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(9552, 9552, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Exceptional performances in all three departments helped Bangladesh to a win over Afghanistan in their opening ICC Men\'s Cricket World Cup 2023 encounter in Dharamsala.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>An inspired performance with the ball saw Bangladesh bowl out Afghnistan for just 156 and that total was never going to be enough as Shakib Al Hasan\'s side cruised to victory in the 35th over.</div><div><br></div><div>After being rattled early on in their innings, Bangladesh managed to gain ascendancy in their contest against Afghanistan in Dharamsala.</div><div><br></div><div>They were assisted by some errors made by Afghanistan fielders.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Bangladesh bowlers showed top form against Afghanistan and bowled out their Asian rivals for 156. Shakib Al Hasan (3/30), Mehidy Hasan Miraz (3/25), and Shoriful Islam (2/34) starred with the ball.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz top-scored for Afghanistan with 47, but he received little support from his teammates. - ICC cricket&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 11:27:54', '2023-10-07 11:27:54'),
(9553, 9553, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">South Africa posted the highest World Cup total on Saturday when they scored 428-5 against Sri Lanka on a record-setting day in New Delhi.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The Proteas bettered the previous World Cup best of 417 made by Australia against Afghanistan at Perth in 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>Aiden Markram (106) also made history by smashing the fastest World Cup century, reaching the milestone in just 49 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>Rassie van der Dussen (108) and Quinton de Kock (100) also hit centuries in the first World Cup match to feature three tons in the same innings. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 13:22:28', '2023-10-07 13:22:28'),
(9554, 9554, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least 198 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said, after Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets into Israel which responded with air strikes, according to AFP reports.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The ministry said up until 4:20 pm (1320 GMT) there were \"198 martyrs and 1,610 wounded with different injuries\" in the conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 15:11:20', '2023-10-07 15:11:20'),
(9555, 9555, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Celebrating the soulful happiness that art offers to humanity, the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka hosted the works of renowned Bangladeshi artists in the unique group exhibition \'Smiles Around the World: An Artistic Celebration\' on Saturday at the Turkish Residence, Baridhara Diplomatic Zone in the capital.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Eight prominent Bangladeshi artists participated in this exclusive exhibition, which will showcase three unique works made in different mediums by each of the eight artists: Abdus Shaqoor Shah, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Mohammad Iqbal, Anisuzzaman Anis, Anukul Majumder, Bishwajit Goswami, Azmeer Hossain, and Sourav Chowdhury.</div><div><br></div><div>In total, the exhibition showcased 24 artworks of these esteemed artists.</div><div><br></div><div>Hosted by Turkish Ambassador to Dhaka Ramis Şen, the day-long exhibition was joined by art admirers and dignitaries from home and abroad. Cosmos Foundation Director Dilshad Rahman joined the event as the special guest.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish Embassy, Gallery Cosmos host \'Smiles Around the World: An Artistic Celebration\'</div><div><br></div><div>Lauding the initiative, Turkish Ambassador to Dhaka Ramis Şen said, \"I wish to welcome you all to the art exhibition \"Smiles Around the World: An Artistic celebration\" organized by Gallery Cosmos. It is a pleasure for us to host this exhibition and welcome you all to our Embassy\'s residence, and I would like to thank Mr Masud Khan, Deputy Managing Director of Cosmos Group as well as Ms Dilshad Rahman, Director of Cosmos Foundation, for their kind offer of cooperation.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Getting inspiration from today\'s exhibition, we look forward to continuing our cooperation with Gallery Cosmos in the future with different projects,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Emphasizing on the diplomatic relationship between the two nations, the Turkish Ambassador said, \"This year, on 29th of October, in our national day, we will celebrate the centennial of the Republic of Türkiye. Furthermore, next year in February, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Bangladesh. I look forward to celebrating these important anniversaries in Bangladesh.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish Embassy, Gallery Cosmos host \'Smiles Around the World: An Artistic Celebration\'</div><div><br></div><div>Cosmos Foundation Director Dilshad Rahman said, \"I would like to thank His Excellency for hosting this wonderful art event titled \"Smiles Around the World: An Artistic celebration.\" This is the second collaboration of the Turkish Embassy with Gallery Cosmos, where eight distinguished artists are participating.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh and Türkiye enjoy a very strengthened relationship and Türkiye is our timeless friend. About our Gallery Cosmos, it is very different from the other galleries in terms of art activities. In our art space, we organize art talks, workshops, art residences, art grants and more,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I hope in the near future, we will have an exchange programme with the Turkish art schools. I would like to thank his excellency for his support and all of our artists who are participating in the exhibition, as well as the audiences,\" Dilshad Rahman said at the event.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish Embassy, Gallery Cosmos host \'Smiles Around the World: An Artistic Celebration\'</div><div><br></div><div>Gallery Cosmos Artistic Director Sourav Chowdhury and artist-educator and Dhaka University Faculty of Fine Art Assistant Professor Bishwajit Goswami shared their remarks at the event, on behalf of the participating artists.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year, the Turkish Embassy and Gallery Cosmos jointly organized an exceptional art exhibition to honor the influential roles that women of Bangladesh have been tirelessly playing throughout the years, in partnership with the Bangladesh-Turkey Business Platform.</div><div><br></div><div>Over the last decade, Gallery Cosmos has committed itself to providing a platform for many creative mediums and minds. To that end, the gallery has worked diligently to establish a state-of-the-art facility that is unparalleled in Bangladesh. Along with efforts like \'Smiles Around the World,\' the goal of Gallery Cosmos is to break new ground by taking art out of the gallery and sharing the artistic joy among the art admirers. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 15:15:58', '2023-10-07 15:15:58'),
(9556, 9556, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh Meteorology Department (BMD) today forecasted light to moderate rain or thundershowers along with temporary gusty wind in all eight divisions of the country in the next 24 hours commencing 9am today.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions; at a few places over Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions with moderately heavy to very heavy falls at places over Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 9am tomorrow,\" it said.</div><div><br></div><div>Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate over North Bay, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the bulletin predicted that the day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Country\'s maximum temperature on Friday was recorded 33.0 degrees Celsius at Patuakhali, while today\'s minimum temperature was 23.0 degrees Celsius at Nikli.</div><div><br></div><div>The highest rainfall in the last 24 hours till 6am today was recorded 358 mm at Sylhet.</div><div><br></div><div>The sun sets at 5:40 pm today and rises at 5:53 am tomorrow in the capital. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 15:20:59', '2023-10-07 15:20:59'),
(9557, 9557, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday reiterated that the elections will be held as per the constitution of the country.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He would like his counterpart in the opposition BNP, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, to explain how an election lacking the requisite constitutional provisions could be held in a country.</div><div><br></div><div>“The elections will be held on time as per the constitutional provisions of the country. An identified section is obsessed with the dream of coming to power through unconstitutional means. He does not care about the sacred constitution and laws of his country. I want to ask BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in what way will the election be held without the provisions of the constitution?” the AL leader asked.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader in a statement, condemned the statement of Mirza Fakhrul as “distorted by reality”.</div><div><br></div><div>In the statement, Quader said AL under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina, respects the constitution and law of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>“Is there a snap election guaranteeing you\'re in power? An election to seize power by any means by selling the country\'s self to the benefactors? The people of Bengal will never allow it to happen again. BNP always indulges in the politics of cheating the people by taking away the voting rights of the people to grab state power in a different way,” said Quader.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Awami League implements the promises it makes to the people. That is why the people have repeatedly voted for AL and given the responsibility of running the state. The main goal and objective of Awami League\'s politics is the welfare of the people and the creation of a developed and prosperous peace and welfare state for the next generation,” he also said.</div><div><br></div><div>In the statement, Quader also said, “The corrupt leadership and the failed political party BNP do not accept the strong movement. Their so-called continuous movement, a strong movement, a one-point movement!”</div><div><br></div><div>“Even after everything has failed, they are desperate and desperate to seize power. That is why BNP leaders are constantly making baseless statements without realizing the political reality. As their capacity in political movements and struggles declines, they are trying to mislead the people through lies and propaganda,” added the minister, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“The entire BNP team, except Khaleda Zia, who has been convicted for corruption, is spreading venom against the government in the field of politics and holding meetings freely across the country. Tarique Rahman, the fugitive convict of August 21, is continuously carrying out anti-national conspiracies and propaganda sitting abroad. We want to clearly say that strict legal action will be taken against them if they try to create anarchy and terror without believing in democratic spirit and values,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“BNP is trying to use Khaleda Zia\'s physical illness as a political tool as they do not have minimum respect for their leader. We urge the BNP leaders to refrain from creating physical and mental pressure on Khaleda Zia by playing politics over her illness,” told the AL leader.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 16:17:07', '2023-10-07 16:17:07'),
(9558, 9558, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russia allowed a return to seaborne exports of diesel just weeks after imposing a ban that roiled global markets, taking other steps instead to keep sufficient fuel supplies at home.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Shipments can resume provided that the fuel is delivered to the nation\'s ports by pipeline, according to a statement on the government\'s Telegram account. Such flows to Russia\'s western ports account for the bulk of exported volumes.</div><div><br></div><div>The move will be a relief to importers after Russia, the single largest seaborne exporter of diesel-type fuels, slapped a near-total ban on deliveries Sept. 21. That followed a surge in domestic fuel costs that stoked inflation — a potential political problem for the Kremlin ahead of March presidential elections.</div><div><br></div><div>The ban drove up European prices in an already tight market. Refiners around the world are struggling to produce enough of the fuel after Russia and Saudi Arabia cut supply of crudes rich in diesel, causing inventories to dwindle.</div><div><br></div><div>The updated regulations are set to free up about 90% of pre-ban seaborne volumes for export, or some 630,000 barrels a day, according to estimates from Viktor Katona, head crude analyst at market intelligence firm Kpler.</div><div><br></div><div>Yet the new rules stipulate that producers must keep at least 50% of their diesel output at home. Taking major exporter Surgutneftegas PJSC as an example, the company would need to hold on to around 55,000 barrels of the daily volumes it used to sell abroad, Katona said.</div><div><br></div><div>Transneft PJSC, Russia\'s crude and product pipeline operator, will begin loadings of diesel for seaborne exports in line with new regulations after receiving the necessary documentation from the government, the energy ministry and upon the readiness of oil producers, said Igor Dyomin, spokesman at Russia\'s crude and product pipeline operator.</div><div><br></div><div>Usually, in order to load diesel to foreign markets, Transneft requires an export plan approved by Russia\'s energy ministry and shipment orders from oil producers. The operator was loading minor diesel cargoes that were exempted from the ban as they were cleared by customs.</div><div><br></div><div>Muted Reaction</div><div>Key metrics for diesel traders extended declines. The fuel\'s premium over crude oil fell as low as about $23.50 a barrel before recovering, according to ICE Futures Europe data.</div><div><br></div><div>Its so-called prompt timespread slumped by $3.75 to reach $17.75 a ton, ICE\'s data show. The spread, currently the gap between November and October futures, provides clues on how urgently traders want supply, and how tight they perceive the market to be. The lifting of the ban had been signposted earlier this week, causing the market to weaken. Some observers had already expressed skepticism about how long the restriction would be in maintained for.</div><div><br></div><div>Exporters that don\'t produce their own diesel but ship volumes purchased on the domestic market will now have to pay a prohibitively high export duty, according to the statement. That\'s set at 50,000 rubles (almost $500) a ton, close to the current price of Russian inter-seasonal diesel on the nation\'s SPIMEX commodity exchange.</div><div><br></div><div>The government is also restoring in full its subsidies to refiners to ensure domestic fuel demand is met and refineries get compensation for the difference between prices at home and abroad.</div><div><br></div><div>It had halved the multibillion-ruble payouts last month to rein in budgetary spending burdened by the rising cost of the war in Ukraine. But the move was criticized by President Vladimir Putin, who said the cut aggravated the situation on the domestic fuel market. Source: Bloomberg</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 16:32:01', '2023-10-07 16:32:01'),
(9559, 9559, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent ‘unguarded’ statements manifested that she is the most apprehensive about the US visa policy for Bangladesh.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a teachers\' convention, he also said their party would do whatever is necessary to remove the current Awami League government from power.</div><div><br></div><div>“Everyone is now scared of the (US) visa policy. Those who have committed corruption and indulged in injustice and extrajudicial killings, judges who conducted trials in a partisan manner and businessmen who were involved in theft and corruption are now terrified,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We can see the most fear on the face of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina. The way she’s speaking seems like a wrong-headed person—described by Justice ATM Afzal in his verdict-- has become more wrong-headed...what’s called crazy.”</div><div><br></div><div>Shikshak Karmachari Oikya Jote arranged the programme at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, marking World Teacher\'s Day. Over 1,000 teachers and employees from all over the country participated in the convention.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul came down hard on the prime minister for her comment that Khaleda Zia does not have time and there is no point in crying for her since she is close to 80 years old.</div><div><br></div><div>“We would like to say, your (PM’s) time is up politically. You please quit with dignity. Otherwise, people will pull you out of power,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the PM’s remark as to why the Western countries are bothered about Bangladesh’s election, Fakhrul said the US and European countries are talking about a credible election as they believe in democracy. “The Biden administration has clearly said they want to work with the countries where the democratic system is functional.”</div><div><br></div><div>“The prime minister in her press conference said she doesn’t understand why there are too much talks about the election when her government has been holding free, fair and good elections. Even, horses laugh hearing such remarks. It’s astonishing that a prime minister, no matter how she has been in power for 15 years, never thinks her comments will make people laugh,” he observed.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader called upon people from all walks of life, including the teachers, to join their ongoing one-point demand that includes the resignation of the current regime and holding the next polls under a non-party neutral government.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said it won\'t be possible to remove the Awami League government from power by depending on the US sanctions and visa policy. “No one else will do it (oust the government). We have to do it. We have to do everything necessary to save the country from the grasp of the terrible monstrous regime. Inshallah m, we\'ll win.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said Bangladesh is going through a political crisis as an undemocratic, fascist and looter regime has long been ruling the country unlawfully and unconstitutionally. “The situation has reached such a level that people no longer can tolerate this regime amid unusual hikes of prices of essentials and political and social disorder.”</div><div><br></div><div>He alleged that the government has destroyed the education sector and academic atmosphere in the educational institutions. “Teachers are being appointed based on bribe and political affiliation instead of considering their competence.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader alleged that VCs of the public universities are now indulging in corruption.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government, which has no accountability to the people, has changed the state structure, destroying good governance and democracy, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“People apply their power by casting their votes on a single day to elect their representatives. The government has also destroyed this scope by snatching the common people’s right to franchise,” Fakhrul said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-07 16:46:02', '2023-10-07 16:46:02'),
(9560, 9560, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israel\'s military has warned that Hamas militants from Gaza are still fighting inside Israel after they infiltrated southern communities and left a reported 250 people dead.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis they are going into a \"long and difficult war\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of gunmen burst into southern Israel, killing soldiers and civilians, and taking into Gaza what the army said was a \"significant number\" of hostages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel has responded with air strikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 200 people were killed, according to Palestinian health officials, and Gazans received Israeli text messages overnight telling them to leave their homes and move to city centres or take refuge in shelters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli prime minister said in an overnight message that the war had been \"forced on us by a murderous attack by Hamas\", and the first stage would end in the coming hours when most of the militants on Israeli territory had been wiped out. Israel would restore security to its citizens and win, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli government also said it would cut off electricity, fuel and goods supplies to Gaza.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel\'s nightmare scenario - armed Palestinian militants at large in the south of the country - began early on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath and festival of Simchat Torah.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gunmen cut through the Gaza perimeter fence, storming into Israel on motorbikes, paragliders and by sea. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman said the militants numbered in the high hundreds, while more than 3,000 rockets were fired across Israel across the the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They attacked dozens of Israeli communities and IDF bases and went door to door, house to house,\" said Lt Col Jonathan Conricus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They executed Israeli civilians in cold blood in their homes and then continued to drag into Gaza Israeli civilians and military personnel. I\'m talking women, children, elderly, disabled.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Distressing videos emerged of Israeli civilians running for their lives from a festival in the desert, and of women being bundled into vehicles and kidnapped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israelis rang into news channels saying they were hiding in their homes and scared for their lives. The town of Netiv HaAsara said 15 of its residents were shot dead by Hamas militants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the town of Sderot, a resident called Shlomi described seeing a \"sea of bodies, inside Sderot along the road\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gradually the Israeli military began to reassert control over most of the southern communities. Hostages held in a dining room in Kibbutz Be\'eri were eventually freed after 18 hours, Israeli media reported. Shortly afterwards further reports said troops had freed hostages in the town of Ofakim and the attackers holding them had been killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Joe Biden spoke of America\'s \"rock-solid and unwavering\" support for Israel which was \"under attack orchestrated by a terrorist organisation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas\'s military wing said the number of Israelis captured was several times greater than dozens and they included senior military officers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By the end of Saturday, more than 1,500 people had been wounded in Gaza and 1,500 more in Israel, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army said Hamas\'s unprecedented level of violence would be met with an unprecedented response.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tens of thousands of reservists have been mobilised and are now expected to launch a ground operation in Gaza. 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, '2023-10-08 01:59:43', '2023-10-08 01:59:43'),
(9561, 9561, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With South Africa, we have been here so many times before.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cliche needs no repeating. The Proteas\' relationship with World Cups has brought only pain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stopping the frantic Delhi bustle is impossible but, near the centre of the sprawl, the men in green made the cricketing world pause to take notice in their 102-run win over Sri Lanka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Could this finally be their time?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In coming from 2-0 down to beat Australia in a series before travelling to India they had us wondering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That five of their batters - Quinton de Kock, Temba Bavuma, Rassie van der Dussen and David Miller - are in the top 15 of the world rankings tells us something, but we all know rankings can be flawed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This, though, was their statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In racking up 428-5, the highest score ever at a World Cup, Bavuma\'s men have shown they are serious contenders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Markram hits fastest World Cup century in win over Sri Lanka</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most impressive was how, in an innings that just got better and better, they made posting a record score look straightforward.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the early loss of Bavuma, De Kock and Van der Dussen played like they were batting in Shaheedi Park, which is located behind the Arun Jaitley Stadium and would later become the target in a six-hitting contest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pair pushed here and drove there in bringing up the first 100 runs of their 204-run partnership in 17.1 overs, before launching the ball into the stands as the next 104 came up in 13.3.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the score increased, so did the crowd, which started sparse but grew to make an excitable din.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Left-hander De Kock, a veteran of six of South Africa\'s 50-over and T20 World Cup failures and who will retire from ODIs after this quest for silverware, reached his 18th one-day international century.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That takes him one clear of Jacques Kallis, two ahead of Adam Gilchrist and is three more than Virender Sehwag. He is a great of the modern game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When he reached three figures the locals cheered his name - the 30-year-old is a star in these parts from his exploits in the Indian Premier League, but this win showed he is not the only one in South Africa\'s XI.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Van der Dussen they have one of the world\'s most underrated cricketers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether in Durban, Durham or Delhi, switch on your TV and the right-handed 34-year-old will have calmly reached 40 not out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then came Aiden Markram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is unique in South African cricket - a captain who has won a World Cup, having been victorious at under-19 level.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet his career has often been one of frustration - a dreamy technique yet only eight centuries from 127 international matches across formats before this game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His ninth ton will be forever memorable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reaching three figures from 49 deliveries he claimed the record for the fastest century at a World Cup, beating pink-haired Kevin O\'Brien\'s iconic knock against England in 2011 by one ball.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Markram\'s antics meant South Africa hardly even needed the most in-form batter in the world, Heinrich Klaasen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His 32 from 20 balls, including three sixes, was just a hint at the form that has seen him average 59 with a strike-rate of 151 this year, including a brilliant 174 from just 83 deliveries against Australia a month ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Miller, the last of this powerful top six, quickly crunched 39 to show he cannot be forgotten.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, Klaasen, Markram, Bavuma and De Kock all average over 40 this year and only Pakistan and India have a higher win percentage than the Proteas since the start of last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa\'s bowling is short of firepower, given hostile fast bowler Anrich Nortje is missing this tournament because of a back issue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kagiso Rabada is world-class, Lungi Ngidi dangerous and Gerald Coetzee promising, but Kusal Mendis showed all three pace bowlers can be got at, with eight sixes in his 76.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marco Jansen bowled both Sri Lanka openers with fine deliveries, but ended up conceding 92 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two dropped catches and a series of missed run-out chances offer further room for improvement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But South Africa have a batting line-up to fear and, when the big dance came, they hit the fourth largest total in their history, rather than going into their shell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Markram is not sure their record will stand for long.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The way batters are playing nowadays I wouldn\'t be surprised if this record is broken in this comp,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was nice for us to be able to go through the gears.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their history - rain which eliminated them in 1992, the Herschelle Gibbs dropped catch and the shambolic run-out in 1999, the bad maths in 2003 and the Grant Elliott-induced tears in 2015 - mean we will always have doubts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, with defending champions England perhaps struggling, South Africa have shown they are World Cup contenders. 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(9562, 9562, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Israel Defense Forces was engaged in a massive build-up of forces Saturday night, calling up large numbers of reservists and preparing for war as it continued to reel from one of the darkest days in Israel’s history, which saw an unprecedented terrorist assault on the country’s southern communities, with hundreds killed, over 1,500 wounded and apparently dozens abducted by the Hamas terror group.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an assault of startling breadth, Hamas gunmen rolled into as many as 22 locations in southern Israel, including towns and other communities as far as 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the Gaza border. In some places, they roamed for hours, gunning down civilians and soldiers as Israel’s military scrambled to muster a response. Gun battles continued well after nightfall, and terrorists held hostages in standoffs in at least two towns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death toll from the day’s events continued to rise by the hour and as of early Sunday morning stood at 300 people, many of them civilians slain in their homes and in the streets, as well as at a large outdoor party targeted by the terrorists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hospitals were flooded with wounded, with the latest tally at 1,590, some 300 of those seriously injured and 19 in critical condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After midnight, 18 hours after the coordinated assault began, Israeli security forces were still struggling to clear terrorist cells entrenched within devastated communities. Many civilians were still holed up in their homes, hiding in fear of roving terrorists searching for victims, as troops faced off with hostage-takers in some cases and stormed homes in others, shooting dead the gunmen within.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a continuous stream of Palestinian photos and videos flooded social media depicting scenes of carnage from within the towns as well as harrowing footage of frightened men, women and children dragged from their homes to an uncertain fate in Gaza. The IDF confirmed that soldiers and civilians had been taken hostage but did not specify a number.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concurrently, barrages of rockets continued to rain down on southern and central Israel, regularly sending hundreds of thousands of people running to shelters. Several people were wounded by rockets that evaded the Iron Dome defense system and smashed into towns. Some were seriously hurt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scenes of chaos and suffering and the prolonged failure to gain control of the situation shocked and outraged the nation, and sparked pointed questions and demands for answers on the many failures of intelligence, deployment and policy that had enabled such a national catastrophe, with hundreds of terrorists flooding civilian communities in armed convoys.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, Israel was in the preliminary stages of a military response its leaders vowed would be unprecedented, with the army carrying out strikes on terror targets across the Strip throughout the day. Gaza health officials said at least 230 were killed there, with hundreds wounded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army said four divisions of reservists were being deployed to the Gaza border, joining 35 battalions that were already there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Events ‘never before seen in Israel’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was at war, as he discussed the potential formation of an emergency government with leaders of the opposition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an address to the nation at night, the premier vowed to use “all the power” of the IDF to destroy Hamas’s capabilities, and told Gaza’s residents to “get out now.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling the day’s events something “never before seen in Israel,” he promised to ensure “it will never happen again.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Hamas wants to murder us all,” Netanyahu said, “murdering children and mothers in their homes, in their beds. It is an enemy that kidnaps elderly people, children, young girls,” an enemy “that massacres and slaughters our civilians, our children, who simply wanted to enjoy the holiday.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Media outlets reported that as night fell, several communities were brought back under Israeli control, while there were ongoing battles in others. A broad assessment of the situation had yet to be published by the military, and it was unclear which communities were still under siege. TTOI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 02:57:21', '2023-10-08 02:57:21'),
(9563, 9563, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring the full force of the Israeli military against the Gaza Strip’s Hamas terror group Saturday night, warning Israelis of tough days ahead as the nation retaliates for a shocking surprise attack that has left hundreds dead and turned sleepy border towns into a war zone.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The Israel Defense Forces will act immediately to destroy Hamas’s capabilities,” Netanyahu said in a televised address, as terrorists were still holed up with hostages in at least three locations inside Israel. “We will cripple them mercilessly and avenge this black day they have brought upon Israel and its citizens.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Residents of Gaza, get out now. We will be everywhere and with all our might,” he added, as thousands of reserves troops made their way to military bases for a widely expected counteroffensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier spoke some 16 hours after hundreds of Hamas terrorists infiltrated into Israel from Gaza, invading towns and kibbutzim near the Strip, killing at least 250 people, many of them civilians, wounding over 1,500 and apparently taking dozens hostage. Thousands of rockets from Gaza pounded the south and areas as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the unprecedented attack, which caught Israel completely off-guard as it celebrated the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is an enemy that murders children and mothers in their homes, in their beds. An enemy that kidnaps the elderly, kids, youths. Murderers who massacre and slaughter our citizens, our kids, who just wanted to have fun on the holiday,” Netanyahu said. “What happened today has never before seen in Israel, and I will make sure it does not happen again.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Slamming his fists down and injecting his words with fury, Netanyahu vowed that Israel would “win this war,” but warned of a heavy cost, hinting at a likely ground incursion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This war will take time. It will be hard. We have tough days ahead of us,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accusing Hamas of launching a “cruel and evil war,” the premier said that US President Joe Biden and other world leaders he had spoken with had “promised Israel would have freedom of action to continue this battle.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He did not mention discussions he’d held with opposition leaders to form an emergency unity government but noted his entire cabinet, made up primarily of hardliners who have long pushed for wider action against Gaza, stood behind the decision to hit back hard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Any place Hamas deploys, in this evil city, all the places Hamas is hiding, operating — we will turn it into a ruin,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hours later, after huddling with ministers and security chiefs, Netanyahu said in a separate message that Israel was “embarking on a long and difficult war” that was “forced upon us by a murderous attack by Hamas.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first phase of the war, he wrote on X, involves “destroying most of the enemy forces” that infiltrated into Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel has also begun an offensive into Gaza “and it will continue without hesitation and without respite – until the goals are achieved,” the premier said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We will restore security to the citizens of Israel and we will win,” he writes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netanyahu spoke as battles were still taking place inside Israel, with security forces struggling to locate an unknown number of terrorists who had overrun cities, agricultural communities and army bases early in the morning. In Sderot, a bulldozer rammed a police station where at least one terrorist was thought to be hiding, and pops of gunfire continued to echo through the city, with residents hiding inside and bodies on the streets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gunbattles or hostage standoffs were also reportedly taking place in Kibbutz Be’eri, Kibbutz Kfar Aza and Ofakim. TTOI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 03:03:26', '2023-10-08 03:03:26'),
(9564, 9564, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">More than 320 people have been killed and hundreds feared wounded after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit western Afghanistan\'s Herat, according to the United Nations.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local officials in Herat said that over 30 people have died and more than 600 others have been injured in several earthquakes in this province, reported the Pajhwok Afghan News.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to officials, 12 villages in Zinda Jan and Ghoryan districts have been completely destroyed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Janan Saiq, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Disaster Management, said that at least 15 people in three villages of the \"Zinda Jan\" district of Herat died in today\'s earthquake and nearly 40 others were injured, reported Tolo News.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spokesman of the ministry said in a video that some houses in Farah and Badghis provinces were also partially destroyed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), six earthquakes occurred in western Afghanistan and the largest one was of magnitude of 6.3.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on the information from (USGS), the latest earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 occurred at a depth of 7.7 km in the \"Zinda Jan district of Herat.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quake also was felt in the nearby provinces of Farah and Badghis, according to local media reports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes, particularly in the Hindu Kush mountain range, situated near the convergence of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A powerful earthquake struck the mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan in June 2022 killing over 1,000 people and injuring around 1,500, reported Pajhwok Afghan News. NDTV</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 03:27:15', '2023-10-08 03:27:15');
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(9565, 9565, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi and Inter Miami were eliminated from contention for Major League Soccer\'s playoffs after a 1-0 defeat at home to FC Cincinnati on Saturday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi returned from injury as a substitute in the 55th minute but Cincinnati, who have earned top seed in the playoffs, grabbed the win with a goal from Argentine Alvaro Barreal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With other results going against Miami, Messi\'s side were left next to bottom of the Eastern Conference, seven points off the last playoff spot with just two games remaining.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi had played just 37 minutes for his club since September 3, having returned with an injury from international duty with Argentina last month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without him Miami struggled, paying the price for their successful run to the Leagues Cup title in August when Messi lit up the tournament and collected his first trophy since joining the club in July.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saturday\'s loss was the second straight for Miami following their 4-1 crushing at Chicago on Wednesday and Gerardo \"Tata\" Martino\'s team have won just once in their last six MLS games.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi had played in the only win in that stretch, coming off in the first half of their 4-0 win over bottom club Toronto.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the Leagues Cup triumph in Nashville on August 19, there was talk of Miami adding two more trophies this season but, without Messi, they lost their US Open Cup final to Houston and then faded out of contention in the league.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Miami\'s final two games are both against Charlotte with the last on the road on October 21. It remains to be see if Messi, who has been called up for Argentina\'s upcoming World Cup qualifiers, will feature.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wayne Rooney\'s D.C United were also eliminated from contention for the playoffs despite beating New York City FC 2-0 in their final game of the season. 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, '2023-10-08 04:56:26', '2023-10-08 04:56:26'),
(9566, 9566, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit slammed on Saturday Israel\'s violent policies against the Palestinians as \"a time bomb,\" calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Palestinian Gaza Strip that is currently witnessing deadly clashes between the two sides.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Israel\'s continued implementation of violent and extremist policies is a time bomb that deprives the region of any serious opportunities for stability in the foreseeable future,\" an AL statement quoted Aboul-Gheit as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to an update from the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, Israeli airstrikes on the enclave earlier in the day killed 232 people and injured 1,697.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli raids followed an earlier rocket attack by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) that controls Gaza. Israeli media outlets reported Saturday that the new round of conflict between the two sides left at least 150 Israelis dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read: Biden decries the \'unconscionable\' Hamas attack and warns Israel\'s enemies not to exploit the crisis</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas also held some Israeli officers and soldiers as hostages, as confirmed by the Israeli side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday that Israel was \"in a state of war,\" while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas emphasized the right of the Palestinians to defend themselves against Israeli troops and settlers. 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, '2023-10-08 04:59:25', '2023-10-08 04:59:25'),
