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(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');
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(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. 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(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');
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(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');
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(3015, 3015, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>US President Joe Biden will meet China\'s Xi Jinping in Bali on Monday to set \"guardrails\" for relations between the countries, as the world\'s 20 largest economies hold their first major post-pandemic summit.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the last three years, the rivalry between China and the United States has intensified sharply as Beijing has become more powerful and more assertive about replacing the US-led order that has prevailed since World War II.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday\'s talks on the margins of the G20 have the air of the icy Cold War conclaves between American and Soviet leaders at Potsdam, Vienna or Yalta that decided the fate of millions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden has spoken about the meeting establishing each country\'s \"red lines\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The overarching goal will be setting \"guardrails\" and \"clear rules of the road\" a senior White House official told reporters hours before the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We do all of that to ensure that competition does not veer into conflict.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden is expected to push China to rein in ally North Korea after a record-breaking spate of missile tests raised fears Pyongyang will soon carry out its seventh nuclear test.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi may be in no mood to help. He enters the meeting buoyed from recently securing a landmark third term in office, cementing him as the most powerful Chinese leader for generations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden has been boosted by news that his Democratic party retained control of the US Senate after performing better than expected at the midterm elections, although he remains vulnerable on domestic politics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Putin staying away -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The superpower sitdown is likely to dominate the G20 summit, which comes with food and fuel prices spiking worldwide, Ukraine mired in conflict and the renewed threat of nuclear war casting a menacing pall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be one conspicuous absence around the table -- Russian President Vladimir Putin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His botched nine-month-old invasion of Ukraine has made the trip to Bali logistically difficult and politically fraught.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With members of his inner circle quarrelling publicly and his once ironclad domestic authority tarnished, Putin instead elected to send veteran foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officially, neither the war in Ukraine, nor Putin\'s dark threats to use nuclear weapons are on the summit agenda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But while the ex-KGB man will not be at the summit table, his war will certainly be on the menu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soaring energy and food prices have hit richer and poorer G20 members alike -- and both are directly fuelled by the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said an end to the conflict was \"a moral imperative and the single best thing we can do for the global economy\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And ahead of his departure to Bali, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would \"call out Putin\'s regime\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is likely to be pressure on Russia to extend a deal allowing Ukrainian grain and fertiliser shipments through the Black Sea when the current agreement expires on November 19.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>- \'Never been this complex\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a minimum, Biden and his allies would also like to see the G20 make it clear to Putin that nuclear war is unacceptable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even that once uncontroversial position is likely to be blocked by a mixture of Russian opposition and Chinese unwillingness to break ranks with its ally in Moscow or give Washington a win.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The G20 -- a disparate and unwieldy grouping born in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis -- has always been most comfortable discussing finance and economics rather than security.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow would like it to stay that way.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We categorically reject the politicisation of the G20,\" the Russian foreign ministry said Sunday, offering a taste of what leaders might hear from the famously unbending Lavrov.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are convinced that the G20 is meant to deal specifically with socio-economic issues.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A string of G20 ministerial meetings leading to the summit failed to agree a final joint communique -- a procedural-sounding tradition that can be important in driving cooperation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Honestly, I think the global situation has never been this complex,\" said Indonesian government minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on the eve of the summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If eventually (the G20) leaders do not produce a communique, that\'s that, it\'s ok.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; 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(3016, 3016, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sri Lanka unveils a budget on Monday attempting to put the South Asian government\'s finances in order, with reforms to advance a $2.9 global billion bailout from the island\'s worst financial crisis since independence in 1948.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Ranil Wickremesinghe\'s first full-year budget to parliament will include measures aimed at helping Sri Lanka restructure its debt, increase revenues and trim spending as it works on the bailout with the International Monetary Fund, analysts say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is a budget that is being presented at a time Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented crisis,\" said State Minister for Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"More than 70% of families are asking the government for support and the economy is estimated to shrink 8.3% this year,\" he said in a statement. \"This budget will present a political and economic way forward for the country.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Bank estimates Sri Lanka\'s economy will contract by 9.2% this year and 4.2% in 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nation of 22 million people plunged into crisis this year as a loss of tourism revenue from the Covid-19 pandemic compounded tax cuts and years of economic mismanagement, leading to a severe dollar drought.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unable to pay for critical imports, Sri Lanka struggled to buy essentials such as fuel, and the public faced soaring inflation, a rapidly depreciating currency and sharply shrinking growth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has proposed increasing the personal and corporate income tax rate to 30% from 24% and possibly changing tax brackets to boost revenue, despite criticism from companies and opposition parties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spending cuts will likely to be tricky, given Sri Lanka\'s large public workforce and high debt. 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, '2022-11-14 04:07:34', '2022-11-14 04:07:34'),
(3017, 3017, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone on Monday morning.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 195 at 9am, the metropolis ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s Delhi and Kolkata occupied the first and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 225 and 188, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 04:49:17', '2022-11-14 04:49:17'),
(3018, 3018, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>X-ray machines at different government hospitals in Feni are lying unused for years due to a shortage of skilled manpower.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Among the hospitals and health centers in Feni, only Feni General Hospital and Chhagalnaiya Upazila Health Complex have functioning X-ray machines. Machines worth crores of taka haven’t even been unboxed in the district’s Sonagazi, Fulgazi, Parshuram and Daganbhuiyan upazila health complexes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, it has been 15 years since the 20-bed Trauma Center and Chest Disease Hospital in Feni’s Mahipal used an X-ray machine last time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health officials said that although the government had provided two X-ray machines with capacities of 300MA and 500MA to Fulgazi Upazila Health Complex in 2016 and 2019, respectively, patients are yet to get the health examination facility.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same thing happened at Parshuram Upazila Health Complex. The X-ray machine of this health center malfunctioned in 2016. Instead of repairing it, the government provided a new X-ray machine with a capacity of 500MA on September 9, 2019, which has been lying unboxed since then as the health complex didn’t find anyone who could install and operate the machine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Govt to set pvt hospitals’ service fees: Health Minister</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We haven’t used X-ray machines since 2013. Although we received a 500MA X-ray machine on March 2, 2021, it hasn’t been taken out of the box yet due to a shortage of skilled personnel,” said Tauhidul Islam, Daganbhuiyan Upazila Health Officer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mahbub Alam, Lab Technologist of Sonagazi Upazila Health Complex, said that two X-ray technologists had joined the complex in 2007 and 2013.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“But they were transferred to another health complex after the X-ray machine of our health complex went out of order,” Mahbub added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Rafiq us-Salehin, Civil Surgeon of Feni, said that X-ray services can’t be provided to patients without recruiting skilled operators and technologists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Recruitment of manpower to operate and maintain X-ray machines is currently underway. A company named 3I Merchandise supplies X-ray machines in Feni. We’ve asked them time and again to teach our health workers how to operate an X-ray machine, which they never did,” said Rafiq. 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, '2022-11-14 05:22:01', '2022-11-14 05:22:01'),
(3019, 3019, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced an anti-government protester to death, and handed down jail terms to five others, state media said Sunday, amid persistent unrest in the country.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The ruling likely marks the first death sentence in the trials of those arrested for participating in protests that have swept Iran over the past weeks demanding an end to clerical rule.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mizan, a news website is linked to Iran\'s judiciary, said the death sentence followed on charges of the protester setting fire to a government building. The five prison terms ranged from five to 10 years and alleged national security and public order violations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Iran protests: Solidarity rallies held in US, Europe showing int\'l support</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mizan said separate branches of the Revolutionary Court issued the verdicts but did not share further details of the protesters on trial, who can appeal the decisions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court was established following the 1979 Islamic Revolutions and is known for meting out harsh punishments to those who oppose Iran\'s clerical rulers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran has already issue indictments for hundreds of detained protesters saying it will hold public trials for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anti-government demonstrations have entered their eighth week and were sparked by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained after allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judicial authorities have announced charges against hundreds of people in other Iranian provinces. Some have been accused of “corruption on earth” and “war against God,” offenses that carry the death penalty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security forces, including paramilitary volunteers with the Revolutionary Guard, have violently cracked down on the demonstrations, killing over 300 people, including dozens of children, according to the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights. Iranian authorities say more than 40 security forces were also killed in the nationwide unrest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the protests first focused on ending Iran’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, they have since transformed into one of the greatest challenges to the ruling clerics since the chaotic years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 06:00:44', '2022-11-14 06:00:44'),
(3020, 3020, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki on Monday said his country wants to elevate the bilateral ties with Bangladesh to a \"strategic\" level adding more elements like defence and security areas to the growing relations.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We have comprehensive partnership. We intend to elevate it. Hopefully we can agree to call our partnership a strategic partnership,\" he said referring to likely discussion on the issue during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming visit to Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Naoki expressed his country’s interest to export defence related equipment to Bangladesh which will further be discussed between the two sides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharing Japan\'s vision for Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), the envoy said this is something very comprehensive but not against any country or contain any country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Japan considers Bangladesh as a partner of FOIP. \"We will continue to promote our practical cooperation.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Naoki said infrastructure development, connectivity, maritime security and capacity building of security forces are part of the practical cooperation that they promote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding investment, the envoy said there are challenges but hopefully there will be improvements in terms of investment environment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ambassador was speaking at an event titled “Meet the Ambassador” held in a Dhaka hotel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Centre for Governance Studies (CGS) hosted it in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zillur Rahman, Executive Director of the Centre for Governance Studies moderated the programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh will seek Japan’s “stronger engagement” in its development efforts through “investment and financing” in major projects during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s forthcoming visit to Japan slated for November 29-December 1, 2022 at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told UNB that Japan is a \"good investor\" for Bangladesh, and they are implementing major projects.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The basic idea is Japan is capable of financing and they always finance without any tough conditions. They have technology, too,” Momen said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May, 2014, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a summit meeting with Sheikh Hasina in Tokyo and they jointly launched the “Bangladesh-Japan Comprehensive Partnership.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September same year, Abe held a summit meeting with Hasina in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan recognised Bangladesh as a sovereign nation on February 10, 1972, and the year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Japan. 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, '2022-11-14 06:06:57', '2022-11-14 06:06:57'),
(3021, 3021, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ekushey Padak winner choreographer and dance maestro Golam Mostofa Khan died Sunday night at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka at 82.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A prominent dance artist in Bangladesh after the independence of the nation, Khan passed away after suffering from pneumonia and health problems from old age, according to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He was admitted to the hospital on October 28.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aside from his successful career as a dance pioneer in Bangladesh, Khan established his dance institution Benika Lalitakala Kendra in 1980.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid expressed shock and deep grief at the death of the dance icon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khalid also prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul and extended his heartfelt sympathy to Khan and his family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Golam Mostafa Khan had contributed significantly to the development of dance in Bangladesh through the creation of the Benuka Lalitkala Kendra, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khan received Ekushey Padak in 2020, Shilpakala Academy Medal in 2016. Apart from these achievements, he received several important awards for his special contribution to dance, while many of his disciples established themselves as successful dancers at home and abroad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Benukar Sur,\" \"Tin Surey Gantha,\" and \"Roktolal Ohongkar\'\' are some of his popular theatrical dance creations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khan is survived by his wife and three daughters. 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, '2022-11-14 06:12:10', '2022-11-14 06:12:10'),
(3022, 3022, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Uunchai, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani, Anupam Kher, Parineeti Chopra, Sarika, Neena Gupta and Danny Denzongpa, continued to grow day by day ever since its release on Friday. The film went on to collect ₹4.71 crore on Sunday. It now stands at a total collection of ₹10.16 crore.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sooraj Barjatya film had opened at ₹1.81 crore and registered 101 percent growth on Saturday with collections of ₹3.64 crore. The film is about three old friends who go on to climb Mt Everest, along with three more women, to fulfil the wish of their late friend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the weekend collection of the film on Twitter. He wrote, “#Uunchai touches uunchai on Day 3… Glowing word of mouth has come into play… Fantastic trending on limited screens/tight showcasing… Double digit weekend indicates the power of content… Fri 1.81 cr, Sat 3.64 cr, Sun 4.71 cr. Total: ₹ 10.16 cr. #India biz.” He added in another tweet: “#Uunchai Note: 486 screens / 1282 shows per day.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film is produced by Rajshri Productions in association with Mahaveer Jain Films and Boundless Media. It is Sooraj Barjatya\'s first film in seven years, after his 2015 film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. It received positive reviews from critics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Known for making family dramas like Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Hum Saath-Saath Hain and Vivah, Sooraj said making a film like Uunchai was liberating for him. He told PTI in an interview, “In this film, I have moved away from all my earlier trappings.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There once was a charm that if you name (a character) Prem, the film will work. But I have let go of that. In the pandemic, everything was slipping away, so there was no point holding onto anything. It was liberating for me.” 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, '2022-11-14 07:46:54', '2022-11-14 07:46:54'),
(3023, 3023, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Anita Chowdhury, wife of the late founder chairman of Square Group Samson H Chowdhury.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a condolence message on Monday, the Foreign Minister said ‘Square Mata’ Anita Chowdhury has not only contributed to the success of the Square Group  she set an example in the country\'s industrial and commercial expansion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, she was very generous and sincere in helping the poor and helpless people of the country, Momen said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Foreign Minister prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anita Chowdhury passed away on Sunday while under treatment at Square Hospital in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anita Chowdhury was a philanthropist and widely known as ‘Square Mata.’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anita is the mother of Samuel S Chowdhury, chairman of Square Group, Square Pharmaceuticals Vice Chairman Ratna Patra and Managing Director Tapan Chowdhury, and Anjan Chowdhury, managing director of Square Toiletries. 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, '2022-11-14 07:53:54', '2022-11-14 14:57:47'),
(3024, 3024, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>World Bank\'s South Asian Region Vice-President Martin Raiser on Monday said Bangladesh has surprised the whole world through its tremendous development, describing the country as \"a success case of development\".</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Bangladesh is a success case of development and attained a very impressive achievement. Bangladesh is becoming one of the countries that makes surprise through its development,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made the remarks while paying a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Prime Minister\'s Office (PMO) in the capital this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the talks, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh wants to maintain an open and transparent relation with the World Bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM\'s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the newsmen after the meeting. 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, '2022-11-14 08:11:58', '2022-11-14 08:11:58'),
(3025, 3025, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two studies have linked prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals with different health outcomes later in life. The first study links prenatal phthalate exposure to reduced childhood lung function between the ages of 4 and 11. The second study found an association between prenatal exposure to benzophenone-3 (BP3) and higher body mass index and diastolic blood pressure at 11 years of age.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phthalates are chemical compounds that are widely used as plasticisers, as well as in lacquers and varnishes. They are found in various consumer products, ranging from toys to food packaging, clothing, detergents, cosmetics, solvents, etc. Over time, phthalates in these products leach into the surrounding environment -- for example, into the air, dust and food -- making them virtually ubiquitous.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, human exposure to phthalates starts as early as in utero, given that these compounds are able to cross the placental barrier. Phthalates act as endocrine disruptors and have been associated with numerous developmental and reproductive health problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Research has consistently found that gestational phthalate exposure is associated with increased risk of childhood asthma, but the evidence on its possible association with lung function is scarce and unclear,\" explained ISGlobal researcher Magda Bosch de Basea, lead author of the study.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study included 641 mother-child pairs from the INMA Project birth cohorts in Sabadell and Gipuzkoa. Gestational phthalate exposure was analysed using urine samples collected from the mothers during pregnancy. The children\'s lung function was assessed by spirometry at various stages of development between the ages of four and eleven years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an indication of the ubiquity of these compounds, laboratory analyses detected all nine of the studied phthalate metabolites -- i.e. substances into which phthalates are transformed once metabolised by the human body -- in nearly 100% of the urine samples examined.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At all stages of development, the studied metabolites were associated with decreases in two lung function parameters: forced vital capacity (FVC), which measures the maximum volume of air a person is able to exhale, and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), which measures the maximum exhaled volume in the first second of exhalation. However, the researchers found that the associations between certain metabolites (e.g.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MiBP and MBzP) and decreased lung function were generally statistically significant only at younger ages, but not in spirometries performed in later years. This pattern is consistent with the findings of studies in animal models suggesting that the possible effects of these compounds on lung function revert over time. 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, '2022-11-14 08:25:45', '2022-11-14 08:25:45'),
