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(4660, 4660, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh will not accept those Russian ships which are under sanctions.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said there are 69 Russian ships which are under sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We don\'t want to accept those ships which are under sanctions. We have developed good relations with the US,\" Momen said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said it came to them as surprise that Russia sent a sanctioned vessel. \"We didn\'t expect that.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Momen hoped that Russia will now send non-sanctioned ships carrying required materials.</div><div><br></div><div>Sanctioned Russian ship Sparta III was scheduled to dock at Mongla port in the southwestern part of the country at the end of December,2022 and unload cargo destined for the Rooppur NPP in Pabna.</div><div><br></div><div>But the authorities denied the ship permission to dock at the port after officials got a letter from the US Embassy in Dhaka saying that the ship was on a list of Russian ships sanctioned by the US. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 09:42:43', '2023-01-22 09:42:43'),
(4661, 4661, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a convicted member of the banned militant group Hizb ut-Tahrir from Dhaka\'s Jatrabari area.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The arrestee was identified as Tauhidur Rahman Tauhid, 32, an active member of the ‘Dawah’ and finance department of the militant group. He was sentenced to two years\' rigorous imprisonment by an Anti-Terrorism Tribunal.</div><div><br></div><div>Tipped off, a special team of Rab-2 conducted a drive in Dhaka\'s Jatrabari on Saturday and arrested Tauhid, Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Fazlul Haque, senior additional director (Media) of Rab-2, said.</div><div><br></div><div>Tauhid was indicted in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at the capital\'s Hazaribagh Police Station. He has been absconding for the past 11 years and continued his involvement with the militant group, said the Rab official.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the Rab official, Tauhid was actively involved in anti-state activities, holding meetings to conspire against the government and distributing leaflets and posters of Hizb ut-Tahrir to encourage madrasa and school students to be engaged in militancy, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Efforts are on to nab his associates based on his information. Legal processes are underway against the arrestee, said the Rab officer.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 10:08:41', '2023-01-22 10:08:41'),
(4662, 4662, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi\'s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country\'s information technology rules, said Kanchan Gupta, an adviser to the government, on his Twitter handle on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>While the BBC has not aired the documentary in India, the video was uploaded on some YouTube channels, Gupta said.</div><div><br></div><div>The government has issued orders to Twitter to block over 50 tweets linking to the video of the documentary and YouTube has been instructed to block any uploads of the video, Gupta said. Both YouTube and Twitter have complied with the directions, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat when it was gripped by communal riots that left more than 1,000 people dead, by government count - most of them Muslims. The violence erupted after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire, killing 59.</div><div><br></div><div>Human rights activists estimate at least double that number died in the rioting.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi denied accusations that he failed to stop the rioting. A special investigation team appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the role of Modi and others in the violence said in a 541-page report in 2012 it could find no evidence to prosecute the then-chief minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi was later named the head of his party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which he led to power in general elections in 2014 and then in 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, a spokesperson for India\'s foreign ministry termed the BBC documentary a \"propaganda piece\" meant to push a \"discredited narrative\". Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 10:29:00', '2023-01-22 10:29:00'),
(4663, 4663, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Seven years ago the mobile game \"Pokemon Go\" took the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same \"real-world\" appeal into their new basketball game.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>While players of \"Pokemon Go\" were guided by their mobile phones to real-world locations to collect magical creatures, \"NBA All-World\" allows players to challenge each other to games in the street.</div><div><br></div><div>John Hanke, the boss of Niantic, which produces both games, stresses that just as with Pokemon, players of the NBA game will also require only a mobile phone -- no expensive VR headsets or goggles.</div><div><br></div><div>He is pushing this hybrid-style game as a \"real-world metaverse\", distinguishing it from the experience promoted by Microsoft and others of users sitting at home with masks strapped to their faces.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think it\'s important to support what we do in the real world as human beings, like going out to the restaurant, meeting our friends and not staying at home,\" he told AFP in an interview.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Putting on a VR headset by yourself, to me it\'s a very lonely and scary future. I hope that humanity doesn\'t go in that direction.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In \"NBA All-World\", released this week in France and next Tuesday globally, players choose their favourite NBA star as an avatar and get to meet and play others in the street.</div><div><br></div><div>The social aspect of the game, Hanke said, made mobile phones the perfect device to play on.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is mobile, low cost and almost everybody has one,\" he said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>- Brand buy-in -</div><div><br></div><div>Niantic is hoping to cash in with microtransactions -- players can spend small amounts on virtual items that allow them to move through the game faster or customise their avatars with sneakers from brands such as Adidas or Puma.</div><div><br></div><div>Hanke concedes that the success of \"Pokemon Go\" has helped Niantic get high-level corporate partners onboard.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The success of \'Pokemon Go\' certainly helps us,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Now a cultural phenomenon with more than one billion downloads, \"Pokemon Go\" has generated roughly one billion dollars a year since its launch in July 2016, according to estimates from analytics firm Sensor Tower.</div><div><br></div><div>But Niantic has been unable to produce another hit even approaching that level.</div><div><br></div><div>And it has had notable flops.</div><div><br></div><div>It launched \"Harry Potter: Wizards Unite\" in 2019, only to shut it down in January last year because of a lack of interest.</div><div><br></div><div>Like many other firms in the tech sector, Niantic also made swingeing cuts to its workforce last year, slashing eight percent of its staff and halting four video game projects.</div><div><br></div><div>With this in mind, Hanke is playing down any suggestion that his latest game could reach Pokemon levels of success.</div><div><br></div><div>\"\'Pokemon Go\', as the very first game of its kind, I think took the world by surprise,\" the Niantic boss said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Maybe another game we create for the future will have the same kind of instant viral success, but that\'s probably not a realistic expectation because it\'s kind of an unusual case.\" - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 10:46:04', '2023-01-22 10:46:04'),
(4664, 4664, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least eleven people were killed on Sunday when a residential building collapsed in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The five-storey building housing about 30 people collapsed due to a water leakage affecting its basis. Rescuers are still working on finding survivors, according to SANA</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 11:33:29', '2023-01-22 11:33:29'),
(4665, 4665, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sgt. Bob Boese of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting was reported at 10:22 p.m. and occurred at a business on Garvey Ave. in Monterey Park. The shooter is a male, Boese said early Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials provided no information for several hours after dozens of police officers had responded to reports of the shooting.</div><div><br></div><div>Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people with a large Asian population that’s about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles.</div><div><br></div><div>Seung Won Choi, who owns the Clam House seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from where the shooting happened, told the Los Angles Times that three people rushed into his business and told him to lock the door.</div><div><br></div><div>The people also told Choi that there was a shooter with a machine gun who had multiple rounds of ammunition on him so he could reload. Choi said he believes the shooting took place at a dance club.</div><div><br></div><div>Saturday was the start of the two-day festival, which is one of the largest Lunar New Year events in Southern California. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 12:04:20', '2023-01-22 12:04:20'),
(4666, 4666, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population has already been infected by the virus.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>China a week earlier said nearly 60,000 people had died with Covid in hospitals as of January 12, but there has been widespread skepticism over official data since Beijing abruptly axed anti-virus controls last month.</div><div><br></div><div>China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement on Saturday that 681 hospitalized patients had died of respiratory failure caused by coronavirus infection, and 11,977 had died of other diseases combined with an infection over the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The figures do not include those who died from the virus at home.</div><div>Airfinity, an independent forecasting firm, has estimated daily Covid deaths in China will peak at around 36,000 over the Lunar New Year holiday.</div><div><br></div><div>The firm also estimated that more than 600,000 people have died from the disease since China abandoned the zero-Covid policy in December.</div><div><br></div><div>Tens of millions of people have traveled across the country in recent days for long-awaited reunions with families to mark the biggest holiday in the lunar calendar that fell on Sunday, raising fears of fresh outbreaks.</div><div><br></div><div>But a top health official said China will not experience a second wave of covid infections in the next two to three months after millions return to villages to mark the Lunar New Year because nearly 80 percent of the population has already been infected by the virus.</div><div><br></div><div>“Although a large number of people traveling during the Spring Festival may promote the spread of the epidemic to a certain extent... the current wave of epidemic has already infected about 80 percent of the people in the country,” Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>“In the short term, for example, in the next two to three months, the possibility of... a second wave of the epidemic across the country is very small.”</div><div><br></div><div>China’s transport authorities have predicted that more than two billion trips will be made this month into February in one of the world’s largest mass movements of people. Source: AP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 13:17:38', '2023-01-22 13:18:12'),
(4667, 4667, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Condemnations continued to pour in from across the Arab and Islamic worlds over the burning of a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, by a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party, under the protection of police and with permission from the government, burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Saudi Arabia condemned the Swedish authorities for allowing the far-right politician to burn the Quran.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry affirmed “the kingdom’s firm position calling for the importance of spreading the values of dialogue, tolerance and coexistence, and rejecting hatred and extremism.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Egyptian Foreign Ministry decried the Quran burning as a “disgraceful act.”</div><div><br></div><div>A ministry statement warned that this “disgraceful act provokes the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world.”</div><div><br></div><div>“These extremist practices are inconsistent with the values of respect of others, freedom of belief, human rights and human fundamental freedoms,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Vile attack</div><div>Qatar also denounced in the strongest terms Sweden’s permission to burn the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm.</div><div><br></div><div>“This heinous incident is an act of incitement and a serious provocation to the feelings of more than two billion Muslims in the world,” the Qatari Foreign Ministry said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Arab Emirates (UAE) also condemned the incident and reiterated “its rejection of all practices aimed at destabilizing security and stability in contravention of human and moral values and principles.”</div><div><br></div><div>The UAE renewed its call to renounce hate speech and violence and underscored the need to respect religious symbols and avoid inciting hatred by insulting religions.</div><div><br></div><div>Oman termed the Quran burning as an “act of provocation to the feelings of Muslims and incitement to violence and hatred, by extremists in Sweden.” It underlined the need for international efforts to consolidate the values of tolerance and coexistence and criminalize all acts that promote the ideology of hatred.</div><div><br></div><div>Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah also condemned the Quran burning, saying the incident \"hurts Muslims\' sentiments across the world and marks serious provocation.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the burning of Islam’s holy book in Stockholm as a \"vile attack.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack on our holy book, the Quran, in Sweden today (21 January), despite our repeated warnings earlier,\" a ministry statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to Sweden\'s permission of the incident, Ankara canceled Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson\'s upcoming visit to Türkiye.</div><div><br></div><div>Senseless act</div><div><br></div><div>Iran also termed the Quran burning as an attempt to stoke hatred and violence against Muslims. Tehran said some European countries under the false pretext of advocating freedom of speech \"allow extremist and radical elements to spread hatred against Islamic sanctities and values.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Jordan joined the chorus of condemnations, stressing “the kingdom’s rejection of this act that fuels hatred.\" Amman underlined the necessity to spread the culture of peace and acceptance of the other, adding that \"condemning extremism is a collective responsibility.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Morocco said it was “shocked” by the Swedish permission of the burning of Islam’s holy book.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This hateful act, which offends the sensibilities of more than a billion Muslims, can fuel anger and hatred between religions and peoples,\" the Moroccan Foreign Ministry warned in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan termed the incident as a “senseless and provocative Islamophobic act that hurts the religious sensitivities of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world.”</div><div><br></div><div>Such actions are \"not covered under any legitimate expression of the right to freedom of expression or opinion, which carries responsibilities under international human rights law, such as the obligation not to carry out hate speech and incite people to violence,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The Foreign Ministry of the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan also \"strongly\" condemned the burning and desecration of the Holy Quran and urged the Swedish government to punish the perpetrators of this act.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement, the ministry also urged Stockholm not to allow such people to take provocative actions against the Islamic religion and Muslims in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) also condemned the Quran burning as a provocative action that “targets Muslims, insults their sacred values, and serves as a further example of the alarming level reached by Islamophobia\" and asked Sweden to punish those behind a \"hate crime.\" Writing by Ahmed Asmar - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 13:58:07', '2023-01-22 13:58:07'),
(4668, 4668, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>State Minister for Religious Affairs Faridul Haque Khan on Sunday told Parliament that a total of 1981 people were sent to Saudi Arabia to perform the holy hajj at the government\'s cost since 2014.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said this replying to a tabled question from Awami League lawmaker Didarul Alam after the day\'s sitting of the House started with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair in the afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister however said none was sent to hajj in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2014, the government started a programme to send a certain number of Muslims to Saudi Arabia for performing hajj at lowest package price, he said</div><div><br></div><div>Among 1918 who performed hajj at government cost, 125 people were sent in 2014, 268 in 2015, 283 in 2016, 334 in 2017, 340 in 2018, 314 in 2019 and 254 in 2022. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 14:53:19', '2023-01-22 14:53:19'),
(4669, 4669, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A truck driver was injured when a train hits a truck at Amtoli near Shibganj rail station in Thakurgaon sadar upazila on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Akhtarul Islam, Thakurgaon Road Rail Station Master, said the ‘Panchagarh Express’ inter-city train hit the truck when it tried to cross the rail tracks around 1:40 pm, leaving truck driver&nbsp; Sohel Rana, 45, son of Solaiman Ali of Sadar upazila, injured.</div><div><br></div><div>The train dragged the truck several kilometers after it got smashed.</div><div>Rail communication between Dhaka and Thakurgaon remained suspended following the accident, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Police are trying to remove the truck from the rail track, told officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Kamal Hossain.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 15:30:26', '2023-01-22 15:30:26'),
(4670, 4670, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday said the government will march Bangladesh towards the developed nation taking the women folks with it.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"In 2026, Bangladesh will complete the final graduation of developing nation, we will advance further, we are planning all our developing programmes keeping that in our mind, we will advance more taking women folks with us,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said this while a delegation of council of patrons of the Asian University of Women (AUW) called on her at her Sangsad Bhaban office in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>Chancellor of the University Cherie Blair led the team.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister\'s Speech Writer Md. Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after the call on.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister mentioned that the prime task of her government is to ensure overall development of the country including food, education and healthcare for all.</div><div><br></div><div>In this regard, she asked the AUW representatives to provide that educational curriculum which will make them entrepreneurs and skilled to build them as human resources to face the challenges that are coming in future.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Not only the general education, but provide the education which will make them skilled, not create unemployed,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina mentioned that she donated the land for the university.</div><div>\"Women education is essential for development for any country,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She briefly described various programmes of her government during her tenures.</div><div><br></div><div>While the issue of Afghanistan came during the meeting, the Prime Minister said that there is no scope to stop the education for the women in the name of Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>She also mentioned that Islam always patronises the equal rights of man and women.</div><div><br></div><div>In this regard, she said that she also faced serious opposition regarding the women leadership while she joined the politics.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the Afghanistan issue, she said that the present Afghanistan government forcibly stop the education for the women.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The whole world is witnessing this, no one is taking any step against it,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that she devoted her life for the development of the country and its people, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, Talking about Rohingya issue, the Prime Minister said that the government is imparting education Rohingya children with their own language.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 16:21:35', '2023-01-22 16:21:35'),
(4671, 4671, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday praised the World Bank for its continued support towards Bangladesh’s development.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said Bangladesh\'s growth has increased by 74 times since 1972, and the World Bank had a role to play behind it.</div><div><br></div><div>“After independence, the country\'s GDP growth was only $6.3 billion, which has now increased to $465 billion,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Kamal said this while speaking as the chief guest as the World Bank and Bangladesh celebrated its 50 years of partnership at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Finance Minister also said that Bangladesh is currently the 35th largest economy, and the poverty rate has come down to 20 percent, per capita income increased to $2,824 and average life expectancy increased to 73 years.</div><div><br></div><div>Highlighting the future plans, the Finance Minister said, “Our next target will be to turn Bangladesh into an upper-middle income country by 2031, and a Smart Developed Bangladesh in 2041.”</div><div><br></div><div>World Bank Managing Director (Operation) Axel van Trotsenbur, World Bank South Asian Region Vice President Martin Riser, Economic Relations Division Secretary Sharifa Khan, and World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan Abdoulaye Seck, among others, spoke at the function. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 16:31:38', '2023-01-22 16:31:38'),
(4672, 4672, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Johnson visited the outskirts of the city on Sunday before being received by Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Conservative MP said it was a \"privilege\" to visit the country at the invitation of Mr Zelensky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unannounced visit came as fresh questions over the former prime minister\'s personal finances emerged in the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They stem from claims the BBC\'s chairman Richard Sharp helped Mr Johnson secure a loan guarantee while he was prime minister. Mr Sharp went on to be appointed to his BBC role by the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During Mr Johnson\'s visit to Ukraine, in which he made no mention of the claims, he was received by Mr Zelensky and other Ukrainian ministers in Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I welcome Boris Johnson, a true friend of Ukraine, to Kyiv. Boris thanks for your support!\" wrote Mr Zelensky on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also visited the towns of Bucha and Borodyanka, to the north-west of Kyiv, which were occupied by Russian forces in March last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Russian troops were repelled, scenes of mass destruction were discovered in the two towns, including the bodies of civilians strewn along a street in Bucha.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Johnson said \"the suffering of the people of Ukraine has gone on for too long\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The only way to end this war is for Ukraine to win - and to win as fast as possible,\" Mr Johnson said. \"This is the moment to double down, and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Current UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was said to be \"supportive\" of Mr Johnson\'s visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Sunak is \"always supportive of all colleagues showing that the UK is behind Ukraine and will continue to support them,\" his press secretary said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Johnson\'s visit comes as increased pressure is being put on allies of Ukraine, including Germany, to supply more tanks to the war-torn country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week, the UK confirmed it would send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to bolster the country\'s war effort, a decision Mr Johnson\'s spokesman said he supported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Johnson has made several visits to Ukraine, both as prime minister and since he left Downing Street.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just a few days ago, he took part in a panel discussion on Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which Mr Zelensky attended via video link. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 02:46:24', '2023-01-23 02:46:24'),
(4673, 4673, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In many parts of the Christian world, female church leaders are no longer unusual. But until now, the Holy Land - where events in the Bible are set - had not seen a local woman ordained.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, a Palestinian from Jerusalem, Sally Azar, became its first woman pastor at an event at the Lutheran church in the heart of the Old City, attended by hundreds of international well-wishers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I got more excited seeing the excitement of other people,\" Reverend Azar told me. \"It\'s an indescribable feeling to take this step with the support of the church.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I hope that many girls and women will know this is possible and that other women in other churches will join us. I know it will take a long time, but I think it could be exciting if this changes in Palestine.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christians make up a minority in the Palestinian Territories, Israel and Jordan. Most Christians here belong to the Greek Orthodox and Latin Catholic Churches, which do not allow women priests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the ordination of women has been taking place in a growing number of Protestant Churches in the past few decades. These have small local congregations and run schools and hospitals in the Holy Land.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Everywhere where you have a patriarchal society and culture this is a major step,\" says the recently retired Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Antje Jackelen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Since I\'ve been ordained for over 40 years, I\'ve met many people who didn\'t think it was possible. But now they\'ve seen women actually serving as pastors, as bishops, as archbishops, we know it works and we know that it\'s actually in accord with the Bible.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Middle East, churches in Lebanon and Syria have already conferred holy orders on women, while at least one Palestinian woman is known to serve in the US.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Azar was ordained by her father Bishop Sani Azar. She insists that while his example inspired her, she never felt pressured into studying theology.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s what I wanted, what I was called to do,\" she says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a pastor she will take on different duties including leading services and bible studies in Jerusalem and in Beit Sahour, in the occupied West Bank, for English speaking congregations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a big, big day for the life of our Church, it\'s an important step forward and it\'s overdue,\" comments Reverend Dr Munther Isaac, Lutheran Pastor of Bethlehem and Beit Sahour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says he looks forward to introducing Reverend Azar as a role model at local Lutheran schools - which teach children who are Christians of all traditions and Muslims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rev Dr Isaac has written a book in Arabic about women\'s leadership in the Bible and in support of women\'s ordination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We accept women ministers, we accept women professors, we accept to go in surgery performed by women and it\'s strange that we still have to argue that women can teach the Bible or perform the sacraments,\" he says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This tells me that despite the progress we\'ve made as Palestinians, when it comes to empowering women and women rights, that there is still work to be done.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Supporters of Rev Azar believe she is the right person to challenge stereotypes and break the mould. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 02:50:33', '2023-01-23 02:50:33'),
(4674, 4674, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">New Zealand\'s incoming prime minister has vowed to protect his family from what he called the \"abhorrent\" abuse that his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, received while in office.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Ardern announced that she was quitting as the country\'s leader on Thursday, citing burnout.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Threats against her became more frequent in recent years and included a man claiming he had the right to \"shoot the prime minister\" for treason and treachery in a YouTube video.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris Hipkins, who was speaking on Sunday after MPs from his ruling Labour Party voted unanimously to endorse him, said a \"small minority\" of Kiwis were responsible for abusing Ms Ardern.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that \"it does not represent who we are as a country\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Men had a responsibility to call out misogyny, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he realised that putting himself forward as leader meant that he was \"public property\" - but that his family were not, and he wanted his children to have a \"typical Kiwi kid life\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Data released in June showed that threats against Ms Ardern had almost tripled over three years, and local media reported that at least eight threats against her had entered the legal system - including the man who filmed the threatening YouTube video.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police also had to investigate after handwritten fliers vowing to \"eradicate\" Ms Ardern were delivered to several homes in January 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Radio New Zealand spoke to a former intelligence worker, Paul Buchanan, who said he believed Ms Ardern would need more ongoing security and protection than any former New Zealand prime minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Hipkins, 44, was New Zealand\'s Covid response minister and has extensive political experience.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is set to be sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday after Ms Ardern formally steps down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He received a standing ovation from his colleagues after they gave him their backing on Sunday, and shared a hug with Ms Ardern, whom he described as \"my very good friend\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Hipkins has named Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, making her the first person of Pasifika descent to hold the role.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am proudly Samoan, Tongan and New Zealand European, and represent generations of New Zealanders with mixed heritage,\" she said. \"I want to acknowledge the significance of this for our Pacific community.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around eight percent of New Zealand\'s population identify themselves as being Kiwis with Pacific island descent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Hipkins will announce his full Cabinet later but has said he plans to keep the former deputy prime minister, Grant Robertson, on as finance minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outlining his priorities as prime minister, he promised to help Kiwi families and businesses through the country\'s cost of living crisis - which will be a key issue in the general election later this year. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 02:55:41', '2023-01-23 02:55:41'),
(4675, 4675, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As has frequently been the case throughout his unparalleled career, James Cameron made film history again this weekend.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">His long-awaited sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” has now made over $2 billion in worldwide grosses, as reported by Deadline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That grand total is after the film’s box office take from this weekend, the sixth consecutive weekend the film has occupied the No. 1 spot since its release in December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">CNN has reached out to “Avatar: The Way of Water” producing studio Disney for comment on the film’s latest financial achievement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Avatar: The Way of Water” is the sequel to Cameron’s 2009 extraterrestrial epic “Avatar,” which remains at the top of the list of biggest-selling films of all time, according to Box Office Mojo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another of Cameron’s films is also in the $2 billion club – 1997’s “Titanic.” Only three other films are part of that club – 2015’s “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens,” “Avengers: Infinity War” from 2018, and “Avengers: Endgame” from one year later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cameron is therefore the only director who can boast that three of his films are among the six to have made over $2 billion, as well as in top 6 bestselling movies of all time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The director is planning to release at least three other “Avatar” sequels going forward. CNN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 03:00:06', '2023-01-23 03:00:06'),
(4676, 4676, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The air quality of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka is deemed ‘very unhealthy’ this morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 283 at 9:05 am today (January 23, 2023), Dhaka ranked second in the list of world cities with worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and India’s Delhi occupied the first and third places with AQI of 317 and 227 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 04:09:38', '2023-01-23 04:09:38');
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(4677, 4677, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The gunman believed to have killed 10 people during Lunar New Year celebrations in California shot himself dead as police moved in to arrest him, the local sheriff said Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An intensive manhunt began late Saturday after a man opened fire inside a dance studio and club in Monterey Park, a city near Los Angeles with a large Asian community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witnesses said he had shot indiscriminately, and appeared to have a lot of ammunition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five men and five women were killed, most in their 50s or 60s, police said, with around 10 others injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspected gunman, identified by police as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, then went to another dance venue a short distance away but was tackled and disarmed by people at the club before fleeing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said over the following hours police tracked a wanted van, which was later reported in Torrance, several miles (kilometers) south.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When officers approached, they heard one gunshot from within.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The suspect sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene,\" Luna said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I can confirm that there are no outstanding suspects from the mass shooting incident.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luna said the reason behind the horrific attack, which came as Asian communities around the world celebrated Lunar New Year, the most important holiday of the calendar, remained a mystery.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The investigation is still ongoing. Sheriff\'s homicide detectives are working around the clock gathering additional information and working on determining the motive behind this extremely tragic event,\" he said</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luna paid tribute to two people at the site of the second attempted attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I can tell you that the suspect walked in there, probably with the intent to kill more people, and two brave community members decided they were going to jump into action and disarm him.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They took possession of the weapon, and the suspect ran away.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weapon used was not an assault rifle, Luna said, but \"a magazine-fed semi automatic assault pistol... that had an extended large capacity magazine attached to it.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Year of the rabbit\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monterey Park, only a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, is home to around 60,000 people, the majority of them Asian or Asian American.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t know if this is specifically a hate crime defined by law,\" Luna said earlier, \"but who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheriff\'s deputies in Monterey Park remained at the scene Sunday, an AFP reporter said, with decorations erected for the Lunar New Year hanging incongruously by the police tape.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A banner above the street read \"Happy Year of the Rabbit.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Los Angeles Times reported that Seung Won Choi, who owns a nearby restaurant, said three people had run into the establishment and told him to lock the door.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three told Choi there was a man with a semiautomatic gun who had multiple rounds of ammunition and repeatedly reloaded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tens of thousands of people had gathered earlier for the two-day Lunar New Year festival, one of the area\'s largest. Events planned for Sunday were canceled after the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My heart is broken for the victims, their families, and the people of my hometown,\" Representative Judy Chu, a former mayor of Monterey Park, said on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chu had been at the scene, joining the festivities hours before the shooting, when the crowd was still large. \"This could have been so much worse,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Joe Biden later Sunday evening ordered all US flags to be lowered to half-staff until Thursday in honor of the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While there is still much we don\'t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will recover from their wounds,\" Biden said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a community support center in Monterey Park, Joe Avalos of the Los Angeles Crisis Response Team said people were shaken and trying to piece together what had happened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have one or two families here that have not been able to get in touch with their loved ones and they don\'t know if they\'re in the hospital or they\'re dead,\" he told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Hate crime? -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year a Chinese-American gunman attacked a Taiwanese church in California, killing one and wounding five others.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US Department of Justice said there were over 7,000 reported hate crimes in the United States in 2021, two-thirds of them race-related.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Monterey Park shooting is the country\'s deadliest since a gunman in Uvalde, Texas killed 22 people at an elementary school last May.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gun violence is a huge problem in the United States, which last year saw 647 mass shootings, with at least four people shot or killed by a shooter, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was further driven home when 12 people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub overnight in Louisiana, local media reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 44,000 people died from gunshot wounds in 2022 across the United States, more than half of which were suicides. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 05:12:28', '2023-01-23 05:12:28'),