(9567, 9567, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The conflict\'s bloodiest escalation in decades saw Hamas carry out a massive rocket barrage and ground, air and sea offensive, that Israel\'s army, said had killed more than 300 Israelis and wounded 1,000. Gaza officials said intense Israeli air strikes on the coastal enclave had brought the Palestinian death count to at least 232, with nearly 1,700 wounded.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to avenge what he said was a \"black day\" for Israel. \"The IDF (army) is about to use all its force to destroy Hamas\'s capabilities. We\'ll strike them to the bitter end and avenge with force this black day they brought on Israel and its people,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned Palestinians living near Hamas sites in Gaza to leave as he vowed to turn its hideouts into \"rubble\" following its surprise attack. \"I\'m telling the people of Gaza: get out of there now, because we\'re about to act everywhere with all our force,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israel military suffered significant losses as the Palestinian group claimed to have captured dozens of soldiers. \"Terrorists rampaged and broke into homes, massacring civilians. Hundreds had invaded the country, hundreds are still fighting troops inside Israel,\" army spokesman Richard Hecht said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas fighters fired thousands of rockets and breached Gaza\'s security barrier, attacking nearby Israeli towns and military posts. They also opened fire on residents and passersby. The group labelled its attack \"Operation Al-Aqsa Flood\" and called on \"resistance fighters in the West Bank\" as well as in \"Arab and Islamic nations\" to join the battle. Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said the group was on the \"verge of a great victory\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas released images of several Israelis taken captive. Bodies were strewn on the streets of the Israeli town of Sderot near Gaza and inside cars, the windscreens shattered by hails of bullets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to the deadly attacks, the Israel defense forces also declared a \"readiness for war\". The forces launched \"Operation Swords of Iron\", striking a number of targets in the Gaza Strip. \"We have seen the face of evil. Hamas launched a criminal attack, without distinguishing between women, children and the elderly. It will realise very quickly that it made a grave mistake. We will change the face of reality in the Gaza Strip,\" Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said in a video statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the UN Security Council called an emergency meeting today, US President Joe Biden voiced \"rock solid and unwavering\" support for Israel and warned \"against any other party hostile to Israel seeking advantage in this situation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The escalation follows months of rising violence, mostly in the occupied West Bank, and tensions around Gaza\'s border and at contested holy sites in Jerusalem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian embassy in Israel has asked its citizens to remain vigilant and observe safety protocols as advised by local authorities. \"Please exercise caution, avoid unnecessary movement, and stay close to safety shelters,\" it said in an advisory. NDTV</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 05:27:09', '2023-10-08 05:27:09'),
(9568, 9568, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan rises to 2,000, said a Taliban spokesman Sunday, in one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake followed by strong aftershocks killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the country’s national disaster authority said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdul Wahid Rayan, spokesman of the Ministry of Information and Culture, said the death toll from the earthquake in Herat is higher originally reported. About six villages have been destroyed, and hundreds of civilians have been buried under the debris, he said while calling for urgent help.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations gave a preliminary figure of 320 dead, but later said the figure was still being verified. Local authorities gave an estimate of 100 people killed and 500 injured, according to the same update from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 05:57:06', '2023-10-08 05:57:06'),
(9569, 9569, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Japan wants dignified return of forcibly displaced Rohingyas, now sheltered in Bangladesh, to their homeland, Myanmar.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Masahiro Komura made the statement on Sunday when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence, Ganabhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM’s press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the reporters after the call on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that Japan also wants to assist local Bangladeshi people who are facing numerous difficulties due to the influx of Myanmar Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier thanked Japan for continued efforts towards a durable solution to the safe, sustainable and dignified return of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, said the press secretary. 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, '2023-10-08 06:44:58', '2023-10-08 06:44:58'),
(9570, 9570, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality has been categorised as ‘unhealthy’ for three consecutive days, including this morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 152 at 9 am, Dhaka ranked fifth on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur, Pakistan’s Lahore and Kuwait’s Kuwait City occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 174, 167 and 153, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 101 and 150, air quality is considered ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, between 150 and 200 is ‘unhealthy’, between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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;\">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, '2023-10-08 06:52:49', '2023-10-08 06:52:49'),
(9571, 9571, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A U.N. peacekeeping force deployed along Lebanon’s southern border called for “everyone to exercise restraint” and make use of the force’s “liaison and coordination mechanisms to de-escalate” and prevent a fast deterioration of the security situation. It said it had detected several rockets fired from southeast Lebanon toward “Israeli-occupied territory,” followed by artillery fire from Israel toward Lebanon.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement came shortly after Hezbollah said it fired at Israeli positions in the disputed Chebaa Farms along the border with Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The force known as UNIFIL said it is in contact with authorities on both sides of the border at all levels “to contain the situation and avoid a more serious escalation.” AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 07:30:42', '2023-10-08 07:30:42'),
(9572, 9572, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Joe Biden on Saturday decried the “unconscionable” assault by Hamas militants and his administration pledged to ensure Israel has “what it needs to defend itself” after the surprise attack that drew worldwide condemnation and anger from Israel’s allies.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden said from the White House that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States “stands with the people of Israel in the face of these terrorist assaults. Israel has the right to defend itself and its people, full stop. There’s never a justification for terrorist attacks and my administration’s support for Israeli’s security is rock solid and unwavering.’’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The president also warned Israeli’s enemies that “this is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage. The world is watching.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden said he would keep in close touch with Netanyahu, and had called Jordan’s King Abdullah II and members of Congress to discuss the situation. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 07:33:56', '2023-10-08 07:33:56'),
(9573, 9573, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the public servants to grow a mindset to serve the people, reaching the services to the doorsteps of the masses.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“You’ll have to create a mentality to reach the services to the doorsteps of the people, engaging the people (in this process) for the people,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this while addressing the certificate-awarding and concluding ceremony of the 75th foundation training course for BCS officers in the city’s Osmani Memorial Auditorium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She distributed the certificates among the 30 best performers out of 602 participants in the foundation training course.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the PM inaugurated five newly implemented projects of the Public Administration Ministry and opened the Government Employee Management System (GEMS) Software at the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina asked the government staff to always work for the country , considering them as the servants of the people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Don’t consider the service as a job merely, rather a scope to serve the country. You will have to keep this thing in mind always,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister termed the 1975-1996 and 2001-2008 periods as two black chapters in the history of Bangladesh as the country couldn’t move forward in the 29 years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM asked the government officers to work on raising food production in order to mitigate the current economic stress and global high inflation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Today our economy is under pressure to some extent, inflation. All will have to take measures so that all would increase production and no land remains uncultivated,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said if food security can be maintained by ensuring food for all, there will be no problem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that a huge number of uncultivated lands are still there in the country, she asked the officers to motivate the people to bring their all uncultivated lands under production.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh is in some problems due to the global economic recession and high inflation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Today many say many things about the reserve. I said that there is nothing to worry about the reserve. We don’t think as long as food is in household storage. We’ll cultivate crops and produce our foods. If needed, we’ll spend and purchase less (reduce import) to some extent,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier asked the government officials to implement development schemes, keeping balance with the environment by protecting canals, beels and other water bodies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked them to work for reaching the fruits of different social safety schemes to the right beneficiaries properly, diversification of the export basket to reduce dependency on only single product- readymade garments, exploring new export markets and ensuring development works sustainable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that there is scarcity of lands in the country with a large population, she said it will have to use the large population as resources. “We’ll have to put the spirit among the people that the population is a great resource,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh is now a role model for development.&nbsp; “We at least can claim that today’s Bangladesh is a changed Bangladesh… Bangladesh doesn’t remain behind anymore.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said her government has successfully implemented the Vision 2021 and now wants to build the country as Smart Bangladesh by 2041 by making the country’s economy, government and society smart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM asked the newly recruited officers to build themselves as the main craftsmen and soldiers of the 2041 Smart Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about ‘My Village My Town programme,’ she said her government’s target is to ensure civic amenities in every village so that the villagers don’t need to go to the town to avail the civic facilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier asked all to work so that the ongoing development trend would continue and Bangladesh won’t fall behind from the present position.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the event, Tahseen Binte Anish received the rector’s medal and crest of honour from the prime minister as the best performer, while Sumaya Jahan Jhulka and Ankan Pal received the crests of honour as the 2nd and 3rd best performers respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The six-month foundation training course was conducted with the ever largest beach with 602 participants – BCS officers from 19 BCS cadre services and two BPATC faculty members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five development projects are Upgrading 150-bed government employee hospital into a 500-bed one (at cost of Tk 428 crore), Government Employee Management System (GEMS) Programme, newly constructed 15-storey BPATC dormitory (at cost of Tk 206 crore) and two newly constructed circuit houses in Cumilla and Tangail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary was screened focusing on the last six-month activities of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain spoke on the occasion and four participants of the training course shared their feelings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Public Administration Senior Secretary Mohammed Mezbah Uddin Chowdhury delivered the welcome speech, while Rector of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Md Ashraf Uddin presented the result of the 75th foundation training course.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, a cultural soiree was presented by the participants of the 75th foundation training course. 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(9574, 9574, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government on Sunday allowed five companies to import five crore more eggs to keep its price stable in the market.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A media release signed by Md Hailder Ali, public relations officer of the Ministry of Commerce, said each firm will be able to import one crore eggs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The companies are Union Venture Limited, JFJ Paradise Connection, Layek Enterprise, M/S Lucky Enterprise and M/S Pinky Traders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the release didn’t mention thenames of the countries from where the eggs will be imported.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on August 23, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi announced that the government would allow importing eggs if needed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As price of eggs has soared abnormally the members of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection are conducting drives in different wholesale markets in the city and realising fines, 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, '2023-10-08 08:45:57', '2023-10-08 08:45:57'),
(9575, 9575, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>World leaders have urged restraint after Saturday’s deadly Hamas attack targeting Israel and the retaliation that followed.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The early morning Hamas offensive by air, land and sea was met by Israeli air strikes on the blockaded coastal enclave, in the bloodiest escalation since May 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a snapshot of global reactions.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan</div><div>Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has expressed his profound concern over the escalating violence in the Middle East, emphasising the pressing need to address the “Palestine Question”.</div><div><br></div><div>“We urge restraint and protection of civilians. Enduring peace in the Middle East lies in a two state solution with a viable, contiguous, sovereign State of Palestine, founded on pre-1967 borders, with Al Quds Al-Sharif at its heart,” he said in a post on X.</div><div><br></div><div>President Arif Alvi said that “progress towards peace cannot materialise without condemnation of usurpation and brutalisation of Palestinian rights and people by Israel”.</div><div><br></div><div>“Continuous annexation of land, illegal settlements, disproportionate reactions and killings. The result is no hope and no progress towards peace. Time has come to move forward in line with UN resolutions. International community can play a big role today towards world peace,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani said that Pakistan was “deeply concerned by the escalating hostility in the Middle East and the loss of innocent lives”.</div><div><br></div><div>“We stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an immediate end to the violence and oppression by Israeli occupation forces. A viable and sovereign state of Palestine must be established on the basis of pre-1967 borders and UN resolutions,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Jilani said the international community needed to intervene to “bring an end to the conflict, protect civilians, and work towards a lasting peace in the Middle East”.</div><div><br></div><div>Indonesia</div><div>Indonesia, a long-time supporter of the Palestinian cause, said it was deeply concerned about the escalation of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and called for the violence to end.</div><div><br></div><div>“Indonesia is deeply concerned with the escalation of conflict between Palestine and Israel. Indonesia urges the immediate end of violence to avoid further human casualties,” the Indonesian foreign ministry said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Indonesia has consistently voiced support for the Palestinian struggle to gain independence.</div><div><br></div><div>“The root of the conflict, namely the occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel, must be resolved, in accordance with the parameters agreed upon by the UN,” the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation has also said it had no interest in opening diplomatic ties with Israel.</div><div><br></div><div>China</div><div>“China is deeply concerned about the current escalation of tension and violence between Palestine and Israel,” Beijing’s foreign ministry said.</div><div><br></div><div>Beijing “calls on all parties concerned to remain calm and exercise restraint, cease fire immediately, protect civilians and prevent further deterioration of the situation”, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>Beijing said that “the repeated clashes between Palestine and Israel fully demonstrate that the long-term stagnation of the peace process is unsustainable”.</div><div><br></div><div>“The fundamental way out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict lies in the implementation of the ‘two-state solution’ and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>China called on the international community to “enhance its sense of urgency, increase its participation on the (resolution of the) Palestinian issue, promote the early resumption of peace talks between Palestine and Israel and seek a way for lasting peace”.</div><div><br></div><div>“China will continue to make unremitting efforts with the international community to this end,” it said.</div><div><br></div><div>US</div><div>US President Joe Biden said US support for Israel was “rock solid and unwavering”.</div><div><br></div><div>“The United States stands with Israel,” Biden said in a televised statement at the White House, flanked by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “We will not ever fail to have their back.”</div><div><br></div><div>A White House official said talks with Israel on military aid were “very much underway”.</div><div><br></div><div>Arab League</div><div>Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit called for “an immediate halt to military operations in Gaza” and “the cycle of armed confrontation between the two sides”.</div><div><br></div><div>He said: “Israel’s continued implementation of violent and extremist policies is a time bomb depriving the region of any serious opportunity for stability in the foreseeable future.”</div><div><br></div><div>Saudi Arabia</div><div>The Saudi foreign ministry called for an “immediate cessation of violence”.</div><div><br></div><div>UAE</div><div>“The UAE calls for the exercise of maximum restraint and an immediate ceasefire to avoid serious repercussions,” the official news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>Kuwait</div><div>Kuwait expressed its “grave concern” over developments between Israel and the Palestinians, blaming Israel for what it called its “blatant attacks”.</div><div><br></div><div>Iran</div><div>An adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday congratulated Palestinian fighters, the semi-official ISNA news site reported. “We will stand by the Palestinian fighters until the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem,” it quoted Yahya Rahim Safavi as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>Iran’s state television showed parliament members rising from their seats to chant “Death to Israel”.</div><div><br></div><div>Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani spokesperson was quoted by ISNA as saying: “In this operation, the element of surprise and other combined methods were used, which show the Palestinian people’s confidence in the face of the occupiers.”</div><div><br></div><div>Yemen</div><div>Huthi rebels who control the capital Sanaa said they supported “the heroic jihadist operation”.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement published on the website of SABA news agency, the group said the attack “revealed the weakness, fragility and impotence” of Israel. It called the operation “a battle of dignity, pride, and defence”.</div><div><br></div><div>Egypt</div><div>Egyptian Foreign Ministry Egypt warned of “grave consequences” and called for “exercising maximum restraint and avoiding exposing civilians to further danger”.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkiye</div><div>“We call for restraint from all parties,” Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan said.</div><div><br></div><div>Qatar</div><div>Qatar foreign ministry said Israel alone was responsible for the ongoing escalation of violence with the Palestinian people, and called for both sides to show restraint.</div><div><br></div><div>Morocco</div><div>“The Kingdom of Morocco expresses its deep concern at the deterioration of the situation and the outbreak of military action in the Gaza Strip, and condemns attacks against civilians wherever they may be,” a foreign ministry statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>United Nations</div><div>Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland said: “This is a dangerous precipice, and I appeal to all to pull back from the brink.”</div><div><br></div><div>UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tuerk said: “This attack is having a horrific impact on Israeli civilians … Civilians must never be the target of attack.” According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 09:37:21', '2023-10-08 09:37:21'),
(9576, 9576, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the fresh BCS cadres to work with specific plans to ensure continued sustainable development in the country.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"You (fresh BCS officers) have to be watchful that country\'s development is continued and sustainable, which requires work with specific plans,\" she said.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The premier was addressing as the chief guest the concluding and certificate distribution ceremony of the 75th basic training course for the BCS (Bangladesh Civil Service) officers at the Osmani Smriti Auditorium here.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 602 officers from 19 cadres have received the six-month training.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same function, the prime minister also inaugurated five development schemes that included, upgrading the Government Employee Hospital into 500-bed, 15-storey BPATC Dormitory Building, newly constructed Cumilla and Tangail Circuit Houses and GEMS (Government Employee Management System) software under the Public Administration Ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>Describing the new officers as the main soldiers in transforming the country into developed, prosperous and Smart Bangladesh by 2041, Sheikh Hasina asked them to work in such a way so the country never falls behind.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have taken Bangladesh in a dignified position by working day and night. Make sure that Bangladesh never lags behind,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I have no demand for my own, but I want to fulfill the dream of my father (Bangabandhu) that is to change the fate of the countrymen and improve their lives,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister instructed the new officers to formulate each development plan focusing on the protection of the environment alongside bringing economic emancipation of the commoners.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have to make development protecting the rivers, canals, ponds, beels, and water bodies. So, take development plans keeping that in mind,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier also asked the new BCS cadres to serve the country with utmost sincerity, patriotism and a sense of responsibility.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The job is not merely a job, but rather to serve the country. You have to work for the people. You have to reach the services to the doorsteps of the people thinking of yourselves as the servants of the people,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, its Senior Secretary Mohammed Mezbah Uddin Chowdhury, and Rector (Secretary) of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) Md. Ashraf Uddin, spoke at the function.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said her government has taken various initiatives to nourish the people having talents who are going through hardship due to poverty as they can make their fortunes.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said they have formed the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust from which the poor students are getting assistance to continue their studies.</div><div><br></div><div>She said they also have formed the Prime Minister\'s Education Trust from where scholarships are being given to the talented people for higher study abroad.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We don\'t want the meritorious students to be dropped out. We want to utilise their talents for the welfare of the country and its people,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She also said her government is working tirelessly to give the countrymen facilities guaranteed by the Constitution.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister however cautioned the government officers that conspiracy is being hatched at home and abroad against the unprecedented development of Bangladesh, saying, \"We have to march ahead confronting all the odds and conspiracies.\"</div><div><br></div><div>She as well asked the government officers to work to increase food production by making people aware of cultivating crops on their fellow lands against the backdrop of the global food crisis and high inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said Bangladesh will face no trouble if it can maintain food security with growing more food.</div><div><br></div><div>She assured the people that there is nothing to worry about the forex reserve as long as Bangladesh has food in stock.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina, also President of the ruling Awami League (AL), said the next general election is approaching nearer, adding that if the people vote for AL, they will remain in power.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have proved that we can reach desired destination if we march with specific plans as Bangladesh has now been established as a developing nation,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said Bangladesh will step forward into prosperity utilising the scopes and confronting the challenges appeared before the country after getting the status of a developing nation.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the BNP-Jamaat and their like-minded governments did not anything for the welfare of the country during their 29 years tenure from 1975-96 (after assassination of the Father of the Nation on August 15, 1975) and 2001-2008 rather they made their own fortunes.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh could not go forward in 29 years and the target of the Liberation War was not fulfilled,\" she said, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>She also said her government has now transformed the country into a Digital Bangladesh and a developing nation as they considered power as a scope to serve the people, not to make own fortune.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 11:41:59', '2023-10-08 11:41:59'),
(9577, 9577, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ravindra Jadeja led India\'s spin charge with figures of 3-28 to bowl out Australia for 199 in a key clash of the ODI World Cup on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Five-time champions Australia won the toss and elected to bat first at Chennai\'s M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in the 150th ODI meeting between the two cricket powerhouses, who opened their campaigns in the showpiece event.</div><div><br></div><div>But the Australian innings ended in 49.3 overs as Jadeja stood out in his 10 overs of left-arm spin. Fellow spinner Kuldeep Yadav and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah took two wickets each.</div><div><br></div><div>Australia lost an early wicket before veteran batsmen David Warner (41) and Steve Smith (46) hit back in a partnership of 69.</div><div><br></div><div>Former captain Virat Kohli made an early impact with a diving slip catch to send back Mitchell Marsh, for a six-ball duck, off Bumrah.</div><div><br></div><div>The left-handed Warner reached 1,000 World Cup runs, passing Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar\'s previous best landmark.</div><div><br></div><div>Warner needed 19 innings to Tendulkar\'s 20.</div><div><br></div><div>Both Warner and Smith made their experience count with a steady approach on a tough batting pitch as India rotated their bowlers.</div><div><br></div><div>Kuldeep, a left-arm wrist spinner, broke the stand to send back Warner, caught and bowled amid a roar from the crowd that nearly filled the stadium in contrast to the empty seats in the other matches so far.</div><div>Smith stuck around with Marnus Labuschagne as runs came at a premium and a miserly Jadeja got his first wicket with his left-arm spin.</div><div><br></div><div>He bowled Smith to deny the former captain his fifty and then struck twice in his next over including wicketkeeper-batsman Alex Carey for a duck to rattle the opposition batting.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickets kept tumbling and Australia slipped further when Glenn Maxwell fell for 15, bowled off Kuldeep and Cameron Green out to Ravichandran Ashwin.</div><div><br></div><div>Australia collapsed from 110-2 to 140-7 before skipper Pat Cummins hit the first six of the match, but fell for 15 in another attempt to hit the ball beyond the boundary.</div><div><br></div><div>Number nine Mitchell Starc hit 28 to add some respect to the total.</div><div><br></div><div>Brief scores: Australia 199 all out in 49.3 overs (S. Smith 46; D. Warner 41, R. Jadeja 3-28). According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 13:56:20', '2023-10-08 13:56:20'),
(9578, 9578, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday urged all ignore rumours over new US sanctions,&nbsp; noting that there has been no discussion on this in Washington.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"For God\'s sake, don\'t destroy your sleep thinking of those (rumours),\" he told reporters when his attention was drawn about some media reports indicating new phase of US sanctions on individuals.</div><div><br></div><div>The foreign minister met reporters after a meeting with the delegation of the joint International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI) pre-election assessment mission (PEAM) here.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We were in the US...not a single person did tell us that a tornado is coming. You cook it up. They (US) only want free and fair elections. Even the words - participatory or caretaker government - were not uttered,\" Momen said while responding to a question.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The delegation is in Bangladesh to follow electoral preparations and conduct an independent and impartial assessment.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said they have briefed the visiting joint delegation of NDI-IRI about Bangladesh’s democratic journey, electoral process and noted that the government wants to see \"free, fair, transparent\" elections without any violence.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he said they have developed a \"fair electoral management system\" through the independent Election Commission which is \"very impartial and powerful\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"They didn\'t give me any advice, they listened to us,\" Momen said.</div><div><br></div><div>The foreign minister said it requires sincere cooperation from all to make the election free from violence.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they gave a comparative development scenario that have been achieved over the last 15 years and the delegation members said nobody can defeat that performance.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said they had discussion on free and fair elections but there was no discussion on caretaker government or participatory elections.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If people participate and can cast their votes freely that is participatory,\" Momen said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they want all to participate in elections as there there is only one way to change government- that is election.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, delegation member former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Karl F. Inderfurth on Sunday said the international community plays an important role in supporting Bangladesh as it prepares for the elections,.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are here to listen to a variety of actors and show our support for a transparent and inclusive electoral process,” he said the joint NDI-IRI mission began its work to assess the status of electoral preparations.</div><div><br></div><div>The six-member delegation will meet with a diverse group of election stakeholders including government officials, political party leaders, election authorities, civil society, and others till October 12.</div><div><br></div><div>The delegation is co-chaired by&nbsp; Karl F. Inderfurth, former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs and Bonnie Glick, former Deputy USAID Administrator; and includes Maria Chin Abdullah, former Member of the House of Representatives, Malaysia; Jamil Jaffer, former Associate Counsel to the President of the United States; Manpreet Singh Anand, NDI Regional Director for Asia-Pacific; and Johanna Kao, IRI Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Division.</div><div><br></div><div>“This joint pre-election assessment mission demonstrates our interest and support for democracy in Bangladesh,” said Bonnie Glick.</div><div><br></div><div>“We look forward to meeting with key stakeholders and to provide independent, impartial, and timely analysis as the country heads to the polls,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The delegation will conduct its assessment in accordance with the laws of Bangladesh and consistent with the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation which was signed in 2005 at the United Nations.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the conclusion of its activities, the delegation will release a statement of its key findings, analysis of the pre-election environment, and practical recommendations to enhance the credibility of the process and citizen confidence in the elections.</div><div><br></div><div>NDI and IRI are nonpartisan, nongovernmental organizations that support and strengthen democratic institutions and practices worldwide.</div><div><br></div><div>The institutes have collectively observed more than 200 elections in more than 50 countries over the last 30 years. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 14:04:29', '2023-10-08 14:04:29');
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(9579, 9579, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Ministry of Finance instructed the NBR to consider the money of the universal pension scheme as public investment and the benefit of tax concessions, and money received in pension is free from income tax.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will issue SRO soon as per the guidelines of the ministry; the ministry sources said this on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>According to NBR, the Sixth Schedule (Part-3) of the new Income Tax Act-2023 states that life insurance premiums, contributions to provident funds, contributions to recognized future funds, investments up to Tk 5 lakh in government securities or mutual funds, Tk 1.2 lakh per annum or Tk10⁹8⁸⁸ thousand per month investment in DPS and investment in the stock market will get a tax rebate or tax exemption on that money.</div><div><br></div><div>In this case, 15 percent of the amount invested in the mentioned sector or less than Tk10 lakh, will be tax exempted. However, the sixth schedule does not mention pension scheme contributions.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, Section 14 (1) (d) of the Public Pension Management Act-2023 states that the pension contribution will be treated as an investment and considered for tax deduction and the amount received for monthly pension will be exempt from income tax.</div><div><br></div><div>However, Section 76 (2) of the Income Tax Act provides that if a person is exempted from tax by any Act or instrument deemed to be an Act other than the Income Tax Act, the person shall be taxed by notification of NBR irrespective of what is contained in that Act or instrument deemed to be an Act.</div><div><br></div><div>Unless exempted, that provision shall not be operative. Therefore, the Ministry of Finance took the initiative to include the matter in the Act. According to UNB Reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-08 17:02:07', '2023-10-08 17:02:07'),
(9580, 9580, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nasser Abu Quta lost 19 members of his family in an instant when an Israeli airstrike blew up his home in a crowded refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airstrike in Rafah, a southern town on the border with Egypt, came as Israeli forces intensified their bombardment of targets in the Gaza Strip following a big, multi-front attack by Hamas militants Saturday that had killed over 700 people in Israel by Sunday night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, the waves of airstrikes had killed over 400 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children, health officials reported Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Abu Quta doesn’t understand why Israel struck his house. There were no militants in his building, he insisted, and his family was not warned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the strike on Abu Quta’s home. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 01:36:49', '2023-10-09 01:36:49'),
(9581, 9581, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Israeli government formally declared war Sunday and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack, as the military tried to crush fighters still in southern towns and intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The toll passed 1,100 dead and thousands wounded on both sides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 24 hours after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion out of Gaza, Israeli forces were still battling with militants holed up in several locations Monday morning. At least 700 people have reportedly been killed in Israel — a staggering toll on a scale the country has not experienced in decades — and more than 400 have been killed in Gaza. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 01:41:06', '2023-10-09 01:41:06'),
(9582, 9582, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Israeli government formally declared war and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack, as the military labored into Monday to crush fighters still in southern towns and intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The toll passed 1,100 dead and thousands wounded on both sides.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 40 hours after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion out of Gaza, Israeli forces were still battling with militants holed up in several locations. At least 700 people have reportedly been killed in Israel — a staggering toll on a scale the country has not experienced in decades — and more than 400 have been killed in Gaza.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel said it brought in special forces to try to wrest control of four Israeli sites from Hamas fighters, including two kibbutzim that militants entered earlier in their attacks. Footage released by Israeli police from one area showed forces kneeling in tall grass as they exchanged fire with Hamas militants across an open field.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The declaration of war portended greater fighting ahead, and a major question was whether Israel would launch a ground assault into Gaza, a move that in the past has brought intensified casualties. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 02:41:28', '2023-10-09 02:41:28'),
(9583, 9583, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Israeli rescue service Zaka said its paramedics removed about 260 bodies from an all-night nature music festival near the Gaza Strip attended by thousands that came under attack by Palestine-based Hamas militants on Saturday. The total figure is expected to be higher as other paramedic teams were working in the area.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed as many as 1,000 Hamas fighters took part in the mass assault.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, the Israeli government formally declared war and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack, as the military tried to crush fighters still in southern towns and intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The death toll passed 1,100 and thousands were wounded on both sides. Follow Live Updates on Israel-Palestine conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Latest updates on Israel-Hamas war:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 40 hours after Hamas launched its unprecedented attack, Israeli forces were still battling with militants holed up in several locations on Monday morning. At least 700 people have reportedly been killed in Israel — a staggering toll on a scale the country has not experienced in five decades — and over 400 have been killed in Gaza. The toll passed 1,100 dead and thousands wounded on both sides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several US nationals have been killed since the start of Hamas\' surprise attack on Israel, a National Security Council spokesman said on Sunday, adding that US officials remained in touch with their Israeli counterparts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel has hit more than 800 targets in Gaza so far, its military said, including airstrikes that levelled much of the town of Beit Hanoun in the enclave\'s northeast corner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations said at least 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza are seeking shelter in schools it runs. It appealed for the creation of humanitarian corridors to bring food into Gaza.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 30 missing Israelis attending a dance party that was attacked by gunmen emerged from hiding on Sunday, Israeli media reported, putting the death toll at the outdoor gathering at 260. A video aired on social media and by Israeli news outlets showed dozens of festival goers running through an open field as gunshots rang out. Many hid in nearby fruit orchards or were gunned down as they fled. Reportedly, the Hamas militants first targeted the partygoers with rockets followed by bullets after paraglided into Israeli territory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the second straight day, saying in a post on the social media platform X that he expressed “my full support for the people of Israel in the face of an unprecedented and appalling assault by Hamas terrorists”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States will send multiple military ships and aircraft closer to Israel as a show of support, defence secretary Lloyd Austin said. Austin also said the United States had also taken steps to augment US Air Force F-35, F-15, F-16, and A-10 fighter aircraft squadrons in the region. He said the United States would also provide munitions to Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military said more than 100,000 reservists have so far reported for duty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala said his faction is holding captive more than 30 of the Israelis who were abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip when Hamas launched attacks on Israel. The captives will not be repatriated “till all of our prisoners are released”, al-Nakhala said, referring to thousands of Palestinians who are in Israeli prisons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several international air carriers, including Air India, said on Sunday they had suspended flights serving Tel Aviv in light of the Hamas militant attack. US air carriers United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines said they had suspended direct flights, as did Air France. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 03:08:42', '2023-10-09 03:08:42'),
