who still hasn’t signed his next project since the release of KGF: Chapter 2, which came out last year, is said to have been approached for Nitesh Tiwari’s upcoming magnum opus Ramayan, based on the Indian epic. It will reportedly feature Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Ram, and Alia Bhatt as Sita. Yash was offered the role of Raavan, and has turned it down, as per a report.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per a new report, Yash is not too keen to play a negative character at this point in his career. Reacting to the report on Twitter, several fans said it’s a good decision to reject the offer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per a report by News18, Yash is aware of expectations from his fans, who don’t want him to take up a negative character.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Yash is very mindful of what his fans want and, right now, they definitely will not accept him in a negative role. He has always believed in his fans and gone by their sentiments so he will not be taking up this role,\" a source was quoted in the report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One Twitter user said, “Good decision by boss (sic).” Another wrote, “Thank you anna (brother). Very good decision (sic).” One more tweeted, “He would be perfect as Ram. Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt will be perfect as the Vanar Sena in the background.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alia Bhatt seems to be all set to play Goddess Sita in Nitesh Tiwari\'s much-anticipated film, Ramayan. A recent report said the actor has been confirmed to play Sita opposite real-life husband Ranbir Kapoor, who will be seen as Lord Ram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Pinkvilla report quoted a source as saying that Alia was the first choice for Ramayan, but back in the day, the dates couldn’t match due to multiple reasons. But since the film got very delayed, Nitesh and producer Madhu Mantena have finally decided to go with their first choice. The source said that Alia is excited to play a character that could stay with her for a lifetime and Ranbir too is charged up for this new journey as Lord Ram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the months, several reports have made the rounds about Yash’s next possible collaboration. As per recent reports, Yash is said to have signed his next project with filmmaker Geethu Mohandas. Currently dubbed Yash 19, announcement regarding Yash’s next project is expected to be made soon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a recent interview with Film Companion, Geethu confirmed that her next film will be a gangster flick. “It’s a gangster film. It’s a gangster genre with a female gaze. How about that? (sic),” Geethu said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yash was last seen on screen in last year’s KGF: Chapters 2, which was a mega success at the box-office. It grossed over ₹1000 crore at the global box office. 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, '2023-06-13 19:52:29', '2023-06-13 19:52:29'),
(7453, 7453, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a $400 million loan to Bangladesh to advance reforms in domestic resource mobilization, improve efficiency and productivity of public spending, and help small businesses, especially women-led businesses to access low-cost innovative bank financing.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>This loan is ADB\'s second subprogram of the Sustainable Economic Recovery Program that was launched in October 2021 to support economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, said a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This subprogram enables Bangladesh to enhance revenues, promote efficiency and transparency in public spending and public procurement, deepen the reforms of state-owned enterprises, and help small businesses and micro entrepreneurs to access low-interest affordable credits from the banking sector,\" said ADB Principal Public Management Economist for South Asia Aminur Rahman.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"The subprogram, with a strong focus on gender, climate change, and digitization, enables the government to strengthen its efforts to support income generation for the poor and vulnerable,\" he added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The program will enhance income tax collection through the adoption of the new Income Tax Act, reduce tax loopholes, strengthen compliance and enforcement measures, and broaden the country\'s tax net.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Transparency and efficiency in public procurement will be enhanced through strengthening electronic procurement and electronic payment systems, while approval of public projects will be facilitated through the newly launched digital system of public project appraisal and approval process.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The new package supports the launch by Bangladesh Bank of innovative financing services through commercial banks to provide low-cost microcredit using digital channels and e-wallet.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>It facilitates bank lending to marginalized and landless farmers, small traders, and low-income earners. Micro and small businesses and women entrepreneurs who do not possess land or property will also be able to access finance based on their trade receipts and other forms of nonfixed collaterals, such as small equipment and machinery.</div><div><br></div><div>Promoting gender equality and social inclusion and addressing the climate change agenda in public investment and national budgeting are some of the key activities of this new program.</div><div><br></div><div>ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Established - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 22:40:49', '2023-06-13 22:40:49'),
(7454, 7454, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>An accused in the BDR mutiny case died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday, police said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Md. Abed Ali, 57, son of late Masir Uddin. He was an accused in a case over 2009 BDR mutiny and an inmate of Dhaka Central Jail.</div><div><br></div><div>He was taken to DMCH on June 7 from jail after he fell sick and died in the medicine ward of the hospital at around 10:08am on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>DMCH police outpost In-Charge Inspector Md Bacchu Miah said the body was kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy.</div><div><br></div><div>Seventy-four people, including 57 army officials, were killed in the mutiny in the capital\'s Pilkhana headquarters of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on February 25 and 26 in 2009.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 58 cases, including one for murder and looting and the rest for mutiny, were filed in connection with the incident.</div><div><br></div><div>Some 152 people were sentenced to death and 423 others to different jail terms in the case. Besides, 277 accused were acquitted. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 22:51:45', '2023-06-13 22:51:45'),
(7455, 7455, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>World Bank Vice President for South Asia, Martin Raiser, concluded his two-day visit to Bangladesh today and reaffirmed the World Bank\'s continued support to help the country to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raiser visited Bangladesh as part of his current visit to the South Asia Region. He met with the Bangladesh Bank Governor, Energy Minister, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Secretary, Economic Relations Division, and other senior government officials.</div><div><br></div><div>They discussed the World Bank\'s new country partnership framework for Bangladesh for fiscal years 2023-27 as well as how the World Bank support can be best utilized to help Bangladesh navigate the global uncertainties and increasing climate change impacts, said a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>Raiser urged speeding up the pace of implementation of the World Bank supported projects.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh faces continued external pressures, which require careful macroeconomic management, but also a deepening of structural reforms to attract more private investment, boost jobs and strengthen resilience against climate shocks,\" said Raiser.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We stand ready to redouble our support under our new country strategy and accelerated implementation of our large existing portfolio.\" added Raiser.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the World Bank and Bangladesh today signed a $191 million financing to strengthen the higher education sector and respond better to the COVID-19 pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>The Higher Education Acceleration Transformation Project will support regional and global collaboration, research and innovation in higher education.</div><div><br></div><div>It will help more women access quality tertiary education. Sharifa Khan, Secretary, ERD and Abdoulaye Seck, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan signed the agreement on behalf of Bangladesh and the World Bank, respectively, in presence of Raiser. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-13 23:20:12', '2023-06-13 23:20:12'),
(7456, 7456, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The High Court on Tuesday granted additional two months to finish the investigation and submit the probe report in the case filed over the death of Sultana Jasmine in RAB custody in Naogaon.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The HC bench consisting of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Muhammad Mahbub-ul-Islam set the new date following a request from deputy attorney general Samarendra Nath Biwas, seeking more time to conclude the investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>The court emphasized the sensitivity of the matter and urged to complete the investigation within the given time frame.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Two months, but only two months. Do not delay any further,” said the bench.</div><div><br></div><div>The writ petitioner lawyer Manoj Kumar Bhowmik opposed the fresh time and said the cabinet secretary had delayed forming the committee by one month after the HC directive issued on April 5.</div><div><br></div><div>The DAG requested the extension, stating that the investigation committee had visited the crime scene and gathered evidence.</div><div><br></div><div>In the earlier ruling, the High Court ordered the cabinet secretary to form a high-powered committee led by a District and Sessions Judge to investigate the Rapid Action Battalion\'s torture of Sultana Jasmine.</div><div><br></div><div>The court ordered the suspension of the RAB members who were involved in the detention of Jasmine for the time being.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also issued a ruling questioning the legality of arresting Sultana Jasmine without any formal charges and subsequent actions taken.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 25, following Jasmine\'s death, a three-member medical board performed the autopsy at RMCH morgue.</div><div><br></div><div>The High Court sought the police report and postmortem report on March 27.</div><div><br></div><div>Union land office employee Sultana was detained by RAB members from Muktirmor area of Naogaon city on March 22 morning and died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on March 24.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the elite force denied the allegation of torture. They claimed that the victim was arrested for interrogation as there was an accusation of fraudulence against her. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 01:14:30', '2023-06-14 01:14:30'),
(7457, 7457, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh will see how opening batsman Tamim Iqbal gets on during practice before deciding if he is fit to play in the one-off Test against Afghanistan in Dhaka starting Wednesday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The hosts are already missing star all-rounder and skipper Shakib Al Hasan, who has been nursing a finger injury, and there are also doubts whether pace bowler Taskin Ahmed will play.</div><div><br></div><div>The availability of Tamim -- one of Bangladesh\'s most experienced players and posting an average of 38.89 with the bat -- will depend how his back is after practice.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think he is going to train today and see how he feels,\" coach Chandika Hathurusingha said on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"He trained the day before and he had some discomfort when he was doing certain disciplines, fielding and batting.</div><div><br></div><div>\"So he\'s going to train today and we will assess him after training.\"</div><div><br></div><div>If Tamim does not make it, Zakir Hasan and Mahmudul Hasan could open the batting for Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Hathurusingha also refused to guarantee the inclusion of Taskin despite him recovering from a side injury that ruled him out of Bangladesh\'s last Test, a seven-wicket win over Ireland in April.</div><div><br></div><div>With the Asia Cup and one-day World Cup approaching, the team are worried about Taskin\'s workload.</div><div><br></div><div>He is one of the few players who is a regular starter for Bangladesh in all three formats when fit.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Physically I think he is in the best condition we all have seen,\" said Hathurusingha.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There\'s no injury. Bowling workload is the one little bit of concern we had leading up to this period.</div><div><br></div><div>\"So again, him also, we will assess after today\'s training and then make up our minds.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The one-off Test against Afghanistan at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium is set to take place on a green track much like the one for the Ireland Test.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You know that with this heat it\'ll deteriorate very quickly and then it\'ll help the spinners in the latter parts of the game,\" said Hathurusingha.</div><div><br></div><div>The two teams have played only one previous Test, with Afghanistan beating their hosts by 224 runs in Chittagong in 2019. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 01:56:11', '2023-06-14 01:56:11'),
(7458, 7458, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Censuring the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for his comment about the attack on a mayoral candidate in Braishal City Corporation polls, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the current Election Commission cannot hold a credible national election.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“The Chief Election Commissioner said he was very satisfied with (Monday’s) city elections. Charmonai Peer Faizul Karim, a mayoral candidate in Barishal city polls, was beaten by the ruling party cadres, shedding blood from his body, but they (EC) couldn’t resist it,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a road march programme arranged by Dhaka South City unit BNP in the capital\'s Gopibagh area, he said the EC has failed miserably to ensure the security of even a respectable Alem and a mayoral candidate.</div><div><br></div><div>“You (EC) say that you will be able to hold the national parliamentary election in a free and fair manner. You won’t be able to do it. We\'ve seen you a lot,\" the BNP leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>He castigated CEC Habibul Awal for his remark that Fazlul Karim did not pass away in the attack by the ruling party activists during the voting.</div><div><br></div><div>“Have you wanted his dead body?&nbsp; Did you want him to die? We strongly condemn it,” said the BNP leader.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of BNP’s countrywide programme, the party\'s Dhaka South City unit staged a march towards Roysaheber Bazar from Gopibagh Sadeque Hossain Khoka Community Centre protesting the ongoing loadshedding across the country and widespread corruption in the power sector.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka North City unit BNP also marched towards Karwanbazar from Mohakhali on the same ground. BNP standing committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury inaugurated the programme.</div><div><br></div><div>In an address before the start of the march, Fakhrul said the government has hiked the power tariffs repeatedly, but people are facing load-shedding across the country. “But they (govt) celebrated the success of gaining self-sufficiency in power with a spectacular firework and laser show a few days back.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government set up quick rental power plants by taking away money from people’s pockets and paying money to even to power plants that remain out of production.</div><div><br></div><div>“This government’s only job is to cut public pockets. We used to shout and catch when anyone pickpockets in any meeting. It’s now the time to catch the current regime which is the real pickpocket.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s cutting our pockets every day by raising the prices of everything, including the essential items,” the BNP leader observed.</div><div><br></div><div>He said 10 pro-ruling party businessmen are controlling the power sector and siphoning off huge money abroad. “We are to pay Tk78,000 crore as capacity charge every year,” reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that the government is now unable to supply the required power for the lack of fuel and energy.&nbsp; “So, economists are now saying the role model of Bangladesh’s development has now become a reason for headache.\"&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 02:38:39', '2023-06-14 02:38:39'),
(7459, 7459, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque has said that the committee has recommended to the cabinet for extending the Eid-ul-Azha holiday by one day and begin the vacation on June 27 instead of June 28.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We have recommended to the cabinet for extending the Eid-ul-Azha holiday by one day more,” Mozammel Haque told journalists after a meeting on law and order at the home ministry conference room today.</div><div><br></div><div>He said, “If the cabinet passes our recommendation then the vacation will begin on June 27 instead of June 28 and through this, the Eid-ul-Azha holiday will be four days.”</div><div><br></div><div>About the meeting’s decisions, the minister said the government will not allow roadside temporary cattle markets during the Eid in the interest of free movement of homebound passengers through highways.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have instructed the DMP (Dhaka Metropolitan Police) Commissioner to talk with City Corporation authorities about temporary cattle markets in and around the city during the Eid. They will select vacant space for cattle markets so that the city dwellers can easily buy their sacrificial animals,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting was attended by, among others, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam, state minister for shipping Khalid Mahmood Chowdhury, state minister for public administration Farhad Hossain, environment, forest and climate change Minister Md Shahab Uddin, public security division secretary Md Mustafizur Rahman, inspector general of police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and other officials concerned.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said that the number of drugs abusers has been increasing. So, the meeting has decided to engage civil society representatives to build awareness about drugs and its consequence, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>“Dope tests are being done to control drug addiction. Some policemen were suspended from their jobs due to drug addiction, as our government declared zero tolerance against drugs,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mozammel urged the media to broadcast news and publish articles on drugs and its affects and save the next generation from drug addiction.</div><div><br></div><div>About militancy, he said, the government formed CTTC (Counter Terrorism &amp; Transnational Crime) and ATU (Anti Terrorism Unit) to root out militancy from the country. Members of the two departments have been working on it.</div><div><br></div><div>About Rohingyas, the minister said many Rohingyas were engaged in drug paddling through using Myanmar SIM cards. They are unruly and becoming threat to the law enforcement agencies. “Our existing law is not enough to control them,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question about attack on a Barisal city mayor candidate, the minister said the committee instructed police to make a report about the attack through proper investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>“The attackers will be brought to book. The Prime Minister has also ordered to investigate the matter,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>About propaganda and rumours on social media from abroad, he said many people are spreading rumours and propaganda in the country using social media like Tiktok, YouTube, facebook living abroad. “We cannot control them due to various reasons. They have no offices in the country,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Online media without registration must be registered quickly within a specified time, otherwise they will be closed, Mozammel added.</div><div><br></div><div>About the law and order in the country, he said the law and order is under the control. No major incident was found recently. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 03:37:54', '2023-06-14 03:37:54'),