(3026, 3026, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited has started a drive to disconnect gas lines of about 20,000 customers in the Dhaka metropolitan area – to realise Tk 400 crore bills that are due.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We started the drive since September this year. From today, the drive will be conducted mainly in Gulshan, Banani, Tejgaon, Nakhalpara, Tejkunipara and Badda areas under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC),” Rashidul Hasan, general manager (revenue) of Titas Gas, told UNB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty Titas Gas teams are now engaged in the drive against default consumers, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He informed that Titas has a total of 600,000 consumers under six zones in Dhaka metropolitan city. The zones are: Kuril, Motijheel-1, Motijheel-2, Tikatuli, Sobhanbagh and Mirpur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 20,000 consumers have failed to pay the bills in time – with each zone having 3,000-3,500 defaulting consumers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Most of these are household gas connections,” said Rashidul Hasan, adding that if the defaulting consumers pay their arrear bills within a specific date, Titas will restore their connections.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Titas officials said they have been issuing notices to the defaulting consumers for a long time to pay their respective outstanding bills. But many consumers are still not heeding to the notices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Titas Gas has a total of 2.8 million consumers across its command areas – mainly in greater Dhaka and Mymensingh, according to officials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Mymensingh, Tangail, Sherpur, Jamalpur are in the Titas areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials of Titas said that there are a huge number of illegal gas connections in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Munshiganj areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“These illegal gas connections could be over 300,000 in Titas areas, although the exact number could not be confirmed,” Rashidul Hasan said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 08:41:44', '2022-11-14 08:41:44'),
(3027, 3027, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said it is better to spend reserve money for the welfare of the people rather than sitting idle on it.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We can\'t sit idle with this (reserve) money, we have to spend it for the welfare of the people,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said this while speaking at the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected Chairmen and members of the 59 Zila Parishads of the country at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).</div><div><br></div><div>While the prime minister administered the oath of the chairmen, LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam did it 623 members of the Zila Parishods.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said that the government has spent the reserve money for the welfare and betterment of the common people.</div><div><br></div><div>In this connection she said that during the Coronavirus pandemic communication, transportation, import and everything was almost stalled. As a result, the reserve money swelled to almost $48 billion.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that while the world was returning to normalcy at that time Ukraine-Russia war started followed by sanctions. “As a result, prices of every item have increased worldwide with higher transportation cost,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that notwithstanding the cost the government is importing everything to make those available to the common people.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that the government is procuring food, fuel oil, gas, edible oil, wheat and corn at a very much higher price.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that through the 10 million TCB cards the government is supplying essential items at a lower price, while five million people are getting rice at the rate of Tk15 per kilogram.</div><div><br></div><div>“Those who are totally incapable, we are giving them food at free of cost,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She also said that the government is giving houses to the homeless people.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said that the government has invested $8 billion in various infrastructural development constructions.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have utilized our own reserve money, we did not take loans from others,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the reserve money was given in loan to the Biman Bangladesh Airlines to procure aircraft.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said that the government is giving stimulus packages for the export-oriented industries.</div><div><br></div><div>Pointing to the BNP\'s severe propaganda regarding the reserve money she said that they will definitely do it as their leader Tarique Rahman has been&nbsp; convicted in a money laundering case.</div><div><br></div><div>LGRD secretary Muhammad Ibrahim conducted the oath taking program. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 09:25:54', '2022-11-14 09:25:54'),
(3028, 3028, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022, and India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, according to World Population Prospects 2022.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“This year’s World Population Day falls during a milestone year, when we anticipate the birth of the Earth’s eight billionth inhabitant. This is an occasion to celebrate our diversity, recognize our common humanity, and marvel at advancements in health that have extended lifespans and dramatically reduced maternal and child mortality rates,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.</div><div><br></div><div>“At the same time, it is a reminder of our shared responsibility to care for our planet and a moment to reflect on where we still fall short of our commitments to one another,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The global population is growing at its slowest rate since 1950, having fallen under 1 per cent in 2020, according to the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.</div><div><br></div><div>The latest projections by the United Nations suggest that the world’s population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050. It is projected to reach a peak of around 10.4 billion people during the 2080s and to remain at that level until 2100.</div><div><br></div><div>World Population Prospects 2022 also states that fertility has fallen markedly in recent decades for many countries.</div><div><br></div><div>Today, two-thirds of the global population lives in a country or area where lifetime fertility is below 2.1 births per woman, roughly the level required for zero growth in the long run for a population with low mortality.</div><div><br></div><div>The populations of 61 countries or areas are projected to decrease by 1 per cent or more between 2022 and 2050, owing to sustained low levels of fertility and, in some cases, elevated rates of emigration.</div><div><br></div><div>More than half of the projected increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania.</div><div><br></div><div>Countries of sub-Saharan Africa are expected to contribute more than half of the increase anticipated through 2050.</div><div><br></div><div>“The relationship between population growth and sustainable development is complex and multidimensional” said Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. “Rapid population growth makes eradicating poverty, combatting hunger and malnutrition, and increasing the coverage of health and education systems more difficult.</div><div><br></div><div>Conversely, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, especially those related to health, education and gender equality, will contribute to reducing fertility levels and slowing global population growth.”</div><div><br></div><div>In most countries of sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in parts of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, the share of population at working age (between 25 and 64 years) has been increasing thanks to recent reductions in fertility.</div><div><br></div><div>This shift in the age distribution provides a time-bound opportunity for accelerated economic growth per capita, known as the “demographic dividend”.</div><div><br></div><div>To maximize the potential benefits of a favourable age distribution, countries should invest in the further development of their human capital by ensuring access to health care and quality education at all ages and by promoting opportunities for productive employment and decent work.</div><div><br></div><div>The share of global population at ages 65 and above is projected to rise from 10 per cent in 2022 to 16 per cent in 2050.</div><div><br></div><div>At that point, it is expected that the number of persons aged 65 years or over worldwide will be more than twice the number of children under age 5 and about the same as the number under age 12.</div><div><br></div><div>Countries with ageing populations should take steps to adapt public programmes to the growing numbers of older persons, including by establishing universal health care and long-term care systems and by improving the sustainability of social security and pension systems.</div><div><br></div><div>Global life expectancy at birth reached 72.8 years in 2019, an improvement of almost 9 years since 1990. Further reductions in mortality are projected to result in an average global longevity of around 77.2 years in 2050. Yet in 2021, life expectancy for the least developed countries lagged 7 years behind the global average.</div><div><br></div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all three components of population change. Global life expectancy at birth fell to 71.0 years in 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>In some countries, successive waves of the pandemic may have produced short-term reductions in numbers of pregnancies and births, while for many other countries, there is little evidence of an impact on fertility levels or trends. The pandemic severely restricted all forms of human mobility, including international migration.</div><div><br></div><div>“Further actions by Governments aimed at reducing fertility would have little impact on the pace of population growth between now and mid-century, because of the youthful age structure of today’s global population. Nevertheless, the cumulative effect of lower fertility, if maintained over several decades, could be a more substantial deceleration of global population growth in the second half of the century,” added John Wilmoth, Director of the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 10:29:08', '2022-11-14 10:29:08');
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(3029, 3029, '<div><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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>\"None of my players had sent me a signal of fear,\" said Galtier.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My obsession was that my team could express themselves as freely as possible without the psychosis of an injury.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The players responded present, were serious, focussed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>\"There are still many lines of work. The only small regret I have is not having beaten Benfica in the Champions League.\"</div><div><br></div><div>PSG drew twice with the Benfica in their Champions League group and qualified second behind the Portuguese club.</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Mbappe\'s early goal, following a beautiful cross from Messi relayed by Mendes, seem to anaesthetize the Parisian forwards.</div><div><br></div><div>- Kimpembe return -</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>\"I don\'t know if my players were afraid of injuring the Parisians before the World Cup,\" said Auxerre coach Christophe Pelissier.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Of the five goals we gave them three were our errors.\"</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>In Monaco, Harit was carried off on a stretcher after injuring a knee in the 58th minute.</div><div><br></div><div>\"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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>The win lifts Marseille into fourth while Monaco stay sixth, one point ahead of Lille who beat bottom side Angers 1-0.</div><div><br></div><div>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&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 10:51:10', '2022-11-14 10:51:10'),
(3030, 3030, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It burns, it drifts, it falls victim to insects. And it\'s shrinking.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The boreal forest, which is second only to the Amazon in terms of its vital role in ensuring the future of the planet, encircles the Arctic -- and it is in just as much danger from climate change as the South American rainforest.</div><div><br></div><div>The deep, verdant green ring -- which stretches across Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and Alaska -- has been weakened by increasing forest fires, the melting of permafrost, intensifying insect infestations and warming temperatures.</div><div>Experts are categorical in their warnings: the forest is encroaching on the tundra, and the prairies are slowly taking the place of the trees.</div><div><br></div><div>In his cabin in Quebec, not far from the banks of the St Lawrence River amid the trembling aspen and black spruces, Jean-Luc Kanape, a member of the Innu Indigenous group, says he likes to feel the \"energy of the wind, the cold.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"When I\'m in the heart of the forest, I feel like I\'m part of it. The trees are like my roots,\" says the brawny 47-year-old, his hair askew and his skin bronzed from the sun.</div><div><br></div><div>Kanape has dedicated his life to the protection of the caribou, a species whose habitat is under threat because of the effects of deforestation and global warming. And he is worried.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We often say we need to save the planet, but that\'s not true,\" he says, suggesting humanity\'s own existence is what is at stake.</div><div><br></div><div>The forest -- named for Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind -- covers 10 percent of the world\'s land surface and has a decisive impact on the globe\'s northern oceans and overall climate.</div><div>Its 1.2 billion hectares (nearly three billion acres), which account for nearly a third of all forested land in the world, help slow global warming by absorbing a significant amount of carbon emissions.</div><div><br></div><div>The boreal forest holds twice as much carbon as all tropical forests combined, and also helps purify a massive amount of freshwater.</div><div><br></div><div>There have always been natural changes to its makeup, but scientists are now concerned that those changes are happening more often, and are even becoming the norm.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Monster\' fire -</div><div><br></div><div>Dead tree trunks stretch towards the sky -- ghostly white shadows staining the green canopy in this corner of Alberta province.</div><div><br></div><div>On the ground, shrubs and grass battle to stay alive.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I\'ll never again see a spruce tree in these hills,\" laments Harvey Sykes, a 70-year-old former oil industry worker who lives in the Fort McMurray area, home to the world\'s biggest oil sands production complex.</div><div><br></div><div>Here, the boreal forest still bears the signs of a huge fire in May 2016 that sent 90,000 residents scrambling for safety from a wall of flames along a lone access road.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This one was a monster,\" recalls Sykes, pointing to the hills where the blaze began. \"A fire like that, you don\'t confront it... you get out of there.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Like many in the region, Sykes lost everything in the inferno -- his house, his belongings and a lifetime of mementos.</div><div><br></div><div>The wildfire remains the most destructive natural disaster in Canada\'s history, with 2,500 buildings destroyed and damages totalling nearly 10 billion Canadian dollars ($7.4 billion US).</div><div><br></div><div>It was the first time in the country\'s history that residents found themselves in danger as a direct result of the consequences of climate change on the boreal forest.</div><div><br></div><div>- Adaptation -</div><div>Today, wildfires are multiplying in Alaska, Canada and Siberia. They are one of the greatest threats to northern woodlands even if, paradoxically, they are also essential to the forest\'s survival and evolution.</div><div><br></div><div>Fires release precious nutrients into the forest soil, and create holes in the tree canopy that allow sunlight to break through, contributing to the growth of new trees.</div><div><br></div><div>In the boreal forest, the most prevalent type of fire is a crown fire, which spreads quickly from treetop to treetop. These blazes are more intense and more difficult to fight than fires on the ground.</div><div><br></div><div>Fires can burn all winter under the snow, producing toxic smoke and significant amounts of carbon monoxide.</div><div><br></div><div>The forest\'s plants are resistant to the bitter Canadian cold, and have adapted to the recurrent fires -- the trembling aspen burn quickly but regenerate easily.</div><div><br></div><div>Some species even depend on the fires -- jack pines or black spruces have sap-coated cones that open up to deposit seeds as the flames spread, ensuring their survival.</div><div><br></div><div>But data collected over the last few decades indicates that the increasing frequency and intensity of the fires have reached an abnormal level.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We now have a wildfire season that is longer and more severe. They are more fierce, and cover larger areas,\" explains Yan Boulanger, a researcher in forest ecology at Canada\'s ministry of natural resources.</div><div><br></div><div>Fires are now regularly twice as destructive in terms of surface area as they were a century ago, and 70 percent of the land consumed in fires over the last 20 years was in the boreal forest, according to satellite data made public in August.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts from Global Forest Watch, the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland -- who collected the data -- also revealed that extreme heat waves are five times as likely as they were 150 years ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Global warming is having an especially devastating effect on northern lands including the boreal zone, as temperatures are increasing two or three times quicker than on the rest of the planet.</div><div><br></div><div>Extreme heat leads to more lightning, which in turn sparks the worst fires, Boulanger says. Destruction of forested lands in these blazes leads to massive greenhouse gas emissions, which fuel climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>While forest fires are one of the most extreme and visible results of warming temperatures, the actual increase in heat has even worse implications.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Drunken trees\' -</div><div><br></div><div>They are known as \"drunken trees\" -- tilted sideways due to melting permafrost. Eventually, the soil will completely erode away from the roots, and the trees will tumble.</div><div><br></div><div>This buckling and sinking is because of the degradation of the permafrost, ground that has remained frozen for at least two years in a row.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You have potential for large shifts,\" says Diana Stralberg, an Edmonton-based researcher for the natural resources ministry. Sometimes areas \"might be flooded and lose forests,\" she explains, becoming bogs or lakes.</div><div><br></div><div>As the ground is thawing, bacteria eat away at the biomass compiled for thousands of years, generating carbon and methane emissions that are contributing to the acceleration of global warming.</div><div><br></div><div>Elsewhere, in the far north of the boreal zone, trees are crowding the tundra, which features better conditions for their survival.</div><div><br></div><div>Scientists recently discovered that white spruces were being displaced towards the north in Alaska, to a part of the Arctic tundra that had not seen such tree growth in thousands of years.</div><div><br></div><div>In a decade, the tree cover advanced a whopping four kilometers (2.5 miles).</div><div><br></div><div>On the southern edge of the boreal forest, drought has reduced stands of trees to shrubs and high grasses.</div><div><br></div><div>\"In the west, we could end up with forests that simply become prairies because the extent of the drought or the frequency of climatic change is too great to sustain the tree population,\" Boulanger warns.</div><div><br></div><div>Stralberg remembers seeing computer maps modeling the effects of climate change for the first time when she started working on issues related to the boreal forest a few years ago.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I thought it was just wrong, because it was just so extreme,\" she says.</div><div><br></div><div>And then her colleagues started reaching the same conclusions: that the boreal forest was rapidly shifting north, absorbing a part of the tundra and losing ground to the prairies at the southern edge.</div><div><br></div><div>The displacement of an ecosystem is not without consequences.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You can lose forest a lot faster than it can grow and provide habitat for wildlife,\" says the 52-year-old Stralberg.</div><div><br></div><div>As the mercury rises, evaporation occurs more easily and plants lose water more quickly due to transpiration. They close the pores of their leaves and battle to survive.</div><div><br></div><div>But by slowing their own growth, the plants lose some of their capacity to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -- a vicious circle indeed.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Snowball effect\' -</div><div><br></div><div>In the western part of Quebec province, government research scientist David Pare and his team are studying tree litter -- the decomposing organic material on the forest floor that has acted as a giant carbon sink for centuries.</div><div><br></div><div>Here, the sun struggles to break through due to the twisting, intertwined tree canopy. Thousands of pine needles cover the mossy ground.</div><div><br></div><div>Tree litter can store five to six times as much carbon dioxide as other plant matter, and Pare wants to see how resilient the ground is.</div><div><br></div><div>A plethora of experiments are being carried out across Canada to better understand the tree litter and predict its future role in reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.</div><div><br></div><div>In some areas, the subsoil is heated, and in others, the amount of organic matter on the ground is varied. Tree roots are cut elsewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Dozens of tiny orange flags and wooden trays embedded in the fallen pine needles mark off the various trials that have been in place for six years.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We want to know how much carbon has accumulated in the soil and how it happens,\" Pare explains.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Because if global warming is diminishing the carbon sink, that will only lead to more warming,\" says the 59-year-old Pare.</div><div><br></div><div>Scientists are fearful of such a \"snowball effect,\" which could eventually lead to significant loss of the boreal forest\'s role as a carbon sink.</div><div><br></div><div>But the forest is also at risk of falling victim to another phenomenon brought on by higher temperatures: insect infestations.</div><div><br></div><div>- The curious case of the hemlock looper -</div><div><br></div><div>It\'s a surprising sight: on a green hillside peppered with vibrant trees, there is a square marked off by dead trees stripped of their limbs, their dried out trunks stretching skyward.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s like a bomb went off. All the trees are dead in this area, killed by the hemlock looper,\" says Pare, his white hair covered by a construction helmet.</div><div><br></div><div>The hemlock looper is a moth native to North America that can devour all leaves and needles on trees in one season, explains the researcher as he walks through the raspberry bushes that have cropped up in the area.</div><div><br></div><div>Several events linked to global warming seem to be converging and could explain the insect infestations, which are also happening in Scandinavian forests.</div><div><br></div><div>Trees are already weakened by drought and so struggle to fend off the voracious bugs who take advantage of longer summers and warmer winters.</div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land have been devastated by the eastern spruce budworm, another species native to Canada and the eastern United States that mainly attacks fir trees.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As global warming progresses, the budworm now can reach areas that it could not get to in the past,\" says researcher Louis De Grandpre, who has studied the boreal forest for 30 years.</div><div><br></div><div>The key now is to measure the long-term effects of these infestations \"because we really don\'t know what the future of these forests will look like,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>- Tipping point? -</div><div>For Pare, \"there is a limit to how much trees can endure.\"</div><div><br></div><div>For now, scientists are pondering whether the boreal forest is approaching a so-called \"tipping point,\" a threshold beyond which carbon and methane emissions are inevitable and changes to the ecosystem are irreversible.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts say they still hope for the ecosystem\'s continued resilience.</div><div><br></div><div>Stralberg believes the damage can still be limited.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We looked at areas that will remain cooler and wetter in a warming world, like the shores of large interior lakes, large peatland complexes and north-facing hillsides,\" she explains.</div><div><br></div><div>\"These are areas where we can buy time for cold-adapted species like spruce trees and caribou to adjust to climate change in the near term.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Careful monitoring, reforestation, legal protections, technological progress and time-honored Indigenous methods can help maintain the carbon sink.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think that cultural burning can be one of the solutions... combined with some of the new technology,\" says Amy Cardinal Christianson, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service who studies how fires affect Indigenous communities.</div><div><br></div><div>Cultural burning, long practiced by Indigenous communities, can help reduce the impact of forest fires by eliminating ground cover. Christianson, a member of the Metis people, explains the burning as \"a slow fire, a cool burn.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Unlike in the Amazon, in this inhospitable cold-climate forest, human action -- like deforestation or oil sands mining -- is less detrimental to the environment than natural phenomena caused by climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts say that in order for the boreal forest to maintain its essential role in ensuring the survival of the planet, the solution must be a global one.</div><div><br></div><div>For Boulanger, the government forest researcher, we must \"have faith in the next generation.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 11:15:47', '2022-11-14 11:15:47'),
(3031, 3031, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported two more Covid-linked deaths and 38 more cases in 24 hours till Monday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The new number rose the fatalities to 29,429 and the caseload to 2,036,204, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The daily case test positivity rate rose to 0.92 per cent from Sunday’s 0.85 per cent as 4,139 samples were tested during the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 percent while the recovery rate at 97.43 per cent.</div><div><br></div><div>In October, the country reported 60 Covid-linked deaths and 10,043 cases.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 11:24:59', '2022-11-14 11:24:59'),