(9584, 9584, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Barcelona came back from two goals down to share a thrilling 2-2 draw with Granada but lost ground in the La Liga title race on Sunday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bryan Zaragoza sent the hosts two goals ahead but Lamine Yamal and Sergi Roberto\'s goals preserved the champions\' record as the only unbeaten team in La Liga.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However the Catalans are now third and sit three points behind leaders Real Madrid, and one behind neighbours Girona, who both won on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antoine Griezmann converted a late penalty to snatch fourth-place Atletico Madrid a controversial late 2-1 win over Real Sociedad before Barcelona\'s draw.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaragoza struck twice in the first half, breaking the deadlock after only 17 seconds -- the fastest goal Barcelona have conceded in the 21st century.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yamal pulled Barcelona back into the game just before half-time, becoming La Liga\'s youngest ever goalscorer in the process at 16 years and 87 days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xavi Hernandez\'s side levelled with three minutes remaining when substitute Sergi Roberto turned home, but they could not find a late winner in a high-octane finale.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the third comeback they have made in recent weeks, beating Celta Vigo from two goals down and twice falling behind at Mallorca in another 2-2 draw.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think we totally dominated, we created chances, we deserved more, but (we drew) because of our own mistakes, we can\'t start off in that way,\" Xavi told DAZN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We take away a point, which for us, is not enough.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona\'s night was also marred by a knee injury to Jules Kounde, with the Catalans already tending to Robert Lewandowski, Frenkie de Jong, Pedri and Raphinha in the treatment room.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Gavi lost the ball turning into trouble Lucas Boye fed Zaragoza, who fired across Marc-Andre ter Stegen to open the scoring inside the first minute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaragoza then doubled the hosts\' lead at the Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium with a brilliant individual goal, leaving Kounde wobbling before finishing sublimely with the outside of his boot into the top corner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bryan is like a bullet ... not easy to stop when he\'s sprinting,\" admitted Xavi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Record breaker -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona found a route back into the match in first-half stoppage time when Felix prodded the ball into Yamal\'s path just a couple of yards out and he rolled home to break yet another record.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In that moment I was thinking more about the comeback than the goal and the record, but I\'m very happy,\" said Yamal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visitors sought the equaliser and eventually it came through Sergi Roberto, who turned home Alejandro Balde\'s low cross in the final stages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaragoza almost claimed his hat-trick but crashed a shot off the post as the game flew end-to-end.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Felix headed in what he thought was the winner and Xavi leapt for joy on the touchline, but Ferran Torres, who did not touch the ball yet was ruled to be interfering with play, was offside.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Just as easily as they ruled it out they could have given it... Ferran is not interfering with anyone,\" said Xavi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Granada coach Paco Lopez said he was proud of his team and that he hoped 22-year-old winger Zaragoza would keep his feet on the ground.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I congratulate my team and my players, I can\'t ask for more from them,\" Lopez told DAZN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The draw keeps Granada 19th, two points from safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Handball controversies -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Atletico beat Real Sociedad in a match which was decided by two penalty appeals, after Samuel Lino sent Diego Simeone\'s team ahead and Mikel Oyarzabal levelled for the Basque visitors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Basque side were furious after they had a penalty appeal for handball turned and then the referee awarded Atletico a spot-kick in the final stages after Carlos Fernandez inadvertently handled a Griezmann shot, and the Frenchman scored it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the decisions working in his team\'s favour, Griezmann said the handball rule should be modified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They have to make a rule that if it hits the hand it\'s a penalty, and if not there\'s not, not (only) the interpretation of the referee,\" Griezmann told DAZN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today he interpreted it in our favour and we won, on other occasions it will be different.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villarreal lost 2-1 at home against Las Palmas, while Real Betis drew 1-1 against Alaves, and controversial striker Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Getafe in a 2-2 draw at Celta Vigo. 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(9585, 9585, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Numerous members of the UN Security Council denounced Hamas on Sunday over its massive assault on Israel but the United States regretted a lack of unanimity.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At an emergency session, the United States urged strong condemnation of the Palestinian Islamists, who rule the blockaded Gaza Strip and launched a surprise assault and kidnapping operation on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are a good number of countries that condemned the Hamas attacks. They\'re obviously not all,\" senior US diplomat Robert Wood told reporters after the closed-door session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You could probably figure out one of them without me saying anything,\" said Wood, in a clear allusion to Russia, whose relations with the West have deteriorated sharply since its invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diplomats said the Security Council did not consider any joint statement, let alone a binding resolution, with members led by Russia hoping for a broader focus than condemning Hamas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"My message was to stop the fighting immediately and to go to a ceasefire and to meaningful negotiations, which was told for decades\" by the Security Council, said Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is partly the result of unresolved issues,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China, generally Russia\'s ally at the Security Council, said it would support a joint statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s abnormal that the Security Council doesn\'t say anything,\" said Ambassador Zhang Jun, who earlier promised Chinese support for a condemnation of \"all attacks against civilians.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of the session, Israel\'s ambassador, Gilad Erdan, showed graphic pictures of Israeli civilians being taken captive by Hamas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These are war crimes -- blatant, documented war crimes,\" Erdan told reporters outside of the Security Council.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This unimaginable -- unimaginable -- atrocity must be condemned,\" he said of the Security Council.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Israel must be given steadfast support to defend ourselves -- to defend the free world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian ambassador -- who represents the West Bank-centered Palestinian Authority and not rival Hamas -- called on the Security Council to focus on ending Israeli occupation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Regrettably, history for some media and politicians starts when Israelis are killed,\" said the envoy, Riyad Mansour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is not a time to let Israel double-down on its terrible choices. This is a time to tell Israel it needs to change course, that there is a path to peace where neither Palestinians nor Israelis are killed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian Authority and Israel were not part of the closed-door meeting, as neither are currently members on the Security Council.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The representative of the United Arab Emirates -- which normalized relations with Israel as part of a landmark 2020 deal -- expected more Security Council meetings on the crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think everyone understands that today the situation is one of grave concern,\" said the UAE ambassador, Lana Zaki Nusseibeh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Many members of the Council believe that a political horizon leading to a two-state solution is the only way to finally solve this conflict,\" she said. 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(9586, 9586, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka ranked third on the global list of cities with the worst air quality this morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air in Dhaka city was classified as \'unhealthy\' with an AQI score of 158 at 9:15 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\'s Lahore and India\'s Mumbai occupied the first and second spots on the list, with AQI scores of 182 and 160, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', while 201–300 is \'very unhealthy\', and 301+ is \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, informs people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI in Bangladesh is based on five pollutants: particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the 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, '2023-10-09 04:15:34', '2023-10-09 04:15:34'),
(9587, 9587, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Oil prices rallied while the dollar and yen advanced Monday after Hamas launched a shock attack on Israel at the weekend, sparking fresh concerns about tensions in the Middle East.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crisis fanned concerns about supplies of crude from the region at a time when supply worries are already high owing to Saudi Arabia and Russia\'s output cuts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has also renewed fears about the impact on inflation, with energy costs a key driver of spiking prices, giving a fresh headache to central banks as they try to ease up on interest rate hikes to avoid recessions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The surprise attack and Israel\'s declaration of war in response to it have left more than 1,000 dead and raised concerns that a potential broadening of the conflict could draw in the United States and Iran.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Key for markets is whether the conflict remains contained or spreads to involve other regions, particularly Saudi Arabia,\" said ANZ Group\'s Brian Martin and Daniel Hynes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Initially at least, it seems markets will assume the situation will remain limited in scope, duration, and oil-price consequences. But higher volatility can be expected.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both main contracts surged more than five percent in early Asian business before easing back slightly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, SPI Asset Management\'s Stephen Innes warned: \"Historical analysis suggests that oil prices tend to experience sustained gains after the Middle East crises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Meanwhile, stocks tend to eventually recover and trend higher after an initial period of volatility. Safe-haven assets like gold and Treasurys, which initially see gains during such crises, tend to fade from their initial price spikes as the situation stabilises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But with Middle East analysts considering this to be a pivotal moment for Israel, the view looks incendiary in any current scenario.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A decidedly risk-off mood also saw investors push into the safety of the dollar, which was up against the pound and euro, as well as the Australian and New Zealand dollars.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The yen, considered one of the safest currencies, strengthened against the greenback, though it still remains locked around 11-month lows.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gold, another key haven, gained more than one percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Equity markets were mixed, with Shanghai dropping on its first day back after a week-long holiday as investors continue to fret over the stuttering Chinese economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were also losses in Sydney, Singapore, Manila and Wellington, though Sydney and Jakarta eked out gains. Tokyo was closed for a holiday while a typhoon forced Hong Kong to shut for the morning session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tepid performance came despite a rally on Wall Street, where traders welcomed data showing a forecast-busting jump in new jobs but wage growth slowing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \"Goldilocks\" figures -- neither too strong nor too weak -- lifted optimism the world\'s top economy can avoid a recession even as the Federal Reserve keeps rates elevated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, there are worries the bank will hike one more time before the end of the year, with officials determined to bring inflation to heel and keep it at their two percent target. 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, '2023-10-09 04:48:58', '2023-10-09 04:48:58'),
(9588, 9588, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her commitment to hold next polls in a free and fair manner as visiting State Secretary for International Development Cooperation of Sweden Foreign Ministry Diana Janse called on her at her office here.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are committed to holding the next general election in a free and fair manner,\" PM\'s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted her as saying in a media briefing after the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Karim, the Swedish state minister said they wanted a free and fair election in Bangladesh. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 05:42:34', '2023-10-09 05:42:34'),
(9589, 9589, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Twelve Thais have been killed in the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants, the kingdom\'s government said Monday as it prepared a plan to evacuate its citizens.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign ministry spokeswoman Kanchana Patarachoke said the Thai embassy in Israel learned of the deaths from the victims\' employers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said a further eight Thais had been wounded and 11 taken captive since the war erupted when Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are around 30,000 Thai workers in Israel, according to Bangkok\'s labour ministry, many of them working in agriculture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Labour minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said Israeli forces had begun to move workers away from danger zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are 1,099 who have registered to return home,\" Phiphat said in an interview on Thai television.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have about 5,000 labourers working in the fighting zone.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign ministry spokeswoman Kanchana said Thai air force planes were on standby to fly citizens home, though the date and other details of any evacuation were still being worked on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 1,100 people have been killed in the conflict in Israel and Gaza, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning of a \"long and difficult\" fight ahead. 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, '2023-10-09 05:44:53', '2023-10-09 05:44:53'),
(9590, 9590, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There have been too few fans, too many injuries and lots of runs over the first four days of the Cricket World Cup.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AFP Sport looks at three talking points:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Is there anybody there? -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s the sport\'s showpiece event in a cricket crazy country with millions of diehard fans expected to be jostling for tickets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the opening four matches of the marathon seven-week tournament were played in eerily empty arenas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Organisers optimistically estimated around 40,000 fans watched the opener between New Zealand and England at the 132,000-seater Ahmedabad Stadium, the world\'s largest cricket ground.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When South Africa were shattering records on Saturday against Sri Lanka, around 10,000 fans watched inside New Delhi\'s Arun Jaitley Stadium which can welcome around 40,000 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Crowds are looking very poor at the World Cup .. Surely we should be giving tickets away to make sure the stands are full?\" said former England captain Michael Vaughan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan fans desperate to watch their team in Hyderabad have been frustrated in delays to the granting of visas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced they were releasing 14,000 tickets for the blockbuster October 14 clash between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The date of that match had already been brought forward a day due to security fears, causing eight other games to be rescheduled, sparking chaos for fans who had already booked flights and hotels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lack of fans will spark more questions over the long-term future of the World Cup in the face of competition from its brash cousin, the Twenty20 format.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Records fall -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s early days but India\'s famously batting-friendly pitches have been as generous as ever.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand\'s Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra both cracked centuries in the opening day win over champions England.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der Dussen and Aiden Markram all made centuries for South Africa in their 102-run win against Sri Lanka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the first time a team had boasted three centurions in the same innings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Markram set a new record for the fastest World Cup century coming off 49 balls while South Africa\'s 428-5 was the highest ever total made in tournament history.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lankan bowlers Matheesha Pathirana (1-95) and Kasun Rajitha (1-90) conceded more than 180 runs between them from 20 overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka\'s reply of 326 all out made the game in New Delhi the highest-scoring World Cup match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first four days also saw 12 fifties made, including by Virat Kohli (85) and KL Rahul (97 not out) after India slumped to 2-3 chasing 200 to defeat Australia on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Injuries and missing \'messiah\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England\'s defence of their title started without talismanic batsman Ben Stokes who has been hit by a hip injury to add to the long-standing knee issue which prevents him from bowling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stokes, the star of the epic 2019 World Cup final victory over New Zealand at Lord\'s, arrived in India having made an England record score of 182 in an ODI against the Kiwis last month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'s not Superman. It\'s not all just about the messiah Stokesy coming back and him doing everything,\" said teammate Mark Wood after Thursday\'s nine-wicket loss to the Black Caps in Ahmedabad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka have also been hit hard by injuries with frontline leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga and fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera sitting out the entire event while finger spinner Maheesh Theekshana sat out the defeat by Sri Lanka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five-time champions Australia also have batsman Travis Head \"sitting on a couch in Perth\" hoping his broken hand will heal in time for the later stages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Aussies almost lost wrist spinner Adam Zampa to a freak accident when he swam into the wall of the pool at the team hotel, an embarrassing mishap which left him a \"bit sore\", said captain Pat Cummins. 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(9591, 9591, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Shah Rukh Khan\'s security has been increased after he complained about allegedly receiving death threats. As per news agency ANI, the Maharashtra government increased the actor\'s security to the Y+ category.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah Rukh filed a complaint</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quoting the Maharashtra Police, ANI reported that Shah Rukh had given a written complaint to the state government. He claimed that he had been receiving death threat calls after the release of his films Pathan and Jawan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian Express citing its sources, reported that the Maharashtra State Intelligence Department (SID) had informed all the police commissionerates, district police and special protection units (SPUs) in the state to provide “Y+ with an escort scale of security to Khan with immediate effect”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official communication was dated October 5. It also reported that the security was increased due to recent “imminent and probable” threats to Shah Rukh. In the Y+ category, Shah Rukh will get 11 security personnel, including six commandos, four police personnel and a traffic clearance vehicle. The policemen would be stationed at Mannat, his Mumbai home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What happened earlier this year</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This comes months after security was increased around Mannat after protests against Shah Rukh. In August, there were protests against celebrities who endorsed online gaming apps. In March this year, two men broke into Mannat premises by scaling the outer wall. The Mumbai Police had then said that the men were apprehended by the security guards.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah Rukh\'s films</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah Rukh was recently seen in Jawan which has already minted ₹1103.27 crore gross at the worldwide box office. Directed by Atlee, the movie released worldwide on September 7 in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. The movie also features Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi with Deepika Padukone and Sanjay Dutt in special appearances.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sanya Malhotra, Priyamani, Girija Oak, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Lehar Khan, Aaliyah Qureshi, Ridhi Dogra, Sunil Grover and Mukesh Chhabra round out the cast. A Red Chillies Entertainment presentation, Jawan is produced by Gauri Khan and co-produced by Gaurav Verma. He will be next seen in Dunki, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, alongside Taapsee Pannu. 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, '2023-10-09 06:29:25', '2023-10-09 06:29:25'),
(9592, 9592, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">More than 123,000 people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the conflict between Palestinian militants and Israel, the United Nations said Monday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Over 123,538 people, have been internally displaced in Gaza, mostly due to fear, protection concerns and the destruction of their homes,\" said the UN\'s humanitarian agency, OCHA, with more than 73,000 sheltering in schools. 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, '2023-10-09 08:10:49', '2023-10-09 08:10:49'),
(9593, 9593, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas today said that they firmly believe that “competition” in the Indo-Pacific is not about forcing countries to choose, but it is about offering an alternative vision based on respect, prosperity, and partnership.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It’s my hope that our definition of competition in this region allows us to renew our sense of purpose and reinvigorate our commitment to a shared vision for the Indo-Pacific,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US ambassador was speaking at a plenary session on “Defining Competition in the Indo-Pacific”, moderated by Zillur Rahman, executive director of Centre for Governance Studies and chairman of Bay of Bengal Conversation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jeremy Bruer, Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh; Lilly Nicholls, Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh; and Sarah Cooke, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, also spoke at the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Together,” Ambassador Haas said, they stand as stewards of stability, prosperity, and inclusivity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By championing democracy, human rights, and open dialogue, he said, the US is paving the way for a region that not only endures but thrives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Through the recognition of our sovereign foreign policy prerogatives, we forge partnerships that are based on mutual respect, shared aspirations, and, especially in the case of our friends on this panel, partnerships and alliances that transcend borders and stand as a testament to our collective commitment to a stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” said the US ambassador.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quoting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Ambassador Haas said, “The Indo-Pacific region must be an area of peace and prosperity for all. Our vision for the region is to have a free, open, peaceful, secure, and inclusive region.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States wholeheartedly agrees to this vision, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looking to the future, Haas said, it is in everyone’s interest to protect that freedom, that openness. “And I’d also like to add to that diversity, that makes the Indo-Pacific such a dynamic engine of growth and prosperity, not just for the citizens of the region, but for the entire world.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said they collectively champion a resolute commitment to upholding a rules-based international order, fostering robust economic integration, and safeguarding the sanctity of maritime commons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are also collectively committed to relying on our alliances and partnerships with each other, and others in the region, to achieve these aims. This is absolutely central to our approach,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US ambassador said they applaud Bangladesh’s vision of a “free, open, peaceful, secure, and inclusive Indo-Pacific” and note significant overlap with their own, including on issues such as freedom of navigation and overflight; open, transparent, and rules-based multilateral systems; and environmental resilience.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Here we also underscore that just as we seek a free and open region, we believe we can only truly fulfil these visions when we apply those principles domestically as well,” Haas 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, '2023-10-09 08:14:59', '2023-10-09 08:14:59');
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(9594, 9594, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to open the new train service on Dhaka-Bhanga route through Padma Bridge tomorrow, an official source said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Dhaka-Bhanga rail route will be inaugurated on October 10. But, commercial train movement on the route will begin after a short time,\" Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan told a media briefing recently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the newly introduced railway link will contribute significantly to the country\'s economy, as it will connect Mongla port, adding, \"We will bring 64 districts of the country under the railway network in phases. The previous BNP government did not take any step for the development of railway sector.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier will inaugurate the new route at a function at Mawa Railway Station in Munshiganj.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the project details, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will cross the Padma Bridge by a special train as the special train will arrive at Bhanga in Faridpur from Mawa Railway Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Railway is constructing the 172km-long new rail tracks from Dhaka to Jashore under Padma Bridge Rail Link Project as its 82km part connecting Dhaka and Bhanga will be opened tomorrow while the remaining portion connecting Jashore is likely to be launched in June next year, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka-Bhanga rail service via Padma Bridge is set to be inaugurated one year and two months after opening the landmark Padma Bridge in June last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 7, the trial run of a special train on the Dhaka-Bhanga route through the Padma Bridge was completed.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Bangladesh Railways ran a trial train from Bhanga to Mawa end of Padma Bridge on April 4 after the completion of the stone less railway line on the Padma Bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 14 last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the construction work of the rail link between Dhaka and Jessore under the \'Padma Bridge Rail Link Construction Project\' as the project cost is estimated at Taka 39,246.80 crore while Exim Bank of China is providing Taka 21,036.70 crore as loan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon completion, the railway connectivity will improve accessibility to the capital city with central and south western regions of the country through Padma Bridge, covering new areas of Munshiganj, Shariatpur, Madaripur and Narail districts, the project details said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project will establish alternative railway connectivity linking Dhaka-Jessore-Khulna with 212.05 km shorter route, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will also establish another sub-route of Trans-Asian Railway Network in Bangladesh and introduce national, regional and international freight and BG container train service as this route will be free from speed and load restriction for carrying containers. 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, '2023-10-09 08:25:30', '2023-10-09 08:25:30'),
(9595, 9595, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A devastating fire that broke out at SA Paribahan Building in capital\'s Kakrail area was brought under control after 46 minutes effort, a fire service official said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"After receiving message of fire at 10:12am, twelve fire engines rushed to the spot and brought the inferno at the building under control at 10.58am,\" said Lima Khan, duty officer of the fire service control room here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire originated at the fourth floor of the building but the cause of the fire was not immediately known.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No casualty, as well, was reported due to the fire by now. 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, '2023-10-09 08:42:54', '2023-10-09 08:42:54'),
(9596, 9596, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the final prize of this year\'s Nobels season, is set to be announced in Stockholm on Monday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The winner or winners unveiled by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences follow the awards in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace that were announced last week.</div><div><br></div><div>The economics award was created in 1968 by Sweden\'s central bank and is formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year\'s winners were former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip Dybvig for their research into bank failures that helped shape America’s aggressive response to the 2007-2008 financial crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>Only two of the 92 economics laureates honored have been women.</div><div><br></div><div>A week ago, Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine. The physics prize went Tuesday to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz.</div><div><br></div><div>U.S. scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the chemistry prize on Wednesday. They were followed by Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who was awarded the prize for literature. And on Friday, jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the peace prize.</div><div><br></div><div>The prizes are handed out at awards ceremonies in December in Oslo and Stockholm. They carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million). Winners also receive an 18-carat gold medal and diploma. According to AP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 10:36:03', '2023-10-09 10:36:03'),
(9597, 9597, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">For Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s eyes are never very far away. Surveillance drones buzz constantly from the skies. The highly-secured border is awash with security cameras and soldiers on guard. Intelligence agencies work sources and cyber capabilities to draw out a bevy of information.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>But Israel’s eyes appeared to have been closed in the lead-up to an unprecedented onslaught by the militant Hamas group, which broke down Israeli border barriers and sent hundreds of militants into Israel to carry out a brazen attack that has killed hundreds and pushed the region toward conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel’s intelligence agencies have gained an aura of invincibility over the decades because of a string of achievements. Israel has foiled plots seeded in the West Bank, allegedly hunted down Hamas operatives in Dubai and has been accused of killing Iranian nuclear scientists in the heart of Iran. Even when their efforts have stumbled, agencies like the Mossad, Shin Bet and military intelligence have maintained their mystique.</div><div><br></div><div>But the weekend’s assault, which caught Israel off guard on a major Jewish holiday, plunges that reputation into doubt and raises questions about the country’s readiness in the face of a weaker but determined foe. Over 48 hours later, Hamas militants continued to battle Israeli forces inside Israeli territory, and dozens of Israelis were in Hamas captivity in Gaza.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is a major failure,” said Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This operation actually proves that the (intelligence) abilities in Gaza were no good.”</div><div><br></div><div>Amidror declined to offer an explanation for the failure, saying lessons must be learned when the dust settles.</div><div><br></div><div>Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesman, acknowledged the army owes the public an explanation. But he said now is not the time. “First, we fight, then we investigate,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Some say it is too early to pin the blame solely on an intelligence fault. They point to a wave of low-level violence in the West Bank that shifted some military resources there and the political chaos roiling Israel over steps by Netanyahu\'s far-right government to overhaul the judiciary. The controversial plan has threatened the cohesion of the country\'s powerful military.</div><div><br></div><div>But the apparent lack of prior knowledge of Hamas\' plot will likely be seen as a prime culprit in the chain of events that led to the deadliest attack against Israelis in decades.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel withdrew troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, stripping it of a close handle on the happenings in the territory. But even after Hamas overran Gaza in 2007, Israel appeared to maintain its edge, using technological and human intelligence.</div><div><br></div><div>It claimed to know the precise locations of Hamas leadership and appeared to prove it through the assassinations of militant leaders in surgical strikes, sometimes while they slept in their bedrooms. Israel has known where to strike underground tunnels used by Hamas to ferry around fighters and arms, destroying miles (kilometers) of the concealed passageways.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite those abilities, Hamas was able to keep its plan under wraps. The ferocious attack, which likely took months of planning and meticulous training and involved coordination among multiple militant groups, appeared to have gone under Israel\'s intelligence radar.</div><div><br></div><div>Amir Avivi, a retired Israeli general, said that without a foothold inside Gaza, Israel\'s security services have come to rely increasingly on technological means to gain intelligence. He said militants in Gaza have found ways to evade that technological intelligence gathering, giving Israel an incomplete picture of their intentions.</div><div><br></div><div>“The other side learned to deal with our technological dominance and they stopped using technology that could expose it,” said Avivi, who served as a conduit for intelligence materials under a former military chief of staff. Avivi is president and founder of Israel Defense and Security Forum, a hawkish group of former military commanders, reports AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“They\'ve gone back to the Stone Age,” he said, explaining that militants weren\'t using phones or computers and were conducting their sensitive business in rooms specially guarded from technological espionage or going underground.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 12:03:54', '2023-10-09 12:03:54'),
(9598, 9598, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, declared a “complete siege” on Gaza today, marking a significant intensification of the long-standing conflict in the region. The announcement comes as Gaza grapples with worsening living conditions under a crippling air, land, and sea blockade that has been in place since 2007.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>As part of the new measures, Israeli authorities plan to cut electricity supplies to Gaza and block the entry of essential food and fuel. This decision has raised concerns about the well-being of Gaza\'s more than 2 million residents, who already face severe shortages of water, electricity, medicines, and access to medical care, including surgical procedures.</div><div><br></div><div>To enforce this latest development, Israel has mobilized 300,000 army reservists to bolster its forces. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, Hagar, confirmed this significant deployment, indicating a heightened state of readiness.</div><div><br></div><div>Reports indicate that Israeli air attacks have already targeted two refugee camps within the besieged Gaza Strip. Local media outlets reported that the “two massive raids” struck the Jabalia and al-Shati refugee camps. A mosque in al-Shati was also hit by Israeli airstrikes, causing widespread concern for civilian casualties.</div><div><br></div><div>The casualties from these attacks have been brought to Gaza City\'s main hospital, Al-Shifa. According to health officials, the current death toll in Gaza stands at 508 Palestinians, while media reports suggest that more than 700 Israelis have also been affected by the escalating violence.</div><div><br></div><div>The international community is closely monitoring the situation, with growing calls for an immediate ceasefire and a return to negotiations to address the long-standing issues underlying the conflict. World leaders have expressed deep concern over the deteriorating situation and have urged restraint from both sides. - Morocco world news</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 12:31:45', '2023-10-09 12:31:45'),
(9599, 9599, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b style=\"\">Nine US citizens were among those killed in Israel\'s clash with Hamas, said a representative for the US National Security Council (NSC) in a statement on Monday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"At this time, we can confirm the death of nine US citizens. We extend our deepest condolences to the victims and to the families of all those affected, and wish those injured a speedy recovery. We continue to monitor the situation closely and remain in touch with our Israeli partners, particularly the local authorities,\" said the spokesperson, reports CNN.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are in close contact with the government of Israel as they continue to conduct security operations to locate missing US citizens.. and we are, of course, in close contact with the families of these nine deceased Americans and offering them any consular assistance that we can provide,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told CNN.</div><div><br></div><div>The US is still gathering information on US citizens who are involved in the clash, the report said. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 14:01:54', '2023-10-09 14:01:54'),
