INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2843, 2843, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Athiya Shetty celebrates her 30th birthday on Saturday. The actor made her acting debut in 2015 with Hero opposite Sooraj Pancholi and has since been seen in movies such as Mubarakan (2017) and Motichoor Chaknachoor (2019). She is the daughter of actor Suniel Shetty and his wife Mana Shetty.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Apart from her work and stunning Instagram posts, Athiya is also often in news for her relationship with cricketer KL Rahul. The couple started dating a few years ago in secret but now don\'t shy away from occasionally flaunting their love on social media. They often share posts and pictures with each other on special moments and birthdays and we are sure KL Rahul\'s birthday wish for Athiya this year must also be in transit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is rumoured that they will get married in January next year and the wedding will take place in Maharashtra. \"KL informed me a few days back that he will marry Athiya next year. After that, a close family member from the girl\'s side also told me the same. After the T20 World Cup, the team will go for New Zealand tour and after this, the wedding will take place in Maharashtra,\" said a BCCI source to ANI.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were also rumours that Athiya was ‘moving in’ with KL Rahul. Refuting those, she told ETimes, \"I am not moving in with anyone, but my parents! My family and I will be staying in this brand new home.\" The family currently lives at their Altamount Road home in South Mumbai.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked about the rumours that she and KL Rahul are getting married, Athiya said, \"I am not answering any of these questions. I am tired of all this, now I only laugh them off. Let people think whatever they want to.\" HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 13:58:35', '2022-11-05 13:58:35'),
(2844, 2844, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly approved the evacuation of civilians from parts of Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kyiv\'s forces have been steadily advancing on the strategic port city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Putin said people living in dangerous areas should leave as \"the civilian population should not suffer\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 70,000 people are reported to have been moved already from Kherson - the only major city gained by Moscow since its troops invaded in February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Civilians at risk from shelling and attacks should be \"removed\", Mr Putin said, during the Unity Day holiday in Moscow\'s Red Square.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv accuses Russia of forcibly deporting Ukrainian civilians - which is considered a war crime - although Moscow denies this.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s intensive missile and drone strikes on civilian infrastructure across Ukraine have caused heavy casualties and damage, and forced Kyiv to impose frequent electricity blackouts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Putin\'s comments followed reports on Thursday that Russian soldiers, too, had been leaving Kherson - in what would mark a major withdrawal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Kremlin-installed official in the region, Kirill Stremousov, told Russian media that Moscow was \"likely\" to pull its troops from the area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian officials remained cautious, warning that the reported move could be a trap to lure their soldiers into dangerous areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson was captured soon after Russia attacked its neighbour on 24 February, but recently Ukrainian forces have steadily recaptured territory on the city\'s outskirts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Civilians were first urged to leave Kherson in the middle of last month, as the Russian army switched the city to defensive mode.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Military commanders later said they had completed an operation to evacuate the city\'s residents, ahead of an expected battle there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia claims the Kherson region and three other Ukrainian regions as its own territory, though it does not fully control any of them. It hastily arranged local \"referendums\" to justify the claim - a move condemned internationally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia also annexed Ukraine\'s Crimea peninsula in 2014.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During Friday\'s speech in Red Square, Mr Putin also said some 318,000 military recruits had signed up for duty during a mobilisation, now complete - exceeding his target of 300,000.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of these, Mr Putin said 49,000 were already involved in active fighting - a figure not independently verified by the BBC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a Russian private military company, the Wagner Group, has opened its first official headquarters, in St Petersburg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its fighters are reported to be active in the Russian campaign in Ukraine, and it has recruited prisoners to fight there, in exchange for their sentences being commuted in Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wagner soldiers have repeatedly been accused of human rights violations, including in Syria, Libya and other conflicts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Putin has now amended the Russian law on calling up reservists to include men convicted of serious crimes who recently left prison.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The change means that convicted murderers and drug dealers who have recently been released could be conscripted to fight in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former prisoners convicted of sex crimes against children or terrorism are still excluded from serving.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his latest comments on the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attacked the \"absolutely insane stubbornness of the owners of today\'s Russia\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said his enemy was uninterested in peace talks, but was instead sending \"people to the meat grinder\" - both mobilised troops and mercenary fighters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the week\'s \"fiercest fighting\", Mr Zelensky singled out the eastern towns of Bakhmut and Soledar. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 14:13:38', '2022-11-05 14:13:38'),
(2845, 2845, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan Friday said what happened in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) is happening in his country now.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief drew comparisons to 1970, when the largest party, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-led Awami League, was denied the right to form the government despite gaining the majority of seats in East Pakistan in the general elections of December 7 – a watershed moment that later broke Pakistan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"What happened in East Pakistan? The military took action against the party which won the elections,\" Imran said in his first public remarks in a video broadcast on PTI\'s YouTube channel after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt during a long march in Punjab\'s Wazirabad Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The largest party won, but it was denied its rights; the same thing is happening here right now,\" the PTI chief added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitting in a wheelchair at a hospital in Lahore, the 70-year-old former international cricket star said he would not have survived the shooting if the two shooters he saw had \"synchronised\" their attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of Imran\'s supporters was killed and 13 others, including two lawmakers, were wounded in the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imran\'s protest march and rallies were peaceful until Thursday afternoon\'s attack, raising concerns about growing political instability in Pakistan, a country with a history of political violence and assassinations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He maintains that his April ouster from Parliament was unlawful and a conspiracy by his political opponents orchestrated by the US, a charge denied by both Washington and his successor Shehbaz Sharif.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imran wants the government to announce snap elections. He led the protest from Lahore beginning last Friday along with thousands of supporters, saying his protest will continue until his demands are accepted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan says elections will take place as scheduled in 2023. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 14:49:29', '2022-11-05 14:49:29'),
(2846, 2846, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Turkey will not formally approve Finland and Sweden\'s membership of NATO until the two countries take the necessary \"steps\", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg Friday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ankara has accused the two Nordic nations of providing a safe haven for outlawed Kurdish militants it deems \"terrorists\" and held back on ratifying their NATO membership despite an agreement in June.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"President Erdogan noted that the steps to be taken by Sweden and Finland would determine how fast the approval process... would go and when it would be concluded,\" the Turkish presidency said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan and Stoltenberg held a private meeting in Istanbul that was closed to the media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Finland and Sweden dropped decades of military non-alignment and scrambled to become NATO members in May, after Russia invaded Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Erdogan threatened to block their bids and sought concessions, leading to a deal in June between Turkey, Finland and Sweden that included provisions on extraditions and sharing information.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will visit Ankara on Tuesday to meet with Erdogan in a trip that Stockholm hopes will lead to Turkey\'s approval.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stoltenberg \"welcomed the major, concrete steps already taken by both countries to put the memorandum into practice, and stressed that their accession will make NATO stronger\", the alliance said in a statement on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, the NATO secretary general said Finland and Sweden\'s accession was important \"to send a clear message to Russia\" during a press conference with the Turkish foreign minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All 30 NATO member states except Turkey and Hungary have ratified the accession of Sweden and Finland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New members to the alliance require unanimous approval. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 15:11:33', '2022-11-05 15:11:33'),
(2847, 2847, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Defying all challenges, BNP is ready to hold its fifth divisional rally in Barishal city on Saturday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Thousands of leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies from different districts under the Barishal division have already reached the city, to join the rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party leaders and activists have erected a 50ft long stage at the Bangabandhu Udyan where the rally is scheduled to begin at 2pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, 120 loudspeakers were also installed in and around the podium, said Khandakar Abul Hossain Limon, joint convener of the committee to prepare the stage for the Barishal BNP divisional rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bus, launch, speedboat, three-wheeler movements in Barishal division have come to a halt over the last couple of days, ahead of the BNP rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sudden suspension of public vehicle movement on roads and waterways have caused immense public suffering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official reason behind the suspension of bus, three-wheeler, launch and speedboat movement could not be known yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of its move to continue the pace of its ongoing movement, BNP on September 27 announced a series of public rallies in 10 divisional cities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisers said the rally is meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuel, the death of five party men in previous police action in Bhola, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, and Jashore, and to ensure the freedom of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP has long been demanding that the next general election be held under a caretaker government, not under any political government — a demand sharply rejected by the ruling Awami League.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saturday’s rally will be the fifth by the BNP at the divisional level. The first one was held in Chattogram, the second one in Mymensingh and the third and fourth in Khulna and Rangpur, respectively. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 16:04:52', '2022-11-05 16:04:52'),
(2848, 2848, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League’s Local Government Public Representative Nomination Board today held a meeting at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence Ganabhaban.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Board’s President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chaired it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nominations have been given for candidates for vying polls to 12 union parishads (UPs) in four districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Gaibandha district, the nominees are Nuruzzaman Mandal for Jamalpur union, Mokhlesur Rahman for Bangram union and Subal Chandra Sarker for Kamarpara union under Sadullapur upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Md Nure Alam has been nominated for Aslampur union and Md Raizul Islam for Omarpur union under Charfasson upazila in Bhola district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Cumilla, the nominees are Mohammad Mamtaz Uddin Khan for Jorkanan Purbo Union and Md Hasmat Ullah of Jorkanan Paschim Union, MD Selim Ahmed for Barpara, Md Abul Kalam Azad for Chouara and Md Tanvir Hossain for Bijoypur under Sadar Dakkin upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yusuf Zubair has been nominated for Charbhoirabi union under Haimchar upazila and Mohammad Hossain Mintu for Paikpara Dakkhin union under Faridganj upazila in Chandpur district. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 16:31:03', '2022-11-05 16:31:03'),
(2849, 2849, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A mobile DNA laboratory was set up this week in Izyum, eastern Ukraine, to spare relatives of the war dead the pain of visually identifying bodies.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 50 people came to take part Friday in the DNA sampling organised on a parking lot in Izyum, AFP journalists said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am searching for my father Anatoly Matyshko. His neighbours say he was killed on March 10 by shrapnel and buried in his garden,\" Inna Kupriyanova told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"He was unearthed and taken to the Kharkiv morgue, but another body was found in the same garden.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So I am coming to give my DNA, so that we can really identify my dad and give him a proper burial,\" the 46-year-old nurse explained.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People genetically linked to a deceased or a missing person spent a few minutes providing saliva samples in a small white van.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The others were instructed to bring a personal item -- ideally, a toothbrush -- belonging to the missing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \"LAB\'ADN\" is a mobile structure deployed by the forensics department of the French Gendarmerie Nationale (IRCGN). AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 16:38:24', '2022-11-05 16:38:24'),
(2850, 2850, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Consumers in southern part of Dhaka city and adjoining areas, and Narayanganj and Munshiganj may experience disruption or low pressure in gas supply for a week – from tomorrow (November 6) to November 12 – due to technical work in the gas transmission line.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a statement from Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, the areas where consumers may face gas supply disruption include some areas in the southern part of Dhaka city, Zinjira, Keraniganj, Meghnaghat, Sonargaon, Haripur, Narayanganj and Munshiganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) will conduct “intelligent pigging” activities in its 60km long Bakhrabad-Shiddhirganj 30-inch-diameter transmission line during the period, said Titas Gas. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 17:05:51', '2022-11-05 17:05:51'),
(2851, 2851, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With winter inching closer, Dhaka’s air quality continues to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 160 at 8.30am on Saturday, the metropolis ranked sixth in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Delhi and Kolkata occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 439, 257 and 193, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 17:45:20', '2022-11-05 17:45:20'),
(2852, 2852, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Voting in the by-polls to Faridpur-2 constituency began on Saturday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The voting began at 8am and will continue till 4pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No untoward incident was reported till filling of this report at 11:30am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voting is undergoing at 123 centres in Nagarkanda, Saltha and Sadarpur upazilas of the constituency using Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), said senior district election officer Habibur Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 3,18,472 people are expected to cast their votes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As many as 1,052 CCTV cameras have been installed at polling centres ahead of the by-polls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rab, police, Ansar and BGB members have been deployed in the area to maintain law and order situation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faridpur-2 constituency fell vacant following the death of senior Awami League leader Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sajeda Chowdhury’s son Akbar Chowdhury Labu and Advocate Joynal Abedin Bakul Mia are vying for the seat. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 18:16:09', '2022-11-05 18:16:09'),
(2853, 2853, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Current monkeypox trends are something to feel optimistic about. Global infection numbers have been falling since August — but why? In 2022, some 80,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 109 countries, resulting in 36 deaths. For most of these countries, this year\'s outbreaks were the first on record.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monkeypox is an infectious viral disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which is related to viruses causing smallpox and cowpox.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of August, new infection numbers started declining across the globe, and the trend has continued until today. New cases in the last week of October were 1,295, a 41% drop from the previous week, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To put that number into perspective, the number of weekly new cases reported globally was 7,477 during the peak of the outbreak in early August.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why are infection numbers declining?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vaccination and behavioral change in the risk population seem to be the main reasons for the decrease, Paul Hunter, a medical professor at the University of West Anglia in the UK, told DW.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The risk population Hunter is referring to is men who have sex with other men (MSM), which is the group that has seen the most cases over the course of the outbreak. Although we only have information about sexual orientation from a portion — around 26,000 — of the total cases, 87% identified as MSM.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Hunter said he doubts the numbers could rise again, he acknowledged it is still possible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Because the vaccine lasts a very long time, any future spread will be much lower and won\'t be as great as we\'ve seen,\" he said. \"That doesn\'t mean we won\'t see occasional ups and downs. But I don\'t think we\'ll see the big peak at least for several years.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The risk of getting monkeypox is low for most people, according to the UK\'s National Health Service (NHS) and the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This, plus the lower risk of infectiousness in the risk population due to vaccination, helps explain the decline, Hunter said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But the situation is not the same everywhere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>An unequal outbreak</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decline in new monkeypox cases has been most pronounced in the Americas and Europe. However, the two regions still reported the largest proportion of new cases worldwide in October — 88.7% in the Americas and 7.7% for Europe. Nearly half of the deaths reported in association with the outbreak have been in the Americas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That would seem to imply the outbreak has been largely confined to the Americas and Europe — but experts say \"not so fast.\" Members of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee handling the emergency response to the outbreak emphasized in a meeting late last month that monkeypox data from low-income settings is \"largely lacking\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee said this lack of information in places like Africa in particular makes it hard to understand how many local people are infected with the virus as well as whether it\'s being transmitted by humans or animals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the committee, low-income regions have little to no diagnostic capacity or access to vaccines and other treatments.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the outbreak began this summer, aggressive vaccine campaigns were quickly implemented in high income countries seeing surges, like the US, rather than Africa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Africa currently has no publicly available vaccines against monkeypox, according to Reuters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IHR is a legally binding international agreement between 194 countries aiming to tackle international outbreaks like this year\'s monkeypox\'s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These regional inequalities, among many others, are why the IHR decided late last month to keep the current monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern after first being declared in late July.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Can we end monkeypox?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Before May, monkeypox infections were mostly limited to seven countries in Central and West Africa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In these countries, the virus exists in rodents and monkeys residing in tropical rainforests. These animals can spread the virus to humans upon contact.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials say one of the key measures needed to prevent a future outbreak of monkeypox is to minimize this zoonotic transmission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One way to achieve this could be the implementation of stronger restrictions on animal trade, according to the WHO.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As long as conditions remain ripe for zoonotic transmission, the disease \"will always be there and we\'ll always get events where the virus jumps to humans,\" Hunter told DW. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 18:31:30', '2022-11-05 18:31:30'),
(2854, 2854, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the country\'s youth folk to engage in inspiring people to form cooperative for boosting food production and pulling the country ahead further.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Youth folk will have to come forward. We can go a long way if the youths do their activities in bringing village people together as everyone will have the responsibility,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier was addressing a function on the 51st National Cooperatives Day at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) as the chief guest, joining virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked the youth folk not to chase after the job rather to get involved in food production activities such as poultry and fish cultivation by forming cooperatives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the 100 special economic zones being established by the government, she said, \"you (youths) can set up food processing factories there, which will not only meet the local demand but also can help export to abroad.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina said she believes that the country could attain desired economic success through cooperatives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also urged all to work in combine to overcome the crisis what was created in the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Russian-Ukraine war as well as sanctions and counter sanctions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With State Minister for Rural Development and Cooperative Swapan Bhattacharjee in the chair, Register and Director General of Department of Cooperatives Dr. Tarun Kanti Sikder delivered the welcome address.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md. Tazul Islam and Rural Development and Co-operative Division Sectary Md. Mashiur Rahman also spoke as special guests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of nine Samobay Samity (cooperative associations) and one person were given National Cooperative Award-2021 on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On behalf of the prime minister, Md. Tazul Islam handed over the award.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each awardee was conferred with a gold medal and a certificate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the outset of the function, a video documentary on the national cooperative day was screened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The theme of the day is \"Bangabandhu\'s Philosophy, Development of Cooperative\". BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 18:39:37', '2022-11-05 18:39:37'),
(2855, 2855, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Tens of thousands of opposition BNP activists and leaders joined the divisional rally in Barishal city on Saturday demanding the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and national election under a non-party neutral government.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rally began around 11 am at the city’s Bangabandhu Udyan while the central party leaders will join the rally shortly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crowd spilled out onto the surrounding roads-- 1.5 km off the venue, said locals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police have taken position in the venue area to prevent any untoward incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">People with banners and placards have joined the rally from different parts of the district.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP activists started gathering at the rally venue on foot since Thursday night from different districts and units under Barishal Division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of them alleged that they faced obstacles at various entry points of the city as the ruling party men tried to intercept them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, nine BNP activists were injured when the motorcade of Ishraque Hossain, member of BNP’s foreign affairs committee, was attacked by miscreants on the way to the party’s divisional rally venue in Barishal city on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ishraque, also BNP’s Dhaka South City unit leader, was unhurt and reached the venue around 9 am. A number of vehicles were also vandalised during the attack, BNP activists said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ishraque said a group of miscreants attacked their motorcade when they reached Mahilara Bazar in Gouranadi upazila in the morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bus, launch, speedboat, three-wheeler movements in Barishal division have come to a halt over the last couple of days, ahead of the BNP rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suspension of public vehicle movement on roads and waterways have caused immense public suffering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The official reason behind the suspension of bus, three-wheeler, launch and speedboat movement could not be known yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of its move to continue the pace of its ongoing movement, BNP on September 27 announced a series of public rallies in 10 divisional cities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisers said the rally is meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuel, the death of five party men in previous police action in Bhola, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, and Jashore, and to ensure the freedom of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP has long been demanding that the next general election be held under a caretaker government, not under any political government — a demand sharply rejected by the ruling Awami League.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saturday’s rally will be the fifth by the BNP at the divisional level. The first one was held in Chattogram, the second one in Mymensingh, and the third and fourth in Khulna and Rangpur, respectively. 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, '2022-11-05 18:50:53', '2022-11-05 18:50:53'),
(2856, 2856, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Tens of thousands of opposition BNP activists and leaders joined the divisional rally in Barishal city on Saturday demanding the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and national election under a non-party neutral government.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The rally began around 11 am at the city’s Bangabandhu Udyan while the central party leaders will join the rally shortly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crowd spilled out onto the surrounding roads-- 1.5 km off the venue, said locals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police have taken position in the venue area to prevent any untoward incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People with banners and placards have joined the rally from different parts of the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP activists started gathering at the rally venue on foot since Thursday night from different districts and units under Barishal Division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of them alleged that they faced obstacles at various entry points of the city as the ruling party men tried to intercept them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, nine BNP activists were injured when the motorcade of Ishraque Hossain, member of BNP’s foreign affairs committee, was attacked by miscreants on the way to the party’s divisional rally venue in Barishal city on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ishraque, also BNP’s Dhaka South City unit leader, was unhurt and reached the venue around 9 am. A number of vehicles were also vandalised during the attack, BNP activists said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ishraque said a group of miscreants attacked their motorcade when they reached Mahilara Bazar in Gouranadi upazila in the morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bus, launch, speedboat, three-wheeler movements in Barishal division have come to a halt over the last couple of days, ahead of the BNP rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suspension of public vehicle movement on roads and waterways have caused immense public suffering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official reason behind the suspension of bus, three-wheeler, launch and speedboat movement could not be known yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of its move to continue the pace of its ongoing movement, BNP on September 27 announced a series of public rallies in 10 divisional cities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The organisers said the rally is meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuel, the death of five party men in previous police action in Bhola, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, and Jashore, and to ensure the freedom of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP has long been demanding that the next general election be held under a caretaker government, not under any political government — a demand sharply rejected by the ruling Awami League.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saturday’s rally will be the fifth by the BNP at the divisional level. The first one was held in Chattogram, the second one in Mymensingh, and the third and fourth in Khulna and Rangpur, respectively. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 19:34:25', '2022-11-05 19:34:25'),
(2857, 2857, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Thirteen people have been killed in a fire overnight at a cafe in the Russian city of Kostroma, local authorities said today.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“According to preliminary information, 13 people fell victim to the fire,” local governor Sergei Sitnikov said on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian news agencies reported that 250 people were evacuated from the building when it caught fire at night in the city around 300km northeast of Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Sitnikov said that the blaze at the cafe, called “Poligon”, was put out at around 7.30am.</div><div><br></div><div>At least five other people were injured, he said, but they did not need to be hospitalised.</div><div><br></div><div>Local emergency services said they received reports of the fire at around 2am, and that the blaze had spread out over 3,500sq m. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 20:25:15', '2022-11-05 20:25:15'),
(2858, 2858, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the country’s youths to come forward to boost agricultural production and improve livelihood of the rural people through cooperatives.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We think cooperatives are absolutely essential for our agricultural production, life and livelihood of people as cooperatives create enormous scopes for us in a densely populated country like ours. Paying attention to it, youths will have to strengthen cooperatives,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier was addressing a function, arranged to mark the 51st National Cooperative Day-2022 and distribute the National Cooperative Award-2021 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), joining it through a virtual platform from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina stressed the need for giving utmost importance to cooperatives for the development of the country’s people.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our young generation have to come forward. If the young generation comes forward and conducts activities through cooperatives uniting all the people of a village, we’ll be able to go forward much,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said her government has been working for the people and wants to create scopes so that every individual can improve their life and livelihood.</div><div><br></div><div>She said her government opened every sector for private entrepreneurs so that employment is created.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking about inflation, Sheikh Hasina said prices of all commodities have soared throughout the world due to the Russia-Ukraine war and Covid-19, which affected Bangladesh also. “Now almost all the countries are now suffering due to high inflation.”</div><div><br></div><div>She said now Bangladesh needs to procure fertilizers, fuel and edible oil at very high prices amid high transportation costs for the sake of people and keep the agricultural production uninterrupted.</div><div><br></div><div>With the theme of “the Philosophy of Bangabandhu is Development through Cooperatives,” the day is being observed in the country this year.</div><div><br></div><div>On behalf of the PM, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Tazul Islam handed over the National Cooperative Award-2021 to nine cooperative societies and an individual under 10 categories for their contributions to the sector. Each awardee was conferred with a gold medal and a certificate.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee presided over the function, while Rural Development and Cooperatives Secretary Mashiur Rahman and Director General of Cooperatives Department Dr Tarun Kanti Sikder spoke on the occasion. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 21:19:41', '2022-11-05 21:19:41');
INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2859, 2859, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iran acknowledged for the first time today that it had supplied Moscow with drones but said they were sent before the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used drones to target power stations and civilian infrastructure.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said a “small number” of drones had been supplied to Russia a few months before Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine on Feb 24.</div><div><br></div><div>In Iran’s most detailed response to date on the drones, Amirabdollahian denied Tehran was continuing to supply drones to Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>“This fuss made by some western countries that Iran has provided missiles and drones to Russia to help the war in Ukraine – the missile part is completely wrong,” the official Irna news agency quoted him as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>“The drone part is true and we provided Russia a small number of drones months before the Ukraine war,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In recent weeks Ukraine has reported a surge in drone attacks on civilian infrastructure, notably targeting power stations and dams, using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia denies its forces have used Iranian drones to attack Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters that Iran had promised to provide Russia with surface-to-surface missiles, in addition to more drones.</div><div><br></div><div>The official Irna news agency quoted Amirabdollahian as saying Tehran and Kyiv had agreed to discuss allegations about the use of Iranian drones in Ukraine two weeks ago but the Ukrainians did not show up at the agreed meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>“We agreed with the foreign minister of Ukraine to provide us with documents they have that Russia used Iranian drones in Ukraine,” Amirabdollahian said, but the Ukrainian delegation pulled out of the planned meeting at the last minute.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian foreign ministry did not immediately reply to a written request for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>The Iranian foreign minister repeated that Tehran would “not remain indifferent” if it were proven that Russia had used Iranian drones in the war against Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>The European Union last month agreed new sanctions on Iran over its drone deliveries to Russia, and Britain imposed sanctions on three Iranian military figures and a defence manufacturer for supplying Russia with drones to attack civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 22:28:46', '2022-11-05 22:28:46'),
(2860, 2860, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Supercharged extreme weather events are striking every corner of the globe, and every year seems scarier than the last. The climate is breaking down much faster than even the worst case scenario predictions – way too fast and erratically for even the richest countries to adequately adapt and prepare.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It’s a perverse reality that the countries and communities that have contributed least to the greenhouse gases heating the planet are suffering the most – and are least equipped to cope with the death and destruction. After a catastrophic year that left 37 million people facing hunger and starvation in the drought-stricken greater Horn of Africa and a third of Pakistan under water due to unprecedented rainfall, expect to hear lots about loss and damage at Cop27.</div><div><br></div><div>But what does it mean, and why is it so contentious?</div><div><br></div><div>What is loss and damage?</div><div>Loss and damage refers to the irreversible economic and non-economic costs of both extreme weather events such as hurricanes, heatwaves, drought and wildfires, and slow onset climate disasters such as sea-level rise and melting glaciers. It’s about holding the biggest fossil fuel polluters liable for the pain and suffering already caused by the climate crisis, separately and in addition to securing climate finance for mitigation and adaptation to help developing nations prepare for what’s coming.</div><div><br></div><div>Economic costs include the lives, livelihoods, homes, food systems and territory irreversibly lost, while the harder to quantify non-economic costs refer to the loss of culture, identity, sovereignty, human dignity, biodiversity, and psychological well being. The most serious losses and damages are being felt by the poorest countries – by and large those who’ve contributed least to global heating. As a result, funding for loss and damage has become a central tenet in demands for climate justice or, in other words, climate action that addresses the inequities behind the climate crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>Why are we talking about it now?</div><div>Island nations and other climate vulnerable countries started raising loss and damage more than 30 years ago, but it’s become an increasingly prominent and contentious issue at the UN climate talks in the past decade or so as the speed, magnitude and cost of global heating has become apparent. At the 2021 summit, Cop26 in Glasgow, a coalition of mostly developing nations representing six out of every seven people in the world called for the countries most responsible for greenhouse gas emissions to commit to pledging money for loss and damage.</div><div><br></div><div>Unsurprisingly, perhaps, given the UK’s role as Cop26 president, their call for new financial support under article 9 of the Paris agreement (in addition to funds for adaptation and mitigation) was rejected amid opposition from the US, EU, Australia and others. Almost all references were removed in the final agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact, and instead the Glasgow dialogue was established, ostensibly to agree on a clear path and process for loss and damage finance.</div><div><br></div><div>Who’s for it, who’s against it?</div><div>By and large, developing countries, which often negotiate and vote in a block called G77 &amp; China, are for it as they are already suffering disproportionate irreversible damage. The richer nations responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gases since the industrial age – and which would therefore be liable to cough up – are against it.</div><div><br></div><div>Exceptions include Denmark, which has promised 100m Danish kroner (£11.7m) to developing nations for climate losses, the first EU country to do so, as well as Scotland and the Belgian region of Wallonia. At this year’s UN general assembly, the UN chief, António Guterres, described loss and damage as a “fundamental question of climate justice, international solidarity and trust” – adding that “polluters must pay” because “vulnerable countries need meaningful action”. - The Guardian&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 22:51:01', '2022-11-05 22:51:01'),
(2861, 2861, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal said on Saturday that a comprehensive decision will be taken within seven days after a full investigation involving the cancellation of voting at Gaibandha-5 parliamentary seat.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said that the initial investigation by a committee appointed by the Election Commission was partial, and they need a full investigation to reach a final decision.</div><div><br></div><div>The CEC made the remarks in response to reporters\' questions while monitoring the by-election vote in Faridpur-2 constituency on Saturday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Awal said that the EC has only observed 51 closed centres, while a committee has been constituted to analyse the remaining 94 centres\' CCTV footage at Gaibandha-5.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They will report within seven days. Then a coordinated decision will be taken,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>EC’s Additional Secretary Ashok Kumar Debnath, who headed the committee, submitted the report to EC Secretary Humayun Kabir Khandaker.</div><div><br></div><div>The EC suspended the election because of “widespread malpractices” on the election day on October 12.</div><div><br></div><div>It also extended the deadline for holding any fresh election to the Gaibandha-5 parliamentary seat by three months, or till January 20, 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>While there was no concrete decision over if a new election will be held, pending an investigation into malpractices on the election day, the EC said that the deadline has been extended to follow the rule of 90 days in holding an election after a seat falls vacant.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the death of Gaibandha-5 lawmaker and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Fazle Rabbi Miah on July 22, 2022, it became a constitutional obligation to hold election for the parliamentary seat by October 20, 2022. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 23:10:46', '2022-11-05 23:10:46'),
(2862, 2862, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mobile internet services have been shut and broadband internet services have become slow in Barishal city since Saturday morning amid the ongoing divisional rally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Both subscribers of different telecom operators in the city and BNP activists present at Bangabandhu Park have complained about the disruption in internet services, speculating this to be a strategy of the government to control the flow of information about BNP’s political programme.</div><div><br></div><div>“I couldn’t send photos of BNP’s rally to my office due to an absence of mobile internet since the morning. Finally, I had to go to a shop and use broadband internet to do my work, which was also slow,” said Nurul Amin, a local journalist.</div><div><br></div><div>Broadband connection providers didn’t respond to the allegation.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Md Adnan, a resident of Kashipur union of Barishal sadar Upazila, said that he too couldn’t use mobile internet from the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>“However, broadband internet connection in my house was working,” said Adnan.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadia Akter, a resident of the city’s Sagardi area, echoed Adnan. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 23:14:28', '2022-11-05 23:14:28'),