(3032, 3032, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Manhattan district attorney\'s office has returned 192 looted antiquities with a value of nearly $3.4 million to Pakistan.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced the repatriation in a press release on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>The return is the culmination of a years-long investigation into the sale of artifacts looted from countries all over the world. According to the release, 187 of the items are linked to the Indian American antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor, who stands accused of running a multi-million-dollar trafficking network via his Manhattan gallery, Art of the Past.</div><div><br></div><div>The district attorney\'s office returned the antiquities during a repatriation ceremony on Thursday at the Pakistan Consulate in New York, according to the release.</div><div><br></div><div>\"These remarkable works of art were ruthlessly removed from their rightful home and trafficked without regard for their immense cultural and spiritual value,\" said Ivan J. Arvelo, New York special agent in charge at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier this month, Kapoor was sentenced by an Indian court to 10 years in prison for smuggling offenses. He has also been indicted alongside seven co-defendants in the US, where investigators say he helped traffic thousands of treasures stolen from temples, ruins and archaeological sites across Asia.</div><div><br></div><div>The Manhattan district attorney\'s Antiquities Trafficking Unit has seized more than 2,500 artifacts, worth an estimated $143 million, as part of its investigations into Kapoor. Speaking to CNN earlier this month, the disgraced dealer\'s lawyer said he intends to challenge attempts to extradite his client to the US.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Consul General Ayesha Ali, Thursday\'s repatriation ceremony follows an earlier return of 45 stolen artifacts, linked to another convicted smuggler, to Pakistan.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We began this journey with the DA\'s Office and (the Department of Homeland Security) in November 2020, 45 pieces of stolen Gandhara artifacts were returned and today we are very fortunate that another batch of 192 antiquities valued at $3.4 million are being returned,\" Ali said in the release.</div><div><br></div><div>The objects returned on Thursday include \"Mehrgarh dolls,\" which are some of the oldest known human-crafted figurines in the world. The ancient statues were looted from a Neolithic archaeological site in Pakistan, according to the release. - CBB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', '1', NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 11:44:19', '2022-11-14 11:44:19'),
(3033, 3033, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The High Court (HC)&nbsp; issued a rule on Monday asking authorities concerned to explain in four weeks as to why assistant teachers of government primary schools across the country shall not be given 10th grade.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A High Court Division bench comprising Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Md Suhrawardy passed the order after holding hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Secretaries of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and Public Service Commission and the related parties have been asked to respond to the rule.</div><div><br></div><div>Barrister Syed Syedul Haque Sumon and Advocate Zahirul Islam heard the writ in court. Deputy Attorney General Kazi Mainul Hasan appeared for the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, on Thursday, November 10, Md Mahbubur Rahman, assistant teacher of Joypurhat Primary School, filed a writ in the High Court on behalf of 15 teachers of different districts.</div><div><br></div><div>In the writ, the petitioner asked for directions from the higher authorities, to give assistant teachers of government primary schools the 10th grade. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 12:32:25', '2022-11-14 12:32:25'),
(3034, 3034, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reiterated her directives to relevant authorities to redouble their efforts to raise food production and maintain a stock of sufficient foods amid looming global crisis in 2023.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She made the call while presiding over the weekly Cabinet meeting at her office, according to a media briefing by Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam at the Secretariat.</div><div><br></div><div>“The first and foremost task is that we all will have to make frantic efforts to raise food production. We’ve also prospects here,” Khandker Anwarul quoted the premier as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>In the meeting, a FY 2021-22 report on ministries and divisions was placed and the Cabinet asked to take a number of initiatives to face any possible food crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>The Cabinet gave an observation to increase food productions at any cost, said Anwarul Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our food storage is in a very comfortable situation. It will have to be kept in a comfortable position always,” he said, adding that the private sector has already permitted to import 15 lakh metric tons of foods.</div><div><br></div><div>The Cabinet asked to avoid the import of foods, particularly supplementary items from third parties as much as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the Cabinet asked the authorities concerned for taking steps to raise remittance inflow and FDI, as well as not to send unskilled workers to overseas labour markets without training them as per demands of job markets.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the Cabinet in principle approved the draft of Bangladesh Dairy Development Board Act, 2022 in order to ensure quality dairy milks.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the draft law, technical support and cooling storage facilities would be provided to the farmers for proper preservation or improved feeds for the animals.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting gave the final nod to the draft of Zoo Act, 2022, which was placed in a bid to ensure proper management of zoos and protection of wild animals there.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the Cabinet endorsed the draft of an agreement to complete immigration procedures of hajj pilgrims in Bangladesh instead of Saudi Arabia.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the agreement titled “Cooperation Agreement on the Entry of Hajj Pilgrims,” the immigration procedures of Bangladesh hajj pilgrims would be completed here in Bangladesh regularly from now, said the Cabinet secretary.</div><div><br></div><div>“The immigration procedures of Bangladesh hajj pilgrims were completed here last year due to Covid-19 pandemic. This time two sides have signed an agreement to complete the procedures here from now. It is a great achievement,” he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Cabinet also cleared the drafts of three agreements to be signed with Japan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.</div><div><br></div><div>The deals are “Agreement on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matter” to be signed between Bangladesh and Japan, and “Agreement on Abolishing Visa Requirements for the Holders of Diplomatic, Special and Official Passports between the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Government of the State of Qatar,” and “Security Cooperation Agreement between the Government of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh,” reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The agreement with Japan would be signed when PM Hasina would go on a visit to Japan at the end of this month, said the Cabinet secretary, this deal would enhance bilateral trade and strengthen institutional communication.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 12:47:43', '2022-11-14 12:47:43'),
(3035, 3035, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With three more deaths reported in 24 hours till Monday morning, this year’s fatalities from Dengue climbed to 205.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this period, 760 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,one each&nbsp; was reported from Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna taking the death tolls in these three divisions to 122, 52 and 11 respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile death toll remained unchanged at nine in barishal, six in Rajshahi, five in Mymensingh divisions</div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, 425 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 335 outside it, according to the DGHS.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 2,989 dengue patients, including 1,767 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The directorate has recorded 49,300 dengue cases and 46,106&nbsp; 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, '2022-11-14 13:49:57', '2022-11-14 13:49:57'),
(3036, 3036, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Bank Vice President for South Asia Martin Raiser concluded his second visit to Bangladesh today and reaffirmed the lending agency\'s continued support to help the country navigate through the current economic challenges and thus achieve resilient and inclusive growth.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raiser met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today and thanked her for the country\'s leading role in climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness, said a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The World Bank is proud to be a part of Bangladesh\'s tremendous development journey for the past 50 years. Bangladesh provides valuable insights and important lessons in rapid poverty reduction and sustained growth for many other countries around the world,\" said Raiser.</div><div><br></div><div>Raiser also met with Finance Minister and Bangladesh Bank Governor and discussed policy measures to mitigate recent global shocks and build economic resilience.</div><div><br></div><div>They also discussed the World Bank\'s support for Bangladesh\'s development priorities. He was accompanied by Abdoulaye Seck, World Bank\'s incoming Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan, who will assume his position on January 1, 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The war in Ukraine, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis have created unprecedented challenges for the global economy. Every country is struggling to cope, and Bangladesh is no exception,\" said Raiser.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh can sustain rapid growth by strengthening macro, fiscal and financial sector reform and continuing investment in human capital and climate resilience. We are ready to lend our full support to these efforts at this challenging time.\" Raiser also said. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 14:33:21', '2022-11-14 14:33:21'),
(3037, 3037, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Banks have excess liquidity of Tk 1.69 lakh crore, and rumours on social media are unfounded, Bangladesh Bank spokesperson Md. Abul Kalm Azad said today.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He was addressing a press conference at the central bank to brief reporters on misinformation circulating in social media regarding bank deposits and liquidity.</div><div><br></div><div>“Conspiratorial news is being circulated on social media. Investors are being asked to withdraw their bank deposits. It is being said that banks do not have cash or that there’s a iquidity crisis,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“But this is not true. The banking system of Bangladesh is very sound. There is no liquidity crisis as the banking system currently has excess liquidity of Tk 1.69 lakh crore,” Azad said at the press conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Bank as issued a special warning to managing directors of commercial banks regarding the liquidity situation. If there is any disruption in the liquidity management of a bank, the central bank will take steps to resolve it with utmost importance.</div><div><br></div><div>No bank has shut down in 51 years of Bangladesh\'s history, he pointed out, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>“People\'s deposits in banks are completely safe. Nothing has happened to cause panic over people’s hard-earned savings in banks,” Azad assured.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 15:24:23', '2022-11-14 15:24:23'),
(3038, 3038, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has issued an order saying that Bollywood actress Nora Fatehi and other foreign artistes and celebrities would not be able to come to Bangladesh centring the \"Global Achievers Award 2022\" billed for November 18 in the capital without paying tax at source.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nora Fatehi, a Canadian actress, model, dancer, singer, and producer, is known for her work in the Indian film industry. She has appeared in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The order signed by NBR member (tax administration and human resource management) Shahin Akhter said that for participating in a programme in Bangladesh, there is a mandatory provision of paying 30 per cent tax at source on the paid and unpaid amount to the foreign artistes mentioned in the agreement alongside on the food and accommodation cost in line with the Income Tax ordinance.</div><div><br></div><div>But, the organizers of the event did not comply with the directives of the ordinance.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the current circumstances, the revenue board has directed the organizers of the award event to pay tax at source properly in order to facilitate the participation of Nora Fatehi and other foreign artistes at the event.</div><div><br></div><div>It is mentionable that the NBR came to know about the possible participation of the Bollywood actress and other foreign artistes in the \"Global Achievers Award 2022\" through advertisements in newspapers. Women Leadership Corporation will organize the award function. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 16:04:40', '2022-11-14 16:04:40'),
(3039, 3039, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday said law enforcement agencies are yet get any tangible evidence to untangle the murder of Fardin Noor Parash, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He was responding to a question from reporters at a programe held to mark the 9th founding anniversary of River Police at Rajarbagh Police Lines in the capital in the evening.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have not received any information with concrete proof,\" the home minister said. “We speak only on facts.”</div><div><br></div><div>Police recovered Fardin’s body from the Shitalakhkhya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.</div><div><br></div><div>On November 8, Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, said there were several injury marks on Fardin’s head and body.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed case against his son’s friend Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd year student of East West University, and several unidentified people in connection with the death with Rampura Police Station.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrested Amatullah Bushra the same day hours after filing the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been investigating the case to unearth the motive of the murder and who did it. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 16:09:51', '2022-11-14 16:09:51'),
(3040, 3040, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Seven university students were dead and at least one gunman was on the run Monday following weekend violence that struck two US campuses in the states of Idaho and Virginia, authorities said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Police were hunting for the student suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded at the University of Virginia about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of the nation\'s capital Washington.</div><div><br></div><div>The campus in Charlottesville, Virginia was locked down early Monday while helicopters and police searched for a man considered to be \"armed and dangerous,\" the UVA Office of Emergency Management tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>A student at the university identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr was suspected to have carried out the shooting on campus Sunday night, UVA president Jim Ryan said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 2,000 miles to the west in the Rocky Mountain state of Idaho, police were investigating a separate incident in which four students were found dead Sunday in a home near the University of Idaho campus, believed to be the \"victims of homicide.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-14 16:24:09', '2022-11-14 16:24:09'),
(3041, 3041, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israel will not cooperate with any \"external investigation\" into the death of journalist Shireen Abu Aqla.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Defence Minister Benny Gantz said it was \"a mistake\" for US authorities to open an investigation into the killing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Palestinian-American correspondent was shot in the head while covering a raid in the occupied West Bank in May.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Eyewitness said she was shot by Israeli troops, while an Israeli official said there was a \"high probability\" she was killed by one of its soldiers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Monday, US media outlet Axios reported that the US Justice Department had informed Israel\'s Justice Ministry that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had opened an investigation into her death.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Gantz said that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has conducted a \"professional, independent investigation\" that had been shared with US authorities, adding that he had told American officials that \"we stand by the IDF\'s soldiers, that we will not cooperate with an external investigation, and will not enable intervention to internal investigations\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ms Abu Aqla - one of the most recognisable faces of journalism in the Arab world - was killed on 11 May while covering an Israeli army raid in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, which had witnessed gun battles between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants. She was wearing a helmet and blue flak jacket marked with the word \"press\" at the time of her killing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Eyewitnesses and Palestinian officials said she was shot by Israeli troops - a finding later backed by the United Nations and multiple investigations by media outlets. A US review also found it was \"likely\" that Israeli soldiers fired the fatal bullet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In September, a senior IDF official said there was a high probability that she was shot \"by mistake by an IDF soldier, and of course he didn\'t identify her as a journalist\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The official added that investigators had spoken to the soldier involved: \"He told us what he did; and if he did it, it was done by mistake.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I want to emphasise the fighting environment that these soldiers were under. They were confined in a protected vehicle with multi-dimensional fire from every direction,\" the official added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, video evidence from the moment Ms Abu Aqla was shot does not support the claim of militant gunfire in the spot that journalists and bystanders had gathered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Israeli troops were believed to be 200m (656ft) away, and the footage shows repeated fire for several minutes towards the area where the journalists were walking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ms Abu Aqla was born in Jerusalem but spent time in the United States, obtaining US citizenship. She spent most of her career covering the Israel-Palestinian conflict, notably for Al Jazeera\'s Arabic news channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I chose journalism to be close to people. It might not be easy to change the reality but at least I could bring their voice to the world,\" she once said. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 02:25:51', '2022-11-15 02:25:51');
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(3042, 3042, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies open talks on Tuesday on the island of Bali, after a final pitch by host Indonesia for the bloc to focus on action to help a global economic recovery despite deep rifts due to the war in Ukraine.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The G20, which includes countries ranging from Brazil to India, Saudi Arabia and Germany, accounts for more than 80% of the world\'s gross domestic product), 75% of international trade and 60% of its population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A positive sign on the eve of the summit was a three-hour bilateral meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in which the two leaders pledged more frequent communications despite many differences.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Monday\'s meeting was the first time the two had met in person since Biden became president and the talks appeared to signal an improvement in relations between the superpowers after a downward spiral in recent months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With the Ukraine war and a global spike in inflation overshadowing the summit, Indonesia\'s president made a fresh appeal to the leaders of the world\'s richest countries to unite at least on economic matters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We hope the G20 summit can deliver concrete partnerships that can help the world in its economic recovery,\" President Joko Widodo said after a bilateral meeting with Biden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Indonesian leader, widely known as Jokowi, also asked the European Commission and the G7 bloc to lend \"support and flexibility\" so that the summit can produce concrete results, he said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine triggered calls by some Western leaders for a boycott of the summit and for the withdrawal of Russian President Vladimir Putin\'s invitation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Indonesia resisted, refusing to withdraw Putin\'s invitation, and also rejecting what Indonesian sources say has been pressure from G7 nations to condemn Russia at the summit this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russia has said Putin was too busy to attend the summit with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov taking his place. Lavrov on Monday dismissed a news agency report that he had been taken to hospital in Bali with a heart condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is due to address the summit via video link on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A joint G20 communique, which would need to be agreed by all parties, appears unlikely, with Indonesia instead pushing for a leaders\' declaration, diplomatic sources say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The war and the geopolitical tensions that have increased mean the diverse interest among G20 members have grown wider,\" said Jose Rizal, executive director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">CHORUS OF OPPOSITION</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday that Putin\'s regime will hear the chorus of global opposition to its actions. Sunak will call on G20 for coordinated action to address economic instability and the rising cost of living in the wake of Russia\'s invasion, his government said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Biden will be \"unapologetic\" in his defence of Ukraine, U.S. officials have said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I won\'t get ahead of the final negotiations but the G20 will make clear that Russia\'s war is wreaking havoc for people everywhere and for the global economy as a whole,\" said one official, who spoke about the U.S. view on the summit on condition of anonymity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But Xi and Putin have grown increasingly close in recent years, and reaffirmed their partnership just days before Russia invaded Ukraine. Nevertheless China has been careful not to provide any direct material support that could trigger Western sanctions against it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Biden and Xi \"underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine\" during their meeting, according to a White House statement. A statement from the Chinese foreign minister said Xi told Biden nuclear weapons cannot be used and nuclear wars cannot be fought. Ukraine\'s Zelenskiy late on Monday welcomed \"weighty statements\" being made ahead of the G20 including on the inadmissibility of threats to use nuclear weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The West has accused Russia of making irresponsible statements on the possible use of nuclear weapons since its February invasion of Ukraine. Russia has in turn accused the West of \"provocative\" nuclear rhetoric.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">G20 leaders will denounce the use of, or any threat to use, nuclear weapons, according to an early draft of a G20 statement seen by Reuters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We should try to use the G20 meeting to try to convince all the partners to put more pressure on Russia,\" European Council President Charles Michel told a news conference, criticising the country for triggering a global energy and food crisis with an \"unprovoked\" war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On the sidelines of the summit, many of the leaders will hold bilateral talks, including several of them meeting Xi, who is making only his second visit overseas since the start of the pandemic. He is scheduled to hold talks with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and later with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 02:35:51', '2022-11-15 02:35:51'),
(3043, 3043, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Three members of the University of Virginia football team have been shot and killed on campus.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Two others were injured in the shooting, which occurred on a bus filled with students returning from a field trip on Sunday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">They were attacked as the bus pulled into a parking garage on the university campus, police say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A suspect is in custody charged with three counts of second degree murder and three counts of using a handgun.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">No possible motive for the attack was reported as police continued their investigation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A shelter-in-place order for the campus has been lifted but classes were cancelled on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The shooting reportedly took place at around 22:30 (03:30 GMT) at a garage on Culbreth Road, on the university\'s Charlottesville campus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Those killed were identified as Devin Chandler, a second-year student from Virginia Beach, D\'Sean Perry, a fourth-year student from Miami, Florida, and Lavel Davis, a third-year student from Rich Hill, South Carolina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Police say the bodies of the victims were found inside a charter bus after they returned from a field trip.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The university named the suspect as one of its students, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, aged 22.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I am devastated that this violence has visited the University of Virginia,\" said Jim Ryan, the university\'s president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The university is considered among one of the most prestigious in the country and ranked number three in public universities in the US. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 02:49:42', '2022-11-15 02:49:42'),