(4678, 4678, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police have arrested the driver and the helper of&nbsp; the bus that killed a female student of Northern University near Jamuna Future Park in the city on Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Md Liton, 38, driver of the ‘Victor Paribahan’ bus and son of Kalu Mia of Illasha village of Bhola district, and his herper Abul Khair, 22, son of Hashem Gharami of the same district, were arrested from Badda area in the city on Monday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police also seized the bus involved in the accident, said Abdul Ahad, deputy commissioner (Gulshan) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Sunday, Nadia, 24, a Pharmacy department 4th year student of Northern University,&nbsp; died when the bus hit the motorcycle carrying her near Jamuna Future Park in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case was filed at Vatara police station under Road Transport Act -2018 in this connection on Sunday. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 05:17:38', '2023-01-23 05:17:38'),
(4679, 4679, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today (January 23, 2023) arrested two suspected members of new militant group \'Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya\' after a gunfight at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox\'s Bazar.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrestees were identified as Ronobir, a Shura member and head of the armed wing of the militant group, and his associate Bashar, a bomb-making expert.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A team of Rab-15 conducted a drive in Kutupalong Rohingya camp this morning, said ASP Abu Salam Chowdhury from Cox\'s Bazar Rab-15.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the militants opened fire on them, forcing the Rab personnel to fire back, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rab arrested the duo along with arms and explosives from a den in the camp following the gunfight. Details will be revealed at a press briefing at Ukhiya Rohingya camp area, the officer said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 05:22:33', '2023-01-23 05:22:33'),
(4680, 4680, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh\'s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam has expressed optimism that the “pilot project” of Rohingya repatriation would be executed at an early date.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He thanked China for its “active role” in a trilateral initiative among Bangladesh, Myanmar and China to provide a platform for dialogue to promote the early return of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newly appointed Ambassador of China to Bangladesh Yao Wen met the State Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday (January 22, 2023) afternoon and discussed the issues of mutual interest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a question on Rohingya repatriation, Ambassador Wen said they have a common objective with Bangladesh regarding repatriation of Rohingyas to their homeland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He recognised Bangladesh\'s \"sacrifice\" in hosting the huge number of Rohingyas and assured of playing its role for their repatriation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We discussed the issue. You pay a lot. You suffered a lot. You sacrificed a lot. We have the common objective (repatriation),”said Ambassador Wen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char and not a single Rohingya has been repatriated over the last six years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State Minister also highlighted the importance of establishing direct air connectivity and requested the Chinese Ambassador to consider Bangladesh as a suitable place for industry relocation from China, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese Ambassador showed interest to conclude a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on PPP for the growth of bilateral trade and commerce.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister Alam hoped that the bilateral relations between the two countries would reach new heights during the tenure of the new Ambassador.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides cordially exchanged views on bilateral and multilateral cooperation of mutual interests, including trade and investment, infrastructure development, connectivity and Covid situation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congratulating the new Ambassador on the Chinese New Year’s Day, the State Minister thanked China for being the largest bilateral trade partner of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, he also thanked the Chinese government for its support in dealing with Covid-19 pandemic and the repatriation of Bangladeshi students from China and their subsequent return to China to continue their higher studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wished Ambassador Yao successful tenure in Bangladesh and assured him of full cooperation in discharge of his duties. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 05:27:49', '2023-01-23 05:27:49'),
(4681, 4681, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Goal after goal, Karim Benzema keeps putting his World Cup disappointment behind him.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Benzema scored for the sixth time after being dropped from France’s World Cup squad because of an injury, leading Real Madrid to a 2-0 win at Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish league on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“He came back with the same quality,” Madrid coach Carlos Ancelotti said. “He helps us a lot in attack.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The goal allowed Benzema to join former Madrid great Raúl with 228 league goals with the club — second to Cristiano Ronaldo’s 311. It also helped Madrid get back within three points of league leader Barcelona, which earlier Sunday had defeated Getafe 1-0 at the Camp Nou.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Toni Kroos sealed the victory for Madrid with a low shot from outside the area in the 90th.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benzema’s sixth goal in six matches since the World Cup came with a left-footed volley from inside the area in the 24th minute at San Mames Stadium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It’s incredible. Karim has been spectacular,” Madrid defender Nacho said. “He continues to help us with his goals, just like he did last season.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benzema won the men\'s Ballon d’Or award after a great season and had high expectations heading into the World Cup, but he was dropped from France\'s squad because of a thigh injury sustained in training just days before the team’s debut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only game in which he had not scored after the World Cup was in Madrid\'s 3-2 come-from-behind win at Villarreal in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eighth-place Athletic had advanced past Espanyol in the Copa but remains winless in three consecutive league games. It lost the Basque Country derby to Real Sociedad in the previous round.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madrid had not won a league game since December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>BARCELONA\'S WINS ANOTHER</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona defeated relegation-threatened Getafe to extend its winning streak to three matches in all competitions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pedri scored a first-half winner for the Catalan club, which has won four of its last five matches, with its only setback a draw against Real Betis in the semifinals of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, where it advanced in a penalty shootout before eventually winning the title in a final against Madrid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We didn\'t play well but it was an important victory,\" Barcelona coach Xavi said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Getafe players did the guard of honor before the match at the Camp Nou because of Barcelona\'s Super Cup title. Captain Sergio Busquets also was honored for having surpassed 700 appearances with the Catalan club.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona defeated Getafe despite playing without suspended striker Robert Lewandowski, the league’s leading scorer. The Poland player was serving the second of a three-game suspension for disrespecting a referee in a league game last year. Forward Ferran Torres also wasn\'t available for Barcelona coach Xavi because of a red-card suspension.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pedri scored the winning goal from close range after an assist from Raphinha in the 35th minute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Getafe has lost four in a row, including three consecutive in the league. The Madrid club has only four league victories and sits in 16th place, just outside the relegation zone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>LATE PENALTIES FOR VILLARREAL</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villarreal converted one penalty kick and missed another in stoppage time in a 1-0 home win over Girona.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Striker Gerard Moreno had his spot kick saved four minutes into added time, but playmaker Dani Parejo converted his attempt in the final play of the game in the 111th minute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The late win left Villarreal in fifth place, tied on points with fourth-place Atletico Madrid, which holds the final qualification spot for the Champions League.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mid-table Girona played a man down from the 78th as defender Santiago Bueno was sent off with a second yellow card.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villarreal was coming off a 3-2 home loss against Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, when it squandered a two-goal first-half lead. It had beaten Madrid 2-1 two rounds ago in the league, then drew 1-1 at Celta Vigo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last-place Elche drew 1-1 with seventh-place Osasuna at home to remain the only team yet to win after 18 Spanish league games this season. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 05:45:56', '2023-01-23 05:45:56'),
(4682, 4682, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A popular Cameroon radio journalist who had been missing following what a media rights group called an abduction has been found dead, his employer and police said on Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Martinez Zogo was managing director of Yaounde-based private radio station Amplitude FM and the star host of a popular daily programme, Embouteillage (Gridlock).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the air, the 51-year-old regularly tackled cases of corruption, not hesitating to question important personalities by name. He had been missing since Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I went to Ebogo (15 kilometres north of Yaounde) early this morning where I saw and recognised the body of Martinez Zogo. The prosecutor\'s deputy was present and his wife was there to identify him,\" Amplitude FM radio editor in chief Charly Tchouemou told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death of Zogo was confirmed to AFP by a police source who spoke on condition of anonymity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A large crowd gathered as Zogo\'s body was taken to the morgue of Yaounde central hospital for an autopsy, a member of the victim\'s family told AFP on condition of anonymity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social media has been awash with posts following his disappearance with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemning \"the brutal abduction of a journalist\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to RSF, Zogo\'s badly damaged car was found outside a police station in a suburb of the Cameroonian capital Yaounde on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are many grey areas regarding the circumstances of his brutal abduction,\" Sadibou Marong, head of the sub-Saharan Africa office of RSF, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The authorities must launch a rigorous, thorough and independent investigation to establish the full chain of responsibility and the circumstances that led to this sad event,\" Marong said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cameroon\'s national journalists\' union condemned a \"heinous assassination\" and urged media workers to wear black on January 25 as a sign of mourning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Press Institute, a Vienna-based press freedom organisation, urged Cameroonian authorities to \"promptly investigate the horrific murder and ensure that those responsible are brought to justice\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The political opposition was also indignant, with Social Democratic Front (SDF) deputy Jean-Michel Nintcheu denouncing a \"crime which cannot go unpunished\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, several Cameroonian television channels dedicated their programmes to Zogo\'s death.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cameroonian-French writer Calixthe Beyala said she was \"dejected, saddened\" by news of his death.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I knew he was dead as soon as it was announced that he was kidnapped,\" she told Info TV.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We can ask ourselves the question: whose turn is it? Each of us can find ourselves in this situation for something that we might have said.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 06:32:03', '2023-01-23 06:32:03'),
(4683, 4683, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Five hours after enforcing an indefinite strike, Sylhet District Transport Oikya Parishad called off their strike on Monday upon assurance from the local administration about meeting their demand.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They went on strike demanding the release of Chhatra Dal leader Ali Akbor Rajon who was arrested in a sabotage case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They withdrew their strike around 11am, said Mainul Islam, president of Bus-Minibus Workers\' Union.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the transport strike has been suspended due to the assurance from the administration.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The transport services already resumed in the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, Sylhet District Transport Oikya Parishad called for an indefinite strike starting from 6am today (Monday).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Ali Akbor Rajon has been in jail for one and a half months as he was denied bail. The strike will continue until he is granted bail,\" Mainul added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajon has been involved in the politics of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and he is the joint general secretary of Sylhet District Chhatra Dal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is also the joint general secretary of the Bus-Minibus Workers Union Committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 7 December, 2022, police arrested Rajon from the Surma Market area of the town in a sabotage case lodged in 2018. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 06:37:11', '2023-01-23 06:37:11'),
(4684, 4684, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged World Bank (WB) and other international organizations to strengthen support to help developing countries like Bangladesh overcome crisis steaming from Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Help developing countries like Bangladesh to face the existing crisis arisen from Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war,\" she said while visiting WB Managing Director (MD) for Operations Axel van Trotsenburg paid a courtesy call on her at her office here this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM\'s Speechwriter M Nazrul Islam told a news briefing after the call on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trotsenburg called Bangladesh\'s development as \"incredible\" and assured of staying beside Dhaka in its development spree.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have been remaining beside Bangladesh since 1972 and will continue support in its development efforts,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also highly praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, under whose visionary leadership, Bangladesh has made massive development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said, \"Per capita income of Bangladesh was only 50 USD while it has now increased to 2824 USD\". BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 06:51:54', '2023-01-23 06:51:54'),
(4685, 4685, '<div><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today asked Russia to send ships to Bangladesh which remained beyond US sanctions, saying Dhaka doesn’t want its ties with Washington to be affected.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>“It appeared surprising to us that Russia sent a ship (to Bangladesh) knowing it well that it was under US sanction . . . they just changed the ship’s name which we did not expect,” he told newsmen as approached for comments on the issue.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Momen added: “We told Russia that they can send us cargo through any of their vessels except 69 ships those are under (US) sanction.”</div><div><br></div><div>Russia last month sent a ship to deliver equipment for Bangladesh’s Rooppur nuclear power plant, being built with their assistance, but Dhaka refused to accept the vessel due to the US sanctions against the backdrop of Russia-Ukraine War.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>\"We don\'t want to accept those (Russian) ships which are under (the US) sanctions. We have developed good relations with the US,\" Momen told reporters at the foreign ministry.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>The Russian flag carrier -- Sparta III -- was scheduled to dock at Mongla port on December 24 to unload the cargo but Bangladesh authorities denied its docking while it reached the country’s territorial waters in Bay of Bengal.</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>Foreign ministry officials earlier said the denial came after the US Embassy in Dhaka in a letter to Bangladesh authorities described the vessel to be actually URSA MAJOR, which was on their list of sanctioned Russian ships.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>According to the US list of 69 sanctioned Russian vessels, URSA MAJOR or Sparta III is an Amphibious/Attack Cargo Ship (AKA), designed to sail carrying equipment, cargo and troops.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>Media reports suggested after Dhaka’s refusal, the ship was redirected to Haldia Port of India’s West Bengal in an apparent effort to deliver the cargo there but Moscow revealed two days ago that it was returning to Russia. BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 07:05:26', '2023-01-23 07:05:26'),
(4686, 4686, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday sentenced six absconding war criminals to death for committing crimes against humanity in Mymensingh district during the Liberation War in 1971.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tribunal headed by Justice Md Shahinur Islam gave the verdict today after they were found to be involved in murder, abduction, plunder and other inhumane acts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused are Mokhleshur Rahman Mukul, Shamsul Haque Fakir, Nurul Haque Fakir, Sultan Mahmud Fakir, Naqib Hossain Adil Sarkar and Saidur Rahman Ratan. All of them are absconding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tribunal on December 5, 2018, framed six charges of crimes against humanity and on February 18, 2019, started recording depositions of the witnesses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court on different hearing dates examined total 19 witnesses in the case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 07:46:51', '2023-01-23 07:46:51'),
(4687, 4687, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Women who have cancer in one breast may be more likely to develop cancer in the opposite breast if they have specific genetic changes that predispose them to develop breast cancer, according to a study led by the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study\'s findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, will help personalise approaches to breast cancer screening and risk factors, according to the study\'s authors.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The study used data from 15,104 prospectively followed women in the Cancer Risk Estimates Related to Susceptibility (CARRIERS) consortium. The researchers found that patients who carry a germline BRCA1, BRCA2 or CHEK2 mutation have at least a twofold increased risk of developing cancer in both breasts, known as contralateral breast cancer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In contrast, patients who carry germline ATM mutations did not have a significantly elevated risk of contralateral breast cancer. Among PALB2 carriers, the risk of contralateral breast cancer was significantly elevated only among those with estrogen receptor-negative disease.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These are the first population-based numbers out there for these three genes beyond BRCA1/2,\" says Fergus Couch, PhD, breast cancer researcher at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Zbigniew and Anna M. Scheller Professor of Medical Research and the principal investigator of the CARRIERS Study. \"It is also one of the largest studies to provide estimates of contralateral breast cancer risk by age at diagnosis, menopausal status and race/ethnicity in germline mutation carriers.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most patients with breast cancer who carry germline mutations assume they are at high risk of developing cancer in the opposite breast, says co-author Siddhartha Yadav, M.D., medical oncologist, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. While this is true for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with breast cancer, the risk of contralateral breast cancer in carriers of a germline mutation in ATM, CHEK2 or PALB2 had not been previously established. Even for BRCA1/2 carriers, a comprehensive assessment of contralateral breast cancer risk based on age, estrogen receptor status, menopausal status and the effect of treatment for initial breast cancer had not been undertaken.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The findings reveal important information that will aid in a personalized assessment of contralateral breast cancer risk in our patients who are germline mutation carriers,\" Dr Yadav says. \"Having this level of detail will help guide decisions between patients and their care teams on appropriate screening and steps to reduce the risk for contralateral breast cancer based on more precise and individualized risk estimates.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Premenopausal women who carry germline mutations generally have a higher risk of contralateral breast cancer compared with women who are post-menopausal at breast cancer diagnosis, researchers found. Among women with germline mutations in breast cancer predisposition genes, black women and non-Hispanic white women have similarly elevated risk for contralateral breast cancer, the study found, suggesting that risk management strategies should be similar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Many women will undergo a bilateral mastectomy to reduce the possibility of a second breast cancer,\" Dr Couch says. \"Now we have data to work from when making the decision to remove the second breast, pursue aggressive surveillance or take preventive medication.\" HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 08:38:48', '2023-01-23 08:38:48'),
(4688, 4688, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government has decided not to proceed with electronic voting machines (EVMs) procurement project for now but it has not been cancelled, said Election Commission (EC) Secretary Md. Jahangir Alam on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The Planning Commission has decided to suspend the processing of the project considering the government’s financial capacity amid the global crisis after examining the project ,” he said while speaking at a press briefing held at the Election Commission.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on September 19 last year, the Election Commission (EC) approved a Tk 8,711 crore project to procure Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for 150 constituencies, out of 300, for the 12th parliamentary election.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 23, the EC decided to use electronic voting machines instead of traditional ballot papers in maximum 150 constituencies in the next general election – likely to be held late next year.</div><div><br></div><div>The decision received strong opposition from BNP and its allies, who didn’t join the talks with the CEC that continued throughout the month of July.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the ruling Awami League welcomed the decision as it was their demand to use EVMs in all 300 seats in the next election.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 09:59:34', '2023-01-23 09:59:34'),
(4689, 4689, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Four people were killed and at least six others injured after a crane crashed during a temple festival in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officials said Monday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The crane collapsed Sunday night at Draupathi temple in Ranipet district, 85 km west of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu.</div><div><br></div><div>Reports said around eight people were on the crane to receive garlands from the devotees when the accident took place.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Last night a crane meant to carry the idols and accept flower garlands from devotees at Draupathi temple collapsed abruptly, killing three people on spot and injuring many others,\" a police official said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Of the injured one more succumbed to his injuries this morning at the hospital, taking the toll to four.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Local media reports said around 1,500 people were present at the spot.</div><div><br></div><div>A video of the accident posted on social media shows the crane -- with people hanging on to it - crashing down to the ground and devotees screaming and running away in panic. Following the collapse, some of the onlookers were seen rushing to help the injured and shift them to the hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Police have registered a case and ordered an investigation into the accident.</div><div><br></div><div>The driver of the crane has been detained, police said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"A part of the crane was on higher ground. This soil imbalance appears to have caused the crane to topple. An investigation is underway,\" a senior police official Deepa Satyan was quoted in media as having said. According to Xinhua reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 10:34:24', '2023-01-23 10:34:24'),
(4690, 4690, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A man who is suspected of killing at least 10 people in the US state of California has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The gunman, identified as Huu Can Tran, 72, wounded 10 others in a mass shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night.</div><div><br></div><div>The incident occurred during Lunar New Year celebrations in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna told reporters that the suspect, who fled the scene in a white cargo van, was surrounded by law enforcement Sunday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Investigators said the man was found dead inside the van after a two-hour standoff with police in the coastal city of Torrance.</div><div><br></div><div>\"When (Torrance police) officers exited their patrol vehicle to contact the occupant, they heard one gunshot coming from within the van,\" said Luna.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our sheriff\'s SWAT team approached and cleared the van and determined the suspect sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The gunman was also involved in another incident at a second dance hall about 20 minutes from the first location.</div><div><br></div><div>During the search, Luna said, several pieces of evidence were found inside the van linking the suspect to both locations and a handgun was also discovered in the van.</div><div><br></div><div>There are no \"outstanding suspects\" from the mass shooting incident, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the shooting, President Joe Biden offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims.</div><div><br></div><div>\"While there is still much we don\'t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved ones will recover from their wounds,\" Biden said in the statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Investigators are working to determine the motive behind the shooting.</div><div><br></div><div>Monterey Park has a population of 61,000, around 65% of which are Asian, the Daily News reported. - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 11:07:25', '2023-01-23 11:07:25'),
(4691, 4691, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Efforts to eliminate industrially-produced fat have a long way to go with five billion people exposed to toxic fat added to many food products, the UN health agency said Monday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The World Health Organization called in 2018 for harmful trans fatty acids to be wiped out by 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>They are thought to be responsible for around 500,000 premature deaths from coronary heart disease each year.</div><div><br></div><div>Although 43 countries with combined populations of 2.8 billion people have now implemented best-practice policies, most of the world remains unprotected, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>WHO acknowledged in an annual progress report that the goal was still out of sight.</div><div><br></div><div>Industrially-produced trans fat is often used in packaged foods, baked goods, cooking oils and spreads.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Trans fat has no known benefit, and huge health risks that incur huge costs for health systems,\" WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"By contrast, eliminating trans fat is cost effective and has enormous benefits for health,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Put simply, trans fat is a toxic chemical that kills, and should have no place in food. It\'s time to get rid of it once and for all.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The WHO said that nine of the 16 countries with the highest estimated proportion of coronary heart disease deaths caused by trans fat intake were not implementing best-practice policies.</div><div><br></div><div>They include Australia, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan and South Korea.</div><div><br></div><div>Francesco Branca, the WHO\'s nutrition and food safety director, told reporters that trans fat elimination policies were in place in 60 countries, covering 3.4 billion people or 43 percent of the world\'s population.</div><div><br></div><div>Of those countries, 43 are implementing best practice standards.</div><div><br></div><div>Best practice means either a mandatory national limit of two grammes of industrially-produced trans fat per 100 grammes of total fat in all foods; or a national ban on the production or use of partially-hydrogenated oils, which are a major source of trans fat.</div><div><br></div><div>\"WHO and partners call on countries with a high burden such as Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and South Korea to take urgent action,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There are some regions of the world which do not believe the problem is there,\" he said, insisting that it is \"easy for them to take action to prevent these products being dumped onto them.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Frieden, president of the non-profit organisation Resolve to Save Lives, which partnered with the WHO to produce the report, agreed, reports AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There\'s simply no excuse for any country not taking action to protect their people from this artificial toxic chemical,\" told Frieden, a former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 11:19:42', '2023-01-23 11:19:42'),
(4692, 4692, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The 6th convocation of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will be held on February 25, said the university authorities.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The convocation will be held at 3:30 pm, said a notification signed by Shatarupa Talukder, senior assistant secretary of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education of the Education Ministry, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The first convocation of Jahangirnagar University was held in 1997.</div><div>The second convocation was held in 2001 and the fifth and last convocation of the university was held in 2015, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 11:36:37', '2023-01-23 11:36:37');
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(4693, 4693, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said, “The 27-point outline is BNP’s dream and we’ll explain it before people. One can never succeed without a dream. We’ll move forward with the dream.”</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mirza Fakhrul alleged that the government has turned the Jatiya Sangsad into a \'one-party club\' by destroying the country’s electoral system.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul Islam said this while speaking at a discussion meeting. The BNP Secretary General also said the government has ruined the electoral system to cling to power by force.</div><div><br></div><div>“They (govt) have destroyed all the democratic institutions. Is it a Parliament that they have formed? They’ve created a one-party club.&nbsp; It’s a club of Awami League,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that the electoral system is the gateway of democracy, he said the Parliament and cabinet are supposed to be formed to run the country through a credible election.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“But they\'ve destroyed the electoral system. People now do not go to cast their votes.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul alleged that Awami League has also destroyed the state structure by hanging onto power through a ‘unilateral’ election with 154 uncontested MPs and through vote robbery and taking votes the night before the polling date. “They have taken all steps to take all the state machinery to their favour.”</div><div><br></div><div>Under the current circumstances of the country, he said their party placed a 27-point proposal to reform the state and fix the state institutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Sammalita Peshajibi Parishad arranged the programme titled “The 27-Point Framework for State Reform:&nbsp; Explanation and Analysis” at the Jatiya Press Club. On December 19, BNP announced the 27-point framework for state reform.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said their party has been able to create a mass wave of people against the government through their recent 10 divisional rallies and other programmes. \"The stormy wave that has begun will wash away the current regime since people are not with them.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said the first demand of their 10-point proposal is the resignation of the Awami League government by dissolving the Parliament for constituting a caretaker government, which will oversee next election.</div><div><br></div><div>After that election, the BNP leader said they will form a national government with the partners of their simultaneous movement to implement the 27-point outline.</div><div><br></div><div>He urged the BNP leaders and activists not to be frustrated as they are fighting to restore democracy and people’s lost rights, and to protect the country from misrule and fascism.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Why would we be disappointed? We are being successful, and we are moving forward. Hundreds of our leaders and workers went to jail. I have never seen any type of despair on their faces.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said they have been in an imbalanced fight since their opponents are very powerful having the entire state apparatus, guns, and pistols in their hands. “Indiscriminately they attack us using those and then file cases against us.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said a Swechchasebak Dal leader activist Mokbul was killed in police action on December 7 last in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“On the contrary, a case was filed against our 450 leaders and workers. So, the bottom line is, we have to protect our existence and save our people.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader also alleged that the government has politicized the entire judicial system, depriving people of justice.</div><div><br></div><div>The media also now cannot enjoy the freedom as they are being forced to exercise self-censorship, he said. “One detective has been attached to every media house. They dictate what to write, create headlines and what to prioritise and what not to prioritise.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 12:49:52', '2023-01-23 12:49:52'),