(2863, 2863, '<div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pakistan batsman Shan Masood on Saturday praised his team\'s character in battling back to stay in the hunt for a semi-finals spot after losing their first two matches at the Twenty20 World Cup.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Captain Babar Azam\'s side need to win their final Super 12 match against Bangladesh in Adelaide on Sunday -- and for other results to go their way -- to grab a place in the final four.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan suffered heartbreaking losses to arch-rivals India and Zimbabwe before finding form and drubbing South Africa on Thursday in a dramatic, rain-affected match in Sydney.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The timing of the losses proved costly for us because we are still not in that top two position,\" Masood told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"But we haven\'t lost hope. Life teaches us harsh lessons and this was one of them. The way it affected the boys, they lost sleep, their morale went down. And how we responded after those setbacks showed our character and it was a big thing.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The best to come out of failure is that you learn from your mistakes. If we look at it from a balanced point of view, then we see the team has responded well since the loss to Zimbabwe.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan, currently third in the wide-open Group 2 table, can advance if India lose to Zimbabwe in the last league match on Sunday. They are also in if South Africa lose their clash against the Netherlands or the match is a washout.</div><div><br></div><div>Masood said the way Pakistan fought back to post 185-9 against South Africa, after being in trouble at 43-4, and then winning by 33 runs via the DLS method had lifted the morale of the team.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Mood is good. South Africa dominated the early stages of the game, but the way we came back and bowled well, even after the rain break, we kept up our momentum,\" said Masood.</div><div><br></div><div>\"So we will focus on taking two points from the Bangladesh game and that is in our hands. Hope will always be there till the last ball is bowled in this group.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh, who had narrow wins over the Netherlands and Zimbabwe, also have a slim chance to advance if they win against Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval.</div><div><br></div><div>The Tigers gave India a scare in their previous match -- decided by the DLS method -- and are level at four points with Pakistan, but with a far inferior run-rate.</div><div><br></div><div>But technical consultant Sridharan Sriram said he is proud of the show his boys have put on in this tournament.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is the best tournament Bangladesh has ever had in a T20 World Cup,\" Sriram told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'ve never won two games in Super 12s in the history of Bangladesh cricket, so we\'ve done that, so I think the boys should be proud of themselves.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 23:54:01', '2022-11-05 23:54:01'),
(2864, 2864, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As all modes of transportation came to a halt ahead of&nbsp; the BNP’s divisional rally in Barishal, dedicated activists and supporters reached the rally venue by boat, raft, bicycle, on foot and even by floating on drums&nbsp; on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Though the rally began around 11 am at the city’s Bangabandhu Udyan, around 3 pm a group of BNP leaders and activists reached Barishal boat terminal to join the rally.</div><div><br></div><div>One of them, Md Rony said, “They have shut movement of all transports so that&nbsp; we can’t join the rally. But we had to made the rally a success by any means.”</div><div><br></div><div>Another activist Shawon said finding no other means seven of us decided to reach by floating on drums.</div><div><br></div><div>“Have seen another activist swimming through Kirtankhola River to reach the venue,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The activist said they will leave no stone unturned to make the movement for establishing democracy a success.</div><div><br></div><div>Tens of thousands of opposition BNP activists and leaders joined the divisional rally in Barishal city on Saturday demanding the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and national election under a non-party neutral government, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The crowd spilled out onto the surrounding roads-- 1.5 km off the venue, said locals.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 23:56:09', '2022-11-05 23:56:09'),
(2865, 2865, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Emboldened by their spirited performance in this T20 World Cup, Bangladesh are determined to break the jinx of beating a top team when they take on Pakistan in their final game of Super 12s tomorrow (Sunday) at Adelaide Oval.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The match which starts at 10 AM as per Bangladesh Time will be aired live on Gazi Television and T Sports Channel.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Tigers so far won two matches against Netherlands and Zimbabwe, giving the country a best ever T20 World Cup campaign but a victory against a top flight nation still eluded them. They tasted a huge 104-run margin defeat against South Africa but came close to beat India in the last game.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>However, panic and lack of experience got the better of them as they lost the match by five runs. But there is a lot to take from the game, which gave the confidence to beat Pakistan.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In the inaugural T20 world Cup in 2007, Bangladesh beat West Indies and that remained their only victory against a top team in this event.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bangladesh then beat some big teams in bilateral series and other tournaments, albeit not more often. However, since the 2021 World Cup, they couldn\'t beat any top teams, which marked their vulnerability in this format further.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"We came so close against India. We\'ve already won two matches and it\'s the best tournament we have in our T20 World Cup history. The boys should be proud of it. And we are really confident to beat any team,\" Bangladesh\'s technical consultant Sridharan Sriram said here today.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bangladesh\'s game against India was marred by some controversy-as vice-captain Nurul Hasan Sohan accused star India batter Virat Kohli of fake fielding which potentially could cost India five penalty runs according to him. Also Bangladesh had the reservation to play after the rain break because they thought the ground was not adequately dried up. But umpires didn\'t pay heed to any of this.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Sriram said what happened in the India match is past now and they are now focused on the Pakistan game.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The two sides so far played 17 matches in this format with Pakistan winning 15 times and Bangladesh won just two matches. In the T20 World Cup, Pakistan won all of the five matches they played against Bangladesh. In fact in this global event, Bangladesh are absolutely no match for Pakistan. More often against Pakistan they lacked the spirit, confidence and never-say-attitude but Sriram said Bangladesh are upbeat this time to beat subcontinent giants as they came close to beat them twice in the tri-nation series in New Zealand ahead of the World Cup.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bangladesh actually could win the first game against Pakistan in the tri-series but a sensational middle order collapse cost the game by 21 runs and in the return-leg game, their lackluster bowling caused their defeat despite amassing 173-6 on the board.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Sriram said Bangladesh learnt from their mistakes and ready to show their improvement this time.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"Pakistan are a very good side but we played more often against them. They are aware of our strength and we are also aware of them. It should be an interesting game,\" he said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Mathematically Bangladesh could still move to the semifinal if they beat Pakistan by big margin. But to make that happen, India or South Africa should lose their respective final game against Zimbabwe and Netherlands.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Sriram\'s contract with Bangladesh is up to this World Cup and so if Bangladesh can\'t make the semifinal, this will be his last match since the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is yet to renew his contract.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>After conceding defeat to archrivals India and a shock defeat to Zimbabwe, Pakistan will also be desperate to win the game to stay alive for the semifinal race. They also want one of India and South Africa to lose their match to raise their semifinal hopes.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Overall Bangladesh played 143 T20 Internationals and while they won 49 matches, they had lost 91 matches. Three other matches ended in no result. So a victory against India would help them complete a half-century of T20 victory.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Squad:</div><div>Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Afif Hossain, Mossadek Hossain, Liton Das, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Najmul Hossain, Nasum Ahmed and Soumya Sarkar.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood. Standby Players: Usman Qadir, Mohammad Haris, Shahnawaz Dahani. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 01:28:48', '2022-11-06 01:28:48'),
(2866, 2866, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq on Saturday asked the Detective Branch to work considering changing patterns of crimes.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Crime patterns are changing, cybercrime is increasing, DB needs to work considering all these crime patterns,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The DMP Commissioner made the remarks during a meeting with officers of the Detective Branch (DB) after visiting its Minto Road headquarters in the city on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>It was the first visit of Khandker Golam Faruq after he took over as the DMP commissioner on October 29 last month.</div><div><br></div><div>Praising the DB\'s working capabilities, the DMP chief said DB has the ability to unravel the mystery of any sensational case. The capabilities of DMP’s branch are at a very high level, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Commissioner also assured the detectives that he would take steps for further capacity building of the DB.</div><div><br></div><div>Congratulating the newly appointed commissioner for coming to visit DB office, Additional Commissioner (DB) Mohammad Harun-ur-Rashid said, \"You are the pride of Bangladesh Police. We are working under your leadership so that residents of Dhaka metropolis can stay safe.”</div><div><br></div><div>The DB chief also said that DMP\'s DB is now a trusted name for the city dwellers. When a crime occurs, DB works not only in the metropolis, but in any part of Bangladesh, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In his speech, Additional Commissioner and chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) of the DMP Md. Asaduzzaman said, \"You (DMP Commissioner) are an efficient officer in crime management. In 2015, a Japanese national was killed in a militant attack in Rangpur. Then the mystery of the case was revealed under your leadership\".</div><div><br></div><div>The CTTC chief said that as soon as any incident occurs in the DMP, the DB starts the shadow investigation. Detectives do not stop until the organised crime is revealed, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that DB has capabilities, it will go further if get specific instructions from the DMP chief.</div><div><br></div><div>In his welcome speech, Joint Commissioner (Admin and DB South) of the DMP Sanjit Kumar Roy highlighted the recent notable achievements of the DB and also placed some demands, including establishment of forensic labs. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 02:03:40', '2022-11-06 02:03:40'),
(2867, 2867, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday acknowledged for the first time that his country has supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s war on Ukraine that has seen the Iranian-made drones divebombing Kyiv.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The comments by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian come after months of confusing messaging from Iran about the weapons shipment, as Russia sends the drones slamming into Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian targets.</div><div><br></div><div>“We gave a limited number of drones to Russia months before the Ukraine war,” Amirabdollahian told reporters after a meeting in Tehran.</div><div><br></div><div>Previously, Iranian officials had denied arming Russia in its war on Ukraine. Just earlier this week, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani called the allegations “totally unfounded” and reiterated Iran’s position of neutrality in the war. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 02:48:46', '2022-11-06 02:48:46'),
(2868, 2868, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Five dengue patient died while 788 patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours (till 8am today).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"As many as 374 dengue patients were hospitalized in Dhaka city and 414 patients were admitted to hospitals outside Dhaka during the past 24 hours,\" a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"A total of 167 people died from dengue disease between January 1 and November 5. The first death from dengue was reported on June 21, this year,\" the daily statement of the DGHS said.</div><div><br></div><div>With the new cases, the total number of dengue patients this year rose to 42,199 while some 38,295 patients were released from the hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne illness that occurs in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Outbreak of the disease is usually seasonal, peaking during and after rainy seasons.</div><div><br></div><div>The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies dengue as one of the top 10 threats to public health. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 03:23:56', '2022-11-06 03:23:56'),
(2869, 2869, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka University authorities have suspended a student, also an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, allegedly for harassing a female student on Tuesday in front of Raju sculptor memorial on the university campus.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The suspended student is Najmul Alam, a residential student of Masterda Surja Sen Hall and postgraduate student of Institute of Social Welfare and Research of Dhaka University. He is also an activist of Master Da Surja Sen hall Chhatra League.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Najmul has been suspended for his misbehaviour with a student of a private university on the night of November 1,\" said a DU press release.</div><div><br></div><div>He has been asked to respond within next seven days explaining why he should not be expelled from university.</div><div><br></div><div>The student allegedly slapped and harassed a girl, who is a law student of Brac University, on the campus during the early hours on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>But the DU student contradicted and accused the girl of assaulting him.</div><div><br></div><div>Najmul said the girl was filming floating people who were asleep on footpath.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that he stopped along with a friend as he was returning on a bike to the university dormitory when he saw the girl and her friends.</div><div><br></div><div>He said he asked why the girl and her friends were filming the floating people without their permission.</div><div><br></div><div>An altercation broke out, prompting the girl to slap Najmul, he said. Najmul also retaliated and slapped the girl back.</div><div><br></div><div>In a video posted online it was seen that the girl using abusive words and slapping the boy.</div><div><br></div><div>According to an audio recorded by a witness some details have come out.</div><div><br></div><div>\"After my birthday celebration, I was standing in front of the sculpture with my friends and taking pictures. At that time two boys stopped their bike and started questioning us using bad words against me.&nbsp; They teased me and slapped me when I protested,\" the girl was heard in the audio.</div><div><br></div><div>Najmul told&nbsp; that the girl also used abusive words when he questioned their presence on the campus during early hours on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they were filming the people who were asleep on the footpaths and attires of the floating people were not in order.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"When I asked why the girl was taking pictures of the people without their consent, she said her father has the ability to buy the entire DU campus multiple times,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"When I took my mobile phone to record her abusive words, she again insulted me,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"At one point she slapped me, and I slapped her in return,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The girl filed a complaint with the Proctor’s office on Tuesday. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 03:30:59', '2022-11-06 03:30:59'),
(2870, 2870, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Saturday said peace and stability are required for development.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We hope that this country\'s social and political stability will be there in place so that its socio-economic development continues,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador Li also said China does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.</div><div>He made the remarks while responding to questions at a seminar held in a city hotel.</div><div><br></div><div>Invited by Bangladesh China Silk Road Forum (BCSRF), he attended the seminar on the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).</div><div><br></div><div>The Ambassador delivered a keynote speech and answered questions from the media.</div><div><br></div><div>Dilip Barua, the Chairman of BCSRF and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist), Rashed Khan Menon, MP, President of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, as well as other members of political parties in Bangladesh and representatives from think tanks also participated in the event.</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador Li introduced the main contents of the report of the Congress, including the achievements of the past five years and the great changes in the past decade of China, the indigenous way to achieve Chinese modernization, and the general plan for the work of China on the new journey.</div><div><br></div><div>The envoy also shared his thoughts on the Congress, ranging from the importance of a powerful leading core and self-reform for a party, to the significance of theory innovation. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 03:34:21', '2022-11-06 03:34:21'),
(2871, 2871, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Iran of \"lying\" and \"terrorist cooperation\" by supporting Russia\'s war in Ukraine.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It comes after Iran admitted for the first time it had supplied drones to Moscow, but only before the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The West believes Russia has used Iranian \"kamikaze\" drones to hit key infrastructure sites in Ukraine, but Iran and Moscow previously denied it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blackouts have hit much of Ukraine after the attacks on power stations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western officials have accused Iran of supplying drones to Russia and of providing personnel on the ground to train Russian drone pilots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously, Tehran denied the accusations, but on Saturday Iran\'s foreign minister said a small number of the vehicles had been sent to Moscow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We provided a limited number of drones to Russia many months prior to the Ukraine war,\" Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters in Tehran.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, in an address on his Telegram channel, President Zelensky accused Iran of lying \"even in this confession\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 44-year-old claimed that Ukraine was shooting down about 10 Iranian drones every day, despite Iran saying it had only supplied Russia with a small number.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Zelensky warned Iran about its support for Russia, saying this would backfire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We know for sure that Iranian instructors taught Russian terrorists how to use drones, and Tehran is generally silent about it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And if Iran continues lying about the obvious, it means that the world will make even more efforts to investigate the terrorist cooperation between the Russian and Iranian regimes and what Russia is paying Iran for such cooperation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There will be no such thing in the modern world that any of the terrorists or their accomplices will remain unpunished.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US, EU and UK have all imposed sanctions on Iran for supplying drones to Russia for use in the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia has used the \"kamikaze\" drones - named after the Japanese suicide pilots in World War Two because they get destroyed on impact - to hit critical infrastructure sites across Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a consequence, rolling blackouts and restrictions on electricity use have been imposed just as the weather turns cold for winter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some Western leaders have called the attacks \"war crimes\", because under the Geneva Conventions - which define the rules of war - civilian infrastructure cannot be deliberately targeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, Ukraine\'s national grid operator imposed further restrictions in some regions because electricity usage had grown compared to the same time last week. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 14:02:32', '2022-11-06 14:02:32'),
(2872, 2872, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Barcelona legend Gerard Pique was given an emotional standing ovation as he made his final Nou Camp appearance in their 2-0 La Liga win over Almeria.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was replaced in the 84th minute and tearfully embraced all his team-mates, boss Xavi and the entire Barca bench.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 35-year-old will retire after Tuesday\'s trip to Osasuna, although it is not certain he will play in that.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the game he gave a speech on the pitch, saying: \"I was born here and I will die here.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added: \"When you get older, you realise that sometimes to love is to let go. I\'m convinced that I\'ll be here again in the future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I love Barca. That\'s why I consider it\'s the right moment to go. This is not a goodbye.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were several tributes to him on his farewell night at the Nou Camp.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pique, who was named captain, walked on to the pitch with his two sons, as all his team-mates wore shirts with his name and number three on the back.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a huge banner on the pitch that said \'Sempr3\' (For3ver) and a video celebrating Pique\'s career was played on the big screen to the fans as well.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona won an early penalty with their fans chanting for Pique to take it. But the Spaniard pointed to Robert Lewandowski, who stepped up and hit the post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pique, who scored 53 goals for Barcelona, headed a chance over the bar and had another saved by Fernando Martinez.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ousmane Dembele and Frenkie de Jong scored the second-half goals to take Barcelona top of La Liga.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At full-time Pique came back onto the pitch to applaud the fans and was throw into the air by his team-mates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ex-Spain defender announced his decision on Thursday, despite having 18 months left on his deal, and his exit will help Barca with their wage bill.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pique won 30 trophies and made 616 appearances for Barca after joining in 2008 from Manchester United.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona reportedly put Pique under pressure to leave to ease their financial issues. He was their fifth-choice centre-back this season, although has still played 10 times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as other business interests, Pique owns FC Andorra, who play in the Spanish second tier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pique played the fifth most games of any Barcelona player - with the four players above him all team-mates at one time or another - Lionel Messi (778), manager Xavi Hernandez (767), current Barca midfielder Sergio Busquets (694) and Andres Iniesta (674).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only Messi (35) and Iniesta (32) won more trophies for Barca than Pique. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 14:25:30', '2022-11-06 14:25:30'),
(2873, 2873, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>France\'s far-right National Rally (RN) has confirmed 27-year-old Jordan Bardella as the replacement as party leader for Marine Le Pen.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ms Le Pen will focus instead on leading the party\'s group in parliament, after it took 89 seats in the National Assembly earlier this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It marks the first time in its 50-year history that the main far-right party has not been led by a Le Pen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the move does not mark a major change in direction for the party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marine Le Pen remains the source of real power and she is still the likely candidate in the next presidential election in 2027.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She told the party on Saturday that she was not disappearing from politics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am not leaving RN to take a holiday. I will be there where the country needs me,\" she said at the party convention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the party, Mr Bardella said he sought to unite all those who want to put France back on the right track.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"With us, the people of France will always have priority at home and we do not intend to give up on serving our people first,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will finally be the friends and the road to recovery that the country needs to ward off 40 years of mistakes, of letting go, of resignation and cowardice.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brought up in a poor family of Italian origin in the Paris suburbs, Mr Bardella joined the far-right as a teenager and rose quickly to the top of the party, becoming its acting president last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He ran the RN\'s successful 2019 European election campaign, and has since impressed even his enemies with his assertiveness in debates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is seen as loyal to Ms Le Pen, telling AFP news agency recently that he is a \"continuity candidate with the aim of building on the incredible legacy that Marine is handing over\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His elevation to the party\'s senior leadership is part of the RN\'s efforts to soften its image and attract younger voters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like Ms Le Pen he likes to portray himself as a new type of nationalist who has little in common with the racism and anti-Semitism of the party\'s predecessor, the National Front.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, critics say that these sentiments still exist within the party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the most recent controversy, a RN lawmaker was suspended for two weeks from the National Assembly for making an allegedly racist remark while a black member of parliament was speaking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Le Pen stepped down last year as leader of the party, which she had headed since she succeeded her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011. She did so in order to focus on her presidential bid, which she eventually lost in April in a run-off to President Emmanuel Macron.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the defeat, she fronted the party\'s parliamentary election campaign two months later in which the RN won 89 seats - a 10-fold rise and the party\'s best-ever showing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The success of the far-right and the left in those elections led to President Macron\'s party losing its majority. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 14:36:05', '2022-11-06 14:36:05'),
(2874, 2874, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">World Cup</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;semifinals</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India have been impressive in the T20 World Cup. They beat Pakistan in their opener and then defeated Netherlands before suffering their first defeat in the tournament, to South Africa. India then recovered to beat Bangladesh in a thriller.&nbsp;</span></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Rohit Sharma-led side now stands on the verge of making the semi-finals as they take on Zimbabwe in their final group game. But which team will India face in the semis if they win in Melbourne on Sunday?</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The fate of the six teams in Group 1 have been decided. Afghanistan and Ireland suffered an early exit while Australia and Sri Lanka were ousted on Saturday after England beat the Islanders.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The win in Sydney denied progress of the host nation and defending champions as England joined New Zealand for the semis. India are hence bound to face either one of the two if they make the semis, but whom will it be?</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sunday will witness three Group 2 matches - South Africa versus Netherlands, Pakistan vs Bangladesh and India versus Zimbabwe. If India, placed top of the table, win against Zimbabwe, they will qualify as the top ranked side from Group 2 irrespective of the results in the other two matches on Sunday. India will hence guarantee themselves a semi-final match against England, who finished second behind the Black Caps in Group 1.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">New Zealand will be facing the runners-up from Group 2 in the semis. India can finish second on the table if the Zimbabwe tie is washed out by rain and South Africa, who presently stand second in the points table, beat Netherlands.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">However, if India and the Proteas both lose and Pakistan win against Bangladesh, India will still make the semis as the top-ranked side from Group 1 and will be up against England.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sunday will witness three Group 2 matches - South Africa versus Netherlands, Pakistan vs Bangladesh and India versus Zimbabwe. If India, placed top of the table, win against Zimbabwe, they will qualify as the top ranked side from Group 2 irrespective of the results in the other two matches on Sunday.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India will hence guarantee themselves a semi-final match against England, who finished second behind the Black Caps in Group 1.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">New Zealand will be facing the runners-up from Group 2 in the semis. India can finish second on the table if the Zimbabwe tie is washed out by rain and South Africa, who presently stand second in the points table, beat Netherlands.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">However, if India and the Proteas both lose and Pakistan win against Bangladesh, India will still make the semis as the top-ranked side from Group 1 and will be up against England. HT</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 15:41:48', '2022-11-06 15:41:48');
INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2875, 2875, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat first against Pakistan in their final game of Super 12s at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh and Pakistan are fighting it out for the final spot in the last four.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Tigers so far won two matches against Netherlands and Zimbabwe, giving the country a best ever T20 World Cup campaign but a victory against a top flight nation still eluded them. They tasted a huge 104-run margin defeat against South Africa but came close to beat India in the last game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;However, panic and lack of experience got the better of them as they lost the match by five runs. But there is a lot to take from the game, which gave the confidence to beat Pakistan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the inaugural T20 world Cup in 2007, Bangladesh beat West Indies and that remained their only victory against a top team in this event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh then beat some big teams in bilateral series and other tournaments, albeit not more often. However, since the 2021 World Cup, they couldn\'t beat any top teams, which marked their vulnerability in this format further.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall Bangladesh played 143 T20 Internationals and while they won 49 matches, they had lost 91 matches. Three other matches ended in no result. So a victory against India would help them complete a half-century of T20 victory.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 16:03:05', '2022-11-06 16:03:05'),
(2876, 2876, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Twitter has confirmed plans to allow users to buy blue-tick verified status.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an update for Apple devices, the company said the feature would be open to users in certain countries who sign up to its Twitter Blue service for $7.99 (£7) per month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The policy change is controversial amid concerns that the platform could be swamped with fake accounts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It follows Twitter\'s takeover by Elon Musk who on Friday laid off around half of the company\'s workforce.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sought-after blue tick was previously only available to high-profile or influential individuals and organisations - who were asked to prove their identity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been used as a sign that a profile is authentic, and is a key tool to help users identify reliable information on the platform.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The policy change may fuel worries that government figures, celebrities, journalists and brands could be impersonated by any user willing to pay a monthly fee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk, the world\'s richest person, appears to be looking to diversify Twitter\'s income, following his acquisition of the firm late last month in a $44bn (£39bn) deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, the billionaire said Twitter was losing more than $4m (£3.5m) per day, insisting that this gave him \"no choice\" over culling around half the company\'s 7,500-strong workforce. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 16:09:10', '2022-11-06 16:09:10'),
(2877, 2877, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The fishing community of Cox’s Bazar is very happy with business catching Hilsa in swarms. Fishing trawlers are returning to the shore full of Hilsa and other fish, bringing down the prices to a tolerable level.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once deserted fish warehouses and markets of the district are now buzzing with fishermen, traders and buyers from morning to night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Visiting Cox’s Bazar Fisheries Landing Station, UNB found the place in a celebratory mood. After the onslaught of Cyclone Sitrang and a 22-day ban on Hilsa catching, hundreds of fishing trawlers are arriving at the station with tons of Hilsa every day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one seems to have time for doing anything else at the landing station. Some were loading the fish into warehouses, some were breaking ice while others were arranging the fishes in baskets. Many traders were also seen sending truckloads of Hilsa consignments to different parts of the country after getting expected prices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to UNB, some fishermen said that they had to face acute hardship due to being unable to catch fish for the previous couple of weeks. But now they are feeling much more optimistic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Everyone in the fish business will make profit this time as Hilsa is getting caught in massive amounts. We’ll be able to export Hilsa to other countries after meeting our own demands,” said Osman Gani Tutul, President of Cox’s Bazar Fishery Ghat Fish Traders Association.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 1, a total of 18 tons of Hilsa arrived at the landing station, while the amount was 12 tons the previous day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By way of complaint, the fishermen said that around 400-500 Indian fishing trawlers catch Hilsa from the bay despite a ban on doing so, which is eating into the amount of Hilsa caught by the local fishermen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Hilsa was being sold at Tk400-Tk600 per kg at the district’s Fishery Ghat. Traders hoped that more trawlers coming with the fish from the bay will further lower the price.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The amount of Hilsa in the Bay has multiplied due to the government ban. The ban has also resulted in the increased amount of breeding of fish. The fishermen are returning to the shore happily due to favorable weather in the coast. I hope they’ll exceed their target of Hilsa catching this year,” said Md Badruddoza, Cox’s Bazar District Fisheries Officer. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 16:16:27', '2022-11-06 16:16:27'),
(2878, 2878, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine\'s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper quoted unnamed people familiar with the discussions as saying that the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations facing constituencies wary of fuelling a war for many years to come.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the discussions illustrated the complexity of the Biden administration\'s position on Ukraine, as US officials publicly vow to support Kyiv with massive sums of aid \"for as long as it takes\" while hoping for a resolution to the eight-month conflict that has taken a big toll on the world economy and triggered fears of nuclear war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper said US officials shared the assessment of their Ukrainian counterparts that Putin is not for now serious about negotiations, but acknowledged that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\'s ban on talks with him had generated concern in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America, where the war\'s effects on costs of food and fuel are felt most sharply.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Ukraine fatigue is a real thing for some of our partners,\" the Post quoted one unnamed US official as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House National Security Council had no immediate comment when asked if the report was accurate, while a spokesperson for the State Department responded by saying: \"We\'ve said it before and will say it again: Actions speak louder than words. If Russia is ready for negotiation, it should stop its bombs and missiles and withdraw its forces from Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Kremlin continues to escalate this war. The Kremlin has demonstrated its unwillingness to seriously engage in negotiations since even before it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spokesperson also noted remarks by Zelensky on Friday, in which he said: \"We are ready for peace, for a fair and just peace, the formula of which we have voiced many times.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his nightly address to the Ukrainian people on Friday, Zelensky added: \"The world knows our position. This is respect for the UN Charter, respect for our territorial integrity, respect for our people.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said during a visit to Kyiv on Friday that Washington\'s support for Ukraine would remain \"unwavering and unflinching\" following next Tuesday\'s midterm congressional elections. Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 16:23:01', '2022-11-06 16:23:01'),
(2879, 2879, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Sri Lankan cricketer was arrested and charged Sunday over the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Sydney, police said, just hours after the national team lost to England in the Twenty20 World Cup.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was widely identified in local media as batsman Danushka Gunathilaka, who was ruled out of the World Cup during the first round with a hamstring injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The 31-year-old was replaced in the squad but remained with the team in Australia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Sex Crimes Squad detectives have charged a Sri Lankan national following an investigation into the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Sydney\'s east last week,\" New South Wales police said in a statement, without naming the man.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said the pair met after communicating for several days on a dating app.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s alleged he then sexually assaulted her on the evening of Wednesday November 2, 2022,\" the statement said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man was arrested at a hotel in Sydney in the early hours of Sunday morning and charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was refused bail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Left-handed opener Gunathilaka made his international debut in 2015 and has played eight Tests, 47 ODIs and 46 T20s. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 16:48:17', '2022-11-06 16:48:17'),
(2880, 2880, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams for the academic session 2021-22 are being held from today.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The exams will be held from 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, a total of 12,03,407 examinees are sitting for the exams. Of them, 6,22,769 are boys and 5,80,611 are girls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: HSC exams to be held with shortened syllabus, question paper</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">HSC, equivalent exams are being held in 2,649 centers and 9,181 institutions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Examinees will not be allowed to carry mobile phones or any other devices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, written HSC exams will continue till December 13. Practical exams will be held from December 15 to 22.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Examinees will have to sit for the HSC exams for three hours — for 100 marks — in all subjects.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students will have two hours to finish the exams — 20 minutes for multiple-choice questions (MCQs), and 1 hour and 40 minutes for creative questions (CQs).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">HSC exams are kicking off with Bangla first paper.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All coaching centres across Bangladesh are closed from November 3 to December 14 as per the directives of the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on the movement of anyone except Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) candidates and exam officials, within 200 yards of test centres in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DMP announced the new step in a statement Thursday. The public will be completely barred from travelling within 200 yards of test centres to ensure \"proper and lawful\" exams, according to DMP Commissioner Khandker Gulam Faruq. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 17:01:34', '2022-11-06 17:01:34'),
(2881, 2881, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><div><b>Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone Sunday morning.</b></div><div><br></div><div>With an air quality index (AQI) score of 186 at 8:26 am, the metropolis ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div><br></div><div>An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div><br></div><div>India’s Delhi and China’s Beijing occupied the first and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 226 and 170, respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div><br></div><div>In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 17:36:43', '2022-11-06 17:36:43'),
(2882, 2882, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It was a tense moment when the TV umpire, Langton Rusere, gave his verdict in favour of the bowler, Shadab Khan, after Shakib Al Hasan\'s taking a review. The Bangladesh captain was stunned by the decision of the third umpire, as he seemed to believe that the ball hit his bat first after it touched his left-leg shoe. Now the question remains whether the TV umpire got it right when giving Shakib Al Hasan out in the crucial BAN vs PAK T20 World Cup match in Adelaide.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Leg-spinner Shadab Khan immediately appealed for the lbw wicket, and the on-field umpire gave the decision in favour of the bowler. Shakib Al Hasan, who just came at the crease after the departure of Soumya Sarkar in the previous ball, made an attempt to guide the ball in the leg side region for runs. However, he failed to connect the ball properly and lost his wicket to Shadab.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In naked eyes, it seemed the ball might have touched Shakib\'s bat before it hit his front leg. That\'s why Shakib was a bit baffled by the decision of the TV umpire. It was a close call, and the umpire eventually gave the decision in favour of the fielding side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Normally, if there is any confusion about making a decision, the umpire gives the benefit of the doubt to the batting side. So, the umpire may have made a wrong call by giving Shakib Al Hasan out on this occasion in a vital BAN vs PAK T20 World Cup contest. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 19:02:26', '2022-11-06 19:02:26'),
