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(1158, 1158, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Manchester United have reached an agreement with Real Madrid to sign Brazil midfielder Casemiro in a deal worth up to £70m.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 30-year-old has been with Real since 2013, winning three La Liga titles and five Champions Leagues.</div><div><br></div><div>The fee is an initial £60m plus £10m in add-ons and Casemiro will sign a four-year deal with the option of one more.</div><div><br></div><div>United are bottom of the Premier League and host Liverpool at Old Trafford on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Casemiro is set to become one of the United\'s top earners once he completes his move, and will be United\'s fourth signing after midfielder Christian Eriksen, full-back Tyrell Malacia from Feyenoord and defender Lisandro Martinez.</div><div><br></div><div>After talks to sign Juventus\' Adrien Rabiot collapsed over the player\'s demands, United have turned their attention to Casemiro as they look to address weaknesses in Erik ten Hag\'s midfield.</div><div><br></div><div>This deal almost certainly spells the end of Manchester United\'s pursuit of Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong.</div><div><br></div><div>Whilst the club are not completely ruling out signing the Dutchman at some point in the future, they admit it is highly unlikely they would get De Jong and Casemiro in the same window.</div><div><br></div><div>The transfer will come too late for Casemiro to be involved in Monday\'s game against Liverpool.</div><div><br></div><div>Casemiro\'s impact can be seen by looking at Opta statistics to compare his figures against those of other central midfielders in La Liga last season.</div><div><br></div><div>The Brazil international ranked first for successful blocks, second for tackles made behind Barcelona\'s Sergio Busquets, and also came third overall for possession won. Real Sociedad\'s Mikel Merino was first and Busquets runner-up in the latter category.</div><div><br></div><div>He also contributed to Real\'s attacks, ranking fifth for forward passes and joint-sixth for shots among the league\'s central midfielders.</div><div><br></div><div>Casemiro spent a season away from the Bernabeu on loan at Portuguese side Porto in 2014-15 but returned to Spain the following season after Real activated his buy-back clause.</div><div><br></div><div>He has made 222 appearances for the Spanish giants and scored 24 goals. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbs24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 18:22:30', '2022-08-20 18:22:30'),
(1159, 1159, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A federal judge has dismissed a complaint from a group of health care workers who said they were unfairly discriminated against by Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The plaintiffs sued Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and other Maine officials along with a group of health care organizations in the state. The workers argued that the vaccine mandate violated their right to free exercise of religion because it did not provide an exemption for religious beliefs.</div><div><br></div><div>Jon Levy, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, wrote Thursday that the vaccine mandate was “rationally based” and that “no further analysis is required.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Reducing the number of unvaccinated healthcare workers at designated healthcare facilities in Maine is rationally related to the government’s interests in limiting the spread of COVID-19, safeguarding Maine’s healthcare capacity, and protecting the lives and health of Maine people,” Levy wrote.</div><div><br></div><div>The workers had remained anonymous since filing the suit until July, when a federal appeals court in Boston said they must reveal their identities. The workers also argued it was their religious right to decline the vaccine over the belief that fetal stem cells from abortions are used to develop them.</div><div><br></div><div>Liberty Counsel, a law firm representing the health care workers, said in a statement on Friday that it would appeal the dismissal. The firm said in a statement that Levy’s dismissal was “critically flawed” and “contrary to recent Supreme Court precedent involving COVID restrictions on places of worship and many other Supreme Court decisions.”</div><div><br></div><div>The vaccine mandate went into effect in October. The plaintiffs hoped to take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court declined to hear arguments in the suit earlier this year. The high court did not explain its decision at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>The lawsuit named some of the largest health care networks in the state as defendants. One of those networks, Northern Light Health, said in a statement on Friday that it had been validated by the court’s ruling.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our health care organization continues to strive always to act in the best interests of our patients and our staff in these challenging times, and we’re gratified that the court completely validated our conduct in this matter,” the statement said. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 18:26:04', '2022-08-20 18:26:04'),
(1160, 1160, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia is a responsible nuclear power and will only use its nuclear arms if attacked with weapons of mass destruction or if its existence is under threat, a spokesman for the country’s foreign ministry has said. Meanwhile, some Western officials argue that nukes can play a role on the battlefield, Ivan Nechaev added.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to Russia’s official nuclear posture, “the use of the nuclear arsenal is possible only in response to an attack as a self-defense measure and in extreme circumstances,” the deputy press secretary of the ministry said during a daily briefing on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>The diplomat was responding to a question about the risk of nuclear escalation in the conflict with Ukraine. Russia is not in the habit of “saber-rattling, especially with nuclear weapons,” he said. Moscow is determined to keep the situation in Ukraine conventional and has no need to use a nuclear option in Ukraine, Nechaev asserted.</div><div><br></div><div>He lamented that the leaders of Western powers have become far less responsible than their Cold War-era predecessors when it comes to deterrence issues.</div><div><br></div><div>“The liberal-globalist circles think it possible to discuss lowering the benchmark for the use of nuclear weapons,” he said, citing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as one example.</div><div><br></div><div>The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly reassured that its goals in Ukraine can be achieved without the use of nuclear arms. Deploying them would not make any military sense, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said this week. Source: RT</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 18:29:39', '2022-08-20 18:29:39'),
(1161, 1161, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Eleven&nbsp; &nbsp;shing trawlers with 150 fishermen capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Kuakta of Patuakhali, accoridng to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Some 34 fishermen went missing. Due to inclement weather, more than 1000 trawlers took shelter in Shibbaria River.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The incidents of trawlers capsize took place from noon to midnight on Friday (August 19).</div><div><br></div><div>Alipur-Kuakata Fisheries Owners Association President Ansar Uddin Molla and Mohipur Owners Association President Raju Ahmed Raja confirmed the information.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, according to fishermen, their trawlers capsized due to abnormal sea wave and storms. At that time, 116 fishermen were rescued by another trawler, but 34 people are still missing. The rescued fishermen are undergoing treatment in various hospitals including Kuakata 20-bed hospital and Mohipur sub-health center.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 21:30:30', '2022-08-20 21:30:30'),
(1162, 1162, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 10 people were killed in an attack by Islamic militants who stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital late Friday, police and eyewitnesses said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Several other people were injured and security forces rescued many others, including children, from the scene of the attack at Mogadishu’s Hayat Hotel, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>The attack started with explosions outside the hotel before gunmen entered the building.</div><div><br></div><div>Gunfire could still be heard early Saturday as security forces tried to contain the last gunmen, who were thought to be holed up in the hotel. It was unclear how many militants remained on the hotel’s top floor.</div><div><br></div><div>The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of its frequent attempts to strike places that are often visited by government officials.</div><div><br></div><div>There was no immediate word on the identities of the victims.</div><div><br></div><div>“We were having tea near the hotel lobby when we heard the first blast followed by gunfire. I immediately rushed toward hotel rooms on the ground floor, and I locked,” eyewitness Abdullahi Hussein told the AP by phone.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The militants went straight upstairs and started shooting. I was inside the room until the security forces arrived and rescued me,” reports AFP&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that on his way to safety he saw “several bodies lying on the ground outside hotel reception.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 21:53:57', '2022-08-20 21:53:57'),
(1163, 1163, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Concreting of the inner containment dome of the reactor building has started at the unit- 2 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to a message received on Saturday, the work is being carried out by the TrestRosSEM, a branch of the Rosatom Engineering Division.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The final stage of the building infrastructure of passive safety system has started. We will be able to optimize the concreting process by replicating the experience gained in performing similar work, in the reactor building at Power unit 1\", said Alexei Deriy, Vice President of ASE and Director of the RNPP construction project.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The message said the inner containment is one of the key elements of the nuclear power plant safety system, which protects the reactor compartment and hosts the pipeline holes and the polar crane, used for serving the reactor.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The work is being carried out by the TrestRosSEM, a branch of the Rosatom Engineering Division. The RNPP will be equipped with two Russian VVER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2400 MW capacity. These generation III+ reactors fully comply with all international safety requirements. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 22:17:25', '2022-08-20 22:17:25'),
(1164, 1164, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two siblings who went missing on their way to a local mosque for Asr prayers were found dead in a pond in Rangunia upazila of Chattogram on Friday night.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Mohammad Hasan, 10, and Mohammad Hossain, 9, sons of Mohammad Shafi, a daily wager in Chandraghona Khandaker Para village.</div><div><br></div><div>Edris Azgarh, chairman of Chandraghona Kadamtoli union, said the two brothers went missing on their way to the mosque in their locality to offer Asr prayers in the afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 9.30pm, when they did not return home, their parents informed the local people.</div><div><br></div><div>Local people and their parents launched a search operation and eventually fished out the bodies of the siblings from the pond in Chandraghona.</div><div><br></div><div>They were rushed to Chandraghona Christian Mission Hospital, where doctors declared them dead on arrival. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 22:43:45', '2022-08-20 22:43:45'),
(1165, 1165, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three members of a family including a child were electrocuted in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Hosne Ara Begum,60, her son Tara Mia,30 and her grandson Rifat Hossain, 8, said Jashim Uddin, a local UP member.</div><div><br></div><div>Rifat went to collect some vegetabls from a land beside their house at Elkhal village.</div><div><br></div><div>He got electrocuted when a electric wire connecting Doulatpur with Elakhal fell on him&nbsp; from a pole around 1:30 pm.</div><div><br></div><div>As his uncle Tara Mia and grandmother Hosne Ara rushed to save him they got electrocuted too, said UP member Jashim Uddin.</div><div><br></div><div>Later locals informed Doulatpur power office to cut the power connection but they died in the meantime, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Kamruzzaman Talukder, officer-in-Charge of Bangra Bazar police station, said the bodies were recovered and legal action will be taken in this regard. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 22:58:36', '2022-08-20 22:58:36'),
(1166, 1166, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The 18th anniversary of the gruesome grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) anti-terrorism rally in the capital on August 21, 2004, will be observed tomorrow with heavy hearts.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;On this day in 2004 during the BNP-Jamaat coalition government, this unprecedented grenade attack was carried out on a peaceful anti-terror rally of the Awami League on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The party leaders and activists formed a human shield to protect the then opposition leader and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>That day, Sheikh Hasina miraculously survived the infernal grenade attack. Seeing that the main target of the assassins Sheikh Hasina survived, 12 rounds were shot at her car. However, the targeted bullets could not penetrate the bulletproof vehicle carrying Bangabandhu\'s daughter. Immediately after the attack, Sheikh Hasina was cordoned off in a car and taken to her then residence Sudha Sadan in Dhanmondi.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>But, 24 people including the then Women Affairs Secretary of Awami League and wife of late President Zillur Rahman were killed and over 500 others injured in the attack and many of them became crippled for life.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Those others killed in the barbaric grenade attack included the then opposition leader\'s personal security guard Lance Corporal (retd) Mahbubur Rashid, Abul Kalam Azad, Rezina Begum, Nasir Uddin Sardar, Atique Sarkar, Abdul Kuddus Patwari, Aminul Islam Moazzem, Belal Hossain, Mamun Mridha, Ratan Shikdar, Liton Munshi, Hasina Mamtaz Reena, Sufia Begum, Rafiqul Islam (Ada Chacha), Mostaque Ahmed Sentu, Md Hanif, Abul Kashem, Zahed Ali, Momen Ali, M Shamsuddin and Ishaque Miah.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Prominent among those who suffered serious splinter injuries included Sheikh Hasina, Amir Hossain Amu, Abdur Razzak, Suranjit Sengupta, Obaidul Quader, Advocate Sahara Khatun, Mohammad Hanif, Prof Abu Sayeed, and AFM Bahauddin Nasim.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Fear and terror engulfed the entire capital after the grenade attack. Condemnation and grief of this massacre spread across the country and abroad.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>After the attack, when the Awami League leaders and activists were busy trying to save themselves and others, the police charged the protest march fiercely with batons and tear shells. At the same time, all traces of the carnage were destroyed.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The BNP-Jamaat coalition government even staged the \'Joj Mia\' drama to cover up the incident with state sponsorship and direct support.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Marking the anniversary, the ruling AL, its front and associate bodies and its left-leaning allies, and other political parties, social-cultural and professional organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes across the country, maintaining health guidelines in wake of the COVID-19 situation.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>A discussion will be held at 10:30 am to recall the victims of the dreadful In memory of those killed in the August 21 grenade attacks. Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will preside over it and will deliver an important speech.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Prior to that at 10:00 am, wreath will be placed at the altar build for the 21 August martyrs in front of the Awami League central office at Bangabandhu Avenue tomorrow.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>General Secretary of Awami League and Minister of Road Transport Obaidul Quader called upon the leaders, workers, supporters and well-wishers of Awami League and its allies and fraternal organizations at all levels to observe the Grenade Attack Day on August 21 with due dignity along with the countrymen following the health rules. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-20 23:02:32', '2022-08-20 23:02:32'),
(1167, 1167, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Doctors have sounded an alarm over a new illness that is gaining a foothold in India. \'Tomato flu\', as it is commonly called, is a new type of hand, foot and mouth disease and cases have been found in Kerala and Odisha.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to Lancet Respiratory Journal, cases of \'tomato flu\' were first reported in Kerala\'s Kollam and May 6 and has so far infected 82 children. These kids are under the age of 5, the Lancet report further said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Just as we are dealing with the probable emergence of fourth wave of Covid-19, a new virus known as tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in India in the state of Kerala in children younger than 5 years,\" Lancet said in its report.</div><div><br></div><div>The infectious disease is caused by intestinal viruses and is rare in adults as they usually have immune systems strong enough to defend them from the virus.</div><div><br></div><div>The infection has been named \'tomato flu\' because of the red, painful blisters that appear on a patient\'s body and gradually enlarge to the size of a tomato.</div><div><br></div><div>The symptoms include high fever, body ache, joint swelling and fatigue - much like chikungunya. Some patients have also reported nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, dehydration, swollen joints and body aches.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Lancet, other affected areas in Kerala are Anchal, Aryankavu, and Neduvathur. It also said that the surfacing of this illness even triggered an alert in the neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Additionally, 26 children (aged 1-9 years) have been reported as having the disease in Odisha by the Regional Medical Research Centre in Bhubaneswar. To date, apart from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Odisha, no other regions in India have been affected by the virus,\" the Lancet report said.</div><div><br></div><div>Health experts say that it is a self-limiting illness and no specific drug exists to treat it. Speaking to the journal, they also warned that the infection is \"very contagious\". - Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 00:05:36', '2022-08-21 00:05:36'),
(1168, 1168, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US actor Alec Baldwin said he does not believe anyone will be criminally charged over the fatal shooting on the set of Western film \"Rust,\" telling CNN he has hired a private investigator to assess culpability for the tragedy.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died after being hit by a live round that came from a gun Baldwin was holding as he rehearsed on the New Mexico set of the low-budget movie last October.</div><div><br></div><div>A criminal investigation into the shooting is still ongoing, and prosecutors have not yet ruled out charges against those involved.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I sincerely believe... (investigators are) going to say that this was an accident. It\'s tragic,\" said Baldwin in a rare interview about the episode, a portion of which was aired Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>Baldwin told CNN he had replayed the events leading up to the shooting over and over for the past 10 months.</div><div><br></div><div>While insisting he does not want to \"condemn\" Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film set\'s armorer and props assistant, Baldwin pointed the finger of blame at her and assistant director Dave Halls, who handed him the gun moments before the shooting.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better,\" Baldwin said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"That was (Gutierrez-Reed\'s) job. Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn\'t supposed to be any live rounds on the set.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There are two people who didn\'t do what they were supposed to do,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I\'m not sitting there saying I want them to, you know, go to prison, or I want their lives to be hell.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I don\'t want that, but I want everybody to know that those are the two people that are responsible for what happened.\"</div><div><br></div><div>- Multiple lawsuits -</div><div><br></div><div>Baldwin, who was both the star and a producer of \"Rust,\" has been the subject of a number of civil lawsuits over the shooting, including from Hutchins\'s family.</div><div><br></div><div>He has previously said he was told the gun contained no live ammunition, had been instructed by Hutchins to point the gun in her direction, and did not pull the trigger.</div><div><br></div><div>But a recent FBI forensic report concluded that the gun could not have been fired \"without a pull of the trigger.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Gutierrez-Reed has sued the film\'s ammunition supplier, accusing him of leaving real bullets among the dummy cartridges.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, her lawyer criticized the FBI for failing to carry out DNA or fingerprint testing to establish who had handled the live rounds found on set.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is inconceivable that the sheriff would not seek answers to this fundamental question and it raises a serious problem with the entire investigation,\" said a statement from Jason Bowles.</div><div><br></div><div>Following Baldwin\'s latest interview, lawyers for both Gutierrez-Reed and Halls told CNN that the actor was trying to deflect blame away from himself.</div><div><br></div><div>Baldwin also used the CNN interview to address former US President Donald Trump\'s public intimation that he could have killed Hutchins on purpose.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump last year told a podcast that Baldwin -- who frequently impersonated and ridiculed the president on \"Saturday Night Live\" -- was a \"troubled guy,\" suggesting that \"maybe he loaded\" the gun.</div><div><br></div><div>Baldwin told CNN he was consequently worried that some of Trump\'s supporters would \"come and kill me.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Here was Trump, who instructed people to commit acts of violence, and he was pointing the finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death,\" said Baldwin.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There is just this torrent of people attacking me who don\'t know the facts.\" - AFP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 00:34:13', '2022-08-21 00:34:55'),
(1169, 1169, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 59- year old man was crushed under the wheels of a train at Khilgaon level crossing in the capital Saturday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Fakhrul Islam, former Deputy General Manager of Bangladesh Bank, said Md Riaz Mahmud, Sub Inspector of Dhaka railway police station.</div><div><br></div><div>Intercity express train ‘Sundarban Express’ knocked down Fakhrul Islam as he was walking on the rail tracks around 8:30 am, leaving him dead on the spot, said the SI.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul used to live in&nbsp; Wari area with his family.</div><div><br></div><div>The body was sent for an autopsy, said the SI. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 00:41:41', '2022-08-21 00:41:41'),
(1170, 1170, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India won the toss and chose to bowl in Harare on Saturday as they sought a series-clinching second straight victory over Zimbabwe in a three match one-day international series.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The pitch appears better and a lot harder than two days ago,\" said Indian captain KL Rahul.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There is a bit in the air and, hopefully, we can bowl really well again.\"</div><div>The tourists made one change from the team that cruised to a 10-wicket win on Thursday with Shardul Thakar replacing Deepak Chahar.</div><div><br></div><div>Zimbabwe changed two of their side with Takudzwanashe Kaitano and Tanaka Chivanga coming in for Tadiwanashe Marumani and Richard Ngarava.</div><div><br></div><div>Teams</div><div>Zimbabwe: Takudzwanashe Kaitano, Innocent Kaia, Sean Williams, Wessly Madhevere, Sikandar Raza, Regis Chakabva (capt, wkt), Ryan Burl, Luke Jongwe, Brad Evans, Victor Nyauchi, Tanaka Chivanga</div><div><br></div><div>India: Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, KL Rahul (capt), Deepak Hooda, Sanju Samson (wkt), Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj</div><div><br></div><div>Umpires: Iknow Chabi (ZIM), Adrian Holdstock (RSA)</div><div>TV umpire: Langton Rusere (ZIM)</div><div><br></div><div>Match referee: Andy Pycroft (ZIM) - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 01:03:41', '2022-08-21 01:03:41'),
(1172, 1172, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to the victims of August 21 grenade attack in 2004 and prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the martyrs.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div>In a message on the eve of the 18th anniversary of the heinous grenade attack, she mentioned that anti-liberation sectarian groups and the group of anti-development and anti-democracy are still vocal in various ways.</div><div><br></div><div>She urged all to confront any conspiracy of this evil power unitedly and build a hunger-and-poverty-free \'Sonar Bangladesh\' as dreamt by Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by 2041.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said the barbaric grenade attack was carried out on that day in 2004 under the direct patronization of BNP-Jamaat alliance during an anti-terrorism rally of Awami League to kill her.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Terming the grenade attack a \'stigmatized day\' in the history of the country, she said, \"Our dedicated party leaders and workers saved me from the series of grenade attacks by forming a human shield.\"&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"I survived the attack due to immense blessings of the Almighty but some 24 leaders and workers including president of Mahila Awami League Ivy Rahman embraced martyrdom,\" the premier said, adding that more than 500 leaders and activists, journalists and security personnel were injured.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Sheikh Hasina said it was the moral obligation of a government to arrest the culprits involved with such a heinous attack. But, the then government of BNP-Jamaat protected the killers and helped attackers to leave the country.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>They destroyed the important evidences of the incident and in the name of investigation, the then government diverted the heinous incident to other direction by staging \'Joj Mia\' drama, she said.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"But truth can never be suppressed. Today, it has come out through investigation that many high-ups of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government and Hawa Bhaban were directly involved with the attack,\" said the Prime Minister.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>After 14 years, Dhaka-1 Speedy Trial Tribunal handed down the verdict of August 21 grenade attack case in 2018, she said, adding that the court awarded death sentence to 19 people including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu and life imprisonment to 19 including ex-premier Khaleda Zia\'s fugitive son Tarique Rahman and Haris Chowdhury, said Sheikh Hasina.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"Rule of law has been established through this verdict. We hope this verdict will be executed following all legal procedures,\" she said.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Sheikh Hasina said whenever BNP-Jamaat alliance came to power, they intended to make the country a failed state by patronizing militants and terrorists.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Prime Minister said the people of the country voted Awami League to power again through a landslide victory on December 29 in 2008 general election to end all evil-attempts and conspiracies of BNP-Jamaat.</div><div><br></div><div>She said her government has been working relentlessly for the development of the people since 2009.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said in the last 13 and a half years, the country has achieved expected progress in every sector, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>\"Peace and democracy have been re-established in the country by following the policy of \'Zero Tolerance\' to combat terrorism and militancy,\" she continued.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 01:15:26', '2022-08-21 01:15:26'),
(1173, 1173, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh fast bowler Hasan Mahmud, who showed an impressive performance in the Zimbabwe series, is unlikely to play the Asia Cup after sustaining an ankle injury during the Tigers training session at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'ve received the X-ray report which came well. The swelling of ankle did not subside. He will rest for two days,\" the BCB chief physician Dr. Debashis Chowdhury said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If the swelling does not go down after two days we will do an MRI and only then can I be sure whether he will play in the Asia Cup or not.</div><div><br></div><div>But it is learnt it takes two to three weeks to recover from this type of injury. As such, it is highly unlikely that he will be available in the Asia Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasan made a comeback with the Zimbabwe series after being injured for a long time. He performed well there and made the cut in the Asia Cup.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"Hasan got an injury. It is very unfortunate. Whenever the boy gets into a good zone, he gets hurt. It\'s sad,\" Team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Hope he comes back soon. But I don\'t want to comment as there is no official decision yet on whether he will be available in the Asia Cup. But it seems that he might miss the first leg of the Asia Cup.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding whether someone will be included as a replacement, Mahmud said, \"We have not yet thought about who will be his replacement. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow we have practice match. We will see what happens there. Then we will decide.\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Asia Cup will start on August 27 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In the first phase, Bangladesh\'s opponents in \'B\' group are Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. If they can overcome the hurdles of the group stage, they will get a ticket to the Super Four.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasan shined in both format of the white ball during Bangladesh\'s last tour of Zimbabwe. He played two T20Is and ODIs and took three wickets each. However, the visiting Tigers lost both the series 2-1.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh\'s first match in the Asia Cup against Afghanistan will be held on August 30. Before that, they will catch the UAE flight on August 23. In all, they will have a week to prepare and cope with the conditions. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 02:05:45', '2022-08-21 02:05:45'),
(1174, 1174, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan if he fails to appear before the investigation committee or respond to the notices concerning the prohibited funding case, according to sources.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The agency will get permission from a court of law to arrest Khan to get details of the party funds and accounts, The News reported.</div><div><br></div><div>“The final decision to arrest the PTI chief could be taken after issuing three notices,” the sources maintained.</div><div><br></div><div>The FIA issued the second notice to Khan on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>The former premier received the first notice on August 10 but refused to appear before the FIA investigation team to provide details of the party funds and accounts, The News reported.</div><div><br></div><div>The sources disclosed that five more PTI companies had been traced which were not mentioned in the reports submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and FBR, IANS reported.</div><div><br></div><div>These companies are operating in the US, Australia, Canada, the UK and Belgium, they said, adding that the FIA had collected their audit reports, The News reported.</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 02:44:32', '2022-08-21 02:44:32'),
(1175, 1175, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian fertilisers and agricultural products must be able to reach world markets \"unimpeded\" or a global food crisis could strike as early as next year, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"It is important that all governments and the private sector cooperate to bring them to market,\" he said from the Joint Coordination Center.</div><div><br></div><div>The JCC oversees the implementation of the Ukrainian grain export agreement signed in July by Kyiv and Moscow with the United Nations and Turkey as guarantors.</div><div><br></div><div>The agreement also guarantees Russia the right to export its agricultural products and fertilisers despite Western sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>\"What we see here in Istanbul and in Odessa is only the more visible part of the solution. The other part of this package deal is the unimpeded access to the global markets of Russian food and fertiliser, which are not subject to sanctions,\" Guterres said, adding that despite this, Russian fertiliser and agricultural exports still faced \"obstacles.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Without fertiliser in 2022, there may not be enough food in 2023. Getting more food and fertiliser out of Ukraine and Russia is crucial to further calm commodity markets and lower prices for consumers,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Guterres travelled this week to Ukraine, where he met the presidents of Ukraine and Turkey, Volodymyr Zelensky and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the western city of Lviv Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>He headed to the southern city of Odessa on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>- Shipment reaches Ireland -</div><div>Earlier Saturday, he visited the first aid ship chartered by the United Nations to transport Ukrainian grain on the southern shores of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara.</div><div><br></div><div>The Brave Commander left the Ukrainian port of Pivdenny on Tuesday with 23,000 tonnes of wheat before crossing the Bosphorus on Wednesday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN chief vowed Thursday that his organisation would try to \"step up\" grain exports from Ukraine before the onset of winter, as they are crucial for food supplies in many African countries.</div><div><br></div><div>In Ireland, meanwhile, the Panama-flagged Navi Star carrying 33,000 tonnes of grain, arrived two weeks after having left southern Ukraine\'s main port of Odessa -- one of the first to leave following July agreement.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine\'s Ambassador to Ireland, Larysa Gerasko said the continuation of shipments ultimately \"depends on Russia, on Russian actions\", she added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We expect Russia to keep to its commitments under the Black Sea grain initiative.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Under the terms of the July agreement, 650,000 tons of Ukrainian grain and agricultural products have left the Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Pivdenny since August 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Ships must use a safe corridor to travel in the Black Sea and then be inspected by the JCC before being allowed to cross the Bosphorus Strait.</div><div><br></div><div>Cereal exports from Ukraine, one of the world\'s leading producers and exporters, were blocked for several months due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, raising fears of a global food crisis. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 18:35:56', '2022-08-21 18:35:56'),
(1176, 1176, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Country’s fishermen face high risks of serious injuries and death at sea due to inadequate lifesaving equipment.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Over 1,350 fishermen die at sea each year in Bangladesh, according to a data of Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s fish SAFE 2025 project that provides safety awareness training for fishing communities in Bangladesh, helping save the lives of the world’s poorest fishermen.</div><div><br></div><div>The boats appear to be without the most basic safety equipment, including life buoys, life jackets, radios and compasses. Many of the fishing boats are unregistered and generally have very poor onboard conditions due to a lack of effective oversight, said experts.</div><div><br></div><div>Over 200 industrial trawlers and more than 67,000 artisanal vessels involved in fishing in the sea provide about 15.05% of national fisheries production.</div><div><br></div><div>Four fishermen died and 34 others went missing as 11 fishing trawlers capsized in the Bay of Bengal amid inclement weather on Friday noon to midnight, Coast Guard said on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Coast Guard Nizampur Contingent Commander Mohammad Selim Mandal said at least eight fishing boats capsized and 15 fishermen went missing till now while they are conducting rescue drive in the area.</div><div><br></div><div>The fishing boats capsized in the Bay due to adverse weather under the influence of low pressure, said Ansar Uddin Mollah, president of Alipur Kuakata Fish Arat Malik Samity of Kalapara upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>At least three fishermen went missing in the Bay of Bengal near Nazirartek Channel in Cox\'s Bazar after a fishing boat carrying them capsized on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>These are just a few examples of death of fishermen in the sea during adverse weather that appeared in the national newspaper in recent time.</div><div><br></div><div>“Around 90% of drowning that occurs while fishing or boating can be avoided by wearing a life jacket. When you first fall into the water, it lessens the impact. It could aid in avoiding hypothermia,” said Dr Headyet Ullah, Scientist, ECOFISH II activity of World Fish in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the time boat owners do not provide life jacket, life buoys and other lifesaving equipment to fishermen, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Owners of boats are disobeying laws that aid fishermen. The “Marine Fisheries Act 2020” governs artisanal fisheries in the Bay of Bengal.</div><div><br></div><div>A fishing vessel is deemed artisanal if its net capacity is 15 tons or less. According to this law, the Bangladeshi government provides regulations and licenses to fishing vessels operating in its territorial seas with regards to the type of vessel, the way fishing gear is stored, vessel inspections, and fishing grounds.</div><div><br></div><div>The “Coast Guard Act 2016” has been regarded as providing safety and security.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Sazed ul Haque, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Fisheries Technology at Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) told the Daily Sun that adverse weather took lives of fishermen each year due to lack of proper lifesaving equipment.</div><div><br></div><div>“Fishermen did not get early weather warning and for this reason many of them went to the sea at a time that increases the casualty,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 5 million people who live in Bangladesh\'s coastal regions depend mostly on marine fishing for their income.</div><div><br></div><div>Millions of people live in Bangladesh and rely on fishing for a living in the rivers, canals, and sea of the nation.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh having sovereign rights over almost 118,813 sq. km in the Bay of Bengal possesses vast marine water resources rich in biodiversity, accoridng to media reports.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 18:59:05', '2022-08-21 18:59:05'),
(1177, 1177, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday cautioned the countrymen about repetition of August 15, 1975-like carnage as those who doesn’t like country’s development wouldn’t sit idle, reiterating that the August 21, 2004 grenade attack was launched under BNP government’s direct patronage.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“More attacks may come. The August 15, 1975 attack was carried out when Bangabandhu started country’s development. Today, Bangladesh became developing nation and is heading towards a developed one. ---those who doesn’t like this, they will not sit idle, they must attack. ---so be alert about this,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier also cautioned the people of the country about conspiracy being hatched as the next general election is approaching nearer.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League (AL) President, was presiding over a discussion organised by her party at its 23 Bangabandhu Avenue central office marking the 18th anniversary of the gruesome August 21, 2004 grenade attack.</div><div><br></div><div>The barbaric attack took away the lives of 22 AL leaders and activists and injured other several thousand people.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said the Great Allah saved her time and again from various attacks as the Almighty has certainly bestowed some tasks on her.</div><div><br></div><div>“We, who got new life surviving the August 21, 2004 grenade attacks, have the responsibility to the people. And our today’s pledge is to perform the duties till the last breath,” she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that it was impossible to conduct such heinous attacks without state patronage, the premier said the then BNP government’s subsequent activities such as destroying all evidences, including unexploded grenades, helping killers flee the scene and even the country cleared the state sponsorship.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to Khaleda Zia’s remarks a few days before the attack that she (Sheikh Hasina) would never have to be the prime minister or even the opposition leader in future, she said Khaleda Zia knew everything well.</div><div>In this connection, the premier said Khaleda Zia also made such remarks before planting bombs at Kotalipara that the AL will not be able to go to power in 100 years.</div><div><br></div><div>She questioned how Khaleda Zia made such a forecast, saying, “If you follow her comments, these plots will come out”.</div><div><br></div><div>AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader delivered the introductory speech at the discussion while it’s Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap moderated it.</div><div><br></div><div>At the outset of the meeting, a minute’s silence was observed as a mark of profound respect to the memory of the martyrs of the August 21 grenade attack and the martyrs of the August 15 carnage.</div><div><br></div><div>Immediately after reaching the venue, the prime minister placed a wreath at the makeshift podium to show respect to the August 21, 2004 martyrs.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, she along with AL’s general secretary placed another wreath on behalf of the party. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 19:44:37', '2022-08-21 19:44:37'),
(1178, 1178, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As Covid-19 infections are increasing in China, the country has found unique ways to grapple with the situation. Recently, a video went viral on social media where Chinese authorities could be seen increasing the scope of the PCR test beyond human beings.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In a viral video posted by the Twitter handle of South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper, Chinese officials can be seen inserting cotton buds in the mouths of fishes and swabbing the shell of crabs to take samples for Covid-19 tests.</div><div><br></div><div>The tests come after the local Chinese government announced in July that fishermen ought to take Covid-19 tests mandatorily for themselves and the seafood they catch. The measures come against the fear that the illegal trade of animals could contribute to the worsening situation of the virus outbreak in the country, Hindustan Times reported.</div><div><br></div><div>The officials in Yunnan province also issued an advisory to tourists returning from Tibet to quarantine themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 20:03:23', '2022-08-21 20:03:23'),
(1179, 1179, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A team of&nbsp; Coast Guard on Sunday fished out the bodies of three more fishermen from the Bay of Bengal two days after a fishing trawler carrying 19 fishermen capsized amid inclement weather.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Hossain Ahmad, Azizul Haque and Mohammad Absar, residents of Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar.</div><div><br></div><div>Local fishermen spotted the bodies at Maheshkhali Channel of the Bay around 10 am and informed the coast guard, said Selim Uddin, officer-in-charge (OC) of Cox’s Bazar Sadar police station.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, five bodies have been recovered from the Bay, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday, coast guard members fished out bodies of two fishermen from Maheshkhali and Sonadia channels.</div><div><br></div><div>On Friday afternoon, fishing trawler ‘MB Mayer Doa’ carrying the 19 fishermen capsized at Najirartek Channel, said M Hamidul Islam, contingent commander of the CG East Zone in Cox’s Bazar Station.</div><div><br></div><div>Of them, eight fishermen were rescued and three others managed to swim to ashore, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Three more fishermen are still missing, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 20:13:20', '2022-08-21 20:13:20'),
(1180, 1180, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Arabia announced that it would be cancelling the lottery system for domestic pilgrims who want to perform Haj in 2023.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to a tweet from Haramain Sharafain, the Kingdom\'s Ministry of Haj and Umrah would allow direct registration for domestic pilgrims in the Hijri year 1444, reserving a 25% quota for those above the age of 65.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ministry has also introduced a new payment plan, under which pilgrims can pay their dues in two instalments.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2022\'s Hajj season, Saudi Arabia allowed one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate. A particular number of pilgrims from each specific country will be allowed to make the pilgrimage based on allocated quotas.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the five pillars of Islam, the Hajj must be undertaken by all Muslims with the means at least once in their lives, Khaleej Times reported.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 20:35:23', '2022-08-21 20:35:23');
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(1181, 1181, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Floods and landslides triggered by intense monsoon rains killed at least 50 people in northern and eastern India over the last three days, officials said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The rains overwhelmed hundreds of villages, sweeping away houses and leaving residents stranded as rescue crews have been racing to evacuate survivors, Khaleej Times reported. Heavy showers followed by landslides and flooding in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh over the past three days killed at least 36 people.</div><div><br></div><div>In the neighbouring mountainous state of Uttarakhand, an official government release said that four were dead and 13 were missing due to continuous rainfall.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have deployed choppers to rescue people who are stuck in remote areas due to rain-related incidents. The rescue operation is happening on full swing,\" said Ranjit Kumar Sinha, an official in Uttarakhand\'s disaster management department.</div><div><br></div><div>In the eastern state of Odisha, at least six people were dead amid ongoing torrential rains, according to a state official said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 21:05:24', '2022-08-21 21:05:24'),
(1182, 1182, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Japan is considering the deployment of more than 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to increase its ability to counter growing regional threats from China, local newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The country plans to upgrade its existing surface-to-ship missiles to extend their range from 100 kilometres (62 miles) to about 1,000 kilometres (620 miles), which would be enough to reach Chinese coastal areas as well as North Korea, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources.</div><div><br></div><div>Upgrades would also need to be made to allow Japan\'s existing ships and aircraft to be able to fire the new missiles, which could hit land-based targets, the newspaper reported.</div><div><br></div><div>The missiles would be deployed in and around the southwestern Kyushu region and on the small islands that dot Japan\'s southwestern waters near Taiwan, Yomiuri reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Japanese officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>The plan is part of Japan\'s attempt to narrow the missile capacity gap with China, while also addressing threats from North Korea, the newspaper said.</div><div><br></div><div>Japan\'s military is not officially recognised under the country\'s post-war constitution and defence spending is limited to funding nominally defensive capabilities.</div><div><br></div><div>Recent geopolitical tensions, including Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine and China\'s increasingly aggressive stance over Taiwan, have prompted growing calls in Japan to review defence programmes.</div><div><br></div><div>Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to significantly boost defence spending, which has been kept close to around one percent of GDP.</div><div><br></div><div>Local media also reported that Japan\'s defence ministry is likely to request 5.5 trillion yen ($40.2 billion) for the next fiscal year, up slightly from the 5.18 trillion requested for the current fiscal year, reports AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>But the ministry was also expected to ask approval for a list of unpriced items, including the development cost to upgrade the long-range cruise missiles, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 21:11:35', '2022-08-21 21:11:35'),