(4694, 4694, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The historic \'Mass Upsurge Day\', commemorating the 1969\'s movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, will be observed tomorrow in a befitting manner.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>On January 24, 1969 Matiur Rahman Mallik, a standard IX student of the Nabakumar Institution, and Rustam Ali, a rickshaw-puller, were killed in a police firing on demonstrators in Dhaka as Pakistani rulers desperately tried to suppress the popular uprising.</div><div><br></div><div>The killings spread intense protests across the country that eventually saw the fall of the autocrat Ayub regime.</div><div><br></div><div>It is said that the day teaches Bangladeshis the values of democracy and protest against oppression.</div><div><br></div><div>Different political and socio-cultural organisations have taken separate programmes in observance of the day. Bangladesh Awami League will place wreaths at Shaheed Matiur Rahman Smiriti Saudha atNabakumar Institute in Bakshibazar at 10am tomorrow. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader has urged party leaders-workers to join the programme maintaining health protocol. </div><div><br></div><div>On the eve of the day, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued separate messages, expressing profound respect for those who had embraced martyrdom in the historic movement in 1969.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The January 24 of 1969 is a historic day in the progress of independence and democracy of Bangladesh,\" the President said in his message.</div><div><br></div><div>Paying profound homage to the memory of those who were martyred in the independence freedom, he said the day has been remembered in the history of the country\'s struggle of independence and freedom movement as the day of mass uprising.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the historic Six-Point Demand in 1966 to make the Bangalee nation free from Pakistani rule, exploitation and deprivation.</div><div>The six-point was the charter of Bengalees\' freedom, he added. </div><div><br></div><div>He said after the six-point declaration, the speed of the freedom movement intensified and it spread all over the East Bengal.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The joint movement of Awami League as well as various political parties and student organisations accelerated the mass movement,\" the President said, adding that the then dictator filed the Agartala conspiracy case to foil the movement.</div><div><br></div><div>He said breaking curfew, politicians-students-teachers-mass people brought out a procession on January 24 in 1969 and demanded the release of Bangabandhu and other accused, and overthrow the military rule.</div><div><br></div><div>Class-IX student Matiur Rahman was killed in the procession by police firing, he said, adding: \"The blood of Matiur and other martyrs did not go in vain.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The withdrawal of Agartala conspiracy case, the release of political prisoners and President Ayub Khan\'s power handover due to the mass uprising was a milestone in the Bangalees\' liberation movement, Abdul Hamid said.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the path of this mass upsurge, the independence and democratic rights of the people were achieved, he said, stressing the need for working together to uphold the independence and democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid urged all to work together for building a prosperous Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the 1969 mass uprising.</div><div><br></div><div>In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon all, irrespective of party affiliations, to work together for building a modern, developed and prosperous nation dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the 1969 mass upsurge is a significant chapter in the history of the country\'s independence.</div><div><br></div><div>The nation achieved independence following the 1952 Language Movement, Six-Point Demand, 11-Point Demand, the Mass Upsurge of 1969 and the armed War of Liberation, the premier said. \"We got an independent-sovereign Bangladesh,\" she added. </div><div><br></div><div>She said the greatest Bangalee of all time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, declared the six-point demand in 1966 to liberate the nation from the exploitation of the Pakistani rulers.</div><div><br></div><div>To foil the mass movement of Bangalees, she said the Pakistani ruling clique had filed the Agartala conspiracy case in 1968 and arrested 35 leaders, including Bangabandhu.</div><div> </div><div>Recalling all the Bangalees\' movements en route to their independence, Sheikh Hasina said on January 20 in 1969, police opened fire on a procession of students on the street in front of Dhaka Medical College where Asaduzzaman was killed and many others were injured.</div><div><br></div><div>To make Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib free and oust the Pakistani military rule, the struggling mass people brought out a procession on January 24 in 1969, avoiding the ruling party\'s repression and violating evening law, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Matiur Rahman Mallik and Makbul of Nabakumar Institute, Anwar, Rustam, Milon, Alamgir and many others were killed in police firing, said the premier. </div><div><br></div><div>In the emergence of mass upsurge, the government of dictator Ayub was forced to release Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and other accused in the so-called Agartala conspiracy case, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As a result of this, Ayub Khan\'s government fell. The mass uprising of 1969 against mal-governance and exploitation still inspires us today. The martyrs, who sacrificed their lives in the mass 1969 mass upsurge will be remembered among the people who love democracy,\" she added. </div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said the Awami League government has continued the country\'s development and progress being imbued with the spirit of the Liberation War. </div><div><br></div><div>During the last 14 years, the government worked relentlessly and achieved tremendous success in all areas including socio-economic sector, she said, adding: \"Now the people even at the grassroots level are enjoying the benefits of the development.\" </div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh is now acclaimed as a role model of development globally,\" she said, adding that after implementing MDGs, Bangladesh is on the way of implementing SDGs and the country achieved SDG Progress Award, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said that Bangladesh achieved developing country status. The government is working to turn the country into a developed one by 2041 and it is also working to implement the Delta Plan by 2100, she continued. </div><div><br></div><div>\"With our united efforts, we will build a hunger-poverty free Bangladesh,\" she added. </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 13:40:40', '2023-01-23 13:40:53'),
(4695, 4695, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The price of Brent crude oil with March delivery surpassed $88 per barrel for the first time since December 5 on London\'s ICE.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>As of 12:31 Moscow time, the price of Brent rose by 0.42% to $88 per barrel.</div><div><br></div><div>By 12:43 Moscow time, the price of Brent accelerated growth and reached $88.12 per barrel (+0.56%). Meanwhile, WTI futures with March 2023 delivery increased by 0.48% to $82.03 per barrel. - Tass</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 13:49:30', '2023-01-23 13:49:30'),
(4696, 4696, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A toddler died of the deadly Nipah virus at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital on Monday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The 7-year-old boy, Md. Swad, was the son of Sanowar Ali of Ishwardi upazila in Pabna.</div><div><br></div><div>Swad died while receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, the ICU in-charge at the hospital, said that the boy had consumed raw date juice - practically the only mode of transmission of the virus.</div><div><br></div><div>According to icddr,b in Bangladesh, Nipah virus is usually acquired through consumption of date palm sap contaminated with bat saliva or urine.</div><div><br></div><div>With Swad, two Nipah virus-infected patients have died at the same hospital already this year. The IEDCR recorded the other death on January 3.</div><div><br></div><div>A 35-year-old woman died in the district hospital after she drank date juice. The country recorded three deaths from the virus in 2022. Souce: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 14:41:02', '2023-01-23 14:41:02'),
(4697, 4697, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the ruling party will accept the decision of Election Commission (EC) over the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the next general elections.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We want the use of EVM in 300 seats in the next elections. But, we will accept what the Commission can do according to its capacity,\" he told a warm cloth distribution ceremony, organised by Dhaka North City unit of Awami League, on Kachukhet road adjacent to Mirpur-10 Square in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>The warm clothes were distributed among the cold-hit people on behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, said the BNP\'s politics is being destroyed after following invisible directives coming over the banks of the Thames River.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>BNP will never succeed in the movement and elections if it cannot come out of this, he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Terming the BNP a \"killer of democracy and the values of Liberation War\", the AL general secretary said how they (BNP), which create one crore fake voters, will repair the state. \"The Sheikh Hasina government will repair the state\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Claiming that the BNP destroyed the country\'s electoral system too, he said they destroyed the election system and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina repaired it.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>At the time when many big countries are struggling amid the ongoing global crisis, many people are praising the progress of Bangladesh, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina provided 30 lakh warm clothes for cold-hit people across the country, Quader said people have been suffering from cold during the ongoing winter and the AL government has remained beside them.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP cannot tolerate the development of the incumbent government, he said, adding that the AL always works for the people and that is why they are with it.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"People are not in favour of the BNP and it can be understood from the BNP\'s movement. People have turned away their faces from the BNP\'s fake movement,\" the minister said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>About US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu\'s visit to Dhaka, he questioned \"Why did the BNP leaders go to the hospital after Donald Lu\'s arrival?\"</div><div><br></div><div>Following the invisible directives, the BNP is conducting propaganda to tarnish the image of Bangladesh in the international arena, he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Industries Kamal Ahmed Majumdar and Dhaka North City councilor Abdur Rauf Nannu, among others, spoke at the meeting with Dhaka North City AL president Sheikh Bazlur Rahman in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka North City AL general secretary SM Mannan Kochi moderated the function. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 16:27:23', '2023-01-23 16:27:23'),
(4698, 4698, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka– More reserves of gas have been found in the Bhola North-2 gas field of the country.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources in a press release said that new gas was found from an appraisal well.</div><div><br></div><div>It mentioned that the drilling works started at the Bhola North -2 Gas Filed on December 5 last year and ended on January 17 this year after reaching 3,428 metre depth to the underground ground.</div><div><br></div><div>“Today (Monday) the discovery was made after completion of the Drill-Stem Testing (DST).”</div><div><br></div><div>The DST in exploration wells is the last step of oil and gas exploration.</div><div><br></div><div>“The actual amount of gas production will be determined after completion of the final production testing. But Bapex is hopeful that the field would produce 20 MMCF per day,” said the release.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Power State Minister for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid thanked Bapex for the new gas find and said the gas exploration has to continue as per planning.</div><div><br></div><div>The state-owned Petrobangla has plans to drill a total of 46 exploration, development and work-over wells from 2022 to 2025.</div><div><br></div><div>Nasrul Hamid directed the officials of his ministry and subordinate bodies to further intensify the ongoing gas exploration and production activities, saying that the government has been working to ensure the energy security of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>He said efforts have been continuing to sign short and long term contracts with oil and gas producing countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Brunei alongside activities to increase the local gas exploration.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry also in a Facebook post announced the new find saying that the field would produce 20 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMCFD).</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;“This state-owned Bangladesh Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) brought good news at this moment of global energy crisis,” it said congratulating all its staffs involved in the drilling works.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on November 3 last year the ministry made a similar announcement about the discovery of new gas in the Bhola gas field.</div><div><br></div><div>At that time, State Minister for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid announced a new structure of 239 billion cubic feet (BCF) of natural gas from the exploration well No-Togbi-1 under the Bhola gas field.</div><div><br></div><div>“But this will take one-and-a-half to two years to start producing gas from the well and supply it to the national gas network”, he had told reporters while sharing the “good news” at a press briefing at his ministry conference room at that time. According to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 16:31:19', '2023-01-23 16:31:19'),
(4699, 4699, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine says four people were killed at the farm and three at the trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of San Francisco.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn’t immediately clear how the locations were connected.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">California state Sen. Josh Becker, who represents the area, said people were killed in separate shootings. San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa tweeted that one shooting happened at a mushroom farm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted just before 5 p.m. that a suspect was in custody.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There is no ongoing threat to the community at this time,” the sheriff’s office said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Television footage from the area showed officers taking a man into custody without incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aerial television images also showed police officers collecting evidence from a farm with dozens of greenhouses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shooting followed the killing of 11 people late Saturday at a ballroom dance hall in Southern California.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are sickened by today’s tragedy in Half Moon Bay,” Dave Pine, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement. “We have not even had time to grieve for those lost in the terrible shooting in Monterey Park. Gun violence must stop.” AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:14:58', '2023-01-24 03:14:58'),
(4700, 4700, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This means Americans would no longer have to keep track of how many shots they’ve received or how many months it’s been since their last booster.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposal comes as boosters have become a hard sell. While more than 80% of the U.S. population has had at least one vaccine dose, only 16% of those eligible have received the latest boosters authorized in August.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FDA will ask its panel of outside vaccine experts to weigh in at a meeting Thursday. The agency is expected to take their advice into consideration while deciding future vaccine requirements for manufacturers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In documents posted online, FDA scientists say many Americans now have “sufficient preexisting immunity” against the coronavirus because of vaccination, infection or a combination of the two. That baseline of protection should be enough to move to an annual booster against the latest strains in circulation and make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the yearly flu shot, according to the agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For adults with weakened immune systems and very small children, a two-dose combination may be needed for protection. FDA scientists and vaccine companies would study vaccination, infection rates and other data to decide who should receive a single shot versus a two-dose series.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">FDA will also ask its panel to vote on whether all vaccines should target the same strains. That step would be needed to make the shots interchangeable, doing away with the current complicated system of primary vaccinations and boosters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initial shots from Pfizer and Moderna — called the primary series — target the strain of the virus that first emerged in 2020 and quickly swept across the world. The updated boosters launched last fall were also tweaked to target omicron relatives that had been dominant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under FDA\'s proposal, the agency, independent experts and manufacturers would decide annually on which strains to target by the early summer, allowing several months to produce and launch updated shots before the fall. That’s roughly the same approach long used to select the strains for the annual flu shot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ultimately, FDA officials say moving to an annual schedule would make it easier to promote future vaccination campaigns, which could ultimately boost vaccination rates nationwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The original two-dose COVID shots have offered strong protection against severe disease and death no matter the variant, but protection against mild infection wanes. Experts continue to debate whether the latest round of boosters significantly enhanced protection, particularly for younger, healthy Americans. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:18:18', '2023-01-24 03:18:18'),
(4701, 4701, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Elon Musk returned to federal court Monday in San Francisco, testifying that he believed he had locked up financial backing to take Tesla private during 2018 meetings with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — although no specific funding amount or price was discussed.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 51-year-old billionaire Tesla CEO and Twitter owner is facing a class action lawsuit filed by Tesla investors alleging he misled them with a tweet saying funding was secured to take his electric car company private — for $420 per share.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the deal never came close to happening, and the tweet resulted in a $40 million settlement with securities regulators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trial hinges on the question of whether a pair of tweets that Musk posted on Aug. 7, 2018, damaged Tesla shareholders during a 10-day period leading up to Musk\'s admission that the buyout he had envisioned wasn’t going to happen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in a soft halting tone, Musk said Monday he “had trouble sleeping last night and unfortunately I am not at my best.” He added that it was important for jurors to know that he “felt that funding was secured” due to his ownership of “SpaceX stock alone.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Just as I sold stock in Tesla to buy Twitter. ... I didn\'t want to sell Tesla stock but I did sell Tesla stock,” he said of the sale to make up for lack of funding from other sources for his $44 billion deal to take Twitter private. Musk sold nearly $23 billion worth of his car company’s shares between last April, when he started building a position in Twitter, and December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“My SpaceX shares alone would have meant that funding was secured,” Musk said of the 2018 tweets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even before Musk first took the stand on Friday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen had declared that jurors can consider those two tweets to be false, leaving them to decide whether Musk deliberately deceived investors and whether his statements saddled them with losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk has previously contended he entered into the Securities and Exchange Commission settlement under duress and maintained he believed he had locked up financial backing for a Tesla buyout during meetings with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a July 31, 2018 meeting, the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan “confirmed unequivocally that they would support Tesla going private. That was part of what ‘funding secure’ meant,” Musk said Monday. “But in addition there was SpaceX stock, which could also be used.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first of the 2018 tweets, Musk stated “funding secured” for what would have been a $72 billion — or $420 per share — buyout of Tesla at a time when the electric automaker was still grappling with production problems and was worth far less than it is now. Musk followed up a few hours later with another tweet suggesting a deal was imminent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer representing Tesla shareholders, asked Musk if he “went with 420 because it was a joke your girlfriend enjoys.” Musk replied he thinks there is “some karma” around the number 420 — which is also a slang reference to marijuana — although he added he doesn\'t know “if it\'s good karma or bad karma at this point.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He then said the number was a \"coincidence\" and it represented a 20% premium of Tesla\'s share price at the time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After it became apparent that the money wasn’t in place to take Tesla private, Musk stepped down as Tesla’s chairman while remaining CEO as part of the SEC settlement, without acknowledging wrongdoing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, Musk had testified he thinks it is possible to be “absolutely truthful” on Twitter. \"But can you be comprehensive? Of course not.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, he again emphasized: “My tweet was truthful, absolutely truthful.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked by his lawyer, Alex Spiro, if he understood the charges against him, Musk said he\'s being \"accused of fraud. It’s outrageous.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shares of Tesla climbed $8.76. or 6.6%, to $142.18 on Monday. He said he never deceived investors. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:21:38', '2023-01-24 03:21:38'),
(4702, 4702, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Evidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number of uprooted people, the UN said Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for increased human trafficking, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Climate change is increasing vulnerability to trafficking,\" the UNODC report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While a systematic global analysis of the impact of climate change in trafficking in persons is missing, community level studies in different parts of the world point at weather induced disasters as root causes for trafficking in persons,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report is based on data from 141 countries collected from 2017 to 2020, and the analysis of 800 court cases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impact of climate change \"disproportionally\" affected poor farming, fishing and other communities mainly relying on the extraction of natural resources for their livelihoods, the report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once \"deprived of their means of subsistence and forced to flee their community,\" people were becoming easy prey for traffickers, Fabrizio Sarrica, the report\'s main author told a press briefing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2021 alone, climate-related disasters internally displaced more than 23.7 million people, while many others fled their countries altogether.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As entire regions of the world are at risk of becoming \"increasingly uninhabitable,\" millions will face \"high risk of exploitation along migration routes,\" the UN report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN drugs agency noted that an increase in cases of human trafficking had been observed in Bangladesh and the Philippines after devastating cyclones and typhoons displaced millions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Droughts and floods in Ghana, and the Caribbean region -- subject to hurricanes and rising sea levels -- were also forcing many to migrate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Fewer victims detected -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While most of the victims of trafficking resulting from conflicts originated from Africa and the Middle East, a potentially \"dangerous\" situation is simultaneously building up in Ukraine as millions flee the war-torn country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The challenge is how to deal with human trafficking arising from war and instability,\" Ilias Chatzis, the head of the human trafficking and migrant smuggling section at UNODC, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With regard to Ukraine, helping neighbouring countries and increasing support to the Ukrainian authorities is equally important, Chatzis added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Covid-19 pandemic limited the ability to detect cases, especially in low-income countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa, the report added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faced with the closure of public venues such as bars and clubs due to health restrictions, certain forms of trafficking, in particular sexual exploitation, have been pushed into \"less visible and less safe locations\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first time since data collection began in 2003, the number of victims detected worldwide fell in 2020, dropping by eleven percent compared to 2019, the Vienna-based UNODC said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:26:25', '2023-01-24 03:26:25'),
(4703, 4703, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Riot police tossed tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in new unrest in Peru\'s capital on Monday, and the nation\'s interior minister said there was no end in sight to the tumult gripping the nation.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several hundred protesters marched in colonial central Lima to demand the ouster of President Dina Boluarte -- some shouting \"Dina murderer!\" -- until police moved in with tear gas volleys.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This crisis triggered by the ouster of leftist and Indigenous president Pedro Castillo early last month stems largely from a gaping inequity between Peru\'s urban elite and poor rural Indigenous people in the southern Andean region who saw him as one of their own and working to make their lives better.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unrest has left 46 dead in the South American nation, and Interior Minister Vicente Romero forecast no relief.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The social protests will continue. We are working intensively with the defense ministry to resolve them,\" Romero told the state TV Peru channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a mass rally last week in Lima, another is planned for Tuesday by protesters demanding the resignation of Boluarte, despite authorities calling a state of emergency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We urgently need for Dina to resign,\" said Edmunda Canaguira, 60, who came to Lima from Sicuani in the southeastern Andes of Peru to take part in the mass mobilization.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"She doesn\'t listen to the people. It\'s her fault that we are in the streets this week -- without food, without being able to sleep,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Protesters, many from poor Andean regions, are also demanding a new constitution, fresh elections and the dissolution of congress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Civil groups have denounced repression by the security forces, but the minister defended police and praised their \"spectacular\" abilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Right now we\'re experiencing one of the highest levels of violence in recent times, since the 1980s\" when authorities were battling left-wing Shining Path guerrillas, said Romero.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He once again blamed a \"faceless\" group for financing protests in which he said 540 police officers have been injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities have long claimed drug-traffickers and illegal miners were \"manipulating\" protesters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trouble first broke out on December 7 after then-president Castillo was arrested and charged with rebellion after attempting to dissolve congress and rule by decree.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His supporters have kept up regular protests and roadblocks throughout the country, even at times attempting to storm airports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, there were still more than 80 blocked roads in eight of Peru\'s 25 regions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu has been closed since Saturday as train services to the popular tourist site -- the only way to reach it other than on foot -- have been suspended for several days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 400 stranded tourists had to be evacuated from Machu Picchu over the weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airports in the southern cities of Arequipa and Juliaca remain closed. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:29:24', '2023-01-24 03:29:24'),
(4704, 4704, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden on Monday that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Koran outside Ankara\'s embassy in Stockholm.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Erdogan\'s furious comments further distanced the prospects of Sweden and Finland joining the Western defence alliance before Turkey\'s presidential and parliamentary polls in May.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO members not to have ratified the Nordic neighbours\' historic decision to break their tradition of military non-alignment in response to Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised that his parliament would approve the two bids next month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Erdogan has dug in his heels heading into a close election in which he is trying to energise his nationalist electoral base.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Sweden should not expect support from us for NATO,\" Erdogan said in his first official response to the act by an anti-Islam politician during a protest on Saturday that was approved by the Swedish police despite Turkey\'s objections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is clear that those who caused such a disgrace in front of our country\'s embassy can no longer expect any benevolence from us regarding their application for NATO membership,\" Erdogan said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sweden reacted with extreme caution to Erdogan\'s remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I cannot comment on the statement tonight. First, I want to understand exactly what was said,\" Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Sweden\'s TT news agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Cancelled visits -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swedish leaders roundly condemned far-right politician Rasmus Paludan\'s actions but defended their country\'s broad definition of free speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want to express my sympathy for all Muslims who are offended by what has happened in Stockholm today,\" Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson tweeted on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan has already set out a series of tough conditions that include a demand for Sweden to extradite dozens of mostly Kurdish suspects that Ankara either accuses of \"terrorism\" or of involvement in a failed 2016 coup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sweden\'s courtship of Turkey appeared to be making headway with a flurry of visits by top ministers to Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stockholm has also enacted a constitutional amendment that will make it possible to pass tougher anti-terror laws demanded by Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But things turned sour when a small Kurdish group hung an effigy of Erdogan outside Stockholm\'s city hall earlier this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey summoned the Swedish ambassador and revoked an invitation for its parliament speaker to visit Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Swedish police decision to approve Paludan\'s protests drew a similar response.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey summoned Stockholm\'s ambassador for another dressing down and cancelled a planned visit by Sweden\'s defence minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan said the burning of the Muslim holy book was a hate crime that could not be defended by free speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"No one has the right to humiliate the saints,\" he said in nationally televised remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"When we say something, we say it honestly, and when someone dishonours us, we put them in their place.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, condemned Erdogan\'s position on Sweden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with German title Die Welt, he said that \"freedom of expression, freedom of opinion is a precious commodity, in Sweden and in all other NATO countries. And that is why these inappropriate acts are not automatically illegal.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stoltenberg, who last spring was talking of a fast-track membership process of just a few weeks, added in the interview that the Swedish government had condemned the demonstration \"in very clear terms\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:37:45', '2023-01-24 03:37:45'),
(4705, 4705, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality remains in the ‘very unhealthy\' zone this morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 234 at 9:05 am today (January 24, 2023), the capital of Bangladesh ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and Bosnia Herzegovina’s Sarajevo occupied the first and third places with AQI of 247 and 223 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 04:30:45', '2023-01-24 04:30:45');
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(4706, 4706, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The overall number of Covid-19 cases around the world has now surpassed 673 million, with a sudden surge of cases in Asia and some other parts of the world.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count mounted to 673,506,825 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,748,110 this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US has recorded 103,888,296 Covid-19 cases so far, while 1,129,145 people have died from the virus in the North American country, both highest counts around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India reported 94 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths in 24 hours, the union health ministry data on Monday showed. While active cases have declined to 1,934, the South Asian country’s total coronavirus cases have reached 4.47 crore so far. The overall death toll stood at 5,30,735 since the onset of the pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population had already been infected.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh reported 12 more Covid-19 cases in 24 hours till Monday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new cases, the country\'s total caseload rose to 2,037,456, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,441 as no new fatalities were reported. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 04:52:54', '2023-01-24 04:52:54'),
(4707, 4707, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Poor visibility caused by dense fogs disrupted ferry movements for 5.30 hours on Aricha-Kazirhat route early today, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Paturia Ghat officials said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Dense fog blanketed the Aricha-Kazirhat river route on the river Jamuna, forcing us to suspend the ferry movements at 2 am on Tuesday. The services were resumed 5.30 hours later at 7.30 am today (Tuesday),\" BIWTC\'s Deputy General Manager (DGM) Shah Mohammad Khaled Newaz said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said at midnight after the fog density was increased and the route appeared \"almost invisible\" when all of the ferries, which were to operate during the subsequent hours, were asked to remain stationed at terminals or on the midstream.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official said two ferries Kostory and Begum Rokeya were stranded at Kazirhat Ghat, three ferries Shah Enayetpuri, Shah Ali and Kunjolota at Aricha Ghat and one ferry Begum Sufia Kamal in the midstream of the Jamuna river in Aricha-Kazirhat route with vehicles and passengers during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Officials said the fog simultaneously forced suspension of movement of other vessels like engine-run country boats and launches in the river route.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They said the visibility largely returned at about 7.30 am on the Aricha-Kazirhat route. BIWTC, DGM Newaz said the ferry movement is now normal. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 05:29:10', '2023-01-24 14:52:40'),
(4708, 4708, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the three-day annual conference of deputy commissioners (DCs) in the city.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She opened the DC Conference-2023 at the Shapla Hall of the Prime Minister\'s Office (PMO) this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain gave the address of welcome as PM\'s Principal Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi GSM Zafarullah addressed the function on behalf of the divisional commissioners while Narsingdi DC Abu Nayeem Mohammad Maruf Khan and Bandarban DC Yasmin Parvin Tibriji also spoke on behalf of the deputy commissioners.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the overall development of the local administration was screened at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the inaugural function at the PMO, the DC conference will take place at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his welcome address, Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain said a total of 245 proposals placed by the DCs will be discussed in 26 working sessions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Head of the government as well as ministers and secretaries of different ministries and divisions will join the discussion and give necessary directives to the DCs, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposals related to improving law and order situation, health, land, management and education would get priority in the three-day conference, which is scheduled to end on January 26, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cabinet secretary said that the DCs placed 242 proposals in the last year\'s conference, of which 177 were implemented while implementation of the remaining 66 proposals is underway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the conference schedule, the DCs will pay call on Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique on January 25 on the second day of the conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will also pay call on President M Abdul Hamid on the third day of the conference. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 05:40:27', '2023-01-24 05:40:57'),