(2883, 2883, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor are all set to welcome their first child. On Sunday morning, the couple was seen arriving at the Sir HN Reliance Hospital in Girgaon, Mumbai. Alia\'s mother and actor Soni Razdan and Ranbir\'s mother and actor Neetu Kapoor were also seen reaching the hospital in their respective cars.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A paparazzo video shows the couple reaching the hospital in their Range Rover. Soni was also seen reaching the hospital in her white BMW and Neetu was seen in a black and white Range Rover.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Amid countdown to her delivery date, Alia Bhatt had been occasionally sharing pictures from her time with her loved ones at home. Two days ago, Alia had shared a picture with mom Soni and sister Shaheen Bhatt on Instagram. She captioned it, “Appreciation post for these wonderfully weird ladies.” It showed Alia and Soni twinning in denim jackets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Alia and Ranbir couple tied the knot in an intimate Hindu ceremony at their home on April 14 this year. Alia had announced her pregnancy in June.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On September 9, Alia and Ranbir saw the release of their much-delayed film, Brahmastra. Alia and Ranbir promoted the movie throughout the country during her pregnancy. The film turned out to be success at the box office with gross worldwide collection of Rs. 402.07 crore. Helmed by Ayan Mukerji, the film also starred Amitabh Bachchan and Mouni Roy in the lead roles. It is now streaming on the OTT platform Disney+ Hotstar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ranbir will reportedly take a long break to be around their baby. According to reports, he has not signed a new project. He is currently working on director Luv Ranjan\'s next untitled romantic comedy alongside Shraddha Kapoor and director Sandeep Reddy Vanga\'s gangster drama Animal opposite Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor and Bobby Deol.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Alia had already wrapped up Karan Johar\'s Rocky aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani alongside Ranveer Singh, Dharmendra and Jaya Bachchan, and her Hollywood debut, Heart of Stone. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 19:16:10', '2022-11-06 19:16:10'),
(2884, 2884, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Two lanes of Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) flyover between Tongi Station Road and the Housebuilding area opened to traffic on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurated the lanes at a programme over the flyover near Tongi Bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">People will be able to travel comfortably following the opening of the two lanes, Obaidul Quader said. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">By the first week of June next year, the BRT Line-3 project would be completed and opened to the public, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The full length of the flyover is 4.5km. A part of the BRT flyover is a 2.2km stretch between Tongi Station Road and Housebuilding. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 19:22:03', '2022-11-06 19:23:46'),
(2885, 2885, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The bodies of two students, who went missing after a collision between two speedboats in Kaptai lake on Friday, have been recovered.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The deceased were Liton Chakma, 20, and Elina Chakma, 20, residents of Baghaichhari and Borokol upazilas respectively and students of Higher Secondary Certificate level of Open University.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The body of Liton was recovered by fishermen early Sunday while and the body of Elina by fire service workers on Sunday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ariful Islam, officer-in-charge of Langadu police station, said they in association with the fire service men carried out search operation till Saturday evening since Friday afternoon but failed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Friday afternoon, seven people were injured and two others went missing in a head-on collision between a passenger carrying speedboat and a goods-laden boat in Kaptai Lake.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The passenger carrying boat was heading towards Langadu upazila from Rangamati Sadar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Seven out of total nine passengers of the boat managed to swim ashore while the reset went missing. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 19:32:40', '2022-11-06 19:32:40'),
(2886, 2886, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Shaheen Afridi\'s four-wicket haul and a calm hand from the Shan Masood helped Pakistan beat Bangladesh by five wickets and qualify for the semi-finals.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>South Africa\'s stunning loss to the Netherlands earlier in the day made this game a virtual quarter-finals, with both Bangladesh and Pakistan having a chance to finish in the top two. It was Pakistan who prevailed in a nervy chase in which both sides made a lot of mistakes. Bangladesh have finished fifth in the group, below the Netherlands.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh: 127/8</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan: (18.1/20 ov, T:128) 128/5</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan won by 5 wickets (with 11 balls remaining)</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 19:49:45', '2022-11-06 19:49:45'),
(2887, 2887, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Four people, including a woman and a child, were killed and 10 others injured as bus crashed into a roadside tree in Madhabpur area of the district early Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The deceased are Merian Aktar, 32, Junayed, 3, Humayun Kabir, 48, and Abdul Rauf Hawladar, 50.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Md Taimur Islam, officer-in-charge of Bhanga Highway police station, said&nbsp; the bus of ‘Sakura Paribahan’ hit the tree around 3 am on Dhaka-Barishal Highway in Madhabpur area, leaving two people dead on the&nbsp; spot and 12 others critically injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Two of them succumbed to their injuries at Bhanga upazila health complex, he said adding that the injured were undergoing treatment at the health complex and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College hospital. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 19:55:13', '2022-11-06 19:55:13'),
(2888, 2888, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said there are no plans to take on new mega projects now.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“As per the directives of the Prime Minister, currently there is no plan to take any new mega project,” he said while inaugurating the two lanes of a flyover under Bangladesh Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Tongi of Gazipur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expressing concern over public sufferings caused by the BRT project, the minister said already 80 percent work of the project has been completed and the difficulties will end soon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Criticising BNP, the Awami League leader said, “BNP had not undertaken any mega project and during their tenure no development work has been carried out. Who will go to power and who will take safe exit public will decide.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">He also urged BNP to participate in the next general election is likely to be held at last week of December 2023 or first week of January 2024.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“After opening the two lanes, people from 37 districts will be benefited by the flyover,” said State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell, who was present there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alamgir Hossain, deputy commissioner (traffic) of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, said traffic congestion will be reduced and the Dhaka-bound passengers can easily move to their respective destinations using the flyover.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the BRT sources, once the project is implemented, it will be the first environment friendly mass transport system in Gazipur, Tongi and Uttara areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the 20.5 km project of BRT, a 4.5 km elevated expressway, six elevated stations, ten lane Tongi Bridge are under construction, involving Tk 4268.32 crore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul islam, deputy commissioner Anisur Rahman, Gazipur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Nazrul Islam and President of Gazipur Metropolitan unit Awami League Azmat Ullah were present there. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 20:41:15', '2022-11-06 20:41:15'),
(2889, 2889, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the people not to forget the terrible days of the arson violence unleashed by BNP-Jamaat in the name of movement.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“I would like to ask the people of the country to be alert so that none can resort to such incidents anymore in future,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier was addressing an event titled \'Cries of Arson Violence: A partial scenario of BNP-Jamaat Fire Terrorism, Anarchy and Violation of Human Rights\' organised by Bangladesh Awami League at National Museum Auditorium here in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said some 500 people were burnt to death and more than 3500 people were injured during the arson violence of BNP-Jamaat in 2013-15. “We tried our best to stand beside the victims and took steps for their treatments. But it is not possible to wipe out the pains and sufferings of the people who lost their dear ones,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina said those who were burned had many dreams with their lives, but the aspirations were burned to ashes. “I just would like to tell the people of the country that none should forget that awful time,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No objection with healthy politics, but such violence won\'t be tolerated, she said</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said if anyone wants to do politics, they can do healthy politics. “We don’t have any objection (with healthy politics). But if anyone attacks my general people, they (attackers) will not be spared. It (violence) can’t be tolerated. No man can endure it,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said every citizen irrespective of political parties and creeds has rights to lead life and conduct livelihood freely. “We have the responsibility to protect the rights,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister talked to the victims and families of the arson violence unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat alliance in the period of 2013-2015.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the event, some victims, who are still suffering from the injuries or bear gruesome fire scars, and the victim family members shared their sufferings and demanded punishment of the perpetrators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family members said they are now passing through serious financial hardship and mental agony after losing their dear and beloved ones. They wanted no innocent one like their dear ones to lose life in such violence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noted cultural personality Asaduzzaman Noor, also an Awami League MP, conducted the event. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 21:01:16', '2022-11-06 21:01:16'),
(2890, 2890, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine’s state electricity operator on Saturday announced blackouts in Kyiv and seven other regions of the country in the aftermath of Russia’s devastating strikes on energy infrastructure.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The move comes as Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian cities and villages with missiles and drones, inflicting damage on power plants, water supplies and other civilian targets, in a grinding war that is nearing its nine-month mark.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia has denied that the drones it has used in Ukraine came from Iran, but the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister on Saturday for the first time acknowledged supplying Moscow with “a limited number” of drones before the invasion. Hossein Amirabdollahian claimed, however, that Tehran didn’t know if its drones were used against Ukraine and stated Iran’s commitment to stopping the conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrenergo, the sole operator of Ukraine’s high-voltage transmission lines, initially said in a an online statement Saturday that scheduled blackouts will take place in the capital and the greater Kyiv region, as well as several regions around it — Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv.</div><div><br></div><div>Later in the day, however, the company released an update saying that scheduled outages for a specific number of hours aren’t enough and instead there will be emergency outages, which could last an indefinite amount of time.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine has been grappling with power outages and the disruption of water supplies since Russia started unleashing massive barrages of missile and drone strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure last month.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow has said those came in response to what it alleged were Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, the region that Russia illegally annexed in 2014. Ukraine has denied those allegations.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Ukraine’s presidential office, at least three civilians were killed and eight others were wounded over the past 24 hours by Russian shelling of nine Ukrainian regions, where drones, missiles and heavy artillery were used.</div><div><br></div><div>In the Russian-occupied Kherson region, where a Ukrainian counteroffensive is underway, the Russian military continue to abduct local residents, the presidential office said.</div><div><br></div><div>About 40 shells were fired overnight at the city of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said on Telegram. The Russian forces targeted the city and the areas around it with heavy artillery, as they have done repeatedly since July. Two fires broke out, and more than a dozen residential and utility buildings, as well as a gas pipeline, were damaged, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Elsewhere in the region, Ukrainian forces shot down a drone and another projectile, according to Reznichenko.</div><div><br></div><div>In the southern Mykolaiv region, the overnight shelling of rural areas damaged several houses but didn’t cause any casualties, Mykolaiv Gov. Vitali Kim said on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian forces also fired missiles at the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, which has been illegally annexed by Moscow and large parts of it remain occupied. According to regional Gov. Oleksandr Starukh, the attack took place shortly after midnight and damaged three businesses, as well as a number of cars.</div><div><br></div><div>In the eastern Donetsk region, also annexed and partially occupied by Russia, eight Ukrainian cities and villages were shelled, including Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Porkovsk, reports AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Russian-installed authorities in Donetsk reported an attempt on the life of a Moscow-appointed judge of the region’s Supreme Court. Alexander Nikulin, who was on a judicial panel that in June sentenced to death two Britons and a Moroccan fighting for Ukraine, has been hospitalized with gunshot wounds and is in grave condition, Kremlin-backed officials said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 21:31:46', '2022-11-06 21:31:46'),
(2891, 2891, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested Sultana Ahmed, general secretary of the Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, in a Digital Security Act case, just after she arrived back in Dhaka following a rally in Barishal. Police have also received permission to interrogate her in their custody for two days, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sultana returned to Dhaka on Sunday morning after attending a BNP rally in Barishal. A RAB-3 team detained her as she was travelling home to Gulshan by car from the Sadarghat river port.</div><div><br></div><div>“A Digital Security Act case has been filed against Sultana Ahmed,” said Mohammad Salah Uddin Miah of Paltan Police Station.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“She made derogatory comments about the prime minister. An aggrieved citizen filed a case against her.”</div><div><br></div><div>The plaintiff in the case is former Gopalganj District Chhatra League President Abdul Hamid.</div><div><br></div><div>“RAB-3 arrested and handed her over to the police station. Police have taken her to the court and petitioned for a seven-day remand in that case.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahidul Islam later granted police two days to interrogate the BNP activist over the comments.</div><div><br></div><div>Senior lawyer Masud Ahmed Talukder represented Sultana at the hearing and petitioned for the remand petition to be scrapped and requested bail.</div><div><br></div><div>The lawyer said the Facebook post in question has not been proven to belong to Sultana. In addition, the comments are not inflammatory, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"People all over the country are saying the same thing – will the government arrest them all?\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The lawyer described the case as an example of political repression.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir mentioned the arrest during a discussion at the National Press Club on Sunday afternoon and said: \"I condemn this incident and demand that she be released as quickly as possible.”</div><div><br></div><div>The ruling party was attempting to silence their opposition by harassing them with false cases, Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>“If she is not freed, the government will have to take full responsibility.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 21:51:40', '2022-11-06 21:51:40'),
(2892, 2892, '<div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted North Sulawesi province in central Indonesia on Sunday, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country\'s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said. Source: AFP</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 22:06:44', '2022-11-06 22:06:44'),
(2893, 2893, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has brought forward the date for their anti-government rally in Sylhet by a day to November 19.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The opposition party made the decision to ensure the event doesn’t clash with ongoing Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams as the venue was fixed at city’s Alia Madrasah field, one of the examination centers, said Khondokar Al Muktadir, BNP Chairperson’s Adviser, when he talked to reporters after a meeting on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Sylhet Metropolitan Police (CMP) issued a notification banning all kinds of rallies and gatherings near Alia Madrasah area.</div><div><br></div><div>The notice raised confusion among the party activists about the rally venue, so BNP refixed the rally schedule as there is no HSC exam on November 19.</div><div><br></div><div>The organisers said the rally is meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuel, to ensure the freedom of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, and demanding removal of politically motivated cases filed against the opposition activists and leaders.</div><div><br></div><div>Sylhet rally will be the sixth by the BNP at the divisional level. The first one was held in Chattogram, the second one in Mymensingh, the third and fourth in Khulna and Rangpur, and the fifth one in Barishal.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP has already sought permission from madrasa authorities and Sylhet City Corporation to hold the rally, and also sent a letter to the police for ensuring security, said Khondokar Al Muktadir.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are expecting the presence of at least 4.5 lakh people in the Sylhet rally,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question, Sylhet BNP President Abdul Kayum Chowdhury said he is hopeful that Sylhet transport workers will not embark on a strike ahead of the rally like other divisions as BNP’s movement is for people. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 23:39:05', '2022-11-06 23:39:05'),
(2894, 2894, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka court on Sunday asked the jail authorities to produce former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akhter before it in a case filed by Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) Chief Banaj Kumar Majumdar under the Digital Security Act.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ashek Imam passed the order following a petition by a counsel of the accused for showing Babul Akhter arrested in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also fixed November 10 for the hearing of the plea in presence of Babul Akhter.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also deferred the submission of the probe report in the case to December 8 which was scheduled to be submitted today.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 27, PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumdar filed the case accusing four people including Babul Akhter on charge for making ongoing investigation on Mitu murder questionable, spreading false information and throwing abusive words.</div><div><br></div><div>Banaj Kumar, also an additional inspector general of police, lodged the case at Dhanmondi police station.</div><div><br></div><div>The other accused in the case are US expatriate and Youtuber Elias Hossain, Babul’s father Md Abdul Wadud Mia and brother Md Habibur Rahman Labu.</div><div><br></div><div>Of them, Elias was made the prime accused in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>In the case the plaintiff alleged that all the accused intentionally spread false information to make objectionable the ongoing investigation of Mahmuda Khatun Mitu murder case through social platforms including Youtube.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, Elias from the US spread misleading information to spoil communal harmony of the country and tarnish the image of PBI, the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul\'s wife Mitu at the port city\'s GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.</div><div><br></div><div>Soon after the crime, Babul filed a murder case at Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men.</div><div><br></div><div>The case was transferred to the Police Bureau Investigation (PBI) in 2019 after Mitu\'s father, himself a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP\'s mishandling of the case.</div><div><br></div><div>On May 12, 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul Akhter in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison.</div><div><br></div><div>Babul Akhter filed a no-confidence motion against the PBI report on October 14, 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>On November 3 last year, a Chattogram Court rejected the final report of PBI in the murder case and ordered it to conduct further investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>PBI in an investigation found Babul’s involvement in his wife\'s murder.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 25 this year, a Chattogram court rejected a plea filed by Babul seeking its permission to file a case against six officials of Police Bureau of Investigations (PBI) including its chief Banaj Kumar Majumdar for torturing him in police custody.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also rejected two separate petitions for recording statement under Section 200 bringing Babul Akhter to the court and seeking security in Feni prison cell. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-06 23:44:24', '2022-11-06 23:44:24');

INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2915, 2915, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The only way to \"put an end to all this suffering\" from \"a highway to climate hell\" is for the world to cooperate or perish, dozens of leaders were admonished as they gathered Monday for international climate talks.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>More than 100 world leaders will speak over the next few days to try to deal with a worsening problem that scientists call Earth\'s biggest challenge. Nearly 50 heads of states or governments started to take the stage Monday in the first day of \"high-level\" talks at this year\'s annual U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, with more to come in the following days.</div><div><br></div><div>Much of the focus will be on national leaders telling their stories of being devastated by climate disasters, culminating Tuesday with a speech by Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Sharif, whose country\'s summer floods caused at least $40 billion in damage and displaced millions of people.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The planet has become a world of suffering. ... Is it not high time to put an end to all this suffering,\" Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the summit host, told his fellow leaders.\"Climate change will never stop without our intervention. ... Our time here is limited and we must use every second that we have.\'\'</div><div><br></div><div>El-Sisi, who called for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, was gentle compared to a fiery United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who said the world \"is on a highway to climate hell.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He called for a new pact between rich and poor countries to work more closely together, with financial help and phasing out of coal in rich nations by 2030 and elsewhere by 2040. He called on the United States and China — the two biggest producers of climate-changing emissions — to especially work together on climate, something they used to do until the last few years.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Humanity has a choice: Cooperate or perish,\" Guterres said. \"It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact - or a Collective Suicide Pact.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The World Meteorological Association issued a report at the summit Sunday saying, \"The past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record, fueled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat. Extreme heatwaves, drought and devastating flooding have affected millions and cost billions this year.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The report said the \"tell-tale signs and impacts of climate change,\" such as the reate of sea level rise and glacial melting \"are becoming more dramatic.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Still, the fire and brimstone displayed by Guterres may not have quite the impact as it might have in past meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>Why? Because of bad timing and who isn\'t showing up, is coming late or is dithering about it.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the leaders are meeting Monday and Tuesday, just as the United States has a potentially policy-shifting midterm election. Then the leaders of the world\'s 20 wealthiest nations will have their powerful-only club confab in Bali in Indonesia days later. Add to that, \"there are big climate summits and little climate summits and this was never expected to be a big one,\" said Climate Advisers CEO Nigel Purvis, a former U.S. negotiator.</div><div><br></div><div>Leaders of two of the three biggest carbon polluting nations — China and India — appear to be skipping the climate talks, although underlings are here negotiating. The leader of the other top polluting country — President Biden — is coming days later than most of the other presidents and prime ministers on his way to Bali.</div><div><br></div><div>United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was initially going to avoid the negotiations, but public pressure and predecessor Boris Johnson\'s plans to come changed his mind. New King Charles III, a longtime environment advocate, won\'t attend because of his new role. And Russia\'s leader Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine created energy chaos that reverberates in the world of climate negotiations, won\'t be here.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We always want more\" leaders, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said in a Sunday news conference. \"But I believe there is sufficient (leadership) right now for us to have a very productive outcome.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to speeches given by the leaders, the negotiations include \"innovative\'\' roundtable discussions that \"we are confident, will generate some very powerful insights,\" Stiell said.</div><div><br></div><div>The leaders showing up in droves are from the host continent of Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The historical polluters who caused climate change are not showing up,\" said Mohammed Adow of Power Shift Africa. \"Africa is the least responsible, the most vulnerable to the issue of climate change and it is a continent that is stepping up and providing leadership.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"The South is actually stepping up,\" Adow told The Associated Press. \"The North that historically caused the problem is failing.\'\'</div><div><br></div><div>Monday will be heavily dominated by leaders of nations victimized by climate change, not those that have created the problem of heat-trapping gases warming up the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel. It will be mostly African nations and small island nations and other vulnerable nations that will be telling their stories.</div><div><br></div><div>And they are dramatic ones, droughts in Africa and floods in Pakistan, in places that could least afford it. For the first time in 30 years of climate negotiations, the summit \"should focus its attention on the severe climate impacts we\'re already seeing,\" said World Resources International\'s David Waskow.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We can\'t discount an entire continent that has over a billion people living here and has some of the most severe impacts,\'\' Waskow said. \"It\'s pretty clear that Africa will be at risk in a very severe way.\'\'</div><div><br></div><div>Leaders come \"to share the progress they\'ve made at home and to accelerate action,\" Purvis said. In this case, with the passage of the first major climate legislation and $375 billion in spending, Mr. Biden has a lot to share, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>While it\'s impressive that so many leaders are coming to the summit, \"my expectations for ambitious climate targets in these two days are very low,\" said NewClimate Institute\' scientist Niklas Hohne. That\'s because of Putin\'s invasion of Ukraine, which caused energy and food crises that took away from climate action, he said. Source: CBS news&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-08 04:21:06', '2022-11-08 04:21:06'),
(2916, 2916, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh have recovered 31.10 kgs of gold worth around Taka 22.16 crore from Benapole and Putkhali border areas in Jashore district in the last three months.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In separate drives, the BGB-21 battalion team recovered 15 gold bars weighing 31.10 kgs from 17 alleged smugglers in the two border areas from August to November 7, 2022, said a press release.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The BGB personnel also recovered a huge amount of drugs, clothes, illegal chemicals and explosives and arrested smugglers during their regular drives from the border areas, said the press release, adding that smugglers were handed over to local police stations for taking legal steps. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-08 04:23:20', '2022-11-08 04:23:20'),
(2917, 2917, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned not to go for mega projects and instead take up small ones focusing on rural development and public welfare.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She made the directives while chairing the meeting of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e Bangla Nagar area.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Prime Minister said the luxury projects can’t be taken up. But small rural projects or welfare oriented projects cannot be compromised. Mega projects can’t be undertaken,” said Planning Minister MA Mannan while briefing reporters after the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina, also the Ecnec chairperson, stressed the need for a thorough feasibility study in case of undertaking any big project.</div><div><br></div><div>She also asked the authorities concerned to find out uncultivated lands everywhere across the country to grow food and other crops.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Prime Minister said production will have to be raised. Not a single inch of land can be kept uncultivated,” said Mannan adding that she directed the cabinet secretary to identify the uncultivated lands with the help of deputy commissioners.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM asked everyone to be frugal and stop wastages amid the global recession.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ecnec meeting cleared seven projects with a total estimated cost of Tk 3,981.90 crore (only additional costs of three revised projects were counted here).</div><div><br></div><div>Of the cost, Tk 3,392.33 crore will be drawn from the government’s fund, while Tk 267.35 crore from the own funds of the organisations concerned and Tk 332.21 crore will come from the foreign sources. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-08 22:26:07', '2022-11-08 22:26:07'),
(2918, 2918, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The body of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash bears several injury marks, according to the doctor who conducted autopsy.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“There are several injury marks on Fardin\'s head and body,” said Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, on Tuesday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Maniruzzaman Moni, officer-in-charge of Narayanganj River Police, said police have detained two friends of Fardin for interrogation.</div><div><br></div><div>They are also trying to find clues to and possible reasons behind Fardin\'s death, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Fardin’s father Nuruddin Rana said that the family received a phone call on Monday, informing them of Fardin\'s dead body.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Monday, police found Fardin\'s body from the Shitalakshya river, three days after he went missing.</div><div><br></div><div>Fardin was a 3rd-year student of civil engineering department of BUET and a resident of Qutubpur area in Narayanganj\'s Fatullah, said Maniruzzaman.</div><div><br></div><div>On November 4, Fardin left home and did not return. He was also unreachable on phone.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, his father lodged a general diary with Rampura Police in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday afternoon, the dead body was seen floating on the river just behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, reports&nbsp; UNB</div><div><br></div><div>On information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the body, added the OC.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-08 22:58:41', '2022-11-08 22:58:41'),
(2919, 2919, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Real Madrid lost their first La Liga game of the season, going down 3-2 in a battle at city-rivals Rayo Vallecano on Monday to leave Barcelona two points clear at the top.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rayo took an early lead in a see-saw game before Real rallied to 2-1 ahead. Rayo equalised before half-time before sealing a famous win with a twice-taken penalty from Oscar Trejo in the 67th minute.</div><div><br></div><div>After 13 matches, Barcelona are top on 34 points to Real Madrid\'s 32.</div><div><br></div><div>Playing without injured Ballon d\'Or winner Karim Benzema, Real Madrid faced a tough opponent in a sold-out stadium in the working class suburb of Vallecas.</div><div><br></div><div>Santiago Comesana put the home side ahead to raucous scenes after just five minutes before two goals in the space of four minutes turned the match Madrid\'s way.</div><div><br></div><div>First Luca Modric levelled from the penalty spot in the 37th minute before Eder Militao fired Carlo Ancelotti\'s previously unbeaten side into the lead.</div><div><br></div><div>It was not to last, however, as Rayo were level at the break with Alvaro Garcia getting the better of a goalmouth scramble and snapping a shot through a sea of legs.</div><div><br></div><div>In a bad tempered and hotly-disputed game Real\'s Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois saved a penalty from Trejo on 67 minutes but was adjudged to have moved early.</div><div><br></div><div>Trejo showed no nerves converting the retaken spot-kick.</div><div>\"We lost it in the individual duels, and we missed chances we would normally convert,\" Ancelotti said.</div><div><br></div><div>Named in Brazil\'s World Cup squad Rodrygo looked horrified when he fired over the bar from close range in the 90th minute.</div><div><br></div><div>Real\'s other Brazilian striker Vinicius also fell flat but the Italian coach said the players hadn\'t been distracted by the upcoming World Cup in Qatar.</div><div><br></div><div>\"That\'s the way it goes sometimes.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"It was hard for Vinicius, but it was hard for all the team tonight.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"I\'m upset by this defeat, not with the players, we have done better than ever in this first part of the season,\" said Ancelotti.</div><div><br></div><div>Barcelona beat Almeria 2-0 with goals from Ousmane Dembele and Frenkie de Jong to move top of La Liga on Saturday on an emotional night as Gerard Pique retired.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier Monday, Real were draw against Liverpool in the Champions League for a double header in February and March. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-08 23:49:13', '2022-11-08 23:49:13'),
(2920, 2920, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka court fixed December 11 for hearing on framing charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Special Judge\'s Court-6 judge Al Asad Md Asifuzzaman passed the order accepting the plea of time extension by Samrat\'s attorney in his client\'s present at dock as today was fixed for the hearing.</div><div><br></div><div>The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Samrat along with his associate and also former Jubo League leader Enamul Haque alias Arman from a village in Cumilla\'s Chauddagram upazila on October 6, 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>On November 12 in the same year, ACC deputy director Md Jahangir Alam filed a case against him for amassing wealth worth of around Taka 3 crore beyond his known income sources.</div><div><br></div><div>The anti-corruption watchdog submitted a charge sheet against him on November 26, 2020, accusing him for rallying wealth worth of over Taka 222.88 crore beyond his known income sources.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Samrat was produced before the court from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital on August 22.</div><div><br></div><div>After holding hearing on the plea for bail filed by the defence, the court granted his plea on a Taka 10,000 bond. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-08 23:53:13', '2022-11-08 23:53:13'),
(2921, 2921, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The overall inflation in Bangladesh fell to 8.91 percent in October, on a point-to-point basis, from 9.1 percent in September.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Planning Minister MA Mannan shared the information on Tuesday at a press conference after the meeting of Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC).</div><div><br></div><div>Depreciation of taka should be considered positively as it helps to increase US dollar supply in the market, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In reply to a question, Mannan said, “As per Bangladesh Bank, foreign exchange reserves are close to $35 billion, no matter what the IMF said.”</div><div><br></div><div>In August this year, the overall inflation in the country rose to 9.5 percent. This important and sensitive indicator of the economy was the highest in August in the last 12 years.</div><div><br></div><div>In the fiscal 2010-11, the average inflation rate of the country was 10.92 percent. After that, this index did not rise above 9 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>Due to the increase in prices of daily essentials, and fuel in the international market, there was a trend of rising inflation in the country for several months.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 5, the government increased fuel prices by 42 to 51 percent. The price of diesel was increased by Tk 34 per litre, octane by Tk 46 per litre, and petrol by Tk 44 per litre. This record jump in fuel prices contributed to the record inflation. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 00:16:05', '2022-11-09 00:16:05'),
(2922, 2922, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Under an awning in a bamboo thicket in northern Myanmar, an anti-coup fighter following instructions from YouTube welds scavenged steel into crude mortar rounds and shells to be fired at junta troops.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Almost two years after seizing power, the military has been unable to crush local militias that have sprung up to fight the putsch with hit-and-run tactics.</div><div><br></div><div>In turn, these People\'s Defence Forces (PDF) remain massively outgunned by the military\'s artillery strikes, Chinese and Russian-made jets and Israeli-patterned rifles.</div><div><br></div><div>Captured weapons and expensive purchases on the black market have provided patchy boosts to PDF firepower, analysts say, but many militias have turned to risky trial-and-error operations to churn out their own rockets, mines and mortars.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We just learn how to build weapons from the internet or YouTube,\" said Nay Min, an anti-coup fighter from the northern Sagaing region.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We search how to cook saltpetre (potassium nitrate), how to combine it to get gunpowder, how to build rifles. We haven\'t received any training,\" he told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>Those with engineering or mechanical backgrounds, like his comrade Nay Myo Win, experiment and come up with prototypes or copies of captured weapons, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Blowtorches in hand, they sweat for hours in makeshift workshops powered by generators that are frequent targets of junta raids.</div><div><br></div><div>Nay Myo Win mixes saltpetre to make the gunpowder needed to fire mortar shells filled with lead and scrap metal that he claims have a range of just over two kilometres (1.2 miles).</div><div>- Crude armaments -</div><div><br></div><div>Laid out on a tarpaulin ahead of a mission in October, the mortars are unimpressive -- little more than construction pipes welded to bipods.</div><div><br></div><div>The shells require two charges to detonate -- one to fire the shell and the other to explode on impact -- a method first used at the beginning of the 20th century.</div><div><br></div><div>But the damage is substantial, Nay Min said -- \"around 15 feet from the target it will hit people and they will die or be wounded\".</div><div><br></div><div>One batch of shells was made from a telecoms tower owned by a firm close to the military, which was sabotaged by PDF fighters some months ago.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We just wanted to destroy their business,\" Nay Min added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"But, after we had started making homemade weapons ... we needed more stainless steel and we thought of the tower.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Nay Min\'s group is one of dozens of PDF militias in Sagaing making their own weapons in a bid to turn the tide in the fighting.</div><div><br></div><div>Many upload footage of successful tests of mortars, rockets or mines to social media, with joyous shouts accompanying each loud bang.</div><div><br></div><div>But the work can be deadly.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s more than dangerous,\" said Bo Shaung, an anti-coup fighter and rocket maker from another group operating in Sagaing.</div><div><br></div><div>\"When we cook gunpowder, if we add too much saltpetre, it\'s dangerous. If we add too little, it\'s also dangerous.\"</div><div><br></div><div>One video obtained by AFP shows a new mortar being tested. The shell explodes in the barrel, killing the fighter who had just loaded it.</div><div><br></div><div>Thu Ya, another anti-coup fighter, said he lost his sight six months ago when the explosive he was handling went off too soon.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I got injuries on my hands and feet which have recovered now but I... still have blurry vision,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In the absence of machines like lathes and voltage regulators, each shell is made by hand.</div><div><br></div><div>And for all the risk that comes with producing them, the homemade munitions are often more bark than bite.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Drain on morale\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Once a target has been selected, preparing ammunition for an attack can take up to 10 days, Nay Min said.</div><div><br></div><div>His group relies on information from locals to gauge troop positions.</div><div><br></div><div>To guide their fire they have little more than Google Maps to measure the distance from the target.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We normally attack them in our own areas and we all know the locations and distance,\" he said, insisting that most attacks were accurate.</div><div><br></div><div>Assessing the effectiveness of these weapons is \"extremely difficult\" in the absence of impartial reporting from the field, said Bangkok-based security analyst Anthony Davis.</div><div><br></div><div>Both sides regularly inflate or play down their casualty figures, analysts say.</div><div><br></div><div>But Davis said the spread of locally made mortars and rockets \"indicates that these systems are far from simply window-dressing\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"They inflict real casualties but perhaps as importantly are a constant drain on the morale of often isolated army units on the receiving end.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The junta has labelled all PDF groups as \"terrorists\". It blames anti-coup fighters for the deaths of more than 4,000 civilians.</div><div><br></div><div>Nay Min sees his group\'s fight as justified.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are satisfied with what we have done,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>But \"we need everything. Especially we need weapons.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 00:19:49', '2022-11-09 00:19:49'),