(9600, 9600, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday warned the government of dire consequences if ailing party chairperson and ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia’s life falls at risk for lack of proper treatment abroad.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“We would like to make it clear that if there is any threat to the life of our leader Begum Khaleda Zia, the people of this country will never forgive this despicable looter government,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a rally, the BNP leader said the people are not so stupid that they fail to understand the government has sent its main opponent Khaleda Zia to jail to remove her from politics and secure power.</div><div><br></div><div>He alleged the government pushed the BNP chief near death by&nbsp; deliberately keeping her incarcerated in an uninhabitable room while she was in prison.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of the party’s countrywide programme, BNP’s Dhaka south and north city units arranged the rally in front of its Nayapaltan central office demanding that the government allow Khaleda Zia to go abroad for advanced treatment.</div><div><br></div><div>The party will also observe a token hunger strike across the country, including in Dhaka, on September 14 to mount pressure on the government to let Khaleda go abroad.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier in the day, the medical board formed at Evercare Hospital for Khaleda’s treatment recommended that she be urgently sent to a multidisciplinary centre abroad, as there are now no treatment options available for her in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>The board also said the 78-year-old former prime minister’s life is at risk because of a lack of proper treatment to stop water accretion in her stomach and chest, internal bleeding and infections caused by her liver cirrhosis problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said when the medical board said Khaleda was at the crossroads of life and death, the government said there was no scope to send her abroad out of political vengeance.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said Awami League has now become a fascist organisation that represents the bureaucrats and law enforcers who are indulging in repression and some businessmen who are indulging in plundering.</div><div><br></div><div>He said Awami League was not satisfied by convicting Khaleda on false charges, as it is now jailing and arresting the BNP leaders who are waging the street movement.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul strongly protested a lower court verdict sentencing 15 BNP leaders and activists, including its vice chairman and former lawmaker Alhaj Md Shahjahan and chairperson’s adviser Habibur Rahman Habib, in a ‘false’ sabotage case filed around eight years back in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>He warned that it would not be possible to resist opposition leaders and activists by jailing and repressing them.</div><div><br></div><div>“They thought that the BNP would no longer exist after jailing our leader Khaleda Zia. But BNP has become stronger and woke up to ensure the government’s fall through a movement,” the BNP leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>He alleged that the government has already sentenced many BNP leaders, including standing committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku and Dhaka North City unit party convener Amanullah Aman, to remove them from politics ahead of the national election.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will not stop unless we remove this regime from power and we’ll definitely defeat this regime,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government is going through serious ordeals due to hikes in prices of daily essentials while inflation is growing amid the dollar crisis, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“The way the reserves are decreasing, there will be no more money to import goods after a few days…the government still does not understand what consequences await. Don\'t forget history. No one could run the country in this way,” added Fakhrul.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 16:25:06', '2023-10-09 16:25:06'),
(9601, 9601, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Opener Will Young, Rachin Ravindra and Tom Latham struck half centuries as New Zealand overcame some tight bowling by the Netherlands to post 322-7 in their World Cup clash on Monday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Young scored an 80-ball 70, captain Latham made 53 off 46 balls while Ravindra hit a run-a-ball 51 after the Netherlands won the toss and opted to bowl on a slowish Rajiv Gandhi Stadium pitch.</div><div><br></div><div>In the slog overs, Mitchell Santner struck a rapid 17-ball 36 not out with two sixes and three boundaries to bolster the total.</div><div><br></div><div>Young put on a solid start of 67 after 12 overs with Devon Conway before spinner Roelof van der Merwe broke the stand by getting Conway caught at long-on.</div><div><br></div><div>Conway, who hit an undefeated 152 against England in New Zealand\'s opening nine-wicket win on Thursday, hit five boundaries and a six in his 40-ball 32.</div><div><br></div><div>Young found another able partner in Ravindra as both took New Zealand to 144 with a stand of 77 before pacer Paul van Meekeren had the opener caught at mid-on.</div><div><br></div><div>Van der Merwe struck for a second time when he had Ravindra caught behind.</div><div><br></div><div>Ravindra\'s run-a-ball 51 was spiced with a six and three boundaries and came after his 123 not out against England.</div><div><br></div><div>Daryl Mitchell played a solid hand with a quick 47-ball 48 comprising five boundaries and two sixes but fell at the start of the last power-play, bowled by Van Meekeren.</div><div><br></div><div>Mitchell benefitted from a dropped catch on 22 but Glenn Phillips (four) and Mark Chapman (five) were removed quickly, leaving the late fireworks to Santner.</div><div><br></div><div>Latham hit six boundaries and a six.</div><div><br></div><div>Van Meekeren, Aryan Dutt and Van der Merwe took two wickets apiece.</div><div><br></div><div>Brief Scores: New Zealand 322-7 in 50 overs (W. Young 70, T. Latham 53, R. Ravindra 51 v Netherlands - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 16:38:10', '2023-10-09 16:38:10'),
(9602, 9602, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and wounded in Israeli air raids on Jabalia refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry and the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>At least 493 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardments on the blockaded enclave since Saturday, according to a ministry death toll published earlier on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli air raids on Gaza came after Hamas fighters from the Strip launched a multi-front attack on Israel, killing at least 800 people and capturing dozens of others as hostages.</div><div><br></div><div>At the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, men clambered on a flattened building to pull an infant’s tiny body from the rubble, carrying it down through the crowd below amid still-smouldering remains of bombed buildings. The air raid left dozens of people killed and injured, according to the territory’s health ministry and WAFA.</div><div><br></div><div>As ambulances arrived at a hospital, workers ran out to haul in stretchers bearing the wounded. Inside, a man lay next to the shrouded body of his nephew, hysterical with grief, alternately striking the floor and embracing the corpse as he screamed.</div><div><br></div><div>Funeral processions wound down Gaza streets. In Rafah, in the south, men strode behind a body being carried on a bier, Palestinian and Hamas flags raised behind.</div><div><br></div><div>At the cemetery, a family buried Saad Lubbad, a boy killed in air raids. His body, wrapped in white, was passed down to be laid on a patterned cloth before burial.</div><div><br></div><div>Nasser Abu Quta said 19 members of his family including his wife were killed when an air raid hit their home, where they were huddling on the ground floor in Rafah.</div><div><br></div><div>There were no fighters in his building, he said. “This is a safe house, with children and women,” the 57-year-old Abu Quta told the Associated Press news agency by telephone.</div><div><br></div><div>Another strike in the same city early Monday killed 11, including women and children.</div><div><br></div><div>The densely populated enclave’s 2.3 million residents, many of them refugees descended from people who fled or were expelled from their homes during fighting when Israel was founded in 1948, have endured repeated bouts of war and Israeli air raids in the past. According to Al Jazeera reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-09 16:49:18', '2023-10-09 16:49:18'),
(9603, 9603, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Israeli military said early Tuesday that it struck two tunnels used by Hamas militants to enter Israeli territory.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The news came a day after 70 militants infiltrated the Be’eri kibbutz Monday night. The small farming community has been a flashpoint of the conflict — the scene of a hostage standoff during the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities did not immediately provide more information on the location of the tunnels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The militant group has used tunnels in the past. It has an established a network running from Gaza to Egypt to smuggle in weapons, as well as attack tunnels burrowing into Israel. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 01:18:29', '2023-10-10 01:18:29'),
(9604, 9604, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As retaliatory Israeli airstrikes continue, more than 187,500 people have been displaced in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, according to a report from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, is hosting more than 137,000 people in schools across the territory. The report says airstrikes have razed 790 housing units and severely damaged 5,330 in the territory of 2.3 million people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OCHA said damage to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in Gaza has disrupted service for more than 400,000 people. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 01:46:24', '2023-10-10 01:46:24'),
(9605, 9605, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Joe Biden said Monday that 11 Americans are dead and others are likely being held hostage by the Palestinian militant group Hamas after a surprise attack on Israel using what a US official called \"ISIS-level savagery.\"</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As fears grew that the conflict could turn into a regional conflagration, the White House said there was no intention to put US boots on the ground but warned Iran and other actors not to get involved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Britain meanwhile pledged their support for their ally Israel to defend itself as the death toll there rose to 800, while in Gaza, 687 people have died.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas dragged off about 150 hostages in its weekend onslaught on southern Israel from Gaza and has threatened to kill them if retaliatory Israeli air strikes continue \"targeting\" Gaza residents without warning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden said that Washington, which has moved its biggest aircraft carrier and other warships closer to Israel in a show of support, was working with its key ally on \"hostage recovery efforts.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Sadly, we now know that at least 11 American citizens were among those killed -- many of whom made a second home in Israel,\" Biden said in a statement after meeting his national security team at the White House.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While we are still working to confirm, we believe it is likely that American citizens may be among those being held by Hamas,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House would be lit in the blue and white colors of the Israeli flag on Monday night in a sign of US \"ironclad\" support.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden was due to deliver further remarks on the \"terrorist attacks in Israel\" on Tuesday, the White House said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Massacred\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior US defense official said Monday that the hostages were the subject of intense engagement with the Israelis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are continual conversations across the US government with all of our Israeli counterparts about the situation of hostages that Hamas is holding in Gaza,\" the official told journalists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US official also likened the attacks by Hamas to the notorious brutality of the Islamic State jihadist group, which is known by the acronym ISIS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is ISIS-level savagery that we have seen committed against Israeli civilians -- houses burned to the ground, young people massacred at music festivals,\" the official said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House said that while it was sending fresh military aid to Israel to deter its \"enemies,\" there was no question for now of the United States getting involved in the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There\'s no intention to put US boots on the ground,\" National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kirby said that there was no \"hard or tangible evidence\" linking Iran to the Hamas attack, even if there was a \"degree of complicity\" due to Tehran\'s support for the group.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran has denied any involvement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issued a joint statement saying they \"support Israel in its efforts to defend itself,\" the White House said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An initial version of the statement from the French presidency warned Iran not to \"spread the conflict beyond Gaza,\" but the reference to the Islamic republic, which did not appear in the White House or Downing Street versions, was later removed. 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(9606, 9606, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Monday said that BNP always says it won’t participate in the election, but later they participate.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">.\"I hope they will participate in the elections this time too,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said this while talking to reporters after a meeting with the leaders of the Film Exhibitors Association at the Secretariat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that people’s participation is more important than the BNP’s participation in the election, the minister said even if BNP and its allies boycott the election, an international standard election will be held in Bangladesh on time with the participation of the people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked whether the government wants the BNP in the election, Hasan Mahmud replied that we want them to come to the election, that’s why we are inviting them repeatedly. “If they are so popular, come to the polls.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a question about Khaleda Zia’s treatment, Hasan Mahmud said, I pray to the Almighty that Begum Zia recovers quickly again.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government is very sympathetic and providing whatever support is required so that Begum Zia gets the best health care, he asserted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“She is being treated at one of the best hospitals in the country as per her wishes and the government has also said that if there is a need to bring any foreign doctors, it will bring it,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He again said, sending abroad is about jurisdiction of the court. If they have to do that, they can go to court. 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, '2023-10-10 03:13:29', '2023-10-10 03:13:29'),
(9607, 9607, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Cricket\'s long Olympic exile could finally come to an end this week when Games chiefs meet in Mumbai to finalise the programme for Los Angeles 2028.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-eight sports are already confirmed on the schedule but cricket was one of five new sports formally proposed for inclusion by organisers for the Games on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Cricket Council\'s proposal is for men\'s and women\'s Twenty20 competitions -- the shortest form of the international game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are delighted that LA28 have recommended cricket for inclusion in the Olympics,\" ICC chairman Greg Barclay said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Whilst this is not the final decision, it is a very significant landmark towards seeing cricket at the Olympics for the first time in more than a century.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If it makes the cut, it would be the first time cricket has featured since 1900, when a team from Britain beat a side representing France in Paris.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then it has been in the Olympic wilderness, in part because cricket itself was quite happy to stand aside from the Games.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in recent years the ICC has made clear it wants to be part of the global showpiece -- a move that could turbo-charge the sport and help it exploit new markets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our sport is united behind this bid, and we see the Olympics as a part of cricket\'s long-term future,\" Barclay said in 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The game has had support from the highest places in the Olympic movement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late ICC president Jacques Rogge said in 2011: \"We would welcome an application. It (cricket) is an important, popular sport and very powerful on television.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current president, Thomas Bach, has also backed the inclusion of cricket, which featured at last year\'s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Indian hotbed -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week the IOC executive board is meeting in Mumbai, ahead of a full IOC session from October 15 to October 17, which would effectively rubberstamp the decision.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cricket could not have asked for a better city in which to make its case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IOC session is being held in one of the hotbeds of the sport as India hosts the men\'s 50-over World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cricket, with its multiple formats and quirky rules, has long been a source of curiosity in areas of the world where it is not played.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the global language of cold, hard cash is easier to understand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arguments that Olympic cricket would clash with the English season or that the game takes too long look increasingly outdated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The global calendar is now a mishmash of international cricket, domestic cricket and franchise cricket, with multiple formats jostling for attention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wildly popular T20 Indian Premier League, which has spawned several other franchise competitions worldwide, means traditional five-day Test cricket, long regarded as the pinnacle of the game, no longer holds sway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IPL, featuring global superstars, has helped India become the unquestioned economic driving force of cricket, thanks to legions of fans and lucrative broadcasting deals in a nation where the game is almost a religion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adding cricket to the Olympic programme is an obvious move, financially speaking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would tap into the lucrative south Asian market, attracting fans in countries such as India and Pakistan that have not traditionally been strong in the core Olympic sports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would also potentially help cricket access millions of dollars of public and corporate funding currently reserved for Games sports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That would benefit emerging cricket nations but could also help cash-strapped established countries such as South Africa. 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(9608, 9608, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Major US airlines Delta on Monday said it was cancelling all flights to Israel until the end of the month after the shock attack by Hamas militants.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"As Delta continues monitoring events in the region, we have made the difficult decision to cancel our Tel Aviv flights through Oct. 31, 2023,\" the company said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our hearts are with those who are impacted as our people work to find safe alternatives for customers trying to depart Tel Aviv,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delta\'s suspension follows similar decisions by American Airlines, Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates and Ryanair and others that this weekend pulled flights to Tel Aviv\'s Ben Gurion airport.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">American Airlines on Monday said it operated two flights out of Tel Aviv on Saturday and Sunday to deal with customers and crew members at the airport.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our Tel Aviv flights will remain suspended until conditions allow them to resume,\" American added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli flag carrier El Al said Sunday that it was maintaining its Tel Aviv flights for now, though some flights operated by foreign partners had been cancelled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">El Al said it was operating \"in accordance with the instructions of the Israeli security forces\", with all flights now departing only from Terminal Three at Ben Gurion. 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, '2023-10-10 04:07:09', '2023-10-10 04:07:09'),
(9609, 9609, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the 82 km railway track from Dhaka to Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila under the Padma Bridge Rail Link Construction Project and will address a rally at 2 pm at Kazi Abu Yusuf Stadium in Bhanga today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main road in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur has been adorned with banners, festoons, and digital displays ahead of the premier\'s visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During her train ride to Faridpur, eleven individuals from different professions are going to accompany the PM.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this regard, Faridpur Deputy Commissioner Md Kamrul Ahsan Talukder said, soon after the decision of the prime minister\'s visit to Faridpur, the PMO gave us instructions to make a list of 11 people from different professions. The Prime Minister will go to Faridpur from Dhaka by train and she will talk to them and listen to their views.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have made a list of them and they will be sent to Dhaka on Tuesday morning under special arrangements,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who will accompany the prime minister on the train journey are: Freedom fighter Abul Faiz Shah Nawaz; freedom fighter Aminur Rahman Farid; vegetable vendor Helal Uddin; garment worker Rekha Begum; hawker Rahim Sheikh; bus driver Sultan Ahmed; Pastor Sathi Chakraborty; seed farmer Sahida Begum; primary school students Swarnajit Ghosh, Nusrat Jahan; and madrasa student Jannatul Ferdaus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about the train journey with the prime minister, freedom fighter Aminur Rahman Farid said, \"I can’t articulate this feeling. I can’t believe I will be crossing the Padma Bridge on a train, that too with the prime minister!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rekha Begum said, \"I don\'t know how I got this opportunity. Thanks to Almighty Allah. May he grant the PM a long life.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Padma Bridge to Faridpur, the whole area is decked out in bright colors. Roads, including the Dhaka-Bhanga Expressway, are covered with banners and decorations to celebrate the launch of rail connectivity with the southwestern region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah Md. Ishtiaq Arif, general secretary of Faridpur district Awami League, said, “Ignoring the storm and rain, we have worked tirelessly day and night to ensure the success of the public meeting with the initiative of the district Awami League. Our goal is to gather more than two lakh people at the venue and surrounding areas.” 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, '2023-10-10 04:12:26', '2023-10-10 04:12:26'),
(9610, 9610, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 170 at 9:30am today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka’s air was classified as \'unhealthy\', according to the air quality and pollution city ranking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iraq\'s Baghdad, India’s Kolkata and United Arab Emirates’ Dubai occupied the second, third and fourth spots on the list, with AQI scores of 164, 163 and 157, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\' while 201-300 is \'very unhealthy\', and 301-400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, informs people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI in Bangladesh is based on five pollutants: particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, mainly due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 04:15:11', '2023-10-10 04:15:11');
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(9611, 9611, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, launched an attack inside Israel over the weekend, killing hundreds and taking others hostage. Its unprecedented breach of the border sent fighters inside border communities and military installations, shocked Israel and its allies, and raised questions about the group’s capabilities and strategy.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHAT IS HAMAS?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group was founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian refugee living in Gaza, during the first intifada, or uprising, which was marked by widespread protests against Israel’s occupation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, and a recognition of the group’s roots and early ties to one of the Sunni world’s most prominent groups, the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in the 1920s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group has vowed to annihilate Israel and has been responsible for many suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on civilians and Israeli soldiers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997. The European Union and other Western countries also consider it a terrorist organization.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas won 2006 parliamentary elections elections and in 2007 violently seized control of the Gaza Strip from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority, dominated by rival Fatah movement, administers semi-autonomous areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel responded to the Hamas takeover with a blockade on Gaza, restricting movement of people and goods in and out of the territory in a step it says is needed to keep the group from developing weapons. The blockade has ravaged Gaza’s economy, and Palestinians accuse Israel of collective punishment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the years, Hamas received backing from Arab countries, such as Qatar and Turkey. Recently, it’s moved closer to Iran and its allies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHO ARE HAMAS’ LEADERS?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas founder and spiritual leader Yassin — a paralyzed man who used a wheelchair — spent years in Israeli prisons and oversaw the establishment of Hamas’ military wing, which carried out its first suicide attack in 1993.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli forces have targeted Hamas leaders throughout the years, killing Yassin in 2004.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khaled Mashaal, an exiled Hamas member who survived an earlier Israeli assassination attempt, became the group’s leader soon after.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yehia Sinwar, in Gaza, and Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in exile, are Hamas’ current leaders. They realigned the group’s leadership with Iran and its allies, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Since then, many of the group’s leaders relocated to Beirut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHAT DOES HAMAS WANT?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas has always espoused violence as a means to liberate occupied Palestinian territories and has called for the annihilation of Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas has carried out suicide bombings and over the years fired tens of thousands of increasingly powerful rockets from Gaza into Israel. It also established a network of tunnels running from Gaza to Egypt to smuggle in weapons, as well as attack tunnels burrowing into Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years, Hamas had appeared to be more focused on running Gaza than attacking Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHY NOW?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years, Israel has made peace deals with Arab countries without having to make concessions in its conflict with the Palestinians. The U.S. has recently been trying to broker a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, a bitter rival of Hamas’ Iranian backers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Israel’s new far-right government was working to cement Israeli settlements in the West Bank despite Palestinian opposition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas leaders say an Israeli crackdown on militants in the West Bank, continued construction of settlements — which the international community considers to be illegal — thousands of prisoners in Israeli jails, and its ongoing blockade of Gaza pushed it to attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its leaders say hundreds of its 40,000 fighters took part in the assault. Israel says the group has about 30,000 fighters and an arsenal of rockets, including some with a range of about 250 kilometers (155 miles), and unmanned drones. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 04:26:15', '2023-10-10 04:26:15'),
(9612, 9612, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In their second match of the ICC World Cup 2023, being held in Dharamsala, Bangladesh has chosen to bowl first against England.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tigers have made one change in the playing XI, opting to rest Mahmudullah Riyad and bring in Mahedi Hasan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh secured a convincing victory in their opening match against Afghanistan, winning by six wickets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mehidy Hasan Miraz led the charge, excelling with both bat and ball. He claimed three wickets and then went on to score 50 while batting at number three.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shakib Al Hasan also made significant contributions with the ball, taking three wickets to limit the Afghans to a below-par total.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Bangladesh started the World Cup with a win, England, the current world champions, lost to New Zealand in the World Cup opener in Ahmedabad.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh team: Litton Das, Tanzid Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Towhid Hridoy, Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England team: Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt &amp; wk), Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley 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, '2023-10-10 05:08:20', '2023-10-10 05:08:20'),
(9613, 9613, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in northern Myanmar, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area told AFP on Tuesday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The attack happened around 11:30 pm Monday night, Colonel Naw Bu of the Kachin Independence Army told AFP. \"We found 29 dead bodies including children and older people... 56 people were wounded,\" he said, adding they were investigating what kind of strike had hit the camp. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 05:53:22', '2023-10-10 05:53:22'),
(9614, 9614, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">South Korea, the United States and Japan concluded a joint maritime drill on Tuesday that simulated intercepting North Korean smuggling vessels, Seoul\'s navy said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-day exercise was the first of its kind in seven years, as the three countries ramp up cooperation in the face of threats from Pyongyang.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was aimed at enhancing their \"deterrence and response against North Korea\'s recently advancing nuclear and missile threats\", the navy said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It added that the drill was a \"follow-up\" to an agreement made at an August summit aimed at presenting a unified front to an increasingly belligerent North Korea, the navy said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taking part in the exercises off the waters of Jeju island were South Korea\'s Aegis-equipped destroyer Yulgok Yi I, the US aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and Japan\'s JS Hyuga destroyer, among other ships.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nuclear-powered US carrier and other ships from its naval strike group will make a five-day visit to the southern port city of Busan later this week, the defence ministry said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faced with a record-breaking series of North Korean missile launches, the conservative government of President Yoon Suk Yeol has made a concerted effort to improve historically strained ties with Japan, the country\'s former colonial ruler.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August, Yoon and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took part in a three-way summit hosted by US President Joe Biden at Camp David, agreeing to a multi-year plan of regular joint exercises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leaders also agreed to share real-time data on North Korea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Camp David meeting marked the first time the three leaders had met for a standalone summit, rather than on the sidelines of a larger event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was quick to slam the plans for trilateral drills, saying the countries\' \"gang bosses\" had made the waters around the Korean peninsula \"the most unstable waters with the danger of a nuclear war\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pyongyang has pledged to launch a military spy satellite into orbit this month after two earlier failed attempts, most recently in August. 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, '2023-10-10 06:21:35', '2023-10-10 06:21:35'),
(9615, 9615, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Around 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants have been found in Israel and around the Gaza Strip, the army said Tuesday, as it pummelled the Palestinian enclave with air strikes.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Approximately 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants were found in Israel and around the Gaza Strip,\" military spokesman Richard Hecht told reporters, adding that security forces had \"more or less restored control over the border\" with Gaza. AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 06:46:44', '2023-10-10 06:46:44'),
(9616, 9616, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday opened the Dhaka-Bhanga railway line, a part of which runs over Padma Bridge, in laying another milestone in the country’s infrastructure development.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opening of the 82-kilometre railway track from Dhaka to Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila under “Padma Bridge Rail Link Construction Project” fulfills the long-cherished dream of the people of the country’s southwestern districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangabandhu\'s youngest daughter Sheikh Rehana was present in the grand ceremony presided over by Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen and local MP (Munshiganj-2) Sagufta Yasmin Emily spoke on the occasion, while Railways Secretary Dr Md Humayun Kabir delivered the welcome speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After formal unveiling of the newly built railway line over the country’s longest bridge, the prime minister boarded a special inauguration train to travel to Bhanga, where she was greeted by thousands of jubilant people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The work on the construction of the railway line was launched by the prime minister on October 14 last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The railway line is being constructed in three phases (plus a 3km link being built between Dhaka and Gandaria): 37km Gandaria-Mawa section, a 42km Mawa-Bhanga section, and an 87km Bhanga Junction-Jashore section. Some 43.2km of loops, siding and Y-connections bring the total track length to 215.2km.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The entire railway project from Dhaka-Jashore is scheduled to be completed by June, 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be 20 stations from Dhaka to Jashore, of which 14 are new and 6 are already there. The previous stations are also being modernised. Once completed, trains will be able to run at a speed of 120 to 130 kilometres.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be no railway crossing anywhere on the Dhaka-Jashore railway line as underpasses are being constructed at each level crossing all the way from Dhaka to Jashore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The distance from Dhaka to Bhanga is about 82 kilometres. The new railway line from Gandaria in Dhaka has been added to the Padma Bridge via Keraniganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trains will be able to run from Kamalapur to Bhanga via Gandaria along the Dhaka-Narayanganj railway line.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the project, 100 modern passenger coaches have already been purchased. New trains will be introduced by decorating the rakes with them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Padma Bridge rail link project was approved on May 3, 2016. At that time, its construction cost was estimated to be around Tk 34,989 crore. When the project proposal was amended on May 22, 2018, the cost increased to Tk 39,247 crore. The cost may increase further, according to concerned authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Padma Bridge rail link project is being constructed with Chinese funding, on the basis of G2G (government to government). Chinese contractor China Railway Engineering Group (CREC) is working on the project. China\'s Exim Bank is providing a loan of $ 266.79 crore to implement the project.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rest of the cost is being financed by the government of Bangladesh. 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, '2023-10-10 06:58:40', '2023-10-10 06:58:40'),
(9617, 9617, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the Dhaka-Bhanga section of the rail link between Dhaka and Jashore through the Padma Bridge.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She opened the rail route unveiling a plaque by pressing a button at the digital method at a civic rally at Mawa Railway Station in Munshiganj this morning as PM\'s younger sister Sheikh Rehana was present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is the day of fulfilling the dream to cross the Padma River by train,\" the prime minister said before inaugurating the rail service.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said they have a target to link Bangladesh railway with the Trans Asian Railway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re working to this end,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commercial train services on the rail route will begin within a short time, sources said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the rail link becomes fully operational, it will save travel time between Dhaka and Jashore by half, help make a major boost to the country\'s railway connectivity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rail link will contribute significantly to the country\'s economy, as 64 districts of the country will be brought under the railway network in phases.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 7, the trial run of a special train on the Dhaka-Bhanga route through the Padma Bridge was completed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presided over by Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan, the programme was also addressed by Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed, local lawmaker (Munshiganj-2) Sagufta Yasmin Emily, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen and Railways Secretary Dr Md Humayun Kabir.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Railways ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury and Director General of Bangladesh Railways Md Quamrul Ahsan were present on the dais.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the railway link between Dhaka and Jashore was also screened on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After attending the civic rally that turned into a human sea at Mawa in Munshiganj, the prime minister is scheduled to take a ride on the special train by purchasing ticket to reach Bhanga in Faridpur via Padma Bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina, also President of the ruling Awami League (AL), then will attend a grand rally at Dr Kazi Abu Yusuf Stadium at Bhanga organized by the Faridpur district unit of AL.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the premier will leave Bhanga for her ancestral home at Tungipara in Gopalganj where she will pay rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his mausoleum.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After staying a night in her Tungipara residence, she will leave Gopalganj for Dhaka at Wednesday noon and scheduled to reach her official Ganabhaban residence in the afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Railway is constructing the 172km-long new rail tracks from Dhaka to Jashore under Padma Bridge Rail Link Project as its 82km part connecting Dhaka and Bhanga is opened today while the remaining portion connecting Jashore is likely to be launched in June next year, the project details said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka-Bhanga rail service via Padma Bridge is inaugurated one year and two months after opening the landmark Padma Bridge in June last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 14 last year, the prime minister inaugurated the construction work of the rail link between Dhaka and Jessore under the \'Padma Bridge Rail Link Construction Project\' as the project cost is estimated at Taka 39,246.80 crore while Exim Bank of China is providing Taka 21,036.70 crore as loan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon completion, the railway connectivity will improve accessibility to the capital city with central and southwestern regions of the country through Padma Bridge, covering new areas of Munshiganj, Shariatpur, Madaripur and Narail districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project will establish alternative railway connectivity linking Dhaka-Jessore-Khulna with 212.05 km shorter route.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will also establish another sub-route of Trans-Asian Railway Network in Bangladesh and introduce national, regional and international freight and BG container train service as this route will be free from speed and load restrictions for carrying containers. 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, '2023-10-10 07:57:42', '2023-10-10 07:57:42'),
(9618, 9618, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Katrina Kaif has finally unveiled her first poster for upcoming film, Tiger 3. She plays the role of Zoya opposite Salman Khan\'s Tiger in the action thriller. The poster features Katrina in the middle of an action sequence while holding a rope with one hand and a gun with the other. She however, still looks stylish in a leather jacket, pants and boots.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharing her Tiger 3 poster on Instagram, Katrina wrote, “Fighting fire with fire, that’s Zoya…..” Karan Johar reacted to the poster with “Kat” along with several heart emojis. A fan hailed her as the “Queen of Action”. Another wrote, “Can\'t wait for Zoya to fire cinema in this Diwali.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif too will have multiple action scenes in Tiger 3. Talking about playing Zoya in the film, she said in a statement, “Zoya is the first female spy of the YRF Spy Universe and I’m very proud to have a character like her. She is fierce, she is courageous, she is all heart, she is loyal, she is protective, she is nurturing and above all she stands up for humanity, every single time.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Katrina Kaif on playing Zoya in Tiger 3</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also opened up about pushing herself to the extreme for the film. “It has been an incredible journey playing Zoya in the YRF Spy Universe and I have put myself to the test in every film. Tiger 3 is no exception. We wanted to take the action sequences to the next level this time and I have pushed my body to breaking point for the film and people will see that. Physically this has been my most challenging film yet,” she said.The actor further said about her role, “It is always exciting to do action and I have been a fan of the action genre like since forever. So, playing Zoya is a dream come true for me. Strong , gutsy, badass and no holds barred! I’m looking forward to the reaction of people when they see Zoya on screen. She is the yin to the yang of Tiger.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Helmed by Maneesh Sharma, Tiger 3 will be released this Diwali in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Reportedly, it also stars Emraan Hashmi as an antagonist but there is no announcement about the same. Revathi, Ridhi Dogra, Vishal Jethwa, Kumud Mishra and Ranvir Shorey are also said to star in the film. Shah Rukh Khan too will be making a guest appearance as Pathaan in Tiger 3. 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, '2023-10-10 08:04:57', '2023-10-10 08:04:57'),