(1183, 1183, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Over 250 fishermen of Patuakhali remained missing as 16 fishing trawlers capsized in the Bay of Bengal amid inclement weather on Friday, said Naval police on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>About 150 fishermen of 18 trawlers that sank in the Bay near Kuakata in Patuakhali have been rescued so far, said Akhtar Morshed, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kuakata Naval police outpost.</div><div><br></div><div>Locals along with a rescue trawler of fish wholesalers’&nbsp; association reached the fish landing center with the rescued fishermen from Saturday evening to 11 pm on Sunday, the OC added.</div><div><br></div><div>Kuakata-Alipur Fish Depot Owners Association President Ansar Uddin Mollah said 13 fishermen were rescued from the Bay while 11 fishermen were rescued by the fishermen of Rayadighi of India. They are currently in the South Sundarban Fishermen and Fish Workers Union of India’s custody.</div><div><br></div><div>And the remaining fishermen were rescued by the trawlers of the owner\'s association and local fishermen.</div><div><br></div><div>However, at least 126 fishermen of seven trawlers of Alipur are still missing, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Raju Ahmed Raja, general secretary of Mohipur Fish Depot Owners Association, said least 130 fishermen of nine trawlers of Mohipur are still missing, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, a fisherman Rafiq, 32, fell into the sea from a trawler on the way back to the shore from the deep sea and went missing. The owners of the capsized and missing trawlers are from Charfashion, Mahipur, Kalapara and Rangabali upazilas of Bhola, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>“Operation is on to rescue the missing fishermen and trawlers,” said the OC.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 21:24:50', '2022-08-21 21:24:50'),
(1184, 1184, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A stunning strike by Luka Modric helped Real Madrid on their way to a 4-1 victory at Celta Vigo on Saturday as the reigning Spanish champions made it two wins from two in La Liga this season.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Modric curled home from outside the box just before half-time to put Carlo Ancelotti\'s side back in front after Karim Benzema\'s early penalty had been cancelled out by Iago Aspas, who converted a spot-kick at the other end.</div><div><br></div><div>Vinicius Junior and Federico Valverde added further goals in the second half while Eden Hazard had a late penalty saved as Madrid built on their La Liga season-opening 2-1 win at Almeria and joined Real Betis and Osasuna on six points at the top of the fledgling standings.</div><div><br></div><div>\"He is a fantastic leader for us. He scored the most important goal of the game because he put us back ahead and after that the game was a bit more simple for us,\" Ancelotti told Onda Cero radio of Modric, who received an ovation from the home crowd in Galicia.</div><div><br></div><div>\"That is something very special, when fans of other teams acknowledge you and applaud you. It\'s lovely,\" the Croatian told Real Madrid TV.</div><div><br></div><div>Real took the lead inside the opening quarter of an hour at Balaidos, Benzema slotting in a penalty after the referee penalised Celta\'s Peruvian midfielder Renato Tapia for handball following a VAR review.</div><div><br></div><div>Yet Celta won a penalty of their own midway through the first half as Eder Militao blocked a Goncalo Paciencia header with his arm, and veteran striker Aspas -- who scored 18 times last season -- made no mistake from the spot.</div><div><br></div><div>Franco Cervi then crashed a shot just wide as Celta threatened to go in front against a Real side playing their first game since agreeing to sell midfielder Casemiro to Manchester United.</div><div><br></div><div>However, Modric was back in the starting line-up and made it 2-1 three minutes before the interval, collecting possession in space 25 metres from goal and advancing before curling a tremendous shot high into the net from the edge of the D.</div><div><br></div><div>Real\'s class told after the break, as Modric sent Vinicius away to round goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin and slot in the visitors\' third goal in the 56th minute.</div><div><br></div><div>It was 4-1 before the midway point in the second half, with Vinicius trying to pick out Benzema only for the Frenchman to slip, allowing the arriving Valverde to plant a low first-time shot into the far corner.</div><div><br></div><div>It could have been worse for Celta as Madrid won another penalty late on when Benzema was fouled in the box by Hugo Mallo.</div><div><br></div><div>Benzema left the spot-kick for Hazard, who had come on as a substitute, but the Belgian\'s kick was saved by Marchesin.</div><div><br></div><div>- Penalties galore -</div><div><br></div><div>That, remarkably, was the seventh penalty in three matches in La Liga on Saturday, with Borja Iglesias scoring twice from the spot as Betis won 2-1 at Real Mallorca earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr was among the crowd watching as Iglesias gave Manuel Pellegrini\'s Betis a ninth-minute lead in the Balearic Islands after a handball by Mallorca\'s Rodrigo Battaglia was penalised following a VAR review.</div><div><br></div><div>Kosovo striker Vedat Muriqi headed Mallorca back level early in the second half from a Lee Kang-in cross, only for Betis to win another spot-kick when the unfortunate Battaglia blocked Nabil Fekir on his way into the area.</div><div><br></div><div>Iglesias, who also scored in last week\'s season-opening 3-0 defeat of Elche, again made no mistake with his 73rd-minute penalty, and Betis held on for a 2-1 win as Lee hit the woodwork from a late free-kick.</div><div><br></div><div>Osasuna beat Cadiz 2-0 in Pamplona thanks to two more penalties, with Chimy Avila converting the first late in the first half and Kike Garcia slotting in the second late on after Cadiz had Tomas Alarcon sent off.</div><div><br></div><div>After Osasuna defeated Sevilla last week they have now won their first two matches of the season in La Liga for the first time since 1981.</div><div><br></div><div>Betis, who won last season\'s Copa del Rey, host Osasuna next weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>Barcelona go to Real Sociedad on Sunday evening, while Atletico Madrid entertain Villarreal. AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 21:31:17', '2022-08-21 21:31:17'),
(1185, 1185, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nine Ukrainians, including four children, were wounded Saturday after Russian forces attacked an apartment block and several houses in the city of Voznesensk, near a key nuclear plant, a regional governor said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aged between three and 17 “all the children are in a serious condition,” Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolaiv, said on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a girl had lost an eye in the attack.</div><div><br></div><div>Voznesensk is located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the nuclear plant at Pivdennoukrainsk, Ukraine’s second largest, and 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Mykolaiv, the regional capital.</div><div><br></div><div>The strikes hit an apartment building and several homes in the city, which is home to 30,000 people, the emergency services said on Facebook, showing a badly damaged building.</div><div><br></div><div>The region, at the forefront of the war, suffers regular strikes.</div><div><br></div><div>“Voznesensk. The terrorist country called Russia hit a residential building,” presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian army meanwhile said they had downed four Kalibr high-precision sea-launched cruise missiles fired from the Black Sea near the central city of Dnipro.</div><div><br></div><div>Ivan Fedorov, the exiled mayor of Melitopol, a city in the Kherson region which has been occupied by Russia, said the Ukrainian army had bombed a Russian military base in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian army meanwhile reported Russian attacks in the eastern Donetsk region — which has been partially controlled by Russian proxies since 2014 — saying “fighting is continuing.” - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 21:34:44', '2022-08-21 21:34:44'),
(1186, 1186, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow on Saturday evening, Russian state investigators said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Darya Dugina, daughter of prominent ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed after a suspected explosive device detonated on the Toyota Land Cruiser she was travelling in, investigators from the Moscow region said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>TV footage accompanying the statement showed investigators collecting debris and fragments from the spot where the explosion happened.</div><div><br></div><div>Investigators, who described Darya Dugina as a journalist and political expert, said they had opened a murder case and would be carrying out forensic examinations to try to determine exactly what had happened.</div><div><br></div><div>They said they were considering \"all versions\" when it came to working out who was responsible for the crime.</div><div><br></div><div>Alexander Dugin, Darya\'s father, has long advocated the unification of Russian-speaking and other territories in a vast new Russian empire.</div><div><br></div><div>He wants that empire to include Ukraine where Russian forces are currently carrying out what Moscow calls a \"special military operation\" to demilitarize Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>The influence of Dugin, who is on a US sanctions list, over Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a subject for speculation, with some Russia watchers asserting that his sway is significant and others calling it minimal.</div><div><br></div><div>Darya Dugina, who also went by the surname Platonova and was reported by Russian state media to be 30 years old, broadly supported her father\'s ideas and appeared on state TV in her own right to offer support for Russia\'s actions in Ukraine. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 21:47:23', '2022-08-21 21:47:23'),
(1187, 1187, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A legal notice has been sent to Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen asking him to step down within 24 hours for violating the constitution through giving controversial statements.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Supreme Court (SC) lawyer Md Ershad Hossain Rashed sent the legal notice on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>“You can’t request the Indian government to prop up&nbsp; Sheikh Hasina’s government in power. The Bangladesh constitution says that people are the source of all power. Through your statement, you’ve violated the constitution. Thus, you’ve lost the eligibility to remain as a Minister,” the notice reads.</div><div><br></div><div>Ershad said that the FM’s remark is an attack on the sovereignty of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>“Through the legal notice, I’ve requested the FM to resign. Otherwise, legal steps will be taken against him,” said the lawyer.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier at a Janmashtami programme in Chattogram on Thursday, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen reportedly said that he urged the Indian government to back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina so that she can stay in power.</div><div><br></div><div>After much criticism over this statement, the FM provided an explanation the next day, saying that he had requested the Indian government to help the PM to maintain stability of her government. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 22:01:40', '2022-08-21 22:01:40'),
(1188, 1188, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to lower the cautionary signal as squally weather is unlikely over the ports, the weather department said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Squally weather is also unlikely over the North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>However, all fishing boats and trawlers in the North Bay and the deep sea have been advised to proceed with caution till Sunday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday, the deep depression over the northeast Bay and adjoining Bangladesh-West Bengal coast moved west-northwestwards and crossed West Bengal and adjoining North Odisha coast.</div><div><br></div><div>It was likely to move northwestwards further and weaken gradually, said Bangladesh Metrological Department. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 23:06:00', '2022-08-21 23:06:00'),
(1189, 1189, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Somali authorities on Sunday ended a deadly attack in which 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the fighters who had stormed Mogadishu’s Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault that started with loud explosions.</div><div><br></div><div>The siege ended around midnight, police commissioner Abdi Hassan Hijar told reporters. “During the attack, the security forces rescued many civilians trapped in the hotel, including women and children,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Health Minister Dr. Ali Haji Adam reported 21 deaths and 117 people wounded, with at least 15 in critical condition. He noted that some victims may not have been brought to hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>Police are yet to give a detailed explanation of how the attack unfolded and it remains unclear how many gunmen entered the hotel.</div><div><br></div><div>Ismail Abdi, the hotel’s manager, told The Associated Press early Sunday that security forces were still working to clear the area. No more gunfire could be heard after 9 a.m. local time. Onlookers gathered outside the gates of the badly damaged hotel on Sunday morning, surveying the scene.</div><div><br></div><div>The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has ties with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of its frequent attempts to strike places visited by government officials. Source: AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 23:16:19', '2022-08-21 23:16:19'),
(1190, 1190, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Industries Secretary Zakia Sultana on Sunday said that Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) industrial parks will play important role in meeting the challenges of the pharmaceuticals sector as soon as Bangladesh transforms into a developing country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"In 2026, Bangladesh will finally become a developing country, and for that reason, some benefits will be removed from the pharmaceuticals sector like other sectors due to intellectual property and patent laws. Considering these factors, the government is implementing the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Industrial Park scheme,\" Sultana said while addressing as the chief guest at a discussion organized by the stakeholders of the API industrial park project under implementation of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Ghazaria upazila of Munshiganj this morning, said a release.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The pharmaceuticals sector will be able to cope up with the arising challenges with the help of the API industrial parks, and the activities will become more effective and prompt,\" she said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>While replying to the questions of the newsmen, the secretary said, \"As per the instructions of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, we are trying to increase production and reduce imports in every field. We are also trying to create employment for people, for which the API project, when completed, will be really helpful.\"&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>At the discussion, the leaders of Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Industry Association raised various demands including starting supply of gas and electricity to industrial plots, filling soil in plots, reducing surcharge etc, added the release.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Sultana directed the concerned to execute a time bound plan to ensure gas and electricity supply to the plots of the park. She also assured to cooperate with other ministries if needed and urged the concerned to complete the construction of central effluent treatment plants (CETPs) as soon as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Chairman of BSCIC Md Mahbubor Rahman, Additional Secretary (Planning) of Industries Ministry Md Nurul Alam, Managing Director of API Abdul Muqtadir, leaders and officials of Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Industries Association were present among others at the meeting. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-21 23:42:07', '2022-08-21 23:42:07'),
(1191, 1191, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After nine long years, 16-year-old Pooja Gaud is finally able to rest her head on her mother\'s lap.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Pooja went missing on 22 January 2013 when she was seven years old. She says she was picked up from outside her school in Mumbai city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra by a couple who lured her with an ice-cream.</div><div><br></div><div>On 4 August, she was found in what is being described as \"a miraculous escape\". Her mother, Poonam Gaud, says she is over the moon with happiness.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I had given up hope of ever finding my daughter. But the gods have been kind to me,\" she says.</div><div><br></div><div>Police have alleged that the child was kidnapped by Harry D\'Souza and his wife, Soni D\'Souza, because the couple didn\'t have a child of their own. They have arrested Mr D\'Souza.</div><div><br></div><div>Before she went missing, Pooja lived with her two brothers and parents in a small house in a suburban slum area.</div><div><br></div><div>On the day she went missing, she had left for school with her elder brother, but the two had a fight and her brother went into the school leaving her behind as he was running late. That\'s when the couple allegedly took her away, promising to buy her an ice-cream.</div><div><br></div><div>Pooja says that the couple initially took her to Goa and then Karnataka, states in western and southern India, and would threaten to hurt her if she cried or drew attention to herself.</div><div><br></div><div>She says she was allowed to attend school for a short while, but after the couple had a child of their own, she was pulled out of school and they all shifted to Mumbai.</div><div><br></div><div>Pooja says the abuse got worse after the baby was born.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They would beat me with a belt, kick me, punch me. One time they beat me with a rolling pin so badly that my back began to bleed. I was also made to do chores at home and work in 12 to 24 hour-long jobs outside.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The house where D\'Souza\'s lived was quite close to her family\'s - but, she says, she was unfamiliar with the roads, was always watched and had no money or phone, and she couldn\'t reach out for help or try to find her way home. Source: BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 00:41:10', '2022-08-22 00:41:10'),
(1192, 1192, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh may prefer to import Russian oil via a third country to avert possible risks of the business.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to official sources at the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, neighboring India might be such a preferred third country with regard to importing Russian oil.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Currently, India has been importing Russian oil defying the US sanctions while Bangladesh has a long term contract with India to import refined oil from its refinery at Numaligarh in Assam state, \'\' said an official at the ministry preferring anonymity.</div><div><br></div><div>“If there is a bilateral arrangement between the two nations, such a business is very much possible,” he said, adding it could be a possible way to avert the risk in import of Russian oil at a cheaper rate.</div><div><br></div><div>The possibility of importing petroleum fuel from Russia came into discussion at the policymaking level following an offer from a Russian company to sell its refined petroleum, specially diesel, at a cheaper rate to Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Russneft, a Russian oil company headquartered in Moscow, recently offered the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) petroleum fuels at $59 per barrel against a global market price of over $100 per barrel.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the offer, the Russian company will reach its refined petroleum to Chattagram port at the rate which includes the premium and shipping cost as well.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has not yet officially disclosed anything about the Russian company’s offer.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid declined to give any detail of such an offer.</div><div><br></div><div>“No more update as yet,” he told UNB on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>Sources at the BPC said the import of Russian oil is not like fuel import from other countries.</div><div><br></div><div>They said Bangladesh is assessing its possible risks to import petroleum fuels from Russia as such imports may invite anger from the USA and its Western allies.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia has been facing huge economic sanctions from the USA and its European allies following its war with Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>If any country directly imports Russian oil it may face similar sanctions, said the officials, adding that is why any move in this regard will not only depend on the decision of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.</div><div><br></div><div>According to official sources, after receiving the offer from Russia on petroleum fuel sale, now different concerned ministries including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources are assessing the potential risks and different processes of such import.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the ECNEC meeting on August 16 said that the government wants to buy fuel oil, fertilizer and wheat from Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>In this connection she mentioned she had given the responsibility to her Principal Secretary to talk to the Russian Ambassador regarding the matter.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Foreign Ministry can take initiative in this matter, we will procure fuel oil from them (Russia) with our own funds as the SWIFT is closed and the price of dollar is very high,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Power Cell director Mohammad Hossain said that if the government can manage the import of diesel at cheaper rate, operation of the diesel-run power plants will be resumed to increase the power generation.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of an austerity measure, the government suspended the operation of the diesel-fired power plants from July 19 and introduced area-wise load shedding to reduce diesel imports and save foreign currency.</div><div><br></div><div>Although area-based load-shedding was scheduled for one hour, it continued for three hours at a time in some city areas across the country. Load-shedding in rural and remote areas, however, stretched for more hours, consumers claim.</div><div><br></div><div>Markets and shopping malls can now stay open until 8:00 pm. The government also prohibited illumination in different social gatherings in community centers, shopping malls, shops, offices and houses since July 7.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, it introduced a holiday staggering for industries on August 11 as part of the plan to save power and natural gas. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 01:43:38', '2022-08-22 01:43:38'),
(1193, 1193, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Against the backdrop of several setbacks, including late commencement of trial proceedings, Joj Miah drama and Covid-19 situation, steps have been taken to start soon the hearing of the death references and appeals of the convicts in the two cases lodged over the barbaric grenade attack on an Awami League rally in capital\'s Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The proceedings of the two cases started a little late. Joj Miah drama was also staged. It took a long time to finish the trial in lower court. Now the proceedings are in the High Court, where the appeal hearing will start soon. I have talked to the attorney general in this regard,\" Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq said.</div><div><br></div><div>Anisul added that the present government is very active regarding cases filed over August 21, 2004, grenade attack and will not exempt anyone convicted in the two cases filed over the barbaric incident.</div><div><br></div><div>Echoing the law minister, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin said the state has pleaded to the chief justice to hold hearing of the cases on priority basis and the chief justice will now fix a bench for this.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The two cases, one for murder and another filed under Explosives Substances Act, are very important for us. The plotters behind the heinous crime had tried to destroy our democratic system through that unprecedented attack,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The chief law officer of the state hoped that the hearing of the two cases would start soon and the prosecution would present all the legal arguments necessary to uphold the lower court judgments.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 24 people were killed and around 500 injured in the gruesome attack on an Awami League rally on the capital\'s Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, the then opposition leader in parliament, narrowly escaped the attack with severe ear injuries.</div><div><br></div><div>A Dhaka court on October 10, 2018, sentenced to death to 19 people including former state minister for home Lutfuzzaman Babar and awarded life imprisonment to another 19 including BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman in the murder case filed over that heinous incident.</div><div><br></div><div>Judge Shahed Nuruddin of Dhaka\'s Speedy Trial Tribunal in his judgement also sentenced 11 others to different terms of jail.</div><div><br></div><div>The judge also made a 12-point observation on the background, motive and consequences of the attack, mainly targeting incumbent Prime Minister and the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina, who narrowly escaped the assault sustaining wounds.</div><div><br></div><div>The death penalty convicts are: Lutfuzzaman Babar, Salam Pintu, Mawlana Tajuddin, intelligence officials Major General (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury and Brigadier General Abdur Rahim, transport operator Md Hanif, militants Mowlana Sheikh Abdus Salam, Abdul Mazed Bhat, Abdul Malek, Shawkat Osman, Mohibullah, Abu Sayeed, Abul Kalam Azad, Jahangir Alam, Hafez Abu Taher, Hossain Ahammed Tamim, Moin Uddin Sheikh, Rafikul Islam and Md Uzzal.</div><div><br></div><div>Other than Rahman, the political figures who were handed down life imprisonments are - ex-premier Khaleda Zia\'s the then political adviser Haris Chowdhury and former BNP lawmaker Qazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad.</div><div><br></div><div>The others to serve the life term are - militants Shahadat Ullah alias Jewel, Abdur Rouf, Sabbir Ahmed, Arif Hasan, Hafez Yahia, Abu Bokor, Ariful Islam, Mohibul Muttakin, Anisul Mursalin, Mohammad Khalil, Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohammad Iqbal, Liton, Shafikur Rahman, Abdul Hai and Ratul Ahmed Babu.</div><div><br></div><div>Assailants carried out the attack with military hardware \"Arges grenades\" on an anti-terrorism rally of the then main opposition Awami League while its president and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was visibly their prime target but she narrowly escaped the assault sustaining permanent hearing impairment.</div><div><br></div><div>Grenades were charged one by one towards the then opposition leader and incumbent premier Sheikh Hasina after finishing her speech as she stood on the makeshift stage on a truck.</div><div><br></div><div>Her security personnel and the party leaders and activists including the then Dhaka City mayor Mohammad Hanif, late Suranjit Sengupta, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, created a human shield risking their lives and saved the then opposition leader.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 5:40pm, after finishing her speech by saying her party\'s signature slogan \"Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu\", Sheikh Hasina moved to get off the truck, but she was halted by photojournalists requesting a photo.</div><div><br></div><div>At that moment, a grenade exploded right beside the stage, sending the crowd into a state of chaos. Immediately, the leaders on the truck made a human shield to protect her as at least 13 more grenades were thrown in the next two minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 24 AL leaders and workers including the then Mohila Awami League President and wife of late President Zillur Rahman, Ivy Rahman, were killed and over 500 others were injured in the monstrous attack.</div><div><br></div><div>Two separate cases, one for murder and another under Explosives Substances Act were filed on August 22, 2004, and the police on June 9, 2008 filed the charge sheet. The court on 29 September, 2008, framed charges in the cases.</div><div><br></div><div>Investigation Officer and also Additional Deputy Inspector General of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police on 2 July 2011, submitted a supplementary charge sheet before the court and the court on 18 March, 2012, framed charges afresh after taking the new charge sheet into cognizance.</div><div><br></div><div>The lower court on 27 November, 2018, sent 37,385 page case documents including the judgement to the High Court for further proceedings. The High Court on 13 January, 2019, accepted appeals filed by the convicts in the two cases filed over the 21 August grenade attack for hearing. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 02:04:50', '2022-08-22 02:04:50'),
(1194, 1194, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Indian Coast Guard rescued 17 more Bangladeshi fishermen from the Bay of Bengal Sunday after rescuing 10 fishermen Saturday amid rough seas and strong winds.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In three operations, the ICG has rescued 27 Bangladeshi fishermen so far in its continuous effort to provide assistance at sea during inclement weather.</div><div><br></div><div>The search for missing Bangladeshi fishermen is in progress, the ICG tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday, the ICG rescued 10 Bangladeshi fishermen, who got caught in the cyclonic weather, from the Bay of Bengal.</div><div><br></div><div>Braving harsh weather, ICG ship Anmol rescued the fishermen 12 nautical miles from India\'s international maritime boundary with Bangladesh in an operation. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 02:15:44', '2022-08-22 02:15:44'),
(1195, 1195, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tea garden workers on Monday returned to work with the previous wage of Tk 120 withdrawing their strike for raising wage to Tk 300 upon assurance from the Prime Minister that their wage will be re-fixed after a virtual meeting with her.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This decision was taken at a meeting of the tea workers’ leaders with the Moulvibazar Deputy Commissioner Mir Nahid Ahsan at his office on Sunday night.</div><div><br></div><div>Paresh Kalindi, financial affairs secretary of Tea Workers Union, said, \"In honour of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, we will join the work with the previous wage. The Prime Minister will talk to us through a video conference very soon to finalise the new wage.”</div><div><br></div><div>All financial benefits including wages of 10 days (during the strike period) will be provided by the owners, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>During Sunday’s meeting, PM Hasina also talked to the tea workers through a video conference.</div><div><br></div><div>The Tea Workers leaders will apply to the DC for a meeting with the Prime Minister through video conferencing before the upcoming Durga Puja.</div><div><br></div><div>Other demands of tea workers will be submitted in written form to the Deputy Commissioner which will be sent to the Prime Minister\'s office for consideration.</div><div><br></div><div>However, general workers got agitated and expressed anger over the decision of the union leaders.</div><div><br></div><div>Tea Workers Rights Movement President Ridesh Modi said, “Why did we enforce strike for so long if we have to return to work with the previous wage?”</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, the garden workers rejected the wage hike by Tk 25 to Tk 145 by the government and staged demonstrations on Dhaka-Sylhet highway and Airport Road in Sylhet.</div><div><br></div><div>They abstained from joining work as the leaders of Bangladesh Tea Workers Union on Saturday night announced that they did not withdraw the strike upon assurance of a Tk 25 hike in wage.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday night, tea garden workers leaders claimed they postponed their indefinite strike until they meet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after her return from India.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 9, the Bangladesh Tea Workers Union started two-hour work abstention a day demanding daily wage hike.</div><div><br></div><div>Workers demanded an increase of their wage to Tk300, with inflation rising and the currency depreciating. The workers of 241 tea gardens across the country went on a full-scale strike on Aug 13, after four days of two-hour work abstention.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh is producing a record amount of tea every year through the toil of the tea workers. In 2021, a record 96 million kilograms of tea was produced in the country thanks to the hard labour of the underpaid tea workers.</div><div><br></div><div>Although two agreements on increasing wages were signed, the fate of more than 1.5 lakh tea workers in the country hasn’t changed a bit. -&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UNB</span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/fas</span></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 17:03:59', '2022-08-22 17:03:59'),
(1196, 1196, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia might take the provocative step of putting Ukrainian soldiers on trial as Kyiv marks 31 years of independence for the war-ravaged country next week, Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Zelensky cited media reports that Russia was preparing to put Ukrainian fighters captured during the siege of Mariupol on a public trial to coincide with the independence anniversary Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine\'s Independence Day, August 24, will also mark six months since Russia invaded the former Soviet republic, in a devastating war that has cost thousands of lives.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If this despicable court takes place, if our people are brought into these settings in violation of all agreements, all international rules, there will be abuse,\" Zelensky warned in an evening address.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This will be the line beyond which no negotiations are possible.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The capital Kyiv has already announced a ban on public gatherings. Kharkiv too, declared a curfew around the holiday.</div><div><br></div><div>Zelensky was returning to a subject he had already raised in the previous night\'s remarks.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Russia could try to do something particularly disgusting, particularly cruel,\" he warned late Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"One of the key objectives of the enemy is to humiliate us,\" and \"to sow despondency, fear and conflict\".</div><div><br></div><div>But he added: \"We have to be strong enough to resist all provocation\" and \"make the occupiers pay for their terror\".</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Be vigilant\' -</div><div><br></div><div>A presidential adviser, Mykhaylo Podolyak, said Russia could intensify its bombing campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Russia is an archaic state that links its actions to certain dates, it\'s an obsession of sorts,\" the Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted him as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They hate us and will try to increase... the number of bombings of our cities including Kyiv with cruise missiles,\" Podolyak added.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv authorities on Sunday banned public gatherings from August 22 to August 25.</div><div><br></div><div>In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the regional governor announced a curfew from the evening of August 23 to the morning of August 25.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We will not allow any provocation by the enemy. Be as vigilant as possible during our independence holiday,\" Oleg Synegubov wrote on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>Kharkiv has been under regular Russian bombardment for weeks and on Sunday emergency services said a woman was killed and two other civilians were wounded in overnight strikes.</div><div><br></div><div>Four civilians were reported killed by Russian fire in Donetsk, said the region\'s pro-Kyiv governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko.</div><div><br></div><div>Five cruise missiles were fired at Odessa from the Black Sea, a regional administration spokesman said. Two were shot down by air defences and three hit a silo without causing injury. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 17:06:53', '2022-08-22 17:06:53'),
(1197, 1197, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Robert Lewandowski got off the mark for Barcelona with a double as Ansu Fati starred as a substitute in a 4-1 victory over Real Sociedad on Sunday, while Villarreal won at Atletico Madrid.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Poland striker Lewandowski, celebrating his 34th birthday, put Barca ahead inside 50 seconds before Alexander Isak levelled for La Real in San Sebastian.</div><div><br></div><div>But Fati came off the bench to create goals for Ousmane Dembele and Lewandowski, before completing the scoring himself.</div><div><br></div><div>Barca\'s first win of the season followed a disappointing goalless draw at home to Rayo Vallecano on the opening weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>Coach Xavi had called for \"patience\" from supporters after a summer spending spree which saw Lewandowski, Raphinha, Andreas Christensen and Franck Kessie all move to the Camp Nou.</div><div><br></div><div>That quartet all made their debuts against Rayo, but France defender Jules Kounde is still to be registered by the club after his transfer from Sevilla as they look to overcome financial problems.</div><div><br></div><div>The visitors made a dream start on Sunday, though, as 18-year-old full-back Alejandro Balde raced clear and sent in a low cross which was tapped home by Lewandowski.</div><div><br></div><div>He scored 344 goals during a trophy-laden eight-year spell at Bayern Munich before leaving for 45 million euros in July.</div><div><br></div><div>But the home side hit back in the sixth minute, as Frenkie de Jong lost the ball in midfield and Isak raced clear before lofting the ball into the net.</div><div><br></div><div>Sociedad were proving a tough nut to crack for Barca, but the game changed when Fati was sent on in the 64th minute.</div><div><br></div><div>The 19-year-old\'s brilliant backheel teed up Dembele to drill a left-footed strike into the bottom corner just two minutes later, before another clever touch found Lewandowski to score.</div><div><br></div><div>Fati, who endured two injury-plagued seasons after breaking into the first team in 2019/20, got a goal himself late on as he collected Lewandowski\'s volleyed flick and slotted in.</div><div><br></div><div>- Villarreal down Atletico -</div><div>Earlier, Villarreal moved to the top of the fledgling table as second-half goals from Yeremy Pino and Gerard Moreno secured a 2-0 victory at Atletico.</div><div><br></div><div>Unai Emery\'s men opened their season with an impressive 3-0 win at Real Valladolid last weekend but the scalp of Atletico will raise hopes of a possible challenge for Champions League qualification.</div><div><br></div><div>The result was a reality check for the capital side, though, who had also started the campaign with a 3-0 success at Getafe.</div><div><br></div><div>Villarreal, who reached last season\'s Champions League semi-finals, are one of four teams with two wins from two matches and edged above reigning champions Real Madrid on goal difference.</div><div><br></div><div>The away side made a fast start at the Estadio Metropolitano, with Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak forced into fine saves from Giovani Lo Celso and Etienne Capoue.</div><div><br></div><div>Moreno thought he had given Villarreal a half-time lead, but his effort was ruled out for a handball.</div><div><br></div><div>Matheus Cunha was introduced midway through the second period by home coach Diego Simeone in place of Alvaro Morata and almost broke the deadlock in the 72nd minute, only to be denied by \'keeper Geronimo Rulli.</div><div><br></div><div>Teenage winger Pino instead put Villarreal in front just a minute later, capitalising on a poor clearance to fire a fine low shot into the bottom corner.</div><div><br></div><div>Atletico\'s Nahuel Molina was sent off deep into injury-time and Moreno netted in the 97th minute to send Villarreal top. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 17:09:38', '2022-08-22 17:09:38');
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(1198, 1198, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the public servants to carry out their utmost responsibility of serving the people to ensure they enjoy the benefits of national development.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“You have to be the servants of the people and human beings. Serving people is the biggest matter. All of you have to work as per that direction,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said this while addressing a programme to distribute course certificates and course completion of the 73rd foundation training course at Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center (BOATC) in Savar.</div><div><br></div><div>She joined the programme virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that it is the responsibility of all to ensure the welfare of the people of this country.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is our country. It is the responsibility of us to ensure the welfare of the mass people. This has to be kept in mind all the time,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She asked the newly appointed government officials to devote themselves to the welfare of the people and development of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>“If the people at grassroots level stay fine, then the economic development of the country becomes inevitable. No one can stop that,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>PM Hasina also asked the newly appointed public servants to utilise their intelligence and creativity for ensuring country\'s sustainable development.</div><div>\"A special focus should be given to ensure country\'s sustainable development,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She hoped that the recruits will be the soldiers in attaining the government\'s target to turn the country into a developed one by 2041.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am giving the plans to make Bangladesh a developed and prosperous country and you have to implement those,\" she told the young officials.</div><div><br></div><div>She also said that her government has formulated and is implementing Delta Plan-2100 to protect Bangladesh from the adverse impact of the climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You have to work with dedication for the welfare of the country and the people,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said that the officials have to set priority on area-based solutions as different regions of the country have different problems.</div><div><br></div><div>She also mentioned that the government is establishing 100 special economic zones across the country mainly to set up industries in a planned way to protect the arable lands.</div><div><br></div><div>She said her government has attached priorities in establishing food processing industries on the basis of local harvest to expand export baskets. This is being done to reduce dependency on one or two export items.</div><div><br></div><div>She said her government has been working to build a pro-people and efficient public administration.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said the officers must cope with the rapid global changes and familiarise themselves with new technologies ahead of the fourth industrial revolution.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that her government has been working to address the sufferings of the people due to the fallouts of the Coronavirus and Russia-Ukraine war with the limited resources it has.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The Coronavirus has already rattled the world economy. And in the meantime, Russia-Ukraine war has caused sufferings for the people of our country. We\'re trying hard to minimise the sufferings utilising our limited resources,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, Public Administration senior secretary KM Ali Azam and BPATC rector Ramendra Nath Biswas also spoke.</div><div><br></div><div>Al Mahmud Hasan and Farzana Yasmin spoke on behalf of the trainees.</div><div><br></div><div>An audio visual was screened at the programme on the 73rd Foundation Training Course.</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister, on behalf of the prime minister, distributed certificates among the participants. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 20:27:03', '2022-08-22 20:27:03'),
(1199, 1199, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An iconic skyline in the Chinese city of Shanghai - called The Bund - will not be lit for two nights to save power, officials say.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The waterfront area - known for its mix of historical and futuristic buildings - is a popular tourist destination.</div><div><br></div><div>Elsewhere in China, major manufacturers in the Sichuan province told the BBC they had been hit by power cuts.</div><div><br></div><div>Large parts of the world\'s second largest economy face a severe drought amid a record-breaking heatwave.</div><div><br></div><div>China issued its first national drought alert of the year last week, after areas including Shanghai in the Yangtze Delta region and Sichuan in southwest China experienced weeks of extreme heat.</div><div><br></div><div>The \'yellow alert\' is the third most severe level on the official scale.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials in the Sichuan province, where temperatures have exceeded 40C (104F), said in a recent statement that rising temperatures and low rainfall, along with increased demand for air conditioning, had caused the power shortages.</div><div><br></div><div>The province has extended its power saving measures by five days to Thursday, according to media reports. These limit the power supply to some industrial businesses. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 20:59:46', '2022-08-22 20:59:46'),
(1200, 1200, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Celebrated Pakistani singer Nayyara Noor, adored by millions from both sides of the border for her soulful melodies, passed away after a brief illness, her family said on Sunday, bringing the curtains down on the life of one of the last musical icons to represent the shared culture of India and Pakistan.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Noor was 71, and had been under treatment for quite some time in Karachi, media reports said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is with heavy heart that I announce the passing of my beloved aunt (tayi) Nayyara Noor. May her soul R.I.P.,\" her nephew Raza Zaidi tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>She leaves behind an enviable legacy and a treasure trove of mellifluous renditions. Noor was born in Guwahati in 1950. Her father was an active member of the All-India Muslim League and hosted Pakistan\'s founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah during his trip to Pakistan before the Partition in 1947.</div><div><br></div><div>Sometime in 1958, her family migrated to Lahore in Pakistan\'s Punjab province.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Education was the be-all and end-all of our existence but music was the main source of entertainment,\" the Dawn newspaper quoted her as saying. She admitted that Kanan Bala and Begum Akhtar were their all-time favourites, with Lata Mangeshkar \"a passion with everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>\" Interestingly, Noor had no formal training in music, but she was captivated by Akhtar\'s ghazals and Bala\'s bhajans since childhood.</div><div><br></div><div>While regaling her friends and teachers during a musical function at her alma mater, National College of Arts in Lahore&nbsp; Professor Asrar Ahmad of Islamia College spotted her burgeoning talent. Soon, Noor found herself singing for the university\'s Radio Pakistan programmes.</div><div><br></div><div>In 1971, she made her playback singing debut in Pakistani television serials and then seamlessly transitioned to films like Gharana and Tansen. She won the Nigar Award for the best female playback singer for Gharana.</div><div><br></div><div>Noor will be best known for her ghazals. She performed at mehfils, enjoying a cult-like following among ghazal lovers in Pakistan and India.</div><div><br></div><div>Her famous ghazal rendition was \"Ae Jazba-e-Dil Ghar Main Chahoon\", written by Behzad Lucknavi, a renowned Urdu poet. Noor also sang ghazals penned by poets like Ghalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and also performed with the likes of Mehdi Hassan.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Barkha barse chat per,\" a rare Hindi poem by Faiz, which she rendered with her husband Sheharyar Zaidi in 1976 on his birthday was perhaps her most celebrated work. At the peak of her career, Noor decided to marry Zaidi, and with time became finicky about doing live performances.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Music has been a passion with me but never been my top priority. I was a student and a daughter first and a singer later. After my marriage my primary roles have been those of a wife and a mother,\" she had told the Dawn newspaper. Noor was honoured with the title \'Bulbul-e-Pakistan\' (Nightingale of Pakistan) in 2006.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2006, she was honoured with the \"Pride of Performance Award,\" and by 2012, she bid adieu to her professional singing career. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, while expressing grief over Noor\'s demise, said her death is \"an irreparable damage\" to the music world.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Be it a ghazal or a song, whatever Nayyara Noor sang, she sang it with perfection. The void created by Nayyara Noor\'s death will never be filled,\" he tweeted. - PTI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 21:15:24', '2022-08-22 21:15:24'),