(7460, 7460, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Geneva this afternoon on an official visit to attend the \"World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All\" to be held in the Swiss city on June 14-15.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage landed at Geneva International airport at 5.10 pm local time (09.00pm BST). Earlier, the flight departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10.14am, PM’s speech writer Nazrul Islam said.</div><div><br></div><div>During the visit, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR chief Flippo Grandi will call on the Prime Minister at her place of residence on June 14.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the premier will call on President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset at Palais de Nations. After the call on, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Knowledge and Skills enhancement between Bangladesh and Switzerland is likely to be signed there.</div><div><br></div><div>In the afternoon, the Prime Minister is scheduled to address the Plenary of \"World of Work Summit 2023\" at Palais de Nations.</div><div><br></div><div>On her arrival, she will be greeted by ADG and Regional Director of ILO where there will be a red carpet and Guard of Honour from the gate to the meeting venue, to the plenary venue.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina will also have a call on with President of Malta Dr George Vella. Later, she would have a meeting with ILO Director General Gilbert F Houngbo.</div><div><br></div><div>In the evening, the Prime Minister is likely to attend a dinner with high level dignitaries hosted by the DG ILO at its headquarters.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 15, she is scheduled to attend \"A talk at the WEF\", followed by a meeting with founder of WEF Prof Klaus Schwab at WEF Office.</div><div><br></div><div>There, she will address the event on \"New Economy and Society in Smart Bangladesh\" organised by the World Economic Forum (WEF).</div><div><br></div><div>In the evening, WTO Director General Dr Okonjo-Iweala will call on her at her place of residence. She will also attend a community event in the evening.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to leave Geneva International Airport, Geneva for Dhaka at 11am (local time) on June 16. She is likely to arrive in Dhaka early on June 17.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The World of Work Summit 2023: Social Justice for All\" is a high-level forum for global voices to address the need for increased, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice.</div><div><br></div><div>It will provide an opportunity to discuss and inform the proposal to forge a Global Coalition for Social Justice, which was welcomed by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office at its 347th Session.</div><div><br></div><div>A number of high-level guests, including former President of France, Francois Hollande, former President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, as well as representatives of employers and workers, would address the conference.</div><div><br></div><div>The two-day summit will highlight the key role of social justice in creating a more sustainable and equitable world and will discuss strategies for increased and better-aligned joint action to advance social justice and ensure policy coherence.</div><div><br></div><div>It will provide a forum for participants to share their vision of and priorities for, social justice and to showcase the actions they are taking and they commit to take to advance social justice.</div><div><br></div><div>It is expected that the outcomes of the summit will inform discussions in other multilateral forums of the centrality of and strategies to achieve greater social justice, such as, in 2023, the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, the G20 and the summits of the BRICS countries.</div><div><br></div><div>The summit will feature addresses by Heads of State and Government, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the ILO Director-General and high-level representatives of employers\' and workers\' organisations.</div><div><br></div><div>There will be four panel discussions with high-level representatives of governments and employers\' and workers\' organisations, UN entities and other international organisations to identify and amplify actions towards social justice across the multilateral system and commit to a joint, coherent and coordinated engagement. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 03:51:19', '2023-06-14 03:51:19'),
(7461, 7461, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Donald Trump is returning to New Jersey after pleading not guilty to historic charges of mishandling sensitive files at a federal court in Miami, Florida.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump is the first US president - current or former - to be hit with a federal criminal indictment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arms crossed, in a dark suit and red tie, he sat in stone-faced silence for his second court appearance this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Republican will travel to his golf club in Bedminster, where he will address supporters on Tuesday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Already, club employees have begun preparations for the rally, setting up American flags, bunting and dozens of white chairs ahead of the appearance by Mr Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before leaving Miami, Mr Trump, on his social media platform Truth Social, thanked the city for \"such a warm welcome on such a sad day for our country\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just hours before, in a 13th floor room of a federal courthouse in downtown Miami, a sombre, subdued Mr Trump looked on while his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government\'s efforts to get them back.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty,\" the attorney, Todd Blanche, told the judge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump\'s co-defendant, Walt Nauta - a close aide charged with six criminal counts in the case - was sitting at the same table as the former president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the opposite side of the room sat the entire prosecution team, including special counsel Jack Smith, who announced the indictment last week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former president, 76, was allowed to leave court without any restrictions to domestic or international travel. Prosecutors told Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman the defendant was not considered a flight risk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mr Trump will not be allowed to discuss the case with Mr Nauta.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the hearing, the Republican flashed supporters a thumbs up as his motorcade left the courthouse. As the drove away, an anti-Trump protester dressed in a prison jumpsuit ran into the street in front of the Trump motorcade before he was pushed away by security - perhaps the most unruly moment of a largely peaceful day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump and his security detail travelled directly to Versailles, a popular Cuban restaurant in Miami\'s Little Havana, where he was greeted by a throng of supporters who lined up for photos with the former president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He appeared to take part in a prayer with some patrons, and was treated to a chorus of Happy Birthday to You, ahead of his 77th on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alina Habba, a lawyer attorney for the former president, repeated the former president\'s claims that the charges were politically motivated as she addressed media outside court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are at a turning point in our nation\'s history, the targeting prosecution of a leading political opponent is the type of thing you see in dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela,\" she told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What is being done to the President Trump should terrify all citizens of this country,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the hearing, court officials said Mr Trump would not have a mugshot taken but would be digitally fingerprinted and asked to submit a DNA sample by swab.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A trial date has not yet been set, though the case is still earmarked for Aileen Cannon, a federal district judge in South Florida who was appointed by Mr Trump.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 12:29:45', '2023-06-14 12:29:45'),
(7462, 7462, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three guests at a White House LGBTQ+ Pride party on Saturday have been banned from future events after posing topless on the South Lawn.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described the behaviour as \"unacceptable\" and \"unfair\" to others.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rose Montoya, a trans woman, influencer and advocate, was one of those banned after posting a video on social media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In response, Ms Montoya said being topless in Washington was legal and she had no intention of being vulgar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ms Montoya posted a 58-second video of the White House event which included a moment where she is seen topless, with her hands over her chest, next to two shirtless trans men.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Are we topless at the White House?,\" someone off camera asks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ms Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday: \"It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"This behaviour is inappropriate and disrespectful for any event at the White House. It is not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who were in attendance,\" Ms Jean-Pierre said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Individuals in the video will not be invited to future events.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ms Montoya\'s video also featured US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden speaking at the podium and later greeting Ms Montoya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After a backlash online, Ms Montoya shared a TikTok video in which she questioned why her chest was now seen by some as inappropriate when, she said, before she came out as transgender, it was not.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"My trans masculine friends were showing off their top surgery scars and living in joy, and I wanted to join them,\" she said. \"And because it is perfectly within the law of Washington DC, I decided to join them and cover my nipples just to play it safe.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the video, captioned \"free the nipple\", she added: \"I was simply living my joy and my truth and existing in my body.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Hundreds of guests were in attendance at the event, which the White House said was the largest Pride party ever hosted at the official home and office of the president. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 12:33:28', '2023-06-14 12:33:28'),
(7463, 7463, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More than 100 people have drowned in north central Nigeria after a boat carrying families returning from a wedding sank in a river, police and local authorities said on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Details about the accident in Kwara State were still emerging, but it was the latest boat tragedy in Nigeria where river capsizes are common due to overloading, lax safety procedures and heavy flooding in the rainy season.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The river boat was ferrying people in Kwara State from a wedding in neighbouring Niger State when it went down, local state police and the governor\'s office said, without giving details of the cause.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So far we have 103 people dead and over 100 rescued from the boat accident,\" Kwara State police spokesman Okasanmi Ajayi told AFP by telephone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Search and rescue is still ongoing which means the toll is likely to rise.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kwara State governor\'s office did not give a toll, but said the victims had been returning from a wedding ceremony to Kwara\'s Patigi district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Governor is sad to receive reports of the boat accident involving several people, particularly residents of Ebu, Dzakan, Kpada, Kuchalu, and Sampi, all in Patigi,\" the statement said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Governor sends his heartfelt condolences to the people of these communities.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, 15 children drowned and 25 others went missing after their overloaded boat capsized in northwest Sokoto State as they were on their way to collect firewood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Almost exactly a year earlier, another 29 children from a nearby village also drowned in the same river as they were on a trip to collect firewood for their families.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During massive flooding in the rainy season last December, at least 76 people drowned when their boat went down in a swollen river in southeast Anambra State.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With poor road infrastructure a common problem and kidnapping for ransom a major issue along some highways, river boat travel for transport and trade is common in Nigeria.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Niger River is West Africa\'s main waterway running in a crescent through Guinea to Nigeria\'s Niger Delta and is a key local trade route for some of the countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria\'s National Inland Waterways Authority has tried to ban night-time sailing on rivers to stop accidents and says overloading ships is a criminal offence, but skippers and crews often ignore the regulations. 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, '2023-06-14 15:12:13', '2023-06-14 15:12:13'),
(7464, 7464, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">TikTok influencers and celebrities are increasingly taking over from journalists as the main source of news for young people, according to a report published Wednesday by the Britain-based Reuters Institute.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report found that 55 percent of TikTok and Snapchat users and 52 percent of Instagram users get their news from \"personalities\" -- compared to 33-42 percent who get it from mainstream media and journalists on those platforms, which are most popular among the young.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The figures were based on interviews with some 94,000 people across 46 countries, conducted for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, part of Britain\'s University of Oxford.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While mainstream journalists often lead conversations around news in Twitter and Facebook, they struggle to get attention in newer networks like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok,\" the report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lead author Nic Newman highlighted people like Britain\'s Matt Welland, who discusses current affairs and daily life on TikTok for his 2.8 million subscribers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Or it could be a celebrity like a footballer talking about a topical news event,\" he told AFP, such as footballer Marcus Rashford\'s 2020 campaign to get free school meals for children from poor families.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For young people, \"news\" is not just the traditional focus on politics and international relations, but \"anything new that is happening in any walk of life: sports, entertainment, celebrity gossip, current affairs, culture, arts, technology...\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Fundamental change\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facebook remains the leading source of news among social networks worldwide, but its influence is dropping, with 28 percent saying they use it to get news, compared with 42 percent in 2016.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This likely reflects Facebook\'s shift away from news-sharing towards a focus on friends and family, as well as young people\'s preference for more video-based apps like TikTok and YouTube.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">TikTok now reaches 44 percent of 18-24-year-olds, and 20 percent get their news from the app, up five percent on last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biggest challenge for traditional news outlets is the falling number who go direct to their websites -- just 22 percent, down 10 points since 2018 -- rather than relying on social media links.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his foreword, Reuters Institute director Rasmus Kleis Nielsen said this shift presented \"a much more fundamental change\" for the news industry than even the shift from paper to digital a generation ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Legacy media... now face a continual transformation of digital as generations come of age who eschew direct discovery for all but the most appealing brands, (and) have little interest in many conventional news offers oriented towards older generations\' habits, interests, and values,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These new audiences are aware of the risks of relying on algorithms, with only 30 percent thinking this is a good way to get a balanced diet of news -- but that is still considered better than relying on journalists, who scored just 27 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">None of this is good news for media firms reliant on subscribers and ad revenue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report found that 39 percent of subscribers had cancelled or renegotiated subscriptions, though the overall share of people paying for news across 20 countries surveyed remained stable compared with last year at 17 percent. 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, '2023-06-14 15:17:00', '2023-06-14 15:17:00');
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(7465, 7465, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Extreme weather conditions in Europe have killed almost 195,000 people and caused economic losses of more than 560 billion euros since 1980, the European Environment Agency said Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Nearly 195,000 fatalities have been caused by floods, storms, heat- and coldwaves, forest fires and landslides\" between 1980 and 2021, the EAA said in its report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the 560 billion euros ($605 billion) in losses, only 170 billion, or 30 percent, were insured, the EEA said, as it launched a new online portal collating recent data on the impact of extreme weather.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"To prevent further losses, we need to urgently move from responding to extreme weather events...to proactively preparing for them,\" EEA expert Aleksandra Kazmierczak told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest data, heatwaves accounted for 81 percent of deaths and 15 percent of financial losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Europe needs to take measures to protect its ageing population, with the elderly particularly sensitive to extreme heat, the EEA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Most national adaptation policies and health strategies recognise the impacts of heat on cardiovascular and respiratory systems. But less than half cover direct impacts of heat like dehydration or heat stroke,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The summer of 2022 saw more deaths than usual in Europe following repeated heatwaves, but the 2022 deaths were not included in the data published on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were 53,000 more deaths in July 2022 than the monthly average in 2016-2019, up by 16 percent, though not all of those deaths were directly attributed to the heat, the EEA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spain registered more than 4,600 deaths linked to the extreme heat in June, July and August.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Climate modelling has predicted longer, more intense and more frequent heatwaves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February 2022, the EAA said extreme weather killed 142,000 people and caused 510 billion euros in losses for the period 1980-2020.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The increase in the figures released on Wednesday was partly due to the fact that in 2021, flooding in Germany and Belgium led to economic losses of almost 50 billion euros.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of deaths, a change in methodology in France and Germany was responsible for the large variation, the EEA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Devastating consequences\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Climate change caused by humans increased the risk of drought five- or six-fold in 2022, a year when forest fires ravaged twice as much territory as in recent years, the EEA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Droughts could end up being very costly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economic losses could rise from nine billion euros per year currently to 25 billion euros at the end of the century if the planet warms by 1.5C degrees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That could climb to 31 billion euros if it warms by 2C and 45 billion euros if it warms by 3C, according to scientific scenarios.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The consequences for agriculture could be \"devastating\", the EEA warned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Farmers can limit adverse impacts of rising temperature and droughts by adapting crop varieties, changing sowing dates and with changed irrigation patterns,\" the report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without changes, yields and farm incomes are projected to decline in the future, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While human losses from flooding are much lower, accounting for just two percent of the total, they are the most costly, accounting for 56 percent of economic losses. 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, '2023-06-14 15:20:22', '2023-06-14 15:20:22'),
(7466, 7466, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three people were killed after a series of explosions caused by fireworks struck residential buildings in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, local officials said Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blasts, which occurred shortly after 8 pm Tuesday, are believed by authorities to have been ignited by a 46-year-old man who has since been arrested.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several others were injured and were still being treated by emergency responders on Wednesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The explosions rocked two residential apartment compounds roughly one kilometre apart in the eastern part of Tianjin, which is about 110 km (70 miles) southeast of Beijing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrested suspect, surnamed Ma, is under investigation but no initial findings have been made public.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Images of the scene shared on social media showed firefighters attempting to assist victims inside a housing block, the outside of which appeared to be heavily damaged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One video showed second-storey balconies hanging precariously over piles of rubble, while a fire blazed from an upstairs window.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State-controlled National Business Daily reported that 26 homes were damaged as a result of the blasts and that 34 people were evacuated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another video, a man at the scene says a housing block was left \"decrepit\" by the blasts. 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, '2023-06-14 15:25:34', '2023-06-14 15:25:34'),
(7467, 7467, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Afghanistan won the toss in the one-off Test and chose to bowl first on Wednesday in Dhaka.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is only the second Test match between Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The first Test was played in 2019, which Afghanistan won in Chattogram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Bangladesh is missing the services of Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal, as both players are dealing with injuries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shakib\'s injury has given Litton the opportunity to lead the Bangladesh team in Test cricket for the first time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tamim had hoped to play until the day before the match. The national physiotherapist stated that they have made efforts to treat Tamim\'s injury, but the opener requires more time to fully recover and participate in the longer format of the game. It remains unclear how many more days he will need to be fully prepared.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan is also facing injury concerns as their star spinner, Rashid Khan, will be unable to play in this match due to an injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the pre-match press conference, both teams expressed their confidence in winning this match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh (Playing XI): Najmul Hossain Shanto, Zakir Hasan, Mominul Haque, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Litton Das(w/c), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Ebadot Hossain</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan (Playing XI): Ibrahim Zadran, Abdul Malik, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Nasir Jamal, Afsar Zazai(w), Karim Janat, Amir Hamza, Zahir Khan, Nijat Masood, Yamin Ahmadzai. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 15:30:00', '2023-06-14 15:30:00'),