(3044, 3044, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Ranveer Singh sprung a surprise on his wife-actor Deepika Padukone at her workplace as the couple clocked fours years of their wedding anniversary. Taking to his Instagram Stories, Ranveer Singh revealed that as Deepika had to work on the occasion, he decided to surprise her. Ranveer also posted a picture, clicked from behind, of Deepika working along with her team inside the office.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the photo, Deepika sat on a chair looking at a laptop as many people stood around her. Tagging Deepika, Ranveer also drew an arrow pointing at her. In the photo, Deepika wore a white outfit and tied her hair up in a bun.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ranveer wrote along with the picture, \"When she has to work on your anniversary so you surprise her at her office...\" He also added, \"Ps: Never underestimate the power of flowers &amp; chocolates (devil emoji). Diamonds not needed buahaha. Take notes and thank me later gentlemen....\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ranveer Singh revealed that as Deepika had to work on the occasion, he decided to surprise her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ranveer and Deepika tied the knot on November 14, 2018, at Italy\'s Lake Como after dating for six years. Their two-day wedding ceremony was attended by family members and close friends only. The two wedded in a traditional south Indian ceremony, following which they also had a north Indian wedding a day after.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ranveer and Deepika first met on the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali\'s romantic drama film Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela. Later, they also starred in Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Fans will see Deepika in Pathaan alongside Shah Rukh Khan and John Abraham. The action drama is set to hit the theatres on January 25, 2023. She will be also seen in The Intern remake alongside Amitabh Bachchan and in Proiect-K along with Prabhas. She also has Fighter with Hrithik Roshan in the pipeline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ranveer, on the other hand, will be next seen in director Rohit Shetty\'s upcoming comedy film Cirkus alongside Jacqueline Fernandez and Pooja Hegde. The film is all set to hit the theatres on the occasion of Christmas 2022. Apart from that, he also has director Karan Johar\'s next Rocky aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani alongside Alia Bhatt, Jaya Bachchan, Dharmendra and Shabana Azmi. It is all set to hit the theatres on April 28, 2023. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 04:12:39', '2022-11-15 04:12:39'),
(3045, 3045, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Kyiv welcomed reported Chinese comments criticizing threats to use nuclear weapons as G20 leaders met in Indonesia on Tuesday, with Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine in the spotlight.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping \"underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine,\" the White House said in a readout of a meeting in Indonesia between the two leaders on the eve of the summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A readout of the Biden-Xi meeting on China\'s foreign ministry website made no use of the word \"nuclear\" but said: \"Conflicts and wars produce no winner ... and ... confrontation between major countries must be avoided.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly suggested Russia could use nuclear weapons to defend its territorial integrity, interpreted in the West as an implicit threat to use them over lands Moscow claims to have annexed in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Xi and Putin have grown close in recent years, bound by their shared distrust of the West, and China has refrained from publicly criticizing Russia for the invasion or from calling on it to withdraw its troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Zelensky, who had earlier visited Kherson, the biggest prize his troops have recaptured since the invasion began in February, welcomed Monday\'s remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"It is important that the United States and China jointly highlighted that the threats of using nuclear weapons were unacceptable,\" Zelensky said in a late Monday address. \"Everyone understands to whom these words are addressed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Zelensky is due to address the G20 summit via video link on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The United States expects the G20 group of industrialized nations to condemn Russia\'s war in Ukraine and its impact on the global economy, a senior US official said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russia is a member of the group so consensus on Ukraine is unlikely, and the official declined to say what form the condemnation would take.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Speaking in Bali, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Putin\'s government would hear the chorus of global opposition to its actions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Russia\'s actions put all of us at risk,\" he said at the summit in Indonesia, where he is expected to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russia has said Putin is too busy to attend the summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">To help avoid conflict escalation, CIA Director William Burns met in Turkey on Monday with Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin to convey the consequences should Putin use nuclear weapons, a White House spokesperson said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Waiting for army</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In Kherson, Zelensky shook hands with soldiers and waved to civilians on Monday as he was escorted by bodyguards three days after his troops swept into the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">General Assembly to vote on resolution recognizing Russia must be responsible for reparation in Ukraine</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">View shows destroyed military vehicles after Russia\'s retreat from Kherson, in Kherson</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">View shows the destroyed Antonivskyi bridge over the Dnipro river after Russia\'s retreat from Kherson, in Kherson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kherson city had been the only regional capital captured by Russia since the invasion and Putin had proclaimed it \"eternally Russian\" six weeks ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ukraine has repeatedly said it is ready for peace, but will not cede territory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Ukrainian servicemen accept no talks, no agreements or compromise decisions,\" Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny wrote on Telegram late on Monday after a telephone conversation with the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Olga Fedorova, an English teacher in Kherson throughout the occupation, said lack of electricity or mobile internet connection meant many were unaware of events until Ukrainian troops raised their flag in the main square on Nov. 11.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We couldn\'t believe, we still can\'t believe that our Ukrainian army is here,\" she said. \"We have been waiting for them all this time, all this eight and a half months.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Zelensky said Ukraine had gathered evidence of at least 400 war crimes committed by Russian troops during their occupation of the area, including killings and abductions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russia denies its troops target civilians or have committed atrocities. Mass burial sites have been found in other parts previously occupied by Russian troops, including some with civilian bodies showing signs of torture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Residents in and around Kherson interviewed by Reuters since Friday have described killings and abductions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Reuters reported one account of a neighbour shot dead and three accounts of people carried off by troops in the village of Blahodatne north of Kherson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It was not possible to verify the accounts independently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The United Nations General Assembly on Monday voted to approve a resolution recognizing that Russia must be responsible for making reparations to Ukraine, in a non-binding move backed by 94 of its 193 members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">To the north and east of Ukraine, there were reports of fierce clashes and artillery bombardments along the front lines that stretch more than 1,000 km (620 miles).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The enemy is attempting to hold temporarily occupied territory and is continuing to equip areas on the east bank of the Dnipro River,\" Ukraine\'s armed forces\' general staff said in a Facebook post on Monday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"It is maintaining its offensive actions near Bakhmut and Avdiivka,\" the statement added, referring to areas in eastern Donetsk region where the heaviest fighting has been taking place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russia\'s defence ministry was quoted by RIA news agency as saying its forces had taken the village of Pavlivka in Donetsk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Neither sides\' accounts could be independently confirmed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russia says it is waging a \"special military operation\" in Ukraine to rid it of nationalists and protect Russian-speaking communities. Ukraine and the West describe the Kremlin\'s actions as an unprovoked war of aggression. Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 04:23:37', '2022-11-15 04:23:37'),
(3046, 3046, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The week-long countdown to the World Cup in Qatar began on Monday as the world\'s leading footballers focused their attention on one of the most controversial tournaments in history.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After a last weekend of action, domestic leagues paused for six weeks for the global showpiece but preparation time is short for the teams.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The first World Cup to be held in the Arab world will kick off on Sunday when the host nation face Ecuador.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Holding football\'s showpiece event in a desert state has necessitated an unprecedented reorganisation of the international calendar, shifting the World Cup from its normal slot in the northern hemisphere summer to avoid the Gulf\'s scorching heat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As teams rushed to submit their final squad lists, Iran named Sardar Azmoun, their star player who has expressed support for the demonstrations in his homeland, in their squad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Azmoun, who plays for German club Bayer Leverkusen, has posted several social media messages in support of the protests that were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators but also security personnel, have been killed during the protests, which the authorities have branded as \"riots\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;Activists have called on fans attending Iran\'s matches in Qatar to chant Amini\'s name.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Hundreds of Tunisian fans, closely watched by riot police, gave a noisy welcome to their national team in Doha on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Four buses of police with riot gear watched the Tunisians, including some families with children, wait outside the team hotel in the business district of the Qatari capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The crowds chanted the national anthem and banged drums, surging onto the road as the team arrived and players waved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Two of Europe\'s big guns, England and the Netherlands, are among the teams due to arrive on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;- Increased scrutiny -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;Sunday\'s kickoff marks the culmination of Qatar\'s extraordinary campaign first to win the vote to land the tournament and then embark on a spending spree of tens of billions of dollars to build stadiums and infrastructure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">World governing body FIFA\'s pleas to \"focus on the football\" have struggled to be heard as the countdown to kick-off has only increased scrutiny of the country\'s treatment of migrant workers, women and the LGBTQ community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Labourers from South Asia have been at the centre of an often acrimonious dispute over deaths, injuries and working conditions since Qatar was awarded the World Cup in 2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Amnesty International has urged FIFA to commit to compensating migrant workers \"for abuses suffered\" during preparations for the tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Qatar has angrily rebuffed most of the attacks and local media have blasted the \"arrogance\" of some Western countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;Australian players refused to enlarge on their comments about Qatar\'s rights record on Monday, saying they were fully focused on a daunting opening match against defending champions France.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;The Socceroos released a video last month featuring 16 players, in which they spoke out against rights abuses in the Gulf state, although they acknowledged progress had been made.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"To be honest I think we timed things well with what was said,\" Australia forward Mitchell Duke said at the team\'s training base in Doha.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We\'ve done that purposely before we all came to the camp because our main priority now, once we turned up, was just to focus on the football side of things.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Qatar, a country of barely three million people and one of the world\'s biggest producers of natural gas, has spent lavishly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">New stadiums have cost more than $6.5 billion and a driverless metro system with a price tag of $36 billion serves five of the eight venues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Some estimates put total infrastructure spending over the past decade at $200 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Organisers have predicted more than one million fans will travel to Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tournament chiefs say that 2.9 million of the 3.1 million tickets have been sold, with fans waiting outside ticketing centres in hopes of seeing top games.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Qatar announced its first arrests of World Cup ticket touts on Monday, with three foreign men detained outside official ticketing centres in Doha. No details were given of their nationality. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 04:35:03', '2022-11-15 04:35:03'),
(3047, 3047, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The government has projected to improve the ratio of revenue to GDP to 10.6 percent in the mid-term (by 2024-25 fiscal), even though the revenue sectors are suffering a lot due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine War.</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The ratio of revenue to GDP expresses total government revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product. The vast majority of government revenue comes in the form of tax collection. Consequently it is also sometimes known as the tax-GDP ratio.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Other smaller revenue streams include things like bonded warehouses, a customs-controlled warehouse for the retention of imported goods until the duty owed on them is paid.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">According to an official document, the revenue-GDP ratio for the running 2022-23 fiscal has been estimated at 9.7 percent, rising to 10.4 percent in the 2023-24 fiscal.</span></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It said that in preparing fiscal policy, the government has been maintaining an expansionary fiscal stance by keeping the budget deficit at a moderate level. Moreover, the government has taken up many reform initiatives to improve the revenue-GDP ratio which is low compared to the neighbouring countries.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Due to the rebasing of GDP to the 2015-16 fiscal, the ratio has dropped even further. Although revenue-GDP ratio has been growing slowly due to high GDP growth, revenue growth has been on a positive trend.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The official document of the Finance Ministry said that several reform initiatives have been taken by the government to reinforce domestic resource mobilisation as well as to improve the revenue-GDP ratio.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It is envisaged that positive impacts of ongoing and future reforms will ensure significantly higher revenue and hence, total revenue is projected to grow to 10.6 percent of GDP in the fiscal 2024-25.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In south Asia Bangladesh has the lowest tax-GDP ratio. A 2016 World Bank report said that the South Asian tax -GDP ratio is 19.1 percent in Nepal, 16 percent in Bhutan, 12 percent in India, 9.9 percent in Afghanistan, 9.1 percent in the Maldive while in Bangladesh it is 8.8 percent. In 2017 Bangladesh\'s position in tax-GDP ratio slid to 7.6.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">According to available data from World Economic Outlook of October 2019 issue, the revenue GDP ratio of the country is 9.9 percent on average since 2015-2019 while it is 19.8 percent for India, 23.9 for Nepal, 14.7 for Pakistan, 13.5 for Sri Lanka, 25.6 for developing countries and 35.9 for developed countries.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Due to COVID-19, the revenue collection declined while pressure mounted on the budget as the government made high expenditure to face the adverse impact of the economic situation.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Russia-Ukraine war just added to the woes for the revenue collection authorities as the economic conditions across the globe are suffering heavily.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The document stated that of the 10.6 percent of the revenue GDP ratio in 2024-25 fiscal 9.0 percent will come from National Board of Revenue (NBR), 0.5 percent will be from non-NBR sources while 1.1 percent will be from non-tax sources.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The target for the revenue GDP ratio for 2023-24 fiscal has been estimated at 10.4 percent where 8.8 percent will be from National Board of Revenue (NBR), 0.5 percent will be from non-NBR sources while 1.1 percent will be from non-tax sources.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the running 2022-23 fiscal the government is projected to get 8.3 percent from National Board of Revenue (NBR), 0.4 percent from non-NBR sources while 1 percent from non-tax sources.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the previous 2021-22 fiscal, the government had projected to boost the revenue GDP ratio to 11.3 percent with 9.5 percent from National Board of Revenue (NBR), 0.5 percent from non-NBR source while 1.2 percent from non-tax sources.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">But in the revised estimation, it lowered down the ratio to 9.8 percent where 8.3 percent was from the NBR, 0.4 percent was from non-NBR sources and 1.1 percent from non-tax sources.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war was the main cause of lowering down the ratio.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The document said that the government has taken various reform activities to improve the overall revenue collection.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It mentioned that an automated system has been introduced for VAT and income tax collection along with bonded warehouses.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The document hoped that apart from reforms programmes for modernisation of the tax administration, expansion of the tax net, developments in tax compliance and law amendment, and simplification of the tax system would create significant positive impact on revenue collection in the future. UNB</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 04:51:50', '2022-11-15 04:51:50'),
(3048, 3048, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>An officer of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) was shot dead and a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel was wounded while conducting a drive against drug smugglers at Tombru border in Bandarban on Monday night.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">ISPR confirmed the information through a press release early today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Gunshots were exchanged between the drug smugglers and the joint team of Rab and DGFI at the Tombru border with Myanmar, under Ghumdhum union, which left the DGFI personnel dead and a Rab member injured, the press release said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">ISPR, however, did not reveal the names of the DGFI and Rab personnel yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile, Sub-inspector Ripon Chowdhury, appointed at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, told the UNB correspondent that a Rab member was brought to the hospital around 10 pm with critical injury after being shot at the border during a drive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Assistant Sub-inspector of Naikhongchhari police station Joydeb said they were informed about firing at Konarpara area near the border but don’t have information about who was involved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Some locals claimed Myanmar insurgent group Al Yaqin members shot at a team of Rab-15 members at zero point of the border around 7 pm last night while they were conducting a drive. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 05:08:15', '2022-11-15 05:08:15'),
(3049, 3049, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Third time\'s the charm?</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After two failed attempts, NASA plans to launch its new mega Moon rocket early Wednesday from Florida, less than a week after the massive machine withstood a hurricane.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Our time is coming. And we hope that that is on Wednesday,\" said Mike Sarafin, the manager of the much-delayed Artemis 1 mission, at NASA headquarters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Artemis 1 mission, a test flight without astronauts, represents the first step in the US space agency\'s plan to build a lasting presence on the Moon, and taking lessons from there to prepare for a future voyage to Mars.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Named after the sister of Apollo in Greek mythology, the new space program comes 50 years after humans last set foot on lunar soil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The first launch of the Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful ever designed by NASA, is set for Wednesday at 1:04 am local time (0604 GMT), with a possible launch window of two hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Countdown has already begun at the storied Kennedy Space Center, where the orange and white behemoth awaits its maiden flight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The takeoff is scheduled less than a week after the passage of Hurricane Nicole, which the rocket endured outside on its launch pad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">For now, officials are evaluating the risk associated with hurricane damage to a thin strip of caulk-like material called RTV, which encircles the Orion crew capsule atop the rocket, and makes it more aerodynamic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Teams are looking at whether the RTV could shake loose during launch and pose problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Two backup dates are possible if needed, on November 19 and 25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">-<b> Far side of Moon -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The weather promises to be mild, with a 90 percent chance of favorable conditions during the launch window.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At the end of September, the rocket had to be wheeled back to its assembly building to be sheltered from another hurricane, Ian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Before these weather setbacks, two launch attempts had to be canceled for technical reasons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The first failure was related to a faulty sensor, and the second to a fuel leak when filling the rocket\'s tanks. It runs on ultra-cold, ultra-volatile liquid oxygen and hydrogen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">NASA has since replaced a seal and modified its procedures to avoid thermal shock as much as possible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tank-filling is now due to begin Tuesday afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">About 100,000 people are expected on the coast to watch the launch, with the rocket promising to light up the night sky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Orion capsule will be lifted by two boosters and four powerful engines under the core stage, which will detach after only a few minutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After a final push from the upper stage, the capsule will be well on its way, taking several days to reach its destination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rather than landing on the Moon, it will assume a distant orbit, venturing 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) beyond the far side -- further than any other habitable spacecraft so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Finally, Orion will embark on the return leg of its journey. When passing through the atmosphere, the capsule\'s heat shield will need to withstand a temperature half as hot as the Sun\'s surface.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">If takeoff happens Wednesday, the mission would last 25 and a half days in all, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on December 11.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">NASA is banking on a successful mission after developing the SLS rocket for more than a decade. It will have invested more than $90 billion in its new lunar program by the end of 2025, according to a public audit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Artemis 2 will be almost a replay of the first mission, albeit with astronauts, in 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Boots on the ground should happen during Artemis 3, no sooner than 2025, with the crew set to include the first woman and first person of color on the Moon. BSS/AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 05:36:02', '2022-11-15 05:36:02'),