(1201, 1201, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">On the front line south of the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, a 40-year-old combat medic nicknamed \"Doc\" is preparing to mark the six-month anniversary of Russia\'s invasion in a trench.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"You need to be prepared for the fact that this could last a long time,\" said Doc, whose owlish eyebrows poke out from under his camouflage helmet.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There are lots of tears, lots of blood. You cry in your heart,\" said the medic -- a dental technician in civilian life.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The history of generations is being destroyed.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In a subterranean bunker complex, surrounded by rusted tank traps and thronging with stray cats and dogs, his comrades spoon down piping hot bowls of hearty soup.</div><div><br></div><div>At the head of the table sits a man with an arm tattoo reading \"never give up\" in cursive script.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Six months of war is not only a great grief for the country, it is also a small grief for each person personally,\" said 41-year-old soldier Mykola, sitting to his left.</div><div><br></div><div>The battalion\'s deputy commander Artem, 30, said: \"We\'ve informed our soldiers that the conflict could drag on for years.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Russia launched its assault on February 24, attempting to seize the Ukrainian capital in a lightning offensive.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv\'s forces put up stiff resistance, forcing a Russian retreat before the war shifted to the eastern Donbas region.</div><div><br></div><div>In recent weeks the focus has moved to southern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces say they are preparing a counter-offensive.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked during a visit to Odessa about hopes for the future, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres closed his eyes, slowed his words, and spoke of a \"very difficult situation, where the prospects for peace are not obvious\".</div><div><br></div><div>A third front</div><div>In Mykolaiv, the war now seems like nothing new.</div><div><br></div><div>Wartime billboards have been soddening in the winter, torn by the blusters of spring, and bleached in the savage summer heat.</div><div><br></div><div>Checkpoint sandbags have split their seams and sprouted weeds.</div><div><br></div><div>In the opening weeks of the war, a Russian missile punched a hole in the regional government HQ, killing 37.</div><div><br></div><div>The gaping hole is now one of many scars in the port hub\'s skyline as the city remains under incessant shelling.</div><div><br></div><div>The Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University was struck twice last week.</div><div><br></div><div>The front entrance was blown apart, ceiling panels torn down, and windows shattered into mosaic pieces of glass.</div><div><br></div><div>The facade\'s collapse revealed classrooms within.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They attack schools, hospitals, the port and the city\'s infrastructure,\" said rector Leonid Klymenko, inside a gutted study hall.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is clear that they want to completely destroy Ukraine\'s education (system), destroy the Ukrainian spirit, destroy everything Ukrainian.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Path for peace?</div><div>As the war approaches its seventh month, there are some scant signs of progress.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN and Turkey have brokered a landmark grain deal which is seeing Russia relax a blockade on Ukraine\'s southern Black Sea ports, allowing grain shipments to sail and ease a global food price crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, Guterres toured a port in the city of Odessa to hail the fresh pact.</div><div><br></div><div>But the visit was overshadowed by swirling concerns around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, elsewhere in Ukraine\'s south, occupied by Russian troops and under fire by rockets.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It will not be easy to find a path for peace in the short term,\" Guterres told AFP.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"But we must persist because peace is the most important good in the world.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 21:43:39', '2022-08-22 21:43:39'),
(1202, 1202, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China\'s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed to be 600 years old, state media Xinhua has reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The three statues were found on the highest part of the island reef called Foyeliang, initially identified as built during the Ming and Qing dynasties.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>One of the statues depicts a monk sitting on a lotus pedestal.</div><div><br></div><div>The Yangtze\'s water levels have been falling rapidly due to a drought and a heatwave in China\'s southwestern region.</div><div><br></div><div>Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been around 45% lower than normal since July, and high temperatures are likely to persist for at least another week, official forecasts said.</div><div><br></div><div>As many as 66 rivers across 34 counties in Chongqing have dried up, state broadcaster CCTV said on August 19.</div><div><br></div><div>Weeks of baking drought across Europe have also revealed long-submerged treasures.</div><div><br></div><div>In Spain, archaeologists have been delighted by the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle dubbed the \"Spanish Stonehenge.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Another of Europe\'s mighty rivers, the Danube, has fallen to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of more than 20 German warships sunk during World War II near Serbia\'s river port town of Prahovo. - CNN</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 21:46:51', '2022-08-22 21:46:51'),
(1203, 1203, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday said that its officers had detained a suicide bomber, a member of the ISIS terrorist group, who was plotting a terrorist attack against one of India\'s leadership elite, Russia news agency Sputnik reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Russia\'s FSB identified and detained a member of the Islamic State international terrorist organization banned in Russia, a native of a country in the Central Asian region, who planned to commit a terrorist act by blowing himself up against one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India,\" the authority said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The detained was recruited by the ISIS as a suicide bomber in Turkey, the statement added.</div><div><br></div><div>This story is still developing and more information is awaited in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>ISIS and all its manifestations have been notified as Terrorist Organization and included in the First Schedule to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 by the central government.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the Union Home Ministry, ISIS is using various internet-based social media platforms to propagate its ideology. Cyberspace is being closely watched in this regard by the agencies concerned and action is taken as per law. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 22:05:43', '2022-08-22 22:05:43'),
(1204, 1204, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to former Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2019.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Judge Asad Md Asifuzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 passed the order, removing all the legal bars for releasing Samrat from jail as he was already granted bail in three other cases filed against him.</div><div><br></div><div>The former president of Dhaka South city unit Jubo League was produced before the court from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>After holding hearing on the plea for bail filed by the defence, the court allowed it on Taka 10,000 bond. The court also set September 19 for holding hearing on charge framing in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on November 12, 2019, filed the case against Samrat for amassing illegal wealth of Taka 2.94 crore. The anti-graft body filed charge-sheet on November 26, 2020, and on March 22, 2022, the court took the charge-sheet into cognizance.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on October 7, 2019, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 filed two cases under arms and narcotics acts against Samrat with Ramna Police Station, making former Dhaka South unit Jubo League vice-president Enamul Haque Arman co-accused in the narcotics case.</div><div><br></div><div>RAB on early October 6, 2019, arrested Samrat and his associate Arman from village Kunja Sreepur of Alkora union under Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla district. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 22:32:12', '2022-08-22 22:32:12'),
(1205, 1205, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India captain KL Rahul won the toss and chose to bat in the third one-day international against Zimbabwe in Harare on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The tourists began the three-match series last Thursday with a 10-wicket victory and won by five wickets two days later to build an unassailable 2-0 lead.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We want to challenge ourselves,\" said Rahul. \"There will be some movement early on. I have not spent time batting and it will be good to gain some confidence before the Asia Cup.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Rahul did not get an opportunity to bat in the first match and made only one run in the second before being trapped leg before wicket.</div><div><br></div><div>India changed two of the side that won on Saturday with Deepak Chahar and Avesh Khan replacing Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj.</div><div><br></div><div>Zimbabwe also made two changes as they sought to avoid a whitewash with Tony Munyonga and Richard Ngarava promoted and Wessly Madhevere and Tanaka Chivanga dropping out.</div><div><br></div><div>Both teams are in the middle of busy schedules, with India facing arch rivals Pakistan in the Asia Cup on Sunday, the same day Zimbabwe begin an ODI tour of Australia.</div><div><br></div><div>Teams</div><div>Zimbabwe: Takudzwanashe Kaitano, Innocent Kaia, Regis Chakabva (capt, wkt), Sean Williams, Sikandar Raza, Tony Munyonga, Ryan Burl, Luke Jongwe, Brad Evans, Richard Ngarava, Victor Nyauchi</div><div>India: Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul (capt), Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Sanju Samson (wkt), Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Kuldeep Yadav, Avesh Khan</div><div><br></div><div>Umpires: Adrian Holdstock (RSA), Langton Rusere (ZIM)</div><div><br></div><div>TV umpire: Forster Mutizwa (ZIM)</div><div><br></div><div>Match referee: Andy Pycroft (ZIM) - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 22:43:42', '2022-08-22 22:43:42'),
(1206, 1206, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Fuel traders and tank-lorry owners went on a 12-hour strike on Monday morning in 15 districts of Khulna division to press home their three-point demand, including hike in commission on fuel sale and readjustment of transport fare.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The strike started at 6 am and will continue till 6 pm, said Sheikh Murad Hossain, general secretary of Khulna Divisional Committee of Bangladesh Fuel Distributors Association.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Petroleum Dealers, Distributors, Agents and Petrol Pump Owners Association have stopped collection of fuel from Padma, Meghna and Jamuna depots.</div><div><br></div><div>Murad Hossain said this strike is also being observed by stopping fuel collection from the depots of Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions.</div><div><br></div><div>However, fuel sale from petrol pumps is continuing, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The government hiked the prices of fuel by a big margin on August 5.</div><div><br></div><div>Diesel prices were increased by Tk 34 to Tk 114 per litre, octane by Tk 46 to Tk 135 per litre and petrol by Tk 44 to Tk 130 a litre.&nbsp; - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 23:00:35', '2022-08-22 23:00:35'),
(1207, 1207, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The death toll from this season\'s floods in the country rose to 141 with another death from drowning in Sylhet in 24 hours till Monday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The total deaths were recorded from May 17 to August 22, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>Of the deceased, 80 were from Sylhet, 43 from Mymensingh, 17 from Rangpur and one from Dhaka division.</div><div><br></div><div>One hundred and nine people drowned in floodwaters, 19 were killed by lightning strikes, three from snake bites, one from diarrhoea, and nine others due to other reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 35, 277 people were hit by floods during the same period.</div><div><br></div><div>Thirty-seven upazilas, including 33 in Sylhet, three in Rangpur and one in Chattogram divisions were affected by floods.</div><div><br></div><div>Sylhet, Sunamganj and Moulvibazar were the worst-hit districts, with 13, 11 and five upazilas affected by floods respectively. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-22 23:31:36', '2022-08-22 23:31:36'),
(1208, 1208, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government decided to introduce two-day weekly holiday for educational institutions across the country, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The decision was taken in the virtual cabinet meeting held on Monday (August 22) with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister joined the meeting through video conference from the Gana Bhavan and the Ministers from the meeting room of the Cabinet Division of the Secretariat.</div><div><br></div><div>Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam gave this information in a press briefing at the secretariat after the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>He said two-three important decisions were taken in the meeting. One is how to make power management more effective. It will not be possible to increase instantly.</div><div><br></div><div>The cabinet secretary said the proposal of the education minister has also been approved, he is also giving instructions that the educational institutions will be closed for two days a week.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to questions from journalists, he said they (Ministry of Education) will announce it. It is final, they will issue orders very soon.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 00:08:23', '2022-08-23 00:08:23'),
(1209, 1209, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone were recently seen together in Chennai along with director Atlee.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Several of their pictures and videos surfaced online leading to speculations about Deepika making a cameo appearance in Shah Rukh and Atlee\'s upcoming film Jawan. Nayanthara is also a part of the project.</div><div><br></div><div>In a new video, Deepika got off a bus at the Chennai airport, while Shah Rukh was seen speaking to several people near a car. Atlee was also seen in the clip walking with others. In another part of the video, the trio laughed as they shared a conversation.</div><div><br></div><div>In the video, Shah Rukh wore a white T-shirt, jacket, pants and a cap. Deepika opted for a denim shirt, matching pants and sneakers. Jawan features Shah Rukh and Nayanthara in lead roles. The film is slated to release on June 2, 2023, and is the first collaboration between Atlee and Shah Rukh.</div><div><br></div><div>The actor and his wife Gauri Khan\'s production company, Red Chillies Entertainment, produced Jawan. The film will release in theatres worldwide in five languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada, Hindustan Times reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Fans will see Deepika next in Project K, opposite Prabhas. She will also be seen in Siddharth\'s film Fighter, her first project with Hrithik Roshan. Deepika also has the remake of The Intern with Amitabh Bachchan in pipeline.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 00:18:19', '2022-08-23 00:18:19'),
(1210, 1210, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh T20 captain Shakib Al Hasan believes that experienced players like Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad still have many things to offer for the side even though their performance of late had inspired the critics to lash them at out vehemently.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“They two (Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah) are very important part of our team. They are aware of it. They know what their responsibilities are and what are the challenges,” Shakib said here today.</div><div><br></div><div>Mushfiqur has played only one T20 international match after last year\'s T20 World Cup. He took a leave from some series himself, in some series he was kept out of the team under the guise of rest.</div><div><br></div><div>Another experienced star Mahmudullah did not lose his place in the team as of now. However, he has not had any significant performance since the Super Twelve of the last T20 World Cup. At this time, the former T20 captain of the Tigers scored 209 runs at a strike rate of just 100.48 in 14 matches.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahmudullah was left out of the T20 squad for the last tour of Zimbabwe in the name of rest. He returned to the team in the last match but scored only 27 runs from 27 balls. Later, the oldest cricketer in the team could not do anything worth in the ODI series as well.</div><div><br></div><div>It was thought that Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah might be left out of the upcoming Asia Cup team. But it didn\'t happen due to Shakib Al Hasan, as the captain specially wanted the two in the team. Therefore, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced the 17-man squad for the Asia Cup&nbsp; keeping both of them in the team. Not only that, the team also has a clear plan for them.</div><div><br></div><div>“They also know exactly what state they are in. I have nothing else to say. After playing for so long they are very well aware of the whole situation. We also know what we expect from them. They are a very important part of the team,” Shakib added.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year, Mushfiqur announced to quit wicket-keeping from the T20 format. But this time in the Asia Cup, he will have the keeping gloves, which is what captain Shakib basically wants. Shakib said that Mushfiqur\'s experience is behind this, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If Mushfiqur keeps wicket, my work will be much easier. Time is very short in T20. He can change fielding angles very easily and he even doesn’t need to consult with me because he has the experience. So my life will become easier,” Shakib said.</div><div><br></div><div>“I can think of something else. No need to worry about fielding position all the time. It is not always possible for me to see all 11 players on the field. Only the wicketkeeper can see it well. Having an experienced player like him naturally makes things easier for me,” he concluded.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 00:36:36', '2022-08-23 00:36:36'),
(1211, 1211, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The weather department has predicted showers across Bangladesh in 24 hours commencing 9am on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Mymensingh, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna and Barisal divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over the country,” said a Met Office bulletin.</div><div><br></div><div>Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The weather office recorded the highest 16mm rainfall in Nikli of Mymensingh division in 24 hours till 6am on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>The highest temperature was recorded at 35.8°C in Rajshahi, while the lowest temperature was recorded at 24.6°C in Sreemangal of Sylhet division.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the land depression over Chhattisgarh and the adjoining area now lies over North Madhya Pradesh of India. It is likely to weaken gradually further.</div><div><br></div><div>The axis of monsoon troughs runs through Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, the centre of the Land Depression, Bihar, Gangetic West Bengal to Assam across the central part of Bangladesh. One of its associated troughs extends up to Northeast Bay, as per the bulletin. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 01:20:25', '2022-08-23 01:20:25'),
(1212, 1212, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mongla&nbsp; Port, country’s second largest sea port sees huge activities during the last two months, after the inauguration of the Padma Bridge.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Huge machineries, equipments, raw materials of some mega projects including Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant, Rampal Power Plant, metro rail, Bangabandhu and Khanjahan Ali railway bridges and huge imported cars have so far been unloaded through the Port during last 50 days, an official of the port authority told journalists on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Huge readymade garment items, shrimp, vegetables, fruits and other items have already been exported during last two months through this port, the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking to BSS, Md Makruzzaman, Secretary to the Mongla Port Authority (MPA) told BSS that Mongla Port has turned into an international standard port after being taken huge modernization projects here.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 896 foreign ships have so far been anchored at the port jetty in 2021-22 fiscal year (FY).</div><div><br></div><div>“A total of 60 percent imported cars came through this port during last two months, capability of cargo handling has been increased several times compared to previous months and the businessmen have been showing their keen interest to use this port as distance between Dhaka to Mongla now stands only 170 kilometers while Dhaka to Chittagong stands at 260 kilometers,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Huge development activities including dredging are going on and 9.5 to 10 meter wide ship is capable to anchor at the Mongla Port jetty, he said adding that a vested quarter is now trying to stop the dredging activities at Mongla Port inner channel in a bid to obstruct development activities of the government.</div><div><br></div><div>He, however, said foreign ships between 9.5 meters to 10.0 meters wide are now capable to anchor at the Harbaria, entry point of the Mongla Port jetty near the Bay of Bengal, also known as outer bar, after completion of dredging.</div><div><br></div><div>But, the MPA are now facing trouble to complete 23.4 kilometers inner bar dredging from Harbaria dredging area to port jetty as a vested quarter has obstructed to keep sands at the river side during the Pashur River dredging.</div><div><br></div><div>When contacted, Chairman of the Mongla Port Authority Rear Admiral Mohammad Musa told BSS that the government has taken many initiatives to enhance the ability of the Mongla Sea Port.</div><div><br></div><div>“The port sees the arrival of record number of foreign ships due to the intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, special directives from the Shipping Ministry, cooperation by Mongla Port users and hard works by the employees of the organization,” he said, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>Number of foreign ships in the port has been increasing day by day after inauguration of the Padma Bridge and industrialization boosted up in the area centering Padma Bridge, Mongla Port and Rampal Power Plant. Investors are importing different production materials like machineries, cement clinkers, cars, fertilizers and equipments for industrialization, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 01:23:31', '2022-08-23 01:23:31'),
(1213, 1213, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia has accused Ukrainian special services of killing the daughter of one of Vladimir Putin\'s allies in a car bombing near Moscow at the weekend.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Journalist Darya Dugina, aged 29, died on Saturday when a vehicle she was driving exploded near Russia\'s capital.</div><div><br></div><div>Her prominent ultra-nationalist father, Alexander Dugin, said to be close to Mr Putin, may have been the intended target of the attack.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian officials have denied any involvement in the explosion.</div><div><br></div><div>But Russia\' Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday it had solved the case and said that Ukraine was directly responsible.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement carried by Russian media outlets, the FSB contends that the Ukrainian special services hired a contractor who arrived in Russia in mid-July with her young daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>It alleges she rented an apartment in the same building as Ms Dugin to learn about her life and used a Mini Cooper car which had three different sets of licence plates.</div><div><br></div><div>The suspect escaped to Estonia after the explosion, the FSB said.</div><div><br></div><div>Ms Dugina and her father were at a festival near Moscow on Saturday evening where Mr Dugin, a philosopher, gave a lecture. They had reportedly planned to leave in the same car, but changed their plans at the last minute.</div><div><br></div><div>Investigators said an explosive had been planted underneath the Toyota Land Cruiser Ms Dugina was driving, which set it ablaze after detonation and killed her.</div><div><br></div><div>Video from the scene posted online appeared to show a shaken Mr Dugin watching emergency services attend the burning vehicle.</div><div><br></div><div>A family friend, Konstantin Malofeev, published a statement on behalf of Mr Dugin which branded his daughter\'s killing \"a terrorist act by the Ukrainian Nazi regime\".</div><div><br></div><div>He was referencing the unfounded yet oft-repeated claim by Russian leadership of a powerful Nazi presence inside Ukraine - one of the main reasons put forward for the invasion.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My daughter Darya Dugina was brutally murdered in front of me,\" the statement on Telegram read. \"She was a beautiful Orthodox woman, patriot, war reporter, an expert for central TV and philosopher.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"We only need our victory. My daughter sacrificed her young woman\'s life to its altar. So please, achieve it!\"</div><div><br></div><div>Ms Dugina was a vocal supporter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She had been placed under sanctions by the UK in July as \"a frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine\".</div><div><br></div><div>Her father, Alexander, is also known as \"Putin\'s brain\" and has long expressed an anti-Western, ultranationalist philosophy that has made him a significant figure in Moscow - despite holding no political office himself. According to BBC reports.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 01:39:38', '2022-08-23 01:39:38'),
(1214, 1214, '<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" style=\"margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 36.25rem;\"><div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-family: ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem;\">Pakistan\'s police have charged the country\'s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, under anti-terror laws.</span><br></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Their investigation comes after he accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing a close aide.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Mr Khan\'s supporters gathered outside his house vowing to \"take over\" if he was arrested. However, he has now been granted pre-arrest bail until Thursday.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Since being ousted from power in April, Mr Khan has been a vocal critic of the government and the country\'s army.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Police announced the charges after the cricketer-turned-politician accused authorities of torturing his close aide, who is himself being detained under sedition charges.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Officials accused Mr Khan of breaching the country\'s anti-terrorism act for allegedly making threats against the state officials.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Hundreds of the former prime minister\'s supporters gathered outside his home in Islamabad after news of the investigation broke. Draped in the flags of Mr Khan\'s party, they have camped out at the gate of his hilltop residence of Bani Gala, chanting and singing in support of the former leader.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">It is not known if he is at home, and he is yet to address the latest charge.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Mr Khan\'s political allies warned on Monday that arresting the ousted leader would be crossing a \"red line\".</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">\"If Imran Khan is arrested... we will take over Islamabad,\" tweeted a former minister in Mr Khan\'s cabinet, Ali Amin Gandapur.</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">Islamabad\'s High Court approved the three-day protective bail, but directed him towards an anti-terrorism court saying it was the appropriate forum to address the issue. - BBC</font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\"><br></font></p><p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\" style=\"font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><font color=\"#141414\" face=\"ReithSans, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif\">bnbd24/fas</font></p></div></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 01:44:39', '2022-08-23 01:44:39');
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(1215, 1215, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan vowed to make the side a force to reckon with in T20 format, utilizing the experience he had gained playing the shortest format of the cricket around the world in the last one decade.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>As Bangladesh have been vulnerable in this format, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) gave him the onus after Test format to make a difference.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Shakib\'s first assignment as T20 captain however will be the upcoming Asia Cup where he wanted the fans to tone down the expectation as he believes nothing will change in overnight.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He said for Bangladesh, it will be tougher to reach the final given their form and the list of vital players they lost to injury but he believes his side is capable of moving into the Super Four at least. Bangladesh are drawn in Group B alongside Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, both of whom are stronger outfit in this format.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"It\'s difficult for us to play (final game). If we can play these two matches well and if we can keep the shade of improvement from the previous series or the series we have played in a year and a half, then there will be an achievement in this tournament,\" Shakib said here today in his first press conference after being appointed as T20 captain.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"But now as a captain I am very motivated. I will try to make the team better with the experience I have.\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He however thinks that it\'s important to believe in \'ourselves\' and spread confidence in everyone in the team.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"When we leave this room, we will all leave with one thought. Sometimes bad decisions turn out to be good. And without this trust, many good decisions go bad. What matters most is that what decisions we make in the dressing room, we have to believe in it. If we can do this then we can do something good.\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Shakib did not give a direct answer about the team\'s goals. However, in response to a question, he said, \"Whichever team we have, we should play Super Four.\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The six-team Asia Cup is going to begin on August 27. From each group two teams will move to the next round to form Super Four. Four teams will play each other in the Super Four. The top two teams on the basis of points will go to the finals.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bangladesh which lost eight matches in the last 10 games in this format are desperate to thrive in this format. Sridharan Sriram was appointed as the Technical Consultant to bring up elusive success while Russell Domingo was relieved from his duty from this format. Domingo will continue to supervise the team in Test and ODI format.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>But a new coaching staff cannot change the status of a team overnight and so Shakib urged the players to come forward.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"Everyone in the team has played a lot of cricket and those who play international cricket, have their own idea of how to win the team. I think everyone will try from their place. There is nothing special to say about it. We are not students of class four or five that we should be taught the things.\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon and team director Khaled Mahmud said that captain Shakib is deciding the team\'s plan by himself. However, Shakib did not show interest in talking about those issues.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"These plans are usually made by the coach and the captain together. We have a new person in charge here, so these will be done sitting with him. I don\'t think there will be any specific plans like that,\" Shakib remarked.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Bangladesh team will fly on Tuesday to play the Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Even though the tournament starts on August 27, Bangladesh will play their first match on August 30 against Afghanistan at Sharjah Cricket Stadium.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bangladesh had played in the finals in all three of the last four Asia Cups, starting in 2012 on the country\'s soil. Shakib, Mushfiqur\'s hearts were broken when Bangladesh lost the ODI format final match to Pakistan by just 2 runs. They had also lost to India in 2016 when the Asia Cup was held in T20 format.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In 2018, again in the Asia Cup final of the ODI format, the dream was shattered after being lost to India. This year the Asia Cup will be held in the T20 format to give the teams a best preparation for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 02:58:07', '2022-08-23 02:58:07'),
(1216, 1216, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ahead of the Bangladesh-India Joint River Commission (JRC) ministerial-level meeting, officials of both the countries will hold a two-day meeting in New Delhi from tomorrow to discuss water management issues between the two countries.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 38th JRC ministerial level meeting is scheduled to be held on August 25 about 12 years of recess as the last ministerial-level meeting was held in March 2010.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting is being held ahead of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\'s upcoming visit to India from first week of September, according to sources.</div><div>During the meeting, the two sides are expected to finalise a joint study on utilisation of Ganges water and an agreement of withdrawal of water from Kushiyara river, sources familiar with the development said.</div><div><br></div><div>They added that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sharing of data on the flow of water in the rivers flowing in India\'s North-East region would also be finalised during the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>India\'s Jal Shakti (Water Resources) Minister Gajendra Singh Shakhawat and State Minister for Water Resources of Bangladesh Zahid Faruk will lead the respective delegation to the 38th JRC ministerial-level meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Sources, however, said that Bangladesh side is likely to raise the long-awaited Teesta issue in the meeting apart from finalising a framework agreement of six common rivers- Monu, Muhuri, Khowai, Gumti, Dharla and Dudhkumar.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, issues relating to renewal of Ganges water sharing treaty would also be discussed prominently in the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The 25 years-long landmark Ganges water sharing agreement between Bangladesh and India was signed in 1996 during the regime of Awami League government. The tenure of the agreement will end in the year of 2026.</div><div><br></div><div>India and Bangladesh so far inked only Ganges Water Sharing agreement although they share 54 trans-boundary rivers. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 05:31:57', '2022-08-23 05:31:57'),
(1217, 1217, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Protesters broke barricades and shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Monday, after thousands of farmers gathered to protest against what they said were unfulfilled promises by the government.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>More than eight months after farmers called off a year-long protest and the government conceded to several of their demands, more than 5,000 farmers gathered in the center of the capital to protest against Modi and his government.</div><div><br></div><div>Farmers are demanding that the government guarantee a minimum support price for all produce and clear all farmer debts, among other things, according to a statement from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, the farmer organization that organized the protest on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>A spokesperson for the Federal Agriculture Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Protesters wielded banners and flags and broke through barriers as they marched toward the venue, shouting slogans against Modi.</div><div><br></div><div>Last November, Modi said he would roll back three farm laws that had aimed to deregulate produce markets but which farmers said would allow corporations to exploit them.</div><div><br></div><div>The federal government also agreed to set up a panel of growers and government officials to find ways of ensuring Minimum Support Prices (MSP), as the guaranteed rates are called, for all farm produce.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, the federal government set up the panel and invited representatives of farmer organizations to join in.</div><div><br></div><div>Security around the borders of the national capital was tightened and police presence was heightened in and around the protest area. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 14:27:44', '2022-08-23 14:27:44'),
(1218, 1218, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former US President Donald Trump has asked a judge to freeze a justice department investigation of files seized from his home in an FBI search.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In a lawsuit, his legal team asked that an independent lawyer be appointed to oversee documents that agents removed from Mar-a-Lago in Florida this month.</div><div><br></div><div>Eleven sets of classified files were taken from Mr Trump\'s estate on 8 August, according to the FBI.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Trump is being investigated for potentially mishandling documents.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, his lawyers asked that a \"neutral\" third-party attorney - known as a special master - be appointed to determine whether the seized files are covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to keep certain communications under wraps.</div><div><br></div><div>Special masters are normally appointed in criminal cases where there are concerns that some evidence may be protected under attorney-client privilege, or other protections that could make it inadmissible in court.</div><div><br></div><div>The Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a brief statement that prosecutors were aware of Mr Trump\'s lawsuit, and would respond in court. The \"search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was authorised by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause\", said spokesman Anthony Coley.</div><div><br></div><div>The 27-page legal action was filed in West Palm Beach, Florida, before a judge that Mr Trump nominated to the bench in 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>It says: \"President Donald J Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Law enforcement is a shield that protects Americans,\" it continues. \"It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The \"shockingly aggressive move\" on Mar-a-Lago by about two dozen FBI agents took place \"with no understanding of the distress that it would cause most Americans\", said Mr Trump\'s lawyers.</div><div><br></div><div>His legal team accused the government of leaking \"ever-changing, and inaccurate, \'justifications\'\" for the search to favoured media outlets.</div><div><br></div><div>The New York Times reported on Monday that agents had so far recovered over 300 documents with classified markings from Mr Trump, including material from the CIA, the National Security Agency and the FBI.</div><div><br></div><div>In a separate statement, Mr Trump maintained he had done nothing wrong, arguing that all of documents he took from the White House when he left office in January 2021 had already been declassified by himself.</div><div><br></div><div>Monday\'s legal action says that the former president and his team want the justice department to provide a more detailed list of what was taken during the FBI search.</div><div><br></div><div>The lawsuit says the justice department \"simply wanted the camel\'s nose under the tent so they could rummage for either politically helpful documents or support efforts to thwart president Trump from running again\".</div><div><br></div><div>The court filing argues that Mr Trump had been co-operating with agents before the FBI turned up unannounced at his home.</div><div><br></div><div>His lawyers say the warrant was overly broad and the search violated the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects Americans against unreasonable search and seizure.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Trump\'s legal team says that three days after the search they contacted an FBI agent that had visited Mar-a-Lago in June to ask for his help in passing along a personal message from the former president to Attorney General Merrick Garland.</div><div><br></div><div>The brief message recorded in Monday\'s lawsuit said that Mr Trump had heard \"from people around the country about the raid\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"If there was one word to describe their mood, it is \'angry\',\" the message from Mr Trump continued.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The heat is building up. The pressure if building up.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The judge that approved the warrant - an unprecedented criminal investigation of a former US president\'s home - is still determining whether to release the affidavit, the sworn evidence that was presented as a justification for the FBI search.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said proposed government redactions to the affidavit were so extensive as to make it \"meaningless\" if disclosed, though he said he still believed it should not remain completely sealed given public interest in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump records probe timeline</div><div><br></div><div>--January 2022 - The National Archives retrieves 15 boxes of White House records from Mar-a-Lago, and says some of the documents it received at the end of Trump administration had been torn up</div><div><br></div><div>--February - Reports emerge that classified files were found in the Mar-a-Lago cache and National Archives has asked DoJ to investigate</div><div><br></div><div>--April - US media report the FBI has begun a preliminary investigation</div><div><br></div><div>--3 June - A senior DoJ official and three FBI agents travel to Mar-a-Lago to review items in a basement. According to Mr Trump, he told them: \"Whatever you need, just let us know\"</div><div><br></div><div>--8 June - Federal investigators write to a Trump aide to ask that a stronger lock be used to secure the room storing the items. Trump says that request was quickly fulfilled</div><div><br></div><div>--22 June - The Trump Organization receives a DoJ summons for CCTV footage from Mar-a-Lago</div><div><br></div><div>--8 August - Dozens of agents search Mar-a-Lago, seizing more than 20 boxes, some containing top secret files, according to the warrant - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 15:04:49', '2022-08-23 15:04:49'),
(1219, 1219, '<div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Erik ten Hag secured his first win as Manchester United manager as goals from Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford beat Liverpool 2-1 at Old Trafford on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>United had started the weekend bottom of the Premier League, but moved above Liverpool on a massive night for their new Dutch manager.</div><div><br></div><div>Liverpool\'s expected title challenge is fading fast with Jurgen Klopp\'s men yet to win three games into the new season.</div><div><br></div><div>United fans began the evening by marching on Old Trafford in protest at the decade of decline overseen by the club\'s owners, the Glazer family.</div><div><br></div><div>A social media movement encouraging supporters to boycott the game in the wake of an embarrassing 4-0 defeat at Brentford last weekend failed to materialise.</div><div><br></div><div>But even amid the jubilation of a first league win over Liverpool since 2018, chants of \"we want Glazers out\" persisted throughout the 90 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>Ten Hag responded to the concession of four goals inside 35 minutes at Brentford by dropping Cristiano Ronaldo and captain Harry Maguire among four changes.</div><div><br></div><div>After becoming the first United manager in more than a century to lose his first two games, the former Ajax manager got the response he desired in an explosive opening half hour that rocked Liverpool back on their heels.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We can talk about tactics but it is all about attitude,\" said Ten Hag.</div><div>Anthony Elanga should have opened the scoring when he curled off the base of the post after two passes from Scott McTominay and Bruno Fernandes carved Liverpool wide open.</div><div><br></div><div>Defensive disorganisation has been a repeated failing of Liverpool\'s winless start to the season and they failed to learn their lesson for the opening goal on 16 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>A neat one-two between Elanga and Christian Eriksen opened up the Liverpool defence once more and when the ball was cut back to Sancho, he left James Milner on the floor before coolly slotting home.</div><div><br></div><div>- Liverpool lacking midfield options -</div><div><br></div><div>Milner bounced back up to confront Virgil Van Dijk for his role in the goal as the Dutch defender sat off Sancho.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The start of the game was exactly what everyone expected, what United fans expected, they were after us,\" said Klopp.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They started slightly more aggressive than us. After the goal, they could more play the game they wanted.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Liverpool\'s reluctance to refresh Klopp\'s midfield options will face more scrutiny in the final days of the transfer window.</div><div><br></div><div>With Thiago Alcantara and Naby Keita out injured, the 36-year-old Milner showed his age and Klopp had precious few options to turn to on the bench with new 75 million euro (£64 million, $77 million) striker Darwin Nunez serving the first of a three-match ban for being sent off on his home debut.</div><div><br></div><div>Liverpool\'s lack of energy in midfield was exposed for United\'s second goal as Jordan Henderson\'s poor touch presented possession to Anthony Martial and his perfect through ball set Rashford free to score his first goal since January.</div><div><br></div><div>Restoring Rashford\'s confidence is one of the many tasks that still lie ahead for Ten Hag.</div><div><br></div><div>But the England attacker looked more like his old self and only a fine save from Alisson low to his left denied Rashford his second and United\'s third.</div><div><br></div><div>\"For me it is about my mentality,\" said Rashford. \"When I am happy and feel happy I will play well, score goals and help the team.\"</div><div><br></div><div>United goalkeeper David de Gea\'s error opened the floodgates at Brentford but the Spaniard also played his part in a night of redemption with a point-blank save from Luis Diaz.</div><div><br></div><div>Mohamed Salah\'s header set up a grandstand finish 10 minutes from time, but United summoned a steel rarely seen in recent seasons to see out the closing stages and secure a much-needed boost for their new boss. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 15:07:19', '2022-08-23 15:07:19'),