(7468, 7468, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality was marked \"unhealthy for sensitive groups\" this morning (June 14, 2023).</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 133 at 9:08 am, Dhaka ranked 4th in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chile’s Santiago, Indonesia’s Jakarta and India’s Delhi occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 148, 145 and 137 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered “unhealthy”, particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 safe 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;\">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, '2023-06-14 16:26:53', '2023-06-14 16:26:53'),
(7469, 7469, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 33-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter were found dead at their house in Dhaka’s Merul Badda today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as Bristi Akter, wife of Selim, and their daughter Sanja Marwa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Police camp, said Selim found Bristi and Sanja unconscious early this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were taken to a local hospital where the doctors declared them dead around 5:30 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police suspected that both of them were strangled to death. They also arrested Selim in this connection.&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, '2023-06-14 16:37:40', '2023-06-14 16:37:40'),
(7470, 7470, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A school student of class 7 died and five other students fell sick from heat stroke on Tuesday in different schools under Dumuria and Rupsa upazilas of Khulna district.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased was identified as Surjit Basak, son of Anupati Basak, a class 7 student at Kalibari Secondary School.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to family sources, Surjit went to school on Tuesday morning. But on the way, he fell sick in the sweltering heat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was taken to Dumuria Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dumuria Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sheikh Koni Mia confirmed the death of Surjit Basak due to \"cardiac arrest.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, five students of Kajdia Secondary Girls School in Rupsa upazila fell sick from excessive heat due to load shedding during an examination. They were taken to the Upazila Health Complex.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chand Sultana, the head teacher of the school, said, \"Due to load shedding and intense heat, the students started feeling sick and lost consciousness in the exam hall. They were immediately taken to the Upazila Health Complex.” 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, '2023-06-14 17:26:02', '2023-06-14 17:26:02'),
(7471, 7471, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Can England regain the Ashes playing their ultra-aggressive \"Bazball\" brand of cricket or will they come unstuck against battle-hardened Australia?</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The answer will come over the coming weeks, starting with the first Test of a hotly anticipated five-match series at Edgbaston on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England have forced the rest of the world to sit up and take notice, with 11 wins in 13 Tests since captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum joined forces last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But doubts persist as to whether their policy of all-out attack can work against arch-rivals Australia, who only last week hammered India by 209 runs at The Oval to win the World Test Championship final.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steve Waugh, the last Australia captain to win an Ashes series in England, back in 2001, is not alone in questioning whether Stokes\'s side have an alternative plan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Have they got a Plan B?\" Waugh said to the Australian media. \"They have shown they are good enough to carry this style of cricket off but the ultimate test will be against a world-class bowling attack, which Australia has got.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England had won just one out of 17 Tests before newly appointed English cricket chief Rob Key brought McCullum and Stokes together to oversee a dynamic revamp of their long-format game dubbed \"Bazball\", in reference to the nickname of former New Zealand captain McCullum.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And all-rounder Stokes is adamant he has no intention of altering his approach.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Nothing is going to change because we\'ve had unbelievable success with it,\" the 32-year-old told the BBC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If we were to change anything from the last 12 months because we find ourselves in an Ashes series then anything from the last 12 months will have been completely pointless.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Strike rate -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England have scored at an eye-watering 4.85 runs an over in the past year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And England great James Anderson, Test cricket\'s most succesful paceman, said that had benefits for the bowlers as well.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The (bowling) run-rate is irrelevant to Ben in particular,\" explained Anderson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'s like \'I don\'t care how many runs you go for, I want 20 wickets as quickly as possible\'. You\'re constantly thinking, as a bowler then, about \'How am I taking my next wicket\'?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of more immediate concern to England fans than Stokes\'s philosophy is his fitness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stokes, a lively seamer, opted against bowling himself in England\'s recent 10-wicket win over Ireland after struggling with a knee injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has since declared himself fit to bowl and with Anderson and fellow paceman Ollie Robinson suffering niggling injuries, the hosts will hope he can make good on those words.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England will be without Jack Leach for the whole Ashes after the left-arm spinner was ruled out with a back problem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moeen Ali has been recalled in his absence and the off-spinner\'s two-year Test retirement could end at his Edgbaston home ground, even though he averages an expensive 64.65 in Ashes cricket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ashes-holders Australia, by contrast, have a proven world-class off-spinner in Nathan Lyon, who is closing in on 500 Test wickets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain Pat Cummins is in the fortunate position of deciding if either Mitchell Starc or Josh Hazlewood joins him in a fast-bowling attack likely to include Scott Boland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boland\'s fine WTC final display -- he took five wickets in the match -- left him with 33 wickets in eight Tests at a miserly average of 14.57.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Second-ranked Australia drew the last Ashes series in England in 2019 2-2 and demolished the old enemy 4-0 on home turf in 2021/22.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But they have not won a series in England for 22 years, with many of their batsmen, the outstanding Steve Smith excepted, struggling to adapt to English conditions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia have now gone 12 Test innings in England since enjoying a first-wicket stand of 20 or more, while under-pressure opener David Warner, 36, has now managed just one century in his past 34 Test innings against all opponents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His battle with his nemesis, paceman Stuart Broad, will be just one of a number of fascinating subplots, with Tests at Lord\'s, Headingley, Old Trafford and The Oval to follow the curtainraiser in Birmingham.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"An Ashes (in England) is bloody hard to win. It\'s been 20-odd years so it\'s not going to be easy,\" said the 30-year-old Cummins. \"If we win, that is legacy-defining stuff.\" 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, '2023-06-14 17:29:09', '2023-06-14 17:29:09'),
(7472, 7472, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi emphasized the growing role of regional organizations in shaping a new multipolar world, addressing a meeting with Venezuelan youth in Caracas on Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Therefore, we have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and expressed our readiness to join BRICS,\" Raisi said in a live broadcast on Venezolana de Television, a state TV channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian president also pointed to the need to reform the United Nations, primarily the UN Security Council. \"Today it is an organization of governments, but it should become an organization of the peoples,\" Raisi stressed. 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, '2023-06-14 17:38:30', '2023-06-14 17:38:30'),
(7473, 7473, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi and his World Cup-winning Argentina teammates are expected to draw almost 70,000 fans to Beijing Worker’s Stadium for an exhibition against Australia.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With tickets starting at around $80 for Thursday’s game, local supporters are excited to see Messi and continue the World Cup celebrations. Fans have flocked to all opportunities to see the Argentine star since the team arrived in China, with large crowds angling for photographs and chanting his name.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi’s move to “continue my path” in Miami last week made global headlines after he turned down extremely lucrative offers from Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia in favor of Major League Soccer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that after winning the World Cup, it was his time to go the United States and “live football in another way.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before then, he’s with the Argentina squad that is scheduled to play Australia in the Chinese capital and take on Indonesia in Jakarta four days later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia coach Graham Arnold said he was looking forward to giving a selection of young players some valuable experience.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There\'s no better team to test yourself against than he best in the world,” Arnold said in an interview for Chinese TV. “It\'s going to be great for the players — not only the players, but for everyone here in China and back in Australia — to see Lionel Messi play.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'s such a wonderful player and obviously best in the world. To have those privileges to test yourself against him, it\'s important.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi led Argentina to a 2-1 win over the Australians in the Round of 16 at the World Cup last year in Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the Socceroos, though, this rematch is not about revenge for a defeat but more the journey to the next Asian Cup, at Qatar in January, and beyond.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It’s a younger squad but I’m also looking with one eye on the World Cup in 2026 and getting players ready for that,” Arnold said. “I don’t believe there’s a better way to test them out.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia, which joined the Asian Football Confederation in 2006 and won the regional title on home soil in 2015, will take on India, Syria and Uzbekistan at the Asian Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arnold has handed first call-ups to Italian-based defender Alessandro Circati and Melbourne City goalkeeper Thomas Glover, and has recalled Gianni Stensness and Denis Genreau.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other international friendlies this week, Japan will play El Salvador and South Korea, led by former U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, will take on Peru on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Klinsmann is sweating on the fitness of Tottenham star player Son Heung-min, who had a hernia operation after the end of the English Premier League season. According to Korea Football Association officials, Son wants to play but it has yet to be decided.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh Hyeon-gu, who helped Celtic to the Scottish championship, could make the step up in Son’s absence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I don’t know about playing time, but whether I am given one minute or 90 minutes, I will do my best,” Oh said. “I traveled to Qatar for the World Cup. I was so desperate to play and I know all the stadiums … I want to make those dream moments if I can go to the Asian Cup.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh’s Celtic teammate Kyogo Furuhashi did not make Japan’s roster at the World Cup but the Scottish Premiership Player of the Year has been recalled by Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“He has been contributing to the team’s victories with consistent performance and a strong presence on the field,” Moriyasu, who is looking to lead Japan to a fifth continental title, said of the striker. “We expect him to score goals and be involved in creating goal-scoring opportunities.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as the Asian Cup, Qatar is preparing for a second successive guest appearance later this month at the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the tournament that determines the champion of the region that encapsulates North and Central America as well as the Caribbean.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It starts with a friendly against Jamaica in Austria on Thursday. At the World Cup, Qatar lost all three of its group games but appointed former Real Madrid and Portugal boss Carlos Queiroz in February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The defending Asian champion, which also reached the semifinals of the 2021 Gold Cup, will take on Haiti, Honduras and Mexico in the tournament hosted by the United States. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 17:43:38', '2023-06-14 17:43:38'),
(7474, 7474, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin said he saw no need to impose a martial law throughout Russia\'s entire territory, although some issues still need to be dealt with in a more detailed and thorough manner.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In general, introducing some kind of special regime or martial law across the country does not make any sense. There is no such need today. We need to work more carefully on some issues,\" he told foreign correspondents during a meeting on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Putin went on to say that the work of law enforcement and security agencies needs to be improved and expanded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And in general, it seems to me that the tasks in this regard are also solvable,\" the Russian president added. 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, '2023-06-14 18:16:14', '2023-06-14 18:16:14'),
(7475, 7475, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Mohammed Shahabuddin today visited Bangabhaban Toshakhana Museum at Bangabhaban here this noon.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Head of the State witnessed a video of the renovated installations of the historic Toshakhana Museum as well as the Bangabhaban, the Presidential palace.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangabhaban was once called \'Manuk House\'. After that it was regarded as \'Governor House\'. A unique combination of Victorian architecture with Islamic and Bengali architecture, this building is now the office and residence of the President of the Republic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Shahabuddin visited the installations at different rooms staying there over 30 minutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Toshakhana building is well-decorated with the gifts from different heads of state and government of different countries and historic photographs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the overall supervision of Bangabhaban, this dilapidated Toshakhana was renovated into a museum with a modern look on January this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 24 in 2023, erstwhile President M Abdul Hamid inaugurated the renovated installations of the Bangabhaban Toshakhana Museum, remaining open for visitors in a limited scale.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is need a good task . . . Moreover it is well-decorated as well,\" President Shahabuddin expressed his satisfaction soon after visiting the museum.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the President also signed a visitors\' book there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the history guides people to the past as well as guides the future and Bangabhaban is a unique monument of Bengali history and tradition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I believe, the Bangabhaban Toshakhana Museum will play an important role in preserving the rich history of Bangabhaban and presenting it from generations to generations,\" President Shahabuddin mentioned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"The souvenirs displayed in the Toshakhana Museum and stills from various periods would contribute to linking the past with the present and the future,\" the President added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that this museum as one of the monuments of centuries of colorful history and tradition of the Bengalis, he said the domestic and foreign envoys or ambassadors and visitors would be able to get acquainted with the country\'s history, heritage and culture during their visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Toshakhana Museum would serve as one of the mediums to bridge the gap between Bangabhaban and the people of the country, the President hoped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;President\'s Office Secretary Sampad Barua, Military Secretary Major General SM Salahuddin Islam, Press Secretary Md Joynal Abedin and Secretary (Attachment) Md Wahidul Islam Khan and high civil and military officers accompanied the President there. 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, '2023-06-14 19:57:35', '2023-06-14 19:57:35'),
(7476, 7476, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Four fresh earthquakes jolted the Jammu region on Wednesday and triggered panic among residents, a day after a 5.4 magnitude quake hit the Doda district of the Union territory.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Officials said there were no reports so far of any loss of life or damage to property.</div><div><br></div><div>In Kishtwar, a 3.3 magnitude quake was recorded at 8.29 am. Its epicentre was at a depth of five kilometres, as per the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).</div><div><br></div><div>Prior to that, tremors of magnitude 3.5 were recorded in Doda at 7.56 am and the epicentre was at a depth of 10 kilometres, data from the NCS showed.</div><div><br></div><div>Two more earthquakes were recorded in the early hours of the day as well.</div><div><br></div><div>At 2.20 am, a 4.3 magnitude quake was recorded in the Doda district at a depth of 10 kilometres, as per the data.</div><div><br></div><div>The other quake, which had a magnitude of 2.8, occurred 74 kilometres east of Katra in Reasi district at 2.43 am, according to the NCS. Its epicentre lay at a depth of five kilometres.</div><div><br></div><div>The four fresh earthquakes hit a day after high-intensity tremors jolted the Doda district.</div><div><br></div><div>Tuesday\'s quake damaged several buildings in the twin mountainous districts of Doda and Kishtwar. Five people, including two schoolchildren, suffered injuries, while schools were shut as a precautionary measure by the administration.</div><div><br></div><div>The earthquake was widely felt in the Jammu and Kashmir region and neighbouring states. Source: PTI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 20:56:19', '2023-06-14 20:56:19'),
(7477, 7477, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Arabia\'s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has left for a state visit to France where he will meet President Emmanuel Macron, a statement said on Wednesday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The 37-year-old prince, who is overseeing sweeping social and economic reforms in the oil-rich monarchy, will also take part in the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris next week, the Royal Court statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday Prince Mohammed, often known as \"MBS\", will attend an official Saudi reception for Riyadh\'s candidacy to host Expo 2030.</div><div><br></div><div>The trip underlines close French ties with the resource-rich Gulf.</div><div><br></div><div>In December 2021, Macron became one of the first Western leaders to meet Prince Mohammed in Saudi Arabia since Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside Riyadh\'s Istanbul consulate in 2018. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 21:47:57', '2023-06-14 21:47:57'),
(7478, 7478, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Najmul Hossain struck an unbeaten century to guide free-flowing Bangladesh to 235-2 at tea on Wednesday\'s opening day of their one-off Test against Afghanistan.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Najmul led the charge after the hosts were sent in to bat on a green surface at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>He was 126 not out at the break after scoring his third Test century, while opener Mahmudul Hasan made his third fifty on his way to 76.</div><div><br></div><div>Former captain Mominul Haque was unbeaten on 11 at the interval alongside Najmul, who has hit 21 fours and one six so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Najmul and Mahmudul put on 212 runs in the second wicket partnership after they came together in the second over of the innings.</div><div><br></div><div>Occasional spinner Rahmat Shah broke their partnership when Mahumdul attempted a cut shot only to edge a catch to Ibrahim Zadran at slip.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahmudul hit nine boundaries in his sedate 137-ball innings.</div><div><br></div><div>Debutant pacer Nijat Masood was the only other Afghanistan bowler with any success, removing opener Zakir Hasan for one with his first Test delivery in the day\'s second over.</div><div><br></div><div>Zakir was initially declared not out by the on-field umpire but the replay indicated that the left-hander had nicked the ball to wicketkeeper Afsar Zazai.</div><div>Najmul hit back-to-back fours off Yamin Ahmadzai in the next over to deny Afghanistan further momentum.</div><div><br></div><div>A single off Amir Hamza earned him his hundred off 118 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>Afghanistan won the only Test between the two teams when they beat the home side by 224 runs at Chittagong in 2019. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 22:32:04', '2023-06-14 22:32:04'),