(4709, 4709, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">If I had to put my finger on a specific moment in the early portions of Siddharth Anand’s War that announces the film’s swag and style, and signals that we’re in for something more triumphant than forgettable Bollywood action fair --it would be the end of the first scene. After Kabir (an endlessly watchable, ultra-smooth Hrithik Roshan with a remarkable command over his presence) has just shot and killed his own handler, we see him walking off a rooftop.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Behind him, a glitching red neon sign that should read “Hotel Lotus” instead flashes the word “Hell”. It’s that cheeky moment, I think, that tells us that we’re in for something more than the overly processed, blurry guns-and-glory action movie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The rare Hindi movie that beautifully blends the scale and slick execution of a Hollywood action flick with Bollywood masala tropes and an unabashed celebration of stardom, War is the definitive Bollywood action movie of the modern age. And on this, the eve of Pathaan, it’s worth revisiting its achievement. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">For one, War is full of memorable set pieces – the thrilling Portugal bike chase for starters. But, for me, none capture the film’s polished execution and finesse quite like the airplane set piece, in which Kabir takes down a flight full of bad guys while it’s in the air. In another film, you can imagine this same, sleek sequence without the same craft, shine or rhythm, instead resorting to gaudy CGI and excessive showboating.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Then, of course, there’s the little matter of Hrithik Roshan. War marked the onset of Hrithik of 2.0, a transition we first saw signs of in Kaabil, which then came to fruition in 2019 with both War and Super 30. War marked the rise of a far more subtle actor. A star coming into his own, opting for the understated, embracing economy, and realising that less is, in fact, more. In War, Hrithik tears up the screen with effortless style like no one’s business. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More than any impressive set piece or fight sequence, it’s Kabir’s attitude and presence that stay with you. Hrithik not only brings a brooding, arrogant swag to Kabir but also awards a sense of humanity to the agent who puts the mission above all else. Not to mention granting us perhaps the greatest Bollywood hero entry sequence moment in recent memory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">War equally benefits from the winning Hrithik-Tiger chemistry, whose real-life disciple-mentor dynamic bleeds into the film beautifully. It’s why War remains Tiger Shroff’s best movie. For once he was willing to be a part of a film rather than be the film. As Khalid, Tiger plays an actual character rather than a desperate-to-impress muscle machine forever in search of an excuse to backflip and break bones for two hours. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Khalid works not just because of the honesty in his eyes when he looks up to Kabir (homoerotic undertones aside) but because he felt fallible and human. It’s why you feel for the real Khalid when you realise he’s been dead for years. It\'s also just plain admirable that Tiger was willing to not only (partly) play the bad guy, but also play second fiddle to Hrithik.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Then there’s also the fact that War remains the rare film from Tiger’s testosterone-fuelled filmography to do actual justice to his impressive physical ability without feeling the need to rely on hyper-processed slow-motion shots and excessive cutting. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Take his entry scene, for example - arguably the most memorable sequence in a film full of them. The 3-minute-long unbroken shot sees Khalid burst into a roomful of drug lords in a villa in Malta, and systematically slice through them one at a time using only his fists and scattered furniture as weapons. It\'s an impressively executed single-shot sequence of pure hand-to-hand rampage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At a time when the action genre within Hindi cinema is dominated by disorienting assault on the senses excess, like its hero Kabir, War was drenched in attitude, nailed what it set out to do, and most crucially, did no more than it needed to. A delicate balance of sleek and swag, Siddharth Anand\'s War is not only the grand Bollywood action film done right, he also gave us an ode to Hrithik Roshan. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Anand leaned into the star\'s Greek God-ness like few filmmakers before him while the star himself was at the peak of his craft. It\'s no surprise then, that King Khan chose the filmmaker for his own comeback project. But with Pathaan, Anand has his work cutout for him. The superstar he must do justice to and celebrate this time around, is the one we hold most dear. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The one who\'s in desperate need of a win. The one for whom action and testosterone doesn\'t necessarily come naturally. As to whether the director is able to work wonders again and both reimagine and revisit the Shah Rukh Khan mythology, we\'ll know soon enough. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 06:14:53', '2023-01-24 06:14:53'),
(4710, 4710, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kylian Mbappe became the first Paris Saint-Germain player to score five times in one match as the Ligue 1 giants crushed sixth-tier amateur minnows Pays de Cassel 7-0 in the French Cup on Monday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe, who scored a hat-trick in France\'s defeat by Argentina in the World Cup final just over a month ago, netted a hat-trick in the first half here as PSG led 4-0 at the break against their regional league opponents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He struck twice more after the restart, with Neymar and Carlos Soler scoring PSG\'s other goals in the last-32 tie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Qatar-owned club, who have won the French Cup 14 times, more than any other team, will now play away to bitter rivals Marseille in the last 16 early next month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That match is scheduled for the week beginning February 6, just a week before PSG host Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Once we scored the first goal it became harder for our opponents,\" PSG boss Christophe Galtier told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The opponents we\'ll face over the next weeks are of a different quality,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe was given the captain\'s armband while Neymar also started, but Lionel Messi was rested, allowed to sit out this tie played before a full house at the 38,000-seat Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pays de Cassel are a tiny club representing a handful of villages inland from the port town of Dunkirk in France\'s far north, but their remarkable run to this stage of the tournament stoked the interest of the whole region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They performed admirably in the early stages against the Ligue 1 leaders, but their resistance was broken just before the half-hour mark when Mbappe turned in a Nuno Mendes cutback, the ball taking a crucial deflection on its way in.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe then set up Neymar for the Brazilian to score his first goal since the World Cup, before the France star lobbed in his team\'s third and then completed a 12-minute hat-trick from a Vitinha pass.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe\'s fourth, and PSG\'s fifth, followed a goalkeeping mistake in the 56th minute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neymar set up Soler to backheel in for 6-0 before Mbappe completed the rout, his fifth of the game allowing him to equal the all-time record for most French Cup goals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has now scored 29 times in the competition, as many as former Marseille great Jean-Pierre Papin. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 06:37:44', '2023-01-24 06:37:44'),
(4711, 4711, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Oscar nominations for a year in which the big-screen box office finally bounced back from the pandemic will be unveiled Tuesday, with Academy voters expected to reward blockbusters such as \"Top Gun: Maverick\" for helping to save movie theaters.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom Cruise\'s long-awaited sequel to his huge 1986 hit is the most likely crowd-pleaser to make the cut for best picture -- Hollywood\'s most coveted prize -- but other popular follow-ups including \"Avatar: The Way of Water\" and \"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\" could also get a nod.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will compete with a wide range of movies, from word-of-mouth sci-fi smash \"Everything Everywhere All At Once\" to Steven Spielberg\'s quasi-memoir \"The Fabelmans,\" which wowed many critics but didn\'t persuade theatergoers to pay up.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other films firmly on the radar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters are Irish black comedy \"The Banshees of Inisherin,\" Baz Luhrmann\'s rock-and-roll biopic \"Elvis,\" and Cate Blanchett\'s latest tour-de-force \"Tar.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This year is one of the more unknown years,\" said Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I probably have put more effort into talking to Academy members to try to gauge their interest and see where the race is headed than in any other year in my life,\" he told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And I probably know the least I\'ve ever known in my career.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A major complicating factor for Oscars prognosticators is the recent massive growth in the number of international Academy voters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those members have been credited with surprises such as South Korea\'s \"Parasite\" winning best picture in 2020, and Japan\'s \"Drive My Car\" being nominated last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'ve had international features get in the past few years, and I think that streak could continue,\" said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Germany\'s World War I drama \"All Quiet on the Western Front\" has built major momentum, scooping a massive 14 nods last week for Britain\'s BAFTAs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another best picture contender could be \"RRR,\" an unapologetically over-the-top Indian action film that has built grassroots support to become a hugely popular favorite in Hollywood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"RRR\" cannot be nominated for best international feature, however, as India opted instead to submit \"Last Film Show\" as the country\'s official pick for that category.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"No shade to the movie they did choose, which is actually very good, but \'RRR\' was a slam dunk,\" said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Acting races -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the individual categories, Brendan Fraser (\"The Whale\"), Colin Farrell (\"The Banshees of Inisherin\") and Austin Butler (\"Elvis\") are clear favorites to score best actor nominations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Double Oscar-winner Blanchett appears to be locked in a two-way battle atop the best actress section with Michelle Yeoh, who could make history with \"Everything Everywhere.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"She\'s going be the second Asian woman ever nominated for lead actress in 95 years\" of the Oscars, said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her co-star Ke Huy Quan -- who appeared as a child in \"Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom\" almost four decades ago -- is likely to cement a remarkable comeback with a nod for best supporting actor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The best supporting actress category is expected to feature Angela Bassett, who would become the first star in a Marvel superhero movie to ever earn an Oscar acting nomination with \"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spielberg is among those predicted to make the best director shortlist.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Saved movies\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actors Riz Ahmed (\"Sound of Metal\") and Allison Williams (\"Girls\") will unveil the nominations Tuesday from Los Angeles starting at 5:30 am (1330 GMT).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Television ratings for award shows including the Oscars have trended downwards, as Academy voters in recent years have veered toward honoring lesser-known indie hits like \"Nomadland\" and \"CODA.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many in the industry will be hoping for a healthy spread of nominations among 2022\'s crowd-pleasing sequels, which were sorely needed as giants such as Cineworld, the world\'s second biggest cinema chain, filed for bankruptcy protection.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">James Cameron\'s sci-fi epic \"Avatar: The Way of Water\" sailed past the $2 billion mark globally last weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Top Gun: Maverick,\" which came out in May during highly uncertain times for movie theaters, earned around $1.5 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"That\'s the one that feels like it could actually win best picture,\" said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What better story the day after the Oscars air, than that the movie that saved movies was named the best movie? That\'s a good story to tell.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 06:46:12', '2023-01-24 06:46:12'),
(4712, 4712, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Elon Musk on Monday told jurors that his 2018 tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 a share was no joke and that Saudi Arabia\'s sovereign wealth fund was serious about helping him do it.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tesla chief returned to the witness stand to answer questions from lawyers for angry investors who accuse him of costing them millions of dollars with a pair of allegedly false tweets about having the funding secured to buy them out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lawyer for the plaintiffs focused on Musk\'s buyout figure of 420, a number that is also a popular rallying code for marijuana, which Musk uses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"420 was not chosen because of a joke; it was chosen because there was a 20 percent premium over the stock price,\" Musk said when asked if he was having a laugh when he made the tweet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk added, however, that there was \"some karma around 420\", though \"I should question whether that is good or bad karma at this point.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case revolves around a pair of tweets in which Musk said \"funding secured\" for a project to buy out the publicly-traded electric automaker, then in a second tweet added that \"investor support is confirmed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tweets sent the Tesla share price on a rollercoaster ride and Musk was sued by shareholders who say the tycoon acted recklessly in an effort to squeeze investors who had bet, or \"gone short,\" against the company.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk referred to short sellers as \"evil\" at the trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s difficult to appreciate just now just how much attack Tesla was under by short sellers who wanted Tesla to die,\" Musk told jurors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Done deal\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Musk said he fired off the tweets at issue after learning of a Financial Times story about a Saudi Arabian investment fund wanting to acquire a stake in Tesla.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My concern was that if they knew all of this information, then they could also potentially know about the take-private,\" Musk said of the news report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk testified that Saudi Arabia\'s sovereign wealth fund was \"unequivocally, without question\" supportive of his project, adding that the head of the fund told him that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was also on board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So essentially I took that to mean it was a done deal,\" Musk said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When confronted with exchanges with the Saudi fund that showed they wanted more details before committing to his buyout plan, Musk said the fund was \"backpedalling\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk testified that he understood the fund would do whatever it took to take Tesla private and had plenty of money to do it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The billionaire added that even without the Saudi fund, he had the personal wealth to take Tesla private at the time, including by using his shares in SpaceX, the company he also runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk said he had shared some details of his plan with tech billionaire and Tesla investor Larry Ellison, who is among witnesses slated to testify at the fraud trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During testimony last week, a Harvard professor called as a witness by the plaintiffs said that Musk\'s plans were \"illusory\" and deviated wildly from the way such mega-deals usually take place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his own opening remarks, Musk attorney Alex Spiro said that even though the tweets may have been a \"reckless choice of words\", they were \"not fraud, not even close.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m being accused of fraud; it\'s outrageous,\" Musk said as his lawyer took over the questioning on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tycoon\'s testimony is set to conclude on Tuesday. 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(4713, 4713, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the deputy commissioners (DCs) to take only necessary projects alongside implementing 25 directives including putting emphasis on increasing food production and taking measures for saving electricity and energy.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The projects which are necessary at this moment, we only want to take those instead of going for wholesale manner keeping in mind the global economic recession due to Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said this while opening the three-day annual DC Conference-2023 at the Shapla Hall of her office here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked the DCs to consider “how many projects are effective and beneficial for the particular areas and their people whenever taking those”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier also asked them to take into consideration saving money from the projects by avoiding unnecessary expenses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling upon the DCs to work with priority in implementing her 25 directives for making a developed, prosperous and Smart Bangladesh by 2041, she said, \"I am asking you to give attention to take some measures (25 directives)\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister however expressed her satisfaction to the field level administration for their sincerity and cooperation to implement the government plans, policies and programmes properly at the grassroots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bangladesh has marched ahead and we have got global acclamation as you are working for the country and its people with professional duty and sincerity,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said that she witnessed sincerity among the local administration since her government assumed office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to a speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she asked local administration officials to be public servants as their salaries and other benefits are being given from the taxes of the people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Work for serving the people by devoting yourselves and then you will get satisfaction,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain gave the address of welcome as PM\'s Principal Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah also spoke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner GSM Zafarullah addressed the function on behalf of the divisional commissioners while Narsingdi DC Abu Nayeem Mohammad Maruf Khan and Bandarban DC Yasmin Parvin Tibriji, as well, spoke on behalf of the deputy commissioners.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the overall development of the local administration was screened at the function. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 07:26:30', '2023-01-24 07:26:30'),
(4714, 4714, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least four people were injured in an explosion in Dhaka\'s Moghbazar area earlier today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blast occurred at around 9:45 am in front of a medicine store in the Moghbazar Wireless area and the injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Abul Hasan, officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured are Saiful Islam, 36; Tareq, 20; Abul Kalam, 25; and Md Shaheen, 30.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason behind the explosion could not be known yet, added the OC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"However, we are looking into whether it was a crude bomb or anything else,\" said Abul Hasan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured are now receiving treatment at the hospital, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police outpost.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“All are out of danger,” he added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 08:24:28', '2023-01-24 08:24:28'),
(4715, 4715, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">New Zealand skipper Tom Latham won the toss and elected to bowl against India as the tourists look to avoid a series sweep in Tuesday\'s third one-day international at Indore.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kiwis made one change after their eight-wicket hammering in the second match, with fast bowler Jacob Duffy coming in for Henry Shipley.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India made two changes with Umran Malik and Yuzvendra Chahal replacing Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an unassailable 2-0 series lead and preparations for this year\'s ODI World Cup underway, India skipper Rohit Sharma said he would have chosen to bat first to test his bowlers under lights and dew.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Teams</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>India: </b>Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubhman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>New Zealand:</b> Finn Allen, Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (capt), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner, Jacob Duffy, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (IND), Nitin Menon (IND)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">TV Umpire: Anil Chaudhary (IND)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Match Referee: Javagal Srinath (IND). AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 08:39:07', '2023-01-24 08:39:07'),
(4716, 4716, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>In a historic judgment on Tuesday, the High Court said that from now mothers too will be recognised as the legal guardians of children in different official documents.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil pronounced the judgment.</div><div><br></div><div>After hearing on January 16, the court fixed January 24 for delivering the verdict on whether mothers will be recognised as the children’s legal guardian or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Ainun Nahar Siddiqua, Advocate SM Rezaul Karim and Advocate Ayesha Akhter stood for the petitioner at the court while Deputy Attorney General Amit Das Gupta represented the state.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the lawyers, a female SSC examinee from Thakurgaon was denied the admit card in 2007 as she could not mention her father\'s name in the information form which is required to be filled up before participating in the Secondary School Certificate Examination.</div><div><br></div><div>The girl grew up with her mother after her father left them without giving them recognition.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, on August 2, 2009, three human rights organisations - Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad and Nari Paksha jointly filed a writ petition citing public interest.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 3 of the same year, the High Court bench of Justice Syed Refat Ahmed and Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury issued a rule asking why this discriminatory provision, which is an obstacle to access to human rights, equality and especially the right to education, should not be declared as contrary to law and unconstitutional.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also ordered submitting a report on the Education Boards where mentioning both father and mother’s names is compulsory in getting the registration cards for the SSC examinations and what kind of measures are taken to ensure participation of those eligible examines in the examination who are unable to mention the identity of their fathers.</div><div><br></div><div>Later on June 6, 2021, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) filed a supplementary affidavit in court on behalf of the petitioners. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 10:19:58', '2023-01-24 10:19:58'),
(4717, 4717, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hit Nepal on Tuesday with strong tremors being felt across Delhi and surrounding areas.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter Scale hit Nepal at 2:28 pm today,\" National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The quake\'s epicentre was in Nepal at a place 148 km east of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Residents of Delhi-NCR took to social media to share videos of ceiling fans and household objects shaking during the tremors that lasted less than a minute.</div><div><br></div><div>There have been no reports of damage caused by the earthquake so far. - PTI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 10:32:11', '2023-01-24 10:32:11'),
(4718, 4718, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Education Minister Dipu Moni on Tuesday said that Two high-level probe committees will be formed to identify those responsible for mistakes and distortions in the textbooks distributed this year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“I see identifying errors in the textbooks very positively,” she told the reporters at a press briefing on the corrections of mistakes in the textbooks of the new academic year at the International Mother Language Institute of the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>The outline of these two committees will be presented by next Sunday (January 29, 2023), she said, adding that officials from the Prime Minister\'s Office, Education, Primary and Mass Education ministries and related ministries will be involved in the committee.</div><div><br></div><div>A committee will consist of experts for each subject and the ministry will provide an online form for revision of textbooks, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In this form, people from the country and abroad will have an opportunity to inform the ministry about errors or inconsistencies in textbooks, said Dipu Moni.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts will review all the textbooks again and will take note of the mistakes identified in the textbooks and fix them and those corrections will be sent to the educational institutions, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The other committee will be formed with the&nbsp; representatives from the Prime Minister\'s Office, representatives from two ministries, representatives from National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) and officials of the ministries concerned, the education minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>“It will be investigated whether the mistakes and controversial topics in the textbook were intentionally added or not.”</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, NCTB provided corrections for nine mistakes they found in three textbooks of classes 9 and 10 this year.</div><div><br></div><div>NCTB issued a notification in this regard on January 15, 2023 and posted the corrections on their website.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, eminent writer and academician Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and Professor Hasina Khan expressed regret over the plagiarised content found in the class 7 science textbook that they had edited. They also took responsibility in a statement. According to UNB reports.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 11:23:03', '2023-01-24 11:23:03'),
(4719, 4719, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Dhaka court set April 6 for submitting probe report in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar (SK) Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha for allegedly owning a three-storied house in the US bought through laundered money.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Asaduzaman passed the order as investigation agency Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) failed to submit the report today.</div><div><br></div><div>The ACC on March 31, 2022, filed the case under sections 4 (2) and 4 (3) of the money laundering prevention act and section 5 (2) of the anti-corruption act.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case documents, Ananta bought the house for his brother at a cost of around Taka 2.40 crore. As the ACC couldn\'t identify any legal source of the money paid for the home, it believes that the money was earned illegally or laundered from Bangladesh. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 13:17:41', '2023-01-24 13:17:41'),
(4720, 4720, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal today said the schedule for the presidential election will be announced tomorrow.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"A meeting of the election commission will be held at 11 am tomorrow where the schedule of the presidential election will be disclosed,\" he said while talking to the journalists at Nirbachan Bhaban in the city\'s Agargaon area after a meeting with Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at JS Bhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Parliament Secretariat Senior Secretary KM Abdus Salam and Election Commission (EC) Secretary Md Jahangir Alam were present during the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The CEC said, \"We have met the Speaker of the Parliament and discussed about the presidential election.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>According to the Constitution, a new president has to be elected within 90 to 60 days prior to the end of the incumbent president\'s tenure.</div><div><br></div><div>In line with the presidential election act, there is also a provision for the CEC to meet with the Speaker prior to the presidential election.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The previous presidential election schedule was announced on 25 January, 2018.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid was elected president unopposed for the second term on 6 February though the election slated for 18 February.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>President Abdul Hamid is set to complete his tenure on 23 April this year.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 14:15:53', '2023-01-24 14:15:53');
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(4721, 4721, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “The Fabelmans” were among the big leaders. “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the biggest blockbusters released in 2022, were among the best picture nominees.</div><div><br></div><div>The Oscars ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles with Jimmy Kimmel as host and will be televised live on ABC. This year’s ceremony is sure to draw extra attention after Will Smith smacked Chris Rock during last year’s show.</div><div>Here are the nominees of major categories:</div><div><br></div><div>Best Picture</div><div><br></div><div>All Quiet on the Western Front</div><div><br></div><div>Avatar: The Way of Water</div><div><br></div><div>The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Elvis</div><div>Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>The Fabelmans</div><div><br></div><div>Tar</div><div><br></div><div>Top Gun: Maverick</div><div><br></div><div>Triangle of Sadness</div><div><br></div><div>Women Talking</div><div><br></div><div>Best Director</div><div><br></div><div>Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans</div><div><br></div><div>Todd Field, Tar</div><div><br></div><div>Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness</div><div><br></div><div>Best Actress</div><div><br></div><div>Cate Blanchett, Tar</div><div><br></div><div>Ana De Armas, Blonde</div><div><br></div><div>Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie</div><div><br></div><div>Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans</div><div><br></div><div>Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>Best Actor</div><div><br></div><div>Austin Butler, Elvis</div><div><br></div><div>Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Brendan Fraser, The Whale</div><div><br></div><div>Paul Mescal, Aftersun</div><div><br></div><div>Bill Nighy, Living</div><div><br></div><div>Best Supporting Actress</div><div><br></div><div>Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</div><div><br></div><div>Hong Chau, The Whale</div><div><br></div><div>Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>Stepanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>Best Supporting Actor</div><div><br></div><div>Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway</div><div><br></div><div>Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans</div><div><br></div><div>Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>Best Adapted Screenplay</div><div><br></div><div>All Quiet on the Western Front</div><div><br></div><div>Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery</div><div><br></div><div>Living</div><div><br></div><div>Top Gun: Maverick</div><div><br></div><div>Women Talking</div><div><br></div><div>Best Original Screenplay</div><div><br></div><div>The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>The Fabelmans</div><div><br></div><div>Tar</div><div><br></div><div>Triangle of Sadness</div><div><br></div><div>Best International Feature</div><div><br></div><div>All Quiet on the Western Front</div><div><br></div><div>Argentina, 1985</div><div><br></div><div>Close</div><div><br></div><div>EO</div><div><br></div><div>The Quiet Girl</div><div><br></div><div>Best Song</div><div><br></div><div>Applause, Tell it Like a Woman</div><div><br></div><div>Hold My Hand, Top Gun: Maverick</div><div><br></div><div>Lift Me Up, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</div><div><br></div><div>Naatu Naatu, RRR</div><div><br></div><div>This is a Life, Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>Best Animated Feature</div><div><br></div><div>Marcel the Shell with Shoes On</div><div><br></div><div>Puss in Boots: The Last Wish</div><div><br></div><div>The Sea Beast</div><div><br></div><div>Turning Red</div><div><br></div><div>Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio</div><div><br></div><div>Best Film Editing</div><div><br></div><div>The Banshees of Inisherin</div><div><br></div><div>Elvis</div><div><br></div><div>Everything Everywhere All At Once</div><div><br></div><div>Tar</div><div><br></div><div>Top Gun: Maverick</div><div><br></div><div>Best Cinematography</div><div><br></div><div>All Quiet on the Western Front</div><div><br></div><div>Bardo</div><div><br></div><div>Elvis</div><div><br></div><div>Empire of Light</div><div><br></div><div>Tar</div><div><br></div><div>Best Visual Effects</div><div><br></div><div>All Quiet on the Western Front</div><div><br></div><div>Avatar: The Way of Water</div><div><br></div><div>The Batman</div><div><br></div><div>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</div><div><br></div><div>Top Gun: Maverick Source: BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 14:30:39', '2023-01-24 14:30:39'),
(4722, 4722, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The total amount of debt to the top 20 defaulters is Tk 19,283.93 crore while the amount of defaulted loan is Tk 16,587. 92 crore.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal divulged the amount in parliament on Tuesday responding to a tabled question from ruling Awami League MP Shahiduzzaman Sarker.</div><div><br></div><div>The finance minister placed the list the names of top 20 loan defaulters, amount of total debt and the amount of defaulted loans to them.</div><div><br></div><div>He also informed the House that the total number of defaulters in the country is 7,86,065.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the list, among the top 20 loan defaulters, the debt status of CLC Power Company Limited is Tk 1,732.92 crore while their defaulted debt is 1,649.44 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>The debt status and amount of defaulted loan of 19 others are: Western Marine Shipyard Ltd, Tk 1,855.39 crore, defaulted debt, 1529.74 crore; Remex Footwear Ltd, Tk 1,077.63 crore, all those amount are defaulted loans; Rising Steel Company Ltd, 1,142.76 crore, defaulted debt, Tk 990.28 crore; Mohammad Elias Brothers (Pvt.) Ltd, Tk 965.60 crore, all those amount are defaulted loans.</div><div><br></div><div>Rupali Composite Leather Wire Ltd.\'s status and amount of defaulted loans are the same. Their defaulted debt is Tk 873. 29 lakh.</div><div><br></div><div>Crescent Leathers Products Ltd.\'s status and amount of defaulted loans is Tk 855.22 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>The status and amount of defaulted loans of Quantum Power Systems Ltd. is Tk 811.33 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>The debt status of Saad Musa Fabrics Ltd. is Tk 1,131.83 crore, the amount of their defaulted loans is Tk 776.63 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>The status of amount of BR Spinning Mills Ltd. and the amount of defaulted loans is Tk 721 Crore 43 Lakh.</div><div><br></div><div>The debt status of SA Oil Refinery Ltd. is Tk 1,172.69 crore. The amount of their defaulted loans is Tk 703.53 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Debt status of Maisha Property Development Ltd. is Tk 686.14 crore. The amount of their defaulted loans is Tk 663.18 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Debt status of Radium Composite Textile Ltd. is Tk 770.48 crore. The amount of their defaulted loans is Tk 660.42 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Debt status of Samannaz Super Oil Ltd. is Tk 1,130.68 crore. The amount of their defaulted loans is Tk 651.7 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Manha Precast Technology Ltd.\'s debt status and defaulted debt amount is Tk 647.16 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Asian Education Ltd.\'s debt status is Tk. 653 Crores. The amount of their defaulted loans is Tk 635.94 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Debt status of SM Steel Re-Rolling Mills Ltd. is Tk 888.71 crore. Their defaulted loan amount is 630.26 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>The debt status of Apollo Steel Complex Ltd. is Tk 872.72 crore. The amount of their defaulted loans is Tk 623.34 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Debt Status of Ehsan Steel Re-Rolling Ltd. is Tk 624.27 crore. Their defaulted loans amount is Tk 590.23 crore and the debt status of Siddiqui Traders is Tk 670.68 crore while the amount of their defaulted loans is 541.20 crore. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 14:34:03', '2023-01-24 14:34:03'),
(4723, 4723, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three people, including an Awami League leader, were killed in an attack by a buffalo at Delduar upazila in Tangail district on Sunday and Monday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Hasmat Ali Khan, President of Lauhati union unit Awami League, one Kitab Ali, and Hazera Begum, wife of Azgar Ali of Tarutia village in the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>Nasir Uddin Mridha, officer-in-charge of Delduar Police Station, said Sharif Mia of Baropakhia village of the upazila purchased two buffaloes for farming on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Of these, one buffalo managed to tear off its noose.</div><div><br></div><div>At one stage, the buffalo started to attack people, leaving 25 injured. They were taken to different hospitals.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the injured, Hazera succumbed to her injuries at Mirzapur Kumudini Hospital around 3 pm on Sunday while Hasmat died at Savar Enam Medical College and Hospital and and Kitab Ali on the way to Dhaka, both on Monday night. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 14:48:13', '2023-01-24 14:48:13'),
(4724, 4724, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli soldiers last week posed no threat or danger and should not have lost his life, the Israeli army admitted on Monday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ahmed Kahla, 46, from Ramon, near Silwad in the occupied West Bank, was shot in the neck from close range at a military checkpoint on Jan. 15.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli army initially claimed that Kahla had been shot because he got out of his car with a knife in his hand and ran toward soldiers with the intention of stabbing them.</div><div><br></div><div>Kahla’s son Qusai, 20, who was with his father at the time, said their car was stopped at the checkpoint and a soldier fired a stun grenade that hit the roof of the vehicle. When Kahla asked why they were being attacked, an officer used pepper spray on him and pulled him from the vehicle before the soldier shot him dead.</div><div><br></div><div>An army investigation found that Kahla had no intention of carrying out a stabbing attack and “the incident should not have ended in death.”</div><div><br></div><div>The victim’s brother Zayed, 45, told Arab News: “They killed him for no reason. We will take all measures to prosecute them.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The family intends to seek financial compensation from the army in the Israeli courts, and will also go to the International Criminal Court.</div><div><br></div><div>“We realize that their trial will not bring our brother Ahmed back to life, but we want them to pay the price for their crime,” Zayed said. “We want to deter them from killing more Palestinians in cold blood and without reason.” Source: Arab News</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 15:03:26', '2023-01-24 15:03:26'),