(1220, 1220, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A woman shot and killed two people and wounded a third Monday at two different locations in Atlanta\'s Midtown neighborhood and was later taken into custody at the city\'s airport, police said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Atlanta police said they did not immediately know what prompted the attack, but they believe the victims were targeted. The suspect\'s name was not released.</div><div><br></div><div>“We do not believe these were random acts of violence,\" interim police chief Darrin Schierbaum told a news conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Officers responded to a report of a shooting around 1:45 p.m. and found two victims at the first building. One of the victims died, and the other was taken to a hospital, Atlanta police said.</div><div><br></div><div>While there, police received another report of a shooting at a second building less than a mile (1.6 km) away. That victim was also taken to the hospital and later died. Atlanta police said they are investigating how the two sites are connected.</div><div><br></div><div>Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies descended on the Midtown area, telling residents to stay inside as they searched the area. Atlanta police said an “extensive camera network” helped them track the suspect and she was eventually located at the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.</div><div><br></div><div>Mayor Andre Dickens said the woman was arrested before entering a restricted area and that the “security of the airport was never compromised.\" - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 20:25:53', '2022-08-23 20:25:53'),
(1221, 1221, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Europe faces fresh disruption to energy supplies due to damage to a pipeline system bringing oil from Kazakhstan through Russia that was reported by the pipeline operator on Monday, adding to concerns over a plunge in gas supplies.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>CPC, which handles about 1% of global oil and whose largest shareholder is Russian pipeline firm Transneft, said exports from two of its three mooring points at a Black Sea terminal had been suspended, confirming a Reuters report.</div><div><br></div><div>The West accuses Russia of restricting energy supplies to boost prices in retaliation for sanctions imposed after Moscow\'s invasion of Ukraine, which the Kremlin calls a special military operation. Russia denies this, blaming Western sanctions themselves and various technical problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian natural gas supplies to Europe are down around 75% year on year, with export company Gazprom last week announcing unscheduled maintenance on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs under the Baltic Sea to Germany.</div><div><br></div><div>Natural gas prices jumped on Monday, with outages at Norwegian and UK gas fields adding to concerns.</div><div><br></div><div>British gas for immediate delivery was up 125 pence to 490 pence per therm at 1730 GMT, while the day-ahead contract rose 123 pence to 484 p/therm.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine\'s gas transmission system operator said it and the Polish gas pipeline system had the capacity to bring Russian gas to Europe and compensate for the Nord Stream halt.</div><div><br></div><div>Gazprom did not respond to a request for comment on whether it would increase gas exports via other routes.</div><div><br></div><div>CPC (Caspian Pipeline Consortium) said it had to suspend loadings from its SPM-1 and SPM-2 mooring points due to damage at \"the attachment points of underwater sleeves to buoyancy tanks\".</div><div><br></div><div>It said loadings were only being processed from SPM-3 and so oil loading requests would have to be reduced.</div><div><br></div><div>Tengizchevroil (TCO), which represents Chevron and Exxon in Kazakhstan\'s giant Tengiz project, said it was aware of temporary maintenance at CPC and its oil exports and output on its Tengiz oilfield were currently uninterrupted.</div><div><br></div><div>TCO has a lower output plan on its Tengiz oilfield in August-September due to planned maintenance.</div><div><br></div><div>\"CPC is a key export route for crude oil production from Kazakhstan to reach international markets and many countries rely on this critical transportation system for their energy security\", - Chevron said in a statement sent to Reuters.</div><div><br></div><div>TotalEnergies, which has a presence in Kazakhstan as well, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while Shell and Eni, which are shareholders in CPC, declined to comment. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 20:55:02', '2022-08-23 20:55:02'),
(1222, 1222, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The local administration has imposed section 144 from 6am-6pm on Tuesday in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali fearing clashes may break out as local units of BNP and Awami League called meetings at the same time and place, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dumki Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Al Imran has issued a circular in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Dumki Police Station Md Abdus Salam said that additional police were deployed in the area to avert any untoward situation.</div><div><br></div><div>President of BNP Dumki upazila unit Md Khalilur Rahman announced a protest rally at Dumki Cinema Hall Patti area at 9 am as part of their central program protesting the recent fuel price hike.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, Dumki Upazila Awami League President Abul Kalam Azad announced a counter protest rally at the same time and the same place.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 21:18:21', '2022-08-23 21:18:21'),
(1223, 1223, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Europe\'s worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War II near Serbia\'s river port town of Prahovo.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The vessels were among hundreds scuttled along the Danube by Nazi Germany\'s Black Sea fleet in 1944 as they retreated from advancing Soviet forces, and still hamper river traffic during low water levels.</div><div><br></div><div>However, this year\'s drought — worsened by human-induced global warming — has exposed more than 20 hulks on a stretch of the Danube near Prahovo in eastern Serbia, many of which still contain metric tons of ammunition and explosives and pose a danger to shipping.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The German flotilla has left behind a big ecological disaster that threatens us, people of Prahovo,\" said Velimir Trajilovic, 74, a pensioner from Prahovo who wrote a book about the German ships.</div><div><br></div><div>Workers in the local fishing industry are also at risk, including from Romania which lies just across the river.</div><div><br></div><div>Months of drought and record-high temperatures have snarled river traffic on vital arteries in other parts of Europe, including Germany, Italy and France. In Serbia, the authorities have resorted to dredging to keep navigation lanes on the Danube open.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>By Prahovo, some of the hulks have narrowed the navigable section on this stretch of the Danube to just 100 meters (330 feet) from 180 meters.</div><div><br></div><div>Strewn across the riverbed, some of the ships still boast turrets, command bridges, broken masts and twisted hulls, while others lie mostly submerged under sand banks.</div><div><br></div><div>In March, the Serbian government invited a tender for the salvage of the hulks and removal of ammunition and explosives. The cost of the operation was estimated at 29 million euros ($30 million). - CNN</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 21:28:54', '2022-08-23 21:28:54'),
(1224, 1224, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Arabia’s embassy in the Philippines issued a warning to its citizens in the country on Tuesday as the tropical storm ‘Florita’ inched closer.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The embassy warned its citizens “to take precautions and follow-up on what the Filipino authorities issued,” and to contact the embassy if any emergencies occurred.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The Kingdom’s embassy in Manila confirms that Wednesday, 08/24/202, will be an emergency leave, issued by the Philippines’ authorities, due to the tropical storm ‘Hurricane Florita’,” the embassy said on Twitter.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Tuesday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered schools and government offices in Manila and outlying provinces to close as a precautionary measure, according to media reports.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and tropical storms annually.&nbsp; - Arab News</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 21:42:40', '2022-08-23 21:42:40'),
(1225, 1225, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The price of bottled soybean oil has been increased by Tk7 per litre on Tuesday, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With the price hike, the maximum retail price of each litre of soybean oil is Tk 192</div><div><br></div><div>The new prices have been made effective from today, said a notification issued by Bangladesh Edible Oil Refining and Vegetable Growers Association.</div><div><br></div><div>The refiners also hiked the prices of loose or unpackaged soybean oil by 5.42 per cent to Tk 175 each litre.</div><div><br></div><div>For 5-litre bottles, the price has been set as Tk 945.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, the price of palm oil (loose) has been set as Tk 145 per litre.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 22:01:58', '2022-08-23 22:01:58'),
(1226, 1226, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The officer-in-charge of Manikganj\'s Shivalaya Police Station has been withdrawn and attached to Madaripur district police lines on charges of negligence in duty following the alleged torture of a complainant at the police station.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>OC M Shaheen was relieved on Monday after the Dhaka Range Police Deputy Inspector General Habibur Rahman found his negligence, said Superintendent of Police Golam Azad Khan.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, Additional Superintendent of Police (DSB) Apu Mohant has been asked to investigate the allegations against OC Shaheen.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Saturday night, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) was withdrawn from the police station for assaulting a man who went there to know the update on a complaint he filed over the attempted rape of his five-year-old daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>The assaulted man said, \"My wife and I live in Dhaka. My five-year-old daughter lives with my mother at our village home. On July 20, Razab Khan, cousin of Shivalaya upazila Awami League unit member Mannan Khan, tried to rape my daughter. “</div><div><br></div><div>On August 14,&nbsp; he filed a complaint with Shivalaya Police Station. But police didn\'t take any action even though a week has gone by, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 20 evening, I went to the police station with my mother and daughter to know the update on my complaint.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As the officer-in-charge of the station was not present at the station, ASI Arif asked me why I was at the police station. I told him everything that happened to my daughter but he didn\'t believe me. At one point, he took me to a room and beat me up.”</div><div><br></div><div>When the Superintendent of Police was informed about the matter, a case was registered at the police station. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 22:40:44', '2022-08-23 22:40:44'),
(1227, 1227, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Myanmar\'s military launched a ferocious crackdown against the country\'s Rohingya Muslim population in 2017, driving more than 740,000 refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are the key dates in the five-year crisis:</div><div><br></div><div>- Army operations -</div><div>Early on the morning of August 25, 2017 a shadowy Rohingya militant group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) stages coordinated attacks on dozens of police posts in Myanmar\'s coastal Rakhine state, killing at least a dozen officers.</div><div><br></div><div>The army retaliates with operations in Rohingya villages, ostensibly to flush out insurgents.</div><div><br></div><div>It says it killed 400 militants but opponents say most of the dead are civilians.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations says at least 1,000 people were killed in the first two weeks of the military operations.</div><div><br></div><div>- Refugee exodus -</div><div><br></div><div>By September 5 more than 120,000 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh, overwhelming its ill-equipped refugee camps.</div><div><br></div><div>There are already at least 200,000 Rohingya in Bangladesh from previous waves of violence.</div><div><br></div><div>- Suu Kyi breaks silence -</div><div><br></div><div>International anger mounts against Myanmar. Soldiers are accused of razing Rohingya homes and some world leaders allege \"ethnic cleansing\" has taken place.</div><div><br></div><div>In her first statement on the crisis, Myanmar\'s civilian leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi pledges on September 19 to hold rights violators to account but refuses to blame the army.</div><div><br></div><div>- Possible \'genocide\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh and Myanmar on November 23 agree to start repatriating refugees.</div><div><br></div><div>But the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says conditions are not in place for their safe return and the process halts.</div><div><br></div><div>UN human rights chief Zeid Ra\'ad Al Hussein on December 5 warns of possible \"elements of genocide\" and calls for an international investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>- Courts and sanctions -</div><div><br></div><div>On August 25, 2018, tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees stage protests to mark the first anniversary of their exodus.</div><div><br></div><div>UN investigators call for the prosecution of Myanmar\'s army chief and five other top military commanders for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.</div><div><br></div><div>In November an attempt to repatriate 2,260 Rohingya fails as they refuse to leave without guarantees for their safety.</div><div><br></div><div>- Reporters jailed -</div><div><br></div><div>On September 3, two Reuters journalists who are accused of breaching Myanmar\'s state secrets law while reporting on a Rohingya massacre are jailed for seven years.</div><div><br></div><div>They will spend more than 500 days behind bars before being released on a presidential pardon.</div><div><br></div><div>- US sanctions -</div><div><br></div><div>On July 16, 2019, Washington announces sanctions against Myanmar\'s army chief and three other top officers.</div><div><br></div><div>About 3,500 Rohingya refugees are cleared to return home but none turn up to make the journey on August 22.</div><div><br></div><div>- Legal challenges mount -</div><div><br></div><div>On November 11 The Gambia files a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Myanmar of genocide for its treatment of the Rohingya.</div><div><br></div><div>Three days later the separate Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) green-lights a full investigation into the persecution of the Rohingya.</div><div><br></div><div>In the same week, a third case is filed by rights groups in Argentina under the principle of universal jurisdiction.</div><div><br></div><div>- Suu Kyi in court -</div><div><br></div><div>On December 11 The Gambia lays out its case at the ICJ with Suu Kyi personally leading Myanmar\'s defence.</div><div><br></div><div>She refutes accusations of genocide, denying \"misleading and incomplete\" claims and insisting Myanmar is dealing with an \"internal armed conflict\".</div><div><br></div><div>She admits the army may have used excessive force.</div><div><br></div><div>- Court ruling -</div><div><br></div><div>Delivering its ruling on January 23, 2020, the ICJ orders Myanmar to take urgent steps to prevent alleged genocide and to report back within four months.</div><div><br></div><div>- Coup d\'etat -</div><div><br></div><div>Myanmar\'s military seizes power on February 1, 2021 ousting the civilian government and later waging a bloody crackdown on dissent.</div><div><br></div><div>Suu Kyi is put under house arrest and later jailed for 17 years following a closed-door trial in junta court.</div><div><br></div><div>With several charges still hanging over her, the 77-year-old faces the possibility of decades behind bars.</div><div><br></div><div>- US calls genocide -</div><div><br></div><div>The United States on March 21, 2022 officially declares that the 2017 violence amounted to genocide, saying there was clear evidence of an attempt to \"destroy\" the Rohingya.</div><div><br></div><div>The ICJ rules on July 22 that the case filed by The Gambia can proceed.</div><div><br></div><div>In the same month the junta executes four prisoners, the country\'s first use of capital punishment in decades.</div><div><br></div><div>- Camp killings -</div><div><br></div><div>On August 10 two Rohingya community leaders are shot dead in one of the Bangladesh refugee camps, the latest in a string of killings in the settlements.</div><div><br></div><div>Rohingya sources tell AFP that ARSA is behind the shootings.</div><div><br></div><div>ARSA is accused of running narcotics, murdering political opponents and instilling a climate of fear in the camps. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 23:27:28', '2022-08-23 23:27:28'),
(1228, 1228, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kim Kardashian and celebrity neighbors including Sylvester Stallone have been handed warnings for repeatedly flouting water restrictions at their homes in drought-hit California, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Strict water limits -- imposed as the western United States endures its 23rd successive year of drought, worsened by human-caused climate change -- are in place across swathes of southern California, including the affluent neighborhoods of Calabasas and Hidden Hills.</div><div><br></div><div>But more than 2,000 residents of the two glitzy enclaves north of Los Angeles, known for their sprawling green lawns and giant swimming pools, are continuing to breach the limits, often by eye-watering amounts.</div><div>Celebrity reality stars Kim and Kourtney Kardashian were among repeat offenders in June, the newspaper reported, citing notices obtained via a Public Records Act request.</div><div><br></div><div>A Hidden Hills home and adjacent lot owned by a trust linked to Kim Kardashian exceeded their water allowance by a combined 232,000 gallons (878,000 liters) for the month, while her sister Kourtney\'s property in nearby Calabasas was around 100,000 gallons in excess.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Rocky\" star Stallone\'s $18-million Hidden Hills property exceeded its June limits by 230,000 gallons, or 533 percent, having been 195,000 gallons over the limit the previous month, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>Repeat offenders are initially fined hundreds of dollars, but deep-pocketed homeowners who are still not dissuaded can eventually have their supplies physically reduced to a trickle.</div><div><br></div><div>Water authorities in Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, covering Calabasas and Hidden Hills, have already installed metal flow restrictor devices at around 20 properties\' main shutoff valves, the newspaper reported.</div><div><br></div><div>A representative for the Kardashians did not immediately respond to AFP request for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Stallone\'s lawyer told the Times that its report \"could mischaracterize and misrepresent the situation\" at a property sustaining around 500 mature trees, saying his clients had \"proactively\" installed a drip irrigation system and let certain lawns die.</div><div><br></div><div>Others named in the newspaper\'s investigation included comedian Kevin Hart and former NBA basketball star Dwyane Wade.</div><div><br></div><div>Famous for its rows of palm trees, Los Angeles has also traditionally been known for its lush, green lawns, often maintained with automatic sprinklers.</div><div><br></div><div>Residents are increasingly replacing their thirsty lawns with plants native to this desert region, and Las Virgenes spokesman Mike McNutt said he hoped celebrities could set a positive example.</div><div><br></div><div>\"People listen to you, people look at you, people value what you do,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We need you to step up to the plate, to be examples and to be leaders so that other people will follow.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-23 23:33:45', '2022-08-23 23:33:45'),
(1229, 1229, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Another 153 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Among them, 107 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka while 46 in other places, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>As many as 516 dengue patients, including 430 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, this year\'s death toll from the mosquito-borne viral disease rose to 19 with one more death reported from Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the total deaths, 10 were reported from Cox’s Bazar while nine from Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease.</div><div><br></div><div>This year, the DGHS has recorded 4,772 dengue cases and 4,237 recoveries so far. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 00:24:16', '2022-08-24 00:24:16'),
(1230, 1230, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Education minister Dr Dipu Moni&nbsp; paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Tuesday by placing a wreath at his mausoleum at Tungipara in Gopalganj.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>After laying the wreath, the minister stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, she offered doa seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of Bangabandhu and other martyrs who had to embrace martyrdom in the August 15 carnage.</div><div><br></div><div>Vice-Chancellor of the National University Professor Dr. Mohammad Moshiur Rahman, Gopalganj District Commissioner&nbsp; (DC) Shahida Sultana,&nbsp; Superintendent of Police Ayesha Siddika, District Awami League General Secretary Mahbub Ali Khan, Tungipara Municipal Mayor Sheikh Tozammel Haque Tutul, Upazila&nbsp; Nirbahi Officer&nbsp; (UNO) Md. Al-Mamun, Assistant Commissioner (Land) Didarul Islam, Municipal Awami League President Sheikh Saiful Islam, Union Parishad (UP)&nbsp; Chairman&nbsp; of Patgati Sheikh Shukur Ahmed, officials of National University and leaders of Chandpur 3 Constituency Awami League and allied organizations, among others, were&nbsp; present. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 00:37:24', '2022-08-24 00:37:24'),
(1231, 1231, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two people were killed and eight others injured when a wood-laden truck overturned near Toikarma area in Guimara upazila of Khagrachhari district this morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Mohammad Raju, 35, son of Altaf Hossain and Mohammad Elias, 37, son of Abdul Quader, residents of Gacchabil village in Manikchhari upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>The accident occurred when the driver of a Dhaka-bound wood-laden truck from Mahalchari lost control over the steering and overturned near the Toikarma area this morning,&nbsp; leaving ten persons injured, said Md. Shahnur Alam, officer-in-charge&nbsp; (OC) of Manikachari police station, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>The injured were taken to Guimara upazila health complex, where two of them succumbed to their injuries, the OC added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 00:47:07', '2022-08-24 00:47:07'),
(1232, 1232, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni said if educational institutions are closed for two days in a week, there will be no harm to the study of students.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Two-day holiday in a week would not hamper the study of students, rather, they can get energy for study after getting two-day holiday in a week,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Dipu Moni made the remarks after placing a wreath at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara, Gopalganj.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Electricity and energy crisis across the globe is going on...That is why we have taken this initiative so that we can save energy,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, she paid homage to Bangabandhu on behalf of National University.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Minister of Education Mahibul Hasan Chowdhury Naufel, National University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Mohammad Moshiur Rahman, and Gopalganj District Administrator Shahida Sultana, among others, were present.</div><div><br></div><div>After reciting the holy Fateha, they prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the martyrs of August 15, 1975, including Bangabandhu. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 02:59:03', '2022-08-24 02:59:03'),
(1233, 1233, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Europe is probably facing the most severe drought over the last 500 years, the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission said on Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Cumulatively, 64% of Europe is under warning or alert, which is also contributing to spread widely the areas of fire danger across the EU,\" JRC said.</div><div><br></div><div>Dry and warm weather in certain western regions and the Mediterranean will last until November, experts said. \"According to JRC experts, the current drought still appears to be the worst since at least 500 years,\" the statement reads.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The combination of a severe drought and heatwaves has created an unprecedented stress on water levels in the entire EU. We are currently noticing a wildfires season sensibly above the average and an important impact on crops production,\" EU Commissioner for innovation, research, culture, education and youth Mariya Gabriel said in a comment. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 16:48:13', '2022-08-24 16:48:13');
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(1235, 1235, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States will announce $3 billion in fresh military aid to Kyiv on Wednesday as Ukraine marks its independence day as well as the six-month anniversary of the Russian invasion.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A US official confirmed the planned White House announcement even as Washington warned that Moscow could be planning a surge in strikes on major civilian targets coinciding with the independence day observations, and as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged citizens to be on guard against \"Russian terror.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The new tranche of American funding will help Kyiv acquire more weaponry, ammunition and other supplies for its armed forces, locked in a grinding war of attrition with Russian troops in the east and south with neither side advancing significantly in weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>In Moscow, the Kremlin warned it would show \"no mercy\" over the assassination of Daria Dugina, the daughter of an ultranationalist intellectual allied with President Vladimir Putin, which it blamed on Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv has denied responsibility for the Saturday bombing, which apparently targeted Dugina\'s father Alexander Dugin.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the investigation into the attack would be completed soon.</div><div><br></div><div>\"According to the results of this investigation, there can be no mercy for those who organised, ordered and carried out\" the car bombing, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>- Global support -</div><div>The expected US aid announcement comes as world leaders reasserted their support for Kyiv.</div><div><br></div><div>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday warned Russia against further attempts to annex Ukrainian territory in the same way it did with Crimea.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It has never been more important for us all to stand together,\" Johnson said in a video address to the Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv.</div><div><br></div><div>Polish President Andrzej Duda advised against any \"appeasement,\" saying: \"There is no return to business as usual in relations with Russia.\"</div><div><br></div><div>And French President Emmanuel Macron vowed that European Union support for Ukraine would continue \"for the long term\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"There can be no weakness, no spirit of compromise, because it is a matter of our freedom, for everyone, and of peace everywhere around the world,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>- Muted celebrations –</div><div>Tensions grew in the Ukraine capital as both Zelensky and the US State Department warned that Russia could step up attacks around the holiday.</div><div><br></div><div>The celebrations are muted this year and large gatherings have been banned in Kyiv.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainians were somber about the looming anniversary after a half-year of death and destruction.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Six months, the peace of life has been broken in every family,\" Nina Mikhailovna, an 80-year-old pensioner, said at Independence Square in central Kyiv.</div><div><br></div><div>\"How much destruction, how many dead, how can we relate to it?\" she asked.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv\'s city administration said it would close public service centers on Wednesday and Thursday, and shopping malls here said they would close for the anniversary for safety concerns.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Tomorrow is an important day for all of us. And that is why this day, unfortunately, is also important for our enemy,\" Zelensky said in an address Tuesday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We must be aware that tomorrow disgusting Russian provocations and brutal strikes are possible,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>- Threatened nuclear plant -</div><div>Meanwhile discussions continued on how to protect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, occupied by Russian troops and threatened by shelling, which Moscow blames on Kyiv.</div><div><br></div><div>The two sides traded accusations at a Tuesday meeting of the UN Security Council on Zaporizhzhia, with Ukraine and its allies demanding Russia pull its troops out of the plant -- Europe\'s largest nuclear facility -- and agree to a demilitarized zone.</div><div><br></div><div>Lavrov spoke Tuesday by telephone to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna about an expected visit to the plant by inspectors from UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency, amid worries over the high risk of a radiation accident.</div><div><br></div><div>IAEA head Rafael Grossi issued a statement Tuesday deploring weekend shelling at the site, saying further damage had been caused.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I\'m continuing to consult very actively and intensively with all parties so that this vital IAEA mission can take place without further delay,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>It would \"help stabilise the nuclear safety and security situation at the site and reduce the risk of a severe nuclear accident in Europe.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 16:55:39', '2022-08-24 16:55:39'),
(1236, 1236, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar passed away at United Hospital in the capital on Wednesday (Aug 24). He was 80.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mahbub Talukdar, a renowned poet, juvenile writer and former civil servant, breathed his last at around 1pm, his eldest daughter Irin Mahbub said.</div><div><br></div><div>He served as the Election Commissioner of Bangladesh from 2017 to 2022.</div><div>The valiant freedom fighter was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2012 for his contribution in juvenile literature.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahbub Talukdar and his wife Nilufar Begum have two daughters and a son. He joined the exiled government in 1971.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 20:44:08', '2022-08-24 20:44:08'),
(1237, 1237, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Thailand\'s top court has suspended prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha from official duty while it considers a legal challenge to his term limit.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Opposition parties have filed a case arguing that Mr Prayuth - in charge since 2014 - has overstayed his tenure.</div><div><br></div><div>Thailand\'s constitution limits prime ministers to eight years in office.</div><div>The ex-army chief first seized power in the 2014 military coup and then retained office in 2019 under a heavily restricted election.</div><div><br></div><div>However, in recent years he has been facing growing opposition, and backlash within his own coalition.</div><div><br></div><div>So far this year, he has survived multiple no-confidence votes against him. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 20:53:05', '2022-08-24 20:53:05'),
(1238, 1238, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Paul Pelosi, the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor driving under the influence charges related to a May car crash he caused in the Napa County city of Yountville, and was sentenced to five days in jail and three years of probation, according to authorities.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Paul Pelosi, 82, won’t serve any additional jail time after already serving two days and receiving conduct credit for two other days, Napa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Solga was quoted as saying by dpa news agency.</div><div><br></div><div>Pelosi was driving a 2021 Porsche and collided with a 2014 Jeep driven by a 48-year-old in Napa County, the California Highway Patrol said in May. He was arrested and administered a blood test that showed 0.082 per cent blood alcohol content, the Napa County district attorney’s office said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, IANS reported.</div><div>Nancy and Paul Pelosi have been married since 1963.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 21:10:58', '2022-08-24 21:10:58'),
(1239, 1239, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Bank\'s outgoing country director Mercy Miyang Tembon on Wednesday highly appreciated Bangladesh\'s overall socioeconomic development, including women empowerment under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tembon said this during her farewell call on the prime minister at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister\'s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the reporters after the call on.</div><div><br></div><div>The WB official said that she visited several places across Bangladesh and was overwhelmed with the development at its grassroots.</div><div><br></div><div>She also applaud the PM for her Ashrayan Project to provide home to the homeless.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM told Tembon that both husband and wife are the owners of the house being given under the project, and they are utilising the land in their premise by growing vegetables.</div><div><br></div><div>Tembon said that she was also pleased to see that students and other peoples volunteered in harvesting paddy to help the farmers during the Covid-19 pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said leaders and activists of her party Bangladesh Awami League and its associate bodies did the jobs on their political commitment.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister\'s Principal Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus was present during the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, President of International Diabetic Federation Professor Akhtar Hossain also paid a courtesy call on the prime minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Akhtar handed over the invitation letter to the PM to attend the World Diabetic Federation Congress.</div><div><br></div><div>The event will be held in Portugal next December where PM Hasina will be honoured as the first Global Ambassador for Diabetes.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina thanked the governing body of World Diabetes Federation for unanimously awarding her this title.</div><div><br></div><div>She emphasised on the steps to check diabetics through changing food habit and creating awareness among the mass people.</div><div><br></div><div>The president of the World Diabetic Federation informed the prime minister about its activities.</div><div><br></div><div>National Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad Khan was present during the call-on. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 21:23:42', '2022-08-24 21:23:42'),
(1240, 1240, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said his party welcomed the Election Commission (EC)’s decision of using Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in maximum 150 constituencies in the next parliament elections.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He told the newsmen responding to a query after paying homage at the grave of the ruling AL’s former women leader Ivy Rahman in City’s Banani area marking her 18th death anniversary.</div><div><br></div><div>“We wanted EVM in 300 constituencies but the EC agreed to use EVM in half of all constituencies and we welcome the EC’s decision,” Quader said.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to a dialogue with the EC, he said AL had suggested the EC for using the EVM in 2018 as a modern technology because his party never wants recurrence of vote rigging and forgery in the elections.</div><div><br></div><div>Then the EC had introduced the EVM technology in some elections, he said, adding that, “So we had demanded EVM in 300 constituencies during the next parliament elections.”</div><div><br></div><div>Terming the EVM use as trouble-free, the ruling party leader expressed his apprehension that those who are afraid of EVM, “do they want free and fair elections at all?”. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 21:41:38', '2022-08-24 21:41:38'),
(1241, 1241, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Record monsoon rains were causing a \"catastrophe of epic scale\", Pakistan\'s climate change minister said Wednesday, announcing an international appeal for help in dealing with floods that have killed more than 800 people since June.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but each year it also brings a wave of destruction.</div><div><br></div><div>Heavy rain continued to pound much of Pakistan Wednesday, with authorities reporting more than a dozen deaths -- including nine children -- in the last 24 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It has been raining for a month now. There is nothing left,\" a woman named Khanzadi told AFP in badly hit Jaffarabad, Balochistan province.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We had only one goat, that too drowned in the flood... Now we have nothing with us and we are lying along the road and facing hunger.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman said authorities would launch an appeal for international help once an assessment was complete.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Given the scale of the disaster there is no question of the provinces, or even Islamabad, being able to cope with this magnitude of climate catastrophe on their own,\" she told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Lives are at risk, thousands homeless. It is important that international partners mobilise assistance.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan is eighth on a list of countries deemed most vulnerable to extreme weather caused by climate change, according to the Global Climate Risk Index compiled by environmental NGO Germanwatch.</div><div>- From heatwave to flood -</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier this year much of the nation was in the grip of a heatwave, with temperatures hitting 51 degrees Celsius (124 Fahrenheit) in Jacobabad, Sindh province.</div><div><br></div><div>The city is now grappling with floods that have inundated homes and swept away roads and bridges.</div><div><br></div><div>In Sukkur, about 75 kilometres (50 miles) away, volunteers were using boats along the flooded streets of the city to distribute food and fresh water to people trapped in their homes.</div><div><br></div><div>Zaheer Ahmad Babar, a senior met office official, told AFP that this year\'s rains were the heaviest since 2010, when over 2,000 people died and more than two million were displaced by monsoon floods that covered nearly a fifth of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Rainfall in Balochistan province was 430 percent higher than normal, he said, while Sindh was nearing 500 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>The town of Padidan in Sindh had received over a metre (39 inches) of rain since August 1, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is a climate catastrophe of epic scale,\" Rehman said, adding three million people had been affected.</div><div><br></div><div>The National Disaster Management Authority said in a statement that nearly 125,000 homes had been destroyed and 288,000 more were damaged by the floods.</div><div><br></div><div>Some 700,000 livestock in Sindh and Balochistan had been killed, and nearly two million acres of farmland destroyed, officials added.</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 3,000 kilometres of roads had also been damaged. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 21:50:50', '2022-08-24 21:50:50'),
(1242, 1242, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Indian air force on Tuesday sacked three officers for the accidental firing of a cruise missile into nuclear-armed rival Pakistan following a months-long investigation by New Delhi.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The unarmed BrahMos surface-to-surface supersonic missile was accidently launched from a secret military base in northern India in early March before the projectile landed roughly 125 kilometers inside Pakistani territory without causing any damage to life or property.</div><div><br></div><div>A statement by the air force said that a probe into the incident had found three of its officers guilty of violating standard operating procedures that led to the mishap.</div><div><br></div><div>\"These three officers have primarily been held responsible for the incident. Their services have been terminated by the Central Govt with immediate effect,\" the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>Islamabad had said that a \"super-sonic flying object\" cruising at 40,000 feet from India had violated its airspace and hit an uninhabited civilian area on March 9.</div><div><br></div><div>New Delhi had immediately acknowledged the mistake, which Islamabad said endangered civil air planes and lodged a diplomatic protest.</div><div><br></div><div>India had termed the incident \"deeply regrettable\" and promised an investigation at the highest level.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan had demanded a joint probe into the misfire and questioned New Delhi\'s nuclear and missile safety protocols.</div><div><br></div><div>But in a rare instance, both the nuclear-armed nations unusually downplayed the incident despite a history of deep mistrust and hostility.</div><div><br></div><div>The relationship between the two nuclear-armed Asian neighbours remains tense, and the two countries have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947.</div><div><br></div><div>They were on the brink of another war in February 2019 after India launched airstrikes inside Pakistan over claims that a militant group based there was behind a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers in the disputed Kashmir region.</div><div><br></div><div>The airstrikes led to diplomatic tensions, counterattacks by Pakistan fighter planes and a dogfight that saw the downing of an Indian fighter jet and brief detention of its pilot.</div><div><br></div><div>BrahMos is one of India\'s frontline nuclear-armed projectiles and is believed to be among the fastest cruise missiles in the world. It can be launched from land, sea and air.</div><div><br></div><div>The cruise missiles -- travelling at three times the speed of sound -- are jointly developed by India and Russia, and named after India\'s river Brahmaputra and Russia\'s Moskva River, with ranges varying from 300 to 700 kilometers. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 22:07:11', '2022-08-24 22:07:11'),
(1243, 1243, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Expect some respite from the scorching heat and frustrating humidity, as the weather department has predicted monsoon showers across the country in 24 hours.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty winds is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka &amp; Mymensingh divisions with moderately heavy falls at places over the country\", the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said in its forecast on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Met office recorded the highest 64mm of rainfall in Dinajpur district in 24 hours till 6am on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The mercury reached 35.4 degrees Celsius – the highest – in Sylhet, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 24 degrees in Rangamati.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the axis of monsoon trough runs through the centre of the well-marked low, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gangetic West Bengal to Assam across central parts of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate elsewhere over the North Bay, as per the bulletin. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-24 22:33:43', '2022-08-24 22:33:43'),
(1244, 1244, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Getting rich is pretty high up on most people’s list of financial hopes and aspirations. After all, it will allow you to not only have more financial security, but also have more options.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The problem with the idea of getting “rich,” though, is that it takes a lot of time and effort. Get-rich-quick schemes are almost always nothing but a way to prey on those who are struggling financially. Unless you are born into a wealthy family and a large inheritance is passed to you, you will likely have to become rich through a combination of hard work and financial diligence.</div><div><br></div><div>In reality, there are arguably no secrets to becoming rich. Time-tested approaches are generally your best bet, and our experts confirmed that. They outlined some of the best ways to become rich (relatively) quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Avoid (and Pay Down) Debt</div><div>Debt is not necessarily bad in all instances, but it is something to be avoided most of the time. For instance, student loans can be beneficial if the principal and interest rate are not excessive and they help you pursue a lucrative career.</div><div><br></div><div>“Some experts would contend that student loans are bad debt, but I disagree,” said Robert Johnson, chairman and CEO at Economic Index Associates. “I would categorize modest student loan debt as being ‘good debt.’ In my opinion, student loans get a bad rap.”</div><div><br></div><div>Again, the emphasis is on how you use them. Student loans can certainly be bad if the numbers don’t work in your favor.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“There is no doubt that the system has been abused and that some students have accumulated a mountain of debt and have earned degrees that simply won’t provide the earning power to pay that debt back,” Johnson said.</div><div><br></div><div>Johnson also emphasized that credit card debt is always bad debt and should be prioritized over student loans. Ariel Acuña, founder of independent wealth management firm LTG Capital LLC, recommended putting at least 20% of your paycheck toward debt if you have it.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Spend Intentionally and Minimize Costs</div><div>If you want to become rich, it’s important to minimize your costs and be more intentional with your spending. This is the second step because it should be one of the first things you do. Spending intentionally and minimizing your costs will require you to keep a budget.</div><div><br></div><div>In doing so, you can keep track of exactly how much you spend and where you spend it. Acuña recommends a checklist of how you will spend.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Develop a prioritized checklist for how you’re going to spend your paychecks when you receive them. This includes allocating money to debt reduction, savings, fun, emergencies, etc.”</div><div><br></div><div>Your goal should be to minimize costs as much as possible so you can put that money toward building wealth. Jeff Burrow, president and lead advisor at Sierra Ocean, said you should “ravenously find ways to limit your lifestyle costs and save 25% of your income.”</div><div><br></div><div>3. Invest as Much as Possible in a Diversified Portfolio</div><div>While there are limits to how much you can put into a 401(k) or IRA, those limits are high enough that many people are not able to reach them. And if you do, you can always invest more in a taxable brokerage account. Thus, if you want to become rich, you should invest as much as you can — there is no upper limit to that amount.</div><div><br></div><div>There are many different investment strategies, but most experts recommend putting most of your money in the stock market. Some recommend a smaller portion of real estate or even speculative investments. Burrow recommends a portfolio of 65% stocks, 25% real estate, 10% speculative asset of choice.</div><div><br></div><div>You will want to invest that money in a tax-advantaged account such as a 401(k) or IRA first. That will help you minimize your tax bill and thus increase your returns over time. If you manage to max out all tax-advantaged accounts, you can move to a brokerage account.</div><div><br></div><div>4. Work on Your Career</div><div>There is no substitute for higher income. As they say, there is only so much you can cut in terms of expenses, but there is no limit to how much your income can increase, at least in theory. “Ensure that as you advance in your career/business/main occupation, you always save more than you spend as you earn raises and increase your gross income,” Burrow said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Lifestyle cost creep will absolutely wreck a plan to get rich as quickly as possible.”</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, increasing your income will be contingent upon the job you have. Those working hourly jobs, for example, may have minimal leverage to increase their income. But if it is possible for you to move up the corporate ladder, that can be a powerful way to become rich as you will be able to save and invest more. - yahoofinance</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 00:21:53', '2022-08-25 00:21:53'),