(7479, 7479, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government approved a proposal in principle for awarding Summit Oil and Shipping Company Limited the work of setting up the 3rd floating LNG terminal at Moheshkhali in Cox\'s Bazar.</span><br></b></div><div><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div>The floating LNG terminal would have a capacity of dealing with 600 MMCF LNG per day.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The approval came from the 13th meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs this year held today virtually with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Briefing reporters after the meeting virtually, Cabinet Division additional secretary Sayeed Mahbub Khan said that the day\'s meeting also approved three proposals in principle from the Ministry of Industries and one proposal in principle from the Health Services Division.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He informed that Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) under the Ministry of Industries in three separate proposals would procure 3.90 lakh metric tons of urea fertilizer from Fertiglobe Distribution Limited, UAE under G to G agreement for the current fiscal year (FY24), another 4.80 lakh metric tons of urea fertilizer from Muntajat, Qatar under G to G agreement for the current fiscal year and another consignment of urea fertilizer from SABIC, Agri-Nutrients Company, Saudi Arabia also under G to G agreement for the current fiscal year.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Mahbub said following a proposal from the Health Services Division, Community Based Health Care Authority (CBHC) would procure 27 types of medicines under the Direct Procurement Method (DPM) from Essential Drugs Company Limited for some 14,200 community clinics. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 23:00:19', '2023-06-14 23:00:19'),
(7480, 7480, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A 27-year-old woman from Hyderabad has been stabbed to death in London\'s Wembley. Kontham Tejaswini, who had gone to London for higher studies, was allegedly attacked by her Brazilian flatmate at a residential property around 10 am on Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>While Tejaswini died on the spot, the Metropolitan Police said a second woman, aged 28, was taken to a hospital with stab injuries \"that were later assessed as not life-threatening\". The incident took place in Neeld Crescent, Wembley.</div><div><br></div><div>A cousin of Tejaswini in Hyderabad, identified as Vijay, said the accused was a Brazilian man and had moved into the shared accommodation - where Tejaswini lived with her friends - less than a week ago. Tejaswini had reportedly gone to London in March last year to get her Masters degree.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Two people, a 24-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, were arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. The man remains in custody. The woman has been released without further action,\" said a statement from the police.</div><div><br></div><div>Another suspect, a 23-year-old man, has also now been arrested.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This has been a fast-moving investigation and I would like to thank the public for sharing our appeal for information about this man. He is now in custody,\" Detective Chief Inspector Linda Bradley, from the Met\'s Specialist Crime Command, was quoted in the statement as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I recognise the significant concern this incident has caused in the community and I would like to reassure the public that a dedicated team of detectives are working to establish what happened (sic),\" she added. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-14 23:33:38', '2023-06-14 23:33:38'),
(7481, 7481, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The two-day Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Meeting kicked off in Sylhet today.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh, the current Chair of IORA, is hosting the 13th Bi-Annual CSO Meeting of IORA on 13-14 June, an official release said here.</div><div><br></div><div>Seventy-five delegates from 23 IORA Member States and IORA Secretariat are attending the CSO, the release added.</div><div><br></div><div>They will discuss various issues relating to six priority areas and two focus areas of IORA including Maritime Safety and Security; Trade and Investment Facilitation; Fisheries Management; Disaster Risk Management; Tourism and Cultural Exchanges; Academic, Science and Technology Cooperation; Blue Economy and Women\'s Economic Empowerment.</div><div><br></div><div>Other important issues including institutional arrangement and broadening engagement will also be discussed.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen announced the opening of 13th Bi-Annual CSO through a video message.</div><div><br></div><div>In his speech, the foreign minister urged the member states to push forward for tapping into the tremendous amount of untapped and unexplored potential for growth and requested them to complement each other by more intense interaction, idea-sharing and enhanced cooperation.</div><div><br></div><div>Secretary, Maritime Affairs Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rear Admiral (retd) Md Khurshed Alam made the opening remarks alongside presiding over the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>IORA Secretary General Dr Salman Al Farisi; Vice-Chair Sudharshan Seneviratne, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Bangladesh; IORA past chair Ahmed Albadawi, Acting Deputy Director of Economic and Trade Affairs Department, UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs also spoke at the opening session. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 00:54:00', '2023-06-15 00:54:00');
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(7482, 7482, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the international community to invest in social justice in order to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies across the world.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“We can achieve lasting peace and sustainable development on the foundation of social justice. We must invest in social justice in our efforts to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies worldwide,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier was addressing the plenary session of the two-day ‘World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All’ here in Geneva, which is a high-level forum for global voices to address the need for increased, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice.</div><div><br></div><div>The ILO’s summit has brought together over a dozen heads of state and government, high-level representatives from the United Nations, other international organizations, and employers’ and workers’ organizations.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said Bangladesh continues to play a leading role in ensuring safe, orderly and regular migration.</div><div><br></div><div>“We urge the international community to pay heed to climate change impacts on human mobility and overall work environment,” she said in her speech delivered in Bengali.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said this summit meeting, with the launch of the Global Coalition, has created an opportunity to place social justice at the heart of all international development agenda, including SDGs. “Our government will actively consider joining the Global Coalition through further discussions with our social partners at the national level,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In this context, she placed a five-point suggestion for the global coalition.</div><div><br></div><div>The suggestions include; “One, it would be advisable to develop this Coalition as a consultative or advocacy platform rather than as a norm-setting or negotiating forum; Two, the Coalition must guard against weaponising ‘social justice’ by one international quarter against the other in the current geopolitical context; and Three, the Coalition should make sure that instead of being used as a protectionist tool, social justice should be widely promoted under a rules-based multilateral trading system.”</div><div><br></div><div>The rest two suggestions are; “Four, the Coalition needs to ensure broad-based support from ILO\'s own constituents with a view enlisting the International Financial Institutions for the purpose of promoting decent work and productive employment; and Five, the Coalition should give attention to making our youth champion social justice.”</div><div><br></div><div>Turning to Bangladesh, PM Hasina said a Tripartite Consultative Council (TCC) comprising representatives of workers, employers and the government continues to monitor and advance the overall labour situation in the country. A separate TCC has been constituted for the apparel industry.</div><div><br></div><div>She said it was our government that increased the minimum wage for garment workers from Tk 1,600 to Tk 8,000. “We have plans to formulate a policy framework to determine minimum wages through collective bargaining in different industrial sectors,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Bangladesh leader said trade union registration has been made online. The rate of trade union registration has increased from 60 percent in 2013 to 90 percent in 2022. “The number of trade unions in the garments sector has increased nine-fold in the last nine years. Workers and employers are being regularly trained on the trade union registration process,” she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She said two separate toll-free helplines have been launched for Export Processing Zones (EPZ) and non-EPZ areas. Besides, databases are being developed with particulars of garment factory workers to ensure transparency and discipline in administering their remuneration and other benefits, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said Bangladesh has recently signed ILO Convention 138 on determining the minimum age for child labour. “We have declared eight hazardous sectors to be free of child labour,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, in 2023-24 fiscal year, a programme is underway to rehabilitate 100,000 children engaged in hazardous work by providing them non-formal and technical education, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>“I want the country to be free from the scourge of child labour for the sake of a healthy and secure future generation,” said Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>She said Bangladesh today is resolutely moving towards building a just, inclusive and resilient society with the ability to deal with various natural and man-made disasters of the past.</div><div><br></div><div>During Covid-19 pandemic, her government allocated USD 588 million for regular salary payments to workers in export-oriented industries; around USD 300 million for distributing food free-of-cost to under-privileged families; and USD 156 million approximately for distribution among five million poor families, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said the government is supplying essential food items at subsidized prices for ten million low-income families to manage the inflationary pressures in the wake of the Ukraine war.</div><div><br></div><div>She said a total of 27 million people are receiving direct cash transfer under 119 social protection schemes. Some 16.7 percent of the budget recently announced for 2023-24 fiscal year has been earmarked for social security in general, she noted.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that Bangladesh is taking multi-pronged initiatives to achieve SDG targets, she said, “We shall conclusively graduate from the UN LDC status by 2026. Accordingly, we are implementing a Roadmap on Labour Sector for the 2021-26 period,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said Bangladesh is a signatory to eight of the ten fundamental ILO Conventions on labour rights protection. “We are actively considering ratification of the two new fundamental ILO Conventions concerning occupational health and safety,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She, however, said it is a matter of great regret that certain developed countries that are otherwise vocal about labour rights have not themselves ratified most of the fundamental ILO Conventions. For instance, a major industrialized country has signed only two fundamental Conventions, she cited.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said her government has followed ILO’s recommendations to amend the Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006 twice in 2013 and 2018. Moreover, amendments have been made to the Bangladesh Labour Rules, 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are working on further amendments to the Labour Act, 2006 by this year. We have already given approval for applying Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006 in the Special Economic Zones. Alongside the Labor Appellate Tribunal and seven Labour Courts, six additional Labour Courts have been set up by our present government,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms are being institutionalized with participation of social partners. Besides, an \'Industrial Police\' unit has been formed for promoting sound industrial relations, she mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said the safety and working environment of all ready-made garment factories in the country have been assessed and the export-oriented ones have been remedied accordingly. More than half of the world\'s top 100 environment-friendly garment factories are now located in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>“To take forward this achievement, we have formulated a \'Green Factory Award Policy\'. I hope our international buyers would encourage such eco-friendly initiatives by paying fair prices for the products,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said her government is setting up a \'National Research and Training Institute on Occupational Health and Safety\'. Specialized doctors are providing regular medical service to workers through 32 Labour Welfare Centers, she noted.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said a provision has been included in the Labour Act for four months’ paid leave and maternity benefits for female workers. Some 6,430 day-care centers have been set up in different factories and establishments. “We have called for ‘zero-tolerance’ to all forms of violence or harassment against women in industries and workplaces,” she went on.</div><div><br></div><div>“Recently, I have given directives to explore ways to factor in women\'s unpaid domestic work in our national GDP,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the aegis of \'Bangladesh Labour Welfare Foundation’, our workers and their family members receive financial assistance in various sectors, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, a \'Central Fund\' has been established under the Ministry of Labour and Employment for supporting the socio-economic development of workers in export-oriented industries along with their families, she said adding that an \'Employment Injury Insurance Scheme\' was launched on a pilot basis in 2022 for workers in the garments sector.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that two million young men and women are entering our employment market anew every year, she said her government is setting up 100 Special Economic Zones across the country for creating ten million new employments by 2030.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the government is providing soft loans, refinancing scheme and free training for the Cottage, Micro, Small and Medium Industries. “In the current fiscal year, Bangladesh Bank has launched a refinancing scheme worth about USD 2.3 billion for the CMSME sector,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, military dictators used to run the country.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that after coming back to the country in 1981, she got the opportunity to form the government in 1996, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“I started to work to change the lot of the country people, my only aim to change their fate, and make Bangladesh a peaceful and developed sonar Bangla, I have dedicated my life for the toiling masses of Bangladesh,” she said.</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 01:21:54', '2023-06-15 01:21:54'),
(7483, 7483, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi emphasized the growing role of regional organizations in shaping a new multipolar world, addressing a meeting with Venezuelan youth in Caracas on Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Therefore, we have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and expressed our readiness to join BRICS,\" Raisi said in a live broadcast on Venezolana de Television, a state TV channel.</div><div><br></div><div>The Iranian president also pointed to the need to reform the United Nations, primarily the UN Security Council. \"Today it is an organization of governments, but it should become an organization of the peoples,\" Raisi stressed. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 01:55:16', '2023-06-15 01:55:16'),
(7484, 7484, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Actor Swastika Mukherjee took to Facebook to announce that she won\'t be a part of her upcoming film Shibpur\'s promotional events. The trailer for the Bengali film was released on Tuesday and as informed by the actor, she did not attend the event. Her decision comes months after Swastika had lodged a complaint against the film\'s producer for sending her threatening emails, and morphed photos.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In her new post, Swastika said, “To all my journalist friends who have been calling and messaging me for the past few days to ask whether I will be attending the trailer launch of my film Shibpur, well I will not. I am not in Kolkata but even if I was in the city I would not have attended. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying.”</div><div><br></div><div>“se*ual harassment is not a joke and there is no forgiveness for it. And neither is there any redemption. The producers may think all is chill and cool but IT IS NOT. IT WILL NEVER BE. But #Shibpur is my film and I will definitely share the trailer for my followers and fans. Thank you,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>Fans react to Swastika\'s decision</div><div>Swastika\'s decision has been appreciated by many on Facebook. One of them commented, “Perfectly said! I admire u very much for this.” “No mercy for such mean people. Perfect decision,” said another one. Someone also wrote to her, “You have done a fabulous job and just as Kharajda, Neel, Ronnieda and the entire cast and a fabulous team of crew behind the cameras. Anxiously waiting to see you all on screen.”</div><div><br></div><div>Shibpur is a political thriller. It is directed by Arindam Bhattacharya and stars Parambrata Chatterjee, Rajatava Dutta, Mamata Shankar, Kharaj Mukhopadhyay and Susmita Mukherjee, apart from Swastika.</div><div><br></div><div>Swastika\'s sexual harassment case</div><div>In March, Swastika had officially lodged a complaint at Kolkata\'s Golf Green Police Station and sought help from the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA) after she said she received threatening emails from Sandeep Sarkar and his associates to ‘cooperate’ with them. Sandeep is the co-producer of Shibpur. She also added that they claimed to have her morphed, ‘nude’ pictures which they threatened to leak on pornography websites. According to Hindustan Times&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 02:41:52', '2023-06-15 02:41:52'),
(7485, 7485, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told parliament that her government has been able to set a high standard in holding elections.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“No election has been a questionable one during the tenure of our government. We’ve been able to establish a high standard in terms of elections. No controversial polls like the 15th February, 1996 election held during the BNP’s tenure has been held and will not be&nbsp; during the Awami League’s regime,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina, who is now in Geneva, said this in her written answer to a question from Awami League Kazim Uddin Ahmed (Mymensingh-11) in the House.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said all the parliamentary elections and by-elections as well as local body elections and by-elections, which were already held, have been conducted in quite neutral, free and fair manners. The Election Commission arranged these elections freely with its absolute authority, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said, \"Awami League has never come to seize power, rather has come to give back their rights to the people so that the people can choose their government.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said the people of Bangladesh achieved democracy,&nbsp; freedom of expression and voting rights under the leadership of Awami League.</div><div><br></div><div>She said whenever Bangladesh Awami League formed the government, fair, free and impartial elections were held and the Election Commission has been given all kinds of support to enable it to perform its duties independently.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"The current government has taken all the necessary measures including providing full assistance to the Election Commission in order to make the upcoming parliamentary election transparent, free, fearless, fair, neutral and acceptable to all,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that&nbsp; Awami League believes in the people\'s mandate, she said the people will decide who will run the country.&nbsp; \"It is the power of the people.&nbsp; Our government is committed to ensuring people\'s power,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said her government enacted the \'Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Appointment Act 2022\' and CEC and other election commissioners were appointed in a fully neutral way by forming a six-member search committee as per the law</div><div><br></div><div>The Election Commission is stronger, more impartial and administratively and financially independent than any time, she said</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said all government officials/organizations related to elections will come under the authority of the Election Commission during the election for a specific&nbsp; period.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The Election Commission shall act independently in line with its constitutional mandate and do everything necessary for the conduct of a fair election,\" she said, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The AL president said they are inviting local and&nbsp; foreign observers to watch the election.\"Anyone who wants to send observers can do so.&nbsp; Our government is committed to make the national election free, fair and impartial,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 03:20:22', '2023-06-15 03:20:22'),
(7486, 7486, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has unanimously adopted Bangladesh\'s flagship resolution on the Culture of Peace.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN in New York Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith introduced the resolution at the UNGA on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While introducing the resolution, Ambassador Muhith highlighted the continued relevance of culture of peace in today\'s world characterized by complex challenges and boundless opportunities, the mission said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Indeed, it is more urgent today than ever to promote a culture of peace; to prioritize dialogue and rapprochement over violence and confrontation,\" said Ambassador Muhith.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution was first adopted on September 13, 1999, during the first tenure of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then, Bangladesh has been facilitating this resolution at the assembly every year and also convening a High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace in the General Assembly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This recent High-Level Forum which was held on September 6, 2022, focused on transformative role of culture of peace to ensure justice, equality, and inclusion for advancing peacebuilding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, the resolution centered on collective efforts to address global risks and challenges with the United Nations playing a central role.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">breakingnews/ka</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 13:42:26', '2023-06-15 13:42:26'),