(9619, 9619, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reaffirmed her vow to make the country’s upcoming national election free, fair and neutral truly reflecting the will of the people.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;“There are some people who talk about free, fair and neutral election. But the country has witnessed free and neutral elections whenever the Awami League has been in power,” she told a jubilant rally while inaugurating the Dhaka-Bhanga railway line at Mawa close to the Padma Bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She unveiled the inaugural plaque of the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project before joining the rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister slammed those who talk of throwing her Awami League government out of power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“And the people who talk about free and fair election cast Awami League out of power every day. In fact they don’t want neutral election,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without naming BNP Hasina said that this party was established by a person who grabbed power illegally. “They came to power by rigging votes.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, in a free and fair election held in 2008 BNP-Jamaat 20-party alliance got only 29 out of 300 parliamentary seats as people rejected vote thieves. Since then they have been staying away from election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Apart from boycotting the polls, they resorted to arson terrorism, killing innocent people and destruction of public properties,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina, also the president of ruling Awami League, urged the people not to allow vested quarters to play duck and drakes with the fate of the Bengali nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said that people of the country attained independence with blood and they will not allow any one to destroy it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh, she said, will march forward with its head held high in the world bearing the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she declared.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She reiterated her vow to transform Bangladesh into a smart country by 2041. “We will build smart population, smart economy, smart government and smart society. It is our goal, No one will able to hold back the Bangalees. The Bangalee (nation) will remain united.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without naming Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Younus, the prime minister said that the World Bank stopped the funding to the Padma Bridge because of this person only for the position of a managing director, which he lost due to age limit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I promised that day, we will build the Padma Bridge with own financing, and we have done it,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangabandhu’s younger daughter Sheikh Rehana was present at the ceremony.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Railways Minister Md. Nurul Islam Sujan in the chair, Secretary of the Ministry&nbsp; Md. Humayun Kabir delivered welcome address.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Member of the Parliament from the local constituency (Munsiganj-2) Sagufta Yasmin Emily, Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed and Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen also spoke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the outset, a video documentary showcasing Pamda Bridge rail link project along with other development works of Bangladesh Railway under the present government was screened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Railways Ministry ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury, Bangladesh Railway Director General Md Kamrul Ahsan and Project Director Afzal Hossain were on the dais. 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(9620, 9620, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel, and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas militants. Hamas pledged to kill captured Israelis if attacks targeted civilians without warnings.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the war’s fourth day, Israel was still finding bodies from Hamas’ stunning weekend attack into southern Israeli towns, According to AP reprots&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 09:40:46', '2023-10-10 09:40:46'),
(9621, 9621, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The country’s foreign exchange reserves are in rapid decline, with growing import payments being one of the main drivers behind this declining trend.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Bank sold $3.75 billion from reserves in the first quarter (July-September) of the 2023-24 fiscal, mostly for the purpose of meeting the country’s import liabilities.</div><div><br></div><div>At the end of September, the country’s forex reserves stood at $21.05 billion. According to Bangladesh Bank’s own data, at the end of the financial year 2020-21, the reserves stood at $46.39 billion.&nbsp; It means the amount has more than halved in the space of 27 months (July 2021 to September 2023).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Central bank data shows it sold close to $25 billion from reserves in these 27 months. Apart from the $3.75 billion sold in the first quarter of the current fiscal, $13.58 billion was sold in the last fiscal (2022-23), and $7.62 billion in 2021-22.</div><div><br></div><div>The central bank sold these dollars mainly for the import of fuel, fertiliser, and food. The government has been providing assistance in the form of selling dollars from its forex reserves for importing some items. This has exacerbated the dollar crisis in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh reportedly missed its June 30 target for net foreign exchange reserves set with the IMF, as part of the conditions for the country’s $4.7 billion loan program with the Washington-based lender.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Economists also point out that the dues to the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) for the months of September and October have to be paid in early November. After that the reserves could fall further to around $18 billion, ex-lead economist of the World Bank office in Dhaka, Zahid Hussain, warned recently.</div><div><br></div><div>Economist and former IMF official Ahsan H Mansur told UNB that the dollar crisis has been going on in the country for one-and-a-half years. Despite various measures taken by the government to try and end it, the crisis persists.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the measures was to impose restrictions on the import of various items considered non-essential or luxury items, through increased duties and tariffs. However it has clearly not worked in terms of trying to stem the tide of dwindling reserves.</div><div><br></div><div>The dollar crisis has put a range of macroeconomic indicators in a bad state and affected various sectors, Mansur, executive director of leading think tank the Policy Research Institute, pointed out.</div><div><br></div><div>He believes that the decline in inward remittances and a rise in trade-based money laundering, in the face of political uncertainty, are the two major factors behind the declining reserves.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The country recorded its lowest inflow of inward remittances in almost 3-and-a-half years in September. The dollar crisis in fact contributes to the lower remittances, since there is a wide gap that has opened up between the dollar price offered by banks and other formal channels, and the price on the open or kerb market.</div><div><br></div><div>Banks currently offer Tk 110 for each dollar remitted, but on the open market they are likely to get upwards of Tk 122 for each dollar. So the decline in remittances despite increased export of manpower is thought to be due to expatriate workers switching to the informal hundi channel as their preferred way to send money home.</div><div><br></div><div>Ahsan Mansur said the situation would not improve before the election, as the uncertainty in the political arena would continue to be a factor.</div><div><br></div><div>Once it passes, if a stable government is formed through a credible election, then the economy could recover on the strength of improving confidence levels, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In September, Customs authorities reported trade-based money laundering worth Tk 3.0 billion, or $30 million, by ten ghost companies. But this is thought to be just the tip of the iceberg. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 13:35:51', '2023-10-10 13:35:51'),
(9622, 9622, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Hollywood writers overwhelmingly voted to approve a hard-fought new deal with studios, their union said Monday, officially ending one of the industry\'s longest ever strikes.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"99 percent of WGA members have voted in favor of ratifying\" the contract, allowing them to return to work on improved terms, said the Writers Guild of America on social media.</div><div><br></div><div>Approval by the union\'s 11,500-odd members had been widely seen as a near-certainty.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, after 148 days on strike, WGA negotiators reached a deal with the likes of Netflix and Disney, achieving better pay, greater protections from artificial intelligence, minimum staffing levels and more.</div><div><br></div><div>Most writers returned to work nearly two weeks ago, in anticipation of the deal being ratified.</div><div><br></div><div>Still, film and television productions in Hollywood are yet to resume in earnest, as the far larger Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) representing 160,000 performers remains on strike.</div><div><br></div><div>Talks between the studios and SAG-AFTRA, which went on strike in July, finally began last week, and were scheduled to resume Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>SAG-AFTRA\'s demands over pay, and limits to the future use of AI, go further than those of the writers.</div><div><br></div><div>The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represented the industry\'s biggest studios in talks with the WGA, praised the outcome of the writers\' vote.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The AMPTP member companies congratulate the WGA on the ratification of its new contract, which represents meaningful gains and protections for writers,\" it said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is important progress for our industry that writers are back to work.\" According to AFP reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 14:59:31', '2023-10-10 14:59:31'),
(9623, 9623, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh today exceeded 1,100 dengue deaths as 13 new deaths were reported in the past 24 hours till 8am today, while 2,555 were admitted to different hospitals during the same period.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On September 20, Bangladesh witnessed 21 dengue deaths, the highest in a single day this year and it also saw the same highest figure on September 2.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The death toll from dengue infection crossed the 1000-mark as the authorities recorded 1,109 dengue deaths between January 1 this year and October 10,\" a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"During the period, 617 dengue patients were hospitalised in Dhaka city while 1,938 were admitted to different hospitals outside it,\" the DGHS daily statement added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This year, 1,109 deaths, the highest in a year since dengue was detected in 2000, were reported from dengue disease while 281 died last year,\" the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>With the new cases, the total number of patients rose to 2,28,779 the statement said, adding: \"This year, some 21,90, 68 patients were released from different hospitals out of the total patients.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"A total of 8,602 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals. Of them, 2,683 are in Dhaka while 5,919 are outside of the capital city,\" it added.</div><div><br></div><div>The authorities have recorded the highest number of dengue positive cases outside Dhaka in August this year, meaning the mosquito disease gripped the entire country.</div><div><br></div><div>August witnessed 71,976 dengue positive cases, the highest cases in a single month since the dengue outbreak began in 2000 in the country, while 342 dengue-related deaths were reported in the current month, the DGHS statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the health experts, the vector-borne disease hit Dhaka city in 2000 subsequently the dengue positive cases were detected in Dhaka city only. But the dengue disease is changing its nature and it is gradually spreading across the country, they said, adding: \"All 64 districts of the country have witnessed positive dengue cases.\"</div><div><br></div><div>July alone recorded 43,854 dengue positive cases with 204 deaths, the DGHS statement read.</div><div><br></div><div>As of October 1, the authorities recorded 79, 598 dengue positive cases while 316 deaths from the mosquito-borne disease during the same period.</div><div><br></div><div>The prevalence of dengue cases in Bangladesh has increased ten times since last year and the deaths have increased almost thrice, according to a health expert.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Dengue positive cases have increased ten times and death three times between mid-September, 2022 and mid-September, 2023,\" Professor Dr. Md Golam Sharower, Head, Department of Entomology, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) told a seminar recently.</div><div><br></div><div>While presenting the keynote paper, Sharower explained that with global warming, our country\'s environmental factors such as temperature, relative humidity and rainfall are increasing, all of which play a key role in increasing the reproductive capacity of the Aedes mosquito.</div><div><br></div><div>He said there are unplanned urbanisation, industrialisation and ancillary activities such as construction of multi-storied buildings blocking waterways, dumping old cars and turning cities into mosquito sanctuaries.</div><div><br></div><div>The morphological, biological and behavioral changes that have occurred in Aedes mosquitoes as a result of all our unknown activities in mosquito breeding are highly favorable for Aedes mosquitoes to transmit dengue virus, he elaborated.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the DGHS, Bangladesh reported 1,01,354 dengue cases, the second highest since dengue cases were detected in 2000, in 2019, 1,405 cases in 2020, 28,429 cases in 2021 and 62,382 cases in 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>It also added that Bangladesh recorded 179 dengue related deaths in 2019, seven deaths in 2020, 105 deaths in 2021 and 281 deaths, the second highest deaths, in 2022. According to BSS reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Health Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 15:08:13', '2023-10-10 15:08:13'),
(9624, 9624, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Swashbuckling Kusal Mendis smashed the fastest century for Sri Lanka in a World Cup match on Tuesday, guiding his team to an imposing 344-9 against Pakistan in Hyderabad.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The 28-year-old cracked a 65-ball century before going on to make 122, his highest score in ODIs and third century.</div><div><br></div><div>It was an innings spiced with 14 boundaries and half a dozen sixes, leading the charge for Sri Lanka who won the toss and batted.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadeera Samarawickrama also joined the party with a brilliant maiden hundred, hitting 11 boundaries and two sixes in his 89-ball 108.</div><div><br></div><div>Mendis twice escaped dropped catches -- Shaheen Shah Afridi dropped him off his own bowling in the fifth over and then Imam-ul-Haq blundered in the next over again off Shaheen on 18.</div><div><br></div><div>Mendis completed his 50 off 40 balls with his seventh boundary, lifting Sri Lanka from the early loss of Kusal Perera (nought) in the second over to Hasan Ali.</div><div><br></div><div>He put on a 102 with Pathum Nissanka whose 51 came off 61 balls with seven boundaries and a six.</div><div><br></div><div>Once Nissanka fell to Shadab Khan, Mendis and Samarawickrama unleashed some superb hitting against Pakistan\'s pacers and spinners alike, adding 111 for the third wicket.</div><div><br></div><div>They were savage on fast bowler Haris Rauf, hitting him for two sixes and a boundary in the 21st over.</div><div><br></div><div>When Shaheen came back for a second spell, Mendis cracked three fours in the 25th over.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasan Ali was hoisted by Mendis for a six to allow the batsman his third hundred off 65 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>It was his first century in thee-and-a-half years but he had made 76 in the opening defeat to South Africa and now has at least five half-centuries in his last seven ODIs.</div><div><br></div><div>Previously, Kumar Sangakkara held the Sri Lanka World Cup record with a 70-ball hundred, scored against England in 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>Mendis\'s previous best was 119 against the West Indies in Hambantota in February 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>Mendis hit two sixes off Hasan\'s 29th over before he holed out at deep mid-wicket boundary off Hasan Ali.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasan then removed Charith Asalanka for one but Samarawickrama and Dhananjaya de Silva (25) added 65 for the fifth wicket.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasan finished as the best bowler with 4-71 while Rauf took 2-64.</div><div><br></div><div>Brief scores:</div><div>Sri Lanka 344-9 in 50 overs (K. Mendis 122, S. Samarawickrama 108, P. Nissanka 51; Hasan Ali 4-71) - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 15:26:17', '2023-10-10 15:26:17'),
(9625, 9625, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said that the ruling Awami League has doomed the country by turning it into a paradise for plunderers.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“They (govt) have ruined the country…the economic indicators are starting to go down, remittances and garment exports are decreasing,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a discussion, the BNP leader also said the way the forex reserves are falling, it will be difficult to find the necessary dollars to import goods needed from abroad in a few months time.</div><div><br></div><div>“The ruling party has turned the country into a looters\' paradise. They are like the Borgis (the horsemen of the Maratha Empire who indulged in large-scale plundering in the Bengal region during the 17th century). They’ll run away after plundering the country’s resources.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The faction of Gono Odhikar Parishad led by&nbsp; Dr Reza Kibria arranged the discussion titled “Democracy, Sovereignty and Solutions to the Rohingya Crisis,” at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU).</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said even the pro-AL economists have started saying that the situation is dire. “If it cannot be fixed and proper steps are not taken immediately, we\'ll have to pay dearly amid dire economic uncertainty in the future,” he warned.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the current government is least bothered about the deepening economic crisis since it has no love for the people, nor feels any responsibility towards them.</div><div><br></div><div>He alleged that the government has taken up various mega projects, including the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant and Padma Bridge Rail Line, at four times what the cost should have been. “They are sharing the extra money as their commissions.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said he strongly believes that a change in government is coming as people have started to wake up.</div><div><br></div><div>He called upon people from all walks of life irrespective of their party affiliation to get united and take to the streets without buying any more time to save the country from the hands of a monstrous regime.</div><div><br></div><div>Criticising Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader for his statement on pouring uranium on the heads of the opposition leaders, Fakhrul questioned whether the ruling party leader is so imprudent that he does not know about uranium, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that Quader makes many reckless comments about his political opponents that only make people laugh.</div><div><br></div><div>“One of our leaders who lives outside the country told me not to protest Quader’s comment (on uranium) as it has become a matter of entertainment for us,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 15:29:35', '2023-10-10 15:29:35');
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(9626, 9626, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League Joint General Secretary Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said he prays so that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia recovers fast and returns home.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“I pray to the Almighty that Begum Zia recovers quickly and returns home as before,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasan Mahmud, also the Information and Broadcasting Minister, was speaking to reporters after inaugurating two books in the Conference Room of the Department of Information at the Secretariat on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked by reporters to comment on the recommendation by Khaleda Zia\'s medical board that the ex-prime minister be sent abroad for advanced treatment, the minister replied: “They (the doctors) are talking like the BNP. The government is sincere and is doing whatever support is necessary to ensure that Begum Zia gets the best healthcare and will do more if needed.”</div><div><br></div><div>“If they need to bring in an outside doctor, they can also do that,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked about the convictions in the trial of some BNP leaders, Hasan said: \"The courts in the country work independently, they do not give arbitrary verdicts. If BNP leaders are not satisfied with the lower court\'s verdict, they can go to the High Court. There are two other levels of high courts.”</div><div><br></div><div>“But in reality, BNP does not have confidence in either the country or the court,” the I &amp; B minister said, adding, \"The date has been postponed more than 100 times in Begum Zia\'s case. That\'s why they say it. The law and courts operate independently in the country. For this reason, the Awami League leaders are also tried and punished.” According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-10 16:18:01', '2023-10-10 16:18:01'),
(9627, 9627, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"Where do we go? Is there a safe place left in this neighbourhood, which was so quiet and beautiful?\" residents of an apartment block in Rimal asked me, with heavy sarcasm.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had just spent the most difficult seven hours of my life inside there, as Israeli warplanes carried another wave of air strikes in retaliation for the Palestinian militant group\'s unprecedented assault on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli strikes also caused significant damage to dozens of residential buildings, the offices of telecommunications companies, and faculty buildings of the Islamic University of Gaza.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terrifying explosions shook the area throughout Monday night. Children were screaming and nobody had a moment\'s sleep.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a night that the residents of Rimal - Gaza City\'s wealthiest neighbourhood and usually its quietest - will not forget for a long time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As dawn broke on Tuesday, the intensity of the strikes decreased and people discovered the extent of the destruction. The south-western neighbourhood\'s infrastructure was severely damaged and most roads leading to it were cut off.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I drove around it felt as if there had been an earthquake. There was rubble, shattered glass and severed wiring everywhere. Such was the devastation that I did not recognise some of the buildings that I passed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I lost everything. My apartment, where my five children lived, was here in this building. My grocery shop below the building was destroyed,\" Mohammed Abu al-Kass told me while carrying his daughter Shahd in the street.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Where do we go? We have become homeless. There is no shelter for us anymore or work.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Are my house and my grocery shop a military target, Israel?\" he added, accusing the Israeli military of lying when it says it does not target civilians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian health ministry said that about 300 people, two thirds of them civilians, were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Monday. It was the deadliest day there for many years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 15 people were killed in the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp, north-east of Gaza City, in the afternoon. The Israeli military said it targeted the home of a Hamas commander. But many people at a nearby market or in neighbouring houses were killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Humanitarian crisis deepens</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The overall death toll in Gaza since Saturday now stands at 900, including 260 children, according to the health ministry. Another 4,500 people have been injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The already dire humanitarian crisis in this tiny, overcrowded territory also deepens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its 2.2 million residents are running out of food, fuel, electricity and water, after Israel\'s government ordered a \"complete siege\" and cut off all of Gaza\'s supplies in response to Hamas\'s attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saturday\'s unexpected assault has killed 1,000 people on the Israeli side, and between 100 and 150 hostages have been taken across the border into Gaza by the militants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Can you imagine that we are living without power or water in the 21st Century? My baby has run out of nappies and there is only half a bottle of milk left,\" said Waad al-Mughrabi as she looked at the destroyed building next to her home in Rimal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Was it my child who attacked Israel?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outside Gaza\'s largest supermarket, which had opened for the first time since Saturday, dozens of people were queuing in front of a small back door. They were hoping to buy whatever provisions they could, fearful that the fighting will last a long time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of Gaza\'s fresh vegetables and fruits are grown in the south of the territory, and the severe fuel shortage means that transporting them to the north will become increasingly difficult. 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, '2023-10-11 01:24:10', '2023-10-11 01:24:10'),
(9628, 9628, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Canadian citizens will be flown out of the country from the Tel Aviv, Israel, airport in coming days in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel, Canada’s foreign minister said Tuesday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government plans to conduct the evacuation using aircraft from the Canadian Armed Forces, and is working on other options for people who are unable to reach the airport in Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The post did not mention those Canadians who are believed to be trapped in Gaza after Israel closed off the Hamas-controlled territory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canada is trying to determine how many of its citizens are among the dead or missing. Friends and family have confirmed that 22-year-old Ben Mizrachi from Vancouver and former Montreal resident Alexandre Look, who recently celebrated his 33rd birthday, were two of the hundreds killed while attending a music festival in southern Israel. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 01:51:04', '2023-10-11 01:51:04'),
(9629, 9629, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two Filipinos have been killed as a result of the attacks by Hamas militants on Israel, where thousands of Filipinos live and work, said Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manalo condemned the killings in a brief statement he posted Wednesday on X, formerly known as Twitter, but did not provide other details, including the circumstances of the deaths and the identities of the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The Philippines condemns the killing of two Filipino nationals and all other acts of terrorism and violence as a result of Hamas actions against Israel,” Manalo said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the Philippines is ready to work with other countries toward a long-lasting resolution to the conflict, in accordance with a U.N. Security Council resolution. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 01:54:28', '2023-10-11 01:54:28'),
(9630, 9630, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israel carried out air strikes across Gaza overnight into Wednesday, as retaliatory bombing — which Gaza\'s health ministry says has killed at least 900 people and wounded 4,600 — continued to flatten neighborhoods in the crowded coastal enclave. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip “has only started.”</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palestinians walk through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palestinians walk through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City(AP)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel\'s embassy in Washington said on Tuesday the death toll from the weekend Hamas attacks had surpassed 1,000. Public broadcaster Kan reported the figure had reached 1,200. The victims were overwhelmingly civilians, gunned down in homes, on streets or at an outdoor dance party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New exchanges of fire over Israel’s northern borders with militants in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday pointed to the risk of an expanded regional conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas militants holding Israeli soldiers and civilians hostage had threatened to execute a captive for each home hit in Gaza, but as night fell on Tuesday there was no indication they had done so.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Numerous countries offered to play a role in mediating an end to the fighting, which already has killed at least 1,900 people, according to authorities on both sides. The death toll was expected to grow as Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and sent Palestinians fleeing into UN shelters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israel-Hamas war continues to wreak havoc on the lives of Israeli residents, with many forced to flee their homes and seek refuge as rocket attacks intensify. Residents of Ashkelon, a city in southern Israel, are among those enduring the daily fear and uncertainty brought about by this protracted conflict, reports ANI.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yaacov, an Israeli national from Ashkelon, vividly recounted his upsetting experience, stating, \"We came here because a rocket fell on our building... we have no shelter, we escaped thanks to local administration and they suggested us to come here to this hotel and this is a good place. My 11-year-old son, 2-year-old daughter, my wife and I are staying here.\" 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, '2023-10-11 03:29:54', '2023-10-11 03:29:54'),
(9631, 9631, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hypertension, commonly known as high blood pressure, is a significant risk factor for kidney health as the kidneys play a crucial role in regulating blood pressure, so when hypertension goes unchecked, it can lead to kidney damage. Ayurvedic experts insist that Ayurveda approaches the management of hypertension and kidney health with a holistic perspective, focusing on balance and natural remedies.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Arun Pillai, Wellness Director at Dharana, shared, “In Ayurveda, the human body is perceived as an intricate interplay of energies known as doshas, with Vata, Pitta, and Kapha being the primary ones. In the context of hypertension and kidney health, Ayurvedic practitioners frequently observe an excessive Pitta dosha imbalance. Pitta is closely linked to heat and transformative processes within the body. When there\'s an excess of Pitta, it can lead to inflammation and place added stress on the kidneys, which can contribute to the development or exacerbation of hypertension.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He explained, “One of the fundamental principles in Ayurveda for managing hypertension is through diet and lifestyle modifications. We emphasise the importance of a balanced diet that includes cooling and soothing foods to pacify the Pitta dosha. This might include incorporating foods like cucumber, watermelon, and coconut water into one\'s diet while reducing or avoiding spicy and salty foods that can aggravate hypertension. Herbal remedies also play a crucial role in Ayurvedic management of hypertension and kidney health. Herbs like Brahmi, Arjuna, and Gokshura have been traditionally used to lower blood pressure, reduce inflammation and support kidney function. These herbs can be prepared in various forms, such as teas or capsules, under the guidance of an Ayurvedic practitioner.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Arun Pillai elaborated, “Another essential aspect of Ayurveda is stress management. Chronic stress is a common trigger for hypertension and can adversely affect kidney health. Ayurveda recommends practices like yoga, meditation, and deep breathing exercises to calm the mind and reduce stress levels. At Dharana, we offer specialised wellness programs that incorporate these practices to help guests manage their hypertension and support kidney health. Detoxification is another critical component of Ayurvedic treatment for hypertension and kidney health. Panchakarma, a purification therapy, is often recommended to remove toxins from the body and improve overall well-being. It can aid in reducing the burden on the kidneys and promote their optimal function. Ayurveda is a personalised system of medicine. A qualified Ayurvedic practitioner will assess an individual\'s unique constitution, imbalances, and specific health concerns to tailor a treatment plan accordingly. This personalised approach ensures that the treatment aligns with the individual\'s needs and helps manage hypertension while supporting kidney health effectively.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Amit Verma, Founder of Vrikshakalpa Ayurveda, said, “Millions of individuals throughout the world are afflicted by hypertension, also referred to as high blood pressure. It poses a significant risk for a variety of cardiovascular conditions, such as heart attacks and strokes. Furthermore, hypertension may worsen kidney health and increase the risk of kidney failure or chronic kidney disease (CKD). Ayurveda offers holistic approaches to managing both hypertension and kidney health.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He highlighted the ways in which hypertension can impact kidney health -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reduced Blood Flow: High blood pressure can narrow and weaken the blood vessels in the kidneys, leading to reduced blood flow to these vital organs. This reduced blood flow can impair the kidneys\' ability to filter waste and maintain proper fluid balance in the body.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Proteinuria: Hypertension can damage the tiny blood vessels in the kidneys, leading to a condition called proteinuria. In proteinuria, excessive amounts of protein leak into the urine, which is a sign of kidney damage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Prolonged uncontrolled hypertension can ultimately lead to chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD is a progressive condition that impairs kidney function over time and can result in kidney failure if left untreated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Amit Verma echoed that Ayurveda offers a comprehensive approach to managing hypertension and promoting kidney health. According to him, the key principles and Ayurvedic remedies include -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diet and Lifestyle: Ayurveda emphasises a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Reducing the intake of salty and processed foods is essential for managing hypertension. Instead, focus on a diet rich in fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Incorporate stress management techniques such as meditation and yoga to help reduce the emotional and mental stress that can contribute to hypertension.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herbal Remedies: Ayurveda utilizes a wide range of herbs to support kidney health and reduce hypertension. Commonly used herbs include Punarnava, Gokshura, and Arjuna. These herbs are known for their diuretic and blood pressure-lowering properties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Panchakarma: Panchakarma is an Ayurvedic detoxification therapy that helps eliminate toxins from the body. It is beneficial for individuals with hypertension and kidney issues by promoting overall detoxification and balance in the body.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pranayama: Controlled breathing exercises, known as pranayama, reduce stress and lower blood pressure. Techniques such as Anulom Vilom and Bhramari are particularly useful in managing hypertension.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consult an Ayurvedic Practitioner: It\'s essential to consult a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner who can assess your individual constitution (Prakriti) and imbalances (Vikriti) to create a personalized treatment plan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He asserted, “Ayurveda plays a significant role in managing hypertension and promoting kidney health. However, it\'s crucial to consult with healthcare professionals and use Ayurvedic treatments in conjunction with conventional medical care for the best results. Ayurveda\'s personalized and holistic approach can be a valuable addition to the overall management of hypertension and kidney health.” 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, '2023-10-11 03:33:29', '2023-10-11 03:33:29'),
(9632, 9632, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Another strong earthquake shook part of western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier quake killed more than 2,000 and flattened whole villages.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest 6.3-magnitude earthquake was about 28 kilometers (17 miles) outside Herat, the capital of Herat province, and 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of Saturday\'s quake was about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, and several aftershocks have been strong, including another 6.3 magnitude Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taliban officials said more than 2,000 had died across Herat after the earlier quakes. They subsequently said the quakes killed and injured thousands but didn\'t give a breakdown of casualties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Information on damage from the latest tremor was not immediately available. But there is little left of the villages in the region\'s dusty hills besides rubble and funerals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Naib Rafi, a village that previously had about 2,500 residents, people said almost no one was still alive besides men who were working outside when the quake struck. Survivors worked all day with excavators to dig long trenches for mass burials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a barren field in the district of Zinda Jan, a bulldozer removed mounds of earth to clear space for a long row of graves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is very difficult to find a family member from a destroyed house and a few minutes to later bury him or her in a nearby grave, again under the ground,” said Mir Agha, from the city of Herat, who had joined hundreds of volunteers to help the locals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 2,000 houses in 20 villages were destroyed, the Taliban have said. The area hit by the quakes has just one government-run hospital. 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, '2023-10-11 03:52:48', '2023-10-11 03:52:48'),
(9633, 9633, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP’s Publicity Secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie was picked up by police from his Dhanmondi residence in Dhaka early today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police arrived at the house of Annie around 2 am and asked the BNP leader to go with them to the police station, said Zahir Uddin Swapan, chief coordinator of BNP\'s media cell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason behind the detention could not be known immediately. 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, '2023-10-11 04:06:56', '2023-10-11 04:06:56'),
(9634, 9634, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reviewing Bangladesh’s economic update including foreign exchange reserves before releasing the second installment of $4.70 billion loan.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the conditions of the IMF loan was that there should be real (net) foreign exchange reserves of $24.46 billion as of last June.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the conditions, Bangladesh Bank (BB) could not keep that amount of foreign exchange reserves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visiting IMF delegation held a meeting with the Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday (October 4).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central bank’s progress, success, and failure in fulfilling various conditions came up in the discussion. The failure to meet the conditions of the reserve was also informed in the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IMF will hold several meetings with different ministries, institutions, and business groups. Financial sector stability, banking sector reforms, liquidity management, dollar market rate transactions, revenue management modernisation, expendable reserve calculation method, interest rate, and monetary policy implementation would be discussed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BB in the meeting informed the IMF that most of the conditions related to the central bank have been fulfilled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Central bank’s Executive Director and spokesperson Mezbaul Haque told reporters on Wednesday, “The IMF gave us some conditions while approving the loan, some of these have been fulfilled.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are two failures--reserves slide a little and the revenue collection is low. But many other areas have been implemented successfully, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central bank revealed the financial stability report of the banks as per conditions. Reserves are being calculated as per BPM-6. A market-fixed exchange rate of the currency was also introduced. New rules of interest have been introduced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I have mentioned the conditions given by the IMF which have been achieved and those which have not been achieved. It has also been informed why it did not happen,” said Mezbaul. 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, '2023-10-11 04:42:54', '2023-10-11 04:42:54'),
(9635, 9635, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least five people, including garment factory workers, were dead and ten were injured when a speeding bus ran them over while they were waiting to board another bus on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Trishal upazila, under Mymensingh district, today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quoting locals, Main Uddin, officer-in-charge of Trishal Police Station, said a Dhaka-bound bus of ‘SS Travellers’ from Sherpur made a sudden stop at Chelerghat around 7:30 am today, as one of its tyres got punctured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Passengers of the bus got off and were waiting on the highway for another bus. Around 8 am, a bus arrived at the spot, and they tried to board it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At this time, another bus, speeding on the highway, hit the people standing on the road -- leaving three dead on the spot and 12 injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the injured, two died on the way to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway remained halted for some time after the accident. 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, '2023-10-11 06:27:19', '2023-10-11 06:27:19'),