(2923, 2923, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves is falling due to meeting import demand of essential goods and a downward trend in remittance-export incomes, the latest data of Bangladesh Bank revealed.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>After paying $1.35 billion to Asian Clearing Union (ACU) as an import bill for September-October, and $131 million spent to meet LC liabilities, the forex reserves stood at $34.3 billion at the end of November 7.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Bank spokesperson Md Abul Kalam Azad told UNB that the liabilities of import payment are decreasing gradually after reining in opening of import LCs.</div><div><br></div><div>US $1.35 billion in ACU bill has been paid in September-October. Earlier, Bangladesh had to pay $1.73 billion for July-August period and $1.96 billion during May-June, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The central banks and the monetary authorities of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are currently members of the ACU.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the suggestion of International Monetary Fund (IMF), if $8 billion used as export development fund is excluded from the foreign exchange reserves, then the reserves stand at $26.3 billion. It is the lowest in 7 years. Forex reserves were $35.8 billion on October 30, 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves reached an all-time high of $48.06 billion in August 2021 and a record low of $42.5 million in August 1974.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite curbing imports, the foreign exchange reserves are falling sharply.</div><div><br></div><div>Opening of new LCs has been reduced. But the liability of the previously opened LCs is now payable in terms of arrears or late payment. Due to this, the dollar crisis is becoming more acute.</div><div>Bangladesh will be able to meet the import expenses of three and a half months with the current forex reserves.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the tightening of imports, economists said that forex reserves cannot be increased by stopping imports. Domestic products need some imported materials. If not, the economy will be adversely affected.</div><div><br></div><div>Former governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed told UNB that declining reserves are a major challenge for the economy.</div><div><br></div><div>“Now we have to think about how to meet this challenge. First, we need to emphasize increasing remittances. Dollar rates should be left to the market,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Banks will buy dollars at the required rate. It does not matter whether it is Tk 112 or more. It is important to raise remittance now, Dr. Salehuddin said. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 02:23:20', '2022-11-09 02:23:20'),
(2924, 2924, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Americans began voting Tuesday in midterm elections, with Republicans chasing a congressional majority that would paralyze President Joe Biden\'s agenda for the next two years and pave the way for Donald Trump to return to the White House.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Polling stations on the east coast started opening at 6:00 am (1100 GMT). With control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate up for grabs, more than 40 million people have already cast their ballots in pre-poll voting across the country. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 02:25:45', '2022-11-09 02:25:45'),
(2925, 2925, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The teachers of Jashore board who were involved in making the question paper for Bangla 1st paper of Dhaka board’s HSC exam that contained communal element will be show-caused first, said Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Chairman of&nbsp; Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to rules, those teachers from different educational institutions&nbsp; under Jashore board will be ordered to show cause, Professor Tapan Kumar UNB on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>After that punitive actions will be recommended against those teachers to Inter Education Board Coordination Committee and the Ministry of Education, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry will then take further measures in this regard, said Tapan Kumar Sarkar.</div><div><br></div><div>HSC and equivalent exams for the academic session 2021-22 began across the country with Bangla 1st Paper on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>One question in Dhaka Board’s question paper raised a controversy and drew criticism.</div><div><br></div><div>The bizarre and unnecessary passage said that two brothers, Nepal and Gopal (names generally used by Hindu community), had a land dispute. To punish his elder brother, Nepal sold the disputed land to a Muslim man named Abdul. But when the new owner sacrificed a cow on that land during Eid-ul-Azha, it hurt Nepal and he migrated to India.</div><div><br></div><div>This question received huge criticism from people and educationists for its blatant use of communal elements. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 02:31:35', '2022-11-09 02:31:35'),
(2926, 2926, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka court on Tuesday dismissed the case against 15 Awami League activists and officer-in-charge of Banani police station over the attack on BNP executive committee member Tabith Awal and others at a programme in the capital\'s Banani on September 17.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Mohammad Asaduzzaman passed the order, said additional public prosecutor Tapash Kumar Pal.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Monday, Tabith filed the case against 15 Awami League leaders and activists and officer-in-charge of Banani police station Nur-e-Azam.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the court fixed Tuesday morning for hearing the complaint after recording the statement of the plaintiff.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocates AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Masud Ahmed Talukdar stood for Tabith.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case statement, leaders and activists of BNP’s Dhaka North City unit were holding a candlelight vigil around 7:45pm on Kamal Atartuk Avenue, the main thoroughfare in Banani on September 17.</div><div><br></div><div>Towards the end of the programme, the activists of Awami League and its associate organisations - Chhatra League and Jubo League - suddenly attacked the BNP leaders and activists with rods, brick chips and sticks, leaving at least 10 individuals injured.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP’s executive committee member Tabith Awal was among the injured.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, Tabith requested the Banani OC to ensure holding of peaceful vigil programme but no one paid any heed to his request.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader Khan, vice-president of Dhaka Metropolitan North unit Awami League, Jashim Uddin, former vice-president of Banani Thana unit Awami League, Mir Mosharraf Hossain, former general secretary, Amzad hossain, joint general secretary of&nbsp; Banani Thana unit Swechchashebak League and Mafizur Rahman, vice-president of Banani Thana unit Awami League were among the accused.</div><div><br></div><div>The accused included 200-300 unidentified people and 20-30 unidentified policemen. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 02:34:43', '2022-11-09 02:34:43'),
(2927, 2927, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A man in the United States has broken the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to eat 10 Carolina Reaper chillies, the world\'s hottest peppers. Guinness World Records (GWR) said that the California resident Gregory Foster broke the record on September 17 after eating the chillies in an impressive 33.15 seconds. With the latest achievement, Mr Foster broke his own record - of eating three Carolina Reaper chillies in 8.72 seconds - just nine months ago.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>GWR said that the Reapers hold the record for being the hottest chilli peppers ever, outranking others like the jalapeno and ghost peppers.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts use Scoville Heat Units to determine how spicy the chilli is. The method determines the \'spiciness\' by determining the concentration of the chemical compounds responsible for the sensation, said GWR.</div><div><br></div><div>Carolina Reapers stand at 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units, GWR further said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Foster owns a hot sauce company and grown his own chillies on his farms.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s the passion of pain, I guess,\" he told GWR.</div><div><br></div><div>Fellow American Mitch Donnelly was his competitor and had once won a chilli eating competition that Mr Foster organized. But this time, he was beaten by Mr Foster who pushed through the pain of eating the chillies quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>He described the experience as similar to trying to eat charcoal as quickly as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is the one part of the job that I hate. But it\'s the one part of the job that\'s the most entertaining for everybody else,\" Mr Foster told GWR.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that the key to competitive chilli eating is to have milk and ice cream on hand. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 02:40:26', '2022-11-09 02:40:26'),
(2928, 2928, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Varun Dhawan, during a recent interview had revealed that he has been diagnosed with Vestibular Hypofunction, a condition that affects the major functions of the vestibular organs. On Monday night, the actor shared an update on his health in a series of tweets, in which he stated that he is doing \"much better.\" Varun Dhawan\'s first tweet read: \"Hey guys I know I had recently given an interview where I spoke about my health not being a 100 percent. The amount of concern and love that has followed has left me humbled and actually very energised to get back to 100 percent.\"</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The actor assured his fans that he is on his path to recovery and added in another tweet: \"To everyone who has been concerned I would like to share I am doing much better with the help of yoga, swimming, physio and a change in lifestyle. Getting sun is the most important. Above all the blessings of Bhagwan.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Varun Dhawan first opened up about his diagnosis during India Today Mumbai Conclave 2022, where the actor said, \"Recently, I just shut down. I didn\'t know what had happened to me. I had this thing called vestibular hypofunction, basically your balance goes off. But I just pushed myself so hard. We are just running in this race, nobody is asking why. I think there is a greater purpose we are all here. I am trying to find mine, and hopefully, people will find theirs.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Varun Dhawan, star of films like October, Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, ABCD 2, Badlapur and Dilwale made his Bollywood debut with the 2012 film Student Of The Year. He also featured in the remake of Coolie No 1 with Sara Ali Khan. He was last seen in Jugjugg Jeeyo. He will next be seen in BhediYa with Kriti Sanon. Other than that, his line-up of films also includes Bawaal with Janhvi Kapoor. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 02:51:13', '2022-11-09 02:51:13'),
(2929, 2929, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">North Korea said Tuesday that claims by the United States that Pyongyang is supplying artillery ammunition to Moscow for its war in Ukraine were groundless, state media KCNA reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The rebuke comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula after a spate of North Korean weapons tests last week -- including an intercontinental ballistic missile -- as the United States and South Korea conducted their biggest-ever air force exercise.</div><div><br></div><div>The United States and South Korea have warned that the North\'s repeated recent missile launches could culminate in a nuclear test.</div><div><br></div><div>Tuesday\'s statement refuted allegations last week by White House national security spokesman John Kirby, who said the artillery from North Korea to Russia was coming under cover of shipments to the Middle East or Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Recently, the US is persistently spreading a groundless \'rumor of arms dealings\' between the DPRK and Russia,\" North Korea\'s vice director of military foreign affairs of the Ministry of National Defence said in a statement, according to KCNA.</div><div><br></div><div>The statement said North Korea sees the \"rumor\" as part of the United States\' \"hostile attempt to tarnish the image of the DPRK in the international arena,\" using an acronym for North Korea\'s official name.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We once again make clear that we have never had \'arms dealings\' with Russia and that we have no plan to do so in the future,\" the statement added.</div><div><br></div><div>Kirby had said US officials did not know whether Russia has actually received the ammunition, but were trying to monitor the shipments.</div><div><br></div><div>US information indicates that North Korea \"is covertly supplying Russia\'s war in Ukraine with a significant number of artillery shells, while obfuscating the real destination of the arms shipments by trying to make it appear as though they are being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa,\" Kirby told reporters on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the United States believes the \"significant\" number of shells sent are enough to help Russia prolong the war -- which started with Moscow\'s invasion of its former Soviet neighbor in February -- but not enough to give it an advantage over Ukrainian forces, which are being supplied by the United States and NATO allies.</div><div><br></div><div>- Sign of Russia\'s \'shortages\' -</div><div><br></div><div>In September Pyongyang denied a White House claim that it was planning to provide ammunition to help the Russian military replenish its stockpiles, which have been severely depleted by the now eight-month-old war.</div><div><br></div><div>Kirby said the shipments were \"a sign of Russia\'s own defence article shortages and needs\" as they face international sanctions limiting their re-stocking abilities, which he said is also the reason for Iran sending drone supplies.</div><div><br></div><div>Kirby would not say how or by what routes the North Korean ammunition is traveling.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the US would consult allies and partners, especially at the United Nations, on what measures might be taken.</div><div><br></div><div>North Korea\'s latest admonition against the United States came only a day after its previous repudiation, with Pyongyang on Monday vowing a \"resolute and overwhelming\" military response to last week\'s US-South Korean war drills.</div><div><br></div><div>North Korea\'s military confirmed that its latest ballistic missile tests were a reply to Washington and Seoul\'s so-called Vigilant Storm operation. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 02:58:52', '2022-11-09 02:58:52'),
(2930, 2930, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif appears to have been the victim of a targeted killing in Kenya, and not an accidental shooting.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sharif, a well-known TV journalist, was shot dead on October 23 near the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in unclear circumstances.</div><div><br></div><div>Kenyan media reported that the incident took place near the Nairobi-Magadi highway when police ordered a vehicle to stop, but it continued to speed away.</div><div><br></div><div>Police reportedly opened fire, which resulted in the death of Sharif and wounded the driver Khurram Ahmed, another Pakistani man who was accompanying Sharif.</div><div><br></div><div>The police expressed “regret” over the shooting, which they said was a case of “mistaken identity”, and a police watchdog said it would carry out an investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>Sanaullah said on Tuesday that evidence suggested Sharif was killed in a “targeted” attack.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have sought briefing from the inquiry team which visited Kenya and from the information they gave, it looks like this was a targeted attack, and not a case of mistaken identity,” Sanaullah told a press conference in Islamabad.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said further investigation into the incident was required to ascertain facts, adding the government has requested Kenyan authorities to share more information.</div><div><br></div><div>There was no immediate comment from Kenyan authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>Sharif’s remains were brought back to Pakistan last month and were buried on October 27 with thousands of people in attendance, chanting slogans and demanding the arrest of his killers.</div><div><br></div><div>The death of Sharif, a prominent news anchor in Pakistan, came two months after he fled the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Sharif was long associated with the news channel ARY and was considered close to the country’s military establishment, which has been in power in Pakistan for more than half of the 75 years since independence.</div><div><br></div><div>However, after the removal of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government in April through a parliamentary vote of no confidence, Sharif became critical of the military.</div><div><br></div><div>He faced sedition charges in August in relation to an interview that he conducted with Khan’s close aide and that the military deemed offensive, after which Sharif left the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the killing, the Pakistani government ordered the formation of a two-member committee, which flew to Kenya to conduct a probe.</div><div><br></div><div>Lieutenant General Babar Iftikhar, the director general of the military’s media wing, said that it is yet to be determined who was behind the killing.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have to wait for the report from the inquiry commission. Until the report is released, it is not appropriate to make allegations,” he said during a press conference before Sharif’s funeral in Islamabad. Source: AL JAZEERA</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 03:13:00', '2022-11-09 03:13:00'),
(2931, 2931, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The rate of global sea level rise is speeding up dramatically as temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, a new report finds, and now poses “a major threat to many millions” of people living on ocean coastlines.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sea levels have risen by an average of 10 millimeters since January 2020, reaching a new record high this year, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which issued a stark warning in its provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022 report, released Sunday. The WMO, a division of the United Nations, found a number of striking facts about climate change and its effects, including that “the past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record.”</div><div><br></div><div>But the most alarming findings may be those related to sea level rise, as the encroaching ocean threatens major coastal population centers with stronger storms, higher storm surges and flooding. “The rate of sea level rise has doubled since 1993,” the WMO noted. “The past two and a half years alone account for 10 percent of the overall rise in sea level since satellite measurements started nearly 30 years ago.”</div><div><br></div><div>One of the main causes of the accelerating pace of sea level rise is melting glaciers. According to the WMO, “2022 took an exceptionally heavy toll on glaciers in the European Alps, with initial indications of record-shattering melt. The Greenland ice sheet lost mass for the 26th consecutive year and it rained (rather than snowed) there for the first time in September.”</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a report on endangered glaciers finding that one-third of the glaciers in UNESCO World Heritage sites are expected to disappear by 2050. The remaining two-thirds can be saved if greenhouse gas emissions are cut quickly and deeply enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the report concluded.</div><div><br></div><div>The devastating effects of melting glaciers is already being witnessed in Pakistan, where an unusually warm spring caused glacial melt that contributed to the floods that have submerged one-third of the country, displacing millions of residents.</div><div><br></div><div>The report’s release coincided with the opening of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Sharm-el Sheik, Egypt, also known as COP27, with the intent of bolstering support for more aggressive action to curb emissions. Political developments, however, have diminished hopes that major new commitments of reducing greenhouse gases will be announced during COP27.</div><div><br></div><div>“The greater the warming, the worse the impacts,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement. “We have such high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now that the lower 1.5°C of the Paris Agreement is barely within reach. It’s already too late for many glaciers, and the melting will continue for hundreds if not thousands of years. … Although we still measure this in terms of millimeters per year, it adds up to half to 1 meter per century, and that is a long-term and a major threat to many millions of coastal dwellers and low-lying states.”</div><div><br></div><div>As the oceans rise from melting glaciers and polar ice caps, they also are getting warmer as they absorb more heat, causing their volume to expand further. Ocean temperatures reached record levels in 2021 (the latest year for which data was available).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Hotter oceans lead to an array of effects on the ecosystem, including coral bleaching and declining fish populations. It also powers stronger storms like Hurricane Fiona, which recently devastated Puerto Rico with 30 inches of rain, causing landslides and overflowing rivers and widespread power outages.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2022, the average global temperature is estimated to be about 1.15 °C above the 1850-1900 average. This actually could have been worse. For the first time in a century, La Niña, a weather pattern that causes cool water to rise to the surface in the Pacific Ocean — leading to cooler-than-usual weather — occurred for the third year in a row. The WMO estimates that this means 2022 will be the fifth- or sixth-hottest year on record, rather than the hottest ever. But the trend toward ever-higher temperatures remains clear.</div><div><br></div><div>“The latest State of the Global Climate report is a chronicle of climate chaos,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in response to the report’s release. “As the World Meteorological Organization shows so clearly, change is happening with catastrophic speed, devastating lives and livelihoods on every continent. Glacier melt records are themselves melting away, jeopardizing water security for whole continents. We must answer the planet’s distress signal with action — ambitious, credible climate action. COP27 must be the place, and now must be the time.” Source: Yahoo News</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Environment Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 03:42:19', '2022-11-09 03:42:19');
INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2932, 2932, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sweden has taken \"concrete action\" to address Turkey\'s concerns over its NATO membership bid, including stepping up counter-terrorism efforts against Kurdish militants, Stockholm told Ankara in a letter dated Oct. 6 and seen by Reuters.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The two-page letter gives 14 examples of steps taken by Sweden to show it \"is fully committed to the implementation\" of a memorandum it signed with Turkey and Finland in June, which resulted in NATO member Turkey lifting its veto of their applications to the trans-Atlantic security alliance.</div><div><br></div><div>Sweden and Finland launched their bids to join NATO in May in response to Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine, but ran into objections from Turkey, which accuses the two Nordic countries of harbouring what it says are militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and other groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Stockholm and Helsinki deny harbouring terrorists but have pledged to cooperate with Ankara to fully address its security concerns, and to lift arms embargoes. Yet Turkey\'s President Tayyip Erdogan said as recently as Oct. 6 that its demands had not yet been met.</div><div><br></div><div>In its letter to Turkey, Sweden said that \"concrete action has been taken on all core elements of the trilateral agreement\".</div><div><br></div><div>Sweden\'s security and counter-terrorism police, Sapo, \"has intensified its work against the PKK\", and it made \"a high-level visit\" to Turkey in September for meetings with Turkey\'s MIT intelligence agency, the letter said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sweden\'s foreign ministry and the communications arm of Erdogan\'s office each did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter.</div><div><br></div><div>Swedish officials delivered the letter, which was not previously reported, to Erdogan\'s office and the foreign ministry at the weekend, a source familiar with the situation said, requesting anonymity due to sensitivity over it. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 03:55:54', '2022-11-09 03:55:54'),
(2933, 2933, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The hosts of the COP27 climate talks on Tuesday launched a global plan to help the world’s poorest communities withstand the impacts of global warming.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Unveiling the Sharm Al Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, named after the Egyptian resort where the talks are being held, the plan sets out 30 goals to hit by the end of the decade to enhance the lives of 4 billion people.</div><div><br></div><div>The hope is that by setting targets across themes including food and agriculture, water and nature, and coastlines and oceans, the public and private sectors will work with common goals and accelerate adaptation to change.</div><div><br></div><div>Urgent targets highlighted by the COP27 Presidency include moving the world to more sustainable agriculture practices that could increase yields by 17 per cent and cut emissions by 21 per cent.</div><div><br></div><div>Other goals include protecting 3 billion people from catastrophic weather events by installing early warning systems to help them prepare; investing $4 billion into mangrove restoration, which protects against flooding; and expanding clean cooking options to 2.4 billion people to reduce indoor air pollution.</div><div><br></div><div>In total, the plan seeks to mobilise up to $300 billion a year from private and public investors. By contrast, the world’s biggest multilateral development banks spent $17 billion on adaptation finance for poorer countries in 2021, a report by the lenders published last month showed.</div><div><br></div><div>The majority of climate finance goes towards mitigation efforts, such as reducing emissions, despite U.N. pleas that half of all funding should be channelled into helping vulnerable countries adapt.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Sharm Al Sheikh Adaptation Agenda is a critical step at COP27,” COP27 President and Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said.</div><div><br></div><div>“The COP27 presidency has long articulated our commitment to bringing together state and non-state actors to progress on adaptation and resilience for the 4 billion people that live in the most climate vulnerable regions by 2030.”</div><div><br></div><div>UN climate chief Simon Stiell said: “The Sharm Al Sheikh Adaptation Agenda firmly puts key human needs at its core, along with concrete, specific action on the ground to build resilience to climate change.” For daily comprehensive coverage on COP27 in your inbox, Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 04:29:15', '2022-11-09 04:29:15'),
(2934, 2934, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday underlined the need for arranging more competitions and trainings to gain success in the international sports platforms, urging the players to play with the attitude of victory.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We have to arrange more competitions alongside proper trainings to achieve success in the international sports stages. The more sports competitions will be arranged, the more our players will attain excellence,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier was addressing a programme at the Prime Minister\'s Office (PMO) in the capital to accord reception and distribute monetary reward to Bangladesh National Women Football Team for clinching maiden SAFF Women Championship-22 title defeating Nepal by 3-1 goals.</div><div><br></div><div>Twenty three players of the Bangladesh National Women Football Team have received cheque of Tk five lakh each and 11 trainers and officers got cheque of Tk two lakh each.</div><div><br></div><div>The players later handed over the trophy to the prime minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina also talked to the players and inquired about them.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier asked the parents to give their children time for playing outside to ensure their sound mental and physical health.</div><div><br></div><div>She also asked all particularly the youths to engage themselves in sports, culture and literary works in helping them be worthy citizens of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister unveiled a book on slain Awami League leader Ahsanullah Master titled \"Ahsanullah Master Jibonalkhyo\" on his birthday today as well. The book was dedicated to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>Youth and Sports Minister Md Zahid Ahsan Russel and President of Bangladesh Football Federation Kazi Md. Salahuddin spoke at the function.</div><div><br></div><div>Secretary of Youth and Sports Ministry Md Mesbah Uddin gave the address of welcome while Bangladesh National Women Football Team skipper Sabina Khatun expressed her feelings.</div><div><br></div><div>A video-documentary on SAFF Women Championship-2022 was screened at the function. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 20:32:11', '2022-11-09 20:32:11'),
(2935, 2935, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two Bangladeshi nationals were shot dead by members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Lohakuchi border in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday morning, locals say.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Waskurni, 32, son of Sanwar Hossain and Aynal Haque, 30, son of Sadek Ali of Mahishtuli village in Aditmari upazila of the district.</div><div><br></div><div>Quoting locals, Golam Rasul, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Police Station, said the BSF members from Koimari Botfor camp opened fire on some Bangladeshi nationals, including Waskurni and Aynal, who went to the border area to bring cattle early in this morning. The duo was dead on the spot.</div><div><br></div><div>On information, police went to the spot and legal action will be taken after investigation. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 20:36:17', '2022-11-09 20:36:17'),
(2936, 2936, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Joe Biden\'s agenda hung in the balance early Wednesday as a predicted Republican wave failed to materialize in congressional elections fought against a backdrop of stubbornly high inflation and fears for US democracy.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Tuesday\'s election saw a clearer verdict in races for states\' governors with rising Republican star Ron DeSantis winning by a crushing margin in Florida, cementing his status as a top potential White House candidate in 2024.</div><div><br></div><div>Democrats suffered disappointment in Ohio as writer J.D. Vance, a Trump-endorsed chronicler of working-class white life, won a Senate seat that was already in Republican hands.</div><div><br></div><div>But in House races, one Ohio Republican conceded defeat to a Democrat and two Democratic congresswomen in Virginia seen as at risk survived challenges, although a third seat in the eastern state flipped.</div><div><br></div><div>The election is \"definitely not a Republican wave, that\'s for darn sure,\" Senator Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, told NBC News.</div><div><br></div><div>Senator Ted Cruz, who had previously forecast a \"red tsunami,\" still predicted Republicans would win both chambers but said, \"It hasn\'t been as big of a wave as I\'d hoped it would be.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The president\'s party has traditionally lost seats in midterm elections, with Republicans roaring back after the first two years of both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.</div><div><br></div><div>With Biden\'s favorability ratings hovering in the low 40s and Republicans pounding him over inflation and crime, many pundits predicted major losses -- which would raise new questions on whether America\'s oldest-ever president, who turns 80 this month, should run again.</div><div><br></div><div>All eyes are on a handful of Senate races including in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Wisconsin, with a single seat enough to swing control of the Senate -- now evenly divided and controlled by Democrats only through the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.</div><div>- Florida swings right -</div><div><br></div><div>On a night of close contests, one of the most decisive wins was for DeSantis, who has made a name in Florida by railing against Covid mitigation measures and transgender rights.</div><div><br></div><div>He was projected to have won by up to 20 points against a folksy former governor, four years after squeaking by in his longtime swing state.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob,\" DeSantis told a victory rally, using a derisive term for social justice campaigners.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Florida is where woke goes to die,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>But if the 44-year-old views his victory as a mandate for the White House in 2024, he will likely face a stiff challenge from another Florida resident -- Donald Trump.</div><div><br></div><div>The former president went to the polls teasing an announcement next week of a potential new White House run, telling reporters that November 15 \"will be a very exciting day for a lot of people.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think if he runs, he could hurt himself very badly,\" Trump separately told Fox News, of DeSantis.</div><div><br></div><div>Among other gubernatorial races, two solidly Democratic states, Massachusetts and Maryland, elected Democrats to succeed popular moderate Republican incumbents.</div><div><br></div><div>In Massachusetts, Maura Healey will make history as the first openly lesbian governor in the United States.</div><div><br></div><div>And in New York, where recent polls gave Democrats a scare, Governor Kathy Hochul fended off a Republican challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>- Trump again alleges fraud -</div><div><br></div><div>Trump, who is facing criminal probes over taking top secret documents from the White House and trying to overturn the 2020 election, has returned to his playbook of airing unsubstantiated claims of fraud.</div><div><br></div><div>In Arizona, expected to be one of the closest states, Trump and his chosen candidate for governor, Kari Lake, alleged irregularities after problems with voting machines.</div><div><br></div><div>\"When we win, and I think we will within hours -- we will turn this around, no more incompetency,\" Lake -- whose Democratic rival took an early lead -- told supporters gathered at a luxury ranch in the Phoenix suburbs.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials in surrounding Maricopa County said about 20 percent of the 223 polling stations experienced difficulties related to printers but that no one was denied the right to vote.</div><div><br></div><div>Biden has warned that Republicans pose a dire threat to democracy with more than half their candidates repeating Trump\'s debunked claims of cheating in the 2020 election.</div><div><br></div><div>In the runup to the vote, an intruder espousing far-right beliefs broke into the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer.</div><div><br></div><div>In his closing pitch, Biden vowed that Democrats would defend pensions, health care and the freedom to have an abortion, after a Supreme Court transformed by Trump rescinded the right to choose.</div><div><br></div><div>Voting in Phoenix, Kenneth Bellows, a 32-year-old law student, said runaway inflation is \"hurting Americans who are just trying to get by.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"We don\'t need any of the crazy woke rhetoric that\'s going on right now. What we really need is focusing on everyday kitchen-table politics, to make sure taxes are low,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>But at a restaurant serving up soul food in Pittsburgh, Lasaine Latimore, 77, said Democrats were best placed to help people.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I just want my medical insurance and more money for dental and glasses,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>If both the House and Senate flip, Biden\'s legislative agenda would be paralyzed as Republicans launch aggressive investigations and oppose his spending plans.</div><div><br></div><div>That would raise questions over everything from climate policies, which the president will be laying out at the COP27 conference in Egypt this week, to Ukraine, where some Republicans are reluctant to maintain the current rate of US military support. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 20:44:55', '2022-11-09 20:44:55'),
(2937, 2937, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman has said that the government is trying to complete the construction works of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project within the stipulated timeframe.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Due to the Russia-Ukraine war and subsequent dollar crisis, the work of the project has been delayed to some extent”, he said while briefing reporters after a joint meeting of his ministry with the Power Division on Wednesday at Biduyt Bhaban in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid was also present at the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting was mainly convened to discuss the progress of the construction of a power transmission line to be used to evacuate electricity from the nuclear power project.</div><div><br></div><div>The 2400 MW Ruupor NPP project, having two units, each 1200 MW generation capacity, was undertaken in 2010.</div><div><br></div><div>A target was set by the government to complete the construction of the first unit in 2022 and second unit in 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>But later the target was reset for first unit to complete by June 2024 and second unit by June 2025.</div><div><br></div><div>But officials involved in the project believe the project may miss the new timeline again.</div><div><br></div><div>The Minister did not specify how much time will take if the project is delayed again.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re trying to do the job within the nearest point of the timeline”, he said, adding, both the Science and Technology Ministry and the Power Division will work together in a coordinated manner to complete the project.</div><div><br></div><div>About the power transmission line project, Nasrul said the project was also delayed for the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>“Now efforts are being made to expedite the project implementation”, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the transmission line’s Padma River crossing is a big work of the project which may take another one and a half year time to complete.</div><div><br></div><div>“We hope we will be able to complete the transmission line before completion of power plant project,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 21:18:58', '2022-11-09 21:18:58'),
(2938, 2938, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The global fuel price hike sparked by the Russia-Ukraine war coupled with dwindling gas reserves off late prompted authorities to adopt fast track projects exploring solar energy, while experts suggest the wind power could be another major source to negate the crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We expect to get another 1,000 mw power exploring the solar power under a recently adopted fast track project,” energy ministry’s Power Cell chief Engr Mohammad Hossain told BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that the Power Development Board (PDB) started selecting appropriate locations to install solar panels under arrangements with independent power producers (IPPs).&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The power cell director general said three projects were underway to promote wind power in southern coastlines as Bangladesh moved to enhance the stake of clean energy sources in the national energy system as part of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh now generates more than 948.03 MW power from renewable sources against the production of plus minus 11,000 mw, which is over 5 percent of the total generation,” Hossain said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The average officially estimated demand for power is around 11,800 mw.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister’s energy affairs adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury recently expressed worries that the global energy crisis could hit Bangladesh badly urging all to be restrained in energy uses particularly against the backdrop of a jump of LNG prices as well as the petroleum.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“It is the utmost demand of the time to move in fastest possible time to explore solar and wind power . . . this is the only option to save our industry and meet the routine household demand in cheapest price,” former power cell director general BD Rahmatullah said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said if all policy supports and logistics were provided the country could produce 36,000 mw wind power in less than a year as international studies suggested “Bangladesh has a huge potential for wind energy, negating an existing perception”.</div><div>According to Energy Tracker Asia’s 2022 report, renewable energy’s share in Bangladesh’s power mix remains negligibly low but there is massive potential for solar and wind power in electricity generation.</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh could deploy up to 156 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar and 150 GW of wind,” the report said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The incumbent power cell chief supplemented Rahmatullah saying Bangladesh has good potential for harnessing renewable energy sources such as solar, biomass, wind, and mini-hydropower.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said various policy, initiatives and financial schemes were taken to make self reliance in energy and the government also exempted tax on solar panels and continued grants and concessional loans for renewable energy expansion in the country, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>“We want to increase share of renewable sources to 40 percent and production mix will be ensured by 2050. Therefore, the power master plan is being updated,” said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid.</div><div><br></div><div>The draft roadmap for solar power-2041 is being reviewed, he said, adding, “In context of Bangladesh, solar power is more likely than other renewable sources. But it takes more land so innovative solutions are needed for solar power, although we are moving towards rooftop solar and floating solar technology.”</div><div><br></div><div>Nasrul said that net metering system has also been introduced to popularise rooftop solar power. “There were opportunities to do more with wind power. Wind mapping was done at nine sites and research will be conducted about offshore winds soon,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 22:13:08', '2022-11-09 22:13:08'),
(2939, 2939, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Daryl Mitchell hit an unbeaten 53 against some sharp Pakistan fielding and disciplined bowling as New Zealand were held to 152-4 in the first Twenty20 World Cup semi-final in Sydney on Wednesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Black Caps struggled to get on top of the attack in the opening 10 overs, smacking just five boundaries as they crawled to 59-3.</div><div><br></div><div>Mitchell and Kane Williamson (46) then accelerated in a 68-run stand before they threw the bat in the final few overs. Shaheen Afridi was the pick of the bowlers with 2-24.</div><div><br></div><div>New Zealand, who topped Group 1, are aiming to make the final for the second consecutive time as they target a maiden T20 title.</div><div><br></div><div>Like New Zealand, Group 2 runners-up Pakistan are in the semis for a second straight year as they look to add to their 2009 World Cup triumph.</div><div><br></div><div>The winner will face either England or India -- who meet in Adelaide on Thursday -- in Sunday\'s final.</div><div><br></div><div>Teams batting first have won five from six games played at the Sydney Cricket Ground this tournament and when Williamson won the toss he had no hesitation in asking Pakistan to bowl.</div><div><br></div><div>In an eventful opening over, Finn Allen hit Afridi for four off the first delivery then was given out the next ball lbw.</div><div><br></div><div>It was overturned on review because of an inside edge only for Afridi to promptly do the same again and this time it was plumb.</div><div>Devon Conway and Williamson steadied the ship but some fine fielding restricted them in the six-over powerplay, where only two fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle.</div><div><br></div><div>It included the spectacular run out of Conway for 21 by Shadab Khan, who scored a direct hit from mid-off.</div><div><br></div><div>They suffered another big blow when danger man Glenn Phillips was caught and bowled by Mohammad Nawaz for six.</div><div><br></div><div>Mitchell and Williamson began taking more risks after they passed the 10-over mark with the first six coming in the 13th over -- Williamson\'s first boundary in 30 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>The New Zealand captain was finally undone by an Afridi yorker after a 42-ball knock that yielded only two boundaries before Mitchell and Jimmy Neesham, who scored 16, added 29 runs in the final three overs. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 22:28:12', '2022-11-09 22:28:12'),