(1245, 1245, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President M Abdul Hamid witnessed the ongoing construction works of Mithamain Cantonment and different development projects.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On his arrival in cantonment area under Mithamain upazila of the district, Engineer-in-Chief (E-n-C) Major Gener Md Jubayer Salehin along with other high military officers concerned welcomed the head of the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, a briefing session on the under-construction cantonment was held along with power-point presentation.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The President, also the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, was apprised of the overall progress of the construction by Brigadier General Zakaria.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the President, on board a water vessel, visited the 275-acre under-construction cantonment area.</div><div><br></div><div>He also planted a sapling of a baniyan tree in the cantonment area.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the President inspected the work progress of \"Rastropoti Abdul Hamid Foundation\" in front of his ancestral residence.</div><div><br></div><div>Local lawmakers Afzal Hussain and Rezwan Ahmmad Taufiq, Zila Parishad Administrator Md Zillur Rahman, Mithamain Upazila Parishad Chairman and President\'s sister Asia Alam, President\'s Secretary Sampad Barua, Military Secretary SM Salah Uddin Islam, Press Secretary Md Joynal Abedin, Secretary (Attached) Md Wahidul Islam and senior civil and military officials accompanied him.</div><div><br></div><div>The President arrived in Kishoreganj on August 22 on a four-day visit to see some ongoing development projects in his home district and exchange views with the local representatives, civil society members and professionals.</div><div><br></div><div>He is scheduled to return to Dhaka tomorrow afternoon. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 01:20:23', '2022-08-25 01:20:23'),
(1246, 1246, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The revenue collection by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) witnessed a healthy growth of 15 percent in the first month (July) of the current fiscal year (FY23) fetching Taka 17,520.45 crore.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The revenue collection by the revenue board in July last year was Taka 15,344.25 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>According to NBR, the revenue collection during this one-month period from customs totaled Taka 6,766.68 crore, from VAT Taka 6,021.62 crore and from income tax and travel tax Taka 4,732.15 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>The NBR data also showed that revenue collection from customs increased by 37.68 percent in July as the revenue collection from such sector was Taka 4,914.68 crore in July last year.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the revenue collection from VAT in this July enjoyed a 10 percent growth as Taka 5,797.48 crore were collected from VAT in July last year. However, there was no growth from income tax in this July.</div><div><br></div><div>The NBR earlier set a target of realizing Taka 3.70 lakh crore as revenue in the current fiscal year (FY23) while the revenue collection target in this July was Taka 20,586 crore. According to BSS reports.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 02:31:00', '2022-08-25 02:31:00'),
(1247, 1247, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Turkey\'s business community confronted growing US pressure on Wednesday to break off its growing ties with Russia or face potentially crippling sanctions linked to the Kremlin\'s invasion of Ukraine.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Washington is becoming increasingly alarmed that the Russian government and businesses are using Turkey to evade Western financial and trade restrictions imposed in response to the six-month-old war.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to step up economic cooperation at a summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi earlier this month.</div><div><br></div><div>Official data show the value of Turkish exports to Russia between May and July growing by nearly 50 percent from last year\'s figure.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkey\'s imports of Russian oil are ballooning and the two sides have agreed to transition to ruble payments for the natural gas exported by the Kremlin-tied giant Gazprom.</div><div><br></div><div>US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo paid a rare visit to Ankara and Istanbul in June to express Washington\'s worries that Russian oligarchs and big businesses were using Turkish entities to evade Western sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>NATO member Turkey -- on good terms with both Moscow and Kyiv -- has tried to stay neutral in the conflict and refused to join the international sanctions regime.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Risk of US sanctions\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Adeyemo followed that up with a letter to Turkey\'s TUSIAD business association and the American Chamber of Commerce in Turkey warning that companies and banks were in danger of being sanctioned themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>TUSIAD said in a statement late Tuesday that it had passed on the letter to Turkey\'s foreign ministry as well as finance and trade officials.</div><div><br></div><div>The letter\'s contents were first reported by The Wall Street Journal this week.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Any individuals or entities providing material support to US-designated persons are themselves at risk of US sanctions,\" Adeyemo wrote.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Turkish banks cannot expect to establish corresponding relationships with sanctioned Russian banks and retain their corresponding relationships with major global banks as well as access to the US dollar and other major currencies.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The economic cooperation agreement sealed by Erdogan and Putin includes a deal for more Turkish banks to start processing Russia\'s Mir payments system.</div><div><br></div><div>Broader cooperation with Russia could help support Turkey\'s ailing economy in the run-up to next year\'s general election.</div><div><br></div><div>Adeyemo raised US concerns again in a phone call to Turkey\'s Deputy Finance Minister Yunus Elitas last Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Underlining that it has deep economic and political relations with Ukraine and Russia, Elitas said that Turkey\'s position (on joining) the sanctions has not changed,\" Turkey\'s finance ministry said in a statement about the call.</div><div><br></div><div>The finance ministry added that \"it will not allow any institution or individual\" to use Turkey to evade the sanctions regime.</div><div><br></div><div>Erdogan has previously argued that Ankara cannot join Western sanctions on Moscow because of Turkey\'s heavy dependence on Russian oil and natural gas imports.</div><div><br></div><div>Some analysts believe that TUSIAD and the American Chamber of Commerce in Turkey -- largely made up of big business with a global reach -- are unlikely to violate the regime because they place more value on open access to US financial markets.</div><div><br></div><div>Timothy Ash of BlueBay Asset Management in London told AFP \"smaller, domestically focused\" companies were more likely to strike deals with sanctioned Russian entities that opened the way to two-way trade.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It worries me though that the message from the top in Turkey seems to be that it\'s fine to do more business with Russia, and it\'s important to try and exploit opportunities to counterbalance costs from sanctions, even prosper from them.\" - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 02:40:04', '2022-08-25 02:40:04'),
(1248, 1248, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP on Wednesday turned down the Election Commission’s (EC’s) decision to use the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in up to 150 seats in the next general election, saying the move was taken as per the government’s desire to help it retain power.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also renewed their demand that the next polls must be held through traditional ballots under a non-partisan government to be conducted by a fresh EC.</div><div><br></div><div>“We don’t have any interest in the current Election Commission. We also don\'t care what they say and do. The main thing is that if there is no change in the government during the polls-time, no Election Commission can hold a credible election,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul also said this decision of the EC has proved that it has become an associate body of the ruling party. “Because, they (AL) sought the use of EVMs in 300 seats, but the EC fixed it in 150 ones through a compromise.</div><div><br></div><div>In the dialogues with the EC, he said most of the political parties, even the Jatiya Party, told the Commission that they do not want the EVMs to be used as people’s verdict will not be reflected through the machines.</div><div><br></div><div>“Despite opposition from political parties, the current ‘illegal’ Election Commission has taken the decision to use the EVM only to fulfill the government’s desire and to give their (govts’) target of forming the government again a final shape. People will never accept it and neither will we. We completely turn down it.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said their party’s position is clear that no election can be held in Bangladesh without a polls-time neutral caretaker government.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The current government must quit immediately for not only their economic failure, but also for political failures of creating a one-party ruling system, and then hand over power to a neutral government dissolving parliament.”</div><div><br></div><div>Later, he said a new Election Commission will have to be formed to arrange a credible, acceptable and inclusive election. “The voting in that election will be done completely through ballots.”</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Tuesday, the EC decided to use the EVMs instead of traditional ballot papers in the maximum 150 constituencies out of 300 ones in the next general election likely to be held late next year.</div><div><br></div><div>The decision came from a meeting of the election agency on Tuesday with Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal in the chair at the Nirbachan Bhaban in the city’s Agargaon area.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP’s press conference was arranged after a joint meeting of the party and its associate bodies on the occasion of the party’s 441st founding anniversary on September 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul also announced a two-day programme, including a rally and discussion, to celebrate the founding anniversary.</div><div><br></div><div>At the meeting, the leaders of the party and its associate bodies were instructed to make all programmes, including a colourful rally at Nayapaltan, on September 1, a success.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 1, 1978, Ziaur Rahman formed BNP with a 19-point programme to build a self-reliant Bangladesh. BNP ruled the country for several terms.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said BNP was actually born at a historical moment for the need of history. “When all the other political parties of Bangladesh failed to deliver and unite the country’s people, BNP was founded by martyred President Ziaur Rahman with a new light of hope for people. “</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that BNP has been staying in politics for 44 years through many ups and downs, he said many plots were hatched to destroy BNP since the assassination of Ziaur Rahman on May 30, 1981, Fakhrul said the party has risen like the phoenix under the leadership of Begum Khaleda Zia.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“She brought this party to power thrice under her competent leadership. “It’s unfortunate that our leader has now been kept under house arrest.”</div><div><br></div><div>Accusing the government of destroying democracy and snatching people’s rights, he said people want BNP to restore democracy and their rights through a movement. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 03:02:22', '2022-08-25 03:02:22'),
(1249, 1249, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal today said the Election Commission (EC) has confidently decided to use the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the next general elections.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We have decided on the EVM use with full confidence,\" he told reporters at Nirbachan Bhaban in the city\'s Agargaon area.</div><div><br></div><div>The chief election commissioner said the EVMs were used in many voting centres in the past and \"we will use EVMs in 150 seats considering the opinions of the political parties\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said the talks going on over its use will be understood even after the elections.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We took the decision with full confidence. The answer to the problem that occurs in ballot papers will be better found in EVMs. Because, violence and rigging is not possible (once EVMs are used)\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that the Commission is trying to examine the worry about the EVM use, Awal said the EC asked the political parties to join its dialogues with technical persons and the parties did so, but they do not find any glitch in the EVM use.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Several parties suggested using EVMs in polls. We have taken everyone\'s opinion into the account. If possible, we will use EVMs in 150 seats. We don\'t know whether it will be possible,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Holding elections is the Commission\'s responsibility, the CEC said the Commission is considering the effective measures so that voters can exercise their voting rights and the elections could be free, fair and neutral ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a query, Awal said there is an issue of the Commission\'s capacity in using EVMs in 300 constituencies.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are not going to use EVMs in 300 seats...EVMs will be used in 150 seats and conventional ballots will be used in 150 seats, and then it can be compared,\" he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We will be sure more in future what is going wrong with EVMs...let\'s see what happens. We have given our decision,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The CEC said none can say about the future while there were crises in both the elections of 2014 and 2018.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We could not say whether there would have any crisis in the next general elections or not,\" Awal said. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 03:13:59', '2022-08-25 03:13:59'),
(1251, 1251, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President M Abdul Hamid has asked all government employees, including teachers and staffs of educational institutions to ensure regular office attendance side by side performing their respective duties with utmost responsibility and sincerity.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Regular attendance should be ensured at the offices&nbsp; . . . otherwise strict action will have to be taken,\" he told a view-exchange meeting with local officials and members of professional bodies here last night.</div><div><br></div><div>About a complaint that \'proper education\' is not being done at a local government college here, the president said all government officers, staff and employees should follow the rules and regulations at any cost.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid directed the authorities concerned of the educational institutions to ensure a conducive environment to provide education to the students.</div><div><br></div><div>The head of the state told the local elected representatives that they all should work together for the overall development of the country, shunning the intra-feud and forgetting political differences.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Those who think that the development of the haor area is narrowing their path to grab power; they are trying to mislead the people through spreading various falsehoods,\" he observed.</div><div><br></div><div>Addressing the voters as well as people, the president said politicians will come and go, but you (people) elect such representative, who will work for the development of the haor and its people; instead of personal and family development.</div><div><br></div><div>He also advised elected public representatives and politicians at all levels to work for the people\'s welfare and to keep everyone well.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Elected public leaders (from Union Parishad to MP) must realise that mass people are those who have supported you to be a leader . . .&nbsp; These people’s representatives must have respect and love,\" the president added.</div><div><br></div><div>Urging not to build unplanned houses in Haor areas, he said authorities concerned must take special care so that none can destroy the environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Md Afzal Hossain, MP, Rezwan Ahmmad Taufiq, MP, secretaries concerned to the Bangabhaban, local elected leaders, leaders of professional bodies, representatives of the civil society and high military and civil officials were present.</div><div><br></div><div>The president came here on August 22 on a four-day visit to supervise some ongoing development projects in the three upazilas of his district - Mithamain, Austagram and Itna and to exchange views with local representatives and professional bodies. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 19:55:05', '2022-08-25 19:55:05'),
(1252, 1252, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Half of China\'s vast territory is now experiencing drought, including parts of the frigid Tibetan Plateau, official data showed -- with more high temperatures forecast Thursday for hundreds of millions of people enduring the country\'s hottest summer on record.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The world\'s second-largest economy has been hit by record heat, flash floods and droughts -- phenomena that scientists say are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>Southern China has recorded its longest continuous period of high temperatures since records began more than 60 years ago, the agriculture ministry said this week.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts have said the intensity, scope and duration of the heatwave could make it one of the worst recorded in global history.</div><div><br></div><div>A chart from the National Climate Centre showed Wednesday that swathes of southern China -- including the Tibetan Plateau -- were experiencing \"severe\" to \"extraordinary\" drought conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>The worst-affected area -- the Yangtze river basin, stretching from coastal Shanghai to Sichuan province in China\'s southwest -- is home to over 370 million people and contains several manufacturing hubs including the megacity of Chongqing.</div><div><br></div><div>The China Meteorological Administration predicted continued high temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Chongqing and the provinces of Sichuan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>China\'s State Council on Wednesday announced a 10 billion yuan ($1.45 billion) subsidy to support rice farmers experiencing drought conditions which authorities have warned pose a \"severe threat\" to this year\'s autumn harvest.</div><div><br></div><div>China produces more than 95 percent of the rice, wheat and maize it consumes, but a reduced harvest could mean increased demand for imports in the world\'s most populous country -- putting further pressure on global supplies already strained by the conflict in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials also called for \"a combination of measures to increase water sources to fight drought, first ensure drinking water for the people, ensure water for agricultural irrigation,\" the readout added.</div><div><br></div><div>Wednesday\'s CCTV evening news broadcast showed trucks supplying villagers who lacked drinking and agricultural water in rural Sichuan and Chongqing, with remote mountain areas particularly hard hit.</div><div><br></div><div>Temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) have led multiple Chinese provinces to impose industrial power cuts, as cities struggle to cope with a surge in demand for electricity partly driven by people cranking up the air conditioning.</div><div><br></div><div>Record low water levels on the Yangtze River have also put pressure on the region\'s hydropower generators.</div><div><br></div><div>The heat broke records in Sichuan, where a temperature of 43.9 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) was recorded Wednesday afternoon, the province\'s Meteorological Service Centre said in a statement. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 20:22:31', '2022-08-25 20:22:31');
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(1253, 1253, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez in a plea before the Appellate Authority of PMLA clearly stated that it is surprising that like her some other celebrities, notably, Norah Fatehi was also conned by main accused Sukesh Chandrashekhar in the ₹ 200 crore extortion case.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jacqueline Fernandez said Nora Fatehi and other celebrities who received gifts from the main accused Sukesh Chandrashekhar are made witnesses whereas she is sought to be dragged as an accused.</div><div><br></div><div>She further stated that the Fixed Deposits, attached vide the impugned order, have no nexus with a crime nor the Fixed Deposits are created by using the alleged proceeds of crime. The deposits are from the actor\'s \"own legitimate of income and much before in time from even knowing that the main accused Chandrashekhar even existed in this world.</div><div><br></div><div>Jacquline stated that she has always cooperated with the investigation agencies and attended all the summons till date. \"She has handed over all the information to the best of her ability to the ED. The agencies have failed to appreciate that she was cheated and conned into this matter. She is a victim of the modus operandi adopted by the main accused Chandrasekhar. Taking the entire prosecution case to be true for the sake of arguments, even then, no case is made out against her under the scheme of PMLA or any other law in force. This is a case of malafide prosecution,\" her plea stated.</div><div><br></div><div>Jacqueline in her plea before Appellant Authority also added that in the present case, at the best, the allegation against her is that she is the \"Recipient of the Gifts\" and the statement relied upon the authority itself clearly show that she was coerced, conned and forced into receiving the said Gift. People other than her who received such gifts are made witnesses in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Jacqueline has moved Appellant Authority challenging Adjudicating Authority order confirming provisional attachment of certain movable properties of her, to the extent of Rs.7,12,24,767/- by freezing the Fixed Deposits with her Banks. For this attachment, the brief reason given by the Adjudicating Authority is that \"being a foreign national, there is every likelihood that she may leave the country and POC may not be available for confiscation at the time of completion of the trial.</div><div><br></div><div>The ED in its recent supplementary chargesheet filed in the ₹ 200 crore extortion case against conman Sukesh Chandrashekar in a Delhi Court has mentioned the name of Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez as an accused. - Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 20:51:50', '2022-08-25 20:51:50'),
(1254, 1254, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The weather department has predicted light to moderate showers in Bangladesh in the next 24 hours, with monsoon being less active over the country and weak elsewhere over the North Bay.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty winds is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions,” the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said in its forecast Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>Rainfall activity may increase during the end period.</div><div>Day temperature may rise by 1-2 degrees Celsius while night temperature may rise slightly over the country, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>The Met office recorded the highest 41mm of rainfall in Barishal district in 24 hours till 6am on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>The mercury reached 35.5 degrees Celsius – the highest – in Sylhet, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 24 degrees in Rangamati.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the axis of monsoon trough runs through Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal to Assam across the northern part of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>One of its associated troughs extends up to the Northwest Bay, as per the bulletin. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 21:02:15', '2022-08-25 21:02:15'),
(1255, 1255, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The High Court on Thursday summoned the deputy commissioner of Cox\'s Bazar district on contempt charge for failing to remove encroachments from the beach.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A division bench of justices JBM Hasan and Razik-Al-Jalil asked deputy commissioner Mamunur Rashid to appear in person on October 19 to explain the violation of the court\'s 2011 order.</div><div><br></div><div>The HC also issued a contempt of court rule against four others, including Cox\'s Bazar Development Authority chairman Lieutenant Colonel Forkan Ahmad (retired), asking the authorities concerned as to why no action should be taken against them.</div><div><br></div><div>The three other accused in the case are Cox\'s Bazar mayor Mujibur Rahman, deputy town planner Tanvir Hasan and SP Hasanuzzaman.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Manzil Morshed appeared for the petitioner, while deputy attorney general Tushar Kanti Roy represented the state.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 7 in 2011, HC ordered the authorities concerned to remove all illegal establishments from Cox’s Bazar beach within 24 hours and halt further construction, following a writ petition filed by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB), an NGO.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the court order has not been implemented yet.</div><div><br></div><div>On February 7 this year, HRPB president Manzil Morshed, a lawyer by profession, issued a contempt of court notice. As no action was taken even after the notice, a contempt plea was filed in the HC. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 21:23:40', '2022-08-25 21:23:40'),
(1256, 1256, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Be it government employees or those working in the private sector, the recent bus fare hike is hurting commuters already burdened by inflation.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jannatul Ferdous, a government officer, for instance, is now forced to shell out Tk 100 for a \'Green Dhaka\' air-conditioned bus ride to Paltan from the Bashundhara Residential Area, instead of the earlier Tk 60.</div><div><br></div><div>The fare hike seems to be whimsical on Green Dhaka\'s part, given the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) on August 6 allowing AC bus operators in the capital to increase the same by 35 paisa to Tk 2.50 per kilometre from the earlier Tk 2.15.</div><div><br></div><div>From the main gate of the Bashundhara Residential Area to Paltan, the distance is roughly 10 kilometres.</div><div><br></div><div>Had Green Dhaka followed the BRTA’s direction, Jannatul’s daily bus fare would have risen only by Tk 3.50 and not by Tk 40 -- which is almost tenfold more.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 5, the government hiked the prices of fuel in Bangladesh. Diesel prices&nbsp; were increased by Tk 34 to Tk 114 per litre, octane by Tk 46 to Tk 135 per litre and petrol by Tk 44 to Tk 130 per litre.</div><div><br></div><div>But many commuters UNB spoke with claimed that bus operators were charging more than the stipulated fare hike in view of the recent fuel price rise.</div><div><br></div><div>“For an 11km commute by \'Bikalpa Paribahan\' bus from Mirpur-11-1/2 to Shahbagh, I am now paying a fare of Tk 55 instead of the earlier Tk 40,” said Munna, a private bank officer.</div><div><br></div><div>Another passenger, Faruq, echoed similar sentiments. \"We are bearing the brunt of the fuel price hike,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The bus drivers and their assistants, however, said that they were only following the orders of their owners.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our owner has threatened to cut down the number of buses if we don\'t charge as per his dictate. In such a scenario, we are helpless,\"&nbsp; said Ruhul Amin, a driver of the \'Raida\' bus service.</div><div><br></div><div>Authority turns a blind eye?</div><div><br></div><div>Despite BRTA warning of mobile court drives on different routes, bus operators continue to overcharge.</div><div><br></div><div>“It seems BRTA conducts drives only on one route. As a result, bus owners continue to indulge in fleecing commuters,\" said Md Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, president of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (JKS), a passenger welfare association.</div><div><br></div><div>When contacted, secretary-general of Bangladesh Road Transport Owners\' Association, Khandkar Enayet Ullah, told UNB, \"We have given instructions to each and every bus owner to collect fares in line with BRTA’s direction only.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Nur Mohammad Mazumder of BRTA warned: \"If any public transport owner is caught overcharging commuters, they will be sued and fined.\"</div><div><br></div><div>ABM Amin Ullah Nuri, secretary, Road Transport and Highways Division, said the bus owners have already been warned that they cannot charge more than the fare fixed by BRTA. \"Otherwise, legal action will be taken against them,” he said, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Though he defended the government\'s decision to increase the bus fare in the wake of fuel price hike, the secretary warned bus operators not to overcharge commuters. \"Violators will have to face the consequences,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 21:32:17', '2022-08-25 21:32:17'),
(1257, 1257, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pharmacies in Dhaka will remain open 24 hours a day, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We do not give any instructions regarding the closure of the pharmacies by midnight. We are in talks with the city corporations on this. Anyway, pharmacies can remain open for 24 hours,” he told reporters, after a meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on August 22, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) issued a notice allowing standalone pharmacies to remain open till 12am and those at hospitals till 2am to ration electricity, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the corporation asked malls, shops, kitchen markets and other business outlets in its areas to remain open till 8pm and restaurants and hotels till 10 pm. This order will be effective September 1.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 22:01:51', '2022-08-25 22:01:51'),
(1258, 1258, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Although Bangladesh has generously hosted Rohingya refugees for the last five years, one country cannot and should not bear this responsibility alone, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The IOM has called on the international community to take urgent action to ensure long-term development and sustainable humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees and host communities</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 1 million refugees remain in congested camps. More than half of them are children.</div><div><br></div><div>August 25 marks five years since the first of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya men, women, boys, and girls fled violence and persecution in Myanmar and sought refuge in what is now the world’s largest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>International and local humanitarian actors must continue to support the response led by the government of Bangladesh to enable the Rohingya to live a dignified life while in displacement, IOM said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Rohingya themselves have played a central role in the humanitarian response. From volunteering to support fire and cyclone response to door-to-door outreach to raise awareness of COVID-19 prevention measures, the community has led efforts across the camps to support each other.</div><div><br></div><div>As the crisis has become protracted, they should be further empowered through expanded access to education, skills development and livelihoods, IOM said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>With limited access to earn a living, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remain fully reliant on humanitarian assistance.</div><div><br></div><div>Groups or persons with specific needs, such as persons with disabilities, female-headed households, or people without access to livelihood opportunities, reported the most significant unmet needs, leaving them vulnerable to negative coping strategies, such as human smuggling and trafficking.</div><div><br></div><div>Criminal trafficking networks employ different tactics to lure refugees to work outside the camp and abroad using false pretenses, coercion and abduction. As the lead agency on counter-trafficking in Cox’s Bazar, IOM has identified and assisted more than 1,300 victims of trafficking.</div><div><br></div><div>With the current monsoon season already causing historic flooding in northeastern Bangladesh, heavy rainfall where the camps are located could pose further hazards to the Rohingya in their temporary homes made from tarpaulin sheets and bamboo.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2021, heavy monsoon rains in the camps caused immense flooding incidents that affected nearly 30,000 people; 19,000 were once again displaced and lost their homes.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The government of Bangladesh along with IOM and humanitarian partners delivers life-saving aid and basic services.</div><div><br></div><div>IOM continues to provide shelter, protection, mental health and psychosocial services, and water and hygiene support.</div><div><br></div><div>IOM also implements disaster risk reduction initiatives to mitigate the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 22:08:53', '2022-08-25 22:08:53'),
(1259, 1259, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has summoned the bank accounts of Taqsem A Khan, managing director (MD) of Dhaka WASA, and his family members, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Amid growing public concern over alleged poor service of Dhaka WASA, the central bank’s financial intelligence agency sent a notification to all banks asking for the account details of Taqsem Khan and his family members, said the sources wishing anonymity.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2009, Taqsem was appointed as the MD of Dhaka WASA. He was reappointed for a sixth term on October 1, 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, the High Court asked the relevant authorites to submit a report on the salaries, allowances and other perks given to the WASA boss in the 13 years since his appointment. This order came in response to a writ petition, and the report has to be placed before the court within 60 days. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 22:56:17', '2022-08-25 22:56:17'),
(1260, 1260, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped by 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and a possible signal the outbreak in Europe may be starting to decline, according to a World Health Organization report issued Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The UN health agency reported 5,907 new weekly cases and said two countries, Iran and Indonesia, reported their first cases. To date, more than 45,000 cases have been reported in 98 countries since late April.</div><div><br></div><div>Cases in the Americas accounted for 60% of cases in the past month, WHO said, while cases in Europe comprised about 38%. It said infections in the Americas showed “a continuing steep rise.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday the continent had 219 new cases reported in the past week, a jump of 54%. Most were in Nigeria and Congo, the agency said.</div><div><br></div><div>In early July, just weeks before the agency declared the international spread of the disease to be a global emergency, WHO’s Europe director said countries in the region were responsible for 90% of all laboratory confirmed cases of monkeypox.</div><div><br></div><div>British health authorities said last week after seeing a decline in the number of new cases getting reported daily that there were “early signs” the country’s monkeypox outbreak was slowing.</div><div><br></div><div>The U.K.’s Health Security Agency downgraded the country’s monkeypox outbreak last month, saying there was no evidence the once rare disease was spreading beyond men who were gay, bisexual or had sex with other men.</div><div><br></div><div>Since monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America were identified in May, WHO and other health agencies have noted that its spread was almost exclusively in men who have sex with men.</div><div><br></div><div>Monkeypox has been endemic in parts of Africa for decades and experts suspect the outbreaks in Europe and North America were triggered after the disease started spreading via sex at two raves in Spain and Belgium.</div><div><br></div><div>WHO’s latest report said 98% of cases are in men and of those who reported sexual orientation, 96% are in men who have sex with men.</div><div><br></div><div>“Of all reported types of transmission, a sexual encounter was reported most commonly,” WHO said. “The majority of cases were likely exposed in a party with sexual contacts,” the agency said.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the monkeypox cases in which the HIV status of patients was known, 45% were infected with HIV.</div><div><br></div><div>WHO has recommended that men at high risk of the disease temporarily consider reducing their number of sex partners or refrain from group or anonymous sex.</div><div><br></div><div>Monkeypox typically requires skin-to-skin or skin-to-mouth contact with an infected patient’s lesions to spread. People can also become infected through contact with the clothing or bedsheets of someone who has monkeypox lesions.</div><div><br></div><div>With globally limited vaccine supplies, authorities in the U.S., Europe and the U.K. have all begun rationing doses to stretch supplies by up to five times.</div><div><br></div><div>WHO has advised countries that have vaccines to prioritize immunization for those at high risk of the disease, including gay and bisexual men with multiple sex partners, and for health workers, laboratory staff and outbreak responders.</div><div><br></div><div>While Africa has reported the most suspected deaths from monkeypox, the continent has no vaccine supplies apart from a very small stock being tested in a research study in Congo, reports AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“As we know, the situation with monkeypox vaccine access is very topical, but there are not enough doses of vaccines,\" Nigeria Center for Disease Control Director-General Ifedayo Adetifa said this week. Potentially, a lot more more doses will become available, but because of challenges with manufacturing factories and unexpected uptick in monkeypox cases, the vaccine may actually not be available until 2023.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 23:20:58', '2022-08-25 23:20:58'),
(1261, 1261, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday Myanmar should allow international organizations to work in the Rakhine state to create an appropriate environment for the dignified return of the forcibly displaced Rohingya people.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Myanmar should allow international organizations to work in the Rakhine state,\" she said while United Nations Secretary-General\'s Special Envoy for Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer called on her at the latter\'s official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Prime Minister\'s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'re pursuing this with Myanmar and also discussed it. But, no response has yet come. We want to solve it. How long we can host this huge number of people?\" the Premier was quoted as saying.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Some of the Rohingyas are already involved in criminal activities, including human trafficking and drug abuse, she said, adding that they are also destroying the environment in the region.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Recalling the CHT Peace treaty, Sheikh Hasina some 62,000 refugees were returned home from India after signing the treaty in 1997.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN special envoy said that she visited Rohingya camps in Cox\'s Bazar and had talks with them.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;Now, it is essential to create a suitable atmosphere to ensure their dignified return to Myanmar, she said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;She said all, including the UN agencies and NGOs, are working for Rohingyas in the camps.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Appreciating Bangladesh for its Rohingya management, she said Bangladesh needs a lot of support in dealing with the Rohingya issue.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Noeleen Heyzer said she also visited Myanmar and told its military government to find out a solution to the Rohingya crisis.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She put emphasis on making the Rohingya crisis an agenda in the ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting as well as the ASEAN-Bangladesh initiative to resolve the Rohingya crisis.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Prime Minister\'s Ambassador-at-Large Mohammad Ziauddin, Prime Minister\'s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus and Prime Minister\'s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim were present at the meeting. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-25 23:24:40', '2022-08-25 23:24:40'),
(1262, 1262, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After a marked improvement, Dhaka\'s air quality slipped back to the \'unhealthy for sensitive groups\' category on Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With an air quality index (AQI) score of 106 at 10 am, the metropolis ranked 9th in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div><br></div><div>China’s Wuhan, Chile’s Santiago and Indonesia’s Jakarta occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 190, 152 and 136, respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div><br></div><div>AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div><br></div><div>In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div><br></div><div>A report by the Department of Environment (DoE) and the World Bank in March 2019 pointed out that the three main sources of air pollution in Dhaka \"are brick kilns, fumes from vehicles and dust from construction sites\".</div><div>With the advent of winter, the city’s air quality starts deteriorating sharply due to the massive discharge of pollutant particles from construction work, rundown roads, brick kilns and other sources.</div><div><br></div><div>Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 01:27:29', '2022-08-26 01:27:29'),
(1263, 1263, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Members of Coast Guard arrested two persons with 4,300 litres of stolen soybean oil from a covered van in Ilisha Ferighat area in Sadar upazila of the district today.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The arrested were identified as driver of the covered van Hadis Sarif, 27, and Alamin, 14. They are residents of Lejskhina village of Lalmohan upazila of the district.</div><div><br></div><div>On secret information, the members the Coast Guard South Zone conducted a drive in Ilisha Ferighat area this morning and recovered the soybean oil from a covered and arrested two persons involving this matter, said media officer Lieutenant K M Shafiul Kinjal.</div><div><br></div><div>The soybean oil was allegedly being smuggled to Dhaka by a covered van from Daulatkhan upazila of the district, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, they were handed over to the Bhola Sadar Thana. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 01:46:31', '2022-08-26 01:46:31'),
(1264, 1264, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka court let go Siddheswari Girls College student Yasha Mridha Sukanya into her own custody as she is adult enough to make the decision.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanto Islam Mallik passed the order after holding hearing on the petition of her mother, who pleaded to take Sukanya into her custody.</div><div><br></div><div>“During the hearing Sukanya said she would not be fine if she goes into the custody of her mother, and wanted to go into her own custody,” court sources said.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier , the court recorded Sukanya’s statement under section 22 of Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.</div><div><br></div><div>Sukanya went missing on June 23 after going out to sit into college exam. Her mother filed an abduction case against her alleged boyfriend, who has already been arrested and is now behind bars. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 01:49:44', '2022-08-26 01:49:44'),
(1265, 1265, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh and India on Thursday discussed “issues related to water-sharing treaties” of various rivers, including Teesta and Ganga.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The two countries discussed the water issues at the 38th ministerial level Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) meeting held at New Delhi.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Water Resources Zaheed Farooque led the 17-member Bangladesh delegation at the JRC meeting while India\'s Jal Shakti (Water Resources) Minister Gajendra Singh Shakhawat led the Indian delegation, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier at the seventh round of the Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting held in New Delhi this year, Bangladesh and India agreed to work closely together to further deepen and strengthen cooperation in the areas of common rivers and water resources management.</div><div><br></div><div><b>bnbd24/fas</b></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 02:02:37', '2022-08-26 02:02:37'),
(1266, 1266, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The number of yaba pills ( a contraband drug) smuggled into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar has surged by two and a half times under the current military regime compared to the amount reported during the rule of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This information was obtained from the meeting minutes of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of home affairs held on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told the meeting that despite negotiations on the issue the Myanmar military regime is patronizing the smuggling of yaba pills to Bangladesh. That’s why the smuggling of the illegal drug has increased.</div><div><br></div><div>He mentioned that apart from the most-used route of bordering Naf River the contrabands enter Bangladesh through the remote land border areas too.</div><div><br></div><div>The home minister said that Bandarban and Khagrachari, used as yaba routes, have many inaccessible areas where round-the-clock surveillance is not possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>It takes two days to go from one BOP to another BOP there, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that the number of BOP is being increased in all those areas.</div><div><br></div><div>Chairman of the committee Shamsul Haque Tuku said, yaba started arriving in Bangladesh through the Rohingyas coming from Myanmar.</div><div><br></div><div>“Then it gradually spread throughout the country,” he said.</div><div>He expressed his frustration saying that despite declaring a war against drugs, it is not possible to prevent drug trade and consumption.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the minutes of the meeting, issues relating to committees of mosques, temples and graveyards were discussed in the previous meeting of the parliamentary watchdog.</div><div><br></div><div>In that meeting, Tuku said the truly religious and good people are staying away from the mosque, temple and cemetery committees.</div><div><br></div><div>Those involved in drug or anti-social activities are coming to these positions through political influence. As a result, honest people are not able to contribute to the society, he told the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>He said, if the committees of all the mosques, temples and cemeteries of the country are formed under the Islamic Foundation, it will bring positive results.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting decided to invite the director general of the Islamic Foundation to a meeting of the standing committee to discuss the subject.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting also discussed the issue of TikTok extensively.</div><div><br></div><div>Chairman Tuku said that TikTok is under fire for its negative use that leads to violence, rumours and misinformation. He recommended closing the social media app.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Center (NTMC) said that young people in Bangladesh spend 80 per cent of their Internet time on TikTok.</div><div><br></div><div>“This platform is used to spread vindictive misinformation and hate speech. It has more negative uses than positive ones,” he said at a separate event.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that a letter has already been sent to BTRC to stop TikTok app with all kinds of data.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the press release of the Parliament Secretariat informed that citizens have been advised to keep vigil against any attempt to disturb communal harmony in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The parliamentary body also recommended posting of husband and wife in same area, if they are working in government service.</div><div><br></div><div>Chairman of the committee Shamsul Haque Tuku chaired the meeting. Committee members Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Md Habibur Rahman, Samshul Alam Dudu, Kujendra Lal Tripura, Noor Mohammad, Sultan Mohammad Mansoor Ahmad and Rumana Ali were present at the meeting. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 02:20:41', '2022-08-26 02:20:41'),