(7487, 7487, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A woman who was eight months pregnant died after a man shot multiple times into a car she was in while stopped at an intersection in central Seattle, authorities said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 34-year-old woman\'s baby was delivered at a hospital and but died soon after, The Seattle Times reported Wednesday, citing a probable cause statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 37-year-old man who was in the car with the woman was wounded in the arm and remained hospitalized.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motivation for the Tuesday morning shooting in the Belltown neighborhood was unclear.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man approached the car, fired at the driver\'s side with a handgun and ran away, the statement said. Video from the neighborhood showed no previous interaction with the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 30-year-old man who matched witnesses\' description was located by police soon after. Approached by officers, he raised his arms and said, “I did it, I did it,” according to police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said he told investigators he saw a firearm in the vehicle and reacted by firing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was taken into custody, and a judge found probable cause to hold him on investigation of homicide, assault and unlawful possession of a firearm, according to a spokesperson for prosecutors. He had not yet been charged as of Wednesday. 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, '2023-06-15 14:21:23', '2023-06-15 14:21:23'),
(7488, 7488, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Wednesday that the knee of Awami League (AL) has started shaking due to the US sanctions.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The knee of the Awami League has started shaking because of the sanctions by America. We can’t show faces due to shame,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul said this while addressing as the chief guest at a youth rally organised by the party to woo youths with slogans ‘young generation will cast votes, fighting for vote’ in Kazir Dewri area of the port city of Chattogram on Wednesday afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He put a question saying, who has been using the Rapid Action Battalion, used to pick up their brothers and kill?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Urging all to be united, the BNP leader said the AL can’t be trusted on the election issue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paintign a picture of a balanced state, he said all basic rights to the people will be ensured once they come to power in the future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He alleged that peoples’ voting rights along with other rights were snatched away by the ruling party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul said AL men are misappropriating people’s money in the name of development while general people are being deprived of their basic needs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expressing sympathy to Islami Andolon Bangladesh leader Mufti Faizul Karim for attacks on him, the BNP leader claimed that the total election system collapsed in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secretary General Fakhrul expressed his doubts about a slow poisoning to Chairperson Khaleda Zia and alleged that she has been kept in detention in an unjust way.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the country\'s people have been passing days in pain due to the price hike of the essential commodities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Vice Chairmen Abdullah Al Noman and Barkat Ullah Bulu and Jubo Dal President Sultan Salauddin Tuku, among others spoke among others. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 14:24:23', '2023-06-15 14:24:23'),
(7489, 7489, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously adopted Bangladesh’s flagship resolution on the ‘Culture of Peace’.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN in New York, Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, introduced the resolution at the UNGA on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While introducing the resolution, Ambassador Muhith highlighted the continued relevance of culture of peace in today\'s world, characterised by complex challenges and boundless opportunities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Indeed, it is more urgent today than ever to promote a culture of peace; to prioritize dialogue and rapprochement over violence and confrontation,\" said Ambassador Muhith</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resolution was first adopted on September 13, 1999, during the first tenure of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNGA resolution on Ukraine: Dhaka says ‘constrained to abstain’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then, Bangladesh has been facilitating this resolution at the assembly every year and also convening a high-level forum on the culture of peace in the General Assembly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last High-Level Forum, which was held on September 6, 2022, focused on the transformative role of culture of peace to ensure justice, equality, and inclusion for advancing peace-building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, the resolution centred on collective efforts to address global risks and challenges with the United Nations playing a central role. It underscored the importance of strengthening preventive diplomacy, dialogue, and healthy debates at all levels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While reaffirming the invaluable role of women in conflict prevention and resolution, it called for fully equal and meaningful participation of women in such processes. Among others, the resolution stressed the need to address the underlying drivers of violence and conflict and also to promote a culture of peace in the context of ongoing digital transformation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative stated that the resolution of the Culture of Peace has, over time, grown in relevance and evolved into a dominant theme, finding larger footprints and recognition in all major UN discourses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNGA Resolution on Ukraine: 32 countries including Bangladesh, India and China abstain</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In the rapidly changing global situation, it has proved to be a useful means to complement UN Charter obligations of maintaining peace in the world,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\'s resolution has been cosponsored by more than 100 countries, showcasing a broad-based endorsement from a diverse representation of UN member states.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh\'s continued facilitation of this resolution each year stands as a testament to the international community\'s profound confidence in Bangladesh as a steadfast advocate for global peace. 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, '2023-06-15 15:52:29', '2023-06-15 15:52:29'),
(7490, 7490, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A fishing boat crammed to the gunwales with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank Wednesday off the coast of Greece, authorities said, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this year.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coast guard, navy and merchant vessels and aircraft fanned out for a vast search-and-rescue operation set to continue overnight. It was unclear how many passengers were missing, but some initial reports suggested hundreds of people may have been aboard when the boat went down far from shore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An aerial photograph of the battered blue vessel released by the Greek coast guard showed scores of people covering practically every inch of deck.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greece’s caretaker prime minister, Ioannis Sarmas, declared three days of national mourning, “with our thoughts on all the victims of the ruthless smugglers who exploit human unhappiness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coast guard spokesman Nikos Alexiou told state ERT TV that it was impossible to accurately estimate the number of passengers. He said it appeared that the 25- to 30-meter (80- to 100-foot) vessel capsized after people abruptly moved to one side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The outer deck was full of people, and we presume that the interior (of the vessel) would also have been full,” he said. “It looks as if there was a shift among the people who were crammed on board, and it capsized.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A coast guard statement said efforts by its own ships and merchant vessels to assist the boat were repeatedly rebuffed, with people on board insisting they wanted to continue to Italy. Coast guard officials said the trawler’s engines broke down around 1:40 a.m. Wednesday, and just under an hour later, the ship started to list abruptly from side to side before capsizing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ship sank 10 to 15 minutes later, the statement said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ioannis Zafiropoulos, deputy mayor of the southern port city of Kalamata, where survivors were taken, said that his information indicated there were “more than 500 people” on board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities said 104 people were rescued after the sinking in international waters about 75 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of Greece’s southern Peloponnese peninsula. The spot is close to the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea, and depths of up to 17,000 feet (5,200 meters) could hamper any effort to locate a sunken vessel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-five survivors ranging in age from 16 to 49 were hospitalized with hypothermia or fever.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the port of Kalamata, around 70 exhausted survivors bedded down in sleeping bags and blankets provided by rescuers in a large warehouse, while paramedics set up tents outside for anyone who needed first aid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Katerina Tsata, head of a Red Cross volunteer group in Kalamata, said the migrants were also given psychological support.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They suffered a very heavy blow, both physical and mental,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescue volunteer Constantinos Vlachonikolos said nearly all the survivors were men.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They were very worn out. How could they not be?” he said. Rescuers said many of the people pulled from the water couldn’t swim and were clutching debris. The coast guard said none had life jackets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Greek coast guard said 79 bodies have been recovered so far. Survivors included 30 people from Egypt, 10 from Pakistan, 35 from Syria and two Palestinians, the agency said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Italy-bound boat was believed to have left the Tobruk area in eastern Libya — a country plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human traffickers have benefited from the instability, and made Libya one of the main departure points for people attempting to reach Europe on smuggler’s boats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The route from North Africa to Italy through the central Mediterranean is the deadliest in the world, according to the U.N. migration agency, known as IOM, which has recorded more than 21,000 deaths and disappearances there since 2014.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Smugglers use unseaworthy boats and cram as many migrants as possible inside — sometimes inside locked holds — for journeys that can take days. They head for Italy, which is directly across the Mediterranean from Libya and Tunisia, and much closer than Greece to the Western European countries that most migrants hope to eventually reach.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February, at least 94 people died when a wooden boat from Turkey sank off Cutro, in southern Italy, in the worst Mediterranean sinking so far this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Italian coast guard first alerted Greek authorities and the European Union border protection agency, Frontex, about an approaching vessel on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IOM said initial reports suggested up to 400 people were on board. A network of activists said it received a distress call from a boat in the same area whose passengers said it carried 750 people. But it wasn’t clear if that was the vessel that sank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After that first alert, Frontex aircraft and two merchant ships spotted the boat heading north at high speed, according to the Greek coast guard, and more aircraft and ships were sent to the area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But repeated calls to the vessel offering help were declined, the coast guard said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In the afternoon, a merchant vessel approached the ship and provided it with food and supplies, while the (passengers) refused any further assistance,” the coast guard said. A second merchant ship later offered more supplies and assistance, which were turned down, the agency added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, a coast guard patrol boat reached the vessel “and confirmed the presence of a large number of migrants on the deck,” the statement said. “But they refused any assistance and said they wanted to continue to Italy.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coast guard boat accompanied the migrant vessel and later headed a major rescue operation by all the ships in the area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alarm Phone, a network of activists that provides a hotline for migrants in trouble, said it was contacted by people on a boat in distress on Tuesday afternoon. That boat was in the same general area as the one that sank, but it was not clear if it was the same vessel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organization notified Greek authorities and Frontex. In one communication with Alarm Phone, migrants reported the vessel was overcrowded and that the captain had abandoned the ship on a small boat, according to the group. They asked for food and water, which were provided by a merchant ship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We fear that hundreds of people have drowned,” Alarm Phone said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwreck in living memory occurred on April 18, 2015, when an overcrowded fishing boat collided off Libya with a freighter trying to come to its rescue. Only 28 people survived. Forensic experts concluded that there were originally 1,100 people on board. 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, '2023-06-15 15:57:53', '2023-06-15 15:57:53'),
(7491, 7491, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy for sensitive groups\' 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 120 at 8:57 am, Dhaka ranked 6th 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;\">Chaina’s Sanghai, Indonesia’s Jakarta and China’s Wuhan occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 156, 156 and 134, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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, '2023-06-15 16:12:29', '2023-06-15 16:12:29'),
(7492, 7492, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nine drones were either downed of jammed in Crimea during the night, one of them detonated in the village of Dokuchayevo, breaking windows in several residential houses, Crimea\'s head, Sergey Aksyonov, said on Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"During this night and morning, nine drones were seen over Crimea\'s territory: six were downed by air defense systems and three were jammed and forced to land by electronic warfare means. One drone detonated in the village of Dokuchayevo. No one was hurt. Windows were broken in several houses,\" he wrote on his Telegram channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The village of Dokuchayevo is located some 40 kilometers from Crimea\'s capital Simferopol.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The previous mass drone attack on Crimea occurred in the night on June 4. Five droned were shot down and four more were jammed. One drone fell down in Dzhankoi, breaking windows in three private houses and one car. TASS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 16:15:46', '2023-06-15 16:15:46'),
(7493, 7493, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Debutant Afghan pacer Nijat Masood impressed with a five-wicket haul as Bangladesh were dismissed for 382 in their first innings of the Dhaka Test.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh lost their last five wickets within seven overs. In the morning session of the second day, they managed to add only 20 runs in 44 minutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nijat claimed three of the last five wickets, becoming the second Afghan bowler to achieve a five-wicket haul on debut after Amir Hamza.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yamin Ahmadzai initiated the day\'s proceedings by dismissing Mehidy Hasan Miraz, who scored 48 runs. In the subsequent over, Nijat joined the action and removed Mushfiqur Rahim for 47 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also read: Shanto’s ton helps Bangladesh to dominate in Dhaka Test</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nijat bowled a short ball to Mushfiqur, who attempted to play it along the ground but ended up offering a catch to the slip cordon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both overnight batsmen were dismissed in consecutive overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ultimately, Bangladesh\'s innings concluded at 382 in 86 overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Najmul Hossain Shanto led the charge for Bangladesh with his third Test century, well supported by Mahmudul Hasan Joy, who contributed a solid 76 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nijat shone for Afghanistan, claiming five wickets for 79 runs, while Yamin secured two wickets. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 16:46:54', '2023-06-15 16:46:54'),
(7494, 7494, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Messi mania gripped Beijing ahead of a sell-out friendly on Thursday evening between world champions Argentina and Australia in the Chinese capital.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All eyes were on Lionel Messi, arguably the greatest footballer of all time and who lifted the World Cup for Argentina in December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of Chinese fans waving Argentinian flags and wearing Messi jerseys have massed outside the team\'s luxury hotel ever since their idol touched down on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Crowds have lined heavily guarded streets hoping to catch a glimpse of the 35-year-old each time the team go for training.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man himself has kept a low profile, but that has done little to dampen enthusiasm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One daring fan recounted his tale of spending the night inside the Four Seasons hotel in a bid to get a close encounter with Messi and his teammates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I first hid in the janitor\'s closet, then went up to the team\'s floor through the fire escape staircase,\" the man, surnamed Lin, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was questioned by hotel security before being released.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another fan, Li Weihua, said that he had flown from his home city of Shenzhen in southern China, heading straight to the hotel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He does not even have a ticket for the match at the 68,000-capacity Workers\' Stadium, which was quickly sold out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I just want to feel the environment,\" said the 29-year-old, who had never been to Beijing before now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Huang Yongming, 17, from the northeastern city of Changchun, was more successful in getting a highly coveted ticket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I spent around 3,000 yuan ($419) for a ticket,\" Huang told AFP. \"I know it\'s expensive, but I thought that if I didn\'t take the opportunity, I would regret it.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A smattering of fans had already started to gather at the stadium, even with the 8:00 pm (1200 GMT) kickoff several hours away and the sun beating down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi is set to join Inter Miami after two years at Paris Saint-Germain. 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, '2023-06-15 16:52:19', '2023-06-15 16:52:19');
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(7495, 7495, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hundreds of cattle in Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet district have contracted lumpy skin disease — causing grave concern among farmers ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 300 cows infected with lumpy skin disease have died in the upazila; cattle farmers and those who rear cows at home are facing huge losses as a result.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources said, the viral disease has been noticed in most cattle farms in the upazila. Cattle farmers are particularly worried considering the Eid-ul-Azha season, as they have been rearing the animals for the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to the outbreak of the virus, no cattle market has been set up in the upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cattle farmers worry over spread of lumpy skin disease</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The viral disease is being noticed in Laxmiprashad West, Laxmiprashad East, Dighirpar East, Satbak and the municipality area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The veterinarians in the Upazila Livestock Hospital are struggling to provide medical treatment to the cattle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to owners and farmers of different cattle farms, UNB’s Sylhet correspondent learnt that lumpy skin disease had spread in the area two and a half months ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first, small lumps were seen on the cows and later the lumps were swollen. At one stage, reddish holes appeared on the cows’ skin, the farmers described.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The infected cows cannot be fed properly as their throats also swell up, they added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the infected cows die due to gradual weakening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a highly contagious virus, but the affected cattle can be cured after a few months of proper treatment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Workshop discusses measures to prevent lumpy skin disease</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Nabanita Sarkar Tonni, in-charge of Kanaighat Upazila Livestock Hospital, said most of the cattle in the locality are being infected with the virus and there is no vaccine and medicine for its treatment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The authorities concerned of the hospital have already circulated leaflets and made announcements about the outbreak of lumpy skin disease. A meeting has also been arranged in each union with farmers and farm owners over the issue, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Despite manpower shortage, we are providing treatment to the infected cattle. It takes 3-4 months for the cows to be fully cured and the farmers have been asked to have patience,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lumpy skin disease causes concern for Faridpur cattle farmers</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Nabanita also advised the farmers to keep their cows under nets, so that the virus is not spread to healthy animals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Fisheries and Livestock Ministry suggested checking mosquito breeding in farm areas and using antipyretic, antibiotic and antihistamine from registered veterinarians to control the disease. 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, '2023-06-15 17:24:51', '2023-06-15 17:24:51'),