(2940, 2940, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The visiting IMF delegation and the Bangladesh authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to support Bangladesh\'s economic policies with a 42-month arrangement of about US$ 3.2 billion under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) as well as of about US$1.3 billion under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A staff-level agreement means that the IMF team and the negotiating team of a sovereign country, in this case Bangladesh, are able to reach a deal on a country’s overall economic programme incorporating the loan, its disbursement schedule, and the planned reforms and policies. This will then be presented to the IMF Executive Board.</div><div><br></div><div>The objectives of Bangladesh’s new Fund-supported program are to preserve macroeconomic stability and support strong, inclusive, and green growth, while protecting the vulnerable, said an IMF press release.</div><div><br></div><div>The RSF is expected to provide affordable, long-term financing to support Bangladesh’s climate investment needs, catalyze climate financing, and reduce balance of payment pressures from import-intensive climate investment.</div><div><br></div><div>At the request of the Government of Bangladesh, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Rahul Anand visited Dhaka from October 26 to November 9 to discuss the IMF’s support for Bangladesh and the authorities’ comprehensive economic reform agenda.</div><div><br></div><div>At the end of the mission, Rahul Anand issued the following statement:</div><div><br></div><div>“The Bangladesh authorities and the IMF team have reached a staff-level agreement to support the authorities’ reform policies under a new 42-month ECF/EFF arrangement of about US$ 3.2 billion (SDR 2.5 billion, equivalent of 231.4 percent of quota), and a concurrent RSF arrangement of about US$1.3 billion (SDR 1 billion, equivalent of 93.8 percent of quota).</div><div><br></div><div>“The new ECF/EFF arrangement is aimed at restoring macroeconomic stability and preventing disruptive adjustments to protect the vulnerable, while promoting structural change to support strong inclusive and green growth. Reflecting Bangladesh’s large climate financing needs, the concurrent RSF, which supplements the resources made available under the ECF/EFF, will expand the fiscal space to finance climate priorities identified in the authorities’ plans, including by catalyzing other financing, and reducing external pressures from import-intensive climate investment. The staff-level agreement is subject to IMF management approval and Executive Board endorsement, which is expected in the coming weeks,” reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh’s robust economic recovery from the pandemic has been interrupted by Russia’s war in Ukraine, leading to a sharp widening of the current account deficit, rapid decline of foreign exchange reserves, rising inflation and slowing growth.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 23:32:40', '2022-11-09 23:32:40'),
(2941, 2941, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson is scheduled to arrive here on Thursday morning on a two-day official visit to discuss the issues of mutual interest with special focus on security matters.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Johansson, also a former Minister for Employment and Integration of Sweden, will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the visit, a senior official told UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>She will also meet Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and Expatriates\' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad.</div><div><br></div><div>The European Commissioner will also visit a project at Savar apart from her other engagements.</div><div><br></div><div>Developing a new EU internal security strategy, stepping up cooperation on law enforcement, developing a new pact on migration and asylum, strengthening external borders, reforming asylum, readmission and return rules, promoting integration and ensuring real legal pathways to the EU, by resettling those in need of international protection and offering job opportunities to skilled workers and stepping up the fight against human traffickers and smugglers, breaking their business models are among the list of her responsibilities as a Commissioner.</div><div><br></div><div>The European Commissioner will leave Dhaka on Friday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 23:37:41', '2022-11-09 23:37:41'),
(2942, 2942, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After almost a month of high intensity action, we are now at the business end of the T20 World Cup as Pakistan lock horns against New Zealand in the first semifinal at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday. Pakistan, who got to the semis after a nail-biting final day of the Super 12 stage, will have Netherlands to thank.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Dutch defeated favourites South Africa and then Pakistan defeated Bangladesh to scrape through to the next stage. The Men in Green will, however, start afresh in the knockout stage and with their gritty, never say die attitude, will be the team to beat.</div><div><br></div><div>New Zealand started their T20 campaign with a dominating victory over Australia and have just lost once in this tournament. Considered heavy&nbsp; favourites heading into the semi, the Kiwis will hope to end the jinx that Pakistan have over them.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Black Caps have never beaten Pakistan in a world-cup semi-final. In three past encounters, in 1992, 1999, and 2007, Pakistan would triumph. On Wednesday, New Zealand will hope to put all those doubts to bed.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 23:42:54', '2022-11-09 23:42:54'),
(2943, 2943, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami Jubo League will arrange a youth grand rally at historic Suhrawardy Udyan on November 11 on its golden jubilee as Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be present as the chief guest.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The youth gathering will start at 2.30 pm on the day, Jubo League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash today said at a press conference at AL central office in the city’s Bangabandhu Avenue.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the biggest youth organization of the South Asia Bangladesh Awami Jubo League played key role in any crisis in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The anti-state evil force BNP-Jamaat is trying to create unstable situation in the country, he said, adding that after Nov 11, Jubo League leaders and activists will resist the BNP-Jamaat and their followers on the street if they try to make anarchy.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the countrymen didn\'t forget the strike of 92 days imposed by BNP-Jamaat.</div><div><br></div><div>During the strike, the BNP-Jamaat clique killed innocent people through arson attacks while a total of 560 educational institutions were burnt into ashes, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Jubo League chairman hoped that the Suhrawardy Udyan will be turned into a sea of people during the youth grand rally.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 10 sub-committees were formed to successfully hold the youth gathering, Parash informed.</div><div><br></div><div>Five gates will be there to enter the Suhrawardy Udyan.</div><div>Jubo League General Secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil was present at the press briefing.</div><div><br></div><div>Jubo League Presidium Members Advocate Mamunur Rashid, Manjur Alam Shaheen, Abu Ahmed Nasim Pavel, Sheikh Sohel Uddin, Dr Khaled Shawkat Ali, Sheikh Fazle Fahim, Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury Nixon, Tajuddin Ahmed, Jewel Areng, Anwar Hossain and Shahadat Hossain, Joint General Secretaries Biswas Matiur Rahman Badsha, Subrata Paul, Md Badiul Alam, Barrister Sheikh Fazle Nayeem and Md Rafiqul Alam Joarder, Organizing Secretaries Kazi Md Majharul Islam, Dr Helal Uddin, Md Saifur Rahman Sohag, Md Jahir Uddin Khashru, Md Sohel Parvez, Abu Munir Md Shahidul Haque Russell, Mashiur Rahman Chapal, Advocate Md Shamim Al Saiful Sohag and Prof Dr Md Rezaul Kabir, among others, were also present. BSS</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>bnbd24/fas</u></b></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-09 23:56:50', '2022-11-09 23:56:50'),
(2944, 2944, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With five more deaths reported in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, this year’s fatalities from Dengue climbed to 187.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease reached 182 on Tuesday, exceeding all previous records in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>During the 24-hr period, 796 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>Of the latest deaths, three were reported from Dhaka and one each from Chattogram and Khulna divisions.</div><div><br></div><div>The new figures raised the death toll in Dhaka division to 117, in Chattogram division to 45 and in Khulna to&nbsp; 10.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, 459 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 337 outside it, according to the DGHS.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 3,144 dengue patients, including 1,915 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The directorate has recorded 45,598 dengue cases and 42,267 recoveries so far this year.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier the country recorded the highest 179 deaths from Dengue in a year in 2019. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 00:14:29', '2022-11-10 00:14:29'),
(2945, 2945, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Joe Biden\'s Democrats seem to have escaped a feared drubbing in Tuesday\'s midterm elections, but it remains to be seen whether that will revive the US president\'s flagging fortunes until 2024 -- or beyond.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 79-year-old, who framed the race as a clash between defenders of democracy and the \"extremist\" camp of Donald Trump, spent election night in back-to-back calls with Democrats savoring their wins in Senate, House and gubernatorial races around the country.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Just got off the phone with some of tonight\'s winners -- including some folks I saw on the road this year,\" Biden tweeted as the results came in -- alongside a picture of himself in a turtle neck and baseball cap, seeming happy to take at least some of the credit.</div><div><br></div><div>White House staff, according to the former press secretary Jen Psaki, were \"giddy and gleeful\" as results came in.</div><div><br></div><div>The outcome taking shape was far from ideal for Democrats, who stand to lose the House of Representatives in what Biden has admitted will make his life much more \"difficult\" -- likely hobbling parts of his agenda.</div><div><br></div><div>But if overnight predictions hold and the Democrats lose the House by a handful of seats, with the Senate still in play, Biden\'s camp will have vastly outperformed expectations.</div><div><br></div><div>- Choppy waters -</div><div><br></div><div>The president\'s party has traditionally lost seats in midterm elections and with Biden\'s approval ratings stuck in the low 40s, and sky-high inflation topping voter concerns, Republicans had high hopes of seizing both chambers of Congress in a \"red wave.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Such a drubbing would have raised tough questions on whether America\'s oldest-ever president, who turns 80 this month, should run again.</div><div><br></div><div>Instead Biden stands to emerge in much better shape than either of his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, who both took a hammering at the midterms.</div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, Biden will be headed into choppy waters if the House flips.</div><div><br></div><div>In a country whose divisions run deeper than ever, even a longtime senator and moderate Democrat like Biden will likely struggle to find common ground with a Republican-led chamber.</div><div><br></div><div>Large parts of his legislative agenda could utterly stall as a result.</div><div><br></div><div>Another open question is whether a new Republican leadership would keep its promise to aggressively hold the president to account -- which even a slim House majority gives it the power to do.</div><div><br></div><div>That could easily translate into endless congressional investigations targeting Biden, his record and his family.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the loudest voices, far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, has already promised stepped-up scrutiny of Biden\'s son Hunter, who Republicans accuse of exploiting his father\'s connections to do business with Ukraine and China.</div><div><br></div><div>- Eyes on 2024 -</div><div><br></div><div>With control of the House, Republicans would also be able to apply considerable budgetary pressure on the president -- with the potential to cut funding to the federal government.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the Senate -- which confers greater powers -- its fate still hangs in the balance.</div><div><br></div><div>But beyond, the big question facing Biden -- and his Democrats -- is who will carry the party\'s colors into the 2024 White House race.</div><div><br></div><div>Until now the US president has consistently said he intends to seek a second term, and any suggestion to the contrary would have immediately undermined his authority.</div><div><br></div><div>But there is little appetite among the US public -- or within his own party -- for a second White House run by an octogenarian commander in chief.</div><div><br></div><div>Biden leaves Friday on a diplomatic marathon taking him from the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, to Cambodia for an ASEAN summit, and on to Indonesia for the G20 gathering.</div><div><br></div><div>The veteran Democrat may keep America guessing some time yet about his intentions for 2024.</div><div><br></div><div>But with the president far from US shores, his rival Trump will be pressing ahead -- promising a big reveal, widely expected to be a new White House run, next Tuesday in Florida. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 00:19:16', '2022-11-10 00:19:16'),
(2946, 2946, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Nepal on Wednesday morning, the country\'s seismological centre said, with media reporting six people had been killed.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Reuters partner ANI reported that the six people were found dead after a house collapsed from the quake in Doti district of Nepal.</div><div><br></div><div>The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) had earlier pegged the earthquake at a magnitude of 5.6.</div><div><br></div><div>The quake was centred about 158 km (98 miles) northeast of Pilibhit, a city in the neighbouring Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and occurred at a depth of 10 km, EMSC added.</div><div><br></div><div>Media reports after the quake showed that tremors were also felt in India\'s capital, New Delhi, and surrounding areas.</div><div><br></div><div>India\'s National Center for Seismology marked the quake at a magnitude of 6.3. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 00:24:15', '2022-11-10 00:24:15'),
(2947, 2947, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka, Nov 9: The process of amending the Bangladesh Labour Law will be completed by mid-2023 and the amended law will be also applied to all industrial zones in the country, Law Minister Anisul Huq has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>There are some confusions as to which of the two – the Bangladesh Labour Act and the Bangladesh EPZ Labour Act – will apply to the newly established industrial zones. But the amended Bangladesh Labour Act will be applied to Bangladesh industrial zones, the minister declared.</div><div><br></div><div>The law minister was speaking at the 346th session of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Switzerland’s Geneva.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh continues its efforts to resolve the complaints raised under Article 26 of the ILO Constitution, said Anisul.</div><div><br></div><div>After submitting the report to the meeting of the Governing Body of the ILO last March, the Bangladesh government has made significant progress in the implementation of the roadmap in about seven months, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>“The government has tried to secure progress in the four clusters of the roadmap to improve the overall labour situation in the country.”</div><div><br></div><div>The minister also said the government has already amended the Bangladesh Labour Code and enacted the Bangladesh EPZ Labour Code. In this process, the observations of the ILO Committee of experts have been considered.</div><div><br></div><div>Assuring ILO, he said the process of revising the Labour Law has been started as the next phase of legal reformation. “So far, 17 stakeholders have received proposals for amendments. The Tripartite Working Group is seriously working on compiling these amendment proposals.”</div><div><br></div><div>The review committee will further discuss the recommendations or proposals compiled and seek the approval of the National Tripartite Consultative Council, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding trade union registration, the law minister said this process has been fully digitised to ensure greater accountability and transparency.</div><div><br></div><div>The Department of Labour with the help of its four industry related institutes and 32 labour welfare centers is providing training to workers and employers on the trade union registration process, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In this regard, regular training is being given to the concerned officers. A pre-application service has been introduced by the Department of Labour to assist, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Trade union registration process will be simplified further, if necessary.”</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the significant measures taken by the Bangladesh government to strengthen labour inspection and enforcement in line with the roadmap, the minister said, \"We are committed to continue engagement with domestic and foreign social partners and other stakeholders for bringing qualitative changes in the labour sector.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He also mentioned handing over of the document of ratification of ILO Convention 138 to its Director General the 344th session of the Governing Body.</div><div><br></div><div>“In January this year, the Bangladesh government also ratified Protocol 29 of the ILO Convention on Forced Labour, 1930. Clearly, these are a demonstration of our strong commitment to ILO labour standards.”</div><div><br></div><div>The law minister is leading the Bangladesh delegation in the ILO session that started from October 31. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 00:54:48', '2022-11-10 00:54:48');
INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2948, 2948, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">For weeks, Republicans predicted a “red wave” would carry them to power in Congress, as voters repudiated majority Democrats for failing to tame skyrocketing inflation and address worries about rising crime.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The reality appeared far different early Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Rather than a wholesale rejection of President Joe Biden and his party, the results were far more mixed as returns from Tuesday’s midterms trickled in.</div><div><br></div><div>Many Democratic incumbents proved surprisingly resilient, outperforming their party’s own expectations. Meanwhile, Democrat John Fetterman won an open Senate seat currently held by the GOP, while other key races that will determine control of the chamber remain too early to call.</div><div><br></div><div>“When you wake up tomorrow, we will be in the majority and Nancy Pelosi will be in the minority,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy predicted early Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>He may be right. But it appeared that likely Republican gains would come on far less favorable terms than anticipated.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are some takeaways from this year’s election:</div><div><br></div><div>Republicans hoped for a wipeout. They didn’t get it. After Democrats racked up several hard-fought wins in swing districts, like Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s Virginia seat, the sweeping wins many Republicans predicted had yet to materialize early Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the fate of Democrats narrow hold on the Senate was unclear.</div><div><br></div><div>Fetterman defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz for a crucial Pennsylvania Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and former NFL star Herschel Walker, a Republican, were locked in a close contest in Georgia. The Wisconsin race between Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Democrat Mandela Barnes was too close to call.</div><div><br></div><div>And the outcome of the two remaining two seats that will determine which party will hold a Senate majority — Arizona and Nevada — may not be known for days because both states conduct elections in part by mail ballots, which take a long time to count.</div><div><br></div><div>HISTORY LESSON</div><div><br></div><div>It’s called history for a reason. The party that celebrates winning the White House is usually mourning a loss in the midterms two years later.</div><div><br></div><div>Add to that historical pattern an economy battered by inflation and teetering on recession, throw in fears about crime, and the outcome is close to certain.</div><div><br></div><div>For Biden and House Democrats, the likelihood of keeping power in the lower chamber of Congress was always slight. Republicans have expected to gain enough seats to retake the majority. If successful, which was not immediately clear Wednesday morning, they also have plans to neuter Biden’s agenda for the next two years.</div><div><br></div><div>Since 1906, there have been only three midterms in which the party of the president in power gained House seats: 1934, when the country was struggling with a Depression, 1998 when the U.S. was buoyed by a soaring economy, and 2002, when President George W. Bush had a sky-high approval rating amid the national feeling of unity after the Sept. 11 attacks.</div><div><br></div><div>IS FLORIDA STILL A SWING STATE?</div><div><br></div><div>Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio, both Republicans, offer the latest evidence that Florida is becoming increasingly red. The two soared to early reelection victories Tuesday, both winning Miami-Dade County, which Democrat Hillary Clinton carried by 29 percentage points in 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>Florida has been a classic battleground. It twice helped propel Barack Obama to the White House. But the state, where the number of registered Democrats exceeded Republicans in 2020, has shifted increasingly to the right. That’s thanks to GOP inroads with Hispanic voters, as well as an influx of new residents, including many retirees, drawn to its lack of an income tax as well as its sunny weather.</div><div><br></div><div>“Democrats really have to think about how they are going to rebuild there. The Obama coalition no longer exists,” said Carlos Curbelo, a Republican former member of Congress, who called Florida ”off the map for the foreseeable future” to Democrats.</div><div><br></div><div>DeSantis won the governor’s office in 2018 by only about 30,000 votes. On Tuesday, he flipped at least six counties that he lost that year. Those same counties were carried by Biden just two years ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Some Democrats blame some of Tuesday’s blowout losses to a lack of investment by their party.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is what happens when national Democrats decide to not spend money in the state,” said Greg Goddard, a Democratic fundraising consultant from Florida who raised money for Rep. Val Demings’ losing challenge of Rubio. “The pathway to Democrats winning future presidential elections is very thin if you do not plan to spend in Florida</div><div><br></div><div>WAS IT A ‘RED WAVE’ OR A RIPPLE?</div><div><br></div><div>Whether a red ripple will carry Republicans won’t likely be known for days or weeks as states that conduct their elections largely by mail, such a California, continue counting votes.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing is certain: It’s unlikely to match 2010′s tea party wave, which netted 63 seats, or the Newt Gingrich-led House takeover of 1994, which ousted 54 Democrats and flipped the chamber to GOP control for the first time since the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower.</div><div><br></div><div>One reason that won’t happen? There just aren’t that many competitive seats.</div><div><br></div><div>The end result? Far less interest in compromise and more gridlock in the halls of Congress.</div><div><br></div><div>Gingrich’s “Contract with America” was celebrated as a cornerstone of the Republicans’ 1994 House takeover for offering a concrete list of policies the GOP would pursue if put in power.</div><div><br></div><div>Now Republicans are far more circumspect about their aims.</div><div><br></div><div>“That’s a very good question. And I’ll let you know when we take it back,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell he told reporters in January.</div><div><br></div><div>McCarthy has offered up a “Commitment to America,” a list of priorities that fits on a pocket-sized card he carries with him that is heavy on slogans and light on detail.</div><div><br></div><div>Both may be attempting to avoid the plight of Gingrich whose “Contract with America” became a liability when Republicans failed to enact it.</div><div><br></div><div>House Republicans have said they intend to investigate Biden and his administration. They have also called for a renewed focus on fiscal restraint, a crackdown on illegal immigration at the southern border and increased domestic energy production.</div><div><br></div><div>Much of it may not matter. Biden, after all, has a veto pen</div><div><br></div><div>MOST EXPENSIVE MIDTERMS</div><div><br></div><div>The 2022 elections are on track to cost $16.7 billion at the state and federal level, making them the most expensive midterms ever, according to the nonpartisan OpenSecrets.</div><div><br></div><div>For perspective: The contests will nearly double the cost of the 2010 midterm elections, more than double the 2014 midterms and are on pace to roughly equal the 2022 gross domestic product of Mongolia.</div><div><br></div><div>At least $1.1 billion given at the federal level so far this election season has come from a small coterie of donors, many of whom have favored conservative causes.</div><div><br></div><div>“When you look at the top 25 individual donors, conservativedonors heavily outweigh liberal donors by $200 million,” said Brendan Glavin, a senior data analyst for OpenSecrets. “There’s a big skew.”</div><div><br></div><div>Tech billionaire Peter Thiel ($32.6 million), shipping goods magnate Richard Uihlein ($80.7 million), hedge fund manager Ken Griffin (68.5 million) and Timothy Mellon, an heir to to a Gilded Age Fortune who gave $40 million, are among the top conservative donors.</div><div><br></div><div>On the liberal side, hedge fund founder George Soros gave the most ($128 million), though much of it has yet to be spent. Sam Bankman Fried, a liberal 30-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire, gave $39.8 million. - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 01:37:34', '2022-11-10 01:37:34'),
(2949, 2949, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Shaheed Noor Hossain Day, a red-letter day to restore democracy in the country, will be observed tomorrow with due solemnity.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On this day in 1987, Awami Jubo League leader Nur Hossain, who imprinted his bare chest and back with the slogans \"Free democracy\" and \"Down with autocracy\", embraced martyrdom in police firing during an anti-autocracy demonstration at Zero Point in the city, now known as Shaheed Noor Hossain Square.</div><div><br></div><div>Awami Jubo League leader Nurul Huda Babul and farmers\' leader Aminul Huda Tito of Bajitpur in Kishoreganj district were also killed in police firing during the mass movement for restoration of democracy against autocratic rule.</div><div><br></div><div>The martyrdom of Noor Hossain and others during the mass upsurge of late 1990s expedited the anti-autocracy movement.</div><div><br></div><div>In the face of the movement, the then autocratic ruler had to step down on December 6 in 1990.</div><div><br></div><div>Since then, the day is being observed every year as the Shaheed Noor Hossain Day.</div><div><br></div><div>Different socio-cultural and professional organisations as well as ruling Awami League have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the day in a befitting manner.</div><div><br></div><div>Awami League\'s programmes to mark the day include placing of wreaths at Shaheed Nur Hossain Square at 7.30 am in city\'s Gulistan area and offering of special prayers seeking eternal peace of the departed soul of the slain Awami Jubo League leader.</div><div><br></div><div>President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on the eve of the day.</div><div><br></div><div>The \'November 10\' is an important day in the history of restoring democracy in Bangladesh,\" the President said in his message.</div><div><br></div><div>On this day in 1987, Noor Hossain sacrificed his life while waging movement in the city streets against autocratic rule, he said, adding, \"Today, I recall all the martyrs with respect, including Nur Hossain, who embraced martyrdom for the country\'s democracy\".</div><div><br></div><div>Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, recalled all martyrs, who embraced martyrdom for the country\'s democracy in 1987, with due respect on the Shaheed Noor Hossain Day.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of all martyrs, including Nur Hossain, and convoyed deep sympathy to the bereaved families.</div><div><br></div><div>In a separate statement today, Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader urged the people of all levels, including party units, associate bodies and like-minded organizations across the country, to observe the \"Shaheed Noor Hossain Day\" in a befitting manner following proper health rules. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 01:49:04', '2022-11-10 01:49:04'),
(2950, 2950, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A protester was arrested Wednesday after hurling eggs and vitriol at King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, as they walked in the northern England city of York.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The incident happened as the king and his wife were entering York through Micklegate Bar, a medieval gateway where monarchs are traditionally welcomed to the city.</div><div><br></div><div>Video footage showed several eggs in motion and smashed on the ground. None appeared to hit the royal couple, who continued to greet crowds.</div><div><br></div><div>Several police officers could be seen grappling with a man at a crowd barrier. Britain\'s PA news agency reported that he booed and shouted “This country was built on the blood of slaves” as he was being detained.</div><div><br></div><div>Other members of the crowd tried to drown him out by chanting “Shame on you” and “God save the King.”</div><div><br></div><div>Charles and Camilla traveled to York as part of a series of engagements around the U.K. marking the start of the new king\'s reign. They also visited the city’s cathedral, York Minster, and unveiled a statue of the king\'s mother. Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September after 70 years on the throne. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 02:24:47', '2022-11-10 02:24:47'),
(2951, 2951, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government today banned foreign travel of all officers and employees of state-owned organisations at their institutions\' expenses.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>All orders on the officers\' and employees\' foreign travel with the funding of the government have been cancelled until further order, said a notification of the Finance Division.</div><div><br></div><div>The government institutions to be covered under this new order include all the ministries, divisions and their subordinate entities, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies, public sector corporations and state-owned companies.</div><div><br></div><div>However, foreign travels can be made in limited scale subject to approval from the authorities concerned.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the ban on their foreign trips was imposed in the context of post Covid economic recovery and ongoing global crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier in May, the finance ministry issued an order to bar all officers in government, semi-government, and autonomous organisations alongside government banks and financial institutions from travelling abroad.&nbsp; - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 03:23:53', '2022-11-10 03:23:53'),
(2952, 2952, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Indian government on Wednesday said it has allowed international trade settlements in the local currency for export promotion schemes under foreign trade policy, further easing such cross-border transactions in rupees.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The government of India has made suitable amendments in the Foreign Trade Policy and Handbook of Procedures to allow for international trade settlement in Indian rupees,\" the government said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier this year, New Delhi had allowed international trade invoicing, payment and settlement in the Indian rupee, activating the mechanism announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to facilitate trade in the domestic currency.</div><div><br></div><div>The central bank allowed authorised banks in India to open special rupee Vostro accounts of correspondent banks of any partner trading country to facilitate trade in the Indian currency.</div><div><br></div><div>The move was aimed to boost global trade with focus on shipments from India and to support the interests of the global trading community in Indian currency.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Given the rise in interest in internationalisation of Indian Rupee, the given Policy amendments have been undertaken to facilitate and to bring ease in international trade transactions in Indian Rupees,\" the government said. Source: The Economic Times&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 04:45:36', '2022-11-10 04:45:36'),
(2953, 2953, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nov 10: U.S. futures are modestly higher Thursday ahead of a U.S. inflation update that will likely influence Federal Reserve plans for more interest rate hikes as it tries to squelch four-decade high inflation, reports AP/UNB.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Futures for the benchmark S&amp;P 500 rose 0.2% and futures for the Dow Jones industrials inched up 0.1%.</div><div><br></div><div>Forecasters expect U.S. government data Thursday to show inflation eased in September but stayed near a 40-year high. That might reinforce arguments that rates have to stay elevated for an extended period to slow economic activity and extinguish inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>“An upside surprise today would present a challenge for officials who expect to slow the pace of rate hikes,” Rubeela Farooqi of High-Frequency Economics said in a report.</div><div><br></div><div>Economists forecast Thursday’s data to show inflation decelerated to 7.9% in September from the previous month’s 8.3%. However, prices were expected to rise 0.6% compared with August, accelerating from July’s 0.1% increase.</div><div><br></div><div>Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices to show a clearer trend, is expected to accelerate to 6.5% from August’s 6.3%. That suggests costs of rent, medical services, autos and other goods and services still are rising in response to strong demand.</div><div><br></div><div>Traders expect the Fed to raise rates again next month but by a smaller margin of one-half percentage point after a series of 0.75 percentage-point increases. The Fed’s key lending rate is a range of 3.75% to 4%, up from close to zero in March. A growing number of investors expect it to exceed 5% next year.</div><div><br></div><div>Wall Street\'s benchmark S&amp;P 500 index tumbled 2.1% on Wednesday as votes were counted to decide whether Republicans take control of Congress, possibly leading to changes that can unsettle markets. Investors were rattled by the crypto industry\'s latest crisis of confidence and weaker profit reports from The Walt Disney Co. and other companies.</div><div><br></div><div>In European trading at midday, the FTSE 100 in London was 0.1% lower, the DAX in Frankfurt was unchanged and the CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.5%.</div><div><br></div><div>In Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 1.7% to 16,081.04 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo sank 1% to 27,446.10. The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.4% to 3,036.13.</div><div><br></div><div>The Kospi in Seoul declined 0.9% to 2,407.70 and Sydney’s S&amp;P-ASX 200 was off 0.5% at 6,964.00.</div><div><br></div><div>India’s Sensex shed 1% to 60,447.97. New Zealand, Bangkok and Jakarta declined while Singapore and Malaysia gained.</div><div><br></div><div>Investors worry rate hikes this year by the Fed and central banks in Europe and Asia to cool inflation might tip the global economy into recession. Traders hope indicators that show U.S. housing sales and other activity weakening might prompt the Fed to back off plans for more rate hikes.</div><div><br></div><div>In the United States, Republicans were within nine seats of the 218 needed to control the House of Representatives as votes still were being counted in some states. Control of the Senate depended on races in Nevada and Arizona that hadn’t been decided.</div><div><br></div><div>The outcome will determine how the next two years of President Joe Biden’s term play out. Republicans are likely to launch a spate of investigations into Biden, his family and his administration if they take power. A GOP takeover of the Senate would hobble the president’s ability to appoint judges.</div><div><br></div><div>Still, the election “impact on markets is pretty irrelevant beyond the very near term,” said David Chao of Invesco in a report. “Investors should be worried about inflation, since that will help to dictate the Fed’s future path.”</div><div><br></div><div>Cryptocurrencies inched back up Thursday following a major sell-off when the trading platform Binance backed away from buying troubled rival FTX citing reported investigations and other troubling details.</div><div><br></div><div>Bitcoin climbed to $16,334 after tumbling to $15,900 on Wednesday. The original cryptocurrency is down about 76% from last year’s high of $69,000.</div><div><br></div><div>The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps dictate rates for mortgages and other loans, fell to 4.09% from 4.13%. The two-year yield, which tends to more closely track expectations for Fed action, dropped to 4.60% from 4.66%.</div><div><br></div><div>In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude shed 61 cents to $85.22 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, lost 53 cents to $92.12 per barrel in London.</div><div><br></div><div>The dollar retreated to 146.35 yen from Wednesday’s 146.65 yen. The euro declined to 99.47 cents from $1.0073.</div><div><br></div><div>The Dow fell 2% and the Nasdaq composite, dominated by tech companies, tumbled 2.5% on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 14:41:09', '2022-11-10 14:41:09'),
(2954, 2954, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Russian Defence Ministry has announced that Russian forces are being moved out of the Kherson Region to the other side of the Dnipro river.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In his daily briefing to journalists, defence ministry spokesperson Lt-General Igor Konashenkov mentioned briefly that the withdrawal was taking place - but did not use the word \'withdrawal\', opting instead for \"manoeuvre\".</div><div><br></div><div>“Russian units are carrying out a manoeuvre to pre-prepared positions on the left bank of the Dnipro river in strict accordance with the approved plan,” in the Mykolaiv-Krivyi Rih direction, he said, referring to the area around Kherson.</div><div>No further details were given and no pictures of troops ‘manoeuvring’ accompanied the announcement. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 14:59:40', '2022-11-10 14:59:40'),
(2955, 2955, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Alex Hales hit 86 not out off 47 balls and Jos Buttler scored unbeaten 80 off 49 balls as England chased down a 169-run target vs India in 16 overs at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Hardik Pandya\'s 33-ball 63 and Virat Kohli\'s 50 steered India to 168 for 6. Chris Jordan picked three wickets for England but conceded 43 runs in his four overs.</div><div><br></div><div>England skipper Jos Buttler had won the toss and opted to bowl first in the game.</div><div><br></div><div>India (Playing XI): KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh</div><div><br></div><div>England (Playing XI): Jos Buttler(w/c), Alex Hales, Philip Salt, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 15:35:24', '2022-11-10 15:35:24'),
(2956, 2956, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Colombian music superstar Shakira and Spanish footballer Gerard Pique have reached an agreement over the custody of their two children following their breakup, their representatives said Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 45-year-old \"Hips don\'t Lie\" songstress plans to move to Miami with the couple\'s two sons and Pique will have them for 10 days each month plus during school holidays, the player\'s lawyer, Ramon Tamborero, said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is not that one has won and another has lost, if anyone won it has been the children,\" he told AFP after the conclusion of the custody negotiations which lasted months.</div><div><br></div><div>In a surprise move Pique, 35, last week announced he was retiring from football.</div><div><br></div><div>The Barcelona defender broke down in tears on Saturday during a farewell speech on Saturday at his final game at the club\'s Camp Nou stadium.</div><div><br></div><div>He also kicked a ball around on the pitch with his sons - Milan, nine, and Sascha, seven.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have signed an agreement that guarantees the well-being of our children and that it will be ratified in court,\" Shakira\'s representative said in a message jointly signed by the singer and Pique.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our sole objective is to provide them with the greatest security and protection, and we trust that their privacy will be respected,\" the statement added without providing further details.</div><div><br></div><div>Shakira and Pique announced their romantic relationship in 2011 but never married.</div><div><br></div><div>They met during the filming of the video for her infectious \"Waka Waka\", the official song of the 2010 World Cup, in which Pique made an appearance.</div><div><br></div><div>The couple, who had been living together for years on the outskirts of Barcelona, announced in June that they were separating.</div><div><br></div><div>Shakira, one of the biggest names in the global music industry, is facing trial in Spain for allegedly defrauding the tax office of 14.5 million euros ($14.5 million) on income earned between 2012 and 2014, reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She told Elle magazine in September that the combination of her looming tax fraud trial, separation from Pique and her father\'s illness meant this was \"the most difficult, darkest hours of my life\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 15:39:50', '2022-11-10 15:39:50'),
(2957, 2957, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">United States coach Gregg Berhalter warned his players to beware Wales captain Gareth Bale on Wednesday as he revealed his 26-man squad for the World Cup.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The US face Wales on November 21 in their opening Group B game in Doha, with former Real Madrid star Bale looming large in Berhalter\'s thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>Bale provided a timely reminder of his enduring goal-scoring threat last Saturday, nodding in an opportunistic headed equalizer deep into stoppage time to help set up Los Angeles FC\'s MLS Cup victory.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking after revealing his World Cup squad at a ceremony in New York on Wednesday, Berhalter said Bale\'s knack of rising to the big occasion was cause for concern.</div><div><br></div><div>\"One of the things that\'s scary about Gareth Bale is that he can do things like that,\" Berhalter said of Bale\'s game-saving MLS Cup goal, noting that the Welshman had outjumped Philadelphia\'s 6ft 6in defender Jack Elliott to score.</div><div><br></div><div>\"He dunked on him. He has that explosiveness, that free-kick and he can serve a ball,\" Berhalter said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You have to be aware of him at any moment and if he doesn\'t start the game, he comes on and he\'ll worry you even more.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Because you don\'t have the chance to tire him out - he comes in fresh. He\'s a dangerous player.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Several selections in Berhalter\'s World Cup squad have been influenced by the fact that the USA face both Wales and England in Group B along with Iran.</div><div><br></div><div>Berhalter said England-based players such as Norwich\'s Josh Sargent and Fulham\'s Tim Ream were chosen due to their familiarity with the physicality of British football.</div><div><br></div><div>Sargent, who has scored eight goals in 18 games for Norwich in the English Championship this season, was included among a contingent of forwards which had no place for the 19-year-old striker Ricardo Pepi.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Difficult conversation\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Pepi, who plays in Holland for FC Groningen, impressed during qualifiers with three goals in wins over Honduras and Jamaica, and Berhalter admitted leaving out the teenager had been a hard call.</div><div><br></div><div>\"In the case of Ricardo that was a really difficult conversation that I had to have with him,\" Berhalter said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s always difficult when a guy helps you get to the World Cup, he scores three goals in World Cup qualifying, and isn\'t going to be part of the program.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In the end however, the 22-year-old Sargent\'s experience of English football tipped the balance in his favor.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Josh is competing in the Championship, he played in the Premier League last year,\" Berhalter said. \"We\'re playing Wales and England and both teams are stocked with players from those leagues.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We were judging Ricardo against Josh, and we felt it was valuable that Josh was playing in the competition where two of our three group opponents are coming from. We felt that brings value, the physicality.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The Dutch league is a great league but it doesn\'t have the same physicality as the Championship.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The biggest shock in Berhalter\'s squad concerned the omission of goalkeeper Zack Steffen.</div><div><br></div><div>The 27-year-old has long been regarded as Berhalter\'s first choice goalkeeper, but was left out in favor of Arsenal reserve goalkeeper Matt Turner, Luton Town\'s Ethan Horvath and New York City\'s Sean Johnson.</div><div><br></div><div>Berhalter would not be drawn on why Steffen had been deemed surplus to requirements, instead focusing on the strengths of Horvath, Turner and Johnson.</div><div><br></div><div>\"With the three goalkeepers we have on the roster we feel great,\" Berhalter said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We saw a lot of progress with Matt Turner in this last six months, we know Ethan Horvath has been competing at a good level with Luton in the Championship, and Sean Johnson has been a mainstay with this group since day one. So we\'re comfortable with that.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Berhalter said Turner was likely to be the USA\'s starting goalkeeper in Qatar.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'re going to determine that when we get into camp, but I would say the lean is towards Matt being the number one,\" the US coach said.</div><div><br></div><div>Full squad:</div><div><br></div><div>Goalkeepers: Ethan Horvath (Luton Town/ENG), Matt Turner (Arsenal/ENG), Sean Johnson (New York City FC)</div><div><br></div><div>Defenders: Tim Ream (Fulham/ENG), Sergino Dest (AC Milan/ITA), Antonee Robinson (Fulham/ENG), Cameron Carter-Vickers (Celtic/SCO), Walker Zimmerman (Nashville), DeAndre Yedlin (Inter Miami), Shaq Moore (Nashville SC), Joe Scally (Borussia Monchengladbach/GER), Aaron Long (New York Red Bulls)</div><div><br></div><div>Midfielders: Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United/ENG), Kellyn Acosta (Los Angeles FC), Tyler Adams (Leeds United/ENG), Luca de la Torre (Celta Vigo/ESP), Weston McKennie (Juventus/ITA), Yunus Musah (Valencia/ESP), Cristian Roldan (Seattle Sounders)</div><div><br></div><div>Forwards: Jesus Ferreira (Dallas), Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea/ENG), Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Josh Sargent (Norwich/ENG), Timothy Weah (Lille/FRA), Haji Wright (Antalyaspor/TUR) - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 16:08:16', '2022-11-10 16:08:16'),