(1267, 1267, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan is set to play the T10 tournament for the first time in his career after Abu Dhabi T10 League team Bangla Tigers named him the Icon of their team.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The wait is over, the biggest icon of Bangladesh cricket is now the icon of Bangla Tigers,\" Bangla Tigers announced on their official verified Facebook page after finalizing deal with Shakib Al Hasan.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are thrilled to announce Shakib Al Hasan as Icon Player for the sixth edition of the Abu Dhabi T10 League.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Shakib also expressed his excitement on his Facebook page, \"I am happy to represent Bengal Tigers as an icon player in the next season of T10 League. Playing for a franchise that represents Bangladesh in the world is always a great feeling. Looking forward to new experiences.\"</div><div><br></div><div>This six-team competition will be held from November 23 to December 4.</div><div><br></div><div>A few days ago this franchise appointed former Bangladesh opener Aftab Ahmed as their head coach. He made the team second runner-up in the inaugural season in 2019. Besides, BKSP Cricket Advisor Nazmul Abedin Fahim is the team mentor.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the first time Shakib is going to play in the T10 league. After the deal, the Bangladesh Test and T20 Captain told the official website of Bengal Tigers, \"This is going to be my first season in the latest edition of cricket and I am excited to join Bengal Tigers.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"I love to face new challenges and this tournament is a new challenge for me. I hope to succeed in this challenge and create a new history for Bengal Tigers.\" - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 02:37:39', '2022-08-26 02:37:39'),
(1268, 1268, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Organizations are shifting their perspective away from seeing people as a cost of doing business and toward seeing them as human capital instead because this perspective gives them a better chance of standing out from the competition and gaining an edge in a cutthroat market. </span><br></div><div><br></div><div>High-quality individuals or workers offer value to the company. By study after study it’s found that the organization\'s ability to create value is largely dependent on its ability to manage its human capital, which includes hiring, deploying, and keeping employees in good positions. </div><div><br></div><div>Human capital is basically a way that is attached to education, training, and other professional initiatives to enhance the levels of knowledge, skill, abilities and social assets of an employee. </div><div><br></div><div>The constantly changing business environment requires firms to strive for superior competitive advantages via dynamic business plans which incorporate creativity and innovativeness. It is basically significant for long term sustainability. </div><div><br></div><div>Human capital is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “the skills the labor force possesses and is regarded as a resource or asset.” Companies must effectively use their personnel as a tool for competitive advantage in order to differentiate themselves in the market. To increase value for the business, organization must develop a plan with a key focus on labor productivity. </div><div><br></div><div>There are some ways developing human capital to improve organizational effectiveness. Firstly Organization must understand Elements of Human Capital such as Skills, Qualifications, and Education, Work Experience, Communication Skills, Habits and Personality Traits, Individual Fame and Brand Image, Competitive advantage. </div><div><br></div><div>Secondly organization have to understand its Functions of human capital management some of them are Job design and analysis, Employee hiring and selection, Employee training & development, Compensation and Benefits, Employee performance management, Employee engagement and communication, Succession Planning, Employee retention, Effective performance appraisal and feedback then organization have to go for development of human capital through Invest in current employees, Utilize technology, Aligning human resource development with corporate objectives, Talent Pools development, Training and Development. By this Human Capital Development keep Impact on Organizational Goal or Performance, through Value Creation Benefits from Human Capital, competitive advantage, enhanced organic growth, impact on finances, and increased success in achieving goals. </div><div><br></div><div>After interviewing some organizations top level professional who are directly involved this activity, it’s found that all of them are looking for developing human capital to improve organizational effectiveness through different way like constantly placing a strong emphasis on hiring human resources and looks for KSAOs—key success factors—that will enable them to accomplish his objectives now and in future. </div><div><br></div><div>So the development of human capital must be a priority for the organization, and this intangible asset must be looked after. Businesses must keep in mind that if they invest in their employees\' growth and care for them, they will in turn take care of their clients and increase revenue and for this importance of developing human capital very much important to improve organizational effectiveness.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Md Mehedi Hasan Rubel', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 03:05:47', '2022-08-27 17:24:13'),
(1269, 1269, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Health Organization announced Thursday that a million people had died from Covid-19 in 2022, calling it a \"tragic milestone\" when all the tools existed to prevent deaths.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 6.45 million deaths have been reported to the WHO since the virus was first detected in China in late 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>But WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus questioned whether the world was really on top of the pandemic, this far in.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This week, we crossed the tragic milestone of one million reported deaths so far this year,\" he told a press conference.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We cannot say we are learning to live with Covid-19 when one million people have died with Covid-19 this year alone, when we are two-and-a-half years into the pandemic and have all the tools necessary to prevent these deaths.</div><div><br></div><div>We ask all governments to strengthen their efforts to vaccinate all health workers, older people and others at the highest risk, on the way to 70 percent vaccine coverage for the whole population.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Tedros wanted all countries to have vaccinated 70 percent of their populations by the end of June.</div><div><br></div><div>But 136 countries failed to reach the target, of which 66 still had coverage below 40 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is pleasing to see that some countries with the lowest vaccination rates are now making up ground, especially in Africa,\" Tedros said Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>He said only 10 countries had less than 10 percent coverage, most of which were facing humanitarian emergencies.</div><div><br></div><div>\"However, much more needs to be done,\" said Tedros.</div><div><br></div><div>\"One-third of the world\'s population remains unvaccinated, including two-thirds of health workers and three-quarters of older adults in low-income countries.</div><div><br></div><div>\"All countries at all income levels must do more to vaccinate those most at risk, to ensure access to life-saving therapeutics, to continue testing and sequencing, and to set tailored, proportionate policies to limit transmission and save lives.\" Source: AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-26 16:32:36', '2022-08-26 16:32:36'),
(1270, 1270, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Moderna said Friday that it is suing Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging that the two companies copied Moderna\'s technology to make its Covid vaccine Comirnaty.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We believe that Pfizer and BioNTech unlawfully copied Moderna\'s inventions, and they have continued to use them without permission,\" Moderna Chief Legal Officer Shannon Thyme Klinger said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The patent infringement lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Regional Court of Düsseldorf in Germany, according to a news release.</div><div><br></div><div>Moderna said it filed patents from 2010 to 2016 for its mRNA technology, which was critical in the company\'s creation of its own Covid vaccine. The company alleges that Pfizer and BioNTech then copied that same technology for Comirnaty.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are filing these lawsuits to protect the innovative mRNA technology platform that we pioneered, invested billions of dollars in creating, and patented during the decade preceding the COVID-19 pandemic,\" the company\'s CEO, Stéphane Bancel, said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This foundational platform, which we began building in 2010, along with our patented work on coronaviruses in 2015 and 2016, enabled us to produce a safe and highly effective Covid-19 vaccine in record time after the pandemic struck.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Bancel said the company is continuing to use the technology to develop treatments for influenza and HIV, as well as autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases and rare forms of cancer. - Source: NBC news</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 01:16:22', '2022-08-27 01:16:22'),
(1271, 1271, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two construction workers died after falling from an under-construction building in Agargaon area of the city on Friday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Shahadat Hossain,22, and Md Rokon,32, of Kazipur upazila in Sirajganj district.</div><div><br></div><div>The accident happened at the 14-storey building at West Agargaon around 2:45 pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Kabir Hossain, a fellow worker of the victims, said the construction work was going on in different floors of the building.</div><div><br></div><div>The duo was working standing on a scaffold to build a wall of the building. They accidentally fell to the safety shelf on the second floor after the rope of the scaffold snapped, leaving them critically injured.</div><div><br></div><div>They were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared them dead around 4:45 pm, Kabir said.</div><div><br></div><div>Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost said, the bodies were kept in the hospital morgue for autopsies.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold talks with tea estate owners Saturday as the workers at the country’s 167 tea plantations continued their indefinite strike for the 18th day Friday for raising their wages to Tk 300 from Tk 120.</div><div><br></div><div>The workers abstained from work today, but they did not stage any demonstrations, said Deorachra Tea Garden Panchayat Committee President Subod Kurmi.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, there will be Panchayat committee meetings in 92 plantations of Moulvibazar district on Friday night to discuss the further steps to press for the pay hike.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, PM Hasina is scheduled to meet with representatives from tea plantation workers and owners sides at Ganabhaban on Saturday afternoon, confirmed PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim.</div><div><br></div><div>The movement started on August 9, when workers from 241 tea gardens in the country abstained from work for two hours, demanding Tk 300 as daily wages. As their demand was not met, they decided to go on a full-scale strike from August 13.</div><div><br></div><div>After holding meetings with tea garden owners and other stakeholders in the past two weeks, the tea workers’ union agreed to the resumption of work from Monday and got Tk 120 as wages for the time being, but that was rejected by the general workers.</div><div><br></div><div>The ongoing strike is the continuation of the previously declared movement by the tea garden workers. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 01:20:14', '2022-08-27 01:20:14'),
(1272, 1272, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni has said the role of teachers is getting changed in the new curriculum of education.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"The role of teachers will not be remained within classrooms as they will play the role of facilitators and guides as well... learning will be enjoyable in the new curriculum. There will be no fear of examinations and</div><div>the curriculum will be based on experience,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The education minister was speaking at a view-exchange meeting titled \'Improving the quality of education\' organised by Pabna Edward College yesterday, a handout said.</div><div><br></div><div>Addressing as the chief guest, Dipu Moni said for their own interest, the previous governments created a toxic environment by continuing the colonial educational system.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>But, she said, Bangabandhu\'s daughter Sheikh Hasina came to power and started an education system based on science and technology.</div><div><br></div><div>Chaired by Pabna Edward College principal Md Humayun Kabir, the meeting was addressed, among others, by vice-chancellor of National University Prof Dr Md Moshiur Rahman, Pabna University of Science and Technology vice-chancellor Prof Dr Hafiza Khatun and pro-vice chancellor Dr SM Mustafa Kamal. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 01:22:26', '2022-08-27 01:22:26'),
(1273, 1273, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the murder case of actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat, security camera footage has emerged from a Goa restaurant, showing her staggering out while being unable to walk on her own. She is being helped by Sudhir Sangwan, one of her two associates arrested in the case.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The other, Sukhwinder Singh, was with them as they left the popular partying joint, Curlie\'s Restaurant, on the Anjuna beach for their hotel on Monday night. She was brought dead to St Anthony\'s Hospital the next morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Police also said they have footage showing Sudhir Sangwan making Sonali Phogat forcibly drink water that had \"some obnoxious substance\". The associates took her to the hotel, Grand Leonny, where all of them were staying, before she died.</div><div><br></div><div>When she was brought dead to a hospital in Anjuna, North Goa, the next morning, it was initially seen as a case of heart attack. But her family sensed something amiss and demanded a thorough probe.</div><div><br></div><div>After Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar intervened as well, police filed a murder case. In her post-mortem report yesterday, it came to light that \"there are multiple blunt force injuries over the body\". The report said police need to investigate the cause of death.</div><div><br></div><div>Police today said finding the cause \"would take a while... only after chemical examination of viscera\" and other tests. The viscera would be examined at a state facility in Chandigarh too, besides in Goa, as per the family\'s demand.</div><div><br></div><div>Haryana Chief Minister Khattar yesterday said he is open to handing the case over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The family has alleged rape as well, but police haven\'t yet pressed those charges, pending further investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>As to why she could have been killed, her brother, Rinku Dhaka, says her associates had the \"intention to take over her properties and financial assets and to finish her political career\".</div><div><br></div><div>Sonali Phogat had contested the 2019 assembly polls but lost. She was with the BJP since 2008. Her husband Sanjay Phogat, who died six years ago, had also been active in social and political circles.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She has a teenaged daughter. - Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 01:27:14', '2022-08-27 01:27:14');
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(1274, 1274, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The 46th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be observed in the country on Saturday in a befitting manner.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On August 27 (12 Bhadra of Bangla calendar year) in 1976, the poet breathed his last at the then PG Hospital, now Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>The poet was buried with state honour beside the Dhaka University central mosque.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Different political parties, socio-cultural and professional bodies have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the day.</div><div><br></div><div>The programmes include placing of wreaths at the grave of the poet, discussions, song and poetry recitation sessions and staging of dramas from the creative literary works of the poet.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television, and other private television channels and radio stations will air special programmes, while the national dailies will publish special supplements.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Kazi Nazrul was a poet, lyricist, musician and philosopher.</div><div><br></div><div>The nation got inspirations from Nazrul\'s poems and songs during the great Liberation War in 1971 and all other democratic movements and struggles.</div><div><br></div><div>Nazrul wrote nearly 3,000 songs and composed many of them which are known as Nazrul-Geeti or Nazrul Sangeet.</div><div><br></div><div>After the independence of Bangladesh, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman brought poet Nazrul Islam to Dhaka from Kolkata along with his family and made arrangements for living with state honour.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bangabandhu also provided a residence for the family of the poet in the city\'s Dhanmondi. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 01:46:47', '2022-08-27 01:46:47'),
(1275, 1275, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a meeting with tea garden owners today regarding the determination of workers\' wages.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The meeting is scheduled to be held at Ganabhaban, official residence of the premier, from 4:00 pm on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister’s assistant press secretary MM Imrul Kayes confirmed the information while talking to newsman on Thursday, according to reports.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, workers of 167 tea gardens of the country started movement demanding Tk 300 wages from August 9.</div><div><br></div><div>The worker leaders talked to the tea workers for several days, but no positive outcome was found. In addition, the officials of the&nbsp; administration gave various assurances to the workers but they (workers) did not return to work.</div><div><br></div><div>Amidst the agitation of the tea workers, the tea garden owners offered to increase the wages by Tk 25 taka to Tk 145, but they did not return to work. Their demand is Tk 300.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 17:20:43', '2022-08-27 17:20:43'),
(1276, 1276, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The two cricketing giants will take on each other in the Asia Cup on Sunday. If the gods smile on television moguls, this could be the first of three meetings in the tournament.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The India-Pakistan rivalry has generally been more intense in the hearts and minds of supporters than the players. Battles have been fought on social media by fans who believe that a win on a cricket field is conclusive proof that one political system or one religion or one nation is superior to the other.</div><div><br></div><div>Over the years, there have been two separate games whenever the India and Pakistan teams have met. The one on the field is a competition between two talented sets of players trying their utmost to win, bringing into the frame professional pride. Off it, the game is symbolic of something else; war minus the shooting, to use George Orwell\'s memorable phrase.</div><div><br></div><div>The last time the teams met, at the World T20 in October 2021, Pakistan beat India by ten wickets. Indian bowler Mohammed Shami, the only Muslim man in the Indian team, was trolled mercilessly. He had figures of 3.5-0-43-0, not unusual in a T20 game. But for those who were searching for scapegoats, Shami fit the bill.</div><div><br></div><div>The exchanges on social media have been relatively muted in the build-up to Sunday\'s game - but it will be a long time before an India-Pakistan match goes from being a test of nationalism to \"just another game\".</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, Pakistan will be without fast bowler Shaheen Afridi, who has an injured knee. With three wickets, Afridi was man of the match when the two teams met in the World T20.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Shaheen\'s injury big relief for the Indian top order batsmen…\" former Pakistan team captain Waqar Younis tweeted last week. To this, former India player Irfan Pathan responded with \"It\'s a relief to other teams that Bumrah isn\'t playing this Asia cup!\" Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has a back injury.</div><div><br></div><div>This exchange is mild stuff to what some players and fans have been tweeting in recent times. If things are getting a bit boring, that is for the good. But that might be too much to hope for. There are enough players, fans and television officials who stoke the fire for personal, professional and political reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>But to set against these exchanges, there is the one between the leading batters of the two sides.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, when India\'s Virat Kohli was going through a bad patch in England, Pakistani star Babar Azam sent him a message: \"This too shall pass. Stay strong.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Kohli\'s response was equally warm: \"Thank you. Keep shining and rising. Wish you all the best.\"</div><div><br></div><div>For political reasons, India and Pakistan play each other only in multi-team tournaments outside their respective countries - this lends these matches an edge. Emotions are pent up for longer and find release on these occasions.</div><div><br></div><div>Fans are looking forward to Virat Kohli\'s return to the team after a short break</div><div><br></div><div>But that\'s among fans. Players show more sense. The Pakistan Cricket Board released videos from the venue of players from the two countries greeting each other with warmth and enquiring after one another\'s families. For them it\'s business as usual.</div><div><br></div><div>One factor that could explain the lack of the usual excitement in the build-up to the first Asia Cup match might be the distraction caused by Kohli\'s lack of form. The former India captain and lead batsman has not made a century in international cricket since November 2019, and has played only four T20 matches out of India\'s last 24.</div><div><br></div><div>Kohli\'s return to the team after a short break to rest and recuperate is being awaited with great anticipation.</div><div><br></div><div>Indian fans have been praying for a major contribution from Kohli in the team\'s win. This will be his 100th T20 international, making him only the second player (after New Zealand\'s Ross Taylor) to play 100 matches in each of cricket\'s three formats.</div><div><br></div><div>Kohli\'s form has become a leading domestic issue, with at least one national magazine analysing this in a cover story, and others getting experts to comment too. One website has calculated that it has been 1,009 days since he last made a century. None of this will matter if Kohli rediscovers his touch at the Asia Cup. The story-within-a-story has diverted attention from the big stories - the India-Pakistan tie and the Asia Cup itself.</div><div><br></div><div>The 15th Asia Cup, played among six teams in two groups of three each was to be held in Sri Lanka but moved to the UAE owing to the economic and political situation in that country. The teams from each group play each other in the \'Super Four\', and the two top teams there will meet in the final on 11 September. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 17:26:39', '2022-08-27 17:26:39'),
(1277, 1277, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 982 people have been killed in floods in Pakistan since mid-June this year, Pakistan\'s National Disaster Management Authority said on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Around 33 million people have been affected as floods ravage parts of Pakistan.</div><div><br></div><div>The floods have also badly damaged houses and infrastructure in Pakistan.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated $3 million to UN agencies and partners in Pakistan to respond to the floods. - CGTN</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 20:16:29', '2022-08-27 20:16:29'),
(1278, 1278, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four people were killed and another injured when a truck crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Saturday, police said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Three of the deceased were identified as Salema Khatun, 45, wife of Joynal, Anwar Islam, 25, son of Gura Mia, and Bidhu Dhar, 52, son of Manindra Dhar of the upazila, while the identity of another could not be known immediately.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Mohammad Ali, officer-in-charge of Ukhiya Police Station, said the accident occurred in the morning at Hijolia when the Cox’s Bazar-bound truck hit the CNG-run auto-rickshaw, leaving five people injured.</div><div><br></div><div>The injured were taken to the local upazila health complex where doctors declared four of them dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Road accidents in Bangladesh</div><div><br></div><div>As many as 2,329 people, including 291 women and 381 children, were killed and 4,361 others injured in 2,159 road accidents across the country in the first half of the current year, according to a report.</div><div><br></div><div>The road accidents occurred on various highways, national, inter-district and regional roads between January 1 and June 30 across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Shipping and Communication Reporters Forum (SCRF), a platform of journalists, prepared the report based on news carried by 22 national dailies, 10 regional newspapers and eight online news portals and news agencies.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, as many as 739 people, including 109 children, were killed and 2,042 others injured in 632 road accidents across the country in July.</div><div><br></div><div>Of them, 251 people died in motorbike accidents alone, which is 33.96 per cent of the total fatalities, Road Safety Foundation said in its latest report released on August 6.</div><div><br></div><div>Road Safety Foundation prepared the report based on the reports of nine national dailies, seven online news portals and electronic media. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 20:22:35', '2022-08-27 20:22:35'),
(1279, 1279, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India supports Argentina’s intention to join the BRICS group and is interested in boosting bilateral cooperation, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met with his Argentine counterpart, Santiago Cafiero.</div><div><br></div><div>\"During the bilateral meeting, the Indian Foreign Minister reaffirmed his country\'s support for Argentina\'s entry into the BRICS,\" the Argentine foreign ministry said on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, both ministers highlighted the growth of bilateral cooperation in the fields of high technologies, communications, food security, and energy.</div><div><br></div><div>The BRICS group, established in 2009, currently includes Russia, India, China, Brazil, and South Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>At the start of August, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced his country’s readiness to join the BRICS group.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, Iran and Argentina both expressed readiness to become full members of BRICS.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian Ambassador to Buenos Aires Dmitry Feoktistov said in mid-July that Argentina expects that the process of the country\'s accession to BRICS will not take a long time. Source: Telegraph</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 20:41:49', '2022-08-27 20:41:49'),
(1280, 1280, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Millions of people have been affected by floods in Pakistan, hundreds have been killed, and the government has declared a national emergency.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, the National Disaster Management Authority said more than 900 people had been killed since June - including 34 in the past 24 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>In the old town of Sukkur in southern Sindh province, worn tents line the streets, as people seek shelter.</div><div><br></div><div>Many sit with just beds - all their possessions lost to the water.</div><div><br></div><div>The streets are flooded, and plastic waste has spewed out of sewage pipes. Large pools of dirty water have collected, slowing down any drainage.</div><div><br></div><div>Residents are worried the standing water will bring waterborne diseases with it. A number of homes in in Sindh province have been damaged - left with just the walls.</div><div><br></div><div>In Sindh province alone, the floods have killed more than 300 people. Source: BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 21:28:18', '2022-08-27 21:28:18'),
(1281, 1281, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Irrawaddy dolphin calf — sick and too weak to swim — was drowning in a tidal pool on Thailand’s shore when fishermen found him.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The fishermen quickly alerted marine conservationists, who advised them how to provide emergency care until a rescue team could transport the baby to Thailand’s Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Center for veterinary attention.</div><div><br></div><div>The baby was nicknamed Paradon, roughly translated as “brotherly burden,” because those involved knew from day one that saving his life would be no easy task.</div><div><br></div><div>Irrawaddy dolphins, considered a vulnerable species by International Union for Conservation of Nature, are found in the shallow coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia and in three rivers in Myanmar, Cambodia and Indonesia. Their survival is threatened by habitat loss, pollution and illegal fishing.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials from the marine research center believe around 400 Irrawaddy dolphins remain along the country’s eastern coast, bordering Cambodia.</div><div><br></div><div>Since Paradon was found by the fishermen July 22, dozens of veterinarians and volunteers have helped care for him at the center in Rayong on the Gulf of Thailand.</div><div><br></div><div>“We said among ourselves that the chance of him surviving was quite low, judging from his condition,” Thanaphan Chomchuen, a veterinarian at the center, said Friday. “Normally, dolphins found stranded on the shore are usually in such a terrible condition. The chances that these dolphins would survive are normally very, very slim. But we gave him our best try on that day.”</div><div><br></div><div>Workers placed him in a seawater pool, treated the lung infection that made him so sick and weak, and enlisted volunteers to watch him round the clock.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>They have to hold him up in his tank to prevent him from drowning and feed him milk, initially done by tube, and later by bottle when he had recovered a bit of strength.</div><div><br></div><div>A staff veterinarian and one or two volunteers stay for each eight-hour shift, and other workers during the day handle the water pump and filter and making milk for the calf.</div><div><br></div><div>After a month, Paradon’s condition is improving. The calf believed to be between 4 and 6 months old can swim now and has no signs of infection.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>But the dolphin that was 138 centimeters long (4.5 feet) and around 27 kilograms (59 pounds) on July 22 is still weak and doesn’t take enough milk despite the team’s efforts to feed him every 20 minutes or so. - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 21:37:19', '2022-08-27 21:37:19'),
(1282, 1282, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The UN children\'s agency UNICEF on Saturday condemned an air strike that \"hit a kindergarten\" in Ethiopia\'s Tigray region, killing at least four people including two children.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"UNICEF strongly condemns the air strike in Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. The strike hit a kindergarten, killing several children, and injuring others,\" UNICEF\'s executive director Catherine Russell said on Twitter about Friday\'s aerial bombardment in the rebel-held region. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 21:45:09', '2022-08-27 21:45:09'),
(1283, 1283, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has planned to conserve 20 ponds in Rajshahi to keep intact its surface water.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The city corporation has adopted a Tk 1,209.13-crore project titled \"Natural Water Bodies Conservation and Development in Rajshahi City\" in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton revealed this while inspecting the improvement and beautification works of Kali Pukur in city\'s Bosepara area on Friday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>The conservation, development and beautification works were implemented at a cost of around Taka 45 lakh as part of the Tk 2,993-crore project titled \'Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development in Rajshahi City\'.</div><div><br></div><div>Liton said the project has been adopted to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change, adding that necessary excavation and re-excavation, embankments of the ponds would be made concrete under the project.</div><div><br></div><div>He said no one would be allowed to fill up the ponds.</div><div><br></div><div>He opined that once there were scores of ponds and canals in the metropolis but its number dwindled now a day due to filling up and unplanned urbanisation.</div><div><br></div><div>As surface water level has been declining at an alarming rate, dependence on groundwater has increased lowering the level of groundwater table in the last couple of years, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The situation worsens during the dry season leaving most of the manual tube wells useless, Liton added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have no other choice but to conserve surface water resources to keep the level of groundwater table intact,\" said the mayor, adding that the preserved water bodies would help firefighters in extinguishing any fire incident by providing water in the city. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 21:49:05', '2022-08-27 21:49:05'),
(1284, 1284, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The overall number of Covid cases is approaching 605 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 604,892,165 and the death toll reached 6,485,604 on Saturday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>The US has recorded 95,970,007 cases so far and 1,068,843 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.</div><div><br></div><div>India reported 10,256 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,389,176 in the country, according to the federal health ministry on Friday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>The cases marked a slight decrease in comparison to the daily caseload of 10,725 on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently, India\'s active caseload stands at 90,707.</div><div><br></div><div>The country also logged 68 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours, pushing the overall toll to 527,556 since the beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.</div><div><br></div><div>The daily positivity rate stands at 2.43 percent and the weekly positivity rate was 3.02 percent, the ministry data showed.</div><div><br></div><div>Covid in Bangladesh</div><div>Bangladesh reported one Covid death and 196 new cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>While the country\'s total fatalities reached 29,321, the new numbers took its caseload to 2,010,944, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The daily case test positivity rate rose to 4.15 percent from Thursday\'s 4.38 percent as 2,721 samples were tested.</div><div><br></div><div>The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent. The recovery rate remained static at 97.22 percent. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 21:55:03', '2022-08-27 21:55:03'),
(1285, 1285, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom will begin constructing two new nuclear reactors in Hungary in the coming weeks, Hungary\'s foreign minister said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deal, reached between Russia and the EU state in 2014, aims to expand the existing Paks nuclear plant.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia\'s nuclear industry has not been subjected to EU sanctions over its bloody invasion of Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Moves to isolate and sanction its oil and gas exports have not been unconditionally supported by Hungary.</div><div><br></div><div>The Paks site currently generates 40% of Hungary\'s electricity supply.</div><div><br></div><div>With the additional two reactors, the nuclear power station - currently made up of four Soviet-built reactors - will see its capacity more than double. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 22:07:09', '2022-08-27 22:07:09'),
(1286, 1286, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There is a risk of a radioactive leak at Ukraine\'s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant currently occupied by Russian troops, the state energy operator said Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Energoatom said Moscow\'s troops had \"repeatedly shelled\" the plant site over the past day.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As a result of periodic shelling, the infrastructure of the station has been damaged, there are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,\" the nuclear agency said on Telegram. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 22:21:35', '2022-08-27 22:21:35'),
(1287, 1287, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on Saturday that the main goal of BNP is to bring down the government so that it (BNP) can bring back \'Hawa Bhaban\' in the country through militancy.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The fall of the government means power. Take back Bangladesh means Hawa Bhaban, destruction, militancy and sectarianism again in the country. The main aim of BNP is to oust the government. The collapse of government is nothing but a daydream of BNP,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister was talking to journalists after paying tributes to the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam by placing wreaths at his grave here on the occasion of Nazrul\'s 46th death anniversary, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We think they don\'t think about the people of the country. Their only goal is to grasp power,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 22:33:41', '2022-08-27 22:33:41'),
(1288, 1288, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Timothee Chalamet as a love-sick cannibal, Harry Styles in his first leading role, Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe -- a new generation of stars steps into the spotlight when the Venice Film Festival kicks off Wednesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ninety years since its first edition, the world\'s longest-running film event also boasts a raft of award-winning directors in its line-up this year.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps the most anticipated premiere will be for Monroe biopic \"Blonde\", a dark retelling of the icon\'s tragic life.</div><div><br></div><div>Its Australian director Andrew Dominik has, with typical modesty, declared it \"a masterpiece\" and it threatens to propel Armas from rising star to fully fledged A-lister.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the army of Chalamet fans are ravenous for \"Bones and All\", reuniting him with \"Call Me By Your Name\" director Luca Guadagnino for what is billed as a \"cannibal romance\".</div><div><br></div><div>And the internet can barely contain itself over the premiere of \"Don\'t Worry Darling\", starring Styles -- one of the biggest-selling musicians in the world -- alongside Florence Pugh in a thriller about an isolated 1950s community.</div><div><br></div><div>Amid a wave of rumours about its sex scenes and a supposed rivalry between Pugh and director Olivia Wilde (also Styles\' girlfriend), it is not yet known whether the singer will appear in Venice.</div><div><br></div><div>- Returning winners -</div><div><br></div><div>The festival, which runs until September 10, is well-timed to kick-start Oscar campaigns, and Hollywood has increasingly used Venice to launch prestige productions such as \"A Star is Born\", \"La La Land\" and \"Nomadland\".</div><div><br></div><div>This year sees the return of director Darren Aronofsky, who won the top Golden Lion prize in Venice in 2008 for \"The Wrestler\" and launched his Oscar-winning \"Black Swan\" at Venice.</div><div><br></div><div>His new film \"The Whale\" stars Brendan Fraser, who has been largely absent from the screen since his heyday in films like \"The Mummy\" two decades ago, but is picking up a lot of early hype for his transformation into a morbidly obese man trying to reconnect with his daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>Another Venice regular, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is back in his native Mexico for family tale \"Bardo\" after two US hits -- \"Birdman\" (which won the Golden Lion and best film Oscar) and \"The Revenant\", which snagged a long-awaited Oscar for Leonardo DiCaprio.</div><div><br></div><div>Venice has a key advantage over its main rival, Cannes, since the French festival is partly run by cinema owners who refuse films from streaming services.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Blonde\", \"The Whale\" and \"Bardo\" are all Netflix movies -- as is opening film \"White Noise\" starring Adam Driver and directed by indie favourite Noah Baumbach.</div><div><br></div><div>- From Iran to Ireland -</div><div>Hollywood and Western Europe dominate the selection of 23 films competing for the hearts of a jury led by US actress Julianne Moore.</div><div><br></div><div>One notable exception is Iran\'s award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose \"No Bears\" is premiering barely a month after he was imprisoned amid a crackdown on dissident directors.</div><div><br></div><div>Also bound to stir political controversy is a new documentary from Laura Poitras, who follows her films about whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange with \"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed\" about the family pharma group behind the US opioid epidemic.</div><div><br></div><div>Other stars expected to grace the Lido island are Cate Blanchett, playing a music conductor in \"Tar\" and Hugh Jackman in domestic drama \"The Son\".</div><div><br></div><div>Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with writer-director Martin McDonagh following their much-loved 2008 crime caper \"In Bruges\".</div><div><br></div><div>They are in their native Ireland for \"The Banshees of Inisherin\", hoping to repeat McDonagh\'s success with \"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\", which won the screenplay award in Venice five years ago. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-27 23:45:13', '2022-08-27 23:45:13'),
(1289, 1289, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Education Minister Dipu Moni on Saturday dismissed as false some social media speculation that religious studies are being excluded from the new curriculum for students.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She was talking to the media after attending a programme at the National Press Club in the capital, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>“A specific group of people is spreading propaganda as part of an anti-government campaign. As they find nothing else to talk about, they are now spreading propaganda about the new curriculam,” said Dipu Moni.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are working to expand knowledge, skills and morality through education by implementing the new curriculum. Religion, morality, values are an inseparable part of it,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div><b>bnbd24/fas</b></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 00:41:16', '2022-08-28 00:41:16'),
(1290, 1290, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created world\'s first \"synthetic\" embryo that has a brain, a beating heart, and the building blocks for every other organ in the body, said a report from New York Post. The embryo has been created from mouse stem cells, the outlet further said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to a release from the university, instead of using eggs or sperm, a team lead by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz created the embryo model using stem cells, which are the body\'s stem cells and can differentiate into nearly any type of cell.</div><div><br></div><div>Ms Zernicka-Goetz is a professor in Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology in Cambridge\'s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.</div><div><br></div><div>The three different stem cell types that are present in early mammalian development were brought to the stage where they begin interacting, imitating natural processes in the laboratory.</div><div><br></div><div>The researchers were able to persuade the stem cells to \"talk\" to each other by triggering the production of a certain set of genes and creating a special environment for their interactions, the release further said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart, all the components that go on to make up the body,\" the researcher is quoted as saying in the release.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s just unbelievable that we\'ve got this far. This has been the dream of our community for years, and major focus of our work for a decade and finally we\'ve done it,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>In order to understand why some pregnancies fail and others succeed, Professor Zernicka-Goetz\'s team at Cambridge University has been researching these first phases of pregnancy over the past decade.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The stem cell embryo model is important because it gives us accessibility to the developing structure at a stage that is normally hidden from us due to the implantation of the tiny embryo into the mother\'s womb,\" Ms Zernicka-Goetz further said.</div><div><br></div><div>The scientists discovered that the extraembryonic cells communicate with the embryonic cells not only chemically but also mechanically, or by touch, in order to direct the embryo\'s development. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 01:50:58', '2022-08-28 01:50:58'),
(1291, 1291, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three cases were filed against 400 people on Friday night in connection with the clash between the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and police in Banskhali upazila of the district which left 45 people injured.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Banskhali Thana Police filed the cases on Friday night, said Officer-in- Charge (OC) of the thana Kamal Uddin.</div><div><br></div><div>In the case, former President of Chattogram South District BNP and former Minister Zafarul Islam Chowdhury, South District BNP Convener Abu Sufian and its Member Secretary Mostak Ahmed have named among the 66 people and more than 300-400 unnamed leaders and activists of the BNP were sued.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Police have so far arrested six people in this connection,\" the OC added.</div><div><br></div><div>Kamal Uddin told BSS that 66 people have been named after watching the video footage and three cases have been filed against another 300 to 400 people for assaulting on police, obstruction of government work and human traffic and cocktail explosion.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, BNP took out a procession and lodged this clash in front of Kalipur Ezarul Hoque High School premises at Banskhali upazila on Friday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Banshkhali upazila and municipality of BNP organised the protest rally as part of their countrywide programme against the price hike of essential commodities, fuel and transport fares, unbearable load shedding and killing of their two leaders in Bhola.</div><div><br></div><div>At one stage, police obstructed them when they tried to stage demonstrations at Chattogram Banskhali road of Kalipur point around 3 pm.</div><div><br></div><div>The leaders and activists pelted brickbats targeting police, prompting them to blank fire and lobbed tear gas shells, triggering a clash that left at least 45 people injured, the police added.</div><div><br></div><div>Over 15 policemen including ASP Humayun Kabir, OC Kamal Uddin and Sub- Inspector (SI) were injured, said Inspector (Investigation) SM Arifur Rahman of Banskhali Police Station. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 02:18:40', '2022-08-28 02:18:40'),
(1292, 1292, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The daily wage of tea garden workers has been increased to Tk 170 from Tk 120, according to reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The decision came after a meeting of tea garden owners with the Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban on Saturday (August 27).</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus revealed this emerging from a meeting with the Tea Garden Owners, saying that the Premier, on behalf of the workers, set the daily wage.</div><div><br></div><div>The Premier also requested the workers to go back to their respective works, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Before this, a meeting with PM Sheikh Hasina started at Bangladesh Tea Association (BTA), an organisation of tea garden owners, at Ganabhaban at around 4:30 pm. 13 tea garden owners of the country were present in the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, more than 150,000 workers of 166 tea gardens of the country went on strike from August 9 demanding an increase of their daily wage to Tk 300 from Tk 120. From that day, they observed a two-hour strike for four days. After that, the tea garden workers started a full-scale strike and protest for an indefinite period from last August 13.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 03:05:38', '2022-08-28 03:05:38'),