(9636, 9636, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fierce fighting has left thousands dead on both sides since Hamas launched a surprise assault on Saturday, spurring Israel\'s reprisal bombing campaign.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Over 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,\" said UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in an update Tuesday, warning that \"this number is expected to rise further\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said that around 3,000 people had been displaced \"due to previous escalations\", prior to Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 1,000 people have been killed in Israel in the worst attack in the country\'s 75-year history, while Gaza officials have reported 900 people killed since the air strikes began.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bombing campaign has destroyed more than 1,000 housing units, and 560 have been so severely damaged they are uninhabitable, OCHA said, citing Palestinian authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the displaced, nearly 175,500 people sought shelter in 88 schools run by the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 14,500 others had fled to 12 government schools, while close to 74,000 were estimated to be staying with relatives and neighbours or seeking shelters in churches and other facilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of displaced people inside of Gaza \"represents the highest number of people displaced since the 50-day escalation of hostilities in 2014,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Meeting basic needs is becoming increasingly challenging for those who have not been displaced,\" OCHA warned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel has imposed what it called a \"complete siege\" on the already blockaded Gaza Strip, cutting off food, water, fuel and electricity -- a move that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned would worsen an already dire humanitarian situation. 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, '2023-10-11 06:43:19', '2023-10-11 06:43:19'),
(9637, 9637, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The OSIRIS-REx mission collected rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu in 2020, and a capsule containing the precious cargo successfully returned to Earth a little over two weeks ago, landing in the Utah desert.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is now being painstakingly analyzed in a specialized clean room at NASA\'s Johnson Space Center in Houston.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The space agency will hold a live streamed news conference at 11:00 am Eastern Time (1500 GMT) to share photographs and preliminary scientific analysis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OSIRIS-REx wasn\'t the first mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and bring back samples for study -- Japan succeeded in the feat twice, returning bits of space pebbles in 2010 and 2020.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the substantial amount of material -- 250 grams (half a pound) -- as opposed to the 5.4 grams returned by Japan\'s Hayabusa2 -- is a key difference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA chose to sample Bennu because it is believed to be rich in organic compounds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists think similar asteroids could have delivered organic building blocks to Earth along with water through collisions billions of years ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bennu\'s orbit, which intersects that of our planet, also made the roundtrip journey easier than going to the Asteroid Belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA researchers have so far been heartened by the discovery of \"bonus particles,\" described as black dust and debris coating the sample collector.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in October 2020, when OSIRIS-REx probe shot nitrogen gas at Bennu to collect its sample, a flap meant to seal it got wedged open with a piece of rock, allowing some of the finer material to flow out of the collector without escaping altogether.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The very best \'problem\' to have is that there is so much material, it\'s taking longer than we expected to collect it,\" said deputy OSIRIS-REx curation lead Christopher Snead, in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s really spectacular to have all that material there.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s thought that Bennu formed from pieces of a larger asteroid in the asteroid belt, following a massive collision between one and two billion years ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Data gathered by the spacecraft revealed the particles making up its exterior were so loosely packed that if a person were to step onto the surface, they might sink in, much like stepping into a pit of plastic balls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to scientific insights, better understanding of Bennu\'s composition could prove useful if humanity ever needs to steer it away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While it has no chance of hitting Earth through the mid 2100s, the chances rise to around 1 in 1750 between then and the year 2300, NASA says. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 06:47:30', '2023-10-11 06:47:30'),
(9638, 9638, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israeli fighters jets struck the Islamic University in Gaza City on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent and an official with the Hamas-linked institution said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The intense air strikes destroyed completely some buildings of the Islamic University,\" Ahmed Orabi of the university management told 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, '2023-10-11 07:17:14', '2023-10-11 07:17:14'),
(9639, 9639, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It was his father’s letter to his then Malibagh address in July 1993 that marked the beginning of Mahfuzur Rahman – one of the five brothers who own and operate HATIL Complex Limited – at the helm of H. A. Timber Industries Ltd.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">H. A. Timber Industries Ltd – a small timber shop on the bank of the Buriganga River – was founded by the late Al-Hajj Habibur Rahman in 1963, at 2/1 Ultinganj Lane in Old Dhaka’s Farashganj area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite being a part of a family with a three-decade-long involvement in the wooden furniture business, Mahfuzur Rahman chose a distinctly unconventional path for his career in the beginning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After completing his graduation from Dhaka College, Mahfuzur Rahman started his own monthly publication called “Computers and Electronics” with his friends in September, 1991.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two years into his publication business, Rahman got a letter from his father, urging him to join H.A. Timber Industries Ltd. as an Executive Director. In August 1993, he joined the family business with a salary of Tk 4,000 per month, Rahman recalled – now managing director at H.A. Timber Industries Limited.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During an exclusive interview with UNB, Rahman shared how HATIL became the furniture giant it is today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahman is one of the directors at HATIL Complex Ltd., one of the top furniture brands in Bangladesh, established by his father late Al-Hajj Habibur Rahman in 1989.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh’s furniture industry has seen rapid growth over the past few decades, which is expected to continue in the coming years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Statista, revenue in the furniture market in Bangladesh was US$ 2 billion in 2023. The global furniture market size was valued at $ 541.52 billion in 2023 as per ‘Fortune Business Insights’ data. The furniture market in Bangladesh is further expected to grow annually by 9.71 percent (CAGR 2023-2028).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">HATIL Complex Ltd., now the top exporting furniture brand in Bangladesh, is a leader in driving that growth in the industry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his interview with UNB, Mahfuzur Rahman shed light on HATIL’s past, present and future as well as the challenges it is facing due to the ongoing crises around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahman attributed HATIL’s success to his brother Selim H. Rahman’s leadership, the hard work of his four brothers, and HATIL’s commitment to not compromise on its product quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">H. A. Timber Industries Ltd. installed 1st Seasoning plant in the private sector in 1988 with a motto to make available seasoned timber for furniture, doors and door frames.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked about the rationale for choosing “Slim is Smart” as the company’s slogan, Mahfuzur Rahman said: “Consumer preferences are changing over time. When people from this generation go to the market to purchase furniture for their apartments with limited space, they look for products that are both compact and affordable. Taking their preferences into account, HATIL employed the ‘Slim is Smart’ strategy.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is worth noting that the furniture industry in Bangladesh can be divided into two types: branded and non-branded. Currently, non-branded industries dominate 65 percent of the country’s furniture market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Mahfuzur Rahman, the non-branded or traditional furniture industry is currently a threat to the branded furniture market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“As a brand, when we do business, we have to pay taxes to the government, which the non-branded ones may or may not pay. For a product sale worth Tk 100, we have to incur a cost of Tk 47 that includes VAT, income taxes, among others.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The government can earn huge tax revenue if the traditional furniture market can be brought under the tax regime,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is HATIL doing to get ready for the inevitable in light of the country’s impending LDC graduation and analysts’ calls for diversifying the economy, particularly its exports?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahfuzur Rahman responded: “To prepare for the changes in the local furniture market, we are replacing our machinery with automated machines from Germany to keep up with the changing nature of the market.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">HATIL currently sources its major raw materials from various countries around the world. For wood, HATIL uses FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified beech-sawn timber and red oak, which are imported from Germany and Canada.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For hardware or furniture accessories such as handles, locks and keys, hinges, screws, latches etc., HATIL goes to China.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">HATIL Complex Ltd. has to pay import duty for all these products (16 - 31 percent for wood and 60-90 percent for hardware), which, according to Rahman, is one of the biggest challenges the company faces right now and will continue to face in the future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the trend of using automation in production, Mahfuzur Rahman said, “With the change of time, we also have to change our way of thinking. That is why we are focusing on research and development and recruiting qualified manpower in those places.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the two most tumultuous events in the last 4-5 years – Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine – the latter has had the most profound impact on the furniture industry, according to Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We went into lockdown in March 2020 due to the pandemic. In that case, even though our manufacturing and revenue generation had completely shut down, we paid the salaries and bonuses of our employees on time and even gave them increments. Then, in September of that year, we turned around. In 2021, we were in a slightly better position after overcoming the effects of the pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“However, in 2022, we were confronted with a dire situation due to the supply chain disruption, inflation, and dollar crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. And I personally think this crisis will persist until at least June-July next year,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the interview, Mahfuzur Rahman talked about H.A. Timbers Industries Ltd. For him, holding onto this timber business, which has lost its past glory, is more about holding onto his family’s heritage than about business.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from his involvement with HATIL Complex Ltd, Mahfuzur Rahman is involved with numerous other organisations. He is the president of the Dhaka College HSC \'89 Foundation. The organisation is involved in several health programmes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also provided financial support to many lower-income people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, they are considering establishing a vocational institute for health in Manikganj’s Singair Upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahfuzur Rahman is a member of the trustee board of Bhola Children’s Special School Bangladesh. He is also an associate member of the Dhaka University Club and a lifetime member of Farashganj Sporting Club (Farashganj SC) and Madaripur Legal Aid Association (MLAA).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahman is also a goodwill ambassador of Bijoyphool, an initiative aiming to make the youths aware of the struggles during the Liberation War of Bang. 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, '2023-10-11 07:33:36', '2023-10-11 07:33:36');
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(9640, 9640, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Many celebrities are weighing in as the conflict between Israel and Hamas enters its fifth day, leaving hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis dead. Actor Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, is one of the latest to share his thoughts about the conflict on Instagram.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, he posted a long note, wherein he \'condemned and denounced terrorism\'. Singer Justin Bieber also shared in a note that he was \'not interested in choosing sides\' and was \'hurting for both his Israeli and Palestinian friends\'.Comments were turned off on Dwayne\'s post slamming \'brutal murders and kidnapping of Jewish people\'. In it, he wrote,“I’m heartbroken, angry, and sickened by the brutal murders and kidnapping of Jewish people through the horrific acts of the Hamas terrorist group.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dwayne Johnson says he prays for ‘all innocent lives’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The actor further said that even though he did not fully understand the \'complex conflict in the Middle East\', he was praying for \'compassion and resolve\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wrote, \"The growing loss of innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives is heart wrenching as this war escalates to immense proportions. I don’t pretend to know everything about the complex conflict in the Middle East. It commands deep understanding, context, and nuance – what I do know is hateful acts of terrorism like these are never justified. I condemn and denounce terrorism, and in this devastating moment, my heart goes out to all the innocent victims and families grieving for their lost loved ones. I pray for compassion and resolve. I pray for all innocent lives.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Canadian singer on Wednesday took to Instagram Stories to talk about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. He wrote, \"Truly hurting for both my Israeli and Palestinian friends. I’m pretty sure we all instinctively know evil when we see it. To villainise all Palestinians or all Israeli people to me seems wrong. I’m not interested in choosing sides, but I am interested in standing with the families, who have been brutally taken from us.” 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, '2023-10-11 07:38:39', '2023-10-11 07:38:39'),
(9641, 9641, '<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the people not to worry about national and international conspiracies being hatched ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections.</span></p><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Next election is coming. National and international conspiracies are being hatched. But, we have nothing to worry as the people are always stand beside us with their votes,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said this while holding a view exchange meeting with Tungipara Upazila Awami League, it\'s associate and friendly organisations, local public representatives and civil personalities at the Tungipara Upazila Awami League office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is due to hold the next national election first week o January next.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina, chief of the ruling Awami League, said that there had been several attempts on her life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She mentioned that she has reached today\'s position confronting bullets and bombs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Allah has given task to every person and protects him or her till the work is accomplished. Allah is above and the leaders and activists of my party are on the ground to save me. The people belongs to my party always protect me whenever I am attacked,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing at the grenade attacks on the Awami League rally on August 21, 2004 in which 22 people were killed, she said the leaders and activists had saved her forming human shield by giving their lives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is the great thing that I have got the chance to serve the people,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister reached Tungipara on Tuesday afternoon following opening of the Dhaka-Bhanga Rail Link at Mawa, Munshiganj end and addressing a grand rally at Dr Kazi Abu Yusuf Stadium at Bhanga in Faridpur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after the premier along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana reached Tungipara, she paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman by placing floral wreath at his mausoleum and offered prayers and fateha there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She stayed overnight at Tungipara, her village home, and she is scheduled to leave for Dhaka this afternoon. 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, '2023-10-11 07:57:26', '2023-10-11 07:57:26'),
(9642, 9642, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Voicing deep concern over the life of its ailing party chairperson Khaleda Zia, the BNP standing committee has urged the government to remove all barriers to ensure her treatment at an advanced center abroad.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a press conference, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also said it is now clear that the government wants to kill its main opponent Khaleda ahead of the national election by depriving her of necessary treatment overseas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like the people of the country, he said the BNP leaders, workers, members and supporters at all levels, have become worried over the statements of Khaleda’s doctors on her physical condition and treatment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our party’s National Standing Committee strongly demanded the government to immediately remove the inhumane obstacles imposed on the way to taking our leader (Khaleda) to any country where good treatment is possible to save her life,” Fakhrul said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the BNP standing committee, the highest policymaking body of the party also strongly condemned and protested the \'sick\' attempts of the Prime Minister and her cabinet colleagues to satiate their political vengeance against Khaleda by making indecent, cruel, and inhumane statement on the conditions of suspension of her sentence, her age and illness and by giving an irrational and wrong interpretation of the existing laws.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The press conference was held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office to inform the media about the outcome of the party’s standing committee meeting held on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul said their standing committee strongly felt that just as Khaleda was unjustly evicted from her cantonment residence out of political vendetta, similarly an attempt was made to push her to death without treatment and with deliberate wrong by sending her to an abandoned jail through a dictated verdict for no crime she committed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the Prime Minister’s comment on dropping the BNP chief into the river from the Padma Bridge and her recent comment that there is no point in crying for a nearly 80-yer-old moribund person have demonstrated the current \'usurper\' regime did not want to see her alive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“No civilizsd, humane, and sound common citizen, let alone the head of government of any country, can utter such terroristic words about any opponent. It is natural for the government-- that wants the death of our leader--to unjustly obstruct her advanced treatment. But this attitude and behavior of the government is not acceptable to the country’s people,” the BNP leader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned that the government must face the wrath of the people if anything bad happens to Khaleda for depriving her of the scope to get the treatment she deserves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to a question Fakhrul said they have been observing programmes after programmes demanding Khaleda’s unconditional release to pave the way for her treatment abroad. “The complications over Khaleda Zia’s treatment (abroad) have clearly manifested that they (govt) want to kill her. Not giving her any scope to receive treatment means killing her ahead of the national election.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said their movement will be intensified further in the days to come to force the government to step down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on the day, the medical board formed at Evercare Hospital for Khaleda’s treatment recommended that she be urgently sent to a multidisciplinary centre abroad soon as there are now no treatment options available for her in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a press conference at the hospital, the board also said the 78-year-old former prime minister’s life is at risk because of a lack of proper treatment to stop water accretion in her stomach and chest, internal bleeding and infections caused by her liver cirrhosis problem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the 78-year-old former prime minister, has been undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka under the supervision of a 15-member medical board, led by a specialist doctor, Professor Shahabuddin Talukder, since August 9.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She 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;\">On September 5, Khaleda’s brother Shamim Iskandar submitted an application to the government to take her abroad for treatment, but it was turned down. 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(9643, 9643, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four people were dead and six were injured as a human hauler plunged into a roadside pond after being hit by a bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Sadar upazila of Manikganj district today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident occurred at 8:30 am at Bhatbaur when the human hauler plunged into a roadside pond after being hit by a bus while picking and dropping off passengers -- leaving four dead on the spot, said Abdur Rauf, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The six injured passengers were taken to a local hospital from where two were moved to Manikganj District Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital, as their condition were stated to be critical.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Divers from the local fire service station rushed to the spot and recovered the deadbodies. 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, '2023-10-11 08:27:38', '2023-10-11 08:27:38'),
(9644, 9644, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Palestinians in the sealed-off Gaza Strip scrambled to find safety Wednesday, as Israeli strikes demolished entire neighborhoods, hospitals ran low on supplies and a power blackout was expected within hours, further deepening the misery of a war sparked by a deadly mass incursion of Hamas militants.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Airstrikes smashed entire city blocks to rubble in the tiny coastal enclave and left unknown numbers of bodies beneath mounds of debris. The bombardment raged on even though militants are holding an estimated 150 people — soldiers, men, women, children and older adults — who were dragged into Gaza during the weekend attack.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel has vowed unprecedented retaliation against the Hamas militant group ruling the Palestinian territory after its fighters stormed through the border fence Saturday and gunned down hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at an outdoor music festival.</div><div><br></div><div>The war, which has already claimed at least 2,100 lives on both sides, is expected to escalate — and compound the misery of people living in Gaza, where basic necessities and electricity were already in short supply.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel has stopped the entry of food, water, fuel and medicine into the territory — a 40-kilometer-long (25-mile) strip of land wedged among Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians. The sole remaining access from Egypt was shut down Tuesday after airstrikes hit near the border crossing.</div><div><br></div><div>As Palestinians crowded into U.N. schools and a shrinking number of safe neighborhoods, humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation of corridors to get aid in, warning that hospitals overwhelmed with wounded people were running out of supplies.</div><div><br></div><div>“There is no safe place in Gaza right now,” journalist Hasan Jabar said after three Palestinian journalists were killed in the bombardment of a downtown neighborhood home to government ministries, media offices and hotels. “I am genuinely afraid for my life.”</div><div><br></div><div>Gaza’s power authority says its sole power plant will run out of fuel within hours, leaving the territory without electricity after Israel cut off supplies. Palestinians there have long relied on generators to power homes, offices and hospitals, but have no way of importing fuel for those either.</div><div><br></div><div>The U.N.’s World Health Organization said that supplies it had pre-positioned for seven hospitals have already run out amid the flood of wounded. The head of the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said surgical equipment, antibiotics, fuel and other supplies were running out at two hospitals it runs in Gaza.</div><div><br></div><div>In one, “we consumed three weeks worth of emergency stock in three days, partly due to 50 patients coming in at once,” Matthias Kannes, the aid group’s head of mission in Gaza, said Wednesday. He said the territory’s biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, only has enough fuel for three days.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel has mobilized 360,000 reservists and appears increasingly likely to launch a ground offensive into Gaza, with its government under intense pressure from the public to topple Hamas, which has ruled the territory since 2007. That goal was considered unachievable in the past because it would require a reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, at least temporarily.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will not allow a reality in which Israeli children are murdered,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a meeting with soldiers near the southern border on Tuesday. “I have removed every restriction — we will eliminate anyone who fights us, and use every measure at our disposal.”</div><div><br></div><div>Exchanges of fire over Israel’s northern borders with militants in Lebanon and Syria, meanwhile, pointed to the risk of an expanded regional conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned other countries and armed groups against entering the conflict. The U.S. is already rushing munitions and military equipment to Israel and has deployed a carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean as deterrence.</div><div><br></div><div>Israeli airstrikes late Tuesday struck the family house of Mohammed Deif, the shadowy leader of Hamas’ military wing, killing his father, brother and at least two other relatives in the southern town of Khan Younis, senior Hamas official Bassem Naim told The Associated Press.</div><div><br></div><div>Deif has never been seen in public and his whereabouts are unknown.</div><div><br></div><div>In a new tactic, Israel is warning civilians to evacuate neighborhood after neighborhood, and then inflicting devastation, in what could be a prelude to a ground offensive.</div><div><br></div><div>The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said Israeli airstrikes destroyed the entire al-Karama neighborhood in Gaza City, with a “large number” of people killed or wounded. It said medical teams were unable to reach the area because all roads to it were destroyed. Rescue officials say they have struggled to enter other areas as well.</div><div><br></div><div>In another neighborhood, Palestinian Civil Defense forces pulled Abdullah Musleh out of his basement together with 30 others after their apartment building was flattened.</div><div><br></div><div>“I sell toys, not missiles,’’ the 46-year-old said, weeping. “I want to leave Gaza. Why do I have to stay here? I lost my home and my job.”</div><div><br></div><div>On Tuesday afternoon, Hamas fired barrages of rockets toward the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and Tel Aviv. There were no immediate reports of casualties. On Tuesday night, a group of militants entered an industrial zone in Ashkelon, sparking a gunbattle with Israeli troops, the military said. Three militants were killed, and troops were searching the area for others.</div><div><br></div><div>Four previous rounds of Israel-Hamas fighting between 2008 and 2021 all ended inconclusively, with Hamas battered but still in control.</div><div><br></div><div>“The objective is for this war to end very differently from all of the previous rounds. There has to be a clear victory,” said Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel. “Whatever has to be done to fundamentally change the situation will have to be done,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Hamas officials have said they planned for all possibilities, including a punishing Israeli escalation. Desperation has grown among Palestinians, many of whom see nothing to lose under unending Israeli military occupation and increasing settlements in the West Bank, a 16-year-long blockade in Gaza and what they see as the world’s apathy.</div><div><br></div><div>Days of clashes between rock-throwing Palestinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank have left 15 Palestinians dead, but Israel has clamped down heavily on the territory, preventing movement between communities. The violence also spread into east Jerusalem, where Israeli police said they killed two Palestinians who hurled stones at police late Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli military said more than 1,200 people, including 155 soldiers, have been killed in Israel, a staggering toll unseen since the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria that lasted weeks. In Gaza, 950 people have been killed, including 260 children and 230 women, according to authorities there; Israel says hundreds of Hamas fighters are among them. Thousands have been wounded on both sides.</div><div><br></div><div>The bodies of roughly 1,500 Hamas militants were found on Israeli territory, the military said. It wasn’t clear whether those numbers overlapped with deaths reported by Palestinian authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>In Gaza, more than 250,000 people have fled their homes, the U.N. said, the most since a 2014 air and ground offensive by Israel uprooted about 400,000. The vast majority are sheltering in schools run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Damage to three water and sanitation sites have cut off services to 400,000 people, the U.N. said.</div><div><br></div><div>Tens of thousands of people in southern Israel have been evacuated since Sunday. According to AP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 09:56:20', '2023-10-11 09:56:20'),
(9645, 9645, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Afghan authorities on Wednesday significantly lowered the death toll from a series of quakes that struck western Herat at the weekend to around 1,000.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Taliban government had originally said over 2,000 people had been killed in Saturday\'s magnitude 6.3 quake, centred on rural communities northwest of Herat city.</div><div><br></div><div>The initial quake was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks.</div><div><br></div><div>Public Health Minister Qalandar Ebad on Wednesday lowered the toll to around 1,000, attributing the confusion to the remoteness of the area and double reporting by agencies involved in the rescue effort.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have over 1,000 people martyred from the first incident,\" Ebad told reporters in Kabul.</div><div><br></div><div>Another earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Wednesday morning in the same area, where thousands were spending a fourth night in the open.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials said one person died and 130 were injured. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 10:49:57', '2023-10-11 10:49:57'),
(9646, 9646, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday accused the government of pushing the country towards a confrontational situation to hold another lopsided election.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a press conference at their party chairperson\'s Guslhan office, he also alleged that the government is moving ahead with its plan to hold the one-sided polls by arresting and jailing the active BNP leaders and filing ‘false’ cases against them.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The government is leading the country to a state of total confrontation with an aim to hold another one-sided election without voters as they did in 2014 and 2018,” the BNP leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>He warned that the people of the country will no longer let the government hold any more lopsided polls.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have made it very clear that there cannot be any election under Sheikh Hasina. This government must resign and this parliament must be dissolved for holding the election under a neutral administration,\" Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said their party is now least bothered about the election as their main focus is on ensuring the fall of the government through a movement.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said almost all political parties, except a few ones subservient to the government, do not recognise elections held in 2014 and 2018.</div><div><br></div><div>“There is no point in holding elections in this way. The entire world is saying that your last two elections were not acceptable and credible. So, what is the use of such polls? So what will they gain by holding an unacceptable election by force?” Fakhrul observed.</div><div><br></div><div>He said their movement will be intensified further in the days to come to force the government to step down.</div><div><br></div><div>About their meeting with the visiting joint IRI and NDI pre-election assessment mission of the US, Fakhrul said the US team came to Bangladesh to assess whether there is any atmosphere to hold an acceptable election, but they did not clearly give their any opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they told the US team that no fair election could be held in Bangladesh without a non-party neutral government.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul turned down his ruling party counterpart Obaidul Quader’s remark that the BNP has blocked the path for holding political talks. “This is bullshit and a big lie.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said their party has long been saying they can engage in talks if the government wants to discuss the issue of polls-time neutral government. “The government must first announce that they’ll accept it (neutral government demand).”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader condemned and protested the arrest of their party’s publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anne from his Dhanmondi residence in Dhaka early today (October 11, 2023), reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>He told law enforcers behaved like robbers as they arrested Anne in the dead of night by breaking the door of his house.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The manner in which he (Anne) was arrested proves that this government is well on their way to a one-sided election by arresting the active leaders of BNP and implicating them in false cases,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that the government arrested many BNP leaders and sent them to jail even before the announcement of the next election schedule. “Jailing and arresting the opposition leaders is an old practice of the autocratic regimes.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 13:35:36', '2023-10-11 13:35:36'),
(9647, 9647, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Wednesday (October 11, 2023) said a certain foreign country claiming to be friend of Bangladesh is imposing unilateral visa restrictions on Bangladeshi people.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Without naming the country the ambassador said they keep talking about human rights, democracy and free and fair elections in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>His comments came amid controversy centering the US decision to impose visa restrictions on Bangladeshi individuals. Washington, however, said it will not release the names or numbers of people in Bangladesh subject to the visa restrictions.</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador Yao reiterated that China does not meddle with the internal affairs pf other countries.</div><div><br></div><div>“China never intervenes in internal affairs of other countries. Instead, we want to help Bangladesh make greater economic success and improve the livelihood of local people,” he told reporters after attending a programme, noting that a friend in need is a friend indeed.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;“Who is the genuine friend of Bangladesh? The people have the say?” said the Chinese ambassador.</div><div><br></div><div>The Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh handed over 700 sets of dengue kits to Enam Medical College and Hospital, which would meet the demand of tests for over 18,000 people.</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador Yao said that President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government are \"deeply concerned\" on the dengue epidemic in Bangladesh and announced that China will provide 25 million RMB (USD 3.5 million) anti-dengue aid to Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>This marks only a starting point, and there will be more anti-dengue aid in larger scale coming from China in a few days, said the ambassador.</div><div><br></div><div>\"With our joint effort in mitigating the current dengue surge, the bond of friendship between the two countries and peoples would be further enhanced,\" said the ambassador.</div><div><br></div><div>As a time-tested friend and strategic partner of Bangladesh, the envoy said, China is committed to working with Dhaka in addressing public health challenges, which was manifested by their joint fight against the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief, Dr Md. Enamur Rahman, and Chief Executive Officer of Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dr. Anawarul Quader Nazim, among others, were present. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 14:31:09', '2023-10-11 14:31:09'),
(9648, 9648, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh has witnessed growing inequality in wealth and consumption over the last 15 years, said Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and convener of Citizen Platform Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya on Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said this at a media briefing on \'Citizen Agenda for Inclusive Development and Equity: Education, Health, Climate Change and Social Security\' at BRAC Centre at Mohakhali in the capital on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>“Inequality not only in wealth or money but also in consumption and getting state benefits has widened. Backward people could not be pioneers in terms of education, health, and consumption,” Debapriya said.</div><div><br></div><div>Shaheen Anam, executive director of the Manusher Janya Foundation, presided over the function. The media briefing was conducted by Professor Dr Mostafizur Rahman. Three separate presentations on education, health, and climate-focused topics were released at the event.</div><div><br></div><div>Debapriya said, “I was not motivated to give advice because of the pre-election situation in 2014 and 2018. But this time, on the eve of the national election, we have tried to evaluate the development experience of the last decade and a half.”</div><div><br></div><div>It is necessary to understand how true and strong the narrative of national development the people always are hearing.</div><div><br></div><div>“Understanding that, I discussed with about 500 people of endangered and backward communities in seven places of Bangladesh,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to a question the economist said, the middle-class society of Bangladesh has become weak and decayed. The decline of middle-class society has economic, political, and cultural significance.</div><div><br></div><div>The middle class played a major role in the cultural values and political values of Bangladesh. But in recent times that role has become murky. Because of this, we have fallen behind, said Debopriya. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 15:37:20', '2023-10-11 15:37:20'),
(9649, 9649, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure have agreed to created a wartime Cabinet to oversee the fight against Hamas militants.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the sealed-off Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas, Palestinians struggled to find safety as Israeli bombardment demolished entire neighbourhoods and the territory’s only power plant ran out of fuel.</div><div><br></div><div>The new wartime Cabinet will consist of Mr Netanyahu, Benny Gantz — a senior opposition figure and former defence minister — and current defence minister Yoav Gallant, a statement released by Mr Gantz said.</div><div><br></div><div>It appeared that the rest of Mr Netanyahu’s existing government partners, a collection of far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties, would remain in place to handle other issues.</div><div><br></div><div>The unusual arrangement cobbles together a degree of unity after years of bitterly divisive politics, as the military appears increasingly likely to launch a ground offensive into Gaza.</div><div><br></div><div>The government is under intense public pressure to topple Hamas, after its militants stormed through the border fence on Saturday and gunned down hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at a music festival.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel’s chief opposition leader, Yair Lapid, was invited to join to new Cabinet but did not immediately respond to the offer.</div><div><br></div><div>The war has already claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides, and a ground offensive in Gaza is likely to dramatically hike casualties. According to Eastern Daily Press reports </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-11 15:50:59', '2023-10-11 16:04:11'),