(2958, 2958, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Spain is to send Ukraine two more HAWK surface-to-air missile launchers on top of the four it has already dispatched to counter the Russian invasion, the Spanish government said Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Two extra launchers will be sent\" following a request from NATO, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said.</div><div><br></div><div>Madrid at the start of the month said it was sending anti-missile and air defence systems, including four HAWK missile launchers and an Aspide surface-to-air missile system.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are firmly committed to Ukraine because we understand that it is exercising its legitimate right to self-defence,\" Robles said.</div><div><br></div><div>Her ministry said that 64 members of the Ukrainian military would be trained in the central Spanish city of Toledo from next week on deactivating explosives, mine clearance and sharpshooting.</div><div><br></div><div>Twenty-one other Ukrainian soldiers are being trained to handle 105/14 howitzers in the southern city of Almeria, it added, and another 19 have learnt how to use the Aspide air defence system.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry says Spain is to train around 400 Ukrainian soldiers every two months.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia invaded neighbouring Ukraine in February and Western countries have since rushed military aid to support Kyiv\'s forces. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 16:12:05', '2022-11-10 16:12:05'),
(2959, 2959, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The King has unveiled a statue to his \"beloved\" mother in York, the first to be installed since her death.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 6ft 7in (2m) sculpture was designed to celebrate the late Queen\'s Platinum Jubilee and was completed in August, the month before she died.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking in front of crowds at York Minster, King Charles said her effigy would \"watch over\" the city.</div><div><br></div><div>The King was presented with a maquette of the statue after a service inside the cathedral.</div><div><br></div><div>He later travelled to Doncaster to confer formal city status as he concluded his two-day trip to Yorkshire.</div><div><br></div><div>During the ceremony in York, the King said: \"The late Queen was always vigilant for the welfare of her people during her life.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Now her image will watch over what will become Queen Elizabeth Square for centuries to come.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The statue, which sits in a niche at the west front of the Minster, is said to weigh almost two tonnes and is made from French lepine limestone.</div><div><br></div><div>It depicts the Queen wearing Garter robes and the George IV State Diadem, and holding the orb and sceptre symbols of authority.</div><div><br></div><div>The design had been chosen by the late monarch and was originally due to be unveiled in September, but this was postponed after the Queen\'s death.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the Archbishop of York said: \"I think for the King personally it\'s going to be a time of sadness, because this is his mother. But also it is an honour for us to receive him and to welcome him.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It will be a time of great thanksgiving, we have so much to be thankful for. I believe the new King Charles has made a very impressive start.\" - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 16:17:53', '2022-11-10 16:17:53'),
(2960, 2960, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Egypt’s COP27 Presidency and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa launched an initiative “Reducing the Cost of Green and Sustainable Borrowing” in climate-vulnerable countries at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 in Egypt on Wednesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The initiative is aimed at addressing the larger issues of deteriorating fiscal health under threat by potential output losses linked to climate hazards and disaster recovery costs, as well as transition risks that may hit the economy at large.</div><div><br></div><div>During the launch of the initiative, the Egyptian COP27 Presidency said:&nbsp; “Liquidity constraints remain some of the foremost barriers to allow African countries to invest towards climate resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals. This initiative will help build deeper, resilient, and sustainable financing to accelerate its post-Covid green recovery through various mechanisms.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"The focus will be on Green and Social and Sustainable (GSS) Bonds to fill the SDG financial gaps. There is a need for climate action to reduce poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. This initiative will strengthen the ability of African states to borrow at an affordable rate, mobilise more green funding, and attract private capital.”</div><div><br></div><div>African countries can lower green borrowing costs by pulling various levers, such as the below proposed mechanisms:</div><div><br></div><div>Liquidity and Sustainability Facility (LSF): It seeks to lower governments’ borrowing costs by increasing demand on their sovereign bonds.</div><div><br></div><div>Harmonisation of ESG Standards: This introduces a global baseline of sustainability disclosures, meets the needs of capital markets and contributes to enhancing transparency, accountability, efficiency, and comparability across markets.</div><div><br></div><div>Proposal of a Sustainability Sovereign Debt Hub (SSDH): It seeks to establish a sustainable sovereign debt hub aimed at providing facilitation for sovereign debt issuances aligned with climate and nature building on its research as well as assisting the scaling of performance-linked sovereign debt. </div><div><br></div><div>Capacity Building for developing countries to reliably access GSS Bond markets: It aims to allow African countries and developing countries in general to have more regular access to the GSS Bond markets.</div><div><br></div><div>Guarantees from Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs): It seeks to accelerate mobilizing external finance, including external debt and ODA, or avail more fiscal space through debt cancellation, according to reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-10 16:50:30', '2022-11-10 16:50:30'),
(2961, 2961, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States will provide air defense systems and surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of a new $400 million security assistance package, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With \"Russia\'s unrelenting and brutal air attacks on Ukrainian civilian and critical infrastructure, additional air defense capabilities are critical,\" Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told journalists.</div><div><br></div><div>The package includes four short-range, highly mobile Avenger air defense systems -- the first time they have been provided to Ukraine -- as well as the Stinger missiles they fire.</div><div><br></div><div>Also in the package are missiles for HAWK air defense systems that Spain has agreed to provide, artillery and mortar rounds, ammunition for Himars precision rocket launchers, and more than 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition.</div><div><br></div><div>The HAWK missiles will be refurbished with Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds, which pay for procurement of equipment from the defense industry. Other items in the package will be taken from existing US inventories.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked his US counterpart Joe Biden and the American people for the assistance.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Together we\'re building an air shield to protect (Ukrainian) civilians. We\'re bringing victory over the aggressor closer!\" Zelensky tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>The package brings to more than $18.6 billion the total US security assistance in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded in February.</div><div><br></div><div>The security assistance announcement came a day after top US General Mark Milley said more than 100,000 Russian military personnel have been killed or wounded in Ukraine, with Kyiv\'s forces likely suffering similar casualties.</div><div><br></div><div>Milley also said there is a chance for talks on ending the war, and that military victory may not be possible for either Russia or Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia meanwhile announced Thursday that its forces have begun retreating from Ukraine\'s southern city of Kherson -- a major blow to Moscow\'s military campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'re seeing some indications of Russian forces withdrawing from Kherson city, but it\'s too early to make a full assessment of... what that means,\" Singh said. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-11 07:58:36', '2022-11-11 07:58:36'),
(2962, 2962, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Joe Biden will meet Monday with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s Group of 20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, a face-to-face meeting that comes amid increasingly strained U.S.-China relations, the White House announced Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It will be the first in-person meeting between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies since Biden became president in January 2021 and comes weeks after Xi was awarded a norm-breaking third, five-year term as the Chinese Communist Party leader during the party’s national congress.</div><div><br></div><div>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement the leaders will meet to “discuss efforts to maintain and deepen lines of communication between” the two countries and to \"responsibly manage competition and work together where our interests align, especially on transnational challenges that affect the international community.”</div><div><br></div><div>The White House has been working with Chinese officials over the last several weeks to arrange the meeting. Biden on Wednesday told reporters that he intended to discuss with Xi growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over the self-ruled island of Taiwan, trade policies, Beijing’s relationship with Russia and more.</div><div><br></div><div>“What I want to do with him when we talk is lay out what each of our red lines are and understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of China, what I know to be the critical interests of the United States,” Biden said. “And determine whether or not they conflict with one another.”</div><div><br></div><div>The White House sought to downplay expectations for the meeting, telling reporters there was no joint communique or deliverables anticipated from the sit-down.</div><div><br></div><div>“I don’t think you should look at this meeting as one in which there’s going to be specific deliverables announced,\" White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. \"Rather the two leaders are going to give direction to their teams to work on a number of areas, both areas where we have differences and areas where we can work together.”</div><div><br></div><div>Biden and Xi traveled together in the U.S. and China in 2011 and 2012 when both leaders were serving as their respective countries\' vice presidents, and they have held five phone or video calls since Biden became president in January 2021. But the U.S.-China relationship has become far more complicated since those getting-to-know-you talks in Washington and on the Tibetan plateau a decade ago.</div><div><br></div><div>As president, Biden has repeatedly taken China to task for human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and other ethnic minorities, Beijing’s crackdowns on democracy activists in Hong Kong, coercive trade practices, military provocations against self-ruled Taiwan and differences over Russia’s prosecution of its war against Ukraine.Weeks before Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president met with Xi in Beijing and the two issued a memorandum expressing hopes of a “no limits” relationship for their nations.</div><div>China has largely refrained from criticizing Russia’s war but thus far has held off on supplying Moscow with arms.</div><div><br></div><div>“I don’t think there’s a lot of respect that China has for Russia or Putin,” Biden said Wednesday. “And in fact, they’ve been sort of keeping the distance a little bit.”</div><div><br></div><div>The leaders were also expected to address U.S. frustrations that Beijing has not used its influence to press North Korea to pull back from conducting provocative missile tests and to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Biden was set to discuss threats from North Korea with the leaders of South Korea and Japan a day before sitting down with Xi.</div><div><br></div><div>Sullivan said Biden would meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol on Sunday on the margins of the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, where North Korea\'s saber rattling is expected to be the focus of talks.</div><div><br></div><div>Xi’s government has criticized the Biden administration’s posture toward Taiwan — which Beijing looks eventually to unify with the communist mainland — as undermining China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The Chinese president also has suggested that Washington wants to stifle Beijing’s growing clout as it tries to overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy.</div><div><br></div><div>Tensions over Taiwan have grown since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August.</div><div><br></div><div>Biden said that he’s “not willing to make any fundamental concessions” about the United States’ Taiwan doctrine.</div><div><br></div><div>Under its “One China” policy, the United States recognizes the government in Beijing while allowing for informal relations and defense ties with Taipei. It takes a stance of “strategic ambiguity” toward the defense of Taiwan — leaving open the question of whether it would respond militarily were the island attacked.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked about the anticipated meeting, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a Thursday news briefing that China was looking for “win-win cooperation with the U.S.” while reiterating Beijing’s concerns about the U.S. stance on Taiwan.</div><div><br></div><div>“The U.S. needs to stop obscuring, hollowing out and distorting the One China principle, abide by the basic norms in international relations, including respecting other countries’ sovereignty, territorial integrity and noninterference in other countries’ internal affairs,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Biden caused a stir in Asia in May when at a news conference in Tokyo, said “yes” when asked if he was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China invaded. The White House and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were quick to clarify that there was no change in U.S. policy.</div><div><br></div><div>Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent, a step U.S. leaders say they don’t support. Pelosi is the highest-ranking elected American official to visit since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.</div><div><br></div><div>Xi has stayed close to home throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic, where he has enforced a “zero-COVID” policy that has resulted in mass lockdowns that have roiled the global supply chains.</div><div><br></div><div>He made his first trip outside China since start of the pandemic in September with a stop in Kazakhstan and then onto Uzbekistan to take part in the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization with Putin and other leaders of the Central Asian security group.</div><div><br></div><div>U.S. officials were eager to see how Xi approaches the meeting after being newly empowered with a third term and consolidating his position as the unquestioned leader of the state, saying they would wait to assess whether that made him more or less likely to seek out areas of cooperation with the U.S.</div><div><br></div><div>They emphasized that party congress results reinforced the importance of direct engagement with Xi, rather than lower level officials whom they’ve found unable or unwilling to speak for the Chinese leader.</div><div><br></div><div>Sullivan says it “remains to be seen” what impact Xi\'s cementing another five years as Communist Party leader will have on his approach to the U.S.-China relationship. - AFP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-11 10:57:28', '2022-11-11 10:58:49');
INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2963, 2963, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Shortly before the defence ministry announced that the military withdrawal was complete, Putin\'s spokesman avoided questions on the situation in southern Ukraine.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Instead Dmitry Peskov told journalists to address them to the Defence Ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>But the BBC managed to ask Peskov how the Kremlin responded to those who said the withdrawal from Kherson was a blow to Putin’s prestige, even a humiliation?</div><div><br></div><div>Peskov said: “There are lots of different experts – some say what you’ve said, some say other things. We don’t want to comment on any of them. The ‘special military operation’ continues.”</div><div><br></div><div>Asked whether he thought it was a humiliation for the president, Peskov said no.</div><div><br></div><div>It was only at the end of September that Putin had celebrated the annexation of four occupied regions including Kherson, and Peskov confirmed Russia saw the entire region as still part of Russia. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-11 14:38:54', '2022-11-11 14:38:54'),
(2964, 2964, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With another death reported in 24 hours till Friday morning, this year’s fatalities from Dengue climbed to 193.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this period, 266 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The latest death was reported from Chattogram, taking the death toll in the division to 49.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, 150 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 116 outside it, according to the DGHS.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 3,252 dengue patients, including 1,923 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The directorate has recorded 46,752 dengue cases and 43,307 recoveries so far this year.</div><div><br></div><div>This year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease reached 182 on Tuesday, exceeding all previous records in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier the country recorded the highest 179 deaths from Dengue in a year in 2019. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-11 14:41:56', '2022-11-11 14:41:56'),
(2965, 2965, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nalini Sriharan and five more convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have been freed by the Indian Supreme Court after 33 years in jail.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In May, the Supreme Court used its extraordinary powers to free a seventh convict, Perarivalan. The same order applied to the rest of the convicts, the court said.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also noted that the Tamil Nadu government had recommended to the Governor in 2018 that the convicts be freed.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides Nalini, the others jailed for the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi were Sriharan, Santhan, Murugan, Robert Payas and RP Ravichandran.</div><div><br></div><div>The Rajiv Gandhi killers\' case stirs deep emotions in Tamil Nadu and every government in the state, whether led by the AIADMK or DMK, has campaigned for their freedom. Many in Tamil Nadu believe that the seven prisoners played minor roles in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and were duped into taking part in a plot they knew little about.</div><div><br></div><div>Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a woman suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group from neighbouring Sri Lanka.</div><div><br></div><div>The seven convicts were sentenced to death for their role in the killing.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2000, Nalini Sriharan\'s sentence was reduced to a life term on the intervention of Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi\'s wife and former Congress president. In 2008, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the daughter of Rajiv Gandhi, met with her in Vellore jail.</div><div><br></div><div>The sentence of six more convicts was also commuted in 2014. The same year, then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha initiated moves to free them.</div><div><br></div><div>The Congress strongly objected to the Supreme Court order freeing Rajiv Gandhi\'s assassins.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The decision of the Supreme Court to free the remaining killers of former PM Rajiv Gandhi is totally unacceptable and completely erroneous. The Congress Party criticises it clearly and finds it wholly untenable. It is most unfortunate that the Supreme Court has not acted in consonance with the spirit of India on this issue,\" said Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Nalini Sriharan\'s brother Bakianathan said the convicts had already served 33 years in prison and had suffered enough. \"They were released on humanitarian grounds. Those who oppose their release should respect the laws of India,\" Bakianathan told NDTV. - PTI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-11 14:54:23', '2022-11-11 14:54:23'),
(2966, 2966, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina called upon the youth folk to take the country forward for prosperity, being imbued with patriotism and dutifulness toward the country and its people.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“I urge the youth folk that it is their duty to march the country ahead toward development and prosperity… the people of the country are now getting hope afresh to live a beautiful and dignified life due to the massive development carried out by the Awami League government. To take the efforts forward further, the youths are the most important stakeholders and they can build the country,” she said.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The premier was addressing a youth grand rally as the chief guest marking the 50th founding anniversary of the Awami Jubo League, the youth wing of the ruling AL, at the historic Suhrawardi Udyan, here.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The venue turned into a human see as the Jubo League leaders and activists turned up in thousands since morning with colourful festoons, placards, national and party flags, portraits and pictures of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani.&nbsp; People were seen in thousands in the open places including the Ramna Park and roads surrounding the venue.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Referring to the remarks made by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman that he would build the war-ravaged country using its soil and population, the Prime Minister said, “It can be done if there is patriotism and dutifulness toward the country and its people and we have proved it.”</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Taking part in person in the first formal rally since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, she asked the Jubo League leaders and activists to work in unison to materialise the dream of Bangabandhu to build the country as a developed and prosperous one and thus give the people a improved and beautiful life being imbued with his (Bangabandhu’s) ideal.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Prime Minister reminded the Jubo League leaders and activists that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman established the organisation one year after the Liberation, on November 11, 1972, to build a war-ravaged country.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, senior AL leaders and former Jubo League Chairmen, Amir Hossain Amu, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak, among others, spoke on the occasion.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Jubo League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash presided over the grand rally while Jubo League General Secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil moderated it.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh, former Jubo League General Secretaries Mirza Azam and Harunuru Rashid were present on the dais, among others.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Senior AL leaders, central, district and city Jubo League leaders and activists and eminent cultural personalities were present at the meeting.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>On her arrival at the venue, the Prime Minister was received with flowers by the Chairman and General Secretary of the Jubo League.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Prime Minister inaugurated the golden jubilee anniversary grand rally of the Jubo League by releasing pigeons and balloons.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She was later given a crest and two separate paintings of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and uttorio (stole).</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Prime Minister also unveiled the cover of a special publication and opened the formal logo and website of the Jubo League marking its 50th anniversary.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>A one-minute silence was observed in respect to the memory of the martyrs of August 15, 1975 and August 21 in 2004 alongside martyrs of all the democratic and progressive movements at the grand rally.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>The anniversary programme started with a colourful cultural programme, where the party leaders and activists were seen waving small national and party flags. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-11 14:58:27', '2022-11-11 14:58:27'),
(2967, 2967, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka court sent three leaders and activists of BNP including former councillor Harun Ur Rashid Harun to jail in a case lodged over the alleged attack on former Supreme Court judge AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The two other accused are-- Swecchasebok Dol leader Rafik Hawlader and Jubo Dol leader Ali Akbar Chunnu.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda Chowdhury passed the order as police produced the trio before the court after end of their one-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep them behind the bars till the end of probe.</div><div><br></div><div>The court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain on November 9 had placed them on one-day remand in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik allegedly came under attack on November 2 as he was going through Paltan area on his personal vehicle.</div><div><br></div><div>Md Rafiqul Islam, gunman of the former Supreme Court judge filed the case with Paltan Police Station on that night against 40/50 unnamed leaders and activists of the BNP for attacking him, Justice Manik, his driver and vandalising his car. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-11 15:01:29', '2022-11-11 15:01:29'),
(2968, 2968, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today refuted BNP leaders\' propaganda on the foreign currency reserve, saying the Awami League government never waste a single paisa from it, rather use money for the country and its people\'s interest.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"The Awami League government doesn\'t waste a single paisa of the country. It spends every penny for the interest and welfare of the people,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said this while inaugurating the construction of the 24 kilometre long Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway involving TK 17,553.4 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>She virtually joined the inaugural function held at the Construction Yard adjoining to Ashulia Bazar in Savar, from her official Ganabhaban residence here.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said the BNP leaders are always raising questions on the expense of the reserve money and trying to mislead the nation by giving false information.</div><div><br></div><div>\"No paisa from the reserve money is misappropriated. They (BNP leaders) are always talking about this as their leader Tarique Zia was awarded seven years imprisonment and TK 20 core penalty in a money laundering case and he is now a fugitive accused,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said her government is using the reserve money to meet the import expenses including purchasing food, fuel, edible oil, wheat, capital machinery, medicine of cancer and Covid-19 vaccines despite the prices of goods, fuel and transportation cost are skyrocketing for global high inflation and economic meltdown stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war, sanctions and counter sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 09:27:19', '2022-11-12 09:27:19'),
(2969, 2969, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">England vowed to continue their juggernaut as they take on a resurgent Pakistan in the T20 World Cup final tomorrow (Sunday) at the historical Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The big final at one of the cricket\'s biggest stadium starts at 2 PM as per Bangladesh Time.</div><div><br></div><div>A lot is up for grab for the two teams when they faced off for a summit clash. England will try to add a T20 World Cup in their showcase after winning 2019 Men\'s Cricket World Cup while Pakistan are keen to prove that they have the ability to rise from the ashes.</div><div><br></div><div>Both of the teams, however, will try to be the first team after West Indies to win the T20 World Cup for the second time, having previously won the trophy in 2009 (Pakistan) and 2010 (England).</div><div><br></div><div>Interestingly it will be their first meeting in T20 World Cup after 2010.</div><div><br></div><div>They played against each other twice in 2009 and 2010 and England emerged as the winner on both occasions. In face to face clash in T20 International cricket, England have the huge edge over Pakistan, winning 18 times out of 28 encounters. Pakistan won nine times while other match ended in a no result.</div><div><br></div><div>Ahead of the T20 World Cup, the two teams played a seven-match T20 series in Pakistan and England eventually emerged winner with 4-3 result.</div><div><br></div><div>All of the stat, record and performance are in England\'s favour but that doesn\'t mean, Pakistan will be a mere spectator in the final, according to England captain Jos Buttler who stood on the brink of a history to win a big trophy just at the first year of his captaincy.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We expect a really tough challenge, as mentioned before. They\'re a team we\'ve seen lots of in the recent past, and we\'ve had some brilliant matches against them, played in a fantastic spirit and I\'m sure tomorrow will be no different,\" Buttler said in the pre-final conference at MCG today.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the key to success is to deal with the Pakistan fast bowlers who led by Shaheen Afridi helped the side produce a famous comeback after losing first two matches at the hands of archrivals India and minnows Zimbabwe.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Pakistan are a fantastic team. I think they have a very long history of producing excellent fast bowlers, and I see the team that we\'re up against as no different,\" Buttler said.</div><div><br></div><div>England though also have own share of pain. Even though they toppled every big team including India in the semifinal confidently, they lost a game to Ireland in group phase. It\'s the only spot of bother of their clinical journey in this T20 World Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Obviously the Ireland match is a big disappointment for us as a team throughout this tournament, but certainly feels a long time ago now. Being able to sit in this position on the eve of the World Cup final, I think we will have learnt quite a few lessons throughout that game and actually the lead-up into the game.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan\'s journey was almost similar to what happened in 1992 World Cup. Like 92 World Cup, led by Imran Khan, they were almost out of the World Cup before producing some extraordinary performances to reach the final. Like 92 World Cup, they beat super dominant New Zealand in the semifinal and like that World Cup they got England in the final. Now it is to see whether they can replicate the 92 World Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>But Babar Azam, the Pakistan captain would get a huge fan base behind him in Melbourne which will give him a home like condition.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Of course we\'ve our first two matches lost, and that cost us. But the way our team come back last four matches and they perform very well, and we are playing good cricket in the last four matches. Yes, we will try to continue that momentum in the final,\" Babar said ahead of the final.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood.</div><div><br></div><div>England: Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Tymal Mills, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Alex Hales. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 09:49:56', '2022-11-12 09:49:56'),
(2970, 2970, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Australia\'s Home Affairs Minister on Saturday sought to reassure the public that COVID-19 protocols were adequate after a cruise ship with hundreds of infected passengers docked in Sydney.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Carnival Australia\'s Majestic Princess cruise ship was docked in Sydney, the capital of the most populous state, New South Wales, with \"in the vicinity\" of 800 passengers on board testing positive to the virus, the company said.</div><div><br></div><div>State health authorities rated the outbreak\'s risk level at \"Tier 3\", indicating a high level of transmission.</div><div><br></div><div>The incident has sparked comparisons with a 2020 outbreak onboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship. That outbreak, also in New South Wales, led to 914 infections and 28 deaths, an inquiry found.</div><div><br></div><div>Home Affairs Minister Clare O\'Neil said the authorities have created \"regular protocols\" in the wake of the Ruby Princess episode and that New South Wales Health would take the lead on determining how to get passengers off the Majestic Princess \"on a case by case basis\".</div><div><br></div><div>Federal border force officer will play a supplementary role to the state authorities, O\'Neil told reporters in Melbourne.</div><div><br></div><div>Carnival Australia, part of global leisure company Carnival Corporation &amp; plc, said COVID-positive passengers were isolating onboard and being cared for by medical staff, according to New South Wales Health. The agency said it was working with cruise ship staff to monitor the health of passengers and crew members.</div><div><br></div><div>Company president Marguerite Fitzgerald told ABC television that once Carnival saw an elevated number of COVID cases, it put extra protocols in place.</div><div><br></div><div>The outbreak comes as COVID-19 cases rise across Australia, reflecting community transmission of the Omicron variant XBB, the federal government said this week. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 10:00:22', '2022-11-12 10:00:22'),
(2971, 2971, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Greg Barclay was Saturday re-elected unopposed as independent chairman of the International Cricket Council after Zimbabwe\'s Tavengwa Mukuhlani pulled out of contention.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The former New Zealand Cricket boss succeeded Shashank Manohar in 2020 and retained the job for another two years with the board\'s full support, the sport\'s governing body said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Over the last two years we have made significant strides forward with the launch of our global growth strategy that provides clear direction to build a successful and sustainable future for our sport,\" said Barclay.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is an exciting time to be involved in cricket and I look forward to continuing to work closely with our members to strengthen the game in our core markets as well as grow it beyond that, ensuring more of the world can enjoy cricket.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Mukuhlani said the continuity of Barclay, an Auckland-based commercial lawyer, was \"in the best interests of the sport\", reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"I therefore decided to withdraw my candidacy,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 10:51:29', '2022-11-12 10:51:29'),
(2972, 2972, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 17 people were killed, 16 others injured after a bus fell into canal in Mansoura, security sources told Reuters.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mansoura is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.&nbsp; - Arab News&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 11:11:10', '2022-11-12 11:11:10'),
(2973, 2973, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Shah Rukh Khan was reportedly detained by the Customs Department at Mumbai Airport last night over some expensive watches that he and those accompanying him were carrying in their baggage. Sources said he had to pay ₹ 6.83 lakh in Customs Duty before being allowed to leave the airport.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Bollywood star was returning after attending an event in Sharjah and had landed at Terminal 3 of Mumbai International Airport on a private jet.</div><div><br></div><div>The watches were reportedly found in the baggage when Mr Khan and those accompanying him were leaving the terminal.</div><div>According to reports, while Mr Khan and his manager were allowed to leave the airport after completion of Customs formalities, some members of his entourage, including his bodyguard, were detained the entire night for questioning and allowed to leave around morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Reports said covers of six expensive watches valued around ₹ 18 lakh were also found in the baggage of the star and those accompanying him.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Khan attended the Sharjah International Book Fair 2022 yesterday, where he was honoured with the Global Icon of Cinema and Cultural Narrative Award for his contributions to international cinema and culture. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 11:37:26', '2022-11-12 11:37:26'),
(2974, 2974, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister\'s ICT Adviser and CRI Chairperson Sajeeb Wazed Joy handed over the Joy Bangla Youth Award 2022 among winners on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The award is designed to recognise countrywide young changemakers, help them network among themselves and enhance the services which they are already providing to their communities.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Since its inception in November 2014, Young Bangla, the youth wing of Centre for Research and Information (CRI), has been conferring Joy Bangla Youth Award to the youths and youth organisations successfully involved in changing the social paradigm in their respective areas.</div><div><br></div><div>In the sixth edition of the event, award was given to 10 youth organisations under five categories including women empowerment, children\'s rights, empowerment of specially challenged and underprivileged people and so on.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, two persons were conferred with \'Lifetime Joy Bangla Youth Award\' for their special contributions to the country. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 12:41:22', '2022-11-12 12:41:22'),
(2975, 2975, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It\'s a girl! Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover welcomed their first child, a baby girl on Saturday. The couple, in an identical post on Instagram, shared the news. Sharing a note on their Instagram handles, the couple, in the caption wrote, \"Blessed.\"&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The note read: \"The physical manifestion of our love and blessings of Ma is here now and she is Divine.\" The couple in their note also announced the name of their daughter - Devi Basu Singh Grover.</div><div><br></div><div>The couple announced their pregnancy in August by sharing an adorable picture from their pregnancy photoshoot on their respective Instagram handles. Sharing the post, the couple, in an identical post, wrote, \"A new time, a new phase, a new light adds another unique shade to our prism of life. Making us a little more whole than we used to be.</div><div><br></div><div>We began this life individually and then we met each other and from then we were two. Too much love for only two, seemed a little unfair for us to see...so soon, we who once were two will now become three. A creation manifested by our love, our baby will join us soon and add to our glee.\" - NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 13:24:27', '2022-11-12 13:24:27'),
(2976, 2976, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in Economic Zones (EZs) on November 20 marking the 50 years of independence.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Talking to BSS, Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) Executive Chairman Shaikh Yusuf Harun said the Prime Minister will virtually inaugurate 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in the EZs across the country and BEZA will have the event at eight venues.</div><div><br></div><div>\"These include commercial operations of four factories at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) in Chattogram and eight factories in different privately-run EZs,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He said these industrial units have already invested more than US$967.73 million, and will make further investment of nearly $331.27 million.</div><div><br></div><div>He informed that the PM will also lay foundation stone of 29 industrial units in different EZs, which have so far invested $610 million, and are in a process to invest $1,922.39 million more.</div><div><br></div><div>The EZ facilities, to be inaugurated, include administration buildings of BSMSN, Jamalpur Economic Zone, Srihatta EZ, and Sabrang Tourism Park, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the BEZA chief said, the PM will also formally open 20-kilometre Sheikh Hasina Sarani, 230-KVA gridline and substation at the BSMSN.</div><div><br></div><div>She will also lay the foundation stone of a water treatment plant having 50 million litres per day (MLD) capacity, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the industrial plants, which will be inaugurated, four establishments are at the Bangabandhu Shilpa Nagar.</div><div><br></div><div>McDonald Steel Industries Ltd, one of these, produces prefabricated structural steel, used in steel bridges and steel high rise buildings, factories and power plants.</div><div><br></div><div>Nippon &amp; McDonald Steel Industries Limited produces MS Plate manufacturing from imported steel, purlin, slitting sheets and coil.</div><div><br></div><div>Asian Paints Bangladesh Limited, which produces paints and allied products, emulsions, has invested $34 million in the economic zone.</div><div><br></div><div>Samuda Construction Limited, manufacturer of phc pile, is constructing their factory on 4-acre land with an investment of $8.2 million.</div><div><br></div><div>BEZA aims to establish economic zones in all potential areas in Bangladesh including backward and underdeveloped regions with a view to encouraging rapid economic development through increase and diversification of industry, mployment, production and export.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the planned 100 economic zones, the government has approved 97 economic zones, 28 of which are currently under development.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, 12 privately owned economic zones have received licenses to operate and nearly $4 billion have been invested in these economic zones.</div><div><br></div><div>The goal is to create employment for 10 million people directly and indirectly. It is also expected to produce and export products worth $40 billion annually in these economic zones.</div><div><br></div><div>Investors can avail of tax holiday, duty-free imports of raw materials and machinery at the economic zones.</div><div><br></div><div>The economic zones have attracted foreign direct investments from different countries, including Japan, China, India, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, America, the United Kingdom, Singapore, South Korea and Norway.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the inauguration schedule was on October 26. But, the scheduled inauguration of the operations of the industrial units as well as laying foundation stones of various infrastructures at the economic zones was postponed due to inclement weather deriving from the Cyclone Sitrang. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 14:43:19', '2022-11-12 14:43:19'),
(2977, 2977, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine thankful for US support - foreign minister</span><br></div><div>Ukraine\'s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who has met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the Asean summit in Cambodia, says there were \"very few who believed that Ukraine would survive\" and reiterated Ukraine\'s gratitude for US support.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is coming, and our victory will be our joint victory - a victory of all peace-loving nations across the world,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In turn, Blinken hailed the \"remarkable courage\" of Ukraine\'s military and people and vowed US support would \"continue for as long as it takes\" to defeat Russia, the AFP news agency reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Great victory, but war not over - ex-Ukrainian security chief</div><div><br></div><div>The former head of Ukraine’s National Security Council, Oleksandr Danylyuk, has told the BBC what the recapture of Kherson means to his fellow Ukrainians.</div><div><br></div><div>“It’s almost like a national holiday, everyone is cheering, congratulating each other,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“So it’s a great victory, but we understand the war is not over.”</div><div><br></div><div>Danylyuk believes Russian forces will “go into deep defence on the left bank [of the Dnipro river]… and it will put them [at an] advantageous position”.</div><div><br></div><div>He says the next months will be more difficult, but adds that when it comes to motivation amongst Ukrainian troops: “We are prevailing.” - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 14:48:05', '2022-11-12 14:48:05'),