(4725, 4725, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A top Indian university has threatened strict disciplinary action if its students’ union carries out plans today to screen a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the move might disturb peace and harmony on campus.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Modi’s government has dismissed the documentary, which questioned his leadership during deadly riots in his home state of Gujarat in 2002, as “propaganda”, blocked its airing and also barred sharing of any clips via social media in India.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi was chief minister of the western state during the violence that killed more than 2,000 people, most of them Muslims.</div><div><br></div><div>The students’ union of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, long seen as a bastion of left-wing politics, said on Twitter it would screen the documentary, “India: The Modi Question”, at a cafeteria at 9pm.</div><div><br></div><div>On its website, the university administration said it had not given permission for the showing.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is to emphasise that such an unauthorised activity may disturb peace and harmony of the university campus,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>“The concerned students/individuals are firmly advised to cancel the proposed programme immediately, failing which a strict disciplinary action may be initiated as per the university rules.”</div><div><br></div><div>On Twitter, the union president, Aishe Ghosh, had asked students to attend the screening of the documentary, describing it as having been “‘banned’ by an ‘elected government’ of the largest ‘democracy\'”.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked by Reuters if the union planned to go ahead with the screening, Ghosh responded, “Yes, we are.”</div><div><br></div><div>She declined to comment on the university’s threat of disciplinary action, however.</div><div><br></div><div>Police are closely watching the situation, said a Delhi police officer monitoring the area around JNU.</div><div><br></div><div>But police in the capital declined to make any official comment.</div><div><br></div><div>The documentary is also set to be screened at some campuses in the Communist-ruled southern state of Kerala.</div><div><br></div><div>India’s home ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the government’s plans if the film is shown at JNU and in Kerala.</div><div><br></div><div>The 2002 Gujarat violence erupted after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire, killing 59.</div><div><br></div><div>Crowds later rampaged through Muslim neighbourhoods.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2017, 11 men were jailed for life for setting the train ablaze.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi has denied accusations that he did not do enough to stop the riots and was exonerated in 2012 following an inquiry overseen by the Supreme Court.</div><div><br></div><div>Another petition questioning his exoneration was dismissed last year.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, the BBC said the documentary was “rigorously researched” and involved a “wide range” of voices and opinions, including responses from people in Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.</div><div><br></div><div>The BBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the threat of disciplinary action. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 15:28:27', '2023-01-24 15:28:27'),
(4726, 4726, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Blazing centuries from skipper Rohit Sharma and fellow opener Shubman Gill took India to a formidable 385-9, despite a middle-order wobble in Tuesday\'s third and final one-day international against New Zealand.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Rohit (101) and Gill (112) put on 212 for the opening wicket in Indore to lay a solid foundation for the innings, with the hosts already holding an unassailable 2-0 series lead.</div><div><br></div><div>New Zealand\'s bowlers hit back after the pair\'s departure on a batting-friendly pitch, where at one stage the hosts looked set to go well past 400.</div><div><br></div><div>India slipped to 293-5 before Hardik Pandya took charge, boosting the total with a 38-ball 54, including three fours and three sixes.</div><div><br></div><div>Rohit and Gill, who hit a match-winning 208 in the series opener, started cautiously with India reaching 17-0 in the first four overs before the pair exploded with boundaries.</div><div><br></div><div>Gill smashed Lockie Ferguson for four fours and a six in a 22-run eighth over and Rohit joined the party with a few big hits over the fence.</div><div><br></div><div>It was the highest opening partnership by any team against the Kiwis in the 50-over format, surpassing the 201-run stand of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir in 2009.</div><div><br></div><div>Gill recorded his third 100-plus score in his last four ODI innings, taking off his helmet and basking in applause from the stands when he crossed the milestone. Rohit made his first ODI century since January 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Bracewell bowled Rohit and Blair Tickner sent back Gill in the next over and India soon lost regular wickets, despite a brisk 36 from Virat Kohli.</div><div><br></div><div>The left-handed Ishan Kishan was run out after a mix-up with Kohli, who soon fell to Jacob Duffy, before Pandya hit back.</div><div><br></div><div>Pandya put on 54 runs for the seventh wicket with Shardul Thakur, who hit 25, the hosts hitting 60 runs in the final five overs. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 15:35:30', '2023-01-24 15:35:30'),
(4727, 4727, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Two hundred asylum-seeking children, including some aged under 16, are missing from temporary hotel accommodation in Britain, the government said today, raising new questions over ministers’ handling of migrant arrivals.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government is under pressure on two fronts over immigration: from those who say he is failing to protect Britain’s borders from migrants arriving in small boats and others who say the government is not treating those who arrive properly.</div><div><br></div><div>Immigration minister Robert Jenrick was called to parliament today by a member of the Green Party to explain media reports of missing children.</div><div><br></div><div>Jenrick said 13 of the 200 missing children were under 16 years old and one was female, with around 88% of all those missing coming from Albania.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government was fulfilling its obligations to protect the children.</div><div><br></div><div>“The movements of under 18s in and out of hotels are monitored and reported and they’re accompanied by social workers when attending organised activities,” Jenrick told parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have no power to detain unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in these settings.”</div><div><br></div><div>The number of people arriving in England across the Channel has more than doubled in the last two years, with government figures showing Albanians account for the highest number of people arriving by this route.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year ministers came under pressure over poor living conditions and overcrowding at a migrant holding facility, and faced threats of legal action from rights groups and a public sector workers’ union.</div><div><br></div><div>The site was subsequently cleared of migrants.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to Jenrick, Green Party lawmaker Caroline Lucas said the children were at risk of being snatched, abducted and coerced by criminals.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is horrific,” Lucas said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Vulnerable children are being dumped by the home office. Scores of them are going missing … we are asking the home office to apply some basic safeguarding so we can keep them safe.” ‍Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 16:04:58', '2023-01-24 16:04:58'),
(4728, 4728, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The premier said the government cancelled the proposed EVM project as the government now attaches priority to maintaining food security and healthcare services and welfare of the people right now in this situation.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday directed the deputy commissioners (DCs) to make all-out efforts to increase food production and exercise austerity in using electricity and public funds.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She also asked them avoid less-important projects to face the current situation as well as to be devoted to building a ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier issued a 25-point directive while opening the three-day conference of deputy commissioners (DCs) at Shapla Hall of her office here in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>PM Hasina said she saw in today\'s (Tuesday) paper that one leader of opposition remarked that Tk 8,000 crore would be required for the EVM project and so, the project was excluded from the Planning Commission as Bangladesh is in a financial crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>“The financial crisis definitely prevails all over the world. We’ve it also. But it (the crisis) is not so here that we can’t run. Now our priority is to maintain people\'s food security and medical care, and consider the people\'s welfare first. I will spend the money no matter how much is required to boost agricultural production to ensure the medical treatment of the people,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Why will we go to implement the projects which are not needed now?” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said sincerity for standing beside the people and serving them was created among the government officials and employees after she came in power.</div><div><br></div><div>“I’ve seen a change in you now. The sincerity for standing beside the people and serving the people has been witnessed among the government officials and employees after I came to power. Otherwise, we could not have possible for us to gain so much success in the development of Bangladesh,” she said adding that she renamed the establishment ministry as the public administration ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>The directives include exercising austerity in using government funds; stepping up endeavors to attain the targets set under SDG localization; ensure accesses of actual destitute and disadvantaged people to all social safety net programmes and creating employments; improving the teaching quality in educational institutions; ensuring the functioning of community clinics and union health and family welfare centres; ensuring creative practices, cultural activities and sports facilities for children and adolescents in every area; taking initiative to protect and create parks and playgrounds for the healthy lifestyle of citizens; developing a skilled workforce to take the optimum advantage of the fourth industrial revolution; keeping the websites of the government offices updated regularly and raising the progress and successes of the government’s development works for respective districts there; working to ensure safe use of IT and internet as well as taking initiative to prevent misuse of social media and rumours; strengthening vigilance to ensure that the law and order situation no way deteriorates; and paying attention so that none can hamper the communal harmony by spreading rumours.</div><div><br></div><div>The remaining directives are: raising awareness against drugs, militancy and terrorism; conducting mobile courts to prevent crimes like child marriage, eve-teasing, food adulteration, and counterfeit goods; strengthening monitoring to maintain uninterrupted supply of essential commodities in the market, prevent artificial crisis and keep commodity prices normal; taking strict measures to protect government lands, rivers, forests, mountains and natural water bodies; increasing the navigability of river through regular dredging works; planting palm trees in lightning-prone areas; taking special initiatives to develop and maintain the tourism industry, and develop new tourist spots; conserving the heritage and culture of a district; strengthening monitoring to ensure that government offices are run in a spirit of service and putting public interest above everything else; and becoming devoted to build developed, prosperous golden and Smart Bangladesh by 2041 through proper coordination of the activities of all the district-level government offices.</div><div><br></div><div>This time there are a total of 26 sessions, including 20 working sessions, with various ministries in the DC Conference-2023 that will end on Thursday (January 26, 2023).</div><div><br></div><div>In the conference, the DCs meet the President, the Chief Justice and the Speaker, and exchange views with the relevant ministries for the implementation of various policies, strategies and instructions of the government.</div><div><br></div><div>They come up with various reform proposals based on the challenges they face, the experience they accumulate at the field level while implementing the government\'s various directives and policies. 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(4729, 4729, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chris Hipkins was sworn in Wednesday as New Zealand\'s 41st prime minister, following the unexpected resignation last week of Jacinda Ardern.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hipkins, 44, has promised a back-to-basics approach focusing on the economy and what he described as the “pandemic of inflation.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will have less than nine months before contesting a tough general election, with opinion polls indicating his Labour Party is trailing its conservative opposition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand Governor-General Cindy Kiro officiated the brief swearing in ceremony in front of his friends and colleagues after she earlier accepted Ardern\'s resignation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is the biggest privilege and responsibility of my life,” Hipkins said at the ceremony. “I\'m energized and excited by the challenges that lie ahead.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carmel Sepuloni was also sworn in as deputy prime minister, the first time a person with Pacific Island heritage has taken on the role. She congratulated Hipkins and thanked him for the trust he\'d placed in her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the ceremony, Hipkins said as an aside to reporters: “It feels pretty real now.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hipkins is known to many by the nickname “Chippy,\" which fits with his upbeat demeanor and skills as an amateur handyman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He served as education and police minister under Ardern. He rose to public prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he took on a kind of crisis management role. But he and other liberals have long been in the shadow of Ardern, who became a global icon of the left and exemplified a new style of leadership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ardern last week said she was resigning after more than five years in the role because she no longer had “enough in the tank” to do the job justice. “It\'s that simple,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday she made her final official appearance as prime minister, saying the thing she would miss most was the people because they had been the “joy of the job.” On Wednesday morning, she was greeted with hugs and farewells by dozens of former staff and admirers on Parliament\'s forecourt as she left the building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ardern plans to stay on as a backbench lawmaker until April to avoid triggering a special election ahead of the nation’s general election in October.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand’s head-of-state is Britain’s King Charles III, and Kiro is his representative in New Zealand, although these days the nation’s relationship with the monarchy is largely symbolic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Britain\'s Prince William and wife, Kate, thanked Ardern on Twitter “for your friendship, leadership and support over the years, not least at the time of my grandmother’s death. Sending you, Clarke and Neve our best wishes. W & C”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clarke Gayford is Ardern\'s fiance and Neve is their 4-year-old daughter. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 03:12:01', '2023-01-25 12:40:53'),
(4730, 4730, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">University of Wisconsin System officials said Tuesday that they will ban the use of TikTok on system devices.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">System spokesman Mark Pitsch told The Associated Press about the move in email statements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly half of the states nationwide have blocked the popular social media app owned by a Chinese company. Earlier this month, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers banned the use of TikTok on Wisconsin state phones and other devices, citing potential risks to privacy, safety and security.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The order didn\'t apply to the UW System, which employs 40,000 faculty and staff, because it isn’t an executive branch agency. UW-Madison, the system\'s flagship school, has multiple TikTok accounts, including one for the women\'s volleyball team. Universities often use TikTok accounts as a recruiting tool to connect with high school students.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A number of other universities across the country have banned TikTok in recent weeks, including Auburn, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa and Texas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020. It has been targeted by critics who say the Chinese government could access user data, such as browsing history and location. U.S. armed forces also have prohibited the app on military devices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">TikTok is consumed by two-thirds of American teens and has become the second-most popular domain in the world. But there has long been bipartisan concern in Washington that Beijing would use legal and regulatory power to seize American user data or try to push pro-China narratives or misinformation. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 03:15:38', '2023-01-25 03:15:38'),
(4731, 4731, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Microsoft on Tuesday reported a 12% drop in profit for the October-December quarter, reflecting the economic uncertainty it said led to its decision to cut 10,000 workers.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company reported quarterly profit of $16.43 billion, or $2.20 per share.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Excluding one-time items such as $800 million to pay severance to laid-off employees, the company based in Redmond, Washington, said it earned $2.32 a share, which topped Wall Street expectation for adjusted earnings of $2.29 a share. Microsoft’s stock was up more than 4% in extended trading following the release of its earnings report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The software maker posted revenue of $52.75 billion in the October-December period, its second fiscal quarter, up 2% from the same period a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet expected Microsoft to post revenue of $52.99 billion for the quarter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft last week blamed “macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities” for its decision to cut nearly 5% of its global workforce. It’s one of a number of tech companies, including Google, Amazon, Salesforce and Facebook parent Meta, to announce mass layoffs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft\'s personal computing business, centered on its Windows software, was widely expected to continue a deterioration that began earlier last year due to economic uncertainties and crimped demand. Quarterly sales from that segment dropped 19% to $14.24 billion, the company said Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company gets licensing revenue from PC manufacturers who install its Windows operating system on their products.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Market research firm Gartner reported that worldwide PC shipments in the October-December quarter declined 28.5% from the same period of 2021, the steepest quarterly decline since Gartner began tracking the market in the 1990s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the factors reducing consumer demand for PCs were increased inflation, higher interest rates, the expectation of a global recession and the fact that many people already bought new computers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gartner said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With a weak PC market, analysts were closely watching for results from Microsoft\'s other big business segments — namely, its cloud-computing division, where sales grew 18% to $21.51 billion. Revenue also grew from the company\'s workplace software segment — which includes the Office suite of products — by 7% to $17 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a bid to further integrate the latest advances in artificial technology into its products, Microsoft on Monday announced a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and computer code and generate new images. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 03:19:14', '2023-01-25 03:19:14'),
(4732, 4732, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Elon Musk returned to federal court to defend himself against a class-action lawsuit that alleges he misled Tesla shareholders with a tweet about an aborted buyout that the billionaire defiantly insisted Tuesday he could have pulled off, had he wanted.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk spent roughly three more hours on the stand during his third day of testimony before being excused by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen. It’s unlikely Musk, 51, will be summoned back to the witness stand during a civil trial expected to be turned over to a nine-person jury in early February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk, who also owns Twitter while continuing to run Tesla, spent much of Tuesday depicting himself, while being questioned by his own attorney, Alex Spiro, as an impeccably trustworthy business leader capable of raising as much money as he needs to pursue his visions. He testily sparred with a shareholder lawyer, Nicholas Porritt, who had raised his ire earlier in the trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At two separate junctures Tuesday under Spiro’s gentle prodding, Musk left no doubt about his contempt for Porritt with a remark expressing doubt that the lawyer was looking out for the best interests of Tesla shareholders. The remarks drew a quick rebuke from the judge and were stricken from the record. “It\'s inappropriate,\" Chen at one point admonished Musk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When he was being challenged by Porritt, Musk purposefully diverted his gaze from the lawyer and delivered his explanations while looking directly at the jurors sitting a few feet to his right. In another instance, Musk asserted, without elaborating, that a question from Porritt wondering if he had ever caused investors to suffer losses contained “falsehoods.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the flip side, Spiro at one point mistakenly addressed Musk as “your honor\" while asking the billionaire how much money he had made for investors during his career. The slipup elicited a moment of levity in the San Francisco courtroom filled with media and other spectators in attendance to listen to Musk, who has become even more famous since completing his $44 billion purchase of Twitter in October.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current trial hinges on whether a pair of tweets Musk posted on Aug. 7, 2018, damaged Tesla shareholders during a 10-day period leading up to his admission that the buyout he had envisioned wasn’t going to happen. The statements resulted in Musk and Tesla to reach the $40 million settlement without acknowledging any wrongdoing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first of the 2018 tweets, Musk stated “funding secured” for what would have been a $72 billion — or $420 per share — buyout of Tesla at a time when the electric automaker was still grappling with production problems and was worth far less than it is now. Musk followed up a few hours later with another tweet suggesting a deal was imminent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After those tweets, Musk declared Tesla would remain publicly a few weeks later. A month after that, Musk and Tesla reached a $40 million settlement with securities regulators who had alleged the tweets were misleading.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk has previously contended he entered into the settlement under duress and maintained he never wavered in his belief that he had the money for a deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk spent most of Tuesday trying to persuade the jurors that there was nothing devious about the two tweets indicating he had lined up the money to take Tesla private as the electric automaker was struggling with production problems and was worth far less than it is now. The judge has already declared the jurors can consider those two tweets to be false, leaving them to decide whether Musk deliberately deceived investors and whether his statements saddled them with losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While being steered by Spiro, Musk told jurors he had stated only that he was “considering” a Tesla buyout but never promised a deal would get done. But, Musk said, he thought it important to get the word out to investors that Tesla might be poised to end its eight-year run as a publicly held company.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I had no ill motive,” Musk said. “My intent was to do the right thing for all shareholders.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While being grilled the day before by Porritt, Musk at times was combative, indignant and exasperated. Through it all, Musk has insisted he locked up financial backing for what would have been a $72 billion buyout of Tesla during 2018 meetings with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, although no specific funding amount or price was discussed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When presented with texts and email indicating that a representative for the Saudi fund had never pledged the money for a full buyout of Tesla, Musk contended it was nothing more than the words of someone trying to backpedal from a previous pledge made in private conversations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not long after Porritt resumed his questioning Tuesday, Musk once again scoffed at the notion that his belief that he had the Saudi funding\'s financial backing wasn\'t enough for him to tweet about a potential Tesla buyout.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are talking about the kingdom of Saudi Arabia,\" Musk testified. “They can buy Tesla several times over. This was not a large amount of money for them.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk also reiterated earlier testimony that he could finance a Tesla buyout by sharing some of his holdings in SpaceX, a privately held maker of rocket ships that he also started. That would be similar to what he did in the Twitter purchase, which led him to sell about $23 billion of his Tesla stock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\'s something that Musk said Tuesday that he didn\'t want to do, but that it showed he had the wherewithal to pull together purchases for expensive deals. Musk\'s ownership of Twitter also has proved unpopular with Tesla shareholders who worry about him being distracted as the automaker faces more competition. Tesla\'s stock has lost about one-third of its value since Musk took over Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite that downturn, the stock is still worth about seven times more than at the time of Musk\'s 2018 tweets, after adjusting for two splits that have since occurred. That opened the door for Musk to remind jurors Tuesday that any investor who held Tesla shares in August 2018 would have done “extremely well,\" had they just held on to the stock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It would have been the best investment in the stock market,\" Musk said. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 03:23:11', '2023-01-25 03:23:11');
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(4733, 4733, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Asian Americans were reeling Tuesday after two mass shootings in California targeting members of their community left 18 people dead -- with the alleged gunmen in both cases being older men of Asian descent.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The killings came in a span of just 48 hours -- so close together that California Governor Gavin Newsom was at a hospital meeting with victims of the first attack when he was pulled away to be briefed about the second.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is said all the time: only in America,\" a clearly exasperated Newsom told reporters Tuesday in Half Moon Bay.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Only in America. Number one in gun ownership. Number one in gun deaths. It\'s not even complicated,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What the hell is wrong with us, that we allow these weapons of war and large capacity clips out on the streets and sidewalks?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another shooting occurred overnight in Washington state, where a gunman killed three people at a convenience store, in an act police said appeared to be random.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The carnage prompted President Joe Biden to renew calls for Congress to act quickly on an assault weapons ban. A group of senators on Monday reintroduced a federal assault weapons ban and legislation that would raise the minimum purchase age for assault weapons to 21.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden also said he would be dispatching Vice President Kamala Harris to California in the wake of the shootings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our hearts are with the people of California,\" he said, calling the massacres \"devastating.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigators were still probing the motives behind the two incidents, which stood out among the scourge of mass shootings in America both for the community impacted -- gun violence is usually seen as rare among Asians and Asian Americans -- and for the age of the suspects, 67 and 72.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nonpartisan Violence Project says 79 percent of mass shooters from 1966 to 2020 were under age 45. It says a mere 6.4 percent of mass shooters in that time were Asian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Monday bloodshed occurred at two farms around Half Moon Bay, a rural coastal community south of San Francisco.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said Tuesday that five men and two woman -- a mixture of Hispanic and Asian -- were killed, and that 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident Chunli Zhao had been taken into custody.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A semi-automatic handgun had been recovered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The only known connection between the victims and suspect is that they may have been co-workers,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All the evidence we have points to this being an instance of workplace violence.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The San Francisco Chronicle reported a former co-worker had been granted a restraining order against Zhao over violent behaviour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Mr. Zhao said to me, today I am going to kill you,\" Jingjiu Wang wrote in 2013 when the two worked at a San Jose restaurant together.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He then took a pillow and started to cover my face and suffocate me.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The small community of Half Moon Bay was on Tuesday struggling to come to terms with the mass shooting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is tragedy, and to happen on the New Year,\" Aily Li, whose family owns the China House restaurant, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sophie Li, who works at Shiki Japanese Cuisine in the town, said guns were terrifying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Without a gun, we just argue. But if you have a gun, it gives you more power and then something will happen,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You deal with people who carry a gun and you never know what will happen. People got shot, right?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Vengeful -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That tragedy unfolded as detectives in southern California were still probing what drove 72-year-old Huu Can Tran to shoot dead 11 people gathered for Lunar New Year on Saturday night at a suburban dance hall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Tran, who had been arrested decades earlier for unlawful possession of a firearm, fired 42 rounds in the attack in Monterey Park.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What drove a madman to do this?\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luna confirmed officers had been told Tran may have been known to some of his victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Information about Tran remained unclear. CNN reported that, according to his marriage license, he had immigrated from China; the New York Times cited immigration documents saying he was a naturalized US citizen of Vietnamese origin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former friend described Tran as a vengeful loner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Two simple words that cover the whole thing: He\'s a person of distrust. He distrusts people around him. Second word is hate. He hates people around him, especially if he thought someone was doing bad on him,\" the friend said, according to the Los Angeles Times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He would say, \'Someday I will get back at you, get even, get revenge.\'</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think his life was so miserable and desperate that he chose that day to end his life and meanwhile he wanted to get people he didn\'t like or hated to go with him,\" the man said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 04:01:58', '2023-01-25 04:01:58'),
(4734, 4734, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mentioning that the work on Chattogram-Dohazari-Cox\'s Bazar train route is going on in full swing, Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujon says the rail line will open within this year.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to UNB the minister says they are working to complete the project between June and July of this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Hopefully, we can finish the work by this time. And if the work is not completed in June for any reason, it may take one or two more months. Even then we will be able to travel to Cox\'s Bazar by train within this year,” he says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister says that 80 percent of the construction work of Dohazari-Cox\'s Bazar project has been completed, and the remaining 20 percent will be finished by this time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When completed, the 100-km new railway line from Dohazari to Cox’s Bazar will ensure a \'pleasant and comfortable\' journey, the minister says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, it will bring a revolutionary change in overall economy and boost tourism in Cox\'s Bazar, he says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The railway minister says that the services will run with high-quality coaches for tourists in Cox\'s Bazar. A new project has been taken to implement this, and 54 coaches will be purchased under this project, which is designed with wide windows.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Travelers will get a chance to enjoy the natural scenario very easily,” he says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the project, there are eight stations along the 100-km railway including at Satkania, Lohagara, Chakaria, Dulahazara, Eidgaon, Ramu and Cox\'s Bazar Sadar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To facilitate this, three big bridges have been constructed on Sangu, Matamuhuri and Bakkhali rivers. Besides, 43 small bridges, 201 culverts and 144 level crossings have been constructed on the railway. A flyover is being constructed in Keochia area of Satkania, and two highway crossings in Ramu and Cox\'s Bazar areas. An overpass of 50 metres and three underpasses are being constructed for the movement of elephants and other wildlife.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mofizur Rahman, director of the project, said that more than 50-km of the railway line is now visible. Most of the construction of bridges and culverts has been completed. The remaining ones will be finished in the next few months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of last December, the progress of the project is 80 percent. The project deadline is June 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“However, we are trying to complete the work by June-October 2023,” the official added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that a spectacular iconic railway station is being constructed on 29 acres of land in the Hajipara area of Jhelongja Union, seven kilometers east-north of Cox\'s Bazar Sadar. The station is being modeled after a beach oyster. The area of the six-storey station building is 1,82,000 square feet. Three platforms of 650 metres in length and 12 meters in width are being constructed near the iconic building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, a railway residential area has been built next to it. Eight buildings are nearing completion. Apart from residential hotels, the station also has facilities like canteen, lockers and car parking. Tourists can leave their luggage in the station lockers and spend the day at the beach. At least 46,000 people can travel through this station a day, the project director added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“A direct railway connection with Cox’s Bazar will change fortunes in the beach town as tourists always want to reach their destinations without hazards for their perfect vacation,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On April 3, 2011, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stone for the construction of the railway between Dohazari-Ramu-Cox\'s Bazar and Ramu-Ghumdhum. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 04:13:32', '2023-01-25 04:13:32'),