(3050, 3050, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russia\'s Foreign Ministry announced Monday that 100 Canadians have been added to the list of people banned from entering the country in response to sanctions against Russia by Canada.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A ministry statement said author Margaret Atwood, actor Jim Carrey and Amy Knight, a noted historian of the KGB, were on the banned list.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The ministry said they and the other 97, many of whom are connected to ethnic Ukrainian organizations, were banned because of involvement in “formation of (Canada\'s) aggressively anti-Russian course.” AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 06:12:42', '2022-11-15 06:12:42');
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(3051, 3051, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>FIFA World Cup football is going to be held in Qatar for the first time in the Middle East. As hosts, Qatar is playing without playing the qualifiers. 79 different countries participated in the 92-year history of the previous 21 World Cups. However, this is the first time Qatar to participate in the World Cup, which has never qualified for the World Cup. </b></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Qatar is considered the weakest team in the World Cup because they will play for the first time and have never appeared in World Cup. Let\'s take a look at the Qatar Squad in World Cup Football tournament.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Qatar Team Announced for Football World Cup</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Table: Qatar Squad for World Cup&nbsp;</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Role Players</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Goalkeeper</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre;\">	</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saad Al Sheeb (Al-Sadd), Meshaal Barsham (Al-Sadd), Yousuf Hassan (Emirates Club)&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Defender</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre;\">	</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pedro Miguel (Al-Sadd), Musaab Khidir (Al-Sadd), Tarek Salman (Al-Sadd), Bassam Al Rawi (Al-Duhail), Khoukhi Boualem (Al-Sadd), Abdelkarim Hassan (Al-Sadd), Ismael Mohammed (Al-Duhail), Homam Al Amin (Al-Gharafa)</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Midfoelder<span style=\"white-space:pre\">	</span>Jassim Jabir (Al-Waab), Ali Asad (Al-Sadd), Mohammed Waad (Al-Sadd), Salem Al Hajri (Al-Sadd), Assim Modibo (Al-Duhail), Mustafa Meshaal (Al-Sadd), Karim Boudiaf (Al-Duhail), Abdulaziz Hatim (Al-Rayyan), Naif Alhadhrami (Al-Rayyan)&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Forward</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre;\">	</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hassan Al-Haydos (Al-Sadd), Akram Afif (Al-Sadd), Almoez Ali (Al-Duhail), Mohammed Muntari (Al-Duhail), Ahmed Alaa (Al-Gharafa), Khalid Muneer (Al-Wakrah).</span></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Qatar Football Federation has announced a 26-man squad for the dream World Cup tournament at home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Current Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez was their first choice in Qatar’s coach list for World Cup preparations. However, without him, under another Spanish, Felix Sanchez, Qatar has been preparing in secret for the past two months.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Qatar’s national league has paused since mid-September to have a preliminary and intensive pre-World Cup training camp. Besides playing friendly matches against Jamaica, Canada, Chile, and Albania, the national team is training in Vienna and Marbella, Austria.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Qataris started preparing for the World Cup several years ago and have already played friendly matches with 10 European countries. However, despite such hard preparation, they recently lost 2-0 to Canada, another weak team in the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In their last friendly match against Chile, who have not got a chance in this World Cup on September 27, Qatar made a 2-2 draw. Only time will tell how much the draw will energize them. To prepare for World Cup, they have played against teams of all strengths all over the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Qatar Squad Analysis for the FIFA World Cup</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Most of the footballers who play in Qatar’s various clubs are in the World Cup squad. Almoez Ali, the joint top goal scorer for Qatar, is apparently in the squad. He has scored 42 goals, equal to Mansoor Mufta for the country. Hassan Al-Haydos, who has played the most matches (146 games) for Qatar, is also in the squad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Qatar’s World Cup squad has 5 players, including Abdelkarim Hassan, Hassan Al-Haydos, Karim Boudiaf, Abdulaziz Hatim, and Boualem Khoukhi, who have already played more than 100 international matches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Many of the players on the team have experience working with the current coach on the U-19 and U-23 teams. However, the team’s success will depend on center-back Bassam Al-Rawi, left-winger Homam Al-Amin and two forwards, Akram Afif and Almoez Ali.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Team Format</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Qataris are practicing in 3-5-2 and 5-3-2. With the 3-5-2 system, the team is practicing keeping the ball in possession and working on how to play the counterattack in the 5-3-2 system. But the real thing is to see what they do off the pitch.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Key Players</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Although most Qatari players don’t play in any leagues out of their country, the domestic league has produced some international-level players. In this World Cup, Qatar fans will have eyes on two key players of the team. The team’s performance will mostly depend on the attacker Akram Afif and defender Bassam Al Rawi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Akram Afif, forward</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Forward Akram Afif has returned to form at the right time. However, his consistency has been hampered by injuries, but he has hinted in recent friendlies that he is primed for the World Cup. He is a dynamic forward, and, on his day, Afif can beat any defender.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He is regarded as one of the best players in Asia. After winning the league title with Al Sadd in 2020, his former coach Xavi Hernandez said he was an incredible talent and a great player.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Bassam Al Rawi, Defender</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As the central pillar of the defense, Al Duhail’s Bassam Al-Rawi has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. However, this center-back can be a threat to any team during set pieces and can be the savior of Qatar, paving the way for them to score. Although he is not tall, quite a fighter and will help the team out of danger with persistence when the team is under pressure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Final Words</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Qatar will start the tournament with a match against Ecuador. The hosts’ other two opponents are Senegal and the Netherlands. They will play against Senegal on November 25 and against the Dutch on November 29.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Qatar team’s challenge will be to get through the group stage. In the long history of the World Cup, only South Africa has a bad record of not being able to pass the group stage despite being the host. And Qatar has two strong opponents in their group, which will put some pressure on the hosts. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 06:22:43', '2022-11-15 06:22:43'),
(3052, 3052, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A baby born somewhere on Tuesday will be the world\'s eight billionth person, according to a projection by the United Nations.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The milestone is an occasion to celebrate diversity and advancements while considering humanity\'s shared responsibility for the planet,\" UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The UN attributes the growth to human development, with people living longer thanks to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It is also the result of higher fertility rates, particularly in the world\'s poorest countries -- most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa -- putting their development goals at risk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- How many is too many? -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Population growth has also magnified the environmental impacts of economic development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But while some worry that eight billion humans is too many for planet Earth, most experts say the bigger problem is the overconsumption of resources by the wealthiest people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Some express concerns that our world is overpopulated,\" said United Nations Population Fund chief Natalia Kanem. \"I am here to say clearly that the sheer number of human lives is not a cause for fear.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Joel Cohen of Rockefeller University\'s Laboratory of Populations told AFP the question of how many people Earth can support has two sides: natural limits and human choices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Our choices result in humans consuming far more biological resources, such as forests and land, than the planet can regenerate each year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The overconsumption of fossil fuels, for example, leads to more carbon dioxide emissions, responsible for global warming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We are stupid. We lacked foresight. We are greedy. We don\'t use the information we have. That\'s where the choices and the problems lie,\" said Cohen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, he rejects the idea that humans are a curse on the planet, saying people should be given better choices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Slowing growth -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The current population is more than three times higher than the 2.5 billion global headcount in 1950.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, after a peak in the early 1960s, the world\'s population growth rate has decelerated dramatically, Rachel Snow of the UN Population Fund told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Annual growth has fallen from a high of 2.1 percent between 1962 and 1965 to below 1 percent in 2020.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">That could potentially fall further to around 0.5 percent by 2050 due to a continued decline in fertility rates, the United Nations projects.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The UN projects the population to continue growing to about 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and peaking around 10.4 billion in the 2080s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Other groups have, however, calculated different figures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The US-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimated in a 2020 study that the global population would max out by 2064, without ever reaching 10 billion, and decline to 8.8 billion by 2100.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Black Death -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Since the emergence of the first humans in Africa over two million years ago the world\'s population has ballooned, with only fleeting pauses to the increasing number of people sharing Earth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Our ancestors were hunter-gatherers, who had few children compared to later settled populations in order to maintain their nomadic lifestyle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The introduction of agriculture in the Neolithic era, around 10,000 BC, brought the first known major population leap.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With agriculture came sedentarization and the ability to store food, which caused birth rates to soar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">From around six million in 10,000 BC, the global population leapt to 100 million in 2,000 BC and then to 250 million in the first century AD, according to the French Institute for Demographic Studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As a result of the Black Death, the human population dropped between 1300 and 1400, from 429 to 374 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Other events, like the Plague of Justinian, which hit the Mediterranean over two centuries from 541-767, and the wars of the early Middle Ages in western Europe, also caused temporary dips in the number of humans on Earth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">From the 19th century on, the population began to explode, due largely to the development of modern medicine and the industrialization of agriculture, which boosted global food supplies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Since 1800, the world\'s population has jumped eight-fold, from an estimated one billion to eight billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The development of vaccines was key, with the smallpox jab particularly helping zap one of history\'s biggest killers. 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(3053, 3053, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Eight bodies have been recovered from the debris of a stone quarry that collapsed in south Mizoram\'s Hnahthial district of India on Monday, an official said Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Hnahthial district deputy commissioner R. Lalremsanga said the bodies of 8 out of 12 people reported missing at the quarry site have been recovered from the debris of the massive landslip till 7 am on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Search operations which were on all night will continue till all the missing persons are found, he said. PTI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 07:26:37', '2022-11-15 07:26:37'),
(3054, 3054, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Calling the fire fighters as the \"the friend of worst time\", Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said her government is working to make the Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) into a topmost efficient service providing organisation</b>.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We are taking measures to transform the Fire Service and Civil Defence into the highest service providing organisation with complete ability,\" she said while opening the Fire Service and Civil Defence Week-2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The prime minister virtually joined the inaugural programme held at the Fire Service and Civil Defence Training Complex at Mirpur in the city from her official Ganabhaban residence in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She said her government has taken steps to make the fire service a time befitting force inducing modern equipment and fire fighting vehicles and equipping its personnel with proper training at home and abroad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She stressed the need for making all the people aware from their childhood on how the fire breaks out and how to protect them from the blaze.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The prime minister asked all concerned to observe the week keeping three things in mind including making people\'s awareness about fire and ensuring their participation in dousing flames, increasing fire fighters\' mental strength to strengthen the disaster prevention management system and increase ability to fight the disaster effectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She said the fire service personnel were found to extend help in every disaster including fire and launch capsize.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Her government has done a huge task for the overall development of the fire service aimed at increasing its ability and services, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I would like to say that it is a great task to rescue people (from being killed in fire) by risking lives. So, the fire fighters are known as \"worst time friend\" to the masses,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The premier recalled with gratitude the supreme sacrifice of 30 firefighters including 13 fire personnel who were killed in the recent devastating blaze at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda and were announced as \"Agni Beer\" (Fire Hero) and prayed for the peace of their departed souls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and Security Service Division Secretary Abdullah Al Masud Chowdhury spoke at the function as special guests while Director General of the Fire Service and Civil Defence Directorate Brigadier General Md Main Uddin gave the welcome address.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On behalf of the prime minister, the home minister handed over the Fire Service and Civil Defence Padak-2022 in four categories to 45 fire personnel and relatives of 13 fire fighters killed in Sitakunda depot fire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The prime minister witnessed the force\'s parade and took the state salute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The firemen also gave salute to the prime minister wearing the most modern fire distinguishing dresses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The force\'s personnel also staged various techniques on how to douse fire, rescue people and secure their own life using various world\'s most modern machineries that included remote control vehicles, the world\'s tallest turntable ladders vehicles having height of 68 metres. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 08:14:46', '2022-11-15 08:14:46'),
(3055, 3055, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the party’s conference held in Derai upazila of Sunamganj had no connection with the death of a man.</b></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“He died from heart related complications. I request the media to not circulate misinformation on Awami League,” Quader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He made the remark to media after attending the 29th meeting of the National Road Security Council at Bangladesh Road Transport Authority headquarters in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Monday, a 27-year-old man named Azmal Hossain Chowdhury alias Arman died and 40 people were injured in a clash between two factions of Awami League during its triennial conference in Derai upazila of Sunamganj district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A tense situation was prevailing in the area over the conference and during the event on Monday, two factions of AL engaged in a heated argument over position on the podium set up for the conference, said Saiful Alam, officer-in-charge of Derai Police Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At one stage, the argument turned into a violent clash as brick chips were hurled and a chase and counter-chase took place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Arman was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries in the afternoon, said the OC. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 08:21:21', '2022-11-15 08:21:21'),
(3056, 3056, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The truth about why and how drug smugglers fired shots at a Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) officer at Tombru border in Bandarban will be identified and shared, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He was responding to journalists’ questions after attending the Fire Service and Civil Defence Week 2022 programme in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said the law enforcing team was conducting a drive against drug traders – following information from a detective agency – at the no-man’s-land area on Bangladesh-Myanmar border where thousands of Rohingyas live.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Monday night, an officer of DGFI was shot dead and a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel was wounded while conducting a drive against drug smugglers at Tombru border, ISPR said in a press release earlier today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">ISPR, however, did not reveal the names of the DGFI and Rab personnel yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile, Sub-inspector Ripon Chowdhury, appointed at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, told the UNB correspondent that a Rab member was brought to the hospital around 10 pm with critical injury after being shot at the border during a drive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Assistant Sub-inspector of Naikhongchhari police station Joydeb said they were informed about firing at Konarpara area near the border but don’t have information about who was involved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Some locals claimed Myanmar insurgent group Al Yaqin members shot at a team of Rab-15 members at zero point of the border around 7 pm last night while they were conducting a drive. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 09:04:11', '2022-11-15 09:04:11'),
(3057, 3057, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Palestinian man stabbed three Israelis in a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday before he was shot and killed by Israeli security personnel, Israeli paramedics and Palestinian officials said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The three stabbed people were being treated for serious injuries following the attack near a gas station in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, the medics said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli military said the Palestinian attacked Israelis at the entrance to the settlement’s industrial zone, then proceeded to a nearby gas station and stabbed more people there.</div><div><br></div><div>It said the attacker was shot fleeing the scene. Amateur video aired on Israeli television appeared to show the suspected attacker running down a highway and collapsing to the ground after he was shot.</div><div><br></div><div>The Palestinian Health Ministry later confirmed a Palestinian man was killed. There was no immediate word on his motive for the stabbing.</div><div><br></div><div>The attack was latest in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the West Bank and east Jerusalem that has seen at least 23 Israelis and more than 130 Palestinians killed this year, making 2022 the deadliest since 2006.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state. - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 09:39:30', '2022-11-15 09:39:30'),
(3058, 3058, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The European Union vowed at UN climate talks on Tuesday that it will strengthen its carbon-cutting commitment, insisting that the bloc was not \"backtracking\" in the face of the Ukraine war.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Armed with new plans to curb greenhouse gases, the EU says it will be able to exceed its original plan to cut emissions by 55 percent by 2030 with a new goal of over 57 percent, from 1990 levels.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The European Union is here to move forwards, not backwards,\" European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans told delegates in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.</div><div><br></div><div>He denied the bloc was in a \"dash for gas\" in response to the invasion of Ukraine by fossil fuel exporter Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>\"So don\'t let anybody tell you here or outside that the EU is backtracking,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Campaigners said the EU announcement did not go far enough.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This small increase announced today at COP27 doesn\'t do justice to the calls from the most vulnerable countries at the front lines,\" said Chiara Martinelli, of Climate Action Network Europe.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If the EU, with a heavy history of emitting greenhouse gases, doesn\'t lead on mitigating climate change, who will?\"</div><div><br></div><div>In October, the European Environment Agency warned that Europe was not on track to meet that target, after greenhouse gas emissions rebounded in 2021 due to the post-pandemic recovery. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 09:59:07', '2022-11-15 09:59:07'),
(3059, 3059, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two new US studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The studies released Tuesday, one by a government-auto industry partnership and the other by the insurance industry, each used crash data to make the calculations. Automatic emergency braking can stop vehicles if a crash is imminent, or slow them to reduce the severity.</div><div><br></div><div>Some automakers are moving toward a voluntary commitment by 20 companies to make the braking technology standard equipment on 95% of their light-duty models during the current model year that ends next August.</div><div><br></div><div>A study by The Partnership for Analytics Research in Traffic Safety compared data on auto equipment with 12 million police-reported crashes from 13 states that was collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the partnership said in a statement Tuesday. The group studied forward collision warning as well as emergency braking.</div><div><br></div><div>The group found front-to-rear crashes were cut 49% when the striking vehicle had forward collision alert plus automatic braking, when compared with vehicles that didn’t have either system. Rear crashes with injuries were cut by 53%, the study found.</div><div><br></div><div>Vehicles with forward collision warning systems only reduced rear-end crashes by 16%, and cut rear crashes with injuries by 19%.</div><div><br></div><div>Automatic emergency braking works well in all conditions, even when roadway, weather or lighting conditions were not ideal, the study showed.</div><div><br></div><div>The group also looked at lane departure warning systems, and lane-keeping systems, which keep vehicles in their lanes. They reduced crashes from autos leaving the roadway by 8% and road-departure crashes that cause injuries by 7%.</div><div><br></div><div>“These emerging technologies can substantially reduce the number of crashes and improve safety outcomes,” said Tim Czapp, senior manager for safety at European automaker Stellantis, the industry co-chair of the partnership’s board.</div><div><br></div><div>In the other study, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that automatic emergency braking reduces rear crash rates for pickups by 43% and rear-end injury crashes by 42%. Yet pickups are less likely to have automatic braking than cars or SUVs despite posing more danger to other road users, the IIHS found.</div><div><br></div><div>“Pickups account for 1 out of 5 passenger vehicles on U.S. roads, and their large size can make them dangerous to people in smaller vehicles or on foot,” the institute’s Vice President of Research Jessica Cicchino said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Mitsubishi, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler), Volkswagen and Honda have filed documents with the government this year saying they’ve made emergency braking standard on at least 90% of their models.</div><div><br></div><div>General Motors reported that only 73% of its models had the technology at the end of the 2022 model year, but a spokesman said GM would hit the 90% target by the end of the current model year.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, BMW, Hyundai, Mazda, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, and Volvo passed 90% last year, according to the IIHS. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 10:23:04', '2022-11-15 10:23:04'),