(2978, 2978, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Popular filmmaker Raihan Rafi’s latest film ‘Damal,’ inspired by the true story of the Shadhin Bangla Football Team from the 1971 Liberation War era, is set to hit US theatres on November 18.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The film will be released in 15 cities across the US including New York’s Jamaica Multiplex; North Hollywood and San Francisco in California; Dallas and Houston in Texas; Baltimore; Chicago; Orlando; Miami, Detroit, Reno and Portland.</div><div><br></div><div>On December 2, the film will be screened in 50 halls of Regal Cinema Hall, Harkins Theatres and Cinemark Theatres, said Raj Hamid, CEO of Bioscope Films.</div><div>&nbsp;Advance ticket sales have already begun, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He further said, “We promoted the film \'Damal\' while Rafi\'s Poran was running in the US. This film will create a stir in the United States, he hopes.”</div><div><br></div><div>‘Damal’ was released across Bangladesh on October 28.</div><div><br></div><div>Produced by Impress Telefilm Ltd the film stars Siam Ahmed, Sariful Raaz, Bidya Sinha Mim, Sumit Sen Gupta, Shahnaz Sumi, Intekhab Dinar, and others. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 14:53:01', '2022-11-12 14:53:01'),
(2979, 2979, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced new questions Saturday over his choice of senior officials after his number two was accused of behaving aggressively towards staff.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The controversy over Dominic Raab, who is deputy prime minister and justice secretary, came after fellow Sunak ally Gavin Williamson was forced out of the new government because of alleged bullying.</div><div><br></div><div>Raab, Sunak\'s most vocal supporter in the summer Conservative leadership race against Liz Truss, was brought back into the cabinet when Truss was forced out as prime minister after just six weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak restored him to his previous role of justice secretary, where he had presided over a \"culture of fear\", according to the Guardian newspaper.</div><div><br></div><div>Some 15 senior civil servants at the ministry were offered a \"route out\" to different government jobs if they felt unable to serve under Raab because of his past behaviour, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Sun newspaper meanwhile reported that Raab had once hurled tomatoes from a salad across a room in a fit of anger during a meeting -- which a spokesman for the minister said was \"nonsense\".</div><div><br></div><div>More generally, the spokesman said: \"Dominic has high standards, works hard, and expects a lot from his team as well as himself.</div><div><br></div><div>\"He has worked well with officials to drive the government\'s agenda across Whitehall in multiple government departments and always acts with the utmost professionalism.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak was already under fire for reappointing Williamson to a ministerial role despite being told he was under investigation for allegedly bullying another senior Conservative.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister also faced criticism for reinstating Suella Braverman as interior minister just six days after she was forced to quit the Truss cabinet over a security breach.</div><div><br></div><div>The opposition Labour party pointed to those controversies as it termed the latest accusations \"deeply troubling\", demanding Sunak launch an inquiry.</div><div><br></div><div>\"With each new scandal and grubby deal, it becomes more obvious that he is a weak leader who puts party management before the national interest,\" Labour\'s deputy leader Angela Rayner said.</div><div><br></div><div>There was no immediate comment from Sunak, who is preparing next week to unveil an emergency economic package after a tax-slashing budget by Truss sparked a financial crisis. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 14:57:31', '2022-11-12 14:57:31'),
(2980, 2980, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged the Myanmar junta to immediately return to democracy, saying it was the only way to stop the \"unending nightmare\" engulfing the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Myanmar has spiralled into bloody conflict since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi\'s civilian government in February last year, with thousands killed.</div><div><br></div><div>The escalating crisis dominated a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc, which has led so far fruitless diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The situation in Myanmar is an unending nightmare for the people and a threat to peace and security across the region,\" Guterres told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I urge the authorities of Myanmar to listen to their people, release political prisoners and get the democratic transition back on track immediately. That is the only way to stability and peace.\"</div><div><br></div><div>After meeting ASEAN leaders, Guterres said it was vital that a peace plan agreed with the junta -- but so far not enforced -- came into effect.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians are horrendous and heartbreaking,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In a reminder of the daily horrors faced by the Myanmar people, residents and media on Friday accused the junta of burning houses and killing at least five civilians in a raid on a village in western Rakhine state.</div><div><br></div><div>Junta troops have been accused of killing and arson sprees in central, northern and eastern Myanmar as they struggle to crush opposition to military rule.</div><div><br></div><div>The junta has previously accused \"terrorist\" anti-coup fighters of setting the fires.</div><div><br></div><div>- US pressure -</div><div><br></div><div>ASEAN agreed a \"five-point consensus\" with the junta in April last year aimed at ending the chaos in Myanmar, but it has so far been ignored by the generals.</div><div><br></div><div>Increasingly frustrated ASEAN leaders on Friday tasked their foreign ministers with coming up with a concrete plan to implement the consensus.</div><div><br></div><div>They also gave their blessing to an ASEAN special envoy meeting opposition groups in Myanmar -- a move that drew a furious response from the junta, which regards the dissident outfits as terrorists.</div><div><br></div><div>Western powers have heaped sanctions on the junta but violence has escalated in recent weeks, with deadly military air strikes on civilian targets including a school and a concert.</div><div><br></div><div>US President Joe Biden will use talks with ASEAN leaders later Saturday to urge them to keep pushing the junta to end the violence.</div><div><br></div><div>Biden\'s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the president would \"discuss how we can coordinate more closely to continue to impose costs and raise pressure on the junta\".</div><div><br></div><div>The junta has justified its power grab by alleging fraud in the December 2020 general election, which Suu Kyi\'s party won in a landslide.</div><div><br></div><div>The generals have pledged to hold a fresh election next year, but the United States and the UN\'s special rapporteur for Myanmar have said there is no chance of it being free and fair. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 16:02:37', '2022-11-12 16:02:37'),
(2981, 2981, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged the Myanmar junta to immediately return to democracy, saying it was the only way to stop the \"unending nightmare\" engulfing the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Myanmar has spiralled into bloody conflict since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi\'s civilian government in February last year, with thousands killed.</div><div><br></div><div>The escalating crisis dominated a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc, which has led so far fruitless diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The situation in Myanmar is an unending nightmare for the people and a threat to peace and security across the region,\" Guterres told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I urge the authorities of Myanmar to listen to their people, release political prisoners and get the democratic transition back on track immediately. That is the only way to stability and peace.\"</div><div><br></div><div>After meeting ASEAN leaders, Guterres said it was vital that a peace plan agreed with the junta -- but so far not enforced -- came into effect.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians are horrendous and heartbreaking,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In a reminder of the daily horrors faced by the Myanmar people, residents and media on Friday accused the junta of burning houses and killing at least five civilians in a raid on a village in western Rakhine state.</div><div><br></div><div>Junta troops have been accused of killing and arson sprees in central, northern and eastern Myanmar as they struggle to crush opposition to military rule.</div><div><br></div><div>The junta has previously accused \"terrorist\" anti-coup fighters of setting the fires.</div><div><br></div><div>- US pressure -</div><div><br></div><div>ASEAN agreed a \"five-point consensus\" with the junta in April last year aimed at ending the chaos in Myanmar, but it has so far been ignored by the generals.</div><div><br></div><div>Increasingly frustrated ASEAN leaders on Friday tasked their foreign ministers with coming up with a concrete plan to implement the consensus.</div><div><br></div><div>They also gave their blessing to an ASEAN special envoy meeting opposition groups in Myanmar -- a move that drew a furious response from the junta, which regards the dissident outfits as terrorists.</div><div><br></div><div>Western powers have heaped sanctions on the junta but violence has escalated in recent weeks, with deadly military air strikes on civilian targets including a school and a concert.</div><div><br></div><div>US President Joe Biden will use talks with ASEAN leaders later Saturday to urge them to keep pushing the junta to end the violence.</div><div><br></div><div>Biden\'s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the president would \"discuss how we can coordinate more closely to continue to impose costs and raise pressure on the junta\".</div><div><br></div><div>The junta has justified its power grab by alleging fraud in the December 2020 general election, which Suu Kyi\'s party won in a landslide.</div><div><br></div><div>The generals have pledged to hold a fresh election next year, but the United States and the UN\'s special rapporteur for Myanmar have said there is no chance of it being free and fair. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 16:03:35', '2022-11-12 16:03:35'),
(2982, 2982, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Wheelchair struggles, scarce drinking water, $15 sandwiches and hotel price-gouging at the COP27 climate summit have sparked anger and forced host country Egypt into damage-control mode, participants at the two-week meet said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organising a UN climate conference -- which brings together up to 35,000 people from 195 countries each year -- is a world-class logistical challenge, and veterans of the nearly 30-year process are used to minor inconvenience.</div><div><br></div><div>But this year\'s sprawling event in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh has been plagued with problems, participants say, the most basic perhaps being accessibility.</div><div><br></div><div>Pratima Gurung, who works with a disability advocacy group, said she and the Disability Rights Fund\'s Krishna Gahatraj, who uses a wheelchair, have been left in the middle of the road \"multiple times\" while waiting for shuttle buses.</div><div><br></div><div>Organisers \"haven\'t clearly instructed the drivers\" on how to accommodate people with disabilities, said Gurung, who runs the National Indigenous Disabled Women Association in Nepal.</div><div><br></div><div>Though ramps abound, attendees with physical impairments say they are not standard, and that the UN climate summit has been especially difficult for them to navigate.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As a disabled person, COP is inherently inaccessible for me,\" said SustainedAbility\'s Jason Boberg, who has attended the past five summits organised by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.</div><div><br></div><div>But playing on the acronym, he has dubbed this year\'s event the \"UN Framework Convention on Concrete Curbs\".</div><div><br></div><div>Last year\'s meeting in Glasgow also saw accessibility issues, with the Israeli energy minister initially unable to enter in her wheelchair.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Most confusing COP ever\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Another recurrent complaint in Sharm el-Sheikh is poor and scarce signage.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is the most confusing COP ever,\" said Bianca, a three-time climate summit attendee who asked to be identified only by her first name.</div><div><br></div><div>The size of a small town, the COP27 area is a sprawling archipelago of pavilions, meeting rooms, halls connected by bitumen roads that soak up the 30 degree Celsius (86 degree Fahrenheit) heat.</div><div><br></div><div>Journalists in a hangar-like media centre could be seen wrapped in jackets and shawls to protect themselves against the industrial-strength air-conditioning.</div><div><br></div><div>Also problematic and ironic, given the topic at hand, is a chronic shortage of drinking water.</div><div><br></div><div>During the first week of the conference, which runs until November 18, sparse water dispensers stood empty for hours at a stretch.</div><div><br></div><div>Delegates took to bringing in their own supplies, and a few were said to have ignored warnings not to drink desalinated water running from bathroom taps.</div><div><br></div><div>\"People already under stress\" should not \"have to look for water all the time\", said one climate COP veteran from an NGO.</div><div><br></div><div>Exorbitant food prices, including sandwiches going for up to $15, have been especially problematic for those on tight budgets.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I have never seen prices like this at a COP,\" the NGO representative said, declining to be identified.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to the complaints, organisers on Thursday made drinks free and slashed food prices in half for the rest of the conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Well before COP27 kicked off on November 6, alarm bells were ringing as the tourist town\'s hotels suddenly tripled or quadrupled room rates, even for those with confirmed bookings.</div><div><br></div><div>Some delegates arrived to find their reservations had been cancelled.</div><div><br></div><div>\"People are now stranded, sleeping on the road, in bus stations,\" youth activist Olumide Idowu from Nigeria wrote on Twitter Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>At a press briefing Thursday, special representative of the COP27 presidency, Wael Aboulmagd, told reporters that the \"one case where people were asked to leave\" will \"not happen again\", and that \"government officials have intervened.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 16:07:07', '2022-11-12 16:07:07'),
(2983, 2983, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that the party is now fighting to restore democratic rule in the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thousands of BNP leaders and activists, from different districts, joined the rally at the Abdul Aziz Institution ground in Kamarpur, Faridpur, defying all obstacles including a transport strike announced ahead of the rally.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our only demand is that Sheikh Hasina has to resign from parliament, parliament be dissolved and power handed over to an impartial caretaker government,\" he reiterated at the BNP rally in Faridpur.</div><div><br></div><div>\"For the last three days in Faridpur, our workers from all the surrounding districts took a great deal of trouble to participate in the rally. It is a big fight against the government, which is isolated from the countrymen,\" Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>He told the partymen for their dedication and said their struggle is for the sovereignty of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The Awami League government has destroyed the country after coming to power. They destroyed politics, the economy and our future,\" he added.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"We will fight to get our right to vote back.\"</span></div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-12 16:24:08', '2022-11-12 16:24:08');
INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2984, 2984, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">England vowed to continue their juggernaut as they take on a resurgent Pakistan in the T20 World Cup final today (Sunday) at the historical Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The big final at one of cricket\'s biggest stadium starts at 2 PM as per Bangladesh Time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot is up for grab for the two teams when they faced off for a summit clash. England will try to add a T20 World Cup in their showcase after winning 2019 Men\'s Cricket World Cup while Pakistan are keen to prove that hey have the ability to rise from the ashes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both of the teams, however, will try to be the first team after West Indies to win the T20 World Cup for the second time, having previously won the trophy in 2009 (Pakistan) and 2010 (England).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interestingly it will be their first meeting in T20 World Cup after 2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They played against each other twice in 2009 and 2010 and England emerged as the winner on both occasions. In face to face clash in T20 International cricket, England have the huge edge over Pakistan, winning 18 times out of 28 encounters. Pakistan won nine times while other match ended in a no result.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of the T20 World Cup, the two teams played a seven-match T20 series in Pakistan and England eventually emerged winner with 4-3 result.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All of the stat, record and performance are in England\'s favour but that doesn\'t mean, Pakistan will be a mere spectator in the final, according to England captain Jos Buttler who stood on the brink of a history to win a big trophy just at the first year of his captaincy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We expect a really tough challenge, as mentioned before. They\'re a team we\'ve seen lots of in the recent past, and we\'ve had some brilliant matches against them, played in a fantastic spirit and I\'m sure tomorrow will be no different,\" Buttler said in the pre-final conference at MCG on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the key to success is to deal with the Pakistan fast bowlers who led by Shaheen Afridi helped the side produce a famous comeback after losing first two matches at the hands of archrivals India and minnows Zimbabwe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Pakistan are a fantastic team. I think they have a very long history of producing excellent fast bowlers, and I see the team that we\'re up against as no different,\" Buttler said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England though also have own share of pain. Even though they toppled every big team including India in the semifinal confidently, they lost a game to Ireland in group phase. It\'s the only spot of bother of their clinical journey in this T20 World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Obviously the Ireland match is a big disappointment for us as a team throughout this tournament, but certainly feels a long time ago now. Being able to sit in this position on the eve of the World Cup final, I think we will have learnt quite a few lessons throughout that game and actually the lead-up into the game.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\'s journey was almost similar to what happened in 1992 World Cup. Like 92 World Cup, led by Imran Khan, they were almost out of the World Cup before producing some extraordinary performances to reach the final. Like 92 World Cup, they beat super dominant New Zealand in the semifinal and like that World Cup they got England in the final. Now it is to see whether they can replicate the 92 World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Babar Azam, the Pakistan captain would get a huge fan base behind him in Melbourne which will give him a home like condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Of course we\'ve our first two matches lost, and that cost us. But the way our team come back last four matches and they perform very well, and we are playing good cricket in the last four matches. Yes, we will try to continue that momentum in the final,\" Babar said ahead of the final.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, HaiderAli, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England: Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Tymal Mills, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Alex Hales. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 04:49:47', '2022-11-13 04:49:47'),
(2985, 2985, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The King\'s staff are set to receive a bonus payment of up to £600 to help them with the cost of living crisis.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sun newspaper reported that the bonuses - to be paid on top of this month\'s salary to workers including cleaners - would amount to tens of thousands of pounds and would partially come from the King\'s private income.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Staff earning less than £30,000 will receive a single payment of £600, with staff earning more getting less.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buckingham Palace declined to comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other royal household staff will also receive a bonus, the BBC understands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those on between £30,000 and £40,000 will receive £400 in a single payment, and those who are paid between £40,000 and £45,000 will receive £350, the Sun reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A source told the newspaper: \"The King is giving money out of his own pocket to the lowest earners working for the household to help them cope with the cost of living crisis. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 04:54:04', '2022-11-13 04:54:04'),
(2986, 2986, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A US military space drone landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday after nearly two and a half years in orbit, Boeing said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unmanned X-37B shuttle, whose first flight took place in 2010, has now spent a total of more than 10 years in space and flown more than 1.3 billion miles during six missions, Boeing said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"This mission highlights the Space Force\'s focus on collaboration in space exploration and expanding low-cost access to space for our partners, within and outside of the Department of the Air Force,\" said General Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Launched in secrecy, the X-37B was designed for the Air Force by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is 30 feet (nine meters) long, has a 15-foot wingspan and is powered by solar panels. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 04:58:38', '2022-11-13 04:58:38'),
(2987, 2987, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Air pollution still remains one of the top-most challenges for Bangladesh and Dhaka has been ranked as the second most polluted city in the world with ‘very unhealthy’ air quality on Sunday morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) score was 235 at 9am today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Delhi occupied the first and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 333 and 202, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 05:08:40', '2022-11-13 05:08:40'),
(2988, 2988, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A fire broke out in a jhut (unused fabric of garment factories) godown at Konabari in Gazipur early Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire originated around 1:30 am in the godown at Notun Bazar and spread soon, said Abdullah Al Arefin, deputy assistant director of Gazipur Fire Service and civil defence control room.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On information, six firefighting units from Gazipur, Kaliakair and Kashimpur rushed to the spot and doused the fire after five hours of frantic effort, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, no injuries or causalities were reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The origin of the fire could not be known yet, said the officer. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 05:17:21', '2022-11-13 05:17:21'),
(2989, 2989, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The 74th birth anniversary of legendary writer, lyricist, academician, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed is being observed on Sunday.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Often regarded as one of the best writers in Bengali literature Humayun Ahmed is credited with revitalizing Bengali literature and is best known for his iconic fictional characterisations such as ‘Himu’, ‘Misir Ali’, ‘Baker Bhai’ and others, as well as for his ‘magic-realism’ based storytelling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Making the breakthrough in the Bengali litmosphere with his debut novel Nondito Noroke (1972), Humayun wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh and are still popular among his readers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Remembering Humayun Ahmed on his 10th death anniversary</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unanimously regarded as the bestseller author at the Ekushey Book Fairs during the 1990s and 2000s, the majestic litterateur received Ekushey Padak, Bangla Academy Award, Lekhak Shibir Award, Shishu Academy Award, Michael Madhusudan Padak, Bachsas Award and more, for his outstanding contributions to the Bengali culture and entertainment sphere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a successful content-maker in television, Ahmed debuted with his drama \'Prothom Prohor\' (1983) for Bangladesh Television (BTV).&nbsp; His successful journey in television continued with popular drama serials \'Ei Shob Din Ratri\', \'Bohubrihi\', \'Ayomoy\', \'Nokkhotrer Raat\', \'Aaj Robibar\' and most notably, \'Kothao Keu Nei\' for the character of ‘Baker Bhai’ played by eminent actor Asaduzzaman Noor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Humayun Ahmed also explored success as a filmmaker in the early 1990s and went on to make a total of eight films in his filmmaking career, each based on his own novels. Two of his films, \'Sjyamol Chhaya\' (2004) and \'Ghetuputra Komola\' (2012) were the official Bangladeshi submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in their respective releasing years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He received seven Bangladesh National Film Awards in different categories for the films Shonkhonil Karagar\' (as scriptwriter), \'Aguner Poroshmoni\', \'Daruchini Dwip\' and \'Ghetuputra Komola\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Remembering Humayun Ahmed, a polymath par excellence</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commemorating his life and legacy, family members and different organisations along with his admirers are set to observe Humayun Ahmed’s birth anniversary today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Humayun Ahmed’s widow and cultural personality Meher Afroz Shaon, alongside their sons Nishad Humayun and Ninith Humayun, began the day with admirers of the legendary litterateur at their house ‘Dakhin Hawa’ in the capital through a cake-cutting ceremony at 12 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Himu Paribahan, a noted fan group of the eminent writer, has been observing his birth anniversary for many years. It organised a special procession where the members walked barefoot on the Dhaka University campus and placed floral wreaths on Humayun’s grave in Nuhash Polli, Gazipur, in the morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among other events, Channel-i will organise a daylong Humayun Mela at its Tejgaon office and theatre troupe Bahubachan will premiere its play ‘Ami Ebong Amra’, based on the famous book of Humayun’s ‘Misir Ali’ series, at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) at 6:30 pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the EXIM Bank-Anyadin Humayun Ahmed Literary Award 2022 was presented among the recipients, marking the eve of the 74th birth anniversary of Humayun Ahmed at Bangla Academy’s Abdul Karim Shattya Bisharad Auditorium on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ekushey Padak-winning renowned writer Anwara Syed Haq received the award this year for her literary contribution to the country’s literature arena, while Mouri Morium won the award in the Young Litterateur Category which is awarded to under 40-year-old writers, for her novel ‘Fanus\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agriculture Minister Mohammad Abdur Razzaque was present as chief guest at the ceremony, while State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid also joined the event as the special guest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyadin Editor Mazharul Islam, EXIM Bank Additional Managing Director Shah Md Abdul Bari and Meher Afroz Shaon spoke at the event, which was presided over by the EXIM Bank-Anyadin Humayun Ahmed Literary Award jury board President and eminent academician Syed Manzoorul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2015, the ceremony is being held annually on November 12, the day before the eminent litterateur\'s birth anniversary. So far, 14 young and senior writers have received the award till date. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 05:30:46', '2022-11-13 05:30:46'),
(2990, 2990, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated \"Made in Bangladesh Week-2022\", aiming to showcase the capability of the country\'s apparel sector before the world.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The week-long event was opened this morning at the Hall of Fame of Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital with the theme of \"Care for Fashion\" that will continue till 18th November.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Promoting \"Made in Bangladesh\" is the main objective of the event as Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) wants to keep its market share and also to increase the market share of Bangladeshi apparel in the global market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weeklong mega event would also create opportunities for the partners of the global value chain to work together to face the global challenges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the grand opening, a display zone at the Carnival Hall, titled \"Experience the Transformation of RMG Towards Sustainability and Innovation\", was also inaugurated which will remain open till 6pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the opening ceremony, the premier also unveiled two coffee table books, on which BGMEA has been working since the beginning of this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first book titled \"The Untold Stories of Bangladesh RMG Industry: Economic, Social and Environmental Good Practices\" aims to highlight the positive changes that have occurred in the industry throughout the years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second book is named \"Beauty of Bangladesh\" through which BGMEA tried to articulate the unseen beauty of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from these two books, BGMEA will launch two other coffee table books after the events. One\'s title is \"Heritage of Bangladesh\", while another will be prepared by compiling all the pictures received for Made in Bangladesh (MIB) photography award.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIB Week 2022 is not BGMEA\'s individual event and it is not being organised to brand BGMEA, rather the whole industry and Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mega event MIB Week 2022 has, in fact, started on Saturday morning through a golf tournament at Kurmitola Golf Club, said BGMEA President Faruque Hassan at “a Meet the Press” yesterday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People from home and abroad, especially international buyers and associates, joined the tournament. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 07:01:16', '2022-11-13 07:01:16'),
(2991, 2991, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukrainians on Saturday celebrated Russia\'s retreat from Kherson, as Kyiv said it was working to de-mine the strategic southern city, record Russian crimes and restore power across the region.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kherson was one of four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed in September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weeks later, the Russian retreat from the city of Kherson has boosted Ukrainian resistance after nearly nine months of fighting and hardship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the formerly occupied village of Pravdyne, outside Kherson, returning locals embraced their neighbours, with some unable to hold back tears.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Victory, finally!\" said Svitlana Galak, who lost her eldest daughter in the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Thank god we\'ve been liberated and everything will now fall into place,\" the 43-year-old told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are Ukraine,\" added her husband, Viktor, 44.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several disabled anti-tank mines and grenades could be seen in the settlement, which is home to a Polish Roman Catholic church, with a number of damaged buildings also visible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking from Kherson city centre, Yaroslav Yanushevych, head of the regional state administration, said everything was being done to \"return normal life\" to the area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While de-mining is carried out, a curfew has been put in place and movement in and out of the city has been limited, Yanushevych explained in a video posted to social media, in which people could be seen celebrating in the background.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Images distributed by the Ukrainian military showed Kherson residents dancing around a bonfire singing \"Chervona Kalyna\", a patriotic song.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today, we all feel elation,\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday after declaring the day before that the Black Sea city was back in Kyiv\'s hands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Evacuation orders -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson city -- which serves as a gateway to the Black Sea -- was the first major urban hub to fall after Russia invaded in February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Before fleeing Kherson, the occupiers destroyed all critical infrastructure -- communication, water supply, heat, electricity,\" Zelensky said, adding that nearly 2,000 explosives had been removed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that Ukraine\'s forces had established control over more than 60 settlements in the Kherson region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After an eight-month Russian occupation, Ukrainian television resumed broadcasting in the city and the region\'s energy provider said it was working to restore power supplies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s police chief Igor Klymenko said around 200 officers were erecting roadblocks and recording \"crimes of the Russian occupiers\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged Kherson residents to watch out for possible landmines laid by the Russian troops, saying one policeman had been wounded while de-mining an administrative building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A woman and two children were taken to hospital with injuries after an explosive device went off near their car in the village of Mylove, police said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Berislav district of the Kherson region, Ukrainian police said Russian shelling left \"dead and wounded\", without providing further details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Across the Dnipro River in the east, local pro-Moscow authorities in Kakhovka district issued an evacuation order to its employees to head to the Russian region of Krasnodar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today, the administration is the number one terrorist attack target for Ukraine\'s Armed Forces,\" according to a post on an official Telegram channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is why by order of the Kherson region government... we are moving to a more secure territory, from where we will be governing the area,\" it said, referring to the Russia-installed body.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s Armed Forces said Saturday evening that Russian forces were currently \"strengthening fortification equipment of the defensive lines on the left bank of the Dnipro\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson\'s full recapture would open a gateway for Ukraine to the entire Kherson region, with access to both the Black Sea in the west and the Sea of Azov in the east.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Nuclear hint -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, an increasingly isolated Putin spoke by phone with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, pledging to intensify political and trade cooperation, the Kremlin said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s former president Dmitry Medvedev hinted again that Moscow could use nuclear weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For reasons that are obvious to all reasonable people, Russia has not yet used its entire arsenal of possible means of destruction,\" Medvedev said on messaging app Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is a time for everything.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blinken hailed the \"remarkable courage\" of Ukraine\'s military and people and vowed US support \"will continue for as long as it takes\" to defeat Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In London, British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Russia\'s \"strategic failure\" in Kherson could prompt ordinary Russians to question the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Ordinary people of Russia must surely ask themselves: \'What was it all for?\'\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the Kherson victory, Ukraine\'s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned that Russia is still \"mobilising more conscripts and bringing more weapons to Ukraine\" and called for the Western world\'s continued support.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kremlin has insisted that Kherson remains part of Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is a subject of the Russian Federation. There are no changes in this and there cannot be changes,\" spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Ukrainian recapture of the whole Kherson region would disrupt a land bridge for Russia between its mainland and the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 07:17:50', '2022-11-13 07:17:50'),
(2992, 2992, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Jos Buttler has won the toss and chosen to bowl first at the MCG. The rain threat that seemed to be looming on this match for the last three days seems to have cleared off fow now with the area around the stadium hardly receiving any rain today. </b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Both England and Pakistan are chasing their second T20 World Cup title, having the tournament in 2010 and 2009 respectively. England made it to the final after giving India a 10-wicket hiding in the semi-final. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan, on the other hand, sneaked through to the semis after South Africa fell to a stunning defeat to the Netherlands after which they brushed aside New Zealand with a seven-wicket win. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Buttler said</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“We are going to bowl first. Huge game, good nerves and there\'s a lot of good energy around the team. Great energy in the stadium and we are looking forward to a great game. Both teams come into this final in red hot form and we are looking forward to a tough challenge. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think it is a good wicket and hopefully it will stay the same throughout. Obviously there\'s a little bit of weather around which is why we chose to bowl. We start fresh today, we bring confidence from the other day but we know it counts for nothing today. Same team.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Pakistan XI</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Mohammad Haris, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b> England XI</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jos Buttler(w/c), Alex Hales, Philip Salt, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 07:47:04', '2022-11-13 08:01:52'),
(2993, 2993, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called upon the foreign businessmen and entrepreneurs to choose Bangladesh for investment and sourcing as the country has turned into the best favourable destination for it.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I urge the foreign businessmen to choose Bangladesh for investment and sourcing to avail the win-win situation and convenience of business as Bangladesh is the best place for it,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She made this call while addressing the opening ceremony of the first ever \"Made in Bangladesh Week-2022\" in city\'s Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) as the chief guest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) organised the weeklong event to showcase the capability of the country\'s apparel sector before the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sheikh Hasina also urged the country\'s businessmen to find out their foreign partners to utilise their technology and knowledge in the local industries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"To welcome the foreign investment, I would urge the local businessmen to explore your foreign partners. You can utilize their technology and knowledge in our industry. Now an excellent investment environment prevails in Bangladesh. So, avail this opportunity,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sheikh Hasina said the policy of Bangladesh is investment-friendly. The duty-free quota-free (DFQF) access of Bangladeshi products to different foreign markets attracts world investors, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I would like to urge diplomats and foreign businessmen to choose Bangladesh for the sake of their business,\" she said, adding that Bangladesh is one of the most favorable destinations for investment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The prime minister said Bangladesh is developing connectivity with South Asia and South East Asia as this region is a huge market due to its large population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Bangladesh is connecting with Trans-Asian railway and Trans-Asian highway. In addition, we are also developing waterways, airways and railways communications,\" she said, adding it has to keep in mind that this region is a huge market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Noting that Bangladesh is setting up 100 special economic zones in different parts of the country, she said, \"We want local and foreign investment in those zones.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sheikh Hasina stressed the need for the development of agricultural goods processing and setting up the food processing industry in the economic zones as the demand for agro-goods and food items would never decline in local and foreign markets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Earlier of her address, Sheikh Hasina went round different stalls at the exhibition venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Prime Minister\'s Private Industry and Investment Affairs Adviser Salman F Rahman, International Apparel Federation President Cem Atlan and BGMEA Senior Vice President SM Mannan (Kochi) also spoke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">BGMEA President Faruque Hassan delivered the welcome address.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">BGMEA First Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam and Vice President Md. Shahidullah Azim were present on the dias.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Theme song of \"Made in Bangladesh\" was played and a video documentary was screened while another two audio-visuals on progress and prospect of Bangladesh\'s economy and women empowerment were also played at the ceremony.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At the outset of the function, BGMEA President Faruque Hassan presented a green tree and a crest to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Four businessmen were awarded at the ceremony for their outstanding contribution to the export.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The week-long event was opened with the theme \"Care for Fashion\" that will continue till 18th November.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Promoting \"Made in Bangladesh\" is the main objective of the event as BGMEA wants to keep its market share and also to increase the market share of Bangladeshi apparel in the global market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The mega event would also create opportunities for the partners of the global value chain to work together to face the global challenges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At the opening ceremony, the premier also unveiled two coffee table books, on which BGMEA has been working since the beginning of this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The first book titled \"The Untold Stories of Bangladesh RMG Industry: Economic, Social and Environmental Good Practices\" aims to highlight the positive changes that have occurred in the industry throughout the years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The second book is titled \"Beauty of Bangladesh\" through which BGMEA tried to articulate the unseen beauty of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">MIB Week 2022 is not BGMEA\'s individual event and it is not being organised to brand BGMEA, rather the whole industry and Bangladesh. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 08:18:23', '2022-11-13 08:18:23'),