(1293, 1293, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Clashes between backers of Libya\'s rival governments killed at least 23 people and damaged six hospitals in Tripoli on Saturday, sparking fears that a political crisis could spiral into a major new armed conflict.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Small arms fire and explosions rocked several districts of the capital overnight and into Saturday, when smoke could be seen rising from damaged buildings.</div><div><br></div><div>But cautious calm appeared to have returned on Saturday night, an AFP correspondent said.</div><div><br></div><div>The head of the government in Tripoli, Abdulhamid Dbeibah, posted a video of himself surrounded by bodyguards and greeting fighters supporting him.</div><div><br></div><div>In an updated toll, the health ministry in Tripoli said 23 people had been killed and 140 wounded in the fighting.</div><div><br></div><div>Six hospitals were hit and ambulances were unable to reach areas affected by the clashes, the ministry had said earlier, condemning \"war crimes\".</div><div><br></div><div>The two rival administrations vying for control of the North African country and its vast oil resources -- one based in the capital, the other approved by a parliament in the country\'s east -- exchanged blame.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN\'s Libya mission called for \"an immediate cessation of hostilities\", citing \"ongoing armed clashes including indiscriminate medium and heavy shelling in civilian-populated neighbourhoods\".</div><div><br></div><div>The US ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, said in a statement that Washington \"condemns\" the surge in violence, urging an \"immediate ceasefire and UN-facilitated talks between the conflicting parties\".</div><div><br></div><div>News agency Lana said actor Mustafa Baraka had been killed in one of the neighbourhoods hit by fighting, sparking anger and mourning on social media.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Threats\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah\'s Government of National Unity said fighting had broken out after negotiations to avoid bloodshed in the western city collapsed.</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah\'s government, installed as part of a United Nations-led peace process following a previous round of violence, is challenged by a rival government led by former interior minister Fathi Bashagha.</div><div><br></div><div>Bashagha, who is backed by Libya\'s parliament and eastern-based military strongman Khalifa Haftar, says the GNU\'s mandate has expired.</div><div><br></div><div>But he has so far been unable to take office in Tripoli, as Dbeibah has insisted on only handing power to an elected government.</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah\'s government accused Bashagha of \"carrying out his threats\" to seize Tripoli by force.</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah\'s GNU said negotiations had been underway to \"hold elections at the end of the year to resolve the political crisis\", but that Bashagha had \"walked out at the last moment\".</div><div><br></div><div>Bashagha denied such talks had taken place, and accused Dbeibah\'s \"illegitimate\" administration of \"clinging to power\".</div><div><br></div><div>Local media reported later Saturday that a group of pro-Bashagha militias that had been making their way to the capital from Misrata had turned back.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Urban warfare\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Emadeddin Badi, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, warned that the violence could quickly escalate.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Urban warfare has its own logic, it\'s harmful both to civilian infrastructure and to people, so even if it isn\'t a long war, this conflict will be very destructive as we have already seen,\" he told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that the fighting could strengthen Haftar and those close to him.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They stand to benefit from western Libya divisions and have a better negotiating position once the dust settles.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Bashagha was appointed in February by the parliament, which was elected in 2014 and is based in the eastern city of Tobruk, but he has been unable to impose his authority in Tripoli.</div><div><br></div><div>Initially ruling out the use of violence, the former interior minister has since hinted that he could resort to force.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, he called on \"Libyan men of honour\" to drop their support for Dbeibah\'s \"obsolete and illegitimate\" administration.</div><div><br></div><div>In July, clashes between rival groups in Tripoli left 16 people dead, including a child.</div><div><br></div><div>It was the deadliest violence to hit the Libyan capital since Haftar\'s ill-fated attempt to seize it by force in 2019 and 2020. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 20:22:41', '2022-08-28 20:22:41'),
(1294, 1294, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three Dutch soldiers were shot and wounded early Saturday in a shooting in downtown Indianapolis after what local police believe was a disturbance outside the hotel where they were staying, authorities said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The shooting occurred around 3:30 a.m. EDT in Indianapolis’ entertainment district. Indianapolis police said officers found three men with gunshot wounds and they were taken to area hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>The Dutch defense ministry said one soldier was in critical condition and the two others were conscious, while Indianapolis police said two of the soldiers were in critical condition and the third was stable.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry said the three soldiers were from the Commando Corps and were in Indiana for training when the shooting occurred during their free time in front of the hotel where they were staying.</div><div><br></div><div>Indianapolis police said they believe some sort of altercation between the three victims and another person or people led to the shooting.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry said that the shooting victims\' families have been informed while Indianapolis police continue investigating the shooting.</div><div><br></div><div>No arrests have been made. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 20:28:26', '2022-08-28 20:28:26'),
(1295, 1295, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The weather department has predicted showers across Bangladesh in 24 hours commencing 9 am on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Khulna and Barishal divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over northern part of the country,” said a Met Office bulletin.</div><div><br></div><div>Rainfall activity may increase at the end period.</div><div>Day temperature may fall slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The weather office recorded the highest 106 mm rainfall in Rangpur in 24 hours till 6am on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The highest temperature was recorded at 36.6 degrees Celsius in Rajshahi, while the lowest temperature was recorded at 24.0 degrees in Rangpur and Rangamati.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the axis of monsoon trough runs through Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal to Assam across northern part of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>One of its associated troughs extends up to Northwest Bay. Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate elsewhere over North Bay, as per the bulletin. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 20:34:32', '2022-08-28 20:34:32'),
(1296, 1296, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The work on installing scanners at every gate of Chittagong port is underway for easing import-export activities, said State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The scanner installation work is also underway at Mongla port, he said while visiting the new mooring container terminal at Chittagong Port.</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister said Chittagong Port is being further upgraded. Patenga Container Terminal and Overflow Yard have been constructed.</div><div><br></div><div>Chittagong port is ready to handle the pressure of more ships, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, according to the agreement with India, Indian ships can use Chittagong port and from there goods can be transported to north-eastern states of India by road, said Khalid.</div><div><br></div><div>And so, the trial runs of Indian ships have been conducted at this port and more will be done, he added, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Indian ships will start using this port regularly after the ‘Statutory Regulatory Order’ from the National Board of Revenue (NRB), he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 21:29:20', '2022-08-28 21:29:20'),
(1297, 1297, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has named top order batter Afif Hossain as the vice captain of Bangladesh cricket team for the Asia Cup 2022 now underway in the UAE.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 22-year old left-hander has played 47 T20 internationals for Bangladesh since making his debut in February 2018.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the first time when Afif is taking a leadership role in the Bangladesh team. He was among the best players in the world during his U19 cricketing days.</div><div><br></div><div>Shakib Al Hasan is set to lead Bangladesh in the Asia Cup. He was handed the captaincy just before the Asia Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>During the tour of Zimbabwe, Bangladesh\'s T20 captain was Nurul Hasan Sohan. Ho suffered an injury on his finger that ruled him out of the Asia Cup too.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh’s Asia Cup will begin with the match against Afghanistan on August 30. In the second match, Bangladesh will take on Sri Lanka who lost their first match to Afghanistan by eight wickets on the opening day Saturday. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 22:20:03', '2022-08-28 22:20:03');
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(1298, 1298, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In nine seconds flat, two skyscrapers built illegally in the city of Noida near the Indian capital nine years ago will be razed by a controlled explosion on Sunday afternoon.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>India\'s Supreme Court, in August last year, ordered the demolition of the 40-storey twin towers -- Apex and Ceyane -- built by private developer Supertech for violation of various building norms.</div><div><br></div><div>The twin towers will be India\'s largest ever highrises to be imploded at 2.30 pm (local time), using 3,700kg of explosives.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am getting goosebumps. I am a little nervous but confident as well,\" Utkarsh Mehta of Edifice Engineering, the company entrusted with the demolition job, told the local media this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Mehta said the explosion would trigger vibrations like that of a minor earthquake, which will be felt in a 30-40 metre radius of the twin towers.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The dust will take 15-20 minutes to settle down but we would need at least three to four months to clear the debris. Anti-smog guns have been pressed into action to clear the Noida sky,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Local civic authorities have already ensured the evacuation of residents of all housing societies in the vicinity of the twin towers. Stray dogs have also been shifted to animal shelters, officials said.\"The nearby Noida Expressway will be shut for 45 minutes for the demolition. Hospitals in the city have been put on alert and 8-10 ambulances kept at standby in case of any untoward situation,\" a police officer said.</div><div><br></div><div>Demolitions of highrises are rare in India. Two years ago, authorities in the southern state of Kerala razed two luxury waterfront highrises for flouting environmental norms. - In nine seconds flat, two skyscrapers built illegally in the city of Noida near the Indian capital nine years ago will be razed by a controlled explosion on Sunday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>India\'s Supreme Court, in August last year, ordered the demolition of the 40-storey twin towers -- Apex and Ceyane -- built by private developer Supertech for violation of various building norms.</div><div><br></div><div>The twin towers will be India\'s largest ever highrises to be imploded at 2.30 pm (local time), using 3,700kg of explosives.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am getting goosebumps. I am a little nervous but confident as well,\" Utkarsh Mehta of Edifice Engineering, the company entrusted with the demolition job, told the local media this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Mehta said the explosion would trigger vibrations like that of a minor earthquake, which will be felt in a 30-40 metre radius of the twin towers.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The dust will take 15-20 minutes to settle down but we would need at least three to four months to clear the debris. Anti-smog guns have been pressed into action to clear the Noida sky,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Local civic authorities have already ensured the evacuation of residents of all housing societies in the vicinity of the twin towers. Stray dogs have also been shifted to animal shelters, officials said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The nearby Noida Expressway will be shut for 45 minutes for the demolition. Hospitals in the city have been put on alert and 8-10 ambulances kept at standby in case of any untoward situation,\" a police officer said.</div><div><br></div><div>Demolitions of highrises are rare in India. Two years ago, authorities in the southern state of Kerala razed two luxury waterfront highrises for flouting environmental norms. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 22:29:24', '2022-08-28 22:29:24'),
(1299, 1299, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported zero death from Covid-19 and 217 new infections from the virus in the 24 hours till Sunday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>While the country\'s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,323, the new number took its caseload to 2,011,317, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The daily case test positivity rate rose to 4.62 per cent from Saturday’s 4.26 per cent as 4,695 samples were tested during the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent and the recovery rate rose to 97.23 per cent from Saturday’s 97.22 per cent.</div><div><br></div><div>In July, the country reported 142 Covid-linked deaths and 31,422 cases, the highest monthly death toll and caseload since March this year.</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', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 22:39:08', '2022-08-28 22:39:08'),
(1300, 1300, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The cultivation of Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) nears completion in the district.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said about 94 percent targeted lands has so far been brought under its cultivation and the rest will come under the process within a week.</div><div><br></div><div>They said a total of 50,440 hectares of land has by now come under cultivation against the target of 53,200 hectares of land in the district.</div><div><br></div><div>T-Aman has been cultivated on 9,850 hectares of land against the target of 11,120 hectares in Chapainawabganj sadar, 550 hectares against the target of 590 hectares in Shibganj, 22,235 hectares against the target of 23,465 hectares in Nachole, 13,005 hectares against the target of 13,525 hectares in Gomostapur and 4,800 hectares against the target of 4,500 hectares in Bholahat upazilas.</div><div><br></div><div>The rice production target has been fixed at 1,57,416 tonnes, of which, 33,378 tonnes in sadar, 1,788 in Shibganj, 37,893 in Gomostapur, 70,909 in Nachole and 13,448 in Bholahat upazilas, the sources further said.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Director (DD) of DAE, Chapainawabganj Dr. Palash Sarker said there is sufficient supply of fertilizer in the district.</div><div><br></div><div>Although the farmers delayed to start cultivation due to late rainfall, they are now going to complete their cultivation thanks to sufficient rain water and irrigation facilities, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He further expressed his optimism that the production could cross the target in the district this year. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 22:43:25', '2022-08-28 22:43:25'),
(1301, 1301, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Another 176 people were hospitalised with dengue – a viral infection – in the 24 hours till Sunday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Of them, 144 were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 32 outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>As many as 613 dengue patients, including 507 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>This year\'s death toll from the mosquito-borne viral disease rose to 19 Sunday with one more death reported from Dhaka. Of all the deceased, 10 were from Cox\'s Bazar and nine from Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the viral disease.</div><div><br></div><div>This year, the directorate has recorded 5,492 dengue cases and 4,860 recoveries so far. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-28 23:18:05', '2022-08-28 23:18:05'),
(1302, 1302, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In a sparse, windswept pasture at the frigid tip of South America lives a tiny bird whose quiet life is shedding light on the importance of studying the world\'s most remote places.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the Diego Ramirez Islands, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from southern Chile\'s Cape Horn, scientists have identified the Subantarctic rayadito, a 0.035 pound (16 gram) brown bird with black and yellow bands, and a large beak that is confounding biologists.</div><div><br></div><div>That\'s because the Subantarctic rayadito, which resembles a rayadito species that inhabits the forests of southern Patagonia and nests in trunk cavities, was found \"living in a place with no trees.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"There are no bushes and no woodland species, literally in the middle of the ocean a forest bird has managed to survive,\" said Ricardo Rozzi, an academic from Chile\'s University of Magallanes and the University of North Texas and director of the Cape Horn International Center for Global Change Studies and Biocultural Conservation (CHIC).</div><div><br></div><div>The finding, reported on Friday in the science journal Nature, was made after a six-year investigation in which the tiny bird became an \"obsession\" to researchers, said Rozzi.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the researchers, Rodrigo Vasquez, a biologist at the University of Chile, said that genetic studies confirmed that the newly discovered species \"differs in a mutation from the rest of the species of the classic rayadito species,\" in addition to other differences in form and behavior.</div><div><br></div><div>The researchers said they had captured and measured 13 individuals in the island. \"The Birds from the Diego Ramirez population were significantly heavier and larger (with a longer and wider bill and longer tarsi), but they had a significantly shorter tail,\" they said in Nature.</div><div><br></div><div>To Rozzi, the species could become \"a symbol ... that will contribute to the knowledge\" about the little-known Diego Ramirez Islands. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 00:32:09', '2022-08-29 00:32:09'),
(1304, 1304, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Melisa Raouf, a Miss England finalist, has made history by being the first beauty queen in the pageant’s 94-year history to participate without wearing make-up, Gulf News reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 20-year-old college student told the Independent newspaper: “It means a lot to me as I feel many girls of different ages wear make-up because they feel pressured to do so. If one is happy in their own skin we should not be made to cover up our face with make-up. Our flaws make us who we are and that’s what makes every individual unique.”</div><div><br></div><div>Raouf will compete alongside 40 women at the Miss England pageant to be held on October 17, and says she’s going to go barefaced for the big day too.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 01:39:12', '2022-08-29 01:39:12'),
(1305, 1305, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh will lodge its strong protest with Myanmar so that nothing such happens inside Bangladesh as the country witnessed two mortal shells from Myanmar inside Bangladesh territory on Sunday afternoon.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We usually protest amid such incidents. Few days ago we also received similar reports. We will again strongly protest it with them (Myanmar),” said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div><br></div><div>He said it will first be investigated whether the fall of unexploded mortar shells on the Bangladesh border was an accident or intentional.</div><div><br></div><div>Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) stepped up its vigilance along Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban area after two Myanmar mortal shells landed in an area near Tambru under Naikkhangchhari in Bandarban on Sunday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Locals got panicked seeing the mortar shells which remained unexploded.</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 01:47:50', '2022-08-29 01:47:50'),
(1306, 1306, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two US warships are passing through the Taiwan Strait, the US Navy has announced.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It is the first such operation to take place since tensions between Taiwan and China increased following a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan earlier this month.</div><div><br></div><div>The US and other Western navies have routinely sailed through the strait in recent years.</div><div><br></div><div>China reacted to Ms Pelosi\'s visit by holding military drills in the area.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, Taiwan\'s defence ministry says it detected 23 Chinese aircraft and eight Chinese ships operating around Taiwan.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the detected aircraft, seven crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait - an unofficial barrier between Taiwan and China.</div><div><br></div><div>Washington says its two guided-missile cruisers - the USS Antietam and the USS Chancellorsville - are demonstrating freedom of navigation through international waters.</div><div><br></div><div>Beijing views such actions as provocative and maintains that the island of Taiwan is an integral part of Chinese territory.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, its military said it was monitoring the two vessels\' progress, maintaining a high alert, and was ready to defeat any provocation, Reuters news agency reports.</div><div><br></div><div>The US Navy said in a statement that the transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrated the \"United States\' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"These ships transited through a corridor in the strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state,\" the statement added.</div><div><br></div><div>Taiwan\'s defence ministry said the ships were sailing in a southerly direction and that its forces were observing, but that \"the situation was as normal\".</div><div><br></div><div>Taiwan is self-ruled, but China sees it as a breakaway province with which it will eventually unite, with force if necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>Taiwan has become yet another flashpoint between Washington and Beijing in recent years, with the US walking a diplomatic tightrope on the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>The US abides by the \"One China\" policy - a cornerstone of the two countries\' diplomatic relationship which recognises only one Chinese government - and has formal ties with Beijing and not Taiwan.</div><div><br></div><div>But it also maintains a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with the island. That includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.</div><div><br></div><div>China and Taiwan: The basics</div><div><br></div><div>Why do China and Taiwan have poor relations? China sees the self-ruled island as a part of its territory and insists it should be unified with the mainland, by force if necessary</div><div><br></div><div>How is Taiwan governed? The island has its own constitution, democratically elected leaders, and about 300,000 active troops in its armed forces</div><div><br></div><div>Who recognises Taiwan? Only a few countries recognise Taiwan. Most recognise the Chinese government in Beijing instead. The US has no official ties with Taiwan, but does have a law which requires it to provide the island with the means to defend itself - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 02:48:20', '2022-08-29 02:48:20'),
(1307, 1307, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told Parliament that late Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah was very popular and acceptable in his constituency as he was elected Member of Parliament time after time gaining public confidence and trust.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Fazle Rabbi Miah was elected Member of Parliament time after time from a constituency. He won the election even after changing his political party, which means that his personal popularity and acceptance to the people is unparalleled,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The leader of the house made this remark while participating in the discussion on a condolence motion to mourn the death of Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah, MP, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and five former members of parliament (MPs).</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that Fazle Rabbi Miah as the Deputy Speaker had performed his responsibilities with very much competently, Sheikh Hasina said that public trust and confidence is very important for any political leader. “He (Fazle Rabbi Miah) successfully had been able to gain these\", she added.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Fazle Rabbi Miah had always worked sincerely for the overall development of his constituents, she said, adding “He was a dedicated soul and contributed to the society in many ways. His death is a huge loss for us.”</div><div><br></div><div>Describing Fazle Rabbi as a competent parliamentarian, social activist and lawyer, she said his death is a huge loss for the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina expressed profound sympathy to the bereaved family members including his daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the Premier also expressed her deep shock at the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She said Shinzo Abe was a true friend of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>The five former MPs who died are freedom fighter M Abu Saleh (Ganoparishad member), Abbas Ali Mondal, Alhaj Md Karim Uddin Bharsha, Mohammad Shoab and Khurshed Ara Haque.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the condolence motion was passed by a voice vote. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 02:51:12', '2022-08-29 02:51:12'),
(1308, 1308, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After nearly three months of closure, the Forest Department will reopen the Sundarbans, the world\'s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site, for tourists on September 1.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Sundarbans will be opened for domestic and foreign tourists, side by side for fishermen and bawoaly, who earn forest resources through the pass (pass permit), Mihir Kumar Dey, forest conservator of Khulna circle, told BSS on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Forest-dependent fishermen, tour operators, launches and boatmen have already completed preparations in advance ahead of the reopening, he said.</div><div>A renowned tour operator Md Faruk Hossain told BSS, \"This time a huge number of tourists are expected to visit the eastern part of the Sundarbans.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Foreign and native tourists will visit Sundarbans at several tourist spots including Karamjol, Harbaria, Kotka, Kachikhali, Hironpoint, Dublarchar and Nilkamal from September to February through various vessels,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Nazmul Azam Devid, general secretary of tour operator association, said, \"As soon as the ban lifted, many tourists will easily cross the Padma Bridge by road and flock to the Sundarbans of the eastern divisions every day.\"</div><div><br></div><div>On May 31, the Forest Department announced a three-month ban on tourism and fishing in the Sundarbans starting from June 1.</div><div><br></div><div>These three months are the breeding season for most species of fish and hence the department enforced the ban. The ban was effective till August 31. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 02:53:46', '2022-08-29 02:53:46'),
(1309, 1309, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Washington: Police in the US city of Detroit launched a manhunt Sunday for a suspect believed to have shot four people at \"random\", killing three of them, authorities said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Midwestern city\'s police chief, James White, told media that the first three victims -- two women and a man -- were found shot multiple times in separate locations around the city in the early hours of the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>A fourth man spotted the suspect peering into car windows and told him to stop, White said. The suspect shot him once.</div><div><br></div><div>Three of the victims died and one survived, police told local media. Photographs of the suspect have been released to the public as authorities urged anyone who recognised him to call the police.</div><div><br></div><div>The shootings appear \"to be very random,\" White told a press conference.</div><div><br></div><div>\"One was waiting on a bus, one was walking his dog, and one was just on the street,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Detroit mayor Mike Duggan told reporters that agents from \"multiple agencies\" were \"scouring several square miles right now, waiting for the individual to resurface.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"This individual has already shot four people today,\" he said, appealing for anyone who might know the suspect to come forward.</div><div><br></div><div>The shootings were not the only incident of deadly gun violence in the United States on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Authorities in the Texan city of Houston said that three people were shot dead there by a gunman who first set fire to their home.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This suspect unfortunately, and very sadly, and very evilly, set fire to several residences, laid wait for those residents to come out, and fired upon them,\" Houston police chief Troy Finner told another press conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Firefighters tackling the blaze also had to take cover from the gunman, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Police then arrived and shot the man dead.</div><div><br></div><div>The gunman had recently been told he would be evicted, Finner said, adding that \"may have been a trigger point\" for him, but that police were investigating.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, an NFL football player was shot in the capital Washington, but is in stable condition, the Washington Post newspaper reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian Robinson Jr, a running back with the Washington Commanders, was shot twice during a possible carjacking, the Post reported, citing police.</div><div><br></div><div>He was taken to hospital and his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, the newspaper said.</div><div><br></div><div>The United States is regularly rocked by shootings, with lawmakers reluctant to pass gun control legislation despite it being popular with most Americans. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 17:21:05', '2022-08-29 17:21:05'),
(1310, 1310, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.</div><div><br></div><div>Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years, if this six-week test flight goes well. NASA officials caution, however, that the risks are high and the flight could be cut short.</div><div><br></div><div>In lieu of astronauts, three test dummies are strapped into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration and radiation, one of the biggest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor capsule suffered any damage during Saturday\'s thunderstorm; ground equipment also was unaffected. Five strikes were confirmed, hitting the 600-foot (183-meter) lightning-protection towers surrounding the rocket at NASA\'s Kennedy Space Center. The strikes weren\'t strong enough to warrant major retesting.</div><div><br></div><div>“Clearly, the system worked as designed,” said Jeff Spaulding, NASA\'s senior test director.</div><div><br></div><div>More storms were expected. Although forecasters gave 80% odds of acceptable weather Monday morning, conditions were expected to deteriorate during the two-hour launch window.</div><div><br></div><div>On the technical side, Spaulding said the team did its best over the past several months to eliminate any lingering fuel leaks. A pair of countdown tests earlier this year prompted repairs to leaking valves and other faulty equipment; engineers won\'t know if all the fixes are good until just a few hours before the planned liftoff. If Monday doesn\'t pan out, the next launch attempt would be Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>After so many years of delays and setbacks, the launch team was thrilled to finally be so close to the inaugural flight of the Artemis moon-exploration program, named after Apollo\'s twin sister in Greek mythology.</div><div><br></div><div>“We\'re within 24 hours of launch right now, which is pretty amazing for where we\'ve been on this journey,” Spaulding told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>The follow-on Artemis flight, as early as 2024, would see four astronauts flying around the moon. A landing could follow in 2025. NASA is targeting the moon\'s unexplored south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold ice that could be used by future crews. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 20:13:44', '2022-08-29 20:13:44'),
(1311, 1311, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said Monday he was on his way to Ukraine\'s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which has been the target of strikes in recent weeks.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The day has come, IAEA\'s Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhya is now on its way,\" Grossi tweeted, saying the team from the UN atomic watchdog would arrive at Europe\'s largest nuclear power plant \"later this week\".</div><div><br></div><div>In a photograph accompanying his tweet, the IAEA chief posed with a team of 13 people wearing caps and sleeveless jackets bearing the nuclear watchdog\'s logo.</div><div><br></div><div>Grossi has for months been asking to be able to visit the site, warning of \"the very real risk of a nuclear disaster\".</div><div><br></div><div>The Zaporizhzhia plant, which has six of Ukraine\'s reactors, has been occupied by Russian troops since shortly after Moscow launched its invasion on February 24, and has remained on the frontlines ever since.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow and Kyiv have traded blame for shelling around the complex, near the city of Energodar.</div><div><br></div><div>Its Ukraine operator Energoatom warned on Saturday of the risk of radioactive leaks and fire after new strikes.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations has called for an end to all military activity in the area surrounding the complex.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine initially feared an IAEA visit would legitimise the Russian occupation of the site before finally supporting the idea of a mission.</div><div>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged the watchdog to send a team as soon as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Between Thursday and Friday, the plant was cut off from Ukraine\'s national power grid for the first time in its four-decade history due to \"actions of the invaders\", Energoatom said.</div><div><br></div><div>It came back online Friday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed that a team of independent inspectors could travel to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant via Ukraine, the French presidency said on August 20 after a call with Emmanuel Macron. - AFP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 20:18:18', '2022-08-30 03:18:34'),
(1312, 1312, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police have recovered the body of a housemaid of former captain of Bangladesh national cricket team, Akram Khan, from the city’s Mohakhali DOHS area.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Sahida Akhter, 25.</div><div><br></div><div>On information from Akram, police found the body lying near his residence in DOHS around 11 pm on Sunday, Md Hasib, sub-inspector (SI) of Kafrul police station, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The body was later sent to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital morgue for an autopsy, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>“Details can be informed after the autopsy,” said the SI.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 20:49:31', '2022-08-29 20:49:31'),
(1313, 1313, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The new Miss Diva Universe 2022 is Divita Rai from Karnataka in India. The 23-year-old beauty queen won the coveted title in a star-studded ceremony celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Miss Diva Universe pageant. The reigning Miss Universe 2021, Harnaaz Sandhu, crowned Divita Rai at the occasion. Pragnya Ayyagari of Telangana was declared Miss Diva Supranational 2022. The official Instagram page of Miss Universe shared a video of the emotional moment when Harnaaz crowned her successor Divita Rai. Keep scrolling to check out the video.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday night, Harnaaz Sandhu crowned Divita Rai as the next Miss Diva Universe 2022. The video shared by the Miss Universe page shows Harnaaz kissing the Miss Diva Universe crown before awarding it to Divita. Then, the two beauty queens walked the stage, dressed in beauteous gowns, wearing their coveted crowns and the sash declaring their titles.</div><div><br></div><div>Born in Karnataka, Divita Rai has roots in several cities in India because of her father\'s job. The 23-year-old is an architect and model by profession and has an interest in various activities like badminton, basketball, painting, listening to music and reading. She will now represent India at the 71st Miss Universe pageant, where Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu will crown her successor.</div><div><br></div><div>After winning the Miss Diva Universe 2022 crown, Divita expressed her excitement in a video posted on the official page of Miss Universe. \"It feels crazy. I finally have this [crown] on my head. It is unbelievable, I really have no words. It\'s crazy,\" the Miss Diva Universe 2022 said.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the Miss Diva Universe 2022 pageant saw many stars and former beauty pageant winners in attendance. Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta, Miss India 1964 Meher Castelino, Miss India 1980 Sangeeta Bijlani, and Miss India Universe 2004 Tanushree Dutta also made an appearance at the event. Source: Hindustan Times</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 21:17:22', '2022-08-29 21:17:22'),
(1314, 1314, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A lion in a Ghana zoo killed a man who scaled the fence and landed in its enclosure Sunday, wildlife officials said in a statement.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The man was attacked by the lion after jumping over the security fences of the zoo in the capital, Accra, said the Forestry Commission, the state agency in charge of wildlife in Ghana.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The intruder was attacked and injured by one of the lions, within the inner fencing of the enclosure,\" the statement said, adding that he had died of his injuries.</div><div><br></div><div>The lion, a lioness and two cubs were still secure in their enclosure at the Accra Zoo, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>A police spokesman told AFP: \"We\'re investigating the case to establish how the man got into the restricted area.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The Accra Zoo was first established as a private menagerie in the early 1960s by Ghana\'s first president, Kwame Nkrumah. The Accra Zoo was opened to the public after his overthrow in 1966. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 22:04:03', '2022-08-29 22:04:03'),
(1315, 1315, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left more than a dozen people dead in three days, military and local sources said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Over 120 militias roam the country\'s volatile east, and there are frequent attacks on civilians.</div><div><br></div><div>Two soldiers were among those killed since Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>A military leader in North Kivu province said Sunday: \"We have just lost a brave soldier killed in an attack on our position in the northern outskirts of the city of Butembo by Mai-Mai militiamen\".</div><div><br></div><div>The leader, who did not wish to be named, said two members of the militia were killed.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday in northeastern Ituri province \"six gold miners were killed and decapitated by rebels from the CODECO group\", Prince Kaleta, civil society president in Lodjo, Ituri told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>CODECO -- the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo -- is a political-religious sect that claims to represent the interests of the Lendu ethnic group.</div><div><br></div><div>It is considered one of the deadliest militias, blamed for ethnic massacres in Ituri.</div><div><br></div><div>Three civilians were \"killed in an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)\" in North Kivu on Saturday night, said Flavien Kakule, head of a locality in the Bashu chiefdom, Beni territory.</div><div><br></div><div>The Islamic State group claims the ADF as its regional affiliate.</div><div><br></div><div>During protests against the United Nations in southern North Kivu on Friday and Saturday, \"there was a death among the demonstrators, who carried bladed weapons and threw stones at a base of the Blue Helmets\" in Kiwanja, Jason Ntawiha, mayor of the Rutshuru commune, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>A soldier who \"had just killed a civilian in Kimoka\" was \"killed and lynched by the angry population\", Saturday, Colonel Philemon Kakule, commander of the Congolese Army regiment in Sake, North Kivu, told AFP. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 22:09:33', '2022-08-29 22:09:33'),
(1316, 1316, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Neymar won and scored a penalty as Paris Saint-Germain rallied to draw 1-1 at home to Monaco and stay in first place in the French league on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Neymar latched onto Lionel Messi\'s pass down the left and cut inside central defender Guillermo Maripan, who appeared to catch him with an outstretched leg.</div><div><br></div><div>The referee waved away PSG\'s penalty claims but then awarded the kick following a video review. Neymar used his usual staggered run-up to confuse goalkeeper Alexander Nuebel before casually guiding the ball inside the left post. It was Neymar\'s sixth goal in the league and eighth goal in five games overall.</div><div><br></div><div>PSG has 10 points and leads on goal difference from bitter rival Marseille and northern side Lens.</div><div><br></div><div>Monaco rode its luck at times but closed down PSG well early on, denying space to its famed attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, then took the lead in the 20th.</div><div><br></div><div>After recent signing Mohamed Camara tackled Messi near the halfway line, Russia midfielder Aleksandr Golovin sent a pass into the path of German striker Kevin Volland, who held off central defender Presnel Kimpembe before striking a low shot into the bottom right corner.</div><div><br></div><div>PSG\'s strike force had netted 17 league goals in the three previous league games under new coach Christophe Galtier, but did not hit the target until Mbappe\'s tame shot in the 37th.</div><div><br></div><div>“They closed us down well,” PSG captain Marquinhos said. “They stopped us bringing the ball out from the back.”</div><div><br></div><div>PSG then struck the post twice in first-half injury time, with Messi\'s curler from 20 meters clipping the left upright and bouncing to Mbappe, who rushed his shot and hit the base of the right post.</div><div><br></div><div>Marquinhos conceded a clumsy corner right at the start of the second half and, minutes later, Monaco striker Wissam Ben Yedder went close with a lob for 12th-place Monaco after goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma rushed off his line.</div><div><br></div><div>Nuebel made a fine stop to deny Neymar in the 59th but was well beaten on his penalty.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, coach Igor Tudor’s new-look Marseille is looking good as Alexis Sanchez scored twice and his team won 3-0 at southern rival Nice in an earlier game.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice recruited strongly, bringing in established Premier League players like goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, midfielder Aaron Ramsey and forward Nicolas Pepe, but is still seeking a win and is in 18th place.</div><div><br></div><div>Marseille has made a strong start under Tudor, who is known as a disciplinarian and whose appointment was questioned by fans — especially when he left veteran playmaker Dimitri Payet out of the first three games.</div><div><br></div><div>But Tudor is winning the fans over with a high-octane brand of pressing soccer. He also said he\'d give the 35-year-old Payet games. This time, he started him playing just behind Sanchez — a much-heralded signing from Italian champion Inter Milan.</div><div><br></div><div>The Chile forward grabbed his first goal in the 10th minute and, after former Arsenal fullback Nuno Tavares made it three goals in four games this season, Tavares combined with Payet to help set up Sanchez\'s second goal in the 42nd.</div><div><br></div><div>OTHER MATCHES</div><div><br></div><div>Marseille was not the only side scoring freely away from home, with Montpellier netting five first-half goals in a 7-0 victory at Brest.</div><div><br></div><div>The 19-year-old striker Elye Wahi scored twice and veteran forward Valere Germain added two second-half goals for eighth-place Montpellier.</div><div><br></div><div>It was a stinging defeat for Brest coach Michel Der Zakarian, who played 10 years for the club as a defender and coached it from 2017-21.</div><div><br></div><div>Striker Moussa Dembélé\'s towering late header earned fourth-place Lyon a 1-1 draw at Reims.</div><div><br></div><div>Promoted Toulouse led early with a goal from midfielder Zakaria Aboukhlal but conceded three second-half goals in a 3-1 loss at midtable Nantes.</div><div><br></div><div>Nigeria striker Terem Moffi scored both goals as Lorient beat Clermont 2-1 at home.</div><div><br></div><div>Elsewhere, Troyes beat Angers 3-1 in a scrap between lowly sides. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 22:26:56', '2022-08-29 22:26:56'),
(1317, 1317, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said that the price of fuel oil will be coordinated within a day or two.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said that while talking to journalists at Secretariat in the capital on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Nasrul Hamid said that we will coordinate the fuel oil price. Now, scrutiny is underway. But the price of fuel oil has increased a lot in the world market. Per barrel is now at 150 US dollar. Under this situation, it has to add a big part of subsidy again. It is because the amount of subsidy was over Tk 8 when the price of per diesel was Tk 114 per liter. Now the amount may increase further. We will take decision after analysing those matters.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 22:40:21', '2022-08-29 22:40:21'),