(3060, 3060, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government has taken development projects aimed at reducing unemployment and making youths self-employed in the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We have taken various realistic projects to train youths for making them self-employed and also engage them in jobs,\" Youth and Sports Secretary Mesbah Uddin told BSS today.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government has imparted training to 67 lakh youths on various income generation trades since 2009 to make them skilled and self-employed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Training programme is a continuous process for youth development. The youth development department is imparting training on a total of 83 trades across the country,\" Mesbah said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said 23 lakh trained youths out of 67 lakh have engaged themselves in self-employment so far.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the ministry, the government has taken an initiative to build Sheikh Jamal Youth Training and Recreation Centre at every upazila to reach the training programme to the grassroots level.</div><div><br></div><div>It said a project \'Economic Acceleration and Resilience for NEET (EARN)\' was adopted with the World Bank finance to create employment opportunities for NEET youth population.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the \'project, the government will provide training to 20 lakh youths in five years, said the youth and sports secretary.</div><div><br></div><div>The youth development department will impart skill development training to the NEET youths, of which, about 50 percent is female, he said, adding the training programme will be spread up to the union levels.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from this, 3rd phase of the IMPACT project has been adopted with the aim of making everyone a partner in building a better Bangladesh, Mesbah said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Under the previous 2 phases of the project, some 31,000 eco-friendly biogas plants were set up across the country as the project will install 64,000 baiogas plant in every district during it period, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina Youth Development Institute at Savar gained unprecedented progress in terms of its quality and various youth development activities.</div><div><br></div><div>Within few days, activities related to national and international youth gatherings, youth exchanges, international seminars and symposiums on youth issues will be introduced at this institute.</div><div><br></div><div>The institute will also provide Ph.D., M. Phil, M S and diploma degrees on various subjects while it will become a centre of excellence for youths.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, construction work of Sheikh Russell Mini Stadium is progressing fast at every upazila of the country. Of those, construction of 125 stadiums was completed while building of 186 stadiums is underway in the current financial year.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from this, the work of preparing DPP for construction of 173 more stadiums is going on.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangabandhu National Stadium also is conducting its modernization and renovation work at a cost of about Tk 100 crore. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 10:52:13', '2022-11-15 10:52:13'),
(3061, 3061, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Social media is a repository of strange content. This time, the users are stunned to know about the man with the longest nose.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The story of Thomas Wedders gained social media\'s attention after a Twitter page called Historic Vids posted a photo of his head kept at Ripley\'s Believe It Or Not museum. In the November 12 tweet, the Twitter handle also said that Mr Wedders\' nose measured 7.5 inches long.</div><div><br></div><div>The Guinness World Records (GWR) website also has a page on the man, which says that he was a \"member of a travelling freak circus\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"Thomas Wadhouse was an English circus performer who lived in the 18th century. He is most famously known for having the world\'s longest nose, which measured 7.5 inches (19 cm) long,\" Historic Vids said in its tweet. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 11:22:26', '2022-11-15 11:22:26'),
(3062, 3062, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Fire Service and Civil Defence Week -2022 is being observed in the country through various programme.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually inaugurated the \'Fire Service and Civil Defence Week\' today. The inaugural function was held at the Fire Service and Civil Defence Training Complex at Mirpur in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued separate messages greeting the Fire Service and Civil Defence officials marking the Fire Service and Civil Defence Week-2022.</div><div><br></div><div>President M Abdul Hamid, in his message, said the role of Fire Service and Civil Defence is very crucial for ensuring security to life of the people during terrible incidents and natural disasters by conducting various activities like extinguishing fire, extending services to injured people and transporting patients in critical conditions.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>As a government institution, at first the members of Fire Service and Civil Defence stand by the people putting their lives at risk during different disasters, he added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The head of the state paid his deepest respect to the brave personnel of fire service and civil defense who died during fire fighting, disaster response and rescue operations at various times.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Due to its geographical location, Bangladesh is more prone to natural disasters like floods, cyclones, tidal waves, lightning and earthquakes than other regions of the world, Hamid added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Apart from this, due to industrialization and unplanned urbanization, man-made accidents are also increasing in the country, he said, adding that thus, new challenges are emerging in the management of rescue operations in various disasters.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>There is no alternative to equipping the fire service and civil defense with modern equipment and providing better training to its personnel to meet these challenges, he said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Abdul Hamid hoped that the weeklong programme will help the fire service workers increase mutual communication with the common people.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the present Awami League (AL) government has taken various realistic steps to increase the capacity of the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence aiming at building a safe Bangladesh.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"I announced that I will build at least one fire station in each upazila of the country,\" the premier said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"As a result, since 2009, we have made a total of 286 new fire stations. Before 2009, there were 204 fire stations in the country,\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Several more fire stations are expected to be launched soon, she added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She recalled 13 martyred firefighters of the devastating fire at BM Container Depot in Chattogram\'s Sitakunda.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She said that the government recognized those 13 firefighters as \"Agniveer\" or fire heroes.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"I seek eternal peace of the departed souls of all the members of the fire service and civil defense who sacrificed their lives to protect the life and property including these 13 brave firemen,\" she continued.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Alongside increasing the number of fire stations, the government has taken the initiative to establish \'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Fire Academy\' in Munshiganj district near Dhaka to ensure world-class training facilities for the members of this force, the premier said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Sheikh Hasina hoped that workers of Fire Service and Civil Defence would perform their duties with enthusiasm, courage, skills, honesty and sincerity.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Fire Service and Civil Defence would help build \'Sonar Bangla\' as dreamt by Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the premier expected.</div><div><br></div><div>Both the president and the premier wished success to all programmes organized on the occasion of Fire Service and Civil Defence week. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 14:00:36', '2022-11-15 14:00:36'),
(3063, 3063, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Election Commissioner (EC) Md. Alamgir on Tuesday said that manipulation in the electronic voting machine (EVM) is not possible as chips are made for one-time use.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“There is no chance to rewrite anything. Also, there is no chance to change the programming,” he told reporters at the Election Commission Secretariat in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that many think it is a machine to rig the election, but experts suggest otherwise.</div><div><br></div><div>“From my experience of past elections, I have seen that there is no scope for tampering with EVMs. The commission also asked the political parties to check EVMs by their own technical teams,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The commissioner said that the first thing to say about EVMs is that results can be reversed by programming.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that such a statement may be theoretically right, but practically wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>“You can say that one company\'s drugs may be adulterated, but not all other companies\' drugs are adulterated. The point is that our EVM is different. Many say it is like EVMs used in India. Actually, it cannot be compared with India’s ones,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He also added that voter identification is done manually in EVMs in India while in Bangladesh it is done electronically.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that since Bangladesh has a voter database with photo and fingerprint, EVMs in Bangladesh can identify real voters where India does not have the opportunity to do so.</div><div><br></div><div>Secondly, the programming done for EVMs in Bangladesh can only add, he said adding that voters can only vote. It cannot do anything else, and programming has been done that way, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“So, there is no chance that someone can manipulate the device, not even from outside. So, once it is written there is no chance to rewrite or edit as it is usable for one time,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Alamgir, also a former EC Secretary, said that EVMs in Bangladesh do not have any connection with the Internet.</div><div><br></div><div>“The connection provided with the ballot unit is customisable. Nothing can be inserted into it. You cannot add any other device except the device that is created for this EVM only.”</div><div><br></div><div>He added that EVMs used in Bangladesh only add and subtract like a calculator. As calculators do not have the option to change the programme, these machines are also the same.</div><div><br></div><div>“Those who are spreading misinformation about EVMs do not know or understand it. They can check any EVM if they want,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The EC commissioner also said that the advantage of voting in EVMs is that there is no opportunity to vote before or after the election. There is no opportunity to cast a vote without a voter.</div><div><br></div><div>“If the voters do not come to the centres, there is no chance to cast the vote. If 10 percent voters turn up, only 10 percent votes can be cast. On the other hand, it is possible for 10 percent of voters to actually vote 100 percent on the ballot. Hence there is no chance of fraud through EVM,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to another question, he said that strict action will be taken against the candidates, agents who would assist in rigging in polling stations, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>He said that the agents cannot be kept out of the polling stations as political parties will not accept it.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 14:24:58', '2022-11-15 14:24:58');
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(3064, 3064, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has filed a review appeal to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission to raise the bulk power tariff.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We’ve filed an appeal to the BERC on Monday (November 14) to review the decision to reject the proposal to raise bulk power tariff”, a top BPDB official told UNB on condition of anonymity.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said before submitting the proposal, the BPDB received a nod from the government’s highest policy level.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid also approved the review appeal, he added.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>BERC on October 13 rejected the proposal of the BPDB to raise bulk power tariff, saying that the aggrieved party can submit appeal proposal to review the regulator’s decision within 30 working days.</div><div><br></div><div>“Keeping compliance with the 30-day tenure, we’ve submitted our review appeal”, said the top BPDB official.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A top official of the BERC also confirmed that it had received the appeal from the BPDB.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the BERC top level is now scrutinising the appeal proposal.</div><div><br></div><div>“But it’s not clear whether BERC will hold a fresh public hearing on the review or will arbitrarily accept the proposal and announce its decision without hearing”, said the BERC official preferring anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>While delivering a decision by rejecting the BPDB proposal on Oct 13, BERC chairman Abdul Jalil said that some of the private companies, which buy power from BPDB have not submitted their data of transactions.</div><div><br></div><div>“There was data ambiguity. That’s why we did not analyse the impact of any rise in bulk tariff on the consumers,” he told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>The current socio-economic and power supply situation were taken into consideration when making the BERC decision, he noted. As a result, the electricity tariff remains unchanged in accordance with the earlier tariff announced in February 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>The last public hearing on a proposal of the state-owned BPDB to raise bulk power tariff was held on May 18.</div><div><br></div><div>The BPDB placed a proposal to raise bulk power tariffs by 65.57 percent at the public hearing while a technical evaluation committee of BERC recommended a 57.83 percent hike.</div><div><br></div><div>Placing the proposal, BPDB officials had said the organisation will require Tk 74,189 crore in revenue to generate 88,993 million kilowatt hours (units) of electricity to supply to the power distribution companies.</div><div><br></div><div>\"But if the BPDB sells its electricity at the existing rate of Tk 5.17 per unit, it will have to face a deficit of Tk 30,251 crore in revenue in the calendar year 2022. So, BPDB needs to raise the power tariff by 65.57 percent to Tk 8.56 per unit from Tk 5.17,\" said a BPDB top official at the hearing, adding that this has been calculated without the government\'s subsidy.</div><div><br></div><div>The Power Division has been under tremendous pressure from the Finance Ministry to raise power tariffs.</div><div><br></div><div>BPDB has been incurring a huge financial loss due to its purchase of electricity from private power plants at a much higher rate and sell it to the consumers at a lower rate.</div><div><br></div><div>At the public hearing on May 18, consumer rights groups, including representatives from different business bodies, vehemently opposed any major rise in power tariff right now, as people are already struggling with high inflation caused by high commodity prices.</div><div><br></div><div>They termed the proposal illogical and said BPDB can offset its revenue deficit through addressing irregularities, corruption and unethical practices in buying electricity from inefficient private power plants at higher rates. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 15:56:11', '2022-11-15 15:56:11'),
(3065, 3065, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two weeks after Meta India head Ajit Mohan resigned to take up another job at rival Snap, Meta\'s country lead for public policy Rajiv Aggarwal has also quit today, the social media giant confirmed. WhatsApp\'s India head Abhijit Bose has also resigned, Meta said in a statement.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rajiv Aggarwal has decided to step down from his role at Meta to pursue another opportunity, the statement said, wishing him the best for future endeavours. </div><div><br></div><div>Will Cathcart, Head of WhatsApp, thanked Abhijit Bose for his \"tremendous contributions\" as the first Head of WhatsApp in India. </div><div><br></div><div>\"His entrepreneurial drive helped our team deliver new services that have benefited millions of people and businesses. There is so much more WhatsApp can do for India, and we\'re excited to continue helping advance India\'s digital transformation,\" Mr Cathcart said.</div><div><br></div><div>The tech giant also announced the appointment of Shivnath Thukral as Director of Public Policy for Meta in India across all its platforms. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 15:58:09', '2022-11-15 16:14:15'),
(3066, 3066, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh has not cast UNGA vote which purported to reprimand Russia and impose compensation on the country for attacking Ukraine, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A resolution was passed on Monday asking Russia to pay reparations to Ukraine for loss of lives and properties.</div><div><br></div><div>Totally, 94 out of 193 members voted in favour of the resolution.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, 14 countries including China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia, Syria and Belarus voted against and 73 skipped.</div><div><br></div><div>The countries abstained from casting votes include India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan and Malaysia.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 16:13:18', '2022-11-15 16:13:18'),
(3067, 3067, '<div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Eight dengue patients died while 692 patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours (till 8am today).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On November 3, Bangladesh logged nine dengue deaths, the highest in a single day, this year.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As many as 372 dengue patients were hospitalized in Dhaka city and 320 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 213 people died from dengue disease between January 1 and November 15. 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 49,992 while some 46,928 patients were released from the hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>The DGHS sources said Mirpur, Uttara, Mugda, Jatrabari, Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur in Dhaka city have been identified as dengue hotspots. It said the highest number of cases has been detected in Cox\'s Bazar after Dhaka.</div><div>&nbsp;</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, '2022-11-15 16:20:20', '2022-11-15 16:20:20'),
(3069, 3069, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rejecting the possibility of famine in the country, Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque said there will be no food crisis or famine-like situation unless any big natural disaster hits the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Good Aman crop and expected bumper yield coupled with huge local food stock, ultimately make it clear that the country is not at risk of food crisis or famine,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said this while attending at Aman crop cutting festival at Haibathpur under Damurhuda uapzila here on Tuesday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the food crisis amid in the wake of global crisis due to Russia-Ukraine war, Dr Razzaque said the country has now adequate food, so no food crisis will happen in the country if any natural disaster occurs.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking about country\'s onion production, Dr Razzaque said the government is implementing the roadmap to reduce onion import dependency, adding \"Onion production has increased by nearly 10 lakh tonnes in last two years.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He said the country produces adequate onion seasonally, but huge amount of onion is damaged every year in the country due to lack of developing preservation technology.</div><div><br></div><div>So, the country needs to import onion every year to meet the demand, said the minister who had visited the summer season onion field of the upazila during his visit.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said, \"We are giving importance to summer season onion farming as necessary inputs including seed, fertilizer and technology are being provided to the farmers.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>If we can make the summer season onion popular among the farmers then the country will not only become self-sufficient in onion production but also export onion abroad,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding fertilizer stock, the minister said the government is giving topmost priority to ensuring fertilizer stock and supply so that no crisis occurs during the upcoming Boro season.</div><div><br></div><div>Ali Asgar Tagore MP, Agriculture Secretary M Sayedul Islam, BARC\'s Executive Chairman Sheikh M Bakhtiar, DAE\'s Director General (DG) Benjir Alam, BRRI\'s DG Shahjahan Kabir, BARI\'s DG Debasish Sarker and Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Chuadanga, among others, attended the function. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-15 16:41:44', '2022-11-15 16:41:44'),
(3070, 3070, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NATO, global leaders meet in emergency session at Bali G20&nbsp;</span></b><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As we’ve mentioned, leaders from the world’s 20 biggest economies are in Bali for the G20 summit and some of then are now huddled in a special session to discuss the Poland blast.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Joe Biden convened the meeting and he was pictured sitting around a conference table with leaders from countries including Germany, Canada, Italy and France. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is also taking part although Japan is not a NATO member.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials have not said how long the meeting will last.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden said “no” when reporters asked whether he could share what he knows about the explosion. He did not comment when asked about possible Russian involvement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO allies offer support as Poland investigates blast</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in Bali for the G20 meeting, says he has spoken to the Polish president and will “coordinate” with NATO allies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said earlier that the UK was looking “urgently” into what had happened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">European Council President Charles Michel has also been on Twitter to express his condolences to the families of the dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Shocked by the news of a missile or other ammunition having killed people on Polish territory,” he wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No concrete evidence on who fired missile: Duda</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poland’s president has told reporters there is no concrete evidence – as yet – indicating who fired the missile.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We do not have any conclusive evidence at the moment as to who launched this missile… it was most likely a Russian-made missile, but this is all still under investigation at the moment,” Duda said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More air defence support likely in wake of missile incident: Expert</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sam Ramani, an international security expert at RUSI in the UK, has told Al Jazeera he expects NATO will step up military aid for Ukraine – in particular air defence systems – in the wake of Tuesday night’s incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The US is likely to take the lead and the others will follow,” Ramani said. NATO countries are also likely to organise more military exercises and drills as a way of showing resolve, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting Poland’s reluctance to point the finger at Russia, Ramani said it was “unlikely to push immediately for Article 5” and that it did not seem the incident “met the threshold” for action.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO also requires unanimity on such a decision and countries such as Hungary remain close to Russia. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-16 02:20:26', '2022-11-16 02:20:26'),