(4735, 4735, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kyiv on Tuesday announced the dismissal of a dozen top officials in its biggest political shakeup following the country\'s first major corruption scandal linked to the Russian invasion.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has long suffered endemic corruption, but Moscow\'s nearly year-long full-scale war has overshadowed government efforts to stamp out graft.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western allies have allocated billions of dollars in financial and military aid to Kyiv to counter Russian troops, often preconditioning the support on anti-corruption reforms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Tuesday that the clean-up was necessary and that additional measures would be taken.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is fair, it is needed for our defence, and it helps our rapprochement with European institutions,\" he said. \"We need a strong state, and Ukraine will be just that.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak said Zelensky had focused on \"key priorities of the state\" in dismissing the officials, who include governors of regions that have seen heavy fighting and deputy cabinet ministers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"During the war, everyone should understand their responsibility,\" Podolyak tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shakeup came after a Ukrainian deputy minister of development of communities and territories, Vasyl Lozynskiy, was sacked at the weekend following his arrest on suspicion of embezzlement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Photographs released by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau showed stashes of cash seized at Lozynskiy\'s office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 36-year-old was accused of receiving a $400,000 bribe to \"facilitate\" the purchase of generators at inflated prices, as Ukraine struggles with electricity shortages following Russian strikes on its energy grid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Good deeds\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, key presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko, who has worked with Zelensky since his 2019 election, announced his resignation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 33-year-old posted a picture of himself holding a handwritten resignation letter, thanking the president for the \"opportunity to do good deeds every day and every minute\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tymoshenko was implicated in several scandals, including over the alleged personal use last October of an SUV donated to Ukraine for humanitarian purposes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was replaced by Oleksii Kuleba, the former head of Kyiv region\'s military administration.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oleg Nemchinov, a senior government official, also announced the departure of five regional governors and four deputy ministers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They include the heads of the central Dnipropetrovsk region, the northeastern Sumy region, the southern regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, as well as the region surrounding the capital Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nemchinov additionally announced the dismissal of two deputy ministers of development of communities and territories, and a deputy minister of social policy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The defence ministry separately announced the resignation of deputy minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov, who worked on providing logistical support for the army.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It came after the ministry was accused of signing food contracts at prices two to three times higher than current rates for basic foodstuffs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Spain holiday -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry insisted the accusations were \"unfounded and baseless\" but said Shapovalov\'s departure would \"preserve the trust of society and international partners\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko also resigned, following media reports that he had holidayed in Spain, reportedly using a car belonging to a Ukrainian business.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States welcomed the dismissals and said that none of the billions of dollars in US war assistance was known to have been involved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Ukrainian people have been very clear about their desire for good governance and transparency,\" said State Department spokesman Ned Price.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite being vocal about fighting corruption, Zelensky himself has been embroiled in corruption scandals in the past.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2021, the so-called Pandora Papers obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists said Zelensky used a network of offshore companies to buy three upmarket properties in London.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His office said at the time that Zelensky, who is a former actor and comedian, created the offshore companies to protect himself against the \"aggressive actions\" of the \"corrupt\" regime of pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transparency International ranked Ukraine 122 out of 180 in its corruption ranking for 2021. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 04:18:04', '2023-01-25 04:18:04'),
(4736, 4736, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Germany will provide Ukraine with Leopard tanks, national media reported Tuesday, following months of intense pressure on Berlin to supply the armaments much sought after by Kyiv to repel Russian troops.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Berlin will also allow allies with stocks of the powerful German-made tanks to send them on to Ukraine, the German media said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reports came as the Wall Street Journal cited US officials saying that Washington is now leaning towards sending a significant number of Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine, with an announcement possibly coming this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing unnamed government sources, rolling news channel NTV said Germany would hand over a company of Leopard 2 A6 tanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the German armed forces, a company comprises 14 tanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Separately, Spiegel Online said the tanks would come from the Bundeswehr\'s own stocks, while other deliveries further down the line may stem from industry stocks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Contacted by AFP, a spokesman for Chancellor Olaf Scholz declined to comment on the reports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier Tuesday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said he encouraged allies to start training Ukrainian forces on using the tanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had said a decision was still out on greenlighting their deliveries, but promised a verdict imminently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine and several of its allies have been urging Germany for weeks to allow the delivery of the Leopards, but a US-led meeting of Kyiv\'s allies in Germany last week failed to yield a decision.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the last weeks, Chancellor Olaf Scholz had repeatedly stressed that Germany would not go it alone on sending tanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior US lawmaker told AFP last week that Scholz had told US congressmen that Germany will supply the battle tanks to Ukraine if the United States also sent tanks. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 04:32:55', '2023-01-25 04:32:55'),
(4737, 4737, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka once again topped the list of cities around the world with the worst air quality this morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 319 at 9 am today (January 25, 2023), Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with the worst air.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uzbekistan’ Tashkent and Myanmar’ Yangon occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 211 and 177, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 05:01:52', '2023-01-25 05:01:52'),
(4738, 4738, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nearly one month after the inauguration of the metro rail service in Dhaka, Mirpur’s Pallabi Station has opened to commuters today.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From today, commuters can travel from Uttara North Station to Pallabi, Pallabi to Uttara, and Agargaon to Pallabi, said Managing Director (MD) of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) MAN Siddique.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, a new timing has been set for metro rail as it will run from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm instead of 8am-12 pm, considering the demand of the passengers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gates were opened at 8 am for purchasing tickets, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has fixed Tk 30 for Uttara North Station to Pallabi, Pallabi to Uttara and Agargaon to Pallabi, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the government started the operation of metro rail service on December 28 last year on a limited scale, there was no stoppage from Uttara North Station to Agargaon station. But now, metro rail will also stop at Pallabi station..</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), the rail operation till Motijheel may start by the end of 2024, and Kamalapur by 2025.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By December 2024, metro rail will start operation from Agargaon to Kamalapur route with 24 trains. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 05:12:20', '2023-01-25 05:12:20'),
(4739, 4739, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US President Joe Biden will make a formal announcement about the deliveries of Abrams tanks to the Kiev government on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported citing an unnamed US administration official.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"President Biden will announce his decision to supply Abrams tanks to Ukraine tomorrow, on Wednesday,\" the TV channel reported on Tuesday night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the channel\'s source, the tanks will be contracted, not taken from the Pentagon\'s arsenals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday citing US officials that the US Administration is inclined to ship a significant number of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, adding that the announcement of these shipments could be made this week already. According to the WSJ, this step would become a part of the agreement with Germany, which includes shipment of a small number of Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev by Berlin itself, as well as Germany\'s approval of shipment of these German-made tanks by Poland and other countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in the day, the Politico newspaper reported citing US administration sources that the United States may send at least 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as military aid. Two sources told the paper that an announcement on the subject may be made later this week. The report says the equipment will be purchased from contractors rather than drawn from existing US stockpiles. TASS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 06:05:28', '2023-01-25 06:05:28'),
(4740, 4740, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rajshahi city has become green, beautiful and enlightened at present amid massive infrastructural developments fully supported by the present government during the last couple of years.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Broaden streets, eye-catching street lighting at night, cleaned atmosphere, road dividers with green trees, plants and crafts as well as improved civic amenities have made the city attractive enormously.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) AHM Khairuzzaman Liton told BSS that an east-west connecting road has been constructed from Biman crossing to Choddopaya crossing via Chhotobangram, Meherchandi, Budhpara and Mohanpur at a cost of around Taka 189.35 crore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to construction of footpaths on both sides of the 6.793-kilometer road, various need-based modern infrastructures, including a flyover on railway crossing, a bridge, eight culverts and median, were constructed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newly constructed four-lane road has been playing a significant role towards mitigating the gradually mounting traffic jams in the metropolis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mayor Liton said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given a project worth around Taka 3,000 crore and its implementation works are progressing fast in the city for its cherished development at present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two potential roads are being elevated to four lanes as part of the Taka 2,993-crore project aimed at making the movement of both vehicles and people quick and smooth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RCC is turning the Bilsimla Railway crossing to City Hat road to 80-feet wide along with a four-foot-wide road divider with an outlay of around Taka 44.92 crore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On both sides of the 3.532-kilometer road, a 44-feet road, 12-feet wide drain and footpath and 20-feet road for the slow-moving vehicles are also being constructed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another dilapidated 4.17-kilometer road from Naodapara bus terminal to Bhadra Railway crossing is being elevated to a smart street.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liton said a 2.5-kilometer road from Alupatty crossing to Talaimary crossing has been elevated to four-lane. Decorated and pedestrian-friendly footpaths have been constructed on both sides of the road with setting up colourful road lights.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Island has been beautified through transplanting decorative and ornamental flower plants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two midtown roads from Upashahar to Sonadighi crossing and Malopara crossing to Sagarpara crossing have been widened, costing around Taka 126.40 crore bringing an epoch-making change in terms of the city\'s communication.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another road from Bilsimla railway crossing to Kasiadanga crossing has been elevated to four-lane under the city\'s important roads development project. Side by side with the four-lane, drain, footpath and bicycle lane were constructed along the road.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erection of butterfly road light draws the attention of the passerby in the night amazingly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city corporation has so far installed 1,654 decorated and eye-catching lights on 695 poles in five separate roads and streets with length of around 21 kilometers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a whole, the modern road lighting has brought happiness to the city dwellers and other beneficiaries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mayor Liton said the energy saving lights at Drishtinandan are being turned on and off automatically by the auto-logic controller, adding they also have plans for bringing the newly constructed and other widened roads under the modern lighting system in the days to come.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">53.29-kilometer roads were also concretized together with construction of 36.72-kilometer drains. Carpeting on the 4.32-kilometer new road and renovation of the 1.42-kilometer road were done.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city corporation has implemented drainage and approach road construction projects contributing a lot towards freeing the city from water-logging besides making pedestrian movement easy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Problems related to unfit and narrow sections of the present drains and its low-sewerage capacity were removed. All the culverts were widened besides removing the silts from the base of the drains to enhance the sewerage capacity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Engineer Nur Islam said the physical infrastructure development were implemented for developing the overall environmental health system through building an effective and permanent water sewerage system in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Bidhan Chandra Das, a retired teacher at Rajshahi University, expressed his gratitude to the government, particularly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, for extending support towards making the Rajshahi city beautiful. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 06:31:20', '2023-01-25 15:07:30'),
(4741, 4741, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Election Commission (EC) today announced the schedule for the country’s 22nd presidential election.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal came up with the announcement in a press conference held at the election building in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the schedule, the presidential election will be held on February 19 as the tenure of incumbent President Abdul Hamid nears an end.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final date for submitting nomination papers is February 12 and those will be reviewed on February 13, as per the EC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The commission has set February 14 as the final date for withdrawing nominations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voting will be held at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban from 2 pm to 5 pm on February 19.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Tuesday, CEC Kazi Habibul Awal met with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury to have a discussion over the polls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the constitution, a new president has to be elected within 90 to 60 days prior to the end of the incumbent president\'s tenure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The previous presidential election schedule was announced on January 25, 2018.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdul Hamid was elected president unopposed for the second term on February 6 though the election was slated for February 18.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdul Hamid is set to complete his tenure on April 23 this year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 06:53:09', '2023-01-25 06:53:09'),
(4742, 4742, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ships searching in wind-whipped waters between South Korea and Japan have picked up at least 12 of the 22 crew members from a cargo ship that sank early Wednesday. Officials said only one of them remained conscious, but they did not immediately confirm any deaths.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korean and Japanese coast guard vessels and aircraft as well as two commercial cargo ships were continuing to search for the 10 missing crew members but the efforts were being slowed by strong winds and waves, South Korean officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 6,551-ton Jin Tian sank about three and a half hours after it sent a distress call at around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday in Japan\'s exclusive economic zone, Japanese coast guard spokesperson Shinya Kitahara said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vessel, which was Hong Kong registered and carrying lumber, sank about 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Nagasaki, Japan, and about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of South Korea’s Jeju island.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The captain last communicated with the coast guard through a satellite phone around 2:41 a.m., saying crew members would abandon the ship, minutes before it sank, Jeju island coast guard officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six crew members were picked up by South Korean coast guard vessels, while a cargo ship picked up five and a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel picked up one, according to Jeju’s coast guard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to South Korean and Japanese officials, 14 crew members are Chinese and eight are from Myanmar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korean officials didn’t immediately confirm where the rescued crew members would be taken for treatment or whether the 11 who were unconscious were likely to survive their injuries if they weren’t already dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno confirmed the rescue of at least five crew members, who he said were all Chinese nationals, but didn’t provide details about their health conditions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kitahara said the cause of the ship’s sinking was not immediately known and there were no signs that it collided with another vessel. He said the arrivals of Japanese patrol boats and aircraft were delayed by rough weather following the sinking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials at Jeju’s coast guard say a strong wind warning was issued for the area earlier on Wednesday but was later lifted. Winds were blowing at around 16 meters (yards) per second in the area as of 7 a.m., creating waves that were 3 to 4 meters (yards) high. The area’s water temperature was then around 18.5 degrees Celsius, the South Korean officials said. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 07:13:49', '2023-01-25 07:13:49'),
(4743, 4743, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan teaser featuring Salman Khan in a rugged avatar was leaked after it was shown during Pathaan, which was released in theatres on January 25. Earlier, it was reported that the teaser would be shown in theatres during the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer. In the teaser, Salman Khan flaunts two distinct looks – one with long hair and a rugged outfit, and the other clean-shaven one, where he looks suave in formal clothes.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The almost one-minute-40-second teaser opens with Salman Khan riding a bike in a desert. Next, he is seen breaking into a moving Metro train and kicking the bad guys in a crowded coach. This is followed by a series of fight scenes, where Salman jumps from buildings, and beats up the bad guys. In between, Salman is seen romancing Pooja Hegde in beautiful locations. Towards the end of the teaser, Salman, looks cool in a formal white shirt even after he was beaten to a bloody pulp.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After stopping an enemy\'s car by jumping feet first, a shirtless Salman said after a fight, \"Jab shareer, dil aur dimag mujhse kehte hain \'bas bhai, no more\', main kehta hoon \'bring it on\' (when my body, heart and mind tell me to stop, I tell them \'bring it on\').\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The almost one-minute-40-second teaser opens with Salman Khan riding a bike in a desert. Next, he is seen breaking into a moving Metro train and kicking the bad guys in a crowded coach. This is followed by a series of fight scenes, where Salman jumps from buildings, and beats up the bad guys. In between, Salman is seen romancing Pooja Hegde in beautiful locations. Towards the end of the teaser, Salman, looks cool in a formal white shirt even after he was beaten to a bloody pulp.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After stopping an enemy\'s car by jumping feet first, a shirtless Salman said after a fight, \"Jab shareer, dil aur dimag mujhse kehte hain \'bas bhai, no more\', main kehta hoon \'bring it on\' (when my body, heart and mind tell me to stop, I tell them \'bring it on\').\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ever since the beginning of the shoot last year, Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan has been in news due to speculations over its title and cast. It was earlier titled Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali and then later Bhaijaan, as per reports. Directed by Farhad Samji, the film also stars Pooja Hegde and Venkatesh in the lead roles. It also features actors like Shehnaaz Gill. The film is slated to hit the theatres by the end of this year, around Eid 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, Salman also has Maneesh Sharma\'s Tiger 3, which also stars Katrina Kaif and Emraan Hashmi. Apart from this, he has reportedly also been roped in for Kick 2 with Jacqueline Fernandez. Salman is reportedly also making a cameo appearance in Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan, which released on January 25, 2023. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 07:31:25', '2023-01-25 07:31:25');
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(4744, 4744, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Blazing centuries from skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill powered India to a 3-0 series sweep of New Zealand and go top of the one-day international rankings on Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hosts hammered the Kiwis by 90 runs in the third match in Indore after Rohit (101) and Gill (112) put on 212 for the opening wicket to guide the hosts to 385-9 in Indore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In reply, Devon Conway\'s 138 was in vain as India bowled out New Zealand for 295 in 41.2 overs for their second successive whitewash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victory takes India to the top of the ODI rankings ahead of World Cup holders England and New Zealand who slip from second to fourth behind Australia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qualification for the World Cup in India later in the year is unaffected, however, as the Kiwis have already qualified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Rohit, who recorded his first ODI century since January 2020, and Gill stood out in the highest opening partnership by any team against the Kiwis in the 50-over format, surpassing the 201-run stand of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir in 2009.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In the last six games we\'ve done most things right in ODIs,\" said Rohit, whose side whitewashed Sri Lanka in three matches before this.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re consistent in our approach with the bat and ball.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Fast bowler Shardul Thakur was named man of the match for his three wickets and crucial 25 runs batting down the order.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Shardul has been doing it for a while,\" said Rohit. People call him magician in the squad and he came and delivered.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand\'s bowlers hit back after the pair\'s departure as India slipped to 293-5 before Hardik Pandya took charge, boosting the total with a 38-ball 54.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It all started with Gill smashing Lockie Ferguson for four fours and a six in a 22-run eighth over and Rohit joined the party with a few big hits over the fence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gill recorded his third 100-plus score in his last four ODI innings, taking off his helmet and basking in applause from the stands when he reached the milestone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Bracewell bowled Rohit and Blair Tickner sent back Gill in the next over and India soon lost regular wickets, despite a brisk 36 from Virat Kohli.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The left-handed Ishan Kishan was run out after a mix-up with Kohli, who soon fell to Jacob Duffy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pandya put on 54 for the seventh wicket with Thakur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Eye on World Cup -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply, New Zealand lost Finn Allen on the second delivery of their chase after Pandya bowled the opener for nought.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conway stood firm to add 106 for the second wicket with Henry Nicholls, who hit 42, and 78 for the third with Daryl Mitchell (24).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The left-handed Conway fought hard as wickets fell at the other end as he raised his third ODI hundred with a six off leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thakur dented New Zealand\'s chase when he struck twice with successive deliveries, Mitchell caught behind and then skipper Tom Latham caught at mid-off.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conway, who smashed 12 fours and eight sixes in his 100-ball blitz, looked unstoppable until tearaway quick Umran Malik got the batsman caught at mid-wicket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bracewell, who hit 26, and Mitchell Santner, who made 34, attempted to keep up the fight but Bracewell\'s wicket off Kuldeep Yadav, who picked three wickets, spelt the end for the Black Caps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Latham, a wicketkeeper-batsman, said the experience would help them in the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s our last experience in India before the World Cup so the guys are exposed to these conditions in the three games and hopefully it\'ll be helpful in October,\" said Latham.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two teams will now play three Twenty20 internationals starting Friday in Ranchi. 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(4745, 4745, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to take steps for imparting scout training to students in the country’s educational institutions to develop them as worthy citizens for building Smart Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;“You will have to take steps so that every student of all educational institutes would obtain scouting training. If so, I believe the worthy citizens would be developed in our country for building Sonar Bangla (golden Bengal) or smart Bangladesh,” she said pointing at Bangladesh Scouts and the ministries related to education.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this while inaugurating the 32nd Asia-Pacific and 11th National Scout Jamboree at National Scout Training Center, Mouchak, Gazipur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Scouts is hosting the 9-day regional and national scout jamboree on 19-27 January 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that&nbsp; there are now 22 lakh scouts in Bangladesh and a target to raise it to 30 lakh by 2030,&nbsp; Hasina said she wants every student to get scout training not only a&nbsp; select group.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the event, the PM unveiled a commemorative postage stamp marking the regional and national jamboree.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM’s former principal secretary Md Abul Kalam Azad, who is also President of Bangladesh Scouts, also spoke at the event, while Dr Mozammel Haque Khan, Chairman of Jamboree Organizing Committee and also Chief National Commissioner of Bangladesh Scouts, delivered the welcome speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 11,000 scouts including 8,000 scout members, 1,000 unit leaders and international service team (IST) members from Asia Pacific region particularly from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, the Maldives, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, USA, Canada and Germany participated in this jamboree. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 08:21:14', '2023-01-25 08:21:14'),
(4746, 4746, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tourists revelled in wintry scenes across Japan on Wednesday, as much of the country was blanketed by snow in a cold snap that has killed at least one person and disrupted travel.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“These temperatures are some of the coldest we’ve seen in a decade,” Japan Meteorological Agency official Takafumi Umeda said.</div><div><br></div><div>Record lows were logged in several locations, including one area of southern Kumamoto, where the mercury hit -9 degrees Celsius, the coldest logged there since 1977 when that observation site began keeping track.</div><div><br></div><div>Top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said one person had died in the cold snap, while meteorologists warned of blizzards, high waves and traffic snarl-ups due to icy roads.</div><div><br></div><div>Authorities were also investigating whether two other deaths were related to the freezing weather across much of the archipelago, Matsuno told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of flights were canceled due to the snowstorm, while delays and cancelations disrupted both local trains and long-distance Shinkansen services. Vehicles on major roads in several locations were left stranded, local media said.</div><div><br></div><div>At the seventh-century Zenkoji Temple in the mountainous region of Nagano, north of Tokyo, a chilly calm descended with trees, old-fashioned lamp posts and the place of worship itself covered in layers of powdery snow.</div><div><br></div><div>Visitors included some who were there for skiing but had been forced off the slopes by blizzard conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>“I came to ski, but the snow was incredibly heavy so I cut my plan short and instead decided to do a bit of sightseeing,” 30-year-old Akiko Sotobori said.</div><div>“The blizzard (at the ski resort) was such that I couldn’t see anything three meters ahead.”</div><div><br></div><div>There were picturesque scenes in the former capital, tourist favorite Kyoto, where the shining walls of the famous Golden Pavilion contrasted with the temporary bright-white brilliance of its tiered roofs.</div><div><br></div><div>The country’s Sea of Japan coast was hit hardest by the overnight blizzard, with Tokyo and its surrounding regions spared the snow but seeing unseasonably low temperatures. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 09:27:22', '2023-01-25 09:27:22'),
(4747, 4747, '<div><b>Paris Hilton<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;personality and hotel heiress Paris Hilton announced Tuesday that she and husband Carter Reum had welcomed their first child.</span></b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hilton posted a photo on Instagram of what appeared to be her newborn baby grasping her thumb.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You are already loved beyond words,\" Hilton wrote with a blue heart emoji.</div><div><br></div><div>US entertainment media reported that the baby boy had been born via surrogate.</div><div><br></div><div>The former reality TV star, 41, had opened up in an interview last month about beginning an IVF process during the pandemic with her husband, an investor whom she married in 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>She told People Magazine that \"because the world was shut down\" early in the Covid-19 pandemic, it was the \"perfect timing\" to \"get all of the eggs stocked and ready.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement published Tuesday by People, Hilton said that her family\'s \"hearts are exploding with love for our baby boy.\" - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 09:39:52', '2023-01-25 10:10:15'),
(4748, 4748, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government has taken a decision to provide bank loans on easy terms to those involved in producing environment-friendly bricks, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin said today (Wednesday).</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The environment minister said this while talking to reporters after a meeting with deputy commissioners at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting also discussed protecting forests and actions of DCs to combat climate change impacts, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He also sought assistance from the DCs in stopping hill cutting, deforestation, establishment of illegal brick fields and soil cutting. The DCs were asked to take legal steps in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question on any proposal coming from DCs, the minister said there are only 50 offices under the Department of Environment (DoE) in the 50 districts while the ministry has no office in the rest 14 districts.</div><div><br></div><div>He also assured of establishing offices in the 14 districts.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the DCs have been asked to stop operation of illegal brick kilns as the government has taken an initiative to use environment-friendly bricks for government structures by 2025, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“The more we can provide eco-friendly bricks, the more we can stop production of illegal brick kilns. If we are able to meet the demand with eco-friendly block bricks, the old illegal brick kilns can be stopped,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 10:42:24', '2023-01-25 10:42:24'),
(4749, 4749, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday condemned Russian nuclear threats in the wake of remarks by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who warned the western military alliance that Moscow’s defeat in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The risk of using nuclear weapons is low. But Russian nuclear rhetoric is utterly irresponsible. It is dangerous. Russia should know that a nuclear war can never be won and therefore should never be fought,” Stoltenberg said in an interview with the daily WELT newspaper.</div><div><br></div><div>“Of course, we are watching what Russia is doing very closely. If that were the case, we would of course react. But even if we allow Russia to blackmail us with this rhetoric, then the world will become more dangerous. Then Russia would keep coming up with this nuclear threat when it wants to achieve something,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Since Russia invaded Ukraine almost a year ago on Feb. 24, Medvedev has repeatedly raised the threat of a nuclear attack.</div><div><br></div><div>“The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.</div><div><br></div><div>“Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends,” said Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012.</div><div><br></div><div>The Kremlin was quick to endorse Medvedev’s remarks, saying they were in full accordance with Moscow’s principles.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow’s doctrine allows for a nuclear attack after “aggression against the Russian Federation with conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.” - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 11:13:58', '2023-01-25 11:13:58'),
(4750, 4750, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>As part of the ongoing simultaneous movement against the current government, a rally of BNP began in front of its Nayapaltan central office with the participation of a huge number of leaders and activists of the party and its associated bodies.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The rally formally began around 2:30 pm with recitation from the holy Quran.</div><div><br></div><div>The organisers said the programme is meant for registering a protest against the introduction of one-party Baksal rule by Awami League on this day in 1975, rise in the prices of power and gas and mounting pressure on the government to accept their 10-point demand, including holding the next polls under a non-party caretaker government.</div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of party leaders and activists started gathering at the venue in small processions since noon, halting traffic in the area that caused public suffering.</div><div><br></div><div>An adequate number of law enforcers have been deployed in and around the rally venue to fend off any untoward incident.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will announce the next course of action from the rally.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from BNP, other like-minded opposition parties, alliances and organisations are also observing a similar programme in Dhaka and other divisional cities and district towns on Wednesday as part of the simultaneous movement to oust the current government.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Ganatantra Mancha and Ganatantrik Bam Oikya held separate rallies in front of the Jatiya Press Club and announced a countrywide demonstration programme for February 4. BNP is likely to announce a similar programme for the same day from its rally.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the 12-Party Alliance is holding a rally near Bijoy Nagar Water Tank while Jatiyatabadi Samamona Jote in front of the Jatiya Press at and LDP at FDC Crossing.</div><div><br></div><div>It is the fourth programme of the simultaneous movement after the mass procession in December 30, sit-in on January 11 and rally and procession on January 16. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 12:32:53', '2023-01-25 12:32:53'),
(4751, 4751, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least 157 people have died in Afghanistan’s harsh winter, a Taliban official said Tuesday, with the death toll doubling in less than a week as millions face bitter temperatures with minimal humanitarian aid.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The country is suffering one of its coldest winters, with temperatures plummeting to as low as minus 28 degrees Celsius (minus 18 Fahrenheit) in early January – far below the nationwide average of between 0 and 5 degrees Celsius for this time of year.</div><div><br></div><div>The impact has been made worse by the limited amount of humanitarian aid being distributed in the country, following the Taliban’s ban on female NGO workers.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Twitter Sunday it was delivering aid such as blankets, heating and shelter to some 565,700 people.</div><div><br></div><div>“But much more is needed amid one of the coldest spells in years,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 70,000 livestock have also frozen to death across the country, Shafiullah Rahimi, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Disaster Management told CNN Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Since the hardline Islamist group took over in August 2021, Afghanistan has plunged into an economic and humanitarian crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>It has been battered by natural disasters and is entering its third consecutive year of drought-like conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>An estimated 28.3 million people – roughly two thirds of Afghanistan’s population – are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance to survive, according to a recent UNOCHA report.</div><div><br></div><div>At least half a dozen major foreign aid groups have suspended their operations in Afghanistan since December, when the Taliban ordered all local and international non-governmental organizations to stop their female employees from coming to work, or risk having their licenses revoked.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, some of the UN’s most senior female officials took a four-day trip to Afghanistan and met with Taliban leaders in Kabul, asking them to lift the ban and “put the good of the country first.”</div><div><br></div><div>Amina Mohammed, the UN’s Deputy Secretary-General, described the recent policies as a violation of women’s basic human rights.</div><div><br></div><div>“Afghanistan is isolating itself, in the midst of a terrible humanitarian crisis and one of the most vulnerable nations on earth to climate change,” Mohammed said in a statement. “We must do everything we can to bridge this gap.” Source: CNN</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 13:36:53', '2023-01-25 13:36:53'),