(2994, 2994, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Republican midterm flameout is now official. Democrats have retained control of the US Senate. Here\'s why that matters.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Four days after tens of millions of Americans went to the polls, Catherine Cortez Masto\'s narrow victory in Nevada late on Saturday finally delivered a decisive result in the national political battle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Democrats now lead 50 seats to 49 in the upper chamber of the US Congress. Even if Republicans win the remaining Senate race in Georgia, Vice-President Kamala Harris will be able to cast a tie-breaking vote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">That\'s been the case for the past two years, of course - and it paves the way for President Joe Biden to spend two more years filling the federal courts with his nominees and staffing his administration largely the way he sees fit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Most significantly, should a Supreme Court seat become vacant due to an unexpected retirement or death of a justice, the Republicans would not be able to block Mr Biden\'s choice. Democrats remember how back in 2016, then-Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell prevented Barack Obama\'s nominee from getting a hearing at all.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The win in Nevada means the Georgia Senate run-off on 6 December is no longer a pivotal contest to determine control of the chamber. Mr Biden, however, said \"it\'s simply better\" for Democrats to get to 51 seats. The extra cushion certainly makes it easier to manage a majority and it will also help in 2024 when the party will have more at-risk seats to defend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">There is still a likelihood, although not certainty, that the Republicans will control a slim majority in the House of Representatives, bringing a variety of headaches for the president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">His legislative agenda is dead, and more aggressive Republican oversight is in store, but even that has a silver lining - if his political opponents are unable to effectively govern due to internal discord.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The consequences of this history-defying midterm election result are still being revealed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Donald Trump\'s political future has been damaged, although how enduringly remains to be seen. Joe Biden\'s standing within his party has been bolstered. The political world in the US looks considerably different than it did just a week ago. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 08:28:52', '2022-11-13 08:28:52'),
(2995, 2995, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday said the \"Road to Makkah\" memorandum of understanding has been signed with Saudi Arabia for the purpose of training and data exchange between the law enforcement forces of the two countries.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">This will make it easier for Bangladeshi pilgrims to go to Saudi Arabia for Hajj and Umrah, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The home minister came up with the remarks after a meeting with the visiting deputy minister of interior of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Dawood, held at the Home Ministry on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">During the meeting, two memorandums of understanding -- \'Security Cooperation\' and \'Road to Makkah\' -- were&nbsp; signed between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. The MoU on security cooperation includes capacity building, skills development and exchange of visits between members of the security forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Briefing reporters after the meeting, the home minister said that earlier Bangladeshis had to wait in long queues for the immigration process to go to Saudi Arabia -- for performing Hajj. But from now on, thanks to the \'Road to Makkah\' MoU, the process of going to Hajj for Bangladeshis will be completed in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">About the Rohingya issue discussed in the meeting, the home minister said that about three lakh Rohingyas are staying in Saudi Arabia. Many of them are carrying Bangladeshi passports. The Saudi government has demanded the renewal of their passports. \"We have given them assurance to consider the issue. Besides, we also sought the cooperation of the Saudi government to send the Rohingyas back to Myanmar,\" the home minister said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 08:52:15', '2022-11-13 08:52:15'),
(2996, 2996, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) today made an application for the cancellation of bail granted to two removed Trustee Board members of North South University (NSU) in a money laundering case.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On November 10, former NSU trustees-MA Kashem and Rehana Rahman were granted conditional bail by High Court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Earlier this year on May 22, bail plea of four Trustee Board members of North South University (NSU) were scrapped by the High Court in a case lodged over alleged embezzlement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The court also ordered Shahbagh police to arrest them immediately and produce before the trial court within 24 hours in connection with the case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The other two accused in the case are- Benajir Ahmed, and Mohammad Shajahan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The ACC on May 12 filed the case against six, including the chairman of the trustee board, for embezzling Taka 303.82 crore from the university\'s funds for purchasing land for its campus. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 09:06:35', '2022-11-13 09:06:35');
INSERT INTO `news_details` (`id`, `news_id`, `details`, `ticker`, `representative`, `keyword`, `video_link`, `google_drive_link`, `audio_link`, `shoulder`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(2997, 2997, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated \"Made in Bangladesh Week-2022\", aiming to showcase the capability of the country\'s apparel sector before the world.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The week-long event was opened this morning at the Hall of Fame of Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital with the theme of \"Care for Fashion\" that will continue till 18th November.</div><div><br></div><div>Promoting \"Made in Bangladesh\" is the main objective of the event as Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) wants to keep its market share and also to increase the market share of Bangladeshi apparel in the global market.</div><div><br></div><div>The weeklong mega event would also create opportunities for the partners of the global value chain to work together to face the global challenges.</div><div><br></div><div>After the grand opening, a display zone at the Carnival Hall, titled \"Experience the Transformation of RMG Towards Sustainability and Innovation\", was also inaugurated which will remain open till 6pm.</div><div><br></div><div>At the opening ceremony, the premier also unveiled two coffee table books, on which BGMEA has been working since the beginning of this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The first book titled \"The Untold Stories of Bangladesh RMG Industry: Economic, Social and Environmental Good Practices\" aims to highlight the positive changes that have occurred in the industry throughout the years.</div><div><br></div><div>The second book is named \"Beauty of Bangladesh\" through which BGMEA tried to articulate the unseen beauty of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from these two books, BGMEA will launch two other coffee table books after the events. One\'s title is \"Heritage of Bangladesh\", while another will be prepared by compiling all the pictures received for Made in Bangladesh (MIB) photography award.</div><div><br></div><div>MIB Week 2022 is not BGMEA\'s individual event and it is not being organised to brand BGMEA, rather the whole industry and Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>The mega event MIB Week 2022 has, in fact, started on Saturday morning through a golf tournament at Kurmitola Golf Club, said BGMEA President Faruque Hassan at “a Meet the Press” yesterday.</div><div><br></div><div>People from home and abroad, especially international buyers and associates, joined the tournament. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 09:35:54', '2022-11-13 09:35:54'),
(2998, 2998, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">‘Ityadi’-famed singer Akbar Ali Gazi, commonly known by his stage name Akbar, passed away at a hospital on Sunday afternoon, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The singer breathed his last at capital’s Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) hospital while undergoing treatment.</div><div><br></div><div>Akbar\'s daughter Athoi confirmed the news to media.</div><div>Akbar has been suffering from diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease and other complications since 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>His right leg amputated due to health complications on October 16.</div><div><br></div><div>Akbar came into the limelight after performing at popular programme ‘Ityadi’ in 2003, where he rendered the song ‘Ekdin Pakhi Ure Jabe Je Akashe’. Before his TV appearance, he was making a living as a rickshaw puller.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina donated Tk 20 lakh for his treatment last year.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 10:09:37', '2022-11-13 10:09:37'),
(2999, 2999, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sam Curran bagged three wickets for just 12 runs as England held Pakistan to 137-8 in the Twenty20 World Cup final at a heaving Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With forecast rain staying away, England produced disciplined and economical bowling to stymie the 2009 champions who never really got going, with Shan Masood\'s 38 the top score.</div><div><br></div><div>Curran was deadly, accounting for Mohammad Rizwan, Masood and Mohammad Nawaz.</div><div><br></div><div>Adil Rashid\'s leg spin also proved crucial, removing the dangerous Mohammad Haris with his opening ball then getting the crucial wicket of Babar Azam to end with 2-22.</div><div><br></div><div>Jos Buttler\'s England, who reached the final with a thumping 10-wicket win over India, are aiming to become the sport\'s first-ever dual white-ball champions after winning the 50-over World Cup in 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>Both teams are looking for a second T20 title after Pakistan\'s success in 2009 and England\'s a year later.</div><div><br></div><div>England, who were again without injured batsman Dawid Malan and pace bowler Mark Wood, won the toss and sent Pakistan into bat.</div><div><br></div><div>Ben Stokes was given the new ball and Pakistan were lucky to survive the over intact, with a nervy Mohammad Rizwan almost run out going for a risky single.</div><div><br></div><div>If Chris Jordan\'s throw had been a direct hit he would have been gone.</div><div><br></div><div>Rizwan and Azam shared a century partnership in the semi-final against New Zealand and soon settled, with Rizwan clearing the ropes off Chris Woakes for the first six of the night in the fourth over.</div><div><br></div><div>But another big stand wasn\'t to be, with Rizwan dragging a delivery from Curran on to his stumps on 15.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan, who powered past New Zealand by seven wickets to make the final, managed just 39-1 off the six-over powerplay, where only two fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle.</div><div><br></div><div>The introduction of Rashid soon after reaped an immediate reward with Haris (8) attacking him on his first ball only to sky a simple catch to Stokes.</div><div><br></div><div>Azam led Pakistan to 68-2 at the halfway point of the innings and then Masood began swinging the bat, hitting a four and six off Liam Livingstone.</div><div><br></div><div>But once again Rashid got the breakthrough, pulling off a diving catch from his own bowling to claim the vital wicket of Azam, whose 32 came off 28 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>Iftikhar Ahmed only lasted six balls before Masood and Shadab Khan (20) fell in the space of two runs as Curran and Chris Jordan kept the lid on any hope Pakistan had of a late flurry. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 10:16:35', '2022-11-13 10:16:35'),
(3000, 3000, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have signed two Memorandum of Understandings- on security cooperation and ‘Route to Mecca’ Initiative- for training and data exchange between the law enforcement agencies of the two countries and easing visit of Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan briefed reporters about the MoUs after a meeting with visiting Deputy Minister of Interior of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Dr Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Dawood&nbsp; at the Home Ministry on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Security cooperation includes capacity building, skills development and exchange of visits between members of the security forces, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The Home Minister said that earlier Bangladeshis had to wait in long queues for the immigration process to go to Saudi Arabia for performing Hajj. But from now, the immigration process for going to KSA for Hajj will be completed in Dhaka due to signing ‘Route to Mecca’ MOU.</div><div><br></div><div>About Rohingya issue, the Home Minister said about three lakh Rohingyas are staying in Saudi Arabia and many of them have Bangladeshi passports.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Saudi government want the renewal of their passports. We have given them assurance to consider the issue.&nbsp; Besides, we also sought the cooperation of the Saudi government to send the Rohingyas back to Myanmar,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 10:36:12', '2022-11-13 10:36:12'),
(3001, 3001, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prince Harry\'s wife Meghan Markle outshined King Charles III and Prince William – who is the heir to the throne, in the list of most influential royals, a study showed.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to a study of Financial World, it was revealed that Queen Elizabeth II is the most influential royal based on an analysis of Google searches, TikTok views and Instagram hashtags.</div><div><br></div><div>Queen Elizabeth II pulled in 4.7 million Google searches a month and has had 18.7 billion TikTok views.</div><div><br></div><div>King Charles III landed on the sixth spot while Prince William, the newly-appointed Prince of Wales, could only manage to the seventh spot.</div><div><br></div><div>Prince Harry\'s wife Meghan Markle ranked in the third spot but couldn’t manage to beat Kate Middleton who secured the second spot.</div><div><br></div><div>“Popularity and influence are vital for the tenure of the royal family, and this study provides a fascinating insight into the royals that have the widest reach and remain in the public\'s favour,” the spokesperson added.</div><div><br></div><div>Prince Harry was at the fourth spot while Princess Diana secured the fifth spot even after 25 years of her death. Source: Hindustan Times</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 10:43:51', '2022-11-13 10:43:51'),
(3002, 3002, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iranian security forces have killed at least 326 people in a crackdown on nationwide protests since Mahsa Amini\'s death in custody, Iran Human Rights said in an updated toll on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Islamic republic has been gripped by protests that erupted over the death of Amini on September 16, three days after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country\'s strict dress code for women.</div><div><br></div><div>The protests were fanned by fury over the dress rules for women, but have grown into a broad movement against the theocracy that has ruled Iran since the 1979 revolution.</div><div><br></div><div>\"At least 326 people, including 43 children and 25 women, have been killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests,\" Oslo-based IHR said in a statement posted on its website.</div><div><br></div><div>The latest toll represents an increase of 22 since the rights group issued its previous figures on November 5.</div><div><br></div><div>It includes at least 123 people killed in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, on Iran\'s southeastern border with Pakistan, a figure which is also up, from 118 in IHR\'s last toll.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of those were killed on September 30 when security forces opened fire on protesters after Friday prayers in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan - a massacre activists have dubbed \"Bloody Friday.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Those protests were triggered by the alleged rape in custody of a 15-year-old girl by a police commander in the province\'s port city of Chabahar.</div><div><br></div><div>Analysts say the Baluchi were inspired by the protests that flared over Amini\'s death, which were initially driven by women\'s rights but expanded over time to include other grievances.</div><div><br></div><div>IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam called on the international community to act as soon as possible to halt the crackdown.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Establishing an international investigation and accountability mechanism by the UN will both facilitate the process of holding the perpetrators accountable in the future and increase the cost of the continuous repression by the Islamic republic,\" he said in the statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Another rights group, Amnesty International, has also called for such a mechanism, which it said was supported by a petition signed by more than one million people.</div><div><br></div><div>IHR said it was still investigating reports of other deaths, meaning the actual number killed \"is certainly higher.\" Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 10:52:12', '2022-11-13 10:52:12'),
(3003, 3003, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ben Stokes and Sam Curran starred as England edged Pakistan to win the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday and become the sport\'s first dual white-ball champions, holding both the 50- and 20-over titles.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jos Buttler\'s side held Pakistan to 137-8 in front of a partisan 80,462 fans at a heaving Melbourne Cricket Ground before Stokes\'s unbeaten 52 steered them to a five-wicket victory with six balls remaining, reports AFP</div><div><br></div><div>If it is a World cup final, Ben Stokes is your man. After being the star of England\'s 2019 Cricket World Cup triumph on home soil, Stokes once again stepped up to the occasion by scoring a half-century and helping the Jos Buttler-led side lift the T20 World cup trophy for the second time in history with a five-wicket win over Pakistan. England have become the first team in history to hold both the 50 and 20-over World Cup trophy at the same time.</div><div><br></div><div>England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and stuck to the tried and tested plan of bowling first from the semi-final. Pakistan made a slow start to the game as Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed for a score of 15 in 14 balls. Mohammad Harris did not have a day to remember and departed early.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 11:56:39', '2022-11-13 11:56:39'),
(3004, 3004, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">We believe that making improvements to yourself is the key to being there for others in your life. Not only does self-improvement help you perform your best by taking steps to improve yourself, but your overall wellbeing will also be enhanced.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>People who make self-improvement a priority tend to have higher self-esteem and are also more resilient.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are eight self-improvement activities you can do any chance you get:</div><div><br></div><div>1► Set goals for yourself</div><div><br></div><div>☼ Setting goals will help you organize the things you want to achieve. You can do this by simply creating a list, or you can have some fun with it and make a vision board using pictures from magazines or the internet.</div><div><br></div><div>2►Surround yourself with people who want to see you do well</div><div>☼ Someone once said you are the sum of the people you spend the most time with. Ask yourself if the people you are spending time with want the best for you and your life. They should align with who you want to be.</div><div><br></div><div>3►Evaluate what isn’t working and eliminate those habits</div><div>☼Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Instead, take the time to evaluate what isn’t working and make the necessary improvements.</div><div><br></div><div>4► Learn a new activity or skill</div><div>☼This is a chance to step outside your comfort zone and do something you have always wanted to do. Progress is better than perfection. People are learning new skills on the internet, for free, all of the time! NO EXCUSES!</div><div><br></div><div>5► Eat healthily and hydrate daily</div><div>☼We are made up mostly of water. We also are what we eat, so it is essential to treat your body like a temple. Feed yourself nourishing items to make sure you have the energy to accomplish all of your goals.</div><div><br></div><div>6► Have compassion for yourself and others</div><div>☼ Compassion is a huge factor in how you perceive life’s occurrences. To learn how to have compassion for yourself and others, Family Builders offers a compassion class to help individuals learn how to cope with life’s obstacles.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 14:28:45', '2022-11-13 14:28:45'),
(3005, 3005, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Considering the current situation, Bangladesh will explore the possibility of cooperation in the energy sector with Russia during Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s planned official visit here later this month.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh will also discuss food grains supply and quick implementation of the projects that are in the pipeline including the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen hinted that these areas are likely to be discussed during the bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have invited him and there is a possibility that he will be here. We will welcome him, and the visit will give us an opportunity to highlight our challenges and priority issues with Russia,” he told reporters on Sunday after a seminar at Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS).</div><div><br></div><div>Masud also said Bangladesh wants Russia closer to Bangladesh to find a solution to the Rohingya crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>The Foreign Secretary, however, said there are still many days and reminded that Russia remains in an intensive situation.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The invitation to take part in the IORA meeting for Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has been received and the work is on as regards the possibility of this visit,\" an official at the Russian Embassy in Dhaka told UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Foreign Minister Momen invited his Russian counterpart to attend the 22nd IORA Council of Ministers (COM) meeting to be held in Dhaka on November 24.</div><div><br></div><div>The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is likely to be here on November 23 to discuss bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest apart from his key focus on the IORA meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia is a dialogue partner of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh, the current chair of IORA, expects over a dozen ministers including the Russian Foreign Minister at the meeting, a senior official told UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The Russian Foreign Minister is likely to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina apart from his bilateral meeting with Momen.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen met his Russian counterpart last month in Astana, Kazakhstan on the sidelines of the CICA Summit and apprised him of the current situation of the Rohingya.</div><div><br></div><div>He stressed the need for stronger international support for resolving the Rohingya crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>In August, Sergey Lavrov met with his counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin and other top Myanmar officials in Naypyitaw.</div><div><br></div><div>The IORA Council of Ministers meeting, to be hosted by Bangladesh, will be preceded by the 24th meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) to be held on November 22-23.</div><div><br></div><div>The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) is an inter-governmental organisation aimed at strengthening regional cooperation and sustainable development within the Indian Ocean region through its 23 Member States and 10 dialogue partners.</div><div><br></div><div>IORA member states are Australia, Bangladesh, Union of Comoros, French Republic, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Republic of Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Seychelles, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.</div><div><br></div><div>The 23 member states of IORA and 10 dialogue partners are expected to join the ministerial and senior official meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh assumed the position of the IORA Chair at the 21st IORA COM meeting in Dhaka held on 17 November 2021 and adopted the theme of “Harnessing the opportunities of the Indian Ocean sustainably for inclusive development.” - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 14:30:32', '2022-11-13 14:30:32'),
(3006, 3006, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor, producer, and entrepreneur Priyanka Chopra enjoys a massive fan following not only in Bollywood but also in Hollywood.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Recently, the actress opened up about her journey in Hollywood and how the diversity in the entertainment industry is an exciting time for actors.</div><div><br></div><div>The \'The Sky Is Pink\' actress stated that as an actor she was always thinking about an opportunity in English language movies because they travel universally vs a specific language.</div><div><br></div><div>Eloborating further, she added that it is a really exciting time to not just be able to be a part of cinema no matter where in the world you are from, but to be a part of Holywood English international cinema which was always a check in the box for actors like her who come from outside of America, it feels so inclusive.</div><div><br></div><div>Priyanka further added that diversity now feels more real to her. She said that streaming has given us the ability to not just be a part of English-language movies but also they have our movies.</div><div><br></div><div>She further revealed that her mother watches Korean dramas all night. The actress is very excited to be able to see such incredible diversity.</div><div><br></div><div>On the work front, Priyanka will soon be seen in ‘Love Again’, co-starring Sam Heughan and Celine Dion. She also has OTT series ‘Citadel’, which is backed by Russo Brothers. Back in Bollywood, Priyanka has signed up to play the lead in Farhan Akhtar\'s upcoming film ‘Jee Le Zaraa’, which also features Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif in lead roles. This road trip drama is scheduled to go on floors next year. Source: Times of India</div><div><br></div><div>bnbbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 15:21:10', '2022-11-13 15:21:10'),
(3007, 3007, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With three more deaths reported in 24 hours till Sunday morning, this year’s fatalities from Dengue climbed to 202.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this period, 859 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>Among the latest deaths, two were reported from Barishal and another was reported from Chattogram , taking the death toll in these two divisions to nine and&nbsp; 51, respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile death toll remained unchanged at 121 in Dhaka, 10 in Khulna , six in Rajshahi, five in Mymensingh divisions</div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, 426 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 433 outside it, according to the DGHS.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 3,189 dengue patients, including 1,885 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The directorate has recorded 48,529 dengue cases and 45, 138 recoveries so far this year.</div><div><br></div><div>This year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease reached 182 on Tuesday, exceeding all previous records in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier the country recorded the highest 179 deaths from Dengue in a year in 2019. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 15:27:19', '2022-11-13 15:27:19'),
(3008, 3008, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After the launch of Instagram Reels in August, Meta has now brought Facebook Reels to everyone in Bangladesh, introducing short-form, entertaining video experiences and tools to creators and audiences on the Facebook app.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It is available for both iOS and Android users, Meta said in a statement Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Reels gives people a new outlet to express their creativity with the ability to record videos, select music, and add photos and timed text. It helps creators expand the reach of their content, and for new creators to be discovered,\" it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Meta has expanded the availability of Facebook Reels for iOS and Android to more than 150 countries across the globe.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'re also introducing better ways to help creators to earn money, new creation tools and more places to watch and create Facebook Reels,\" the company said.</div><div><br></div><div>Meta is focusing on making Reels the best way for creators to get discovered, connect with their audience and earn money. The company also wants to make it fun and easy for people to find and share relevant and entertaining content.</div><div><br></div><div>Since Facebook Reels\' launching in the US, it has seen creators like Kurt Tocci (and his cat, Zeus) share original comedic skits, author and Bulletin writer Andrea Gibson offer a reading of their published poetry, Nigerian-American couple Ling and Lamb try new foods and dancer and creator Niana Guerrero do trending dances, like the #ZooChallenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladeshi content creators like Raba Khan, Ridy Sheikh, and Petuk Couple also shared their reels under the #ReelDeshi hashtag and invited others to create their videos to show what makes them real \"deshis.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>These one-minute travel stories, dance challenges and recipes, show glimpses of the historic sites, music and food of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>\"At Meta, we are always testing new ways for people to express themselves and entertain others. Reels have been inspiring Bangladeshi creators on Instagram, and now people on Facebook can discover more entertaining content, and creators can reach new audiences,\" Jordi Fornies, Meta\'s director of emerging markets in Asia Pacific, said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are excited to see the creativity and connections that Reels will unlock for the Bangladeshi Facebook community.\"</div><div><br></div><div>According to Meta, video makes up more than 50 percent of the time spent on Facebook. \"There is growing interest in watching fun, entertaining short-form videos, and expressing themselves by making their own.\" - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 15:31:24', '2022-11-13 15:31:24'),
(3009, 3009, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today urged BNP to stop daydreaming of the restoration of the obsolete caretaker government system ahead of the next general elections, claiming it is in museum now.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The restoration of the caretaker government is now a capricious demand. It is in museum now,” he told the triennial conference of Jhenaidah District Awami League held on Jhenaidah Water Development Board ground this afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking as the chief guest, Quader said seeing the development of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina government, the BNP leaders are now irritated and they have been conducting a movement to bring the lost throne of Hawa Bhaban back.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the BNP has started nomination trade and it also begins a process of making lawmakers by collecting money from them.</div><div><br></div><div>Asking the BNP leaders not to cross their limit, Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said: “Your (BNP’s ) movement falls flat and you will be defeated in polls too”.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>AL joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif inaugurated the conference, while its joint general secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretary BM Mozammel Haque and executive members Adv Amirul Alam Milon, Parveen Zaman Kalpana and Gloria Sarkar Jharna, among others, spoke at the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Jhenaidah District AL president Abdul Hai, MP, presided over the conference, while its general secretary Saidul Karim Mintu moderated it.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, Abdul Hai and Saidul Karim Mintu were reelected as the Jhenaidah District AL president and general secretary respectively. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 16:26:19', '2022-11-13 16:26:19'),
(3010, 3010, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam today sought Saudi Arabia’s continuous cooperation and support for an early and sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alam made the urge while he called on the visiting Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Dr. Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Dawood at a city hotel, a foreign ministry press release said.</div><div><br></div><div>During the meeting the state minister briefed the deputy interior minister about the situation arising out of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals currently sheltered in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>At the outset, both sides discussed a range of bilateral issues and recalled the existing excellent bilateral relations between the two countries.</div><div><br></div><div>They also underscored the need to work together in all areas of cooperation for the mutual benefits of the two peoples.</div><div><br></div><div>Alam expressed satisfaction for signing Mecca Road Initiative agreement which will enable the pre-immigration process of Hajj in Dhaka and ultimately ease the holy journey of Bangladeshi pilgrims, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>He also expressed Bangladesh’s interest in buying Arabian crude oil from Saudi Arabia, the release said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 16:31:21', '2022-11-13 16:31:21'),
(3011, 3011, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Bangladesh Bank today said that the deposits of common people in banks are totally safe.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The central bank said this today in response to propaganda in various social media stating that the commoners are withdrawing their deposits from the banks.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is not correct and is being made out of conspiracy,\" according to a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>Urging the countrymen to keep their utmost trust and confidence over the country\'s banking system, the Bangladesh Bank asserted that the banking system of Bangladesh has been in a very solid condition while there is no crisis of liquidity.</div><div><br></div><div>The central bank also mentioned that no bank was closed down in the country since Independence and hopefully no bank will be closed in future also. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-13 16:39:29', '2022-11-13 16:39:29'),
(3012, 3012, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that investigators have uncovered more than 400 war crimes in areas of Kherson abandoned by Russian forces as they retreated.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Zelensky said the bodies of civilians and soldiers had been found.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC has been unable to verify the allegations. Moscow denies its troops intentionally target civilians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities have imposed a curfew and restricted travel in and out of Kherson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In the Kherson region, the Russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country, where it was able to enter,\" Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will find and bring to justice every murderer. Without a doubt.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the start of the war, mass graves have been found in areas including Bucha, Izyum and Mariupol. Ukraine has accused Russian troops of being behind the atrocities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A UN commission last month said that war crimes had been committed in Ukraine and that Russian forces were responsible for the \"vast majority\" of human rights violations at the start of the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson was the only regional capital to be captured by Russia since the February invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The region, along with three others, was proclaimed by President Vladimir Putin to be part of Russia, at a ceremony in the Kremlin in September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Kherson city was liberated by Ukrainian troops on Friday. Crowds of flag-waving Ukrainians greeted Kyiv\'s soldiers with hugs and kisses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials have returned to run Kherson\'s administration after the retreat of some 30,000 Russian occupation troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainians see it as a major national victory and humiliation for the Kremlin, on a par with the Russian withdrawal from the Kyiv suburbs in March.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are fears that some Russian soldiers may have remained behind in disguise, while collaborators who helped the Russians during the occupation are now liable to be prosecuted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Zelensky said detention of Russian soldiers and mercenaries \"who were left behind in this territory and neutralisation of saboteurs are also ongoing\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian forces are working to restore internet and television connections, while electricity and water supplies will be fixed \"as soon as possible\", he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are fears that Russian troops, now digging in on the opposite bank of the Dnipro river, may resume shelling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson officials have banned use of river transport from 13 to 19 November.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian explosives litter the region, and locals who fled have been warned not to return until their homes have been checked for mines or booby traps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson governor Yaroslav Yanushevych has told citizens to avoid crowded places and stay away from the city centre on Monday because the military will be de-mining there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The overnight curfew runs from 17:00 to 08:00 (15:00 to 06:00 GMT). BCC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 03:28:58', '2022-11-14 03:28:58'),
(3013, 3013, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least six people have been killed and 81 wounded in an explosion in a busy area of central Istanbul, Turkish authorities have said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blast happened at about 16:20 local time (13:20 GMT) on a shopping street in the Taksim Square area, the Turkish city\'s governor Ali Yerlikaya said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A suspect has now been arrested, the interior minister said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice-President Fuat Oktay earlier said the blast was thought to be a terrorist attack carried out by a woman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the perpetrators would be punished.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a news conference in Istanbul, he condemned what he called the \"vile attack\" and said \"the smell of terror\" was in the air.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told Turkish media a woman had sat on a bench in the area for more than 40 minutes, leaving just minutes before the blast took place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday morning, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said a person suspected of having left the bomb had been arrested by police, and accused the Kurdistan Workers\' Party (PKK) of responsibility.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PKK is a militant group which calls for an independent Kurdish state within Turkey. The EU and the US regard it as a terrorist organisation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one has so far claimed responsibility for the blast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government minister Derya Yanik wrote in a tweet that a government ministry employee and his young daughter were among the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BBC correspondent Orla Guerin, who is in the area, said there was a heavy police presence around Istiklal Street, which had been cordoned off. Helicopters were circling overhead as ambulances went back and forth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many shopkeepers standing in their doorways on the normally bustling street looked stunned, she said, adding that the incident will have come as a shock to many in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hayat, who was in an internet café on Istiklal Street when the blast took place, said there was turmoil following the explosion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I saw people running around and wounded people were passing by the internet café towards hospital,\" she said. \"It was a frenzy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another eyewitness, Cemal Denizci, was about 50m (54 yards) from where the blast took place when it happened. \"There was black smoke. The noise was so strong, almost deafening,\" he told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">20-year-old Eyup told the BBC \"there is fear\" among residents of Istanbul following the attack, adding that more people may choose to stay away from crowded areas like Taksim.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the wake of the attack, condolences to Turkey have poured in from around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US said it stood \"shoulder-to-shoulder\" with its Nato ally in \"countering terrorism,\" according to a statement from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">French President Emmanuel Macron wrote in a tweet in Turkish: \"We share your pain... We are with you in the fight against terrorism.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, also writing in a tweet in Turkish, said: \"The pain of the friendly Turkish people is our pain.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Countries including Pakistan, Italy and Greece also expressed their solidarity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Istiklal street - one of the city\'s main arteries which is usually packed with shoppers - was previously targeted by a suicide bomber in 2016. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 03:34:01', '2022-11-14 03:34:01'),
(3014, 3014, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Kylian Mbappe scored and came through unscathed along with fellow Paris Saint-Germain stars Lionel Messi and Neymar in their final match before the World Cup, a 5-0 Ligue 1 rout of Auxerre on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The news was less good for Morocco\'s World Cup hopes as Marseille striker Amine Harit was carried off after injuring a knee in his side\'s 3-2 win over Monaco in the evening in the last Ligue 1 game before the break.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PSG coach Christophe Galtier opted not to rest the attacking trio against the Burgundy side as the French champions sought to extend their lead at the top of the table before the break for the tournament in Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"None of my players had sent me a signal of fear,\" said Galtier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My obsession was that my team could express themselves as freely as possible without the psychosis of an injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The players responded present, were serious, focussed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It would have been a great sadness for me if one of my players were injured before the World Cup and I quickly made the changes to spare each of them.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe scored the opener after 11 minutes in Paris for his 12th league goal this season after good work by Messi and two other World Cup bound players Moroccan Achraf Hakimi and Portuguese Nuno Mendes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spain\'s Carlos Soler nodded in the second after 51 minutes and then set up Hakimi for the third six minutes later. Two players who are not going to Qatar, Renato Sanches and Hugo Ekitike came off the bench and added goals in the final ten minutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Parisians moved five points ahead of Lens, who won 2-1 at home against Clermont on Saturday, with Rennes a further five points adrift in third.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Galtier added: \"We are first and undefeated, we worked on different systems and it took us time to find the better solution so that my fantastic trio can express themselves and find the best balance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are still many lines of work. The only small regret I have is not having beaten Benfica in the Champions League.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PSG drew twice with the Benfica in their Champions League group and qualified second behind the Portuguese club.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For their final match before the World Cup, the MNM trio -- Messi, Neymar, Mbappe -- did not really sparkle in a game played without great intensity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That did not prevent the champions giving a demonstration of their goal-scoring prowess before a break until their next Ligue 1 match on December 28 against Strasbourg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe\'s early goal, following a beautiful cross from Messi relayed by Mendes, seem to anaesthetize the Parisian forwards.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Kimpembe return -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi hit the post after 66 minutes, Neymar collapsed at the slightest contact and played in slow motion, far from flamboyance of his first part of the season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t know if my players were afraid of injuring the Parisians before the World Cup,\" said Auxerre coach Christophe Pelissier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Of the five goals we gave them three were our errors.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Galtier gave some playing time to France defender Presnel Kimpembe, who came on for the final quarter of an hour having spent a month out with an Achilles tendon injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Monaco, Harit was carried off on a stretcher after injuring a knee in the 58th minute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"From what we know, it\'s a very big injury,\" said Marseille coach, Igor Tudor. \"He got injured just before the World Cup, we talked about it all week. I am very sad\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harit\'s replacement, veteran Dimitri Payet, played a crucial role as Marseille came from 2-1 down. Bosnian defender Saed Kolasinac headed in Payet\'s free kick eight minutes into added time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The win lifts Marseille into fourth while Monaco stay sixth, one point ahead of Lille who beat bottom side Angers 1-0.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also down at the bottom, Brest beat Troyes 2-1 while Nantes came from two goals down for a 2-2 draw at home against Ajaccio. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 03:43:27', '2022-11-14 03:43:27');