(9650, 9650, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has pursued a consistently violent strategy aimed at rolling back Israeli rule — and it has made steady progress despite bringing enormous suffering to both sides of the conflict.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But its stunning incursion into Israel over the weekend marks its deadliest gambit yet, and the already unprecedented response from Israel threatens to bring an end to its 16-year rule over the Gaza Strip.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel’s retaliation for the Hamas assault, in which over 1,200 people were killed in Israel and dozens dragged into Gaza as hostages, will likely bring a far greater magnitude of death and destruction to Gaza, where 2.3 million Palestinians have nowhere to flee and where 1,100 have already been killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas officials say they are prepared for any scenario, including a drawn-out war, and that allies like Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah will join the battle if Israel goes too far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I don’t think anyone really knows what the endgame is at the moment,” said Tahani Mustafa, a Palestinian analyst at the Crisis Group, an international think tank. But given the amount of planning involved in the assault, “it’s difficult to imagine they haven’t tried to strategize every possible scenario.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaul Shay, an Israeli researcher and retired colonel who served in military intelligence, said Hamas “miscalculated” Israel’s response and now faces a far worse conflict than it had anticipated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I hope and I believe that Israel will not stop until Hamas has been defeated in the Gaza Strip, and I don’t think that this was their expectation before the operation,” Shay said of Hamas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas attacks were met with massive Israeli military incursions into the occupied West Bank and Gaza that exacted a far heavier death toll on Palestinians. But as the violence wound down in 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew its soldiers and some 8,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza, while maintaining tight control over access to the enclave by land, air and sea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas claimed the withdrawal as vindication for its approach, and the following year it won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections. In 2007, after bitter infighting, it violently seized Gaza from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the next 16 years, through four wars and countless smaller battles with Israel that rained devastation upon Gaza, Hamas only grew more powerful. Each time it had more rockets that traveled farther. Each time its top leaders survived, securing a cease-fire and the gradual easing of a blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt. In the meantime, it built a government — including a police force, ministries and border terminals with metal detectors and passport control.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And what of the thousands of Palestinians killed, the flattened apartment blocks, the crumbling infrastructure, the suffocating travel restrictions, the countless dreams deferred in Gaza, a 40-kilometer (25-mile) coastal strip sandwiched between Israel and Egypt?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas blamed Israel, as did many Palestinians. The Hamas government has seen only sporadic protests over the years and has quickly and violently suppressed them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If Hamas’ armed struggle against Israel looks like a failure — or much worse — consider the alternative.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank recognized Israel and renounced armed struggle over three decades ago, hoping it would lead to a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the talks repeatedly broke down, partly because of Hamas’ violence but also because of Israel’s relentless expansion of settlements, now home to more than a half million Israelis. There have been no serious peace talks in well over a decade, and the Palestinian Authority has become little more than an administrative body in the 40% of the occupied West Bank where it is allowed to operate. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 01:55:56', '2023-10-12 01:55:56'),
(9651, 9651, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the weekend attack by Hamas militants on Israel as the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as the number of U.S. citizens killed in the fighting ticked up to at least 22.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This attack was a campaign of pure cruelty — not just hate, but pure cruelty — against the Jewish people,” Biden told Jewish leaders gathered at the White House.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the 22 known to have been killed, the State Department said at least 17 more Americans remain unaccounted for in a war that has already claimed more than 2,200 lives on both sides. A “handful” of U.S. citizens are among the estimated 150 hostages captured by Hamas militants during their shocking weekend assault on Israel, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Signs of U.S. support for Israel were seen across the administration, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveling there for meetings, Biden denouncing antisemitism in America and the U.S. military moving a second aircraft carrier toward the Mediterranean Sea as part of efforts to prevent the war from spilling over into a more dangerous regional conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kirby said the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its ships would be an “available asset” if necessary. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier, and its strike group have already arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack has raised questions about the role of Iran, the main sponsor of Hamas, and whether it was directly involved in the operation. But the U.S. has collected information that suggests senior Iranian government officials were caught off guard by the multipronged assault, according to a U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. That piece of intelligence has informed White House officials publicly asserting that it has not yet seen evidence of direct involvement by Iranians in the planning or execution of the Hamas attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We haven’t seen anything that tells they have specifically cut checks to support this set of attacks, or that they were involved in the training. And obviously, this required quite a bit of training by these terrorists,” Kirby said, though he added that the U.S. will continue to look at the intelligence “and see if that leads us to different conclusion.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden at the roundtable with Jewish leaders suggested the deployment of U.S. military ships was a not-so-subtle message to Iran and other actors in the region. “We made it clear to the Iranians: Be careful.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined with a top political rival to create a war-time Cabinet, establishing a degree of unity as the government there faces public pressure to topple Hamas. Israel continued destructive airstrikes in Gaza, where a potential ground offensive would likely result in a large number of casualties on both sides of the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With many airlines suspending commercial flights in and out of Israel because of the ongoing rocket and missile exchanges, Kirby said the United States was exploring “a range of other options” to assist Americans who want to leave, appearing to leave open the possibility of a U.S.-assisted evacuation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kirby said the administration was still in talks with Israel and Egypt to try to arrange safe passage for Gaza’s civilians. “These people are victims, too,” he said. “They didn’t ask Hamas to do this.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning, Biden sought to connect the Hamas attacks directly to decades of antisemitism and violence endured by Jews around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This attack has brought to the surface the painful memories and scars left by a millennium of antisemitism and genocide against the Jewish people,” Biden said. “We have to be crystal clear: There is no justification for terrorism, no excuse and the type of terrorism that was exhibited here is just beyond the pale, beyond the pale.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden said he and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone on Wednesday with Netanyahu. It was at least the fourth call between Biden and Netanyahu since Saturday’s attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The United States has Israel’s back and we’re going to be working on this through the day and beyond,” Biden said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in the day, while addressing Jewish leaders at the White House, Biden said he had tasked homeland security and law enforcement leaders “to work intensively with our Jewish community partners.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’re also going to condemn and combat antisemitism at every single turn, every turn,” Biden said. “The past few days have been a solemn reminder that hate never goes away.” It can go underground, he said, but it doesn’t go away. 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(9652, 9652, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Palestinian mother kneels beside the body of her dead son. Israelis crouch beside stone walls to shield themselves from rockets.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Israelis and Palestinians endured a fifth day of bloodshed Wednesday, sorrow and fear were evident on both sides of the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli tanks rolled toward the Lebanese border as rockets sailed toward Israel from the Gaza Strip. Entire Palestinian neighborhoods were reduced to smoldering shells of buildings and those injured in Israeli airstrikes were rushed off on stretchers. In Israel, the bereft gathered for funerals of those killed in weekend Palestinian attacks that spurred the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nightfall plunged much of the Gaza Strip into darkness, hiding scenes of mounting suffering as the territory’s only power station ran out of fuel. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 02:25:36', '2023-10-12 02:25:36'),
(9653, 9653, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tamannaah Bhatia\'s first role came in 2005 with Chand Sa Roshan Chehra. Her throwback video from around that time has surfaced online. A clip of a younger Tamannaah being interviewed about her debut film all the way back in 2004-2005 has been going viral on social media. In the clip, Tamannaah spoke about signing her first ever film, when she was only 13.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tamannaah was decked up in a blue and orange ethnic look and wore heavy earrings in the old video. Speaking to reporters, she said, “Main abhi school mein hoon. Main abhi 10th standard ke exams dene wali hoon, 2005 mein. Toh abhi uski bhi tayareeyan chal rahi hai. Hala ki maine jab picture sign ki thi tab main 13-and-a-half years ki thi, aur abhi 10th standard complete karne wali hoon (I am studying in school right now. I am in standard 10; I will be taking the exam in 2005. I am preparing for the exams. However, when I signed the film I was only 13-and-a-half-years-old. Now, I am about to complete standard 10).”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"She looks like she\'s 20-21. She doesn\'t look anything like a teenager. Even otherwise, most actresses lie about their age,\" commented an Instagram user. A person said, \"She\'s looking 21 here.\" Another wrote, \"Am I the only one who can\'t figure out who she is?\" One more commented, \"Itni mature voice 15-16 age mein (She sounds too mature for her age)?\" A fan wrote, \"My God. This is the youngest Tamannaah ever!\" A person also wrote, \"That\'s awkward!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her acting career</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tamannaah is known for her work in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. After her 2005 Hindi film Chand Sa Roshan Chehra, Tamannaah made her Telugu film debut with Sri. The next year, she made her Tamil debut with Kedi. She made her first appearance in a Hindi film since her debut role with Himmatwala (2013), a remake of the 1983 Hindi film of the same name.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently, Tamannaah \'s film Jailer, which featured Rajinikanth in the lead role, performed very well at the box office, grossing more than ₹650 crore worldwide. One of her most notable roles was the warrior princess Avantika in SS Rajamouli\'s Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), the first of two films in the bilingual epic film Baahubali, one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time. 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, '2023-10-12 02:30:19', '2023-10-12 02:30:19');
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(9654, 9654, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">More than 338,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said, as heavy Israeli bombardments continue to hit the Palestinian enclave.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Mass displacement across the Gaza Strip continues,\" the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a statement sent on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By late Wednesday, the number of displaced people in Gaza had risen by an additional 75,000 people from the figure given 24 hours earlier, reaching 338,934, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement came as Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip -- a densely populated enclave of 2.3 million people -- in response to the militants\' surprise Saturday attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli forces said 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the onslaught -- the worst in the country\'s history.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Gaza, officials reported more than 1,000 people have been killed in Israel\'s sustained campaign of air and artillery strikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OCHA said nearly 220,000 people, or two-thirds of the displaced people, have sought shelter in schools run by the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another nearly 15,000 people fled to schools run by the Palestinian Authority, while more than 100,000 were being sheltered by relatives, neighbours and a church and other facilities in Gaza City.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OCHA said that around 3,000 people had already been displaced within the enclave prior to Saturday\'s attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bombing campaign has destroyed or rendered uninhabitable at least 2,540 housing units in Gaza, OCHA said, citing numbers from the Gaza Ministry of Public Works and Housing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another 22,850 housing units sustained moderate to minor damage, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN agency also voiced alarm at the significant destruction of civilian infrastructure damaged in the shelling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among other things, it said sewage facilities serving more than a million people had been hit by air strikes, leaving solid waste accumulating in the streets, posing a health threat. 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, '2023-10-12 03:44:55', '2023-10-12 03:44:55'),
(9655, 9655, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Arabia\'s de facto ruler and Iran\'s president spoke by phone about the war between Israel and Hamas, Saudi state media said early Thursday, their first call since a surprise rapprochement in March.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a call on Wednesday from the Iranian leader, Ebrahim Raisi, during which they discussed \"the current military situation in Gaza and its environs\", the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prince Mohammed told Raisi that Riyadh is \"communicating with all international and regional parties to stop the ongoing escalation\", SPA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also stressed \"the kingdom\'s firm position towards supporting the Palestinian cause\", it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian state news agency IRNA also reported on the call, saying the two men discussed the \"need to end war crimes against Palestine\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday that Israeli forces say killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Gaza, officials have reported more than 1,000 people killed in Israel\'s retaliatory campaign of air and artillery strikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As war rages on, fears have mounted over the fate of at least 150 hostages -- mostly Israelis but also including foreign and dual nationals -- held in Gaza by Hamas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts say the war has dealt a heavy blow to a possible landmark normalisation deal between Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, and Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That process has been driven by US President Joe Biden\'s administration, with Riyadh bargaining hard for benefits from Washington including security guarantees and help developing a civilian nuclear programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran has long financially and militarily backed Hamas but insists it had no involvement in Saturday\'s assault.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia and Iran announced in March they had agreed to restore ties, ending a seven-year rupture in a deal brokered by China.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prince Mohammed also spoke by phone on Wednesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during which the 38-year-old Saudi leader said he was \"exerting unremitting efforts through regional and international communication to achieve coordination that pushes for a halt of the current escalation\". 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, '2023-10-12 03:47:58', '2023-10-12 03:47:58'),
(9656, 9656, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Eleven workers with the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since Saturday, and five members of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent have also been killed in the conflict, the organisations said on Wednesday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are very saddened to confirm that 11 UNRWA colleagues have been killed since 7 October in the Gaza Strip,\" UNWRA said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It did not specify if they were Palestinian or foreign personnel but said they included five teachers at UNRWA schools, one gynecologist, one engineer, one psychological counselor and three support staff.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Some were killed in their homes with their families. UNRWA mourns this loss and is grieving with our colleagues and the families,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said in a separate statement that five of its members - four in Gaza and one in Israel - had been killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">IFRC said that four Palestine Red Crescent paramedics were killed when their ambulances were hit in two different incidents on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, an ambulance driver for Magen David Adom, Israel\'s national emergency service, lost his life while driving an ambulance to treat the injured, IFRC said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) also said nearly 175,500 internally displaced people were sheltering in 88 of its schools across Gaza. Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 04:12:30', '2023-10-12 04:12:30'),
(9657, 9657, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least four people were killed and several others injured when an express train derailed in the Indian state of Bihar, local media and officials reported.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The train from Anand Vihar Terminal railway station in Delhi came off the rails at around 9:35pm local time (16:05 GMT) on Wednesday as it raced to the Kamakhya Junction in Assam, the Times of India newspaper reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Four casualties have been confirmed and rescue operation is under way. Twenty-one coaches have derailed,” Tarun Prakash, general manager of the East Central Railway, was quoted by the Times as saying. The ANI news agency also put the death toll at four.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cause of the derailment was not immediately known.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said on social media that rescue operations at the site of the derailment were now complete.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Deepest condolences for the irreparable loss,” he wrote, adding that the “root cause” of the derailment will be investigated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June, India experienced its worst train crash in two decades in Odisha, which resulted in the death of at least 288 people. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 04:27:11', '2023-10-12 04:27:11'),
(9658, 9658, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his congratulatory telegram, Putin expressed hope that bilateral agreements following the summit at the Vostochny spaceport will contribute to regional security and stability. He expressed satisfaction over the fact that the Russia-DPRK relations continue to positively develop in all aspects on the basis of the glorious traditions of the past.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am convinced that to implement the agreements will contribute to further expanding the constructive bilateral cooperation for improving the well-being of the peoples of the two countries and ensuring security and stability in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia as a whole,\" according to the telegram cited by KCNA news agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Putin also wished Kim Jong Un good health and success and all the citizens of the DPRK peace and wellbeing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kim Jong-Un visited Russia from September 12 to 17. The negotiations with the Russian President were held on September 13 at the Vostochny spaceport. During the trip, the DPRK leader visited the Gagarin aircraft building plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Knevichi airport, and the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov. He also watched the ballet \"The Sleeping Beauty\" on the Primorsky stage of the Mariinsky Theater, visited the Far Eastern Federal University, the oceanarium and the plant of the Arnika group of companies, which supplies feed and food raw materials and ingredients.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov reported that Putin gratefully accepted Kim Jong-Un\'s invitation to visit the DPRK. As Peskov noted, the timing of Putin\'s visit will be agreed upon through diplomatic channels. 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, '2023-10-12 04:51:15', '2023-10-12 04:51:15'),
(9659, 9659, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 179 at 08:53 am Thursday, Dhaka ranked 3rd in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Delhi occupied the first and second spots, with AQI scores of 260 and 235, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is considered ‘unhealthy’ while between 201–300 is ‘very unhealthy’, and 301–400 is \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to continued rain, Dhaka\'s air quality remains ‘moderate’</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;\">After days of ‘moderate’ air quality, Dhaka’s air 5th worst in the world this morning</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. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 05:50:26', '2023-10-12 05:50:26'),
(9660, 9660, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, but the CIA’s acknowledgment in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup remains classified 70 years after the putsch. That complicates the public’s understanding of an event that still resonates, as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, its aiding of militia groups across the Mideast and as it cracks down on dissent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The “CIA’s leadership is committed to being as open with the public as possible,” the agency said in a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press. “The agency’s podcast is part of that effort — and we knew that if we wanted to tell this incredible story, it was important to be transparent about the historical context surrounding these events, and CIA’s role in it.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to questions from the AP, Iran’s mission to the United Nations described the 1953 coup as marking “the inception of relentless American meddling in Iran’s internal affairs” and dismissed the U.S. acknowledgments.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The U.S. admission never translated into compensatory action or a genuine commitment to refrain from future interference, nor did it change its subversive policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the mission said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CIA’s podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats’ escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The caper, retold in the 2012 Academy Award-winning film “Argo” directed by and starring Ben Affleck, offered a dramatized version of the operation, with Affleck playing the late CIA officer Antonio “Tony” Mendez. The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson. He previously only had been known publicly by the pseudonym “Julio.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran says it successfully launches an imaging satellite into orbit amid tensions with the West</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Working with the six — these are rookies,” Johnson recounts in an interview aired by the podcast. “They were people who were not trained to lie to authorities. They weren’t trained to be clandestine, elusive.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in the podcast, another brief exchange focuses on the 1953 coup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In it, CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We should acknowledge, though, that this is, therefore, a really significant exception to that rule,” Trosin says of the 1953 coup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">CIA historian Brent Geary, appearing on the podcast, agrees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is one of the exceptions to that,” Geary says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven decades later, the 1953 coup remains as hotly debated as ever by Iran, its theocratic government, historians and others.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran’s hard-line state television spent hours discussing the coup that toppled Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on its anniversary in June. In their telling, a straight line leads from the coup to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that ultimately toppled the fatally ill shah. It still fuels the anti-Americanism that colors decisions made by the theocracy, whether in arming Russia in its war on Ukraine or alleging without evidence that Washington fomented the recent nationwide mass protests targeting it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the U.S. side, the CIA’s hand in the coup quickly was revealed as a success of Cold War espionage, though historians in recent years have debated just how much influence the agency’s actions had. It also led the CIA into a series of further coups in other countries, including Guatemala, where American clandestine action in 1954 installed a military dictator and sparked a 40-year civil war that likely killed some 245,000 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That’s led to an American political reappraisal of the 1953 CIA action in Iran. Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged the U.S.’ “significant role” in the coup in 2000. President Barack Obama, speaking in Cairo in 2009, described the CIA’s work as leading to the “overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But largely absent from the discussion was the CIA itself. After years of conflicting versions of the coup both in public and classified papers, a member of the CIA’s own in-house team of historians wrote a reappraisal of the operation in a 1998 paper titled “Zendebad, Shah!” in Farsi — or “Long Live the Shah!”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But despite a series of American historical documents being made public, including a major tranche of State Department papers in 2017, large portions of that CIA reappraisal remain heavily redacted despite attempts to legally pry them loose by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive. That’s even after pledges by former agency directors Robert Gates and James Woolsey Jr. in the 1990s to release documents from that coup and others engineered by the agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further complicating any historical reckoning is the CIA’s own admission that many files related to the 1953 coup likely had been destroyed in the 1960s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It’s wrong to suggest that the coup operation itself has been fully declassified. Far from it,” said Malcolm Byrne of the National Security Archive. “Important parts of the record are still being withheld, which only contributes to public confusion and encourages myth-making about the U.S. role long after the fact.” AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 06:42:35', '2023-10-12 06:42:35'),
(9661, 9661, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today sentenced Dinajpur Municipality Mayor Syed Jahangir Alam to one month in prison for making “derogatory remarks” against a judge of the division.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan, passed the order and fined him Tk one lakh, in default of which he will have to serve seven days more in prison.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also asked Mayor Jahangir to surrender before the Dinajpur Judicial Magistrate Court immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barrister Ruhul Kuddus stood for the mayor while Attorney General AM Amin Uddin represented the state.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on August 24, Jahangir Alam appeared before the court and offered an unconditional apology to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also exempted him from appearing before the court in person and set October 12 for the next hearing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on August 17 summoned the mayor and asked him to appear before the court on August 24 in person for making derogatory remarks against a judge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also asked the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to remove the video containing the mayor\'s remarks from the internet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four lawyers of the Supreme Court filed a contempt of court petition over the mayor making derogatory comments against Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division, M Enayetur Rahim, centring the verdict against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four lawyers are advocates Harun-or-Rashid, Mahfuzur Rahman Roman, Md Moniruzzaman Rana and Shafique Raihan Shaon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SC also issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why Mayor Jahangir should not be punished under the contempt of court rule and why directives should not be given to issue a show-cause notice against him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jahangir Alam was elected mayor of Dinajpur municipality in 2011. 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, '2023-10-12 06:45:55', '2023-10-12 06:45:55'),
(9662, 9662, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 22-day ban on catching hilsa fishing began across the country on Thursday midnight.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To ensure the safe spawning of the national fish of Bangladesh during its peak breeding period, the government has imposed the ban in the Padma-Meghna sanctuary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ban will remain in place till November 2.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fishermen will not be allowed to catch fish in the Padma-Meghna sanctuary from Shatnal in Matlab Uttar to Char Bhairabi in Haimchar upazila of Chandpur district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local administration has provided 25 kg of rice to each fisherman during the hilsa fishing ban and distribution of rice has begun in different parts of the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The local administrations also held an awareness programme in the coastal areas of the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fishermen were seen passing an idle time and some were seen repairing their nets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Golam Mehedi Hasan, district fisheries officer, said the rice distribution programme among 43,772 registered fishermen will end within one or two days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During this period, the taskforce will conduct drives round the clock to check violation of the ban while the mobile court will conduct drives alongside it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also hoped that the implementation of the programme will play a role in increasing the production of hilsa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Chandpur Deputy Commissioner Quamrul Hasan said the taskforce committee will strictly perform their duties and temporary camps will be set up in Matlab North, Sadar and Haimchar upazilas of the district. 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, '2023-10-12 07:46:05', '2023-10-12 07:46:05'),
(9663, 9663, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With an aim to bounce back into the winning way, Bangladesh will take on an inform New Zealand in their third game of the ICC Cricket World Cup tomorrow (Friday) at M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match starts at 2.30 PM (Bangladesh Time).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh won the first match against Afghanistan by six wickets but lost their second game to defending champions England by 137 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand, the current runners-up of the tournament, on the other hand are flying high, winning both of their fixtures. The Black Caps crushed England by nine wickets, chasing the target of 283 with 82 balls to spare and then outplayed Netherlands by 99 runs.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In both of the match, Bangladesh\'s new ball bowlers didn\'t bowl well enough to justify their reputation. Thanks to the spinners, Bangladesh could dismiss Afghanistan for 156 runs before sealing the deal without any fuss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But against England the pace bowlers wayward bowling proved costly. Even the spinner apart from skipper Shakib Al Hasan, failed to curb the aggression of the English batters.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh\'s top order however continued to falter. Against Afghanistan, they were reduced to 27-2 but that didn\'t cost them. There was expected on them to hit back to form in good batting pitch against England. But that was not to be. After England piling up 364-9, Bangladesh were slumped to 49-4 and the fate of the match was decided.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However Liton Das hit back to form, playing a 66 ball-76 knock, which was the only consolation for Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Tanzid Hasan Tamim still new in the International cricket, the Tigers will hope Liton will shrug off his inconsistency to give them a good start.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand will have the edge over Bangladesh, going into the clash. Just ahead of the World Cup, they clinched the three-match ODI series by 2-0, which was their first ODI series victory on Bangladesh soil since 2008.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amongst the 41 encounters between the two sides, New Zealand won 30 and lost 10 against Bangladesh while one match didn\'t fetch any result.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the recent record and form in New Zealand\'s favour, they are clear favourite in World Cup match&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from 2011 World Cup, Bangladesh faced off New Zealand in all editions since their participation in 1999 and lost all of the five matches. In 2019 World Cup, they though pushed the Black Caps vehemently, eventually lost the game by two wickets. Mushfiqur Rahim\'s blunder behind the wicket gave New Zealand captain Kane Williamson a life and he used it nicely to help the side win the game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Williamson missed the first two matches due to injury but he is highly likely to feature in tomorrow\'s match to lead the side.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although New Zealand looked favourite, Chennai\'s shimmering heat and spin favourable wicket would give Bangladesh a sense of belief to win the match.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan, however, urged his side not be bogged down for a defeat against England as he believes in a long tournament like World Cup, anything can happen.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a long tournament. We have to move on and we have some tough matches coming up,\" Shakib said. \"We cannot be bogged down. We have to move on and think about all the positives we have been doing.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the last match, Bangladesh brought in Mahedi Hasan in place of Mahmudullah Riyad to bolster the spin strength. Mahedi bowled his career-best bowling but was expensive. If Chennai\'s wicket lives up to its reputation to favour the spinners, Bangladesh could be tempted to bring in left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also looked the team management is in favour to give opener Tanzid another opportunity despite his ordinary return in the first two matches.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Squad: Shakib Al Hasan (c), Liton Das, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Najmul Hossain Shanto (vc), Tawhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah Riyad, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nasum Ahmed, Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Shoriful Islam, Tanzim Hasan Sakib.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand: Kane Williamson (c), Trent Boult, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Mitch Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Will Young. 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(9664, 9664, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the nation would learn a lot of unknown information and new chapter of the history through the much-awaited Biopic \"Mujib: The Making of a Nation\".</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said this prior to watch the premiere show of the film at the Bangladesh Film Archive, Tejgaon here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that the film will be released in the cinema halls across the country tomorrow, the premier said, \"I announced successful release of the movie\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said numerous attempts had been made to erase the name of Father of the Nation after his assassination on August 15 in 1975.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The history speaks. Many attempts were made to distort the history (of the Liberation War). But, it is proved that the history has never been wiped out,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Renowned Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal directed the film, depicting the life and political odyssey of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie is going to be released at over 200 cinema halls in Bangladesh at a time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and its Senior Secretary Md. Humayun Kabir Khandaker also spoke before the premier show.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ministers, State Ministers and other government high officials were present at that time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film is a joint production of Bangladesh-India with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Bangladesh and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India being the producers and Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) and National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Limited, India being the executive producers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film is also scheduled to be released across India on October 27.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mujib biopic received an uncensored certificate on July 31 this year from both countries censor boards.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhallywood\'s popular actor Arifin Shuvoo acted the title character of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in this film, while Nusrat Imrose Tisha played the role of Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, the lifelong better half of the Father of the Nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actress Nusraat Faria portrayed Bangabandhu\'s elder daughter and incumbent Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biopic also features popular actor Chanchal Chowdhury, Prarthana Dighi, Tauquir Ahmed and others in different characters, and the entire trailer showcases some of the powerful and majestic moments from Bangabandhu\'s epic journey to the road of the country\'s independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music of the film is produced by acclaimed Indian music director Shantanu Moitra, and the Bengali dialogues are penned by Sadhana Ahmed, Gias Uddin Selim, Shihab Shaheen and Anam Biswas from Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shooting of the film started in Mumbai, India in January 2021 and concluded in December of the same year. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 08:29:34', '2023-10-12 08:29:34'),
(9665, 9665, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The US Internal Revenue Service is asking that Microsoft pay a whopping $29 billion in unpaid taxes from 2004 to 2013, the company said in an official filing on Wednesday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case puts further focus on the international tax practices of major multinationals that have been accused in recent years of shifting revenue to lower tax jurisdictions in an effort to avoid higher taxes in their major markets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We disagree with the proposed adjustments and will vigorously contest the (demand) through the IRS\'s administrative appeals office and, if necessary, judicial proceedings,\" the company said in its filing to the US markets authority.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a blog post, Microsoft said the issue with the IRS was with its transferring of revenue across international jurisdictions during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The practice, called cost-sharing, is used by \"many large multinationals...because it reflects the global nature of their business,\" the company said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We strongly believe we have acted in accordance with IRS rules and regulations and that our position is supported by case law,\" the blog post added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reached by AFP, the IRS said it was against US law for it to either confirm or deny an ongoing tax case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft said that the appeal process with the IRS would take years and if it failed, the company would fight the claim in the courts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Windows maker said the demand emerged out of a decade-long discussion with the IRS \"about how we allocated our income and expenses for tax years beginning as far back as 2004.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have changed our corporate structure and practices since the years covered by the audit, and as a result, the issues raised by the IRS are relevant to the past but not to our current practices,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft added that \"since 2004, we have paid over $67 billion in taxes to the US.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accounting practices of US big tech companies have long posed a problem for authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governments have accused companies such as Apple, Amazon or Microsoft of shifting revenue through low or zero tax jurisdictions in order to escape taxation in their main markets and maximize profits.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This spurred a major international agreement among 140 countries brokered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that is designed to better share and regulate the tax revenue of the giants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The OECD on Wednesday published a draft agreement implementing a major part of that deal with hopes of having it ratified by the end of the year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the EU, authorities in 2016 ordered Apple to pay 13 billion euros ($14 billion) in back taxes over similar accounting practices, but Brussels lost an appeal to Apple and is awaiting the outcome of a further appeal. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 08:37:04', '2023-10-12 08:37:04'),
(9666, 9666, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The death toll and injuries of the Palestinians from Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip and West Bank hit 1,078 and 5,314 respectively, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Among the 1,078 deaths, 1055 were in Gaza, the ministry said in a press statement, adding that the injuries in Gaza were 5,184.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the number of fatalities in Hamas\' attack on Israel has reached at least 1,200, an Israeli military spokesperson said on Wednesday. - XINHUA</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 09:13:03', '2023-10-12 09:13:03'),