(7496, 7496, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The morgue manager at America\'s prestigious Harvard Medical School allegedly took dead body parts from his workplace without permission and then sold them, US prosecutors said Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cedric Lodge, 55, has been charged with trafficking in stolen human remains, the US attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Some crimes defy understanding,\" said the attorney, Gerard Karam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"It is particularly egregious that so many of the victims here volunteered to allow their remains to be used to educate medical professionals and advance the interests of science and healing,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lodge has been charged alongside his wife, 63-year-old Denise Lodge, and five other alleged co-conspirators with involvement in a \"nationwide network\" of bought and sold human remains.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors say that from 2018 to 2022 Cedric Lodge \"stole organs and other parts of cadavers donated for medical research and education before their scheduled cremations.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is accused of taking the remains from the Harvard site in Boston to his home in Goffstown, New Hampshire, where he and his wife sold the remains to two of the other accused -- Katrina Maclean and Joshua Taylor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At times, Lodge \"allowed Maclean and Taylor to enter the morgue... and examine cadavers to choose what to purchase,\" the attorney\'s office said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors say Maclean, 44, of Salem, Massachusetts, and Taylor, 46, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania then resold the remains for profit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The indictment alleges that Maclean shipped human skin to Taylor to have him \"tan the skin to create leather,\" the Boston Globe reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lodge managed the morgue for Harvard\'s anatomical gifts program. He was fired from his post on May 6, the school said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are appalled to learn that something so disturbing could happen on our campus,\" George Daley, the dean of Harvard University\'s medicine faculty, and Edward Hundert, dean of medical education, said in a joint statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another co-accused allegedly stole remains from a morgue in Arkansas where she worked, including the corpses of two stillborn babies who were due to be cremated and returned to their families.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two other people charged allegedly bought and sold remains from each other, exchanging more than $100,000 in online payments. 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, '2023-06-15 17:43:43', '2023-06-15 17:43:43'),
(7497, 7497, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Howling gales and crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday hours before a powerful cyclone was due to make landfall, with those unable to flee seeking shelter where they could.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 150,000 people have fled the predicted path of Cyclone Biparjoy, whose name means \"disaster\" in Bengali, with meteorologists warning it could devastate homes and tear down power lines when it lands late Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Powerful winds and storm surges were forecast to hammer a 325-kilometre (200-mile) stretch of coast between Mandvi in India\'s Gujarat state and Karachi in Pakistan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jayantha Bhai, a 35-year-old shopkeeper in India\'s beach town of Mandvi, told AFP soon after dawn on Thursday that he was afraid for his family\'s safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is the first time I\'ve experienced a cyclone,\" Bhai said, a father of three boys aged between eight and 15, who planned to wait out the cyclone in his small concrete home behind the shop.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is nature, we can\'t fight with it,\" he said as driving rain lashed his home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\'s Meteorological Department predicted the \"very severe\" storm would hit near the Indian port of Jakhau on Thursday evening, warning of \"total destruction\" of traditional mud and straw thatched homes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At sea, winds were gusting at up to 180 kilometres per hour (112 miles per hour), with speeds predicted to reach 115-125 kph and gusts of up to 140 kph by the time it makes landfall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\'s meteorologists warned of the potential for \"widespread damage\", including the destruction of crops, \"bending or uprooting of power and communication poles\" and disruption of railways and roads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Schools turned shelters -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In India, the Gujarat state government said 75,000 people had relocated from coastal and low-lying areas to shelter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\'s climate change minister Sherry Rehman said on Wednesday 73,000 people had been moved from southeastern coastal areas and housed in 75 relief camps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is a cyclone the likes of which Pakistan has never experienced,\" she told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the areas affected are the same inundated in last year\'s catastrophic monsoon floods, which put a third of Pakistan under water, damaging two million homes and killing more than 1,700 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These are all results of climate change,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Storm surges were expected to reach 3.5 metres (11.5 feet), with flooding possible in the megacity of Karachi, home to about 20 million people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our concern is when the cyclone is over, how will we feed our children?\" said 80-year-old Wilayat Bibi, in a relief camp in the city of Badin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If our boats are gone. If our huts are also gone. We will be languishing with no resources.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Terrified\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late on Wednesday, a short distance from India\'s Jakhau port, about 200 people from the Kutch district huddled together in a single-storey health centre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many were worried about their farm animals, which they had left behind.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhal Jetheeben Ladhaji, 40, a pharmacist at the health centre, said 10 men had stayed behind to look after hundreds of cattle crucial to their village\'s livelihood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are terrified, we don\'t know what will happen next,\" Ladhaji said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are praying to God that the cyclone does not come, and that these people who are staying in the shelter can go back to their homes with smiles on their faces.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cyclones -- the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the Northwest Pacific -- are a regular and deadly menace on the coast of the northern Indian Ocean, where tens of millions of people live.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists have warned that storms are becoming more powerful as the world gets warmer with climate change.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate researcher at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, said cyclones derive their energy from warm waters, and that surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea were 1.2 to 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer than four decades ago. 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(7498, 7498, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put emphasis on international initiatives to help prepare the young generation to face the challenges of the coming world order.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“That is what we expect from international communities and organisations,” she said on Wednesday responding to a question emerging from the plenary session of the two-day ‘World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All’ in the Swiss city of Geneva.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a high-level forum for global voices to address the need for increased, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What I feel is that the international community needs to put social justice at the heart of the international development agenda like SDGs,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina thanks Prince Rahim, Aga Khan Development Network for contributions in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the PM said, her government has undertaken massive social safety net programmes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is for labourers, farmers, elderly people and students. Even the working and lactating mothers and disabled people are covered by the programmes,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She mentioned that the government is giving them allowances too.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have created social safety net in our humble way. But I think that it should be in a massive way. And ILO can take an initiative in this regard and international community should come forward to assist people to ensure that no one is left behind,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina urges Swiss businesses to boost investment in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister reiterated her call that there can be no lasting peace or sustainable development without social justice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the world is changing, the new technology is coming, and the fourth industrial revolution is in the offing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“What we want is that no one should lose job. So to create job opportunities what we need is education. Everybody must learn about digital devices and know how to use it,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this purpose, she put emphasis on giving priority in providing training on new technology.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Invest in social justice to build just and inclusive societies worldwide: PM at World of Work summit</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The people should become skilled. That is what we are doing in our country,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said that the government is giving education to them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have introduced digital laboratories and computer laboratories from the school level. Then the training and incubation centres have been set up. Young generation get their training there. We are preparing our people,” she said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 18:37:15', '2023-06-15 18:37:15'),
(7499, 7499, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A group of around prominent 200 Bangladeshi Americans have said the recent letter from six US congressmen to President Joe Biden – demanding stricter sanctions against the Bangladesh government – contains “false and misleading information.”</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The claim in the congressmen’s letter, “Since Sheikh Hasina’s rise to power, the Hindu population has been halved,” is categorically false and hides the real reasons behind the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, they said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In particular, the letter ignores the October 2001 post-national election violence unleashed on the Hindu community by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami led coalition, the Bangladeshi Americans said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The congressmen’s letter also contains “incorrect information” about the persecution of the Christian population in Bangladesh under the current government, they observed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We, the undersigned Bangladeshi Americans, request the congressmen to withdraw the false information from the letter,” they said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wrong information would not only undermine the credibility of the congressmen’s stance on minority rights in Bangladesh but also jeopardize the security and safety of the undersigned Bangladeshi Americans, according to their statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noted Bangladeshi Hindu, Christian and Buddhist leaders have already rejected the claims about the state of minority communities in Bangladesh made in the congressmen’s letter as categorically false.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also indicated that false claims hide the real culprits behind minority persecution in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad leader Rana Dasgupta said that the congressmen’s claim of Hindu population being “halved” under Sheikh Hasina’s rule is a “travesty of truth.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We understand that the US elected representatives sign many statements. But false information in congressmen’s letter to President Biden is concerning and detrimental to the Bangladeshi minority communities,” wrote the Bangladeshi Americans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We again request the congressmen to withdraw the false and misleading information from the letter for the security, safety, and wellness of the Bangladesh minority and undersigned Bangladeshi Americans who have been actively fighting for minority rights in Bangladesh for decades,” they said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The signatories are:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Dr. Nuran Nabi, Councilman, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Prof. ABM Nasir, Professor, NC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. Abu Ahmed Musa, Councilman, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. Rana Hasan Mahmud, Engineer, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">5. Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed, Professor, PA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">6. Shikrithy Barua, IT Engineer, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">7. Abul Khan, State Representative, NH</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">8. Mahbubul Alam Taiyab, Milborne City Mayor, NH</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">9. Nurul Hassan, Councilman, Milborne City, NH</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">10. Dr. Sufian A Khandakar, Scientist</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">11.Dr. Ashraf Ahmed, Scientist and Writer</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">12. Dr. Joti Prakash Dutta, Writer, FL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">13. Prof. Abu Naser Rajib, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">14. Morshed Alam, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">15. Ahad Ahmed, Engineer, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">16. Dr. Baman Das Basu, Scientist, MA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">17. Safeda Basu, Activist, MA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">18. Dr. Khondoker Mansur, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">19. Dr. Mohshin Patowari, Professor, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">20. Jamal Uddin Hossain, Cultural Personality, AL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">21. Dr. Mohshin Ali, Writer, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">22. Dastagir Jahangir, Journalist, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">23. Fahim Reza Noor, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">24. Dr. Zeenat Nabi, Scientist, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">25. Hassan Ferdous, Columnist &amp; Writer, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">26. Maj (retd) Manzur Ahmed, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">27. Dr.Pradip Kar, Scientist,NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">28. Dr. Protap Das, Physician, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">29. Kowshik Ahmed, Editor, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">30. Lovlu Ansar, Editor,NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">31. Rafayet Choudhury, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">32. Abu Taher, Activist, PA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">33. Soud Choudhury, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">34. Dr. Mizan R Miah, Professor, IL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">35. Dr. Jamil Talukdar, Professor, WI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">36. Dr.Shahadat Hossain, Professor, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">37. Dr. Hasan Mahmud, Professor, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">38. Dr. Khandakar Monsur, Scientist, MD</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">39. Dr. Syed Abu Hasnat, Teacher, MA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">40. Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan, Businessman ,GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">41. Tajul Imam, Artist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">42. Abdur Rahim Badsha, Businessman, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">43. Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Scientist</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">44. Abdul Qader Mia, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">45. Zakaria Choudhury, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">46. Bedarul Islam Babla, Commuinity leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">47.Mintu Rahman, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">48. Nadira Rahman, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">49. Arefin Babul, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">50. Dr.Shahab Siddique, Scientist, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">51. Mohammed Ali Babul, Lawyer, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">52. Mohammad Mowla, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">53. Jharna Choudhury, Theater Artist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">54. Lutfun Nahar Lata, Artist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">55. Dr. Faruk Azam, Physician, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">56. Mian Helal, Businessman, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">57. Shamsun Nahar Helen, Technologist, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">58. Iqbal Yousuf, Community Leader, MA </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">59. Atiqur Rahman, Community Leader</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">60. Rumi Kabir, Writer, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">61. Ali Ahmad Farish, Businessman, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">62. Rashed Ahmed, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">63. Sitangshu Guha, Journalist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">64. Dr. Dilip Nath, Teacher, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">65. MA Salam, Community Leader, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">66. Fakir Ilias, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">67. Mishuk Selim, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">68. Khaled Sharifuddin, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">69. Abu Sayeed Ratan, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">70. Hassan Al Abdullah, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">71. Mithun Ahmed, Cultural Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">72. Minhaj Ahmed, Cultural Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">73. Shakawat Ali, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">74. Dr. Abdul Baten, Scientist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">75. Dr. Hasan Masud, Teacher, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">76. Shahid Hasan, Artist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">77. Rathindra Nath Roy, Artist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">78. Istiaq Rupu, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">79. Gopal Sannal, Community Leader,NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">80. Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Tuku, Businessman, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">81. Dr. Nahid Banu, Scientist, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">82. Mahbub Reza Rahim, Community Leader, AZ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">83. Dr. Monowar Hossain, Scientist, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">84. Golam Faruk Bhuyan, Businessman, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">85.&nbsp; Rehan Reza,Community Leader, KS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">86. Dr. Hasan Mamun, Teacher, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">87. Zahedul Mahmud Zami, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">88. Towfik Solaiman Khan, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">89. Nazrul Alam, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">90. Saifur Rahman Osmani, Broadcaster, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">91. Dr.Golam Mostofa, Professor, PA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">92. Rabiul Karim Belal, Businessman, PA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">93. Dr. Ahsan Choudhury, Engineer, TX</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">94. Hashmot Mobin, Community Leader, TX</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">95. Shah Halim, Community Leader, TX</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">96. Maggie Halim, Community Leader, TX</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">97. Dr. Anisul Aslam, Physician, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">98. Mohammad Billah Rana, Businessman, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">99. Hadi Billah Roba, Businessman, NV</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">100. Quazi Shahraiar Rahman, Engineer, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">101. Karimul Haque Chowdhury, Businessman, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">102. Bashir Ather, Scientist, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">103. Tapan Mondol, Social Worker, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">104. Shah Alam, Community Leader, CA </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">105. Maminul Haque Bachchu, Sr. Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">106. Tasnim Salam Aslam, Engineer, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">107. Abed Mansur, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">108. Habib Ahmed Tia, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">109. Mofazzal Hussain, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">100. Mohammad Hossain Rana, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">101. Abul Hasnat Rayhan, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">102. Asaduzzaman Bachchu, Businessman, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">103.&nbsp; Dewan Zamir,Engineer, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">104. Belal Beg, columnist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">105. Nini Wahed, Journalist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">106. Dr.Farjahan Rahman Shawon, Professor,NC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">107. Dr.Khondoker Mansur, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">108. Khurshid Anowar Bablu, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">109. Hassan Al Abdullah, Writer, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">110. Syed Abu Hasnat, Professor, MA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">111. Dr.Delwar Hossain, Professor, AL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">112. Iqbal Yusuf, Director, Intl.Sustainable Development</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">113. Atiqur Rahman, Businessman, FL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">114. Hassan Jahangir, Businessman, FL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">115. Junaid Akhter,Community Leader, FL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">116. Dr. Hemayet Ullah, Professor</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">117. Dr. Mahbub Pramanik</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">118. Dr.Purobi Bosu, Writer, FL</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">119. Farhana Iliyas Tuli, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">120. Syed Mamunur Rashid, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">121. Swapnil Firoze, Poet, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">122. Liton Ahmed, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">123. Golam Mohiuddin, Musician, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">124. Nazrul Islam, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">125.Farque Ahmed, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">126. Mohin, Community Leader, FA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">127. Abul Hassan, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">128. Ahmadhur Parvez, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">129. Dr. Mohammed Nasim, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">130. Mahmud Abbas, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">131. Mohammad Akbar Khan, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">132. Reza Karim, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">133. Ali Hosen, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">134. Pintu Yusuf, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">135. Nurul Kabir Nahid, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">136. Mojammel,Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">137.Moshiur Rahman, Businessman, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">138. Russel Bhuiyan, Businessman, Ga</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">139. Arefin Pial, Teacher, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">140. Mahrufur Bhuiyan, Businessman, GA </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">141. Borhan Uddin, Community Leader, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">142. Rashedul Karim, Businessman, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">143. Bindu Hossen, Singer, GA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">144. Rezaul Bari, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">145. Abul Bashar Chunnu,Activist,NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">146. Nabendu Dutta,Professor, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">147. Siraj Ahemd Sohag, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">148. Shyamal Chakraborti, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">149. Pranobondhu Chakraborti, Engineer, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">150. Mohammad Fazlul Haque, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">151. Parimal Karmakar, Community Leader, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">152. Jhorna Chowhdury, Artist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">153. Syed Rashid Ahmed Karmani, Businessman, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">154. Ruksana Karmani, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">155. Farque Ahmed, Businessman, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">156. Dilara Ahmed, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">157. Touqid Chowdhury, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">158. Saniyet Ahmed Chowdhury, Engineer, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">159. Toujiat Chowdhury, PhD student, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">160. Alim Khan Akash, Businessman, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">161. Sabita Das, Activist, NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">162.Abul Bhashar Bhuiyan,NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">163. Shareb Ahmed,NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">164.Rontu Lal Das,NY</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">165. Harun Chowdhury, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">166. Santosh Barua, Poet, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">167. Nupur Chowdhury, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">168. Gourab Golpo, Artist, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">169. Nasrin Ahmed Munna, Artist, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">170. Dr.Monowar Hossain, Scientist, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">171. Nahid Chowdhury, Businessman, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">172. Mir Chowdhury, Community Leader, NJ</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">173. Rafiqul Islam, Businessman, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">174. Tasnim Salam Aslam ,CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">175. Mizanul Kabir, P.O., CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">176. Abul Hasnat Rayhan, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">177. Asaduzzaman Bacchu, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">178. Masud Chowdhury, Community Leader, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">179. Mohammed Hossain Rana, Businessman, CA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">180. Ruhul Amin, Businessman, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">181. Abdul Muhit Mukta, Businessman, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">182. Mohoshin Uddin Tipu, Businessman, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">183. Md. Sirajuddin Tipu, Community Leader, MI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">184. Dr.Adnan Morshed, Professor, WA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">185. Dr.Atiar Rahman, FDA statistics, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">186. Dr. Sadek Chowdhury, VS </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">187. Alauddin Ahmed, Community Leader, VA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">188. 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(7500, 7500, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Milk is regarded as a superfood for children as it is a storehouse of calcium, protein, essential vitamins and thus important for the little ones\' growing bodies and brain. However as we grow old, experts argue that the unhealthy amounts of fat in the milk can pose a risk to heart disease, cholesterol and similar chronic diseases in people. As per National Library of Medicine, a glass of milk contains 5 g saturated fats which is 20% of one\'s daily requirement. Saturated fatty acid is commonly is known to contribute to the development of cardiovascular diseases and stroke because it may raise the ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>How drinking milk can strengthen bones</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are aware that calcium is necessary for strong bones. For healthy bones, calcium, protein, and vitamin B are necessary. Calcium is abundant in milk. The issue with consuming only milk is that it also contains a variety of other substances, some of which are unhelpful to health, such as significant amounts of fat,\" says Dr. Mohammed Ismail - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Prashanth Hospitals and Former Director, Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Madras Medical College.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Why women need more calcium as they age</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women should start calcium supplements after the age of 35 and the dosage should be increased post 55 to prevent osteoporosis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The greater part of milk has calcium phosphate. We require basic minerals for bones. Every woman over the age of 35 should take a calcium supplement, and women over the age of 55 should take at least 1000 mg of calcium, according to the Indian population. It is best to start taking calcium supplements after the age of 55 because osteoporosis affects men later in life. Osteoporosis develops more slowly in western populations because they consume various calcium-rich foods and have different genetic makeups,\" says Dr Ismail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Why milk consumption is safe for children</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kids require more calcium since they are growing and milk consumption is advised for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The main difference is that 20% of people have lactose intolerance. They cannot consume lactose because they are allergic to it. And the milk we consume now is particularly high in fats. Cows used to graze on the grass back then, which resulted in milk that was rich and healthy; today, this doesn\'t happen. The quality of milk is sometimes compromised because farm animals are sometimes given supplementary nutrients in their food today to generate more milk. However, milk is advised for kids because they can handle fat at their age,\" says the expert.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Can you skip milk as a child?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experts say if the same amount of nutrients are consumed through other sources, milk isn\'t mandatory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Calcium, protein, and vitamin D are the essential components of milk. People can skip consuming milk if they can find an alternative source for these supplements. It is not like milk is mandatory; it is just the nutrients which it contains making it a rich source for consumption. But milk is one of the easiest sources of calcium and a complete food, provided it is procured from an organic source, not from a farm grown cow for producing milk which is fed with extra supplements and hormones,\" says Dr Ismail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>What kind of milk to consume after 35</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If you don\'t want to take other calcium supplements, it is best that you drink milk. If you are above the age of 35, opt for low fat milk,\" concludes Dr Ismail. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 19:21:57', '2023-06-15 19:21:57'),
(7501, 7501, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Three workers who were abducted by unidentified miscreants from Langadupara area in Rajasthali upazila on Monday were rescued on Wednesday night, said police.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The rescued workers were Sohagh, 20, Rupok, 18 and Biswajit, 22.</div><div><br></div><div>A group of workers, numbering 14, have been constructing a wall along Rajhasthali-Bangalhalia road in Langapara.&nbsp; They live at the labour shed near the road.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, the workers except the three went out from the labour shed around 8 pm. At one stage, 5-6 miscreants swooped on the labour shed and abducted them at gunpoint.</div><div><br></div><div>However, no written complaint was lodged from the contractor company.</div><div><br></div><div>After hearing the news from local people, police conducted a drive in the area on Tuesday and Wednesday and rescued them on Wednesday night, said Zakir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Rajasthali Police Station. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 21:17:37', '2023-06-15 21:17:37'),
(7502, 7502, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the government has started reshuffling police and public administration to hold another stage-managed election through vote rigging by controlling the state machinery.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a discussion, he, however, said the country’s people will thwart all the ‘blueprints’ of the government through a mass uprising in the days to come.</div><div><br></div><div>“They (AL) have started the process for holding another election as per their will by rigging votes and controlling everything. There’re reports in some newspapers about massive reshuffle and promotion in the police. They’ve also reshuffled the public administration with a motive to arrange everything as per their desire ahead of the next election,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>He recalled that many fascist regimes, including the one of HM Ershad, had done the same in the past, but eventually they had to quit power in the face of public wrath.</div><div><br></div><div>“You (AL) also had established Baksal with all such arrangements, but how many days could you stay in power? Pharaoh, Nimrod, and Ershad also tried to hang onto power but failed. When people wake up nothing can resist them,” the BNP leader observed.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Forum, a pro-BNP platform, arranged the progarmem at Dhaka Reporters, marking the ‘Black Day of Newspapers.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>On 16 June 1974, the then Awami League government shut down all the newspapers, except four ones loyal to the government. A group of journalists has long been observing the days as a ‘Black Day’ commemorating the closure of the newspapers.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said there is no alternative to intensifying the ongoing movement to oust the current government by creating a storng mass wave.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the current Awami League government has established a one-party Baksal rule under cover of democracy. “They have snatched our all rights, including the freedom of speech, writing, and the freedom of association and assembly.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the government has also been regulating media outlets through the Digital Security Act.</div><div><br></div><div>He said it is the characteristics of the Awami League is that it cannot tolerate dissent. “Our struggle has begun and it would not end in a day or two. We must continue our struggle as our opponent is so authoritative that they don’t hesitate to kill people and make them disappear using the state machinery.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the current government must be removed through a strong movement to restore democracy, press freedom, and all the lost rights by establishing a government of people.</div><div><br></div><div>He alleged that their party chief Khaleda Zia was jailed unlawfully in ‘false’ cases’ out of political vengeance to remove her from politics.</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that Khaleda has now been fighting for life at a hospital in the capital, Fakhrul said her family repeatedly submitted applications seeking permission to send her abroad for advanced treatment as per doctors’ advice but the government has not yet paid heed to it.</div><div><br></div><div>He also slammed the ruling party leaders for accusing BNP of doing politics over Khaleda’s illness. ‘We don’t have a language to condemn such a remark. “We would give a reply to it through a mass upsurge of people.” According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 22:24:28', '2023-06-15 22:24:28'),
(7503, 7503, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mumbai police have detained two persons in connection with a theft at Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty\'s home in Mumbai, an official said on Thursday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Some valuables were allegedly stolen from Shilpa Shetty\'s residence in Juhu last week, the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>Based on a complaint, a theft case was registered at Juhu police station and a probe was initiated, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The probe team has detained two persons in this connection and their interrogation is on, the official added. Source: NDTV</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 23:02:55', '2023-06-15 23:02:55'),
(7504, 7504, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader informed that&nbsp; the CNG filling stations will remain operational for 24 hours on the day of Eid-ul-Azha, three days before and after Eid-ul-Azha.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The minister said this while speaking at meeting at the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) office on Thursday noon.</div><div><br></div><div>The CNG filling stations will remain open in order to ensure smooth travels for Eid holidaymakers, he added.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 23:05:36', '2023-06-15 23:05:36'),
(7505, 7505, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Children between 6 and 59 months will be fed vitamin-A plus capsules at all government health centres and other designated places across the country from 8 am to 4 pm on June 18, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A target has been set to feed red and blue coloured vitamin A capsules to 25 lakh children aged 6-11 months, 1.95 crore children aged 12-59 months and 2.20 crore children aged 12-59 months, he said at a press briefing on the occasion of vitamin-A plus campaign at a city hotel in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>To achieve this target, a total of 40,000 health workers will work at 1,20,000 centers, he said</div><div><br></div><div>The children should be brought to the centre in full stomach and also the capsules should not be given to children below 6 months and above 5 years of age and those who are sick, the minister also said, according to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Health Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-15 23:08:14', '2023-06-15 23:08:14'),
(7506, 7506, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Survivors from a fishing boat that sank off southern Greece in one of Europe\'s worst migrant disasters say up to 100 children may have been on board.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>At least 78 people have already been confirmed dead in the disaster.</div><div><br></div><div>But scores more could still be missing at sea, with reports suggesting that up to 750 people were aboard the vessel.</div><div><br></div><div>The country\'s coastguard has been criticised for not intervening earlier but authorities say their offers of aid were refused.</div><div><br></div><div>Rescuers are still scouring the seas off Greece in a massive search operation, as hopes of finding more survivors dwindle.</div><div><br></div><div>Shocking accounts of a large number of women and children travelling in the hold of the ship have come via medics who treated the mostly male survivors.</div><div><br></div><div>The senior doctor at Kalamata General Hospital who treated survivors of Wednesday\'s shipwreck has told the BBC as many as 100 children were on the vessel.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Manolis Makaris, head of cardiology, said: \"They (the survivors) told us that there were children in the bottom of the ship. Children and women.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He said two patients had given him estimated figures.</div><div>\"One told me about 100 children, the other about 50, so I don\'t know the truth - but it is many,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He and his team have been using mobile phones to communicate with those who had been brought to safety.</div><div><br></div><div>The doctor said the 30 patients he treated would all survive, having been treated for hyperthermia, pneumonia and dehydration.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Makaris said he believed as many as 600 people could have died in the disaster.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The exact number of all the people who were on the boat was 750. This is the exact number that everyone told me about this,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Makaris said families of some Egyptian children who were missing had sent him photographs of their young relatives, in the hope he would recognise them after treating them.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It was a tragedy,\" he said. \"Everyone in Europe must not accept this situation. We have to do something. Everyone has to do something so it doesn\'t happen again.\"</div><div><br></div><div>A reporter from Greece\'s ANT1 channel asked a survivor if there were 100 children on board, to which the survivor replied: \"Yes.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The charity Save the Children, citing testimonies from survivors, also gave the same number. The BBC has not been able to independently verify this figure.</div><div><br></div><div>But Greek government spokesman Ilias Siakantaris said there were unconfirmed reports that up to 750 people in total were on the boat.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We do not know what was in the hold... but we know that several smugglers lock people up to maintain control,\" he told public broadcaster ERT.</div><div>Families of some of the missing have arrived in Kalamata in search of their loved ones.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My relatives were on the boat,\" said Aftab, who had travelled from the UK and said at least four of his relatives from Pakistan were unaccounted for.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'ve had confirmation. We found one of the relatives in [the rescue centre]. But the others we haven\'t got hold of yet,\" he told the BBC.</div><div><br></div><div>A Syrian man from the Netherlands broke down as he revealed his wife and brother-in-law were missing.</div><div><br></div><div>Activist Nawal Soufi was the first to raise the alarm after being contacted by people on the boat on Tuesday morning. She also believes around 750 people were on board.</div><div><br></div><div>The boat went down about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Pylos after 02:04 on Wednesday morning local time, according to the Greek coastguard.</div><div><br></div><div>A timeline provided by the coastguard said that initial contact was made with the fishing boat at 14:00 (11:00 GMT) the previous day, and no request for help had been made.</div><div><br></div><div>It said the Greek shipping ministry had made repeated contact with the boat and was told it simply wanted to sail on to Italy. A Maltese-flagged ship provided food and water at around 18:00, and another boat provided water three hours after that, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Then at around 01:40 on Wednesday, someone on the boat is said to have notified the Greek coastguard that the vessel\'s engine had malfunctioned.</div><div><br></div><div>Shortly afterwards, the boat capsized, taking only 10 to 15 minutes to sink completely. A search and rescue operation was triggered but complicated by strong winds.</div><div><br></div><div>A coastguard spokesman told ERT that the boat\'s engine broke down in the early hours of Wednesday, then people on board started to move around causing it to capsize. He said everyone rescued was male, according to media reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-16 03:26:30', '2023-06-16 03:26:30'),