(3071, 3071, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Thousands of young Indians are suddenly staring at an uncertain future as technology companies and start-ups announce mass layoffs due to global headwinds and funding crunches. But many are refusing to stay quiet about it.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In October, when Ravi (name changed on request) realised that he and several colleagues were likely to lose their jobs with a major Indian edtech firm, he immediately set up a private messaging group with them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group soon became a \"safe space\" for Ravi and his teammates to air their fears, share tips on dealing with the management and discuss labour laws and workers\' rights.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It helped many in the team negotiate better exit policies with the company,\" Ravi says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The past few months have been difficult for Indian workers in private companies - especially in the tech sector. Edtech firms Byju\'s and Unacademy have cut hundreds of jobs; social media giant Twitter has laid off more than half of its staff in India and Indians are among those affected after Meta - Facebook\'s parent company - shaved off about 13% of its 87,000-strong workforce.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spate of layoffs has sparked outrage on social media and many of those affected are turning to the internet - like their counterparts in other countries - to air their dissatisfaction and form support networks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They\'re tweeting about unceremonious firings, asking for jobs on LinkedIn, and using messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Slack to rally colleagues, assert their rights and share information with journalists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is partly because the culture of shame and silence that once existed around terminations in India is gradually wearing thin as mass layoffs become more common.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And while the jury is still out on how effective social media is as a tool for redressal, experts say that it is helping unite and amplify voices, especially as trade unions are no longer as powerful as they used to be.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While millions of Indian workers still belong to trade unions, the movement as a whole has been weakening for years. A number of factors - including burgeoning private sector jobs, new labour reforms and a rise in contractual work - have played a role in denting their membership and might.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Along with employers making themselves more accessible, social media too is giving employees a platform to air their grievances, thereby reducing the need for a mediator - a role traditionally played by unions,\" says Professor Chandrasekhar Sripada, professor of practice, organisational behaviour, at the Indian School of Business.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Byju\'s announced in October that it would \"rationalise\" about 2,500 employees to \"achieve profitability\", many of its employees have been speaking to the media - often anonymously - about the company culture and the pressures they face.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sacked Twitter employees have taken to social media to vent their frustrations. \"Always a Tweep never a Twit,\" tweeted one former employee in a veiled reference to new owner Elon Musk\'s Twitter bio at the time. \"Got fired without even a confirmation email. There\'s always a new low,\" said another.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pritha Dutt, a management and development sector professional, points out that even a couple of decades ago, layoffs weren\'t that common and terminations were most likely chalked up to \"a performance issue\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today, layoffs and downsizing have become accepted business practices, so terminations are no longer a taboo topic,\" she says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the job market expanding, Ms Dutt adds, employees have become more confident about the marketability of their skills and don\'t mind standing up for their rights, even if that means burning bridges by calling out a person or organisation on social media. 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, '2022-11-16 03:47:21', '2022-11-16 03:47:21'),
(3072, 3072, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Washington and allies said Wednesday they will investigate a deadly strike in Poland before deciding next steps, with US President Joe Biden saying it was \"unlikely\" the missile was fired from Russia.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We agreed to support Poland\'s investigation into the explosion,\" Biden told reporters after a hastily arranged gathering of allies on the sidelines of the G20 in Bali, Indonesia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We\'re going to make sure we figure out exactly what happened... and then we\'re going to collectively determine our next step,\" added Biden after talks with G7 and other European leaders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Asked if the missile, which killed two people in a village near the Ukrainian border, had been fired from Russia, Biden said there was \"preliminary information that contests that\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"It\'s unlikely... that it was fired from Russia. But we\'ll see.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The explosion in Poland, a NATO member, immediately sparked concerns that the alliance might be drawn into Russia\'s nearly nine-month war against Western-backed Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But the White House and allies have reacted cautiously, and Polish President Andrzej Duda also sought to calm tensions, saying there is no \"unequivocal evidence\" for where the missile came from and that he saw it as an \"isolated\" incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Nothing indicates to us that there will be more,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The foreign ministry earlier summoned Russia\'s ambassador to Warsaw to give \"immediate detailed explanations\" over the strike, and Poland is expected to request urgent consultations under Article 4 of the NATO Treaty on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Article 4 allows consultations to be called when any NATO member feels their \"territorial integrity, political independence or security\" are at risk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- \'Slap in the face\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quickly blamed Russia, which has launched a wave of missile strikes across the country that have left millions of households without power, calling the strike a \"slap in the face\" for the G20.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The incident will further expose faultlines in the group, which has struggled to find common ground on Russia\'s invasion of its neighbour, coming together to condemn the war\'s effects, but still divided on apportioning blame.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The summit has shown that even Russia\'s allies have limited patience with a conflict that has inflated food and energy prices worldwide and raised the spectre of nuclear war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In a draft communique, Russia was forced to agree that the \"war in Ukraine\" -- which Moscow refuses to call a war -- has \"adversely impacted the global economy\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It also agreed that \"the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons\" is \"inadmissible\", after months of President Vladimir Putin making such threats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But Russia\'s G20 allies China, India and South Africa have so far refrained from publicly criticising Putin\'s war, and the draft joint statement is replete with diplomatic fudges and linguistic gymnastics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Putin shunned the gathering, instead sending his pugnacious Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who left the summit on Tuesday night, skipping the final day of talks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The United States and its allies have used the summit to broaden the coalition against Russia\'s invasion and scotch Moscow\'s claims of a war of East versus West.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Host Indonesia, meanwhile, has walked a tightrope, keen to end its G20 presidency with the relative triumph of a joint statement agreed by the fractured grouping.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It has declined to criticise Russia, and invited Zelensky to address the summit with a speech Tuesday in which the Ukrainian leader urged his counterparts to end the war and \"save thousands of lives\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It was not immediately clear if the Poland strike would scupper the joint statement, which is due to be issued after leaders hold a final round of talks. 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(3073, 3073, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Poland raised its military readiness after what the country\'s President Andrzej Duda said was \"most probably\" a strike by a Russian-made missile.</b></span></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Here are some of the major reactions from other nations:</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">- United States -</b><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The White House said US President Joe Biden was holding an \"emergency roundtable\" on Wednesday with allies to discuss the missile strike.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The meeting in Bali, where a G20 summit is under way, was set to include the leaders of all other G7 nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Earlier, Biden called Duda. The two leaders \"said that they and their teams should remain in close touch to determine appropriate next steps as the investigation proceeds,\" according to the White House.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Speaking to reporters in Bali, he said the United States and its allies will \"figure out exactly what happened\" in Poland.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">He also said it was \"unlikely\" that the missile had been fired from Russia.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">- Ukraine -</b><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The president of Ukraine, which has been fighting a brutal Russian invasion since February, offered condolences to Duda in a call.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"We exchanged information and are clarifying all the facts,\" Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba dismissed as a \"conspiracy theory\" that the missile may have been fired by Ukrainian air defences.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">- Russia -</b><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The defence ministry in Moscow dismissed reports that missiles fired by Russian forces had landed in Poland.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"Polish mass media and officials commit deliberate provocation to escalate (the) situation with their statement on alleged impact of \'Russian\' rockets,\" it said in an online statement.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"Russian firepower has launched no strikes at the area.\"</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">-<b> Germany -</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed solidarity with Polish President Andrzej Duda.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"The chancellor has just telephoned Polish President Duda and expressed his condolences... Germany stands closely by the side of our NATO partner Poland,\" Scholz\'s spokesman tweeted.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">- Britain -</b><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NATO member Britain\'s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called Duda to express \"solidarity\", Downing Street said.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"The Prime Minister offered any assistance needed to urgently establish what happened,\" it added.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- France -</b><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">French President Emmanuel Macron had called for talks at the G20 summit in Indonesia over the strike, his office told AFP prior to the White House roundtable announcement.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In France\'s National Assembly, State Secretary Sonia Backes delivered a message to deputies from Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne: \"The government is following the situation on the ground in conjunction with our Polish allies very closely.\"</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"In any case, Poland can count on France\'s solidarity.\"</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>- European Union -</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">EU chief Charles Michel said he was \"shocked\" by reports of the strike.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">My condolences to the families,\" he tweeted.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"We stand with Poland. I am in contact with Polish authorities, members of the European Council and other allies.\" AFP</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-16 04:17:52', '2022-11-16 04:17:52'),
(3074, 3074, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Donald Trump pulled the trigger on a third White House run on Tuesday, setting the stage for a bruising Republican nomination battle after a poor midterm election showing by his hand-picked candidates weakened his grip on the party.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"America\'s comeback starts right now,\" the former president told hundreds of supporters gathered in an ornate American flag-draped ballroom at his palatial Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,\" said the 76-year-old, who filed his official 2024 paperwork with the US election authority moments earlier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Trump\'s unusually early entry into the White House race is being seen in Washington as an attempt to get the jump on other Republicans seeking to be the party flag-bearer -- and to stave off potential criminal charges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Republicans are licking their wounds after disappointing midterms, widely blamed on the underperformance of Trump-anointed candidates, and some are openly asking whether Trump -- with his divisive brand of politics and mess of legal woes -- is the right person to carry the party colors next time around.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Several possible 2024 primary rivals are circling, chief among them the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, who bucked the tide and won a resounding reelection victory on November 8.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Trump, who lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden after being impeached twice by the House of Representatives, launches his new bid with several potential handicaps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He is the target of multiple investigations into his conduct before, during and after his first term as president -- which could ultimately result in his disqualification.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">These include allegations of fraud by his family business, his role in last year\'s attack on the US Capitol, his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, and his stashing of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With Trump now a declared candidate, Biden\'s attorney general, Merrick Garland, may be forced to name a special counsel to pursue the various investigations into the former president launched by the Department of Justice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Popular support -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In addition, the powerful media empire of Rupert Murdoch has appeared to turn its back on Trump, labelling him after the midterms as a \"loser\" who shows \"increasingly poor judgement.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Trump also remains banned by Facebook and Twitter, which was instrumental in his stunning political rise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In a combative speech, Trump attacked Biden over inflation and crime and lauded his own accomplishments as president, including toppling the Islamic State and building a border wall with Mexico.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Under our leadership, we were a great and glorious nation. But now we are a nation in decline,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"In two years the Biden administration has destroyed the US economy,\" he said. \"With a victory we will again build the greatest economy ever.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The blood-soaked streets of our once great cities are cesspools of violent crimes,\" he said, vowing to \"restore and secure America\'s borders.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The 79-year-old Biden has said his intention is to seek a second term -- but he will make a final decision early next year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I will ensure that Joe Biden does not receive four more years,\" Trump vowed, while the US leader greeted Trump\'s announcement with a tweet saying: \"Donald Trump failed America.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Trump had made denial of the 2020 election results a key litmus test for midterm candidates seeking his endorsement -- but a string of defeats by loyal allies sapped his momentum in preparing a new White House bid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Having failed to wrest control of the Senate, Republicans appeared poised to take over the House, but with a razor-thin majority.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Despite his lackluster election performance, the real estate tycoon retains an undeniable popularity with the millions of grassroots supporters who have flocked to his \"Make America Great Again\" banner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">And though abandoned by several top Republican donors, he has amassed a campaign war chest of well over $100 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- 2024 challengers -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">For the moment, the hard-right DeSantis looks like the leading challenger to Trump in a Republican field that may include former vice president Mike Pence, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and ex-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The 44-year-old DeSantis, dubbed \"Ron DeSanctimonious\" by Trump, had a ready reply Tuesday when asked about the former president\'s attacks on him, urging \"people to go check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Without naming Trump, he also suggested a Republican ticket headed by the former president would have trouble attracting independent voters \"even with Biden in the White House and the failures that we\'re seeing.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">By throwing his hat in the ring, Trump is seeking to become just the second American president to serve non-consecutive terms -- Grover Cleveland was elected in 1884, lost in 1888, and won again in 1892. 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(3075, 3075, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>There are numerous factors that have turned Dhaka into one of the most unliveable cities in the world, but one that manages to fly under the radar despite growing to alarming levels in recent years is noise pollution.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Most residents are vocal about traffic, the lack of green spaces, the toxic air we breathe (itself a form of pollution), poor public transport, the lack of utilities in some areas. And the authorities too are sensitive on these matters at least to some extent. They are acknowledged, even if they are not fixed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The same cannot be said of noise pollution, according to Sheikh Kanta Reza, a development worker.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Often I have to scold some motorcyclists or fight with another human hauler or private car driver for their habit of honking horns unnecessarily while waiting in traffic signals. The situation is worsening day by day,” says Kanta, who commutes from Jhigatola to Farmgate for work during the very busy office hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Dhaka’s noise pollution is mainly caused by traffic horns, construction works, loudspeakers, political programmes, factory work and often generators. Together, they constitute a menace for which everyone suffers every minute of the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Lack of awareness about the existing laws among common people, indifference on the part of authorities concerned and even the law enforcers\' convenience have made causing noise pollution a negligible crime - even though its effects on human health can be severe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Use of hydraulic horns in motor vehicles in Bangladesh was banned by the High Court in 2017, as it can reach volumes of 120 decibels, and exposure to such levels for longer than 60 seconds can cause immediate injury and harm to hearing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In reality, the High Court’s directive to the government was forgotten with time and most of the vehicles on Dhaka roads are still using them, according to Abdus Sobahan, General Secretary of Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Save the Environment Movement, popularly known as Poba).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Often the drivers speed away using those hydraulic horns, startling pedestrians who often become victims of unfortunate road accidents as a result, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Honking horns on roads has become an addiction for drivers of almost all vehicles in the city while some do it merely to exert their arrogance. But it impacts public health and mental health of children, elderly people and patients,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tanjila Akter Lina, a private jobholder, said she hardly takes her two-year- old daughter out anymore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“When I have to take her out with me anyway, I make sure to cover her ears with my hands as she gets too frightened,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">WHO guidelines and relevant laws in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">To prevent noise-induced hearing loss, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends maintaining noises below 70 dBA (adjusted decibels, a scale of measuring noise taking sensitivity of human ear to different sound frequencies into account) over 24-hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to section 45 (2) of the Road Transport Act, 2018, no motor vehicle driver should produce any noise exceeding the noise level prescribed under sub-section (1), which provides that the government or any institution or body entrusted by the government from time to time may fix the noise limit and make it public through gazette notification.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the WHO, prolonged exposure to sounds above 60 decibels can cause temporary deafness and more than 100 decibels can cause permanent deafness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile, in Dhaka a busy road usually produces 70 or 80 decibels of noise, said Poba general secretary Abdus Sobahan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Regulations and reality</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The government has divided five areas to fix the acceptable noise level according to the Noise Pollution (Control) Rules 2006. However the fact that those areas were not built in a planned manner to be distinguished and the issue was totally ignored by the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The rule says the acceptable sound level in the silent areas is 50 dB at daytime and 40dB at night, in residential areas its 55dB at day and 45dB at night, in the mixed areas 60dB at day and 50dB at night, in commercial areas 70dB at day and 60dB at night, and in the industrial areas 75dB for day and 70dB for night. The law says exceeding the maximum noise level in certain areas is a punishable offence but the laws are hardly ever enforced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The noise pollution law has a provision that in residential areas from 6pm to 6am, no noises exceeding an acceptable level can be made at construction sites or projects. And it also mentions stone crushing machines cannot be used at any time of the day or night in these areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Yet contravening that provision, Dhaka Metropolitan Police in 2014 directed no freight trucks, covered vans, lorries, pickup vans except emergency exports goods carrying transports will be allowed to enter the capital from 8am to 10pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Though the directive gets violated on a regular basis, many have been using it as an excuse for conducting construction works in residential and all other areas through the night to meet project deadlines.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Anamika (given name), a resident of Moghbazar area, recently called 999 to complain about construction work running beside her building from 12am to 5am, disrupting the sleep of local residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Though police came and asked them to stop the work, the Sub Inspector of Hatirjheel Police station who talked to me over phone at first tried to say that the late night construction work is legal. He said Rajuk has given them permission and what would they do as freight vehicles are not allowed to enter the city before night,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The last study to identify the sound level in the eight divisional cities was conducted by The Department of Environment (DoE) in 2017 which revealed shocking data of noise levels exceeding the acceptable levels for human ears by at least two times in all of them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The survey was conducted at 70 points of Dhaka city and the recorded sound level reached up to 120-130dB at many points.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the study, the highest sound level was between 90-130 db in Dhaka’s 20 selected residential areas while it remained above 110-130 db in 20 selected mixed areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">These areas include prime areas like Shyamoli, Tajmahal Road, Azimpur, New Market area, Shahjahanpur, Nikunja, Dhanmondi, Farmgate intersection, Karwan Bazar, Gulshan, Gulistan, Eskaton, Moghbazar intersection,Shantinagar, Jatrabari.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Among the 70 points, the lowest sound level was recorded at 100.8 at Road-18 of Uttara-14 while the highest noise level was recorded at Farmgate at 135.6 throughout the day and night time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the number of horns counted, mixed area Shyamoly was at top where 598 horns were counted in just 10 minutes and of them 158 were hydraulic horns back in 2017. Even the fact that the last study was done in 2017 goes to show how the problem is neglected.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the absence of any study since, one can only imagine to what levels it has grown by now. But you can be sure it has grown.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Additional Director General (Administration) of Health Department Ahmadul Kabir told UNB that deafness, heart disease, irritability, lack of concentration among students, lack of sleep and various inconsistencies have become common among the capital’s residents that can be traced to extreme noise pollution</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Noise pollution is also responsible for various problems of eyes and brain and due to continuous pollution, people can suffer from diabetes, gastric and even liver cirrhosis, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Authorities’ excuses</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">When UNB asked Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin about the non-enforcement of existing laws he cited lack of manpower as the main reason behind it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“It is hard to implement the laws to mitigate noise pollution due to lack of manpower in the Department of Environment (DoE),” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In December 2019, the surrounding areas of Bangladesh Secretariat i.e. Zero Point, Paltan Mor, Secretariat Link Road were declared a \'no horn zone’ but this was never implemented and the drivers did not stop honking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">When the minister was asked about it he said that the mobile courts will be conducted again in the declared quiet areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Even earlier, drivers of many vehicles, including many government vehicles, were fined,” he said. But clearly to no avail. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-16 04:37:12', '2022-11-16 04:37:12'),