(9667, 9667, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>‘Mujib: The Making of a Nation’, the much-anticipated biopic of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, premiered today. The film is all set to have the nationwide theatrical release tomorrow (Friday).</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was present in the premiere show held at the National Film Archives to watch the film with actors, actress and others who were associated with the film.</div><div><br></div><div>After the show the PM said, the nation will know many unknown facts and new chapters of history through the film ‘Mujib: The Making of a Nation’.</div><div>\"The film will be screened in all movie houses across the country from tomorrow (Friday) and I have announced the release of the film,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Ministers, state ministers and other government high officials also were present at the show.</div><div><br></div><div>The film, a joint production of Bangladesh and India, has been directed by master filmmaker Shyam Benegal.</div><div><br></div><div>It is scheduled to be released across India on October 27.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Bangladesh &amp; Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India are the producers and Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) &amp; National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Limited, India the executive producers of the film.</div><div><br></div><div>The film received clearance certificate on July 31 this year from censor boards of both countries.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhallywood’s popular actor Arifin Shuvoo leads the ensemble cast as the title character of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in this film, while Nusrat Imrose Tisha plays Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, the lifelong better half of the Father of the Nation.</div><div><br></div><div>Actress Nusraat Faria portrayed Bangabandhu’s elder daughter and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>The biopic also features popular actor Chanchal Chowdhury, Prarthana Dighi, Tauquir Ahmed and others in different characters, and the entire trailer showcases some of the powerful and majestic moments from Bangabandhu’s epic journey to the road of the country’s independence.</div><div><br></div><div>Music of the film is produced by acclaimed Indian music director Shantanu Moitra, and theBengali dialogues are penned by Sadhana Ahmed, Gias Uddin Selim, Shihab Shaheen and Anam Biswas from Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Shooting of the film started in Mumbai, India in January 2021 and concluded in December of the same year. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 10:40:25', '2023-10-12 10:40:25');
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(9668, 9668, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>As per the latest statistics of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), readymade garment export to the European Union reached US$ 5.51 billion during July-September of FY 2023-24, 11.47% up compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Our exports to Spain, France, Netherlands and Italy showed 23.26%, 8.67%, 18.97% and 23.22% growth respectively. On the other hand, export to Germany, the largest export market in the EU, declined by 4.41% with an amount of US$ 1.45 billion compared to the July-September 2022-23 FY, said a press release sent by Mohiuddin Rubel, director at BGMEA.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our RMG export to the USA stood US$ 2.07 billion in the first three months of FY 2023-24 with 2.77 % growth. At the same time, exports to the UK and Canada reached US$ 1.45 billion and US$ 352.86 million, with 21.35 % and 5.44% growth respectively,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>During July-September, of FY 2023-24,&nbsp; apparel export to non-traditional markets grew by 24.93% to US$ 2.24 billion from US$ 1.80 billion in the corresponding period of previous year, said the BGMEA director, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the major non-traditional markets, exports to Japan, Australia and South Korea increased by 39.44%, 54.11% and 37.01% respectively but export to India declined by 7.69%, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 10:45:45', '2023-10-12 10:45:45'),
(9669, 9669, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday announced the formation of a leather industry development authority for the growth of the country’s leather and leather goods sector.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“I am announcing a leather development authority for the improvement of the leather industry. We, the Prime Minister’s Office, will form a leather industry development authority separately,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier made this announcement while inaugurating the 4th edition of Bangladesh Leather Footwear and Leather Goods International Sourcing Show (BLLISS-2023) at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>But the BLLISS-2023 is being held at International Convention City Bashundhara till Saturday next.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said her government has a plan to develop area-based tannery industry (industrial estates) in several more places including Chattogram and Rajshahi in the country in phases.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If we can do it (developing area-based tannery industry), the preservation, processing and use of leathers would go up. Because, it will develop as a big industry for us,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, Senior Secretary of the Commerce Ministry Tapan Kanti Ghosh, Founder of Golden Chang Group James Ho and Founder &amp; Chairman of Advanced Manufacturing Group Jonathan Bobbett spoke on the occasion.</div><div><br></div><div>President of Leathergoods and Footwear Manufacturers &amp; Exporters Association of Bangladesh (LFMEAB) Syed Nasim Manzur delivered the welcome speech. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 13:47:15', '2023-10-12 13:47:15'),
(9670, 9670, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said on Thursday that there was no benefit to dragging out the dead caretaker government and it would bring no relief for the opposition.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“The next national election will be unprecedentedly peaceful and neutral, all things of the BNP will end in smoke unless the party joins the election,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader, also road, transport and bridges minister, came up with the remark while addressing a peace and development rally organised by Dhaka south chapter Awami League on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka on Thursday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>The party held the rally in protest against terrorism, anarchy and anti-state conspiracy by BNP-Jamaat.</div><div><br></div><div>Recalling memories of past movements by the BNP-Jamaat alliance, the Awami League general secretary warned that the BNP-led alliance will have to be shown a ‘red card’ when they play foul in a game involving elections.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that this time there would be no respite.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader also warned that any efforts to show US Ambassador Peter D. Haas that the BNP was out to foil the election would be resisted.</div><div><br></div><div>Criticising the BNP’s ongoing movement and its strategy, Quader said that the BNP’s dream to come to power would not succeed as the opposition party has itself blocked its path.</div><div><br></div><div>“What will Haas do? Impose visa policy, restriction?”</div><div><br></div><div>Chaired by south unit President Abu Ahmed Mannafi, the party’s Presidium member Advocate Kamrul Islam, Joint General Secretary and Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, Organising Secretaries Mirza Azam, SM Kamal Hossain and Dhaka south General Secretary Humayun Kabir, among others, spoke at the rally. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-12 16:09:17', '2023-10-12 16:09:17'),
(9671, 9671, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The much-anticipated biopic of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman \'Mujib: The Making of a Nation\' is all set to have the nationwide theatrical release Friday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2 hr 58 minutes film is set to be screened at 153 theatres across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marking the grand release of the much-anticipated biopic, cinema halls and multiplexes across the country is eagerly awaiting to welcome the moviegoers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Audiences are also showcasing their enthusiastic responses about the film over the social media platforms, and also showing up to the ticket counters at the thetres for advance tickets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Thursday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined the exclusive premiere show at National Film Archives in the capital and watched the film with the cast and crew members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Dhallywood’s popular actor Arifin Shuvoo portrays the title character of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in this film, while Nusrat Imrose Tisha plays Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, the lifelong better half of the Father of the Nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actress Nusraat Faria plays Bangabandhu’s elder daughter and reigning Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while the biopic also features popular actor Chanchal Chowdhury, Prarthana Dighi,.Fazlur Rahman Babu, Riaz, Tauquir Ahmed, Shahidul Alam Sacchu and others in different characters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music of the film is produced by acclaimed Indian music director Shantanu Moitra, and theBengali dialogues are penned by Sadhana Ahmed, Gias Uddin Selim, Shihab Shaheen and Anam Biswas from Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shooting of the film started in Mumbai, India in January 2021 and concluded in December of the same year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film received an uncensored certificate on July 31 of this year from both of the censor boards. 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, '2023-10-13 08:23:55', '2023-10-13 08:23:55'),
(9672, 9672, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived Friday in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to meet with senior government leaders and see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Austin is the second high-level U.S. official to visit Israel in two days. His quick trip from Brussels, where he was attending a NATO defense ministers meeting, comes a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region on Thursday. Blinken is continuing the frantic Mideast diplomacy, seeking to avert an expanded regional conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Austin is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, and the Israeli War Cabinet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His arrival comes as Israel\'s military directed hundreds of thousands of residents in Gaza City to evacuate \"for their own safety and protection,\" ahead of a feared Israeli ground offensive. Gaza\'s Hamas rulers responded by calling on Palestinians to \"remain steadfast in your homes and to stand firm\" against Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defense officials traveling with Austin said he wants to underscore America\'s unwavering support for the people of Israel and that the United States is committed to making sure the country has what it needs to defend itself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior defense official said the U.S. has already given Israel small diameter bombs as well as interceptor missiles for its Iron Dome system and more will be delivered. Other munitions are expected to arrive Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Austin has spoken nearly daily with Gallant, and directed the rapid shift of U.S. ships, intelligence support and other assets to Israel and the region. Within hours after the brutal Hamas attack across the border into Israel, the U.S. moved warships and aircraft to the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group is already in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and a second carrier was departing Friday from Virginia, also heading to the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Austin declined to say if the U.S. is doing surveillance flights in the region, but the U.S. is providing intelligence and other planning assistance to the Israelis, including advice on the hostage situation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day after visiting Israel to offer the Biden administration\'s diplomatic support in person, Blinken was in Jordan on Friday for talks with Jordanian King Abdullah II and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who has a home in the Jordanian capital of Amman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The monarch rules over a country with a large Palestinian population and has a vested interest in their status while Abbas runs the Palestinian Authority that controls the West Bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later Friday, Blinken is to fly to Doha for meetings with Qatari officials who have close contacts with the Hamas leadership and have been exploring an exchange of Palestinian prisoners in Israel for the release of dozens of Israelis and foreigners taken hostage by Hamas during the unprecedented incursion of the militants into southern Israel last weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blinken will make a brief stop in Bahrain and end the day in Saudi Arabia, a key player in the Arab world that has been considering normalizing ties with Israel, a U.S.-mediated process that is now on hold.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will also travel to the United Arab Emirates and Egypt over the weekend. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-13 08:26:20', '2023-10-13 08:26:20'),
(9673, 9673, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israel\'s military on Friday directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 people — about half of the territory\'s population — within 24 hours, a U.N. spokesman said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This could signal an impending ground offensive, though the Israeli military has not yet confirmed such an appeal. On Thursday it said that while it was preparing, a decision has not yet been made.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The order, delivered to the U.N., comes as Israel presses an offensive against Hamas militants. U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric called the order \"impossible\" without \"devastating humanitarian consequences.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the Israeli military pulverized the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, prepared for a possible ground invasion and said its complete siege of the territory — which has left Palestinians desperate for food, fuel and medicine — would remain in place until Hamas militants free some 150 hostages taken during a grisly weekend incursion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, along with shipments of U.S. weapons, offered a powerful green light to Israel to drive ahead with its retaliation in Gaza after Hamas\' deadly attack on civilians and soldiers, even as international aid groups warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis. Israel has halted deliveries of basic necessities and electricity to Gaza\'s 2.3 million people and prevented entry of supplies from Egypt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Not a single electricity switch will be flipped on, not a single faucet will be turned on and not a single fuel truck will enter until the Israeli hostages are returned home,\" Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz said on social media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters Thursday that forces \"are preparing for a ground maneuver\" should political leaders order one.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A ground offensive in Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas and where the population is densely packed into a sliver of land only 40 kilometers (25 miles) long, would likely bring even higher casualties on both sides in brutal house-to-house fighting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamas\' assault Saturday and smaller attacks since have killed more than 1,300 people in Israel, including 247 soldiers — a toll unseen in Israel for decades — and the ensuing Israeli bombardment has killed more than 1,530 people in Gaza, according to authorities on both sides. Israel says roughly 1,500 Hamas militants were killed inside Israel, and that hundreds of the dead in Gaza are Hamas members. Thousands have been wounded on both sides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Israel pounds Gaza from the air, Hamas militants have fired thousands of rockets into Israel. Amid concerns that the fighting could spread in the region, Syrian state media reported that Israeli airstrikes on Thursday put two Syrian international airports out of service.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The relentless barrage on Gaza — which the military said has so far involved 6,000 munitions — left Palestinians running through streets, carrying their belongings and looking for safety</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A strike Thursday afternoon in the Jabaliya refugee camp took down a residential building on families sheltering inside, killing at least 45 people, Gaza\'s Interior Ministry said. At least 23 of the dead were under the age of 18, including a month-old child, according to a list of the casualties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The home belonging to the al-Shihab family was packed with relatives who had fled bombing in other areas. Neighbors said a second house was hit at the same time, but the toll was not immediately known. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We can\'t flee because anywhere you go, you are bombed,\" one neighbor, Khalil Abu Yahia, said. \"You need a miracle to survive here.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of people forced from their homes by the airstrikes soared 25% in a day, reaching 423,000 out of a population of 2.3 million, the U.N. said Thursday. Most crowded into U.N.-run schools.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Families were cutting down to one meal a day, said Rami Swailem, a 34-year-old lecturer at al-Azhar University, who had 32 relatives sheltering in his home. Water stopped coming to the building two days ago, and they have rationed what\'s left in a tank on the roof.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alaa Younis Abuel-Omrain has been staying in a U.N. school after a strike on her home killed eight members of her family — her mother, aunt, a sister, a brother and his wife and their three children. Most bakeries stopped producing bread for lack of electricity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Even if there is food in some areas, we can\'t get to it because of strikes,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, Gaza\'s only power station ran out of fuel and shut down, leaving only lights powered by scattered private generators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hospitals, overwhelmed by a constant stream of wounded and running out of supplies, have only a few days worth of fuel before their power cuts off, aid officials say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Without electricity, hospitals risk turning into morgues,\" said Fabrizio Carboni, regional director of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Newborn incubators, kidney dialysis machines, X-ray equipment and more, are all dependent on power, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambulance crews carrying bodies to the morgue at Gaza\'s biggest hospital, Shifa, found no space left. Dozens of full body bags were lined up in the hospital parking lot. Fourteen health facilities have been damaged in strikes, health officials said Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Israel sealing off the territory, the only way in or out is through the crossing with Egypt at Rafah, but Egypt\'s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that airstrikes on Rafah have prevented it from operating. Egypt has been trying to convince Israel and the United States to allow aid and fuel through the crossing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel is employing a new tactic of leveling whole neighborhoods, rather than just individual buildings. Hecht, the military spokesman, said targeting decisions were based on intelligence on locations being used by Hamas and that civilians were warned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Right now, we are focused on taking out their senior leadership,\" Hecht said. The military said strikes have hit Hamas\' elite Nukhba forces, including command centers used by the fighters in Saturday\'s attack, and the home of a senior Hamas naval operative used to store weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to \"crush\" Hamas after the militants stormed into the country\'s south on Saturday and massacred hundreds of people, including killings of children in their homes and young people at a music festival. Netanyahu said Hamas\' atrocities included beheading soldiers and raping women, descriptions that could not immediately be independently confirmed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid grief and demands for vengeance among the Israeli public, the government is under intense pressure to topple Hamas rather than continuing to try to bottle it up in Gaza.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video released Thursday, civilian Hamas figures defended the group\'s rampage and decried the civilian deaths in Gaza from six days of Israeli airstrikes. The solemn video lacked the bravado of a recording aired Saturday by Hamas\'s military wing that hailed \"the greatest battle\" as the massacres were still taking place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basem Naim, a former Hamas government minister, said that in the \"swift collapse\" of the Israeli military on Saturday, \"chaos prevailed and civilians found themselves in the middle of the confrontation.\" The claim is contradicted by countless videos and survivor accounts of Hamas militants deliberately targeting and killing civilians in Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naim added that there would be no action to free the 150 captives taken back into Gaza while Israel\'s operation continued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel was a nation in mourning. At a funeral for a 25-year-old woman killed with at least 260 other people at a desert rave, and at another service for a slain Israeli soldier, mourners sat cross-legged on the ground next to caskets, wailing or quietly weeping.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Gaza, too, mourners buried families together in shrouds. At one funeral, they placed the battered body of a little girl in the arms of her slain father.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brewing anger over Israeli military and intelligence failures in the surprise attack is being directed at Netanyahu\'s far-right government, which for months advanced a contentious legal overhaul that divided the country and affected the military.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In what appeared to be a first admission of fault from a government member, Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch told Israeli news outlet Ynet: \"We are responsible. I, as a member of the government, am responsible. We were dealing with nonsense.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel\'s public diplomacy minister quit, the first fissure in Netanyahu\'s government since the onslaught.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four previous conflicts ended with Hamas still firmly in control of the territory it has ruled since 2007. Israel has mobilized 360,000 reservists, massed forces near Gaza and evacuated tens of thousands of residents from nearby communities. A new war Cabinet, which includes a longtime opposition politician, was sworn in Thursday to direct the fight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A high-ranking Hamas official, Saleh Al-Arouri, warned Thursday that any Israeli invasion of Gaza \"will turn into a disaster for its army,\" saying the group was prepared to respond.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blinken\'s visit underscored American backing for Israel\'s retaliation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You may be strong enough on your own to defend yourselves, but as long as America exists, you will never have to,\" Blinken said after meeting with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blinken said he told Netanyahu that it was \"so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blinken will also meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose authority is confined to parts of the occupied West Bank, and Jordan\'s King Abdullah II. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin planned to visit Israel on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-13 08:32:47', '2023-10-13 08:32:47'),
(9674, 9674, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Bangladesh cricket team&nbsp; poised to face off against New Zealand in their third encounter of the ICC World Cup at 2:30 pm (Bangladesh time) on Friday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anticipation is high for this match, considering the recent history between these two teams.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In their last ODI series, New Zealand emerged as victors. It marked Bangladesh\'s first series loss to New Zealand at home in over a decade. Bangladesh will surely come up strong to erase this recent memory to write a new one.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match in Chennai marks Kane Williamson\'s return to competitive cricket after a prolonged absence due to injuries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the team was hopeful for Tim Southee\'s inclusion too, the pacer is still recovering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In contrast, Bangladesh are fielding their best, with the exception of Tamim Iqbal. The opener\'s injury concern led selectors to omit him from the World Cup squad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh\'s captain, Shakib Al Hasan, has a history of strong performances against New Zealand. In this crucial World Cup clash, his leadership will be pivotal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This match holds significant importance for both Bangladesh and New Zealand, as they vie for a favorable position in the World Cup points table.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh have played two matches in this World Cup so far, securing one win and enduring one defeat. Meanwhile, New Zealand has also played two matches, clinching victories in both, including one against the reigning world champions, England.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh squad in the World Cup 2023: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Liton Das, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Towhid Hridoy, Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Mahedi Hasan, Mahmudullah, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Hasan Mahmud, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasum Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Taskin Ahmed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand squad in the World Cup 2023: Kane Williamson (captain), Tom Latham, Devon Conway, Glenn Phillips, Will Young, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee. 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, '2023-10-13 08:34:59', '2023-10-13 08:34:59'),
(9675, 9675, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi hit a post twice after he came off the bench but struggled to deliver a strong performance following his return from injury. Still, Argentina beat Paraguay 1-0 on Thursday in a South American World Cup qualifying match.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Argentina\'s biggest South American rival left the pitch to some jeers at Cuiabá, Brazil after the home side and Venezuela drew 1-1. The result put pressure on new Brazil coach Fernando Diniz and kept Argentina as the sole leaders of the round-robin competition with their third victory in three matches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada is expanding to a 48-team format, meaning direct entry to the top six teams in South America. The seventh-place team will contest an intercontinental playoff for a berth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentina leads South American World Cup qualifying with 9 points, followed by Brazil (7), Colombia (5), Uruguay (4), Chile (4), Venezuela (4), Ecuador (3), Paraguay (1), Peru (1), and Bolivia (0). All 10 teams will play the fourth round on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next round will offer the following matchups: Peru vs. Argentina, Uruguay vs. Brazil, Ecuador vs. Colombia, Paraguay vs. Bolivia and Venezuela vs. Chile.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ARGENTINA 1, PARAGUAY 0</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only goal of the match at the Monumental de Nunez Stadium came in the third minute after a corner kick that found Nicolás Otamendi free from marking in the penalty box. The defender smashed the ball into the net with a left-foot volley.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 36-year-old Messi has felt muscular pains in his right leg that have sidelined him for several matches at his club Inter Miami. Coach Lionel Scaloni picked Nico Gonzalez as his replacement. The star substituted Julián Álvarez in the 52nd minute, when Argentina was already in the lead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi hit the post in a corner kick he took 10 minutes after stepping on the pitch of the Monumental de Nuñez Stadium in Buenos Aires, but his other efforts to dribble and give deep passes fell flat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A free kick from the same spot where he scored the winner against Ecuador in September raised hopes for Argentina fans shortly before the final whistle, but Messi\'s shot hit the right post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I get very calm when we have Leo on the pitch,” midfielder Rodrigo De Paul said after the match. “We are at a very good level. We feel comfortable with the way we are playing.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paraguay’s new coach Daniel Garnero had his debut against Argentina, and his team gave little evidence of attacking power. The 54-year-old coach took over from Guillermo Barros Schelotto last month after the first two qualifiers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi missed four MLS matches for his club plus the U.S. Open Cup final. He played 10 minutes on Saturday in Inter Miami’s 1-0 loss to Cincinnati. He also skipped Argentina\'s 3-0 win at Bolivia in another World Cup qualifying match in September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BRAZIL 1, VENEZUELA 1</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first time, Brazil failed to beat Venezuela at home. Neymar, Vinicius Júnior and Richarlison struggled the entire first half to get a clear shot on goal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seconds after Neymar got his first big opportunity after the break, with a shot from the edge of the box, Brazil scored its goal with an assist from the Al-Hilal player.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neymar took a corner kick that ended in a close range header by Gabriel Magalhães in the 52nd minute at the Arena Pantanal in the city of Cuiabá, one of Brazil\'s warmest at this time of the year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hosts squandered several opportunities from close range. Venezuela kept some pressure and scored in the 85th minute with a half-bicycle by Eduardo Bello, in one of the most impressive goals of South American World Cup qualifying so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Venezuela\'s defense managed to keep Brazil at bay until the final whistle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Now we have to hold our heads up high and think about Uruguay. We wanted to go at them, they wanted to defend and we couldn\'t break them like we wanted,” Brazil captain Casemiro said after the match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Thursday, Colombia and Uruguay drew 2-2. Veteran James Rodríguez opened the scoring for the hosts in the 37th minute, and Matias Oliveira levelled shortly before the break.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mateus Uribe put the Colombians back in front in the 52nd minute. Uruguay equalized from the spot with Darwin Núñez moments before the final whistle after being fouled by goalkeeper Camilo Vargas, who was sent off.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ecuador beat Bolivia in La Paz 2-1 with a goal in the final moments of the match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kendry Paéz scored for the visitors shortly before the break, and Rodrigo Ramallo equalized in the 83rd minute. Kevin Rodriguez gave Ecuador its first three points in qualifying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chile beat Peru 2-0. Diego Valdéz scored the first in the 74th minute and an own goal by Marcos López finished the scoring in injury time. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbbd/kh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-13 08:37:37', '2023-10-13 08:37:37'),
(9676, 9676, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iran said the United States \"can not renege\" on an agreement to transfer $6 billion in frozen funds through mediator Qatar following Hamas bloody assault on Israel.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tehran, which financially and militarily backs Hamas, has come under intense scrutiny since fighters of the Islamist group stormed across Israel\'s southern border at the weekend, shooting people in their homes and on the streets in an onslaught that claimed more than 1,200 lives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran has insisted it was not involved, but celebrated the Hamas attack as a \"success\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel has responded to the attack by pounding Hamas targets in the blockaded Gaza Strip, killing at least 1,537 people in the impoverished Palestinian territory of over 2.4 million people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The US government knows that it can NOT renege on the agreement,\" Ali Karimi Magham, spokesperson of Iran\'s permanent mission to the United Nations, said late Thursday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The money rightfully belongs to the people of Iran, earmarked for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to facilitate the acquisition of all essential requisites for the Iranians,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The transfer of the frozen funds from South Korea to Europe and later to Qatar was part of a deal that saw the United States and Iran exchange five prisoners last month. AF</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-13 08:39:57', '2023-10-13 08:39:57'),
(9677, 9677, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hamas on Friday rejected an Israeli order for 1.1 million residents to evacuate northern Gaza ahead of an expected ground incursion into the overcrowded Palestinian territory.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our Palestinian people reject the threat of the occupation (Israeli) leaders and its call for them to leave their homes and flee from them to the south or Egypt,\" the Islamist militant group said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are steadfast on our land and in our homes and our cities. There will be no displacement,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations said an order by Israel to flee within 24 hours risked a \"calamitous situation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli strikes on the coastal enclave have killed more than 1,530 people since Saturday, in retaliation for Hamas militants killing around 1,200 people in attacks in Israel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt\'s Rafah crossing is the only route out of Gaza not controlled by Israel and has been bombed on several occasions this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt remains committed to ensuring the delivery of aid to Gaza, but urged Palestinians to \"remain on their land\" in a speech Thursday. 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, '2023-10-13 08:42:39', '2023-10-13 08:42:39'),
(9678, 9678, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Thousands of Palestinians fled Saturday to southern Gaza seeking refuge after Israel warned them to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against Hamas in retaliation for the deadliest attack in Israel\'s history.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that nearly a week of fierce bombardment was \"just the beginning\" as Israel seeks to retaliate against Hamas after their fighters killed more than 1,300 a week ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Israeli ground forces made \"localised\" raids into Gaza in the past 24 hours \"to cleanse the area of terrorists and weaponry\" and try to find \"missing persons\", the army said.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of those killed when militant fighters burst through the heavily militarised border into Israel last Saturday were civilians, in an attack compared to 9/11 in the United States.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 1,900 Gazans -- most of them civilians and including more than 600 children -- have been killed in missile strikes on the densely populated enclave, the health ministry said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Where to go?\" asked Umm Hossam, 29, who was among the thousands fleeing.</div><div><br></div><div>\"How long will the strikes and death last? We have no homes left, every area of Gaza is under threat,\" said the 29-year-old, her face streaked with tears,</div><div><br></div><div>Hamas took about 150 Israeli, foreign and dual national hostages back to Gaza in the initial attack, Israel has said.</div><div><br></div><div>The militant group said Friday that 13 of them had been killed in Israeli air strikes.</div><div>- \'Genocide\' -</div><div><br></div><div>German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, in Israel Friday, accused Hamas of using residents as a \"shield\" in Gaza, where Israel has cut off water, fuel and food supplies.</div><div><br></div><div>US President Joe Biden spoke with the families of 14 Americans who have been missing since the Hamas attack Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'re going to do everything in our power to find them,\" he told CBS\'s \"60 Minutes\".</div><div><br></div><div>He also stressed that addressing the swelling humanitarian crisis in Gaza was a \"priority\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"The overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do with Hamas and Hamas\'s appalling attacks, and they\'re suffering as a result as well,\" Biden said in a speech.</div><div><br></div><div>Tensions have risen across the Middle East and beyond, with angry protests in support of the Palestinians, while Israel faces the threat of a separate confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon.</div><div><br></div><div>A Reuters video journalist was killed and six other reporters -- from AFP, Reuters and Al Jazeera -- were injured in southern Lebanon close to Israel, caught up in cross-border shelling.</div><div><br></div><div>In the occupied West Bank, at least 16 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces during protests supporting Gaza, the health ministry said.</div><div><br></div><div>Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh accused Israel of committing \"genocide\" in Gaza.</div><div><br></div><div>But Netanyahu\'s spokeswoman Tal Heinrich told AFP: \"Everything that happens in Gaza is Hamas\'s responsibility.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Thousands also demonstrated in support of the Palestinians on Friday in Beirut, Iraq, Iran and in Jordan.</div><div><br></div><div>Demonstrations also took place in Bahrain, where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Saturday, as part of a regional tour seeking to keep calm in the Arab world.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Impossible\' -</div><div><br></div><div>In Gaza, UN officials said the Israeli military, whose troops are massing at the border, had said some 1.1 million people in the north of the enclave needed to evacuate to the south \"within the next 24 hours\".</div><div><br></div><div>Israel did not confirm it had set the deadline, but later admitted it would take more time. A ground offensive would be complicated by the presence of hostages.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations described the immediate movement of nearly half of the 2.4 million in the Gaza Strip as \"impossible\" called for the evacuation order to be rescinded.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Moving more than one million people across a densely populated war zone to a place with no food, water, or accommodation, when the entire territory of Gaza is under siege, is extremely dangerous - and in some cases, simply not possible,\" UN chief Antonio Guterres said on X, formerly Twitter.</div><div><br></div><div>Hospitals are struggling to cope with the dead and wounded and the health system was \"at a breaking point\", the World Health Organization said.</div><div><br></div><div>In Jordan, after a meeting with Blinken, King Abdullah II called for \"humanitarian corridors\" to be opened urgently.</div><div><br></div><div>Egypt -- which runs the Rafah crossing to the south of Gaza -- faces a dilemma of accepting refugees with the possibility that Israel may never let them return, weakening Palestinian aspirations for statehood.</div><div><br></div><div>- Air strikes -</div><div><br></div><div>AFP correspondents in Gaza said the Israeli military on Friday dropped flyers warning residents to flee \"immediately\" south of Wadi Gaza, with a map pointing south across a line in the centre of the 40 kilometre-long (25 mile-long) territory.</div><div><br></div><div>The army said it \"will continue to operate significantly in Gaza City and make extensive efforts to avoid harming civilians\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"Hamas terrorists are hiding in Gaza City inside tunnels underneath houses and inside buildings populated with innocent civilians.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Netanyahu has vowed to \"crush\" Hamas, and has likened it to the Islamic State group.</div><div><br></div><div>But in Geneva, the Red Cross said the unjustifiable \"horrific\" attacks on Israel could equally not justify \"the limitless destruction of Gaza\".</div><div><br></div><div>- A \'crime\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Hamas has said Palestinians rejected the evacuation request, yet thousands of Gazans were on the move in search of safety, carrying plastic bags of belongings, suitcases on their shoulders and children in their arms.</div><div><br></div><div>Even before the evacuation order, more than 423,000 people had already fled their homes in Gaza, according to the UN.</div><div><br></div><div>Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit said Israel\'s evacuation order is a \"forced transfer\" that constitutes \"a crime\".</div><div><br></div><div>Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said it will be \"tantamount to a second Nakba\" or \"catastrophe\", referring to the 760,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 war that accompanied Israel\'s creation.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Israel risked waging an \"unacceptable\" siege in Gaza comparable to the Nazi blockade of Leningrad during World War II.</div><div><br></div><div>- Mass killings -</div><div><br></div><div>Israeli soldiers have swept the southern towns and kibbutz farming communities since last Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>They said they found the bodies of 1,500 militants, as well as large numbers of civilians killed by Hamas fighters.</div><div><br></div><div>Yossi Landau, with the Zaka organisation that recovers the bodies of people who suffer unnatural deaths, said he found a dead woman with her stomach \"ripped open, a baby was there, still connected with the cord, and stabbed\".</div><div><br></div><div>They were among more than 100 people killed in Beeri, just outside Gaza, while around 270 were gunned down or burned in their cars at the nearby Supernova music festival.</div><div><br></div><div>Hamas has denied that its fighters killed infants.</div><div><br></div><div>- Hezbollah threat -</div><div><br></div><div>Israel faces a potential second front in the north after the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon said it was \"fully prepared\" to join Hamas in the war when the time was right.</div><div><br></div><div>There has been cross-border fire in recent days, sparking concern about regional stability and prompting the United States to send additional munitions and its largest aircraft carrier.</div><div><br></div><div>Israeli forces said Saturday said they had \"struck a Hezbollah terror target in southern Lebanon\" in response to a drone crossing the border.</div><div><br></div><div>Biden has warned other regional powers not to get involved.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel\'s arch foe Iran has long financially and militarily backed Hamas and praised its attack, but insists it was not involved. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-10-14 04:37:43', '2023-10-14 04:37:43');