(7507, 7507, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh beat host Cambodia by 1-0 goal in the FIFA Tier-1 Int\'l friendly match held today (Thursday) in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>In the proceeding, Mojibur Rahman Jony scored the decisive goal for Bangladesh in the 24th minute and winning side maintained the lead till the final whistle.</div><div><br></div><div>Although Bangladesh took lead in the first half, but Cambodia were ahead in ball possession creating pressure on Bangladesh early in the match.</div><div><br></div><div>Cambodia won a free kick and two corners in the first three minutes. The hosts narrowly deprived from a goal in the second corner.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh however staged a brilliant fight back when Mojibur Rahman Jony scored for Bangladesh in the 24th minute. After receiving a long cross at the D box, he sent the ball home with a perfect finishing giving no chance to Cambodian custodian under the bar.</div><div><br></div><div>Cambodia has also made several planned attacks. Bangladesh goalkeeper Anisur Rahman Zico foiled an attempt from a long-range shot in the 38th minute.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh national football team will depart Cambodia tomorrow (Friday) for Bengaluru to take part in the SAFF Championship scheduled to be held from June 21 to July 4. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-16 03:28:34', '2023-06-16 03:28:34'),
(7508, 7508, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said Bangladesh now holds an economically dignified position in the world as democracy and stability have been persisting in the country since 2009.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said this while speaking at an event on ‘New Economy and Society in Smart Bangladesh’ organised by the World Economic Forum at its office here.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister\'s speech writer M Nazrul Islam briefed the reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said that during the Awami League government, the country has achieved unprecedented success in various socio-economic indicators.</div><div><br></div><div>In this context, she said that during the Awami League government, the country has been promoted from LDC to a developing country while in 2015 it has been put in the lower middle income country group.</div><div><br></div><div>She also mentioned that the per capita income has increased to $2,824, which was $543 only in 2006, the poverty rate has decreased from about 41.5 percent to about 18.7 percent and the extreme poverty rate has decreased from 25.5 percent to 5.6 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said that after the killing of the father of the nation and his family members in 1975, the killers who illegally came to state power have not done anything for the development of the country’s people.</div><div><br></div><div>Pointing out that the development of the country is not possible without democracy, the Prime Minister said that she returned to the country in 1981 and worked to restore the country\'s democracy through a long struggle.</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that her government has provided houses to 50 lakh homeless and landless people, Sheikh Hasina said that not a single person will remain homeless and landless in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister mentioned that the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war and subsequent sanctions and counter-sanctions have put pressure on the economy of Bangladesh, like the rest of the world, due to the increase in global food products and fuel prices.</div><div><br></div><div>However, Sheikh Hasina said that her government has been trying to overcome this pressure.</div><div><br></div><div>Pointing out that there is a need to have a vision to build the future of a nation, Sheikh Hasina said that before the 2008 elections, the Awami League announced the Vision 2021 and that vision has already been implemented, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that the government has announced the Vision 2041 to make Bangladesh a developed, prosperous and smart Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina also said that the government has been working to implement that goal.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-16 03:51:44', '2023-06-16 03:51:44'),
(7509, 7509, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has categorically said the next general election in Bangladesh will be held in time and the democratic process will be continued.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“People are the sole owners of their votes, they will cast their votes whoever they like. Whoever gets the verdict from the people will form the government,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said this while addressing at a civic reception accorded to her at Hilton Hotel here on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is due to go to polls either in December this year or in next January at the end of the five-year term of the current Awami League government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country’s main opposition BNP has vowed to boycott the vote saying it will be rigged in favour of the incumbent, an allegation denied by the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition party instead demands that Hasina’s government resigns to pave the way for a neutral administration to hold the polls. The government rejects it as unconstitutional.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina said that as BNP knew it very well that they would not get any vote from people for their evil deeds, they are now looking for ways to back out from the election process.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Generally they are the party of thieves and vote rigging, and it is not possible for them to come to power without vote dacoity,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She mentioned that in the past they grabbed state power accepting external pressure to sell the resources of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“So people do not want them anymore and for that reason they do not get votes from the people, so they are searching for holes to backtrack from the election,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding BNP’s repeated threat to topple the government, Hasina, who is also the chief of the ruling Awami League, said that her government is not that much weak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There was a commotion regarding December 10 that they will oust the government (on that day). But we can’t be toppled as we have people with us, our power is our people,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about the demand of BNP to form a caretaker government during the election period, she said a totally independent election commission has been established.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“BNP is still raising their demand for the caretaker government,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Has BNP now become insane or a child?” Hasina asked referring to what BNP leader Khaleda Zia once said as the country’s prime minister in response to then opposition Awami League’s demand for a caretaker government to hold election in the 1990s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“By bringing those thieves to power, by bringing the anti-independence force to power, by bringing murderers, we will not allow Next general election to be held in time: PM Hasina tells Geneva reception</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh to bow down to others,” she asserted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said that to cover up their own weakness BNP now spreading various types of propaganda and making dirty tricks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Will those who killed people in broad daylight, looted public money, committed corruption and were convicted in corruption cases, now go to power? The main thing whether they will go to elections by selecting that convicted person as their leader,” she said in obvious reference to BNP vice-chairman Tareq Zia, now living in London.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the sacrifices of Awami League leaders and activists for the establishment of democracy, the prime minister said, \'The democratic trend that has been established in Bangladesh today is the result of our movement. My party leaders and workers have given their lives for this. And I narrowly survived a grenade attack.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Highlighting the benefits of the continuation of democracy Hasina said, \"The country has changed because the democratic trend has been unhindered, today the country has developed, today Bangladesh has occupied a dignified seat in the world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reiterating her determination to build a smart Bangladesh, Hasina said that the country will move forward with the status it has got today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We will build the hunger-poverty-free, advanced and prosperous smart golden Bangla of the father of the nation by 2041.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Appreciating the role of expatriates in any crisis in Bangladesh, the pime minister said that remittances sent by expatriates play a huge role in the country\'s economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She urged the expatriates to send money through the legal channels instead of through hundi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He advised those interested in going abroad to be aware and careful about brokers. At the same time, Hasina urged then to register and go abroad in a legal way. 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, '2023-06-16 17:37:56', '2023-06-16 17:37:56'),
(7510, 7510, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 5.0 magnitude earthquake was felt in Dhaka and other districts, across the country around 10:46am on Friday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The epicentre of the earthquake was located around 23 km southeast of Sylhet, at a depth of 10 km, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People took to social media to report the jolt all across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No damage was reported at the time of filing this report. 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, '2023-06-16 19:11:46', '2023-06-16 19:11:46'),
(7511, 7511, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has asked Bangladesh to reduce the&nbsp; subsidies on fisheries.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It came from Dr Okonjo Iwela, director general of WTO, on Thursday when she called on visiting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the meeting room of Hotel President here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen briefed the reporters about the outcome of the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He quoted the WTO DG as saying that her organization would like to sign an agreement with Bangladesh in this regard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We said we will consider this (the issue of subsidy),\" said Momen adding that Bangladesh does not give heavy subsidies on fisheries though.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WTO chief mentioned about the dispute settlement body of the organisation which has remained inactive for a couple of years due to some big countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Iwela requested the prime minister to raise the issue when she goes to the G-20 meeting to be held in next September in New Delhi and other international forums, according to Momen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is the main strength of the WTO,” she was quoted as telling the prime minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WTO DG asked Bangladesh to diversify its expert basket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this connection she wanted Bangladesh to put emphasis on pharmaceuticals and IT sector reducing dependency on RMG export, the key foreign exchange earner of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding fishing in deep sea PM Hasina said that Bangladesh lacks in capabilities in this sector.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She put emphasis on learning from the experience from Japan, Thailand and the Maldives in deep sea fishing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said that she has already talked with the Maldives and Japan in this regard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Qatar’s Labour Minister Dr Ali Bin Samik Al Marri called the prime minister at the same venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there are some 3.70 lakh Bangladeshis working in his country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that they are satisfied with the performance of the Bangladeshi workers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Qatar has expressed their interest to take more manpower from Bangladesh. They will ink an agreement for this purpose,” Momen said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-16 19:15:06', '2023-06-16 19:15:06'),
(7512, 7512, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The US Senate approved Nusrat Choudhury as a federal judge on Thursday, making her the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi-American to serve on the federal bench.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Choudhury, the legal director of the ACLU of Illinois, was confirmed as the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on a 50-49 vote, reports CNN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Joe Biden nominated the civil rights attorney as one of seven federal judge candidates in January 2022. Biden appointed Zahid Quraishi as a district judge for New Jersey earlier in 2021, making him the first Muslim American federal judge in US history.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Choudhury, as the legal director of ACLU, has fought for police reform and litigated against discriminatory methods, said the report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the ACLU, among the problems she has taken on include the New York Police Department\'s post-9/11 monitoring techniques, which have been denounced as discriminating towards Muslim Americans, and the Milwaukee Police Department\'s stop-and-frisk program.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Nusrat Choudhury is a trailblazing civil rights lawyer with a remarkable record of advancing equal justice for all in our nation,” Anthony Romero, ACLU’s executive director, said in a statement. “The confirmation is an exclamation point on her long track record of protecting civil liberties and civil rights.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat, voted against her confirmation because he believed some of her earlier statements made her prejudiced against police enforcement, the report also said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“As a staunch supporter of our men and women in uniform, I opposed Ms Choudhury’s nomination,” Manchin said in a statement. 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, '2023-06-16 19:57:24', '2023-06-16 19:57:24'),
(7513, 7513, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Due to the active monsoon, eight divisions, including Dhaka, might experience light to moderate rain or thundershowers in 24 hours, starting at 9:00 am on Friday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind are likely to occur at most places over Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions; at many places over Rangpur, Dhaka and Barishal divisions; at one or two places over Khulna and Rajshahi division, with heavy to very heavy falls at places over the country except Rajshahi and Khulna divisions,” said a regular bulletin of the Met Office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a mild to moderate heatwave is sweeping over Rajshahi divisions and the districts of Rangpur, Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Jashore, Chuadanga and Kushtia and it may abate from some places.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the bulletin, day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over Rajshahi, Dhaka and Khulna divisions and may fall slightly elsewhere in the country. Night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate over north Bay.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The highest temperature on Thursday was recorded at 40.5 degree Celsius in Rajshahi. The lowest temperature on Friday was recorded at 21.8 degree Celsius in Kishoreganj’s Nikli.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the highest 135mm rainfall was recorded in Sylhet in the past 24 hours. 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, '2023-06-16 20:39:47', '2023-06-16 20:39:47'),
(7516, 7516, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday left Geneva for home, wrapping up her three-day official visit to Switzerland.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage departed Geneva International Airport at 11:50am local time (3:50pm Bangladesh time).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The flight is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 01.30am on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM went to Geneva on June 13 to attend the \"World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All\" held on June 14 and 15 in the Swiss city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She addressed the plenary session of \'World of Work Summit 2023\' at Palais de Nations on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ILO\'s summit is a high-level forum for global voices to address the need for increased, coordinated and coherent action in support of social justice.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The summit&nbsp; brought together over a dozen heads of state and government, high-level representatives from the United Nations, other international organizations, and employers’ and workers’ organizations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina also had two separate meetings with President of South Africa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa and President of Malta Dr George Vella.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, she held meetings separately with UNHCR chief Flippo Grandi, Prince Rahim Aga Khan, President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset and Director General of International Labour Organisation (ILO) Gilbert F. Houngbo there on the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the meeting with Swiss President Berset, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Knowledge and Skills enhancement between Bangladesh and Switzerland was signed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, the PM attended a dinner with high level dignitaries hosted by the ILO Director General at its headquarters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read:PM leaves London for home, ending 15-day foreign visit</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 15, she joined “A talk at the WEF”, followed by a meeting with WEF founder Prof Klaus Schwab at WEF Office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also addressed an event on “New Economy and Society in Smart Bangladesh” organised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, Qatar Minister of Labour Dr Ali Bin Samik Al Marri and WTO Director General Dr Okonjo-Iweala separately met her at her place of residence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina also attended a civic reception in the evening. 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, '2023-06-16 22:26:33', '2023-06-16 22:26:33'),
(7517, 7517, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Left-handed top-order batter Najmul Hossain Shanto displayed exceptional batting prowess by scoring a century in each innings of the Dhaka Test against Afghanistan on Friday.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His outstanding performance has helped Bangladesh offer a tough challenge for the tourists.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shanto scored 146 in the first innings and followed it up with a score of 124 in the second innings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This remarkable feat makes him the second Bangladeshi batter to achieve the milestone of scoring centuries in both innings of a Test match, with Mominul Haque being the first to do so against Sri Lanka in 2018.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the conclusion of the 65th over of Bangladesh\'s second innings, the hosts had built a substantial lead of 592 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first innings, Bangladesh posted a total of 382 runs, with Afghanistan\'s Nijat Masood making an impressive debut by claiming a five-wicket haul.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response, Afghanistan struggled and were dismissed for a mere 146 runs, with Ebadot Hossain taking four wickets. Bangladesh gained a first-innings advantage of 234 runs, solidifying their dominant position in the match from an early stage. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kg</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-16 22:52:29', '2023-06-16 22:52:29'),
(7518, 7518, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) spokesperson Commanded Khandaker Al Moin today said the elite crime busting agency is working to arrest the killers of journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim, who was brutally killed in Bakshiganj, Jamalpur.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"RAB initiated shadow probe right after the incident and has been conducting raids to nab the killers of Nadim. No matter, how powerful the killers are, they will be brought to book soon,\" the RAB Legal and Media Wing Director said at a press briefing held at its Karwanbazar media center this noon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terming the killing of the journalist a very sad incident, the RAB spokesperson said RAB-14 is working to arrest the people behind the incident, which has created sensation in the country</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nadim, Jamalpur correspondent of online news portal banglanews24.com, was attacked on the night of June 14 in Bakshiganj and was brutally beaten by unidentified assailants. He died of his injuries on June 15 at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nadim\'s family alleged that he was receiving threats from Mahamudul Alam Babu, chairman of Sadhur Para union parishad in Bakshiganj, for publishing reports of Babu\'s corruption. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-06-16 23:00:33', '2023-06-16 23:00:33'),
(7519, 7519, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) fined 10 people of three companies in capital\'s Wari area Taka 9 lakh for storing and selling adulterated engine oil and grease.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Acting on tip-off, a mobile court of RAB-3 and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution conducted the operation in three separate areas in Wari on June 15. The operation started at 10am and continued till 3.30pm,\" RAB-3 senior assistant superintendant of police (media) Farjana Haque told BSS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the three companies, six people from SK Traders were fined Taka one lakh each. Two employees of Mousumi Traders were fined Taka fifty thousand each and two others from SK Trading Corporation were fined Taka one lakh each.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAB sources said the convicted people in primary interrogation, confessed their crimes, saying they were doing this business for long. 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, '2023-06-16 23:29:38', '2023-06-16 23:29:38');