(4752, 4752, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bijoy keyboard software installation in all android phones not mandatory, said Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar on Wednesday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Amid criticism over the matter, the minister clarified this while talking to reporters on the 2nd day of Deputy Commissioners Conference 2023 at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>“I have an explanation that Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has used a word – ‘Mandatory’. This term is misleading,” said the minister.</div><div><br></div><div>One can install, uninstall, remove and reinstall any software on any Android phone. So there is no need to use the word ‘mandatory’, he&nbsp; said.</div><div><br></div><div>Jabbar said, “What we said that the mobile phone set manufacturers or importers will provide software to facilitate Bangla writing. Whether a user uses the software or not is entirely up to him/her.”</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the internet service, he said the 4G service has been provided in more than 98 percent area of the country. “Now we are working with 5G which is 10 times more powerful than 4G.”</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, there are more than 10 crore mobile internet subscribers and some fixed internet subscribers too, he said. “We should give more importance to mobile internet.”</div><div><br></div><div>“But we are not able to install towers for network in different parts of the country. Some people spread propaganda that towers are emitting radiation. We have tested and found that these are propaganda. People should not obstruct the towers installation work.” - Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 14:31:23', '2023-01-25 14:31:23'),
(4753, 4753, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Road Transport and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader&nbsp; has said the government&nbsp; will not undertake any new road construction projects until the next national election and maintenance of the existing roads will get priority.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We have completed numerous development projects, now is the time to restore discipline on roads,” he told reporters after his meeting with the DCs at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital on Wednesday, the 2nd day of the 3-day DC Conference.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy commissioners (DCs) have been instructed to prioritize work to restore order on the roads,&nbsp; said the minister.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;“I told them I don’t want to construct more roads right now. Our main priority right now is road maintenance,” Quader, also the Awami League general secretary,&nbsp; said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said he instructed the DCs to focus on controlling movement of small vehicles like motorcycles on roads and highways.</div><div><br></div><div>Motorcycle movement in Dhaka city is under control now but people rarely wear helmets outside the capital, he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Quader asked that the secretaries to formulate&nbsp; policy to regulate the movement of these vehicles instead of obstructing the sources of income of the poor.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is DC\'s responsibility to control traffic jams and accidents involving these small vehicles,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am prioritizing restoring order in road transport,\" he said adding that small vehicles like motorcycles, easybikes, Nosimons, and Karimons should be brought under control, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have built many roads and bridges. But if we cannot restore discipline, it will be all in vain. I asked for their cooperation in this regard,” he said.&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 14:59:07', '2023-01-25 14:59:07'),
(4754, 4754, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the Parliament that the countrymen will judge the success or failure of the government.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s not my job to evaluate (success or failure),\" she said while replying to a query of Jatiya Party lawmaker Fakhrul Imam from Mymensingh-8 constituency during her question-answer session in parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>The Leader of the House said, \"If I work with honesty for specific goals considering welfare of the people, why will I fail? Why do I have to fail if I work with integrity? People will judge where the success or failure is\".</div><div>She said: \"When questioner (Fakhrul Imam) is so interested, find out my failures, I will correct those.\"</div><div><br></div><div>She also asked the opposition parties to find out if there is any failure of her and she will correct herself accordingly.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to her return to the country in 1981, the Prime Minister said that which is a success or failure, that is not much important rather it\'s more important that Bangladesh has to be made a developed and prosperous country.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that the fates of the countrymen have to be changed, she said, \"I returned home with the conviction to establish the ideals of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. I have traveled across Bangladesh. I knew Bangladesh,\" reports BSS.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She also said, \"After formation of the government, I\'ve worked with the desire that the people at the grassroots should lead a better life. Now, people are getting benefits of it.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-25 16:08:39', '2023-01-25 16:08:39'),
(4755, 4755, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The US will send 31 powerful battle tanks to Ukraine, joining Germany in sending the vehicles to support the fight against Russia\'s invasion.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision to deliver the M1 Abrams tanks was announced just hours after Germany said it would send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to the battlefield.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berlin also cleared the way for other European countries to send German-made tanks from their own stocks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has lobbied Western allies to send the military equipment for months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It hailed the twin announcements as a turning point that would allow its military to regain momentum and take back occupied territory almost a year after Moscow invaded. It also said the tanks could help deter a potential Russian offensive in the spring.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"An important step on the path to victory,\" Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky said. \"Today the free world is united as never before for a common goal - liberation of Ukraine.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia, meanwhile, condemned the moves as a \"blatant provocation\" and said any supplied tanks would be destroyed. \"These tanks burn like all the rest. They are just very expensive,\" President Vladimir Putin\'s spokesman said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Putin expected Europe and the United States to weaken our resolve,\" President Joe Biden said while announcing the decision at the White House on Wednesday. \"He was wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re also giving Ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively sustain these tanks in battle,\" he said. \"This is about helping Ukraine defend and protect Ukrainian land. It is not an offensive threat to Russia.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Ukrainian tank battalion typically consists of 31 tanks, which is why that number has been agreed upon, Mr Biden said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US decision, however, marks a reversal in their position as the Biden administration has insisted for some time that the heavy M1 Abrams tanks would be difficult to deliver, expensive to maintain and challenging for Ukrainian troops to operate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US-made military vehicle is one of the most modern battle tanks in the world and requires extensive training to operate. The $400m (£323m) American package also includes eight recovery vehicles that can tow the tanks if they become stuck.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it is likely to be many months before the tanks reach the battlefield, experts say, as they will be purchased from private contractors and not sent from an existing stockpile.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The German-made Leopard 2 tanks, however, will be drawn from existing stock and are expected to arrive in two to three months. They are widely seen as one of the most effective battle tanks available.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision to send the heavy weapons follows weeks of diplomatic wrangling. Germany faced mounting international pressure to send the tanks, and there are reports that the eventual decision to do so was conditional on the US doing the same.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides participated in \"good diplomatic conversations\" that made the difference and contributed to the \"extraordinary shift in Germany\'s security policy\", a senior US official said on condition of anonymity earlier on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked if the US decision was designed to give Germany cover to send tanks, national security spokesman John Kirby said: \"I wouldn\'t use the word cover. What this decision does do is show how unified we are with our allies.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He attributed the change in Washington\'s position to the conditions on the ground as well as Russia\'s tactics, without giving further details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Kirby also said the decision was based on the \"kinds of fighting... that we believe the Ukrainians are going to need to be capable of in the weeks and months ahead\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian crews would soon be trained to use the Leopard tanks in Germany, officials in Berlin said. Mr Biden said troops would be trained to use the American-made tanks \"as soon as possible\" but added that delivering them would take time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the acquisition of tanks from the West will be considered a diplomatic coup for President Volodymyr Zelensky, he said on Tuesday that his country required at least 300 of them to defeat Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several European countries have Leopard 2 tanks in their stocks, and the German decision means some of these can also be sent to Ukraine. Germany hopes around 90 will ultimately be delivered to the battlefield.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Norway announced later on Wednesday that it would send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, but did not specify how many it would deliver. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 02:44:33', '2023-01-26 02:44:33'),
(4756, 4756, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Donald Trump will be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram, after Meta announced it would be ending its two-year suspension of his accounts.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The suspension will end \"inthe coming weeks\", the social media giant said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, Nick Clegg, Meta\'s president of global affairs, said the public \"should be able to hear what their politicians are saying\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The then-US president was indefinitely suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol riot in 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The firm had taken action following Mr Trump\'s \"praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol\", Mr Clegg said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The suspension was an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said a review found that Mr Trump\'s accounts no longer represented a serious risk to public safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But because of Mr Trump\'s past \"violations\" he would now face heightened penalties for repeat offences.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Republicans have been pressing for Mr Trump to be allowed back on Facebook as he prepares to run for the presidency again next year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump posted on his own social media company, Truth Social, in response on Wednesday, saying that Facebook had \"lost Billions\" after banning \"your favorite President, me\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!\" he wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Donald Trump now has a decision to make.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth Social, a social media platform he set up in 2021, has vastly fewer users than Facebook. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facebook has three billion users. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth Social may have as many as five million accounts - though it\'s likely it has far fewer active users.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Mr Trump has an exclusivity agreement with Truth Social - that means he is legally required to post first on the platform - six hours before any other platform. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It means if he posts on Facebook or Twitter -  there is a chance he could get sued. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts also warn that if Mr Trump were to stop using Truth Social, or post content elsewhere, the platform would struggle to survive. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He could simply ignore that exclusivity agreement - and start posting content straight away. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, that could open him up to legal problems. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is also possible is that he simply waits until June, when the agreement times out. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or, he could take the decision never to go back to platforms that he has criticised consistently. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, if he is going to have a tilt at the White House, being on Facebook - the world\'s biggest social media platform - would make a lot of sense. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whatever happens next, the ball is firmly in Mr Trump\'s court now. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If he does decide to come back, though, he will have to follow Meta\'s rules. The company has left the door open for another suspension if he flouts them. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It means Mr Tump will have to hold his tongue (to a certain extent) on Facebook, in a way that he doesn\'t currently have to on Truth Social. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">News of Mr Trump\'s re-instatement was quickly criticised by Democrats and some activist organisations who expressed concern that the former president could again use the platform to repeat false claims that he won the 2020 election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Trump incited an insurrection,\" California Democratic Representative Adam Schiff wrote on Twitter. \"Giving him back access to a social media platform to spread his lies and demagoguery is dangerous.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, a civil rights organisation, told the Associated Press that he sees the move as a \"grave mistake\" that is a \"a prime example of putting profits above people\'s safety\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s quite astonishing that one can spew hatred, fuel conspiracies, and incite a violent insurrection at our nation\'s Capitol building, and Mark Zuckerberg still believes that is not enough to remove someone from his platforms,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter had also banned the former president following the 6 January 2021 US Capitol riot, saying he had broken its rules on the glorification of violence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in November, Twitter\'s owner Elon Musk said Mr Trump\'s account ban had been lifted, after running a poll in which users narrowly backed the move.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump has not yet returned to Twitter, having earlier said: \"I don\'t see any reason for it.\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 02:49:32', '2023-01-26 11:17:40'),
(4757, 4757, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Taliban ministers have told a senior UN official they plan to draw up new guidelines to allow Afghan women to work in some humanitarian operations.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Martin Griffiths told the BBC he had received \"encouraging responses\" from a wide range of Taliban ministers during talks in Kabul, even if last month\'s edict banning Afghan women working for NGOs is not reversed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Afghan women playing a crucial role in delivering aid, there is concern the ban is endangering urgent life-saving humanitarian operations in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"It\'s worth remembering that, this year, Afghanistan is the biggest humanitarian aid programme in the world ever,\" Mr Griffiths, the UN\'s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told me in Kabul.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The aid arithmetic is staggering. This year, agencies will try to reach 28 million Afghans, more than half the population, including six million who are, Mr Griffiths says, \"knocking on famine\'s door\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year is Afghanistan\'s coldest winter in a decade, and it\'s been cruel. In the past two weeks, more than 126 Afghans have perished in freezing temperatures, collapsing from hypothermia, or overcome by toxic fumes from gas heaters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And winter\'s icy blast strikes a people already living, perilously, on the edge. Providing aid to Afghanistan is of epic proportions too.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a mud-and-straw home perched perilously on a steeply-sloped hill blanketed in snow in Parwan province north of Kabul, we met one family whose complaints were as bitter as the cold.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"No aid agencies visit us here,\" lamented mother Qamar Gul, as the family huddled around a \"sandali\" - a traditional charcoal heater Afghans have relied on for centuries to keep warm. \"No one came from the last government, no one from the Taliban government.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week, as the government\'s military helicopters struggled to reach the most isolated communities completely cut off by colossal snowbanks and blinding storms, Mr Griffiths was holding back-to-back meetings in Kabul with senior Taliban government leaders about the new edict banning Afghan women from working with aid organisations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If women do not work in humanitarian operations, we do not reach, we do not count, the women and girls we need to listen to,\" Mr Griffiths underlines when we meet at the UN\'s sprawling compound at the end of his mission. \"In all humanitarian operations around the world, women and girls are the most vulnerable.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An aid official with decades of experience in tough environments, including Afghanistan, he was cautious, but clear, about the results of his high-stakes mission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think they\'re listening,\" he said of the Taliban ministers he had met, \"and they told me they will be issuing new guidelines in due course which I hope will help us reinforce the role of women.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Griffiths\'s visit comes on the heels of last week\'s flying visit by the UN\'s second-in-command Amina Mohammed, a British-Nigerian Muslim woman whose presence underlined the UN\'s growing alarm over a raft of Taliban edicts threatening to \"erase women from public life\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She told us her conversations were \"very tough\". Some meetings were so candid, they were almost cut short. But she told us she was encouraged by a willingness to engage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Griffiths\'s mission - representing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), the UN\'s highest-level forum to co-ordinate humanitarian aid - has been to delve into very specific details across a range of vital sectors from agriculture to sanitation and food deliveries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one realistically expects the ban, announced last month, to be reversed. But it seems to have many loopholes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Griffiths highlighted \"a consistent pattern of Taliban leaders presenting us with exceptions, exemptions, and authorisations for women to work\". So far, a green light has been given to crucial areas like health and community education where women\'s participation is essential.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it\'s also clear the most conservative of Taliban leaders are not for turning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Men are already working with us in the rescue efforts and there is no need for women to work with us,\" insists the white-bearded cleric who heads the State Ministry for Disaster Management. When we sat down with him in his office, the acting minister Mullah Mohammad Abbas Akhund accused the UN and other aid agencies of speaking \"against our religious beliefs\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m sorry, I don\'t agree,\" was Mr Griffith\'s firm reply, emphasising that the UN and other aid agencies had been working in Afghanistan for decades. \"We respect the customs and norms of Afghanistan, as we do in every country that we work.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The race to deliver urgently-needed relief has been slowed by this painstaking process of dealing with an authority ruled by the most senior, most strict Taliban leaders. Other senior figures question edicts but cannot quash them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mr Griffiths pointed out that humanitarian access was significantly better now since the Taliban swept to power in 2021. Areas previously cut off by threats of Taliban attacks or US-led military operations were now much easier to reach. Last winter, 11th-hour humanitarian interventions in remote regions, including the central highlands of Ghor, pulled families back from the brink of famine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s a point Taliban officials constantly stress. The acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi urged Mr Griffiths to share their \"achievements and opportunities... instead of complaints and shortcomings\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But as the worst of winter closes in, the window is closing for an urgent relief effort. Several aid agencies, who rely enormously on their Afghan female staff have already suspended their operations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I cannot think of an international priority as high as this one to keep this extraordinarily important massive programme alive,\" is how the UN\'s top aid official summed up this moment. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 02:54:48', '2023-01-26 02:54:48');
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(4758, 4758, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh’s shrimp export industry was already facing major declines, as 72 percent of the world’s shrimp market is occupied by vannamei shrimp, also known as white leg shrimp, while the country mainly exports black tiger shrimp, or ‘bagda’, and scampi shrimp, or ‘galda’.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to industry sources, Bangladesh\'s shrimp export business suffered another major setback as the current global economic slump also took a heavy toll on the world\'s food market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, one of the major export items of Bangladesh, shrimp, has lost 80 percent of its previous demand on the world market. On top of that, export prices decreased by 40 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exporters and traders urged the government to approve commercial vannamei farming promptly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Due to the high demand for vannamei shrimp in the world market, bagda and golda shrimp are gradually losing market share in the western market. Against the backdrop of the ongoing global economic recession, demand for bagda and galda shrimp from Bangladesh dropped by 80% in the previous year,” said S. Humayun Kabir, vice president of the Bangladesh Frozen Food Exporters’ Association.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also mentioned that the prices of bagda and galda had dropped by 40% on the international market. One pound of bagda shrimp costs $6, down from $10 last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In the first eight months of 2021, 4000 containers of frozen shrimp were exported. However, in the same time period the following year, the export quantity dropped to only 1000 containers,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only 14 out of 61 frozen food exporting companies buy shrimp from local markets in shrimp-producing districts as a result of the sharp decline in demand over the past year, said the exporter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, shrimp farmers and local traders are incurring huge losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syed Zakir Hossain, president of Bagerhat’s Barakpur Fish Market Traders\' Association, said they sold shrimp worth TK 1.5 crores regularly last year around this time. However, their earnings have dropped by half this year, to TK 70–80 lakhs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traders are selling bagda for TK 700–1100 per kg and galda for TK 900 per kg at different local markets in Bagerhat district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the farmer, the price dropped by half. Due to the setback, farmers are losing interest in shrimp farming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aswad Ali, a shrimp farmer in Bagerhat’s Barakpur area, said that he has been in this occupation for the last 25 years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He spent TK 1 lakh on this year\'s production, but his total income was only TK 70–80,000.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The price of shrimp has dropped by 50 percent this year. I don\'t want to do this job anymore,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakir Mahitul Islam Suman, president of the Bagerhat district shrimp farmers’ association, said that exporters are not buying shrimp for a number of reasons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Prices of bagda and galda fell by TK 500 per KG,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged the government to give shrimp farmers 5% subsidy, as well as incentives and easy bank loans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, vannamei is cultivated in three regions of the country on trial basis under a government pilot project.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As vannamei shrimp farming requires a lesser production cost and area, can compete well with the cheap varieties in the western market, traders are urging the government to allow commercial farming of vannamei as soon as possible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 55,000 farmers in the district are currently involved in shrimp farming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the district’s fisheries department, there are around 77,000 enclosures (“gher”, as called by locals) on 72,724 hectares of land. Among them, there are 52,000 enclosures on 52,000 hectares of land for black tiger shrimp, or “Bagda” farming, and a total of 25,000 enclosures on 20,000 hectares of land for scampi shrimp, or “Galda” farming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 35,000 metric tons of shrimp were produced in Bagerhat in the last fiscal (2021-22) and 35,672 metric tons in 2020–21.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 24,104 metric tons of shrimp were exported from Khulna division in FY 2021-22, and the country earned TK 4000 crore that fiscal year. In FY 2020–21, 35,672 metric tons of shrimp were exported from Khulna, and the export earnings were TK 3,700 crore. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 03:24:03', '2023-01-26 03:24:03'),
(4759, 4759, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The \"Safe Back to School\" campaign alliance, which was formed following the Covid situation to bring back students to school, has started a new journey to ensure inclusive quality education for all in the country, under a new name: \"Education Alliance Bangladesh – EAB.\"</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The declaration of this new name came at the Education Summit 2023 Wednesday in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Let\'s Work Together to Ensure Inclusive Quality Education in Bangladesh,\" is the new slogan of the alliance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the opening ceremony, Onno van Manen, Save the Children Country Director said: \"This alliance aims to continue working together so that we can reach a larger number of children who require our assistance. We need to elevate the voices of the children through this platform.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The alliance will support the government to mitigate challenges related to quality and inclusive education. It will work with the government to strengthen the education system by taking initiatives to popularise technical/vocational education and fostering partnerships among education actors for accelerating a joyful learning environment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The closure of educational institutions from March 17, 2020, to February 14, 2021, required the launch of mass awareness campaigns as it triggered children dropout rates from schools in both urban and rural areas, causing an increase in child labour and child marriage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Against this backdrop, national and international NGOs working for the education sector in Bangladesh united themselves under the Safe Back to School.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Safe Back to School\'s awareness campaign, research study, and advocacy-related discussions with government officials and stakeholders underlined the need for long-term activities to ensure the scope for education for all children in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The alliance members are Brac, British Council Bangladesh, CAMPE, Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Educo Bangladesh, FIVDB, Friendship, Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh, Humanity and Inclusion, Jagorani Chakra Foundation, Leonard Cheshire, Plan International Bangladesh, Room to Read, Save the Children, Sesame Workshop Bangladesh, Sight Savers Bangladesh, Stromme Foundation, Teach for Bangladesh, Voluntary Service Overseas, World Vision Bangladesh, and Young Power in Social Action. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 03:34:53', '2023-01-26 03:34:53'),
(4760, 4760, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><div><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that she stands ready for correction if the opposition parties can find out any failure of her government.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>She said this while responding to a question from Jatiya Party lawmaker Fakhrul Imam during PM’s question hour in Parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>“People will judge the successes and failures. It is not my responsibility to judge that. Why should I fail if I work with honesty and specific goals for the welfare of the people?&nbsp; Whether I\'ve success or success, the people will decide,” she said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Since you are so interested, please find out my failures, I will correct those,\" she told the JP lawmaker.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that after the formation of the government, she has worked with the desire that the grassroots people will stay well.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“People are getting the benefits now. Elderly people will understand the radical changes that happebed in Bangladesh in the last 14 years,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>But, she said that today\'s generation will not realise that.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to a question from ruling party MP AKM Rahmatullah, the prime minister said that after killing Bangabandhu, late Gen. Ziaur Rahman seized power illegally and freed the war criminals and rehabilitated them.</div><div><br></div><div>By changing two clauses of the constitution, Zia allowed them to do politics and gave the right to vote.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Many war criminals including Ghulam Azam were brought back from Pakistan and given citizenship.&nbsp; Zia made war criminals as advisors and ministers,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said Zia’s wife Khaleda Zia also gave war criminals place in her cabinet after she came to power.</div><div><br></div><div>“It is disgraceful for a nation to patronise war criminals like this. Genuine freedom fighters who did not agree to join hands with Zia were omitted from the list of freedom fighters. They were humiliated as Zia included the non-freedom fighters in the list of freedom fighters. They did not want to honour the real freedom fighters.”</div><div><br></div><div>In response to ruling party MP Benazir Ahmed\'s question, Sheikh Hasina said that the corona pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have affected the global economy.</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh is no exception. Along with other overall economic and social negative effects, this has affected the market prices of daily necessities,\" she admitted.</div><div><br></div><div>In reply to a supplementary question of ruling party MP Mozaffar Hossain, the PM said that Bangladesh\'s garment industry has expanded widely, but there is difficulties finding technical persons in there.</div><div><br></div><div>“Many people are brought from abroad and given jobs,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In this connection, she said, her government has established textile universities and colleges In order to create skilled manpower in this sector.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said that at the moment the government has no plan to create any new cadre in the BCS. “But may consider it in future.” UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 03:41:04', '2023-01-26 03:41:04'),
(4761, 4761, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Most Asian markets rose Thursday as the majority returned from the Lunar New Year break on an optimistic note, with inflation slowing and central banks hinting at a lighter approach to tackling prices.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hong Kong led the way again, helped by hopes that China\'s reopening will fuel a strong recovery this year, while Bloomberg News said travel and box office numbers for the holidays were encouraging.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But uneven earnings from tech giants largely kept sentiment in check and saw Wall Street end on a soft note, with the Nasdaq in the red.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traders are now awaiting the release of US growth data on Thursday and the Federal Reserve\'s preferred gauge of inflation Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, Asia continued to outperform after a strong start to the year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next week, the Federal Reserve will make its latest policy decision since slowing its pace of rate hikes in December after four straight 75 basis-point increases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speculation has been building in recent weeks that the bank could take its foot off the pedal as data points to inflation coming down quicker than expected and other indicators suggest last year\'s tightening was taking hold in the economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And while there remains some concern that the world\'s top economy could tip into recession, there is growing hope it can achieve a so-called soft landing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hong Kong jumped more than one percent Thursday -- having already piled on more than 10 percent in 2023 -- while Singapore, Wellington and Manila were also up, though Tokyo dipped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seoul edged up as data showed South Korea\'s economy shrank in October-December -- for the first time since the second quarter of 2020 -- giving the central bank room to tone down its pace of rate hikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And SPI Asset Management\'s Stephen Innes was upbeat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Once we chop through the cudgel of earnings reports, one can reasonably expect the buyback tailwind to resume in force come February,\" he said in a commentary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The opportunity set in non-US markets continues to look more attractive. And while China remains the faster horse in the race, still after a run of resilient activity data, lower gas prices, easier financial conditions and earlier China reopening, investors should take note of the solid non-recessionary vibes emanating from Europe.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oil prices edged up and have consolidated around their November highs on China demand expectations, with officials saying the number of daily Covid deaths had fallen nearly 80 percent since the start of the month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The figures will come as some relief to investors who feared that a wave of infections across the country would offset the benefits of dispatching the zero-Covid strategy that hammered the economy for three years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Key figures around 0230 GMT -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tokyo - Nikkei 225: DOWN AT 0.1 percent at 27,361.10 (break)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: UP 1.6 percent at 22,394.63</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shanghai - Composite: Closed for a holiday</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.0919 from $1.0921 on Wednesday</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pound/dollar: UP at $1.2409 from $1.2403</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Euro/pound: DOWN at 88.00 pence from 88.02 pence</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dollar/yen: DOWN at 129.21 yen from 129.57 yen</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">West Texas Intermediate: UP 0.4 percent at $80.46 per barrel</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brent North Sea crude: UP 0.1 percent at $86.21 per barrel</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New York - Dow: FLAT at 33,743.84 (close)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">London - FTSE 100: DOWN 0.2 percent at 7,744.87 (close). AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 03:57:55', '2023-01-26 03:57:55'),
(4762, 4762, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the \'hazardous\' zone this morning, posing serious health risks to residents of the densely populated capital of Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 372 at 8:50 am today (January 26, 2023), Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with the worst air.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Govt may provide loans for producing eco-friendly bricks: Environment Minister</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 288 and 219, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants — Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 04:15:43', '2023-01-26 04:15:43'),