(1318, 1318, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The race to become Britain\'s next prime minister is in its final week, with Liz Truss appeared poised to secure the top job, along with daunting challenges.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Foreign Secretary Truss, 47, has consistently outrun 42-year-old former finance minister Rishi Sunak by wide margins in polls of Conservative party members who will decide the contest, which started in early July.</div><div><br></div><div>An estimated 200,000 Tory grassroots have been able to vote since earlier this month for their preferred candidate, before postal and online ballots close on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>The winner will be announced next Monday and replaces outgoing leader Boris Johnson in Downing Street the following day -- only to face immediate crises over the spiralling cost of living.</div><div><br></div><div>The unenviable job of leading Britain through its highest inflation in 40 years and warnings of an imminent recession arose after Johnson announced in early July that he would be standing down.</div><div><br></div><div>It followed months of scandals that eventually triggered Sunak and dozens of other ministers to resign from government, forcing his departure.</div><div><br></div><div>However, some ministers and MPs -- including Truss -- remained loyal to the end, arguing Johnson deserved more time to turn around his controversy-tarred three-year tenure.</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 10,000 Tory members are reportedly so angry at his enforced resignation they are pushing the ruling party to allow a vote over whether to accept it.</div><div><br></div><div>The Tory hierarchy is resisting the move while Downing Street has distanced itself from the campaign, insisting Johnson will back the winner of the leadership fight.</div><div><br></div><div>Whoever that is may struggle to reunite the Conservatives, with the splits worsened by the bitter battle between Truss and Sunak.</div><div><br></div><div>- Backlash -</div><div>Eight Conservative MPs initially qualified to run in the race, before the party\'s MPs whittled that number down in five ballots.</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak was the early frontrunner, topping all those votes of Conservative MPs while Truss repeatedly finished third.</div><div><br></div><div>She scraped into the final pairing on July 20 by just eight votes.</div><div><br></div><div>However, once the run-off began she quickly became the frontrunner, winning the endorsements of big hitters in Johnson\'s outgoing cabinet and stealing the support of several MPs from her rival\'s camp.</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak, who has faced a backlash from some Tory members over his part in ousting Johnson, has been relegated to long-shot contender.</div><div><br></div><div>The two candidates have sparred over their policies and records in several television debates as well as a dozen hustings in front of members -- the last of which will be held in London Wednesday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>But with surveys showing Truss leading by more than 30 points, the contest seems effectively over.</div><div><br></div><div>However, recent polls of the wider electorate show the challenge ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>The main opposition Labour party now boasts a double-digit lead over the Conservatives in a deteriorating economic landscape.</div><div><br></div><div>The next general election is due by January 2025 at the latest, but could come sooner, with most people expecting it in 2024.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Remarkable achievement\' -</div><div><br></div><div>The leadership contest has been dominated by how to respond to Britain\'s growing economic woes, with the rival candidates and their camps descending into open political warfare.</div><div><br></div><div>Truss has pledged immediate tax cuts and renewed focus on economic growth, while assailing her rival for pushing taxes to record highs and presiding over declining growth.</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak has emphasised the need to maintain current taxes -- including recent rises -- in the short-term, while pledging more targeted support for the most needy during the cost-of-living crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>He has argued his finance ministry record during the pandemic shows he can help Britons through the economic woes.</div><div><br></div><div>His furlough scheme, which temporarily paid the wages of millions, is credited with staving off mass unemployment.</div><div><br></div><div>First elected to parliament in 2015 and a Brexit supporter during the 2016 referendum, Sunak has accused Truss of \"fairytale economics\" and claimed her tax cuts will worsen inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>But analysts say the campaign has shown Truss -- first elected an MP in 2010 -- possesses superior political experience and skills.</div><div><br></div><div>\"She was able to communicate effectively,\" said polling expert John Curtice, noting Sunak had appeared a \"bit brittle\".</div><div><br></div><div>Politics professor Tim Bale, of Queen Mary University of London, noted Truss had in some ways defied her own record.</div><div><br></div><div>A minister in successive Tory governments for the past decade, who voted to remain in the European Union in 2016, she nonetheless showcased a populist anti-establishment image in the race, reports AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"She\'s somehow managed to present herself as more Brexiteer than Rishi Sunak, who actually voted to leave (the EU), which is a remarkable achievement,\" said Bale.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 23:10:39', '2022-08-29 23:10:39');
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(1319, 1319, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In Hollywood, the world’s pre-eminent industry for commercial cinema, everything must meet a high bar in terms of quality and technical proficiency.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The same exacting standards and production values informing a film must also usually reflect in its trailer – a crucial element that acts as the centrepiece of all activities aimed at promoting a movie once it is made. The same would apply to more contemporary innovations or interpretations of the trailer, e.g. teasers, that are well-suited to the age of social media.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the story of a young man from Laksham in Cumilla, Bangladesh - Jisan Kamrul Hasan, and how his relentless pursuit of a dream has taken him all the way to Culver City, California - the most populous as well as economically advanced of the 50 constituent states that comprise the United States of America - and the home of Hollywood.</div><div><br></div><div>Culver City itself is a hub of film and television production, best known as the home of the renowned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or MGM Studios. But how did Jisan end up there?</div><div><br></div><div>More importantly, what was this young Bangladeshi motion graphic designer’s journey like, on the road to getting to work on the teasers and trailers for some of the most popularmovies and series in recent times, from the critically acclaimed “Last Night in Soho” to the graphic-intensive hit &amp;quot;Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” from Marvel Studios.</div><div><br></div><div>Following a recent interview with a leading national daily, Jisan became known to the nation, and naturally many in the entertainment industry as well as netizens are waiting for an opportunity to give vent to their curiosity to learn more about Jisan and his journey.</div><div><br></div><div>“My journey actually started at a very early age back in 2002, when I was stunned by the majestic visuals in “The Lord of the Rings.” I wondered about the motion graphics, and I decided that I would learn this,” Jisan said in a telephone interview with UNB from his Hollywood home, engaging at length on different topics.</div><div><br></div><div>It wasn\'t until 2007 though, that Jisan would even get his first personal computer.</div><div><br></div><div>“At this stage though, things started moving very fast in my lane in life. Soon, sometime in 2008, I moved to Dhaka and began practising Photoshop on my own, thanks to YouTube.</div><div><br></div><div>His interest and practice in 3D animation and motion graphics led him to begin his bachelors in CSE at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST).</div><div><br></div><div>“I was already making money from graphic design and photography at that point and got my first opportunity as a motion designer after one of the seniors of my mess roommate approached me in 2012 and asked if I would be interested in working for his business as a graphic designer.”</div><div><br></div><div>That’s how a lifelong passion was stoked inside a young man with his future ahead of him.</div><div><br></div><div>“In 2013 I bought my camera and started photography as a freelancer. This phase of my life circulated around the dream of being a filmmaker. I made some short films, done wedding photographs, made a bunch of creative and talented friends and used to have regular and frequent visits to ‘Chobir Hat’ at Dhaka University’s Charukala,” Jisan reminisced.</div><div><br></div><div>Then in September, 2016, Jisan moved from Bangladesh to New York in the US East Coast, where he began working for a newspaper as a graphic designer, courtesy of an expatriate journalist Kazi Shamsul Hoque. “Little did I know, my real struggle was just starting,” Jisan says.</div><div><br></div><div>“I moved to Los Angeles in 2017, and the first year I had to survive with the bare minimum. A big and totally new city, a pretty costlier environment, and thousands of other obstacles. I survived, but then COVID-19 hit and I finally realised that was it, I had to put everything aside and give my passion a final try.”</div><div><br></div><div>It was a “Now or Never” situation for boy from Laksham, and so he embarked on this one last attempt with everything he had.</div><div><br></div><div>“I left my job, started learning motion graphics design from video tutorials and reading articles and books, evaluating movies, and learning new software such as After Effects, Cinema 4D, Houdini, and Nuke -this routine continued from March 2020 till December that year, every day for 15 to 18 hours. It was unimaginably tough for me as a newbie, but I made it through sacrificing nights of sleep and other luxuries,” Jisan recounts.</div><div><br></div><div>He then prepared his showreel from January 2021 till May that year, then took a short break from June to August when he came home to Bangladesh to spend the Eid-ul-Azha holidays with his family, after five long years away.</div><div><br></div><div>However he returned to LA in August and started applying for jobs, this time for the position that would let him pursue his true passion – as a motion graphics designer. Everyday, Jisan would send off his showreel/portfolio to 30–40 different production companies, hoping to at least strike a chord with some of them, or even one of them. But in those first few months, it just wasn’t to be.</div><div><br></div><div>“I was, unfortunately, not getting too many interview calls,” Jisan continued. “I even personally messaged my showreel to many directors and producers, and finally, after three months, my current employer, Wild Card Creative, contacted and selected me. I joined here in November 2021.”</div><div><br></div><div>Run by a husband-wife partnership with years of experience and lucrative contacts in and around the industry, Wild Card Creative’s star has been rising in Hollywood over the last decade or so.</div><div><br></div><div>Jisan\'s first experience creating a trailer was for the movie \"Last Night in Soho,\" although he considers a clip for \"House of Gucci\" to be his first significant piece of work.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to his employers’ growing reputation, he eventually got opportunities to contribute to the promotional trailers and teasers for some pretty major recent productions like \"The Batman,\" \"Morbius,\" Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\" and legendary director Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake of \"West Side Story\".</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to these movies, he also worked on a number of television docuseries, including \"Bosch: Legacy,\" \"Tehran”, (Season 2) \"The Kardashians\" and others.</div><div><br></div><div>“We made the teasers and trailers which are distributed among all major social channels including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat, alongside our productions for theatres and television,” Jisan told UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Defining the industry and the trailer market, Jisan said, “This is undoubtedly a multi-billion dollar industry, as teasers-trailers are the first gateway to reach the audiences. There are two kinds of trailers that we make - for domestic (US) audiences and the other version is for international viewers.”</div><div><br></div><div>He also drops some valuable insight: “if we analyse the industry for the last six months - viewership of series and docuseries is rising with the blooming of more and more streaming sites.”</div><div><br></div><div>When asked to define the technological barriers or advantages he observes in the US, in comparison to the industry of his motherland - Jisan said, “I personally don’t think technology is the barrier, because I have seen similar or close to similar types of equipment in Bangladesh as well. It’s the dedication and hard work that matters the most, in this industry. I even made a trailer up to 200 times before finally producing a quality one.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He added, “The colleagues are cordial and helpful, they never discouraged me when I tried to make something new.”</div><div><br></div><div>As Jisan was born and brought up in Bangladesh, and also worked in the entertainment and creative industry here for a while, he needs no lowdown on Bangladeshi content.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“I have seen the trailers of recently released and well-received films including “Hawa,” and I do believe the industry will thrive again like our glorious past if we continue quality filmmaking for the upcoming years as well.”</div><div><br></div><div>Like most Bangladeshis, Jisan has a soft corner for the 1971 Liberation War. His uncle, Shaheed Dr Abul Khair Mohammad Golam Mostafa, the elder brother of his mother, attained martyrdom as a freedom fighter.</div><div><br></div><div>Deep inside, Jisan retains a drive to make a film on the Liberation War. Perhaps that could be the culmination of his dream, to use his skill in crafting a full length feature film, beyond just trailers.</div><div><br></div><div>“I won’t leave my profession as this is the one for which I passionately struggled day in and night out. Deep down inside I do have the dream to make a film on our glorious Liberation</div><div><br></div><div>War - but from a unique perspective. And that will only be possible if I get the proper creative freedom and budget for the purpose of my storytelling.” This proud flagbearer for Bangladesh in the cut-throat US entertainment industry yearns to see more Bangladeshi colleagues around him.</div><div><br></div><div>“At the age of 32, I finally realised what I want to do for the rest of my life. This field of work is a lifetime commitment for me, and I wish to see myself as a successful art director in the coming years,” Jisan says before we finish the conversation.</div><div><br></div><div>He now has a nation’s prayers with him. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 23:26:47', '2022-08-29 23:26:47'),
(1320, 1320, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Libya\'s rival premiers on Sunday traded accusations over deadly clashes in Tripoli -- the worst in the capital since a landmark 2020 ceasefire and which sparked fears of a major new conflict.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The health ministry said 32 people were killed and 159 wounded during the fighting between rival armed groups which began overnight Friday and continued into Saturday, setting buildings on fire and damaging several hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>The fighting came after months of mounting tensions between backers of Abdulhamid Dbeibah and Fathi Bashagha, whose administrations are vying for control of the oil-rich North African country.</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah, whose government was installed in Tripoli in the country\'s west as part of a United Nations-led peace process last year, accused his rivals of responding to \"foreign agendas\".</div><div><br></div><div>Local media and experts said Bashagha had failed in what was his second attempt to dislodge his rival from the capital in three months.</div><div><br></div><div>In a video address late Sunday, Dbeibah lashed out at \"criminals\" and \"putschists\" who \"waged war on the capital with tanks and heavy weapons\".</div><div><br></div><div>He vowed to \"go after all those involved\" and to relocate the headquarters of some armed groups outside the city centre.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, his rival Bashagha, who was appointed by Libya\'s eastern-based parliament this year, said Dbeibah, \"his ruling family and his armed gangs\" were \"responsible for the blood that flowed\" in Tripoli, accusing them of wanting to cling onto power \"at any cost\".</div><div><br></div><div>Bashagha, a former interior minister, is backed by powerful eastern military chief Khalifa Haftar, whose 2019 attempt to seize the capital by force turned into a year-long conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah has refused to cede power on the grounds that the next administration should be the product of elections.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Terrified\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Libya plunged into chaos following the 2011 overthrow and killing of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a NATO-backed uprising, with myriad armed groups and foreign powers moving to fill the power vacuum.</div><div><br></div><div>A cautious calm had set in by Saturday evening, an AFP correspondent reported. Flights resumed and shops re-opened on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>During the fighting, rockets \"were flying over our heads, in the middle of residential buildings,\" said resident Mohammed Abaya, 38.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We were terrified,\" said another resident, retiree Lotfi Ben Rajab. \"A rocket fell in my neighbour\'s living room but didn\'t explode, thank God\".</div><div><br></div><div>Bashagha had initially ruled out the use of violence to take power in Tripoli but subsequently hinted that he could resort to force.</div><div><br></div><div>Certain armed groups, seen as neutral in the latest crisis, returned to support Dbeibah this weekend to push back Bashagha.</div><div><br></div><div>The public prosecutor on Sunday asked the head of passports to issue travel bans against Bashagha, some of his ministers and a former military intelligence official, according to a letter carried by local media.</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah said earlier Sunday he would create two committees to survey the damage from the fighting.</div><div><br></div><div>- Shifting sands -</div><div><br></div><div>Dbeibah\'s Government of National Unity said fighting had broken out after negotiations to avoid bloodshed in Tripoli collapsed. Bashagha denied such talks had taken place.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN\'s Libya mission had called for \"an immediate cessation of hostilities\", deploring \"indiscriminate medium and heavy shelling in civilian-populated neighbourhoods\".</div><div><br></div><div>Local media reported late Saturday that a group of pro-Bashagha militias that had been making their way to the capital from Misrata later turned back.</div><div><br></div><div>The fighting prompted several airlines to cancel flights to and from the capital, but flights resumed and shops reopened on Sunday morning. Educational institutions said student exams would go ahead on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday evening, Dbeibah ordered the arrest of anyone involved in the \"attack on Tripoli\", both civilian and military.</div><div><br></div><div>A pro-GNU force from Misrata -- the hometown of both Dbeibah and Bashagha -- said Sunday it had arrested several \"assailants\".</div><div><br></div><div>But analysts said the crisis was far from resolved, with the capital controlled by a multitude of armed groups with shifting alliances.</div><div><br></div><div>The \"groups that found themselves on the same side in yesterday\'s Tripoli fighting will tomorrow clash over turf, positions and budgets,\" analyst Wolfram Lacher said on Twitter, reports AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The factions that were pro-Dbeibah yesterday will challenge him tomorrow.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-29 23:51:13', '2022-08-29 23:51:13'),
(1321, 1321, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale hit near Malaysia\'s Kuala Lumpur on Monday, according to the National Centre for Seismology.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The quake occurred at around 8.59 am today with the epicentre at 566 km SW of Kuala Lumpur and the depth at 10 Km. The latitude was found to be -0.97 whereas the longitude was 98.68.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, on Tuesday, an earthquake hit the waters off the southwestern coast of Sumatra island at around 9:30 pm, nearest to Bengkulu, South Sumatra and Lampung provinces.</div><div><br></div><div>The epicentre of the quake was in the sea about 64 kilometres from shore, ANI reported.</div><div><br></div><div>However, no casualties or damages were immediately reported by authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 00:10:38', '2022-08-30 00:10:38'),
(1322, 1322, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque said the government has a plan to manufacture anti-venom serum locally as the lives of people could be saved from snake biting.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We usually use anti-venom serum for providing life saving treatment of snakebites and the government is planning to manufacture this particular type of injections based in Chattogram,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said this while responding to a query made by Quazi Feroz Rashid of Dhaka-6 in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) here this afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>At present, the government is now importing such types of sterile medicines from abroad and steps have been taken to reach these medicines at all upazilas and districts throughout the country, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>But still there is shortage of experienced health workers to use this particular types of medicine effectively, he said, adding: \"It will take time and we are preparing trained people to this end.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Snakebite causes over 6,000 deaths and some 7,00,000 people get bitten by snakes annually in Bangladesh, said the minister referring to statistics. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 00:32:14', '2022-08-30 00:32:14'),
(1323, 1323, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NASA called off the test flight on Monday of its largest-ever Moon rocket because of a temperature issue with one of the four giant engines.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The launch director has called a scrub for the day,\" the US space agency said.</div><div><br></div><div>Alternative dates for launch of the Artemis 1 mission, an uncrewed flight around the Moon as part of an ambitious program to eventually go to Mars, are Friday and next Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Blastoff had been planned for 8:33 am (1233 GMT) but was put on hold because of a temperature problem with one of the four engines on the 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.</div><div><br></div><div>Tens of thousands of people -- including US Vice President Kamala Harris -- had gathered near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the launch, which comes 50 years after Apollo 17 astronauts last set foot on the Moon.</div><div><br></div><div>The goal of the flight is to test the SLS and Orion crew capsule that sits atop the rocket. Mannequins equipped with sensors are standing in for a crew for the mission.</div><div><br></div><div>Overnight operations to fill the orange-and-white rocket with more than three million liters of ultra-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen were briefly delayed by a high risk of lightning.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 3:00 am, another hiccup emerged: a potential leak was detected during the filling of the main stage with hydrogen, causing a pause. After tests, the flow resumed.</div><div><br></div><div>But NASA engineers later detected a problem with the temperature in one of the four RS-25 engines and put a hold on the countdown before eventually scrubbing the launch.</div><div><br></div><div>The rocket\'s Orion capsule is to orbit the Moon to see if the vessel is safe for people in the near future. At some point, Artemis aims to put a woman and a person of color on the Moon for the first time.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This mission goes with a lot of hopes and dreams of a lot of people,\" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.</div><div><br></div><div>- Extreme temperatures -</div><div><br></div><div>During the 42-day trip, the Orion capsule will orbit the Moon, coming within 60 miles (100 kilometers) at its closest approach, and then fire its engines to shoot out 40,000 miles -- a record for a spacecraft rated to carry humans.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the mission\'s primary objectives is to test the capsule\'s heat shield, which at 16 feet in diameter is the largest ever built.</div><div><br></div><div>On its return to Earth\'s atmosphere, the heat shield will have to withstand a speed of 25,000 miles per hour and a temperature of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius) -- roughly half as hot as the Sun.</div><div><br></div><div>The dummies aboard the spacecraft will record acceleration, vibration and radiation levels.</div><div><br></div><div>The craft will deploy small satellites to study the lunar surface.</div><div><br></div><div>A complete failure would be devastating for a program costing $4.1 billion per launch that is already years behind schedule.</div><div><br></div><div>- Life on the Moon -</div><div><br></div><div>The next mission, Artemis 2, will take astronauts into orbit around the Moon without landing on its surface. The crew of Artemis 3 is to land on the Moon in 2025 at the earliest.</div><div><br></div><div>And since humans have already visited the Moon, Artemis has its sights set on another lofty goal: a crewed mission to Mars.</div><div><br></div><div>The Artemis program is to establish a lasting human presence on the Moon with an orbiting space station known as Gateway and a base on the surface.</div><div><br></div><div>Gateway would serve as a staging and refueling station for a voyage to Mars that would take a minimum of several months. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 00:55:06', '2022-08-30 00:55:06'),
(1324, 1324, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni has said that the government is imparting training to 200,000 secondary school teachers on student counseling to boost students\' self-confidence so they can prevent social curses like suicides.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"We are providing training to 2 lakh secondary-level school teachers on student counseling under a programme,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Dipu Moni said that while speaking about trend of committing suicide among students at a view-exchange meeting with journalists at her ministry office.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Education Reporters Association of Bangladesh (ERAB) and Education Ministry jointly organized the meeting with ERAB President Abhijit Bhattacharjya in the chair.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The minister said usually the students commit suicide due to depression as they sometimes feel academic or family pressure and unemployment problems.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"So, there is no alternative to counseling to boost their self confidence,\" she added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Noting that a module has been prepared by counseling experts and psychiatrists for the training programme, Dipu Moni said the government has a target of ensuring at least two expert teachers at every school across the country for students\' counseling.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Speaking about university\'s student counseling cell, she said all universities have already student counseling cell, \"but we will sit with university vice-chancellor council soon to know about the current situation of the cell and give further directives to strengthen its activities\".</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Asked about any possibility of changing the class time for educational institutions, the minister said, the government has taken the decision considering the overall situation like guardians\' office hour, therefore there is no scope for changing the class time.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Regarding two-day weekly holiday for educational institution, Dipu Moni said, \"If it would have been possible to fix Thursday and Friday as weekly holiday for schools and colleges, the capital would see less traffic for three day in a week\", reports BSS.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>But, considering the students\' safety and security, the holidays have been fixed in line with the general weekly holidays, she added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>ERAB General Secretary Aktaruzzaman conducted the meeting while Advisor Rakib Uddin, former President Mushtaq Ahmed, Vice President Nuruzzaman Mamun, Joint Secretary Najiur Rahman Sohel, Organizing Secretary Murad Hossain, Treasurer Syed Altefat Hossain, Office Secretary Selim Ahmed, Publicity Secretary Rahul Sharma, Publications Secretary Tuhin Saiful, Training and Research Affairs Secretary Rumman Turjo, Sports and Social Welfare Secretary Murad Mazumdar, ICT Affairs Secretary Enamul Haque Prince, Executive Member Bibash Baroi and Abdul Hai Tuhin joined the meeting, among others.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Private Secretary to the Education Minister Abu Ali Md Shazzad Hossain and Information and Public Relation Officer MA Khair were present at the meeting, among others.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 01:43:17', '2022-08-30 01:43:17'),
(1325, 1325, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tens of millions of people across swathes of Pakistan were Monday battling the worst monsoon floods in a decade, with countless homes washed away, vital farmland destroyed, and the country’s main river threatening to burst its banks.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Officials say 1,061 people have died since June when the seasonal rains began, but the final toll could be higher as hundreds of villages in the mountainous north have been cut off after flood-swollen rivers washed away roads and bridges.</div><div><br></div><div>The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but it can also bring destruction.</div><div><br></div><div>This year’s flooding has affected more than 33 million people — one in seven Pakistanis — said the National Disaster Management Authority.</div><div><br></div><div>“What we see now is an ocean of water submerging entire districts,” Climate Minister Sherry Rehman told AFP Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is very far from a normal monsoon — it is climate dystopia at our doorstep.”</div><div><br></div><div>This year’s floods are comparable to those of 2010 — the worst on record — when more than 2,000 people died and nearly a fifth of the country was under water.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, on a tour of the north to oversee relief operations, said the monsoon rains were “unprecedented in the last 30 years.”</div><div><br></div><div>Near Sukkur, a city in southern Sindh province and home to an aging colonial-era barrage on the Indus River that is vital to preventing further catastrophe, one farmer lamented the devastation wrought on his rice fields.</div><div><br></div><div>Millions of acres of rich farmland have been flooded by weeks of non-stop rain, but now the Indus is threatening to burst its banks as torrents of water course downstream from tributaries in the north.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our crop spanned over 5,000 acres on which the best quality rice was sown and is eaten by you and us,” Khalil Ahmed, 70, told AFP.</div><div>“All that is finished.”</div><div><br></div><div>Much of Sindh is now an endless landscape of water, hampering a massive military-led relief operation.</div><div><br></div><div>“There are no landing strips or approaches available... our pilots find it difficult to land,” one senior officer told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>The army’s helicopters were also struggling to pluck people to safety in the north, where soaring mountains and deep valleys make for treacherous flying conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>Many rivers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province — which boasts some of Pakistan’s best tourist spots — have burst their banks, demolishing scores of buildings including a 150-room hotel that crumbled into a raging torrent.</div><div><br></div><div>The government has declared an emergency and appealed for international help, and on Sunday the first aid flights began arriving — from Turkey and the UAE.</div><div><br></div><div>It could not have come at a worse time for Pakistan, where the economy is in free fall.</div><div><br></div><div>In Washington later Monday, the International Monetary Fund executive board was scheduled to meet to decide whether to green-light the resumption of a $6 billion loan program essential for the country to service its foreign debt, but it is already clear the country will need more to repair and rebuild after this monsoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Prices of basic goods — particularly onions, tomatoes and chickpeas — are soaring as vendors bemoan a lack of supplies from the flooded breadbasket provinces of Sindh and Punjab.</div><div><br></div><div>The met office said the country as a whole had received twice the usual monsoon rainfall, but Balochistan and Sindh had more than four times the average of the last three decades.</div><div><br></div><div>Padidan, a small town in Sindh, was drenched by more than 1.2 meters (47 inches) of rain since June, making it the wettest place in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Across Sindh, thousands of displaced people are camped alongside elevated highways and railway tracks — often the only dry spots as far as the eye can see.</div><div><br></div><div>More are arriving daily at Sukkur’s city ring road, belongings piled on boats and tractor trollies, looking for shelter until the floodwaters recede.</div><div><br></div><div>Sukkur Barrage supervisor Aziz Soomro told AFP the main headway of water was expected to arrive around September 5, but was confident the 90-year-old sluice gates would cope.</div><div><br></div><div>The barrage diverts water from the Indus into 10,000 km of canals that make up one of the world’s biggest irrigation schemes, but the farms it supplies are now mostly under water.</div><div><br></div><div>The only bright spark was the latest weather report.</div><div><br></div><div>“Dry weather is forecasted for this week and there is no chance of significant rains,” said met office spokesman Zaheer Ahmed Babar. - AFP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 02:04:48', '2022-08-30 02:05:24'),
(1326, 1326, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The remittance inflow moved slightly upward in the first 25 days of this August as Bangladeshi expatriates sent out more than $1.72 billion through the official banking channels, according to data submitted to the Bangladesh Bank by different banks.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh received $2.92 billion inward remittances in July, thanks to Eid-ul-Azha when Bangladeshis living abroad sent more money to families to celebrate one of the biggest festivals for Muslims.</div><div><br></div><div>The expatriates sent $1.81 billion in remittances in August of the last fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>Amid declining foreign exchange reserves due to rising import bills, many private sector banks are now bringing home more remittances than the public sector ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Different private banks are buying dollars at a higher rate than state-owned ones, which is helping them attract more remittances.</div><div><br></div><div>From 1 to 25 August, Islami Bank received $356.23 million, Agrani Bank $110.12 million, and City Bank 109.43 million in remittances.</div><div><br></div><div>Pubali Bank received $5.48 million, Dutch-Bangla Bank $95.38 million, and Rupali Bank $93.53 million.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh saw its inward remittance drop by 15.12 percent to $21.03 billion year-on-year in FY22 after growing by more than 36 percent to $24.78 in FY21.</div><div><br></div><div>It is mentionable though, that the drop is made steeper by the fact that the inward remittance figure for FY21 was an all-time record. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 02:19:25', '2022-08-30 02:19:25'),
(1327, 1327, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said the government has approved Drug Act-2022 with a provision of ten years imprisonment and Taka 10 lakh fine aiming to check substandard medicine.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The cabinet has in principle approved&nbsp; Drug Act-2022 with a provision of rigorous punishment and Taka 10 lakh fine for&nbsp; manufacturing, stockpiling and selling of fake medicine,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said this while responding to a query made by opposition lawmaker&nbsp; Syed Abu Hossain Babla of Dhaka-4 at the question-answer session at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban herewith Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>The drug administration with the help of law enforcing agencies usually administer regular drive against the manufacturers of counterfeit drugs.</div><div><br></div><div>The drug administration in association with the Directorate of Health Services have taken various actions&nbsp; during January 2021 to June 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the initiatives,&nbsp; 3,136 cases filed through the mobile court, realized over Taka&nbsp; 3.66 crore as fines,104 cases filed in the magistrate courts,25 cases filed in drug courts and licenses have been cancelled of 53 fake drug manufacturers.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile , the government has already conducted a country-wide drive against substandard private hospitals and shut down a total of 1700 private hospitals and diagnostic centers.</div><div><br></div><div>The government will conduct the drive regularly to bring discipline in the health sector, the minister told the parliament while responding to another supplementary query. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 03:16:44', '2022-08-30 03:16:44'),
(1328, 1328, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission Monday to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited trip the world hopes will help avoid a radioactive catastrophe.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The stakes couldn\'t be higher for the International Atomic Energy Agency experts who will visit the plant in a country where the 1986 Chernobyl disaster spewed radiation throughout the region, shocking the world and intensifying a global push away from nuclear energy.</div><div><br></div><div>“Without an exaggeration, this mission will be the hardest in the history of IAEA,\" Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.</div><div>Underscoring the urgency, Ukraine and Russia again accused each other of shelling the wider region around the nuclear power plant, Europe\'s largest, which was briefly knocked offline last week. The dangers are so high that officials have begun handing out anti-radiation iodine tablets to nearby residents.</div><div><br></div><div>To avoid a disaster, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi has sought access for months to the Zaporizhzhia plant, which Russian forces have occupied since the early days of the six-month-old war. Ukrainian nuclear workers have been operating the plant.</div><div><br></div><div>“The day has come,” Grossi tweeted Monday, adding that the Vienna-based IAEA’s “Support and Assistance Mission ... is now on its way.”</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine\'s Foreign Ministry spokesman said the team, which Grossi heads, was scheduled to arrive in Kyiv on Monday. In April, Grossi had headed an IAEA mission to Chernobyl, which Russian forces occupied earlier in the war.</div><div><br></div><div>The IAEA said that its team will “undertake urgent safeguards activities,” assess damage, determine the functionality of the plant\'s safety and security systems and evaluate the control room staff\'s working conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine\'s nuclear energy agency, Energoatom, warned Monday of Russian attempts to cover up their military use of the plant.</div><div><br></div><div>“The occupiers, preparing for the arrival of the IAEA mission, increased pressure on the personnel ... to prevent them from disclosing evidence of the occupiers’ crimes at the plant and its use as a military base,” Energoatom said, adding that four plant workers were wounded in Russian shelling of the city where they live.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine accused Russia of new rocket and artillery strikes at or near the plant, intensifying fears that the fighting could cause a massive radiation leak. So far, radiation levels at the facility, which has six reactors, have been reported to be normal.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine has alleged that Russia is essentially holding the plant hostage, storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it, while Moscow accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the facility.</div><div><br></div><div>World leaders have called on the Russians to demilitarize the plant. Satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies on Monday showed armored personnel carriers on a road near the reactors, damage to a building\'s roof also near the reactors, and brush fires burning nearby.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine reported more Russian shelling in Nikopol, across the Dnieper River from the nuclear power plant, with one person killed and five wounded. Relentless shelling has hit the city for weeks. In Enerhodar, a few kilometers from the plant, the city’s Ukrainian mayor, Dmytro Orlov, blamed Russian shelling for wounding at least 10 residents.</div><div><br></div><div>Kuleba, Ukraine\'s foreign minister, said in Stockholm that he expects the IAEA mission to produce “a clear statement of facts, of violation of all nuclear, of nuclear safety protocols.\" He added, \"We know that Russia is putting not only Ukraine, but also the entire world at threat at the risk of nuclear accident.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will ensure the IAEA mission\'s security, and he called on other countries to “raise pressure on the Ukrainian side to force it to stop threatening the European continent by shelling the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and surrounding areas.”</div><div><br></div><div>Over the weekend, Energoatom painted an ominous picture of the threats at the plant by issuing a map forecasting where radiation could spread if a leak occurred.</div><div><br></div><div>Elsewhere on the battlefield, the Ukraine military claimed it had breached Russia’s first line of defense near Kherson just north of the Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Such an advance would represent a strategic breakthrough — if confirmed. Kherson is the biggest Ukrainian city that the Russians now occupy, and reports about Ukrainian forces preparing for a counteroffensive in the region have circulated for weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>For its part, Russia\'s Defense Ministry said its forces had inflicted heavy personnel and military equipment losses on Ukrainian troops trying to attack in three directions in Ukraine\'s southern Kherson and Mykoaiv regions, the state news agency Tass reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Residents reported explosions Monday at a Kherson-area bridge over the Dnieper River that is a critical Russian supply line, and Russian news reports spoke of air defense systems activating repeatedly in the city, with nighttime explosions in the sky Monday night.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian-installed officials, citing Ukrainian rocket strikes, announced the evacuation of residents of nearby Nova Kakhovka — a city that Kyiv’s forces frequently target — from their workplaces to bomb shelters on Monday. In another Kherson region city, Berislav, Russian news agencies reported that Ukrainian shelling had damaged a church, a school and other buildings.</div><div><br></div><div>But in a war rife with claims and counterclaims that are hard to verify independently, the Moscow-appointed regional leader of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, dismissed the Ukrainian assertion of an offensive in the Kherson region as false. He said Ukrainian forces have suffered heavy losses in the area. And Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, cautioned against “super-sensational announcements” about a counteroffensive.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted to speculation about whether his forces had launched a major counteroffensive in southern Ukraine by asking in his nightly video address Monday, “Anyone want to know what our plans are? You won’t hear specifics from any truly responsible person. Because this is war.”</div><div><br></div><div>In the eastern Donetsk region, eight civilians were reported killed and seven wounded. Russian forces struck the cities of Sloviansk and Kostyantynivka overnight and the region\'s Ukrainian governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, urged residents to evacuate immediately. Source: AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 17:33:12', '2022-08-30 17:33:12'),
(1329, 1329, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The rains that began in June have unleashed the worst flooding in more than a decade, washing away swathes of vital crops and damaging or destroying more than a million homes.</div><div><br></div><div>Authorities and charities are struggling to accelerate aid delivery to more than 33 million people affected, a challenging task in areas cut off because roads and bridges have been washed away.</div><div><br></div><div>In the south and west, dry land is limited, with displaced people crammed onto elevated highways and railroad tracks to escape the flooded plains.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We don\'t even have space to cook food. We need help,\" Rimsha Bibi, a schoolgirl in Dera Ghazi Khan in central Pakistan, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan receives heavy -- often destructive -- rains during its annual monsoon season, which are crucial for agriculture and water supplies.</div><div><br></div><div>But such intense downpours have not been seen for three decades.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistani officials have blamed climate change, which is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>\"To see the devastation on the ground is really mind-boggling,\" Pakistan\'s climate change minister Sherry Rehman told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"When we send in water pumps, they say \'Where do we pump the water?\' It\'s all one big ocean, there\'s no dry land to pump the water out.\"</div><div><br></div><div>She said \"literally a third\" of the country was under water, comparing scenes from the disaster to a dystopian movie.</div><div><br></div><div>Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said Pakistan needed more than $10 billion to repair and rebuild damaged infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Massive damage has been caused... especially in the areas of telecommunications, roads, agriculture and livelihoods,\" he told AFP Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Indus River, which runs along the length of the South Asian nation, is threatening to burst its banks as torrents of water rush downstream from its tributaries in the north.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan as a whole had been deluged with twice the usual monsoon rainfall, the meteorological office said, but Balochistan and Sindh provinces had seen more than four times the average of the last three decades.</div><div><br></div><div>- International help -</div><div><br></div><div>The disaster could not have come at a worse time for Pakistan, where the economy is in free fall.</div><div><br></div><div>Appealing for international help, the government has declared an emergency.</div><div><br></div><div>Aid flights have arrived in recent days from Turkey and the UAE, while other nations including Canada, Australia and Japan have also pledged assistance.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations has announced it will launch a formal $160 million appeal on Tuesday to fund emergency aid.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan was already desperate for international support and the floods have compounded the challenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Prices of basic goods -- particularly onions, tomatoes and chickpeas -- are soaring as vendors bemoan a lack of supplies from the flooded breadbasket provinces of Sindh and Punjab.</div><div><br></div><div>There was some relief on Monday when the International Monetary Fund approved the revival of a loan programme for Pakistan, releasing an initial $1.1 billion.</div><div><br></div><div>Makeshift relief camps have sprung up all over Pakistan -- in schools, on motorways and in military bases.</div><div><br></div><div>In the northwestern town of Nowshera, a technical college was turned into a shelter for up to 2,500 flood victims.</div><div><br></div><div>They sweltered in the summer heat with sporadic food aid and little access to water.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I never thought that one day we will have to live like this,\" said 60-year-old Malang Jan.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have lost our heaven and are now forced to live a miserable life.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 19:58:30', '2022-08-30 19:58:30'),
(1330, 1330, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat asking why his bail should not be cancelled in a money laundering case.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A bench of justices Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Khizir Hayat issued the rule on a plea by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seeking cancellation of the bail.</div><div><br></div><div>The court fixed October 23 as the next date of hearing in the case.</div><div>Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan represented the ACC during the hearing.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, the ACC lawyer filed the plea after taking permission from the High Court bench of justices.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 22, Judge Asad Md Asifuzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 granted bail to Samrat in the money laundering case.</div><div><br></div><div>The court granted him bail till September 19 considering his poor health condition on a Tk 10,000 bond.</div><div><br></div><div>With this, Samrat has secured bail in four cases and there is no legal bar to his release, said his lawyer Ehsanul Haque Samazi.</div><div><br></div><div>The judge had also asked him to submit his passport to the court as his bail condition, and he was also asked to take the court\'s permission to go abroad.</div><div>Samrat secured bail in a drugs case on April 11 and in an Arms Act case and the money laundering case on April 10.</div><div><br></div><div>The expelled Jubo League leader was under treatment at the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital from November 24 last year.</div><div><br></div><div>In October 2019, Rab detained Samrat and his associate Enamul Haque Arman from Chauddagram in Cumilla.</div><div><br></div><div>Rab raided his Kakrail office the next day. Huge quantities of foreign liquor, pistols, and two hides of kangaroo were seized from his office.</div><div><br></div><div>He was later sentenced by a mobile court to six months in prison under the Wildlife Conservation Act.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Khaleque, deputy assistant director of Rab-1, lodged two complaints against Samrat at Ramna police station under the Arms and the Narcotics acts. Arman was made an accused in the narcotics case.</div><div><br></div><div>Shekhar Chandra Mallik, a sub-inspector, submitted a chargesheet against Samrat in the Arms Act case.</div><div><br></div><div>The ACC lodged a complaint against him for acquiring assets worth Tk 2.94 crore beyond his known sources of income.</div><div><br></div><div>Rashedur Rahman, sub-inspector of CID, registered a case against him at the Ramna police station for laundering Tk 195 crore to Malaysia and Singapore. Last November, the investigating officer in the case submitted a chargesheet in the court. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-08-30 20:22:50', '2022-08-30 20:22:50');