(3076, 3076, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NASA began fueling its new moon rocket Tuesday for a middle-of-the-night launch, its third try to put an empty capsule around the moon for the first time in 50 years.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Fuel leaks plagued the first two attempts in late summer, then a pair of hurricanes caused more delays. While engineers never pinpointed the cause of the escaping hydrogen, they altered the fueling process to minimize leakage and were confident that all the plumbing in the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket would remain tight and intact.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">NASA added an hour to the operation to account for the slower fill-up, vital for reducing pressure on the fuel lines and keeping the seals in place. It seemed to work, with no major leakages reported during the early stages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“So far, everything is going very smoothly,” said assistant launch director Jeremy Graeber about an hour into fueling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The rocket was being gassed up with nearly 1 million gallons (3.7 million liters) of super-cold hydrogen and oxygen. After more than four hours, the core stage was fully loaded and fueling was underway on the upper stage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">NASA expected 15,000 to jam Kennedy Space Center for the launch in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, with thousands more lining the beaches and roads outside the gates. The space agency had two hours to get the rocket off, before standing down until Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The debut of the Space Launch System rocket, known as SLS, had three test dummies but no astronauts inside the crew capsule on top, which NASA hoped to put into lunar orbit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">This first test flight was expected to last three weeks, ending with a splashdown in the Pacific. NASA’s top priority for the $4.1 billion mission is to verify the capsule’s heat shield during reentry, so four astronauts can strap in for the next moonshot in 2024. That would be followed by a two-person lunar landing in 2025.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">NASA last sent astronauts to the moon in December 1972, closing out the Apollo program. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-16 04:44:19', '2022-11-16 04:44:19'),
(3077, 3077, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh has set a target to increase five times the cotton production by 2030, introducing new varieties and expanding cultivation areas, since the country appeared as the second largest consumer of the industrial crop.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Cotton could be a major cash crop as we need to spend US$3billion every year for its import to meet its expanding demand in the textile industry,” Cotton Development Board’s (CDB) additional director Dr Md Fakhre Alam Ibne Tabib told BSS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The country currently produces less than 0.2 million cotton bales (1 bale equals roughly 480 pounds) a year against the annual demand for 8.5 million bales, according to official statistics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Against the backdrop of high demands, Bangladeshi textile and spinning mills and other users import cotton from India, the United States, several African and Central Asian nations, Australia, Brazil and Pakistan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tabib said they set the target to enhance the domestic cotton production to 1 million bales using newly invented high yielding and hybrid varieties and using the vast low fertile barren lands in the country’s southeastern hill region alongside some plain districts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Western Jhenaidah and Jashore are plain districts while parts of Bandarban and Rangamati are hill districts where the country currently witnesses cotton production.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The cotton board now runs 27 on-farm trials at 13 zones covering greater Jashore, greater Kushtia, Rajshahi, Bogura, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Dhaka, Mymensigh and the three hill districts incorporating Khagrachari as part of their initiatives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">CDB officials said the trial of germplasm of 12 high yielding Turkish cotton varieties were now underway at research farms under a project called Enhancing Capability in Cotton Varieties Development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“We are expanding (cotton) cultivation coverage on low-fertile regions of – Barind land (greater Rajshahi), drought-and saline-prone areas, shoals and hilly areas, keeping in mind the initiative does not affect the main crops,” Tabib said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said the CDB scientists last year developed a new cotton variety naming it “CDB Cotton 19” alongside inventing two cultivation methods under a series of research projects in five cotton research centres of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Our researches simultaneously improved the cotton qualities alongside the varieties,” Talib said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Cotton is mainly sown in the July-August period and harvested in between December and January and currently its cultivation is spread over 45,000 hectares while the figure was 31,500 hectares in 2009-2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Over the past one decade the production volume nearly doubled since ity was less than 100,000 bales in 2009-2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to CDB officials, raw or seed cotton production was about 2,000 kg per hectare in 2009-10 which now stands at 4,000 kg per hectare with introduction of high yielding and hybrid varieties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman established the Cotton Development Board (CPD) in 1972 to increase cotton production.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The CPD is enstructed with the task of conducting research, producing, distributing and marketing seeds, expanding cotton cultivation and distributing loans among farmers. 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, '2022-11-16 05:41:58', '2022-11-16 05:41:58'),
(3078, 3078, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Highlighting the significant role of Victim Support Center (VSC), high police officials at a meeting unequivocally called for infusing furthermore dynamism into its activities for welfare of the children and women victims.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Launched at the compound of Shahmukhdum Police Station in 2013, the VSC provided services to 213 women and children victims this year so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) made this observation while addressing the 22nd steering committee meeting of VSC at RMP headquarters conference hall in the city on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various issues including reasons behind the gradually rising violations against women and children together and how to overcome those were discussed elaborately in the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chaired by RMP Commissioner Abu Kalam Siddique, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Additional Commissioners Faruque Hossain, Bijoy Basak and Shamsunnaher and Deputy Commissioner Saiduddin Shahin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Representatives of various partner NGOs like BLAST, Bangladesh Mohila Parishad, BNWLA, Marie Stopes and ACD joined the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Kalam Siddique told the meeting that Bangladesh Police has established the victim support centre in a bid to reach victims living in remote areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RMP is serving women and children victims by providing legal assistance, counseling support and rehabilitation facilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pro-people service providing program of Bangladesh Police has been institutionalised and concentrated through the integrated services of the victim support centre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting discussed and devised ways and means on how to infuse dynamism into the VSC activities. 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, '2022-11-16 06:23:33', '2022-11-16 06:23:33'),
(3079, 3079, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Tesla tycoon Elon Musk will take the stand on Wednesday as part of a trial over his $50 billion pay package as CEO of the electric car giant.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Musk will testify in the same Delaware court where he faced a lawsuit by Twitter to make sure he went through with his buyout of the social platform.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The $44 billion purchase of Twitter has put Musk under a deluge of scrutiny after he conducted massive layoffs, scared advertisers and opened the platform to fake accounts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unrelated Tesla case is based on a complaint by shareholder Richard Tornetta, who accused Musk and the company\'s board of directors of failing in their duties when they authorized the pay plan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tornetta alleges that Musk dictated his terms to directors who were not sufficiently independent from their star CEO to object to a package worth around $51 billion at recent share prices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tesla shareholder accuses Musk of \"unjustified enrichment\" and asked for the annulment of a pay program that helped make the entrepreneur the richest man in the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a legal filing, Musk earned the equivalent of $52.4 billion in Tesla stock options over four and a half years after virtually all of the company\'s targets were met.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the plan was adopted it was valued at a total of $56 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The non-jury trial began Monday with testimony from Ira Ehrenpreis, head of the compensation committee on Tesla\'s board of directors, who said the targets set were \"extraordinarily ambitious and difficult\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ehrenpreis argued that the board wanted to spur Musk to focus on Tesla at a time when the company was still struggling to gain traction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Highly unusual\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trial will run through Friday and is being presided over by Judge Kathaleen McCormick, the same judge who was to preside over the Twitter case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no deadline for her decision which could take months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s \"highly unusual\" for this kind of case to be brought to trial, Jill Fisch, Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There aren\'t all that many successful challenges to executive compensation (as) the courts have typically treated this as a business decision,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the court found in this case that Musk\'s ownership of about 22 percent of Tesla and his role as CEO \"could have an undue impact\" on the board and other shareholders, she noted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk canceled an in-person appearance on Sunday at an event on the sidelines of the G20 in Bali to be in court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked why he had not traveled to the tropical Indonesian island, the new Twitter boss joked that his \"workload has recently increased quite a lot\" after his takeover of the social media giant. 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, '2022-11-16 06:48:25', '2022-11-16 06:48:25'),
(3080, 3080, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Grammys announced their nominations on Tuesday and Taylor Swift is ready to go \"scream for ten minutes straight\". She posted an Instagram story to celebrate that All Too Well was up for Song of the Year.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So many reasons to lose my damn mind today,\" the pop singer began, \"All Too Well 10 is the song I\'m most proud of, out of anything I’ve written.” Taylor is not new to the Grammys, having won the award for Album of the Year thrice, but never in the category of Song of the Year, that she pointed out in the story saying, \"The fact that it’s nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammys, an award I’ve never won, that honors the songwriting... it’s momentous and surreal.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taylor also went ahead to mention her co-writer Liz Rose in the process of making All Too Well, saying that they she just got off the phone and \"reminisced about how we started writing together when I was 14.\" Taylor further added, \"She believed in me then and we are nominated together now. It’s just so cute I can’t cope.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taylor Swift\'s nomination for Song of the Year this year marks her sixth in the category, without a single win. She had been previously nominated in the category for Cardigan in 2021, Lover in 2020, Blank Space in 2016, Shake It Off in 2015, and You Belong With Me in 2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taylor Swift has mentioned before that the new 10-minute version of All Too Well is all because of her fans, who insisted and were so loyal to her from the very beginning, when she shared that she would re-record her album Red. She added, \"I want to ramble about the magic and mystery of time and fate and reclaiming my art but instead I think I\'ll go scream for ten minutes straight. And think about how this wouldn’t have happened without you.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with the nomination for Song of the Year, Taylor also scored nominations for Best Music Video for All Too Well, Best Country Song for I Bet You Think About Me, a vault track from Red (Taylor\'s Version), and Best Song written for Visual Media for Carolina- that she wrote for the film Where the Crawdads Sing. 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, '2022-11-16 07:17:39', '2022-11-16 07:17:39'),
(3081, 3081, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Turkish Ambassador Mustafa Osman Turan on Wednesday said holding a free and fair election in Bangladesh is not an issue for foreigners, it depends entirely on Bangladesh.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“It’s only for Bangladesh to decide, not for foreigners,” he said while speaking at a “Meet the Ambassador” programme in a Dhaka hotel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Turkish ambassador said political parties need to meet and address their differences, and that government alone cannot do everything required.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a question, Ambassador Turan said they see Bangladesh as a “trustworthy manufacturing hub”, and it is going to be their prominent partner in the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The envoy said Turkey plans to diversify their trade and investment in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about Turkish plans to develop strategic relations with Bangladesh, he said the plans should be mutually agreed upon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ambassador said relations between Bangladesh and Turkey is based on trust and they look forward to broadening partnership with Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zillur Rahman, Executive Director of the Centre for Governance Studies, moderated the programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Centre for Governance Studies (CGS) hosted the event in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Bangladesh. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-16 07:28:39', '2022-11-16 07:28:39'),
(3082, 3082, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Babies born naturally were found to have higher antibody levels than those born via Caesarian section after receiving their jabs that protect against bacteria that cause lung infections and meningitis.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Research was carried out by a team from the University of Edinburgh, Spaarne Hospital and University Medical Centre in Utrecht and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in The Netherlands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experts say the findings could help to inform conversations about C-sections between expectant mothers and their doctors and shape the design of more tailored vaccination programmes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers studied the relationship between gut microbes and antibody levels after vaccination in a cohort of 120 babies vaccinated at 8 and 12 weeks against lung infections and meningitis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers tracked the development of the gut microbiome - the community of microbes that lives in our body - in the child\'s first year of life and their immune response to the vaccines by testing saliva samples at 12 and 18 months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 101 babies tested for antibodies as a result of the vaccine that protects against lung infections, the investigators found double the antibody levels in babies delivered naturally compared with those delivered by C-section.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breastfeeding was linked with 3.5 times higher antibody levels compared with formula-fed children who had been delivered naturally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Levels of antibodies as a result of the vaccine that protects against meningitis were tested in 66 babies. Experts found the levels of antibodies were 1.7 times higher for naturally delivered babies, regardless of breastfeeding, compared with those delivered via C-section.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gut microbiome is seeded at birth, developing rapidly over the first few months of life, and is influenced mostly by delivery mode, breastfeeding, and antibiotic use.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team found a clear relationship between microbes in the gut of those babies and levels of antibodies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For example, among a host of bacteria in the gut, high levels of two in particular - Bifidobacterium and E. Coli - were associated with a high antibody response to the vaccine that protects against lung infections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">High levels of E. Coli were also linked with a high antibody response to the vaccine that protects against meningitis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The baby acquires the Bifidobacterium and E.coli bacteria through natural birth and human milk is needed to provide the sugars for these bacteria to thrive on. 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, '2022-11-16 07:49:44', '2022-11-16 07:49:44'),
(3083, 3083, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Australia\'s 2015 ODI World Cup-winning captain Michael Clarke has strongly criticised England leg-spinner Adil Rashid for his complaints about the international schedule. England will play three ODIs against Australia starting November 17, three days after their T20 World Cup victory. Rashid said it was a \'shame\' that they have to straightaway start playing a bilateral series after a World Cup win.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"Those kinds of things are a shame. Having a game in three days\' time, it\'s horrible. As players we\'re kind of getting used to it now,\" said the leg-spinner, who was pivotal in England\'s semi-final win against India and the victory over Pakistan in the final.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clarke dragged IPL\'s example to state that players can\'t complain about international matches when they are playing in franchise leagues in India for money when they can easily rest during the off-season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If it was playing in the T20 World Cup and then the next day get on a plane to depart for the IPL, I don\'t think you\'d hear anybody whinge,\" Clarke said. \"Players can\'t complain about the international schedule when they\'re taking the opportunity to play domestic cricket as well for franchises for money when you can have that six or eight week off. Then you\'d be as fresh as a daisy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">England\'s white-ball team has been in Australia since the first week of October. They played a three-match series against the hosts before the World Cup. Clarke agreed that the calendar is hectic but players should be ready for it as it is a full-time job.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'ve obviously found that very hard. I know how busy it is. I know how hectic it is. Yes, it\'s a mental challenge travelling the world 10 months of the year feeling like you\'re playing or training or sitting on an aeroplane every day, there\'s no doubt about it, it\'s a full-time job.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But you do get breaks on your schedule and when you decide on playing in competitions like the IPL, especially for Australian players, that\'s your opportunity to have a break. You choose to go and play that, no matter what you feel you cannot publicly complain about it. You\'re not going to win that battle,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rashid, interestingly, has also shown his interest in playing in the IPL. \"Yes, I will be putting up my name in the IPL auctions this time,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mini-auction ahead of the 2023 edition will take place in December this year and the experienced England leggies can be a hot pick for sides looking to strengthen their spin-bowling department. 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, '2022-11-16 08:15:11', '2022-11-16 08:15:11'),
(3084, 3084, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, in a spectacular blaze of light and sound that marked the start of the space agency\'s new flagship program, Artemis.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are going,\" tweeted the space agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fixed to its top was the uncrewed Orion spaceship that will later separate and complete an orbit-and-a-half of Earth\'s nearest neighbor, in a test run for later flights that should see the first woman and first person of color touch down on lunar soil by the mid-2020s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">America last sent astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo era, from 1969-1972. This time it hopes to build a sustained presence -- including a lunar space station -- to help prepare for an eventual mission to Mars.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The launch came despite technical issues that ate into the two-hour launch window that opened at 1:04 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Engineers were forced to pause the flow of liquid hydrogen into the core stage Tuesday night because of a valve leak, though a team sent to the launch pad resolved the problem after an hour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the space agency reported that a radar site monitoring the rocket\'s flight path was experiencing problems due to a faulty ethernet switch that had to be replaced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It was third time lucky for NASA after two previous launch attempts were canceled for technical reasons. Launch was also delayed due to weather setbacks, including Hurricane Ian that battered Florida in late September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- \'Extremely excited\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 100,000 people were expected on the coast to watch the launch, with the rocket promising to light up the night sky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andrew Trombley, a space enthusiast from St. Louis, Missouri, was anxiously hoping for a successful liftoff after several futile trips made for the launch.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'ve been down here a couple of times already to watch this thing go up and have it canceled, so, this is like, whatever, the third trip down here for this, so I\'m excited to see it go,\" said the network engineer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I was too little for the Apollo missions, so ... I wanted to be here in person.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kerry Warner, 59, a grandmother and semi-retired educator who lives in Florida, was fired up for liftoff, which she said was \"part of America and what America is all about.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Third time\'s the charm. We\'re hoping for it.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Far side of Moon -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Orion crew capsule was being lifted by two boosters and four powerful engines under the core stage, which detached after only a few minutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a final push from the upper stage, the capsule will be well on its way, taking several days to reach its destination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rather than landing on the Moon, it will assume a distant orbit, venturing 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) beyond the far side -- further than any other habitable spacecraft so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, Orion will embark on the return leg of its journey. When passing through the atmosphere, the capsule\'s heat shield will need to withstand a temperature half as hot as the Sun\'s surface.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mission will last 25 and a half days, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on December 11.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA is banking on a successful mission after developing the SLS rocket for more than a decade. It will have invested more than $90 billion in its new lunar program by the end of 2025, according to a public audit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Artemis 2 will involve a flyby of the Moon with astronauts in 2024, while Artemis 3 will see boots on lunar soil, no sooner than 2025. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-16 08:27:18', '2022-11-16 08:27:18');