(4763, 4763, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ousmane Dembele\'s strike, capping a brilliant individual display, helped Barcelona beat Real Sociedad 1-0 on Wednesday, and reach the Copa del Rey semi-finals.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The French forward struck in the 52nd minute to power the record 31-time cup-winners through against 10-man La Real, who had Brais Mendez sent off late in the first half.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona have enjoyed a strong start to 2023, winning the Spanish Super Cup and moving three points clear of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga, and continued it in a pulsating cup clash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imanol Alguacil\'s Real Sociedad have thrilled in the league, sitting third, but were missing veteran playmaker David Silva and Mikel Merino through injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona manager Xavi Hernandez, on his 43rd birthday, guided his team to a nervy victory, thanks to Dembele.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coach defended Dembele when taking over at Barcelona in November 2021, saying that with hard work he could be the best winger in the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The most important thing is having the mentality that you will make the difference at Barcelona,\" Xavi told reporters on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For me, Dembele is still one of the best in the world in his position. I am happy for him because he\'s a good guy and a good professional.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He has turned things around and that is not easy at Barca.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Catalans came out of the blocks quickly and Robert Lewandowski had an effort blocked after the electric Dembele found him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the other end Takefusa Kubo crashed a shot against the crossbar, as the game ebbed and flowed in entertaining fashion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona fans frequently showed their ire towards referee Jesus Gil Manzano in the first half -- he was the official who sent off Lewandowski against Osasuna in November, resulting in a ban which the Pole is still serving in La Liga.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However it was Real Sociedad midfielder Mendez who was sent off at Camp Nou on Wednesday, just before half-time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Spaniard lunged in on Sergio Busquets, catching his compatriot with his studs above the ankle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Decisive Dembele -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Early in the second half, Barcelona broke the deadlock when Jules Kounde slid Dembele in down the right wing and he drove into the box and lashed the ball past Alex Remiro at the near post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the French forward\'s third goal in six games and another sign of his superb form under Xavi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s hard to stop a player at such a level, in form and having a day like this,\" said Alguacil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We made things too easy for him in the first half ... I think we were afraid. If you give half a metre to Dembele, you\'re screwed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that Dembele has found a coach who believes in him -- and signed a new deal last summer -- he has become vital at Barcelona.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"(Dembele) had a great game, we know what a great player he is,\" Barcelona defender Ronald Araujo told Movistar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He helps us with goals, he\'s taking good decisions, that\'s the most important thing, something that maybe was tricky for him at the beginning.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Real Sociedad, despite their numerical disadvantage, battled well and should have levelled when Alexander Sorloth fired over from only a couple of yards out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Norwegian striker had netted five goals in his previous six games and looked aghast at his miss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gavi struck the bar after more good work by Dembele as Barcelona tried and failed to seal the win with a second goal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are a lot of games that we can put to bed earlier, we will try to work on that,\" said Barcelona defender Alejandro Balde.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are in very good form and we just have to kill off these situations.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona survived two late scares after Marc-Andre ter Stegen gave the ball away but then saved from Robert Navarro and produced another fine stop to deny Jon Ander Olasagasti.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elsewhere Osasuna earned a 2-1 win over Sevilla in extra-time to reach the semis for the first time since 2005, when they finished as runners-up to Real Betis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday Real Madrid host Atletico Madrid and Valencia welcome Athletic Club in the other quarter-finals. 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(4764, 4764, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saraswati Puja, a major religious festival of the Hindu community, is being celebrated across Bangladesh today with much enthusiasm, festivity and religious fervor.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Saraswati Puja is celebrated on the fifth day of the bright fortnight of the Bangla month of Magh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day is called \'Vasant Panchami\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hindu devotees, especially students, worship Goddess Saraswati and celebrate the puja at educational institutions and temples.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday greeted the Hindu community on the occasion of Saraswati Puja.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jagannath University central Puja Udjapan Committee is organizing Saraswati Puja on the campus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, in the capital, Saraswati Puja will also be arranged at different places. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"7\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 05:56:41', '2023-01-26 05:56:41'),
(4765, 4765, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said digital connectivity would be the key equipment to transform the country into a Smart Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Digital connectivity will be the key tool to build Smart Bangladesh. Smart citizens, smart economy, smart government and smart society will be built on the basis of digital connectivity,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this in a video message aired at the inaugural ceremony of the Digital Bangladesh Fair-2023 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) here this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications arranged the three-day fair aimed at showcasing the IT and ITES products and services in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her message, the prime minister also hoped that the digital goods would play a significant role in investments and exports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Digital Bangladesh is now a reality. Our next target is to build Smart Bangladesh and Smart Nation. There is no alternative to using ultra modern technology to achieve the target of building Smart Bangladesh,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said her government wants Bangladesh to become economically prosperous, ensuring maximum use of digital technology including official intelligence, internet of things, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics and big-data.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this connection, she went on saying, \"Five-G services will be ensured at the industrial regions.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that Bangladesh saw a revolution in digitisation, she said young generation is now dreaming of building Smart Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had set up the country\'s first Satellite Earth Station at Betbunia in Rangamati district on June 14 in 1975, through which, the information technology use here started, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said they had announced Vision-2021 in the electoral pledge of 2008 whose main aspect was to ensure socio-economic development of Bangladeshi people by establishing Digital Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said her government had launched Bangabandhu Satellite-1 to the orbit in 2018 which has brought a revolutionary change in the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said her government had been able to resume the telecommunication system that was snapped in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Netrokona districts during the cyclone Sitrang last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, she said Bangladesh is earning huge foreign currency by using unused frequencies from satellites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bangladesh is now a proud 57th member of the satellite family in the world,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister also said steps have been taken to install Bangabandhu Satellite-2 into orbit with multifaceted working capacity aiming to materialise the target of establishing Smart Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said her government is going to set up a third submarine cable by 2024 as they have already installed the first and second submarine cables, adding that Bangladesh has so far achieved a bandwidth capacity of 3400 GBPS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier continued that the bandwidth capacity will be increased to 7200 GBPS in the middle of this year, while it will be 13200 GBPS after installation of the third submarine cable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She mentioned that Bangladesh is earning 4.81 million US dollars every year through giving bandwidth leases to Saudi Arabia, France, Malaysia and India.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said Bangladesh doesn\'t need to depend on foreign satellites any more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She noted that nearly 956298 kilometers optical fibre cables have been set up till union levels across the country while 10 Gigabyte capacity has been ensured in every union, helping provide high speed internet to the people and the government offices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 8600 post offices across the country have been turned into digital ones using the infrastructure, she said, adding that nowadays 18 crore mobile SIMs are being used while the number of internet-using people is 12 crore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The digital inequality and prices of broadband internet between the rural and urban areas has been erased due to it,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlighting her government\'s successes in reaching telecommunications networks up to remote and inaccessible areas, she said a common tariff of \"One country one rate\" has been introduced across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this context, the prime minister said Bangladesh was honoured with ASOCIO-2022 Award in recognition of introducing non-discriminatory \"One Country One Rate\" tariff system across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar, Posts Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministry\'s Parliamentary Standing Committee President AKM Rahmatullah and Secretary of Posts and Telecommunications Division Abu Hena Morshed Zaman spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the programme, the firstly introduced Posts and Telecommunications Award was distributed among 22 organisations and persons in 14 categories in recognition of their praiseworthy works in the telecom sector to build Digital Bangladesh. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 06:48:08', '2023-01-26 06:48:08'),
(4766, 4766, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Some private sector banks are in deep crisis because of lack of adequate liquidity and are being forced to borrow money from state-owned Sonali Bank at a 9 percent interest rate to stay afloat.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Islami Bank, Al-Arafah Islami Bank and National Bank are borrowing money from Sonali Bank at a 9 percent interest rate, which is the highest commercial lending rate at present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economists and banking sector insiders say that it means the sector is passing through a hard time due to higher non-performing loans, lack of good governance and serious corruption in the management of the respective banks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They say at present the call money rate is between 6-7 percent while banks are borrowing at 9 percent rate, which proves the crisis has mounted in these banks. They also say the troubled banks have no other options, but to borrow money.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both such borrowing and lending are very risky considering the ability of investment of these banks, they say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also read: 5 held for spreading rumors on social media about Islami Bank, S Alam group</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BRAC Bank Chairman Dr Ahsan H Mansur told UNB that some banks have lost their customers’ trust due to their mismanagement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“As a result, people have withdrawn money from those banks,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giving an example he said that the deposit of BRAC Bank increased by 33 percent in the last quarter while the deposit volumes of many banks decreased.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usually, banks charge a higher interest rate to lend to other banks while considering it risky, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 13 December 2022, the Sonali Bank’s Board of Directors approved the investment of Tk200 crore in fund placement in favour of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited and Tk75 crore in favour of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited at a 9 percent lending rate for a period of 90 days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also read: Scam-hit Islami Bank earns operational profit in 2022, Basic Bank reports loss</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the same day, the bank\'s Board also agreed to the proposal to extend the term of the Tk150 crore loans to National Bank for another six months at 9 percent interest subject to payment of the previous interest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a normal practice that when a bank faces a liquidity crisis it borrows from another bank via the interbank money market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the liquidity situation in three private sector banks is so critical that they are forced to borrow from another bank at the highest commercial lending rate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Bangladesh Bank\'s guidelines, banks can charge a maximum of 9 percent interest on all types of loans other than consumer loans such as auto loans and personal loans, in which case the highest lending rate ceiling is 12 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Dr Abul Barakat told UNB that any short-term borrowing at such a rate is not harmful, but it could create trouble while getting such loans will be lingering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said banks sometimes face a liquidity crisis, then it is required to borrow to meet the instant crisis. But a 9 percent lending rate for banks is high.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Then how much a bank would have to charge against any commercial loans,” he asked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sector insiders say corruption and lack of good governance are the main reasons behind such a crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some questioned the role and the ability of the central bank to regulate commercial banks that fail to check corruption. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 07:17:40', '2023-01-26 07:17:40'),
(4767, 4767, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Despite an estimated ₹50 crore opening and sold out shows across the country, some are still sceptical of how Pathaan is being received by the audience. Shah Rukh Khan\'s spy-action film also stars Deepika Padukone and John Abraham and heard calls for boycott and saw a big controversy about one of its songs before the release. However, looks like nothing has really affected the footfall at theatres on opening day.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But even with stellar box office reports coming in, tweets showing empty cinema halls have surfaced. “Is #Pathaan flop or hit? Got this clip from someone,” read a tweet that showed a largely empty theatre. However, Pathaan was not playing on the big screen.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply to him, many shared videos of people leaving their seats and dancing in theatres to Jhoome Jo Pathaan or Besharam Rang during the show. Check out a few:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Twitter user also compiled a string of videos that showed people dancing and hooting in theatres. “Compare the reaction of audience in theatres on Pathan with that of a recent state-promoted film; where the latter not only led to vile hate speech in the theatres but was also later used to provoke violence,” read a tweet attached to a video.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Audience started dancing on #JhoomeJoPathaan song in cinema hall. People celebrating @iamsrk movie after four years,” wrote another. “Saw some tweets claiming theaters are empty and no one is watching #Pathaan,” read another tweet with a similar video.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given the huge response to the film, which opened in 5,000 screens with big cities, including Delhi-NCR and Mumbai, beginning shows at 6 am and 7 am, Yash Raj Films said it had added a post midnight 12.30 am show across the country beginning Wednesday.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, 300 more screens were added due to high demand, according to trade analyst Taran Adarsh. The film\'s screen count now stands at 8,500 worldwide, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film, directed by Siddharth Anand, has been battling calls for a boycott over the song Besharam Rang, which features Deepika Padukone in several costume changes, including a saffron bikini.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The success of the film, which is set for the biggest opening for any Hindi film ever, played out in a montage of fan adoration. In Kolkata, the SRK brigade feted the star by feeding chocolate cake to the movie\'s poster. In Guwahati, some poured milk over Pathaan\" billboards, recalling the frenzy that normally meets a Rajinikanth film.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As security was beefed up in halls in anticipation of protests, there were many clicking selfies with giant posters and cutouts of the 56-year-old star. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 07:27:07', '2023-01-26 07:27:07'),
(4768, 4768, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP will hold a four-day march programme in the capital to press home their 10-point demand, including holding the next general election under a non-party caretaker government.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the fresh programme for Dhaka at a press conference the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Thursday, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Mirza Fakhrul said that the leaders and activists of their party’s Dhaka north and south city units will observe the march programme on January 28, 31, 30 and February 1 respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the party’s plan, Dhaka North City unit BNP will march from Shahjadpur to Malibagh Abul Hotel on January 28 and from Gabtoli to Mirpur 10 intersection on January 31.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, Dhaka South City unit BNP will march from Jatrabari to Shyampur on January 30 and from Mugda to Malibagh on February 1.</div><div><br></div><div>He also hoped that their march programmes will be held peacefully&nbsp; with the spontaneously participation of people from all walks of life.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 09:58:27', '2023-01-26 09:58:27'),
(4769, 4769, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Several demonstrators who were apprehended for publicly protesting China’s then-ongoing zero-Covid policy remain in detention, face charges or have not been heard from, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report today.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>In late November, protests broke out in numerous cities across China calling for an end to the country’s nearly three years of strict enforcement of the zero-Covid policy.</div><div><br></div><div>Many demonstrators held up blank sheets of white paper, which became a symbol of their discontent.</div><div><br></div><div>Some protesters also shouted slogans calling for the ouster of President Xi Jinping or the ruling Communist Party.</div><div><br></div><div>The protests, unprecedented in Xi’s decade in power, which has seen an increasingly heavy crackdown on dissent, petered out within days amid a heavy police presence.</div><div><br></div><div>Numerous individuals were apprehended and subsequently released, protesters, lawyers and academics told Reuters at the time, adding that they were concerned that some could face consequences later.</div><div><br></div><div>HRW researchers cited four protesters in Beijing – editor Cao Zhixin, accountant Li Yuanjing, teacher Zhai Dengrui, and journalist Li Siqi – as having been formally arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, which can carry a sentence of up to five years.</div><div><br></div><div>In Shanghai, the whereabouts of two protesters who demonstrated on Wulumuqi Road, Li Yi and Chen Jialin, are unknown, HRW said.</div><div><br></div><div>The group called on authorities to release all of the individuals immediately.</div><div><br></div><div>Reuters could not independently verify the status of the individuals named in the report.</div><div><br></div><div>Calls by Reuters to China’s ministry of public security for a comment were not answered.</div><div><br></div><div>HRW said “a few” protesters were released on bail.</div><div><br></div><div>“More protesters are believed to have been detained or forcibly disappeared, though their cases are not publicly known, given the Chinese authorities’ practice of threatening detainees’ families to keep silent,” it said.</div><div><br></div><div>In early December, soon after the protests, China abruptly dropped most of its zero-Covid curbs, and the coronavirus has spread rapidly across the country. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 10:05:23', '2023-01-26 10:05:23');
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(4770, 4770, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>An Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank\'s Jenin refugee camp on Thursday killed nine Palestinians including an elderly woman, Palestinian officials said, also accusing the forces of using tear gas inside a hospital children\'s ward.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The death toll rose to \"nine martyrs including an elderly woman,\" the health ministry said, with multiple wounded.</div><div><br></div><div>In a separate statement, Palestinian health minister Mai al-Kaila charged that \"occupation forces stormed Jenin Government Hospital and intentionally fired tear gas canisters at the paediatric department in the hospital\".</div><div><br></div><div>She described the situation in the refugee camp as \"critical\" and said Israeli forces were preventing ambulances from reaching the wounded.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel\'s army declined to comment when asked by AFP about the health minister\'s tear gas allegation.</div><div><br></div><div>The military has said only that its \"forces are operating in Jenin\".</div><div><br></div><div>Thursday\'s fatalities bring the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this year to 29, including fighters and civilians, most of whom were shot by Israeli forces.</div><div><br></div><div>Jenin deputy governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP that residents were living in a \"real state of war\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"The Israeli army is destroying everything and shooting at everything that moves,\" he told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>The mounting toll follows the deadliest year in the Palestinian territory since United Nations records began in 2005. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 10:28:00', '2023-01-26 10:28:00'),
(4771, 4771, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Sugar Refiners Association (BSRA) has increased the prices of loose refined sugar and packaged refined sugar. Per kg loose sugar has increased by Tk 5 while one kg packaged sugar hiked by Tk 4.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The latest prices will come into effect from February 1. The notification signed by BSRA executive secretary made this disclosure at a press statement on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>The notice stated that the sugar prices- per kg loose at Tk 107 and packaged sugar at Tk112- were fixed after discussing with the Ministry of Commerce and considering the price hike of unrefined sugar at international market and higher exchange rate of dollar and its production cost.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, last year (November 17), the price of per kg loose sugar was set at Tk 102 and packaged sugar was determined at Tk 108.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 11:14:35', '2023-01-26 11:14:35'),
(4772, 4772, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman on Thursday said that the work of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project will not be delayed for turning away sanctioned Russian vessel ‘Ursa Major’.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The incident involving Russian vessel ‘Ursa Major’ is not good for anyone, he told reporters after the Deputy Commissioners’ Conference, 2023 at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the work of the project will not be delayed due to the incident, he said. “It will be completed within the stipulated time, they (Russia) assured us.”</div><div><br></div><div>Russia’s contract with Bangladesh is that there will be no relationship with them (Russia) until the consignments reache the river port of Ruppoor, Yeafesh Osman said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said, “We are informed only when those reach our river port. Still, I will say that the incident that happened is not good for anyone. We have told them (Russia) that such incidents should not happen in future.”</div><div><br></div><div>Sanctioned Russian ship Sparta III (Ursa Major) was scheduled to dock at Mongla port in the southwestern part of the country at the end of December last year and unload cargo destined for the Rooppur NPP in Pabna.</div><div><br></div><div>But the authorities denied the ship permission to dock at the port after officials got a letter from the US Embassy in Dhaka saying that the ship was on a list of Russian ships sanctioned by the US.</div><div><br></div><div>On January 22, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh will not accept those Russian ships which are under sanctions, noting that Bangladesh has developed a good relationship with the United States of America (USA).</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh has conveyed to the Russian side that they can send any ship except the sanctioned 69 ships carrying equipment for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. Momen hoped that Russia would now send non-sanctioned ships carrying required materials. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 11:33:05', '2023-01-26 11:33:05'),
(4773, 4773, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sate Minister for Water Resources Ministry Zahid Faruk on Thursday directed the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to remain&nbsp; vigilant to stop illegal sand extraction from rivers.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The dams which are built on the rivers collapse due to the illegal sand extraction, he said while talking to reporters after the Deputy Commissioners’ Conference 2023 at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>Sand can be extracted only from those places which the Water Development Board declares as ‘Balu Mahals’ (sand quarries) as sand is needed for the development of the country, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“In this way we will be able to meet the need for sand as well as prevent river erosion.”</div><div><br></div><div>Due to climate change, river erosion and flood has increased in Bangladesh, said the state minister.</div><div><br></div><div>“Last year we saw early flooding in rural areas. Even then we didn\'t let the crops get damaged. I have taken precautions.”</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that a few DCs spoke about the problem of river erosion in their areas, he said, \"We are working, but the pace is slow due to the global recession.\"</div><div><br></div><div>“When a problem is raised from an area, we take action after conducting a survey,” he said urging the engineers to talk to local public representatives and solve their problems. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 12:21:00', '2023-01-26 12:21:00'),
(4774, 4774, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The rotation of Earth’s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores. The solid inner core is situated about 3,200 miles below the Earth’s crust and is separated from the semi-solid mantle by the liquid outer core, which allows the inner core to rotate at a different speed from the rotation of the Earth itself.</div><div><br></div><div>With a radius of almost 2,200 miles, Earth’s core is about the size of Mars. It consists mostly of iron and nickel, and contains about about one-third of Earth’s mass.</div><div><br></div><div>In research published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, Yi Yang, associate research scientist at Peking University, and Xiaodong Song, Peking University chair professor, studied seismic waves from earthquakes that have passed through the Earth’s inner core along similar paths since the 1960s to infer how fast the inner core is spinning.</div><div><br></div><div>What they found was unexpected, they said. Since 2009, seismic records, which previously changed over time, showed little difference. This, they said, suggested that the inner core rotation had paused.</div><div><br></div><div>“We show surprising observations that indicate the inner core has nearly ceased its rotation in the recent decade and may be experiencing a turning-back,” they wrote in the study.</div><div><br></div><div>“When you look at the decade between 1980 and 1990 you see clear change but when you see 2010 to 2020 you don’t see much change,” added Song.</div><div><br></div><div>The spin of the inner core is driven by the magnetic field generated in the outer core and balanced by the gravitational effects of the mantle. Knowing how the inner core rotates could shed light on how these layers interact and other processes deep in the Earth.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the speed of this rotation, and whether it varies, is debated, said Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at the Australian National University, who was not involved in the study,</div><div><br></div><div>“The inner core doesn’t come to a full stop,” he said. The study’s finding, he said, “means that the inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Song and Yang argue that, based on their calculations, a small imbalance in the electromagnetic and gravitational forces could slow and even reverse the inner core’s rotation. They believe this is part of a seven-decade cycle, and that the turning point prior to the one they detected in their data around 2009/2010 occurred in the early 1970s.</div><div><br></div><div>Tkalcic, who is the author of “The Earth’s Inner Core: Revealed by Observational Seismology,” said the study’s “data analysis is sound.” However, the study’s findings “should be taken cautiously” as “more data and innovative methods are needed to shed light on this interesting problem.”</div><div><br></div><div>Song and Yang agreed that more research was needed.</div><div>Studying the Earth’s core</div><div>Tkalcic, who dedicates an entire chapter of his book to the inner core rotation, suggested the inner core’s cycle is every 20 to 30 years, rather than the 70 proposed in the latest study. He explained why such variations occur and why it was so difficult to understand what happens in the innermost reaches of the planet.</div><div><br></div><div>“The objects of our studies are buried thousands of kilometers beneath our feet,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We use geophysical inference methods to infer the Earth’s internal properties, and caution must be exercised until multi-disciplinary findings confirm our hypotheses and conceptual frameworks,” he explained, reports CNN</div><div><br></div><div>“You can think of seismologists like medical doctors who study the internal organs of patients’ bodies using imperfect or limited equipment. So, despite progress, our image of the inner Earth is still blurry, and we are still in the discovery stage.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 12:36:12', '2023-01-26 12:36:12'),
(4775, 4775, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday asked the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to get ready to ensure a fair and acceptable national election expected to be held by early next year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He came up with the remark while talking to journalists after the meeting with the DCs in the last session of the three-day ‘DC Conference-2023’ at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>“We said our security agencies are now capable of facing any challenges, they will be able to tackle any situation with their patriotism, experiences and abilities during the elections”, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Indeed, we will not have anything to do at that time (election time). The ministry will only do its routine work. The main responsibilities will remain on the Election Commission (EC) and security agencies will also be under them (EC),” the home minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>“You (DCs) stay ready to offer a fair election as your roles in holding the elections are crucial,” he said adding that the country\'s people have been seeking a fair and acceptable election as well as the entire world.</div><div><br></div><div>Addressing the roles of the DCs in curbing the drugs, he asked them to play an important role in handling the challenge, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“The dreams of our 2030 and 2041 will remain incomplete unless we work on the issue (drugs),” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question about the militancy, the home minister said the law enforcers could deal with the militants, but they cannot uproot it.</div><div><br></div><div>“The militants have gone to the Chittagong Hill Tract region from here while we uprooted their dens there too,” the minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to another question, Asaduzzaman suspected that the militants may lure the Rohingyas if they stay in the country for a long time.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that law enforcers including members of the APBN, army and intelligence agencies have remained vigilant about the smuggling of Yaba as a section of Rohingyas are involved with the illicit business.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 14:41:37', '2023-01-26 14:41:37'),
(4776, 4776, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday reiterated that the Rohingyas, now staying in Bangladesh temporarily, must go back to their homeland in Myanmar and their safe repatriation will continue to remain Bangladesh\'s priority.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Myanmar said they will take back their people but they have lack of sincerity,\" he told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question after a meeting with the deputy commissioners at the DC Conference, Momen said not a single Rohingya has been taken back by Myanmar over the last six years.</div><div><br></div><div>The Foreign Minister said he does not have any solution as the solution lies to Myanmar.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister gave instructions to the DCs on various issues including taking measures to prevent illegal hill-cutting and private land grabbing.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We need more playground,\" Momen said, seeking DCs support to that end.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen were also present at the meeting with DCs. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-26 15:26:29', '2023-01-26 15:26:29'),
(4777, 4777, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Gaza militants fired rockets and Israel carried out airstrikes early Friday as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It was the deadliest single raid in the territory in over two decades. The flare-up in violence poses an early test for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\'s far-right government and casts a shadow on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s expected trip to the region next week.</div><div><br></div><div>Palestinian militants fired five rockets at Israel, the military said. Three were intercepted, one fell in an open area and another fell short inside Gaza. Israel carried out a series of airstrikes at what it said were militant targets. There were no immediate reports of casualties.</div><div><br></div><div>Thursday\'s deadly raid in the Jenin refugee camp was likely to reverberate on Friday as Palestinians gather for weekly Muslim prayers that are often followed by protests. Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, had earlier threatened revenge for the raid.</div><div><br></div><div>Raising the stakes, the Palestinian Authority said it would halt the ties that its security forces maintain with Israel in a shared effort to contain Islamic militants. Previous threats have been short-lived, in part because of the benefits the authority enjoys from the relationship and also due to U.S. and Israeli pressure to maintain it.</div><div><br></div><div>The Palestinian Authority already has limited control over scattered enclaves in the West Bank, and almost none over militant strongholds like the Jenin camp. But the announcement could pave the way for Israel to step up operations it says are needed to prevent attacks.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli strikes early Friday targeted training sites for Palestinian militant groups, the military said. Witnesses and local media reported that Israeli drones fired two missiles at a Hamas militant base before fighter jets struck it, causing four large explosions.</div><div><br></div><div>Air raid sirens went off in southern Israel as the initial two rockets were fired and then again after the airstrikes, when the militants fired the other three rockets.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, Israeli forces went on heightened alert as Palestinians filled the streets across the West Bank, chanting in solidarity with Jenin. President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning, and in the refugee camp, residents dug a mass grave for the dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Abbas had decided to cut security coordination in “light of the repeated aggression against our people.\" He also said the Palestinians planned to file complaints with the U.N. Security Council, International Criminal Court and other international bodies.</div><div><br></div><div>Barbara Leaf, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, said the Biden administration was deeply concerned about the situation and that civilian casualties reported in Jenin were “quite regrettable.” But she also said the Palestinian announcement to suspend security ties and to pursue the matter at international organizations was a mistake.</div><div><br></div><div>Thursday\'s gun battle that left nine dead and 20 wounded erupted when Israel\'s military conducted a rare daytime operation in the Jenin camp that it said was meant to prevent an imminent attack on Israelis. The camp, where the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group has a major foothold, has been a focus of near-nightly Israeli arrest raids.</div><div><br></div><div>Hamas’ armed wing claimed four of the dead as members, while Islamic Jihad claimed three others. An earlier statement from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a militia loosely affiliated with Abbas\' secular Fatah party, claimed one of the dead was a fighter named Izz al-Din Salahat, but it was unclear if he was among those seven militants.</div><div><br></div><div>The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the 61-year-old woman killed as Magda Obaid, and the Israeli military said it was looking into reports of her death.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli military circulated aerial video it said was taken during the battle, showing what appeared to be Palestinians on rooftops hurling stones and firebombs on Israeli forces below. At least one Palestinian can be seen opening fire from a rooftop.</div><div><br></div><div>Later in the day, Israeli forces fatally shot a 22-year-old and wounded two others, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, as Palestinians confronted Israeli troops north of Jerusalem to protest Thursday’s raid. Israel\'s paramilitary Border Police said they opened fire on Palestinians who launched fireworks at them from close range.</div><div><br></div><div>Tensions have soared since Israel stepped up raids in the West Bank last spring, following a series of Palestinian attacks.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel’s new national security minister, far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, who seeks to grant legal immunity to Israeli soldiers who shoot Palestinians, posted a video of himself beaming triumphantly and congratulating security forces.</div><div><br></div><div>The raid left a trail of destruction in Jenin. A two-story building, apparently the operation\'s target, was a charred wreck. The military said it entered the building to detonate explosives.</div><div><br></div><div>Palestinian Health Minister May Al-Kaila said paramedics struggled to reach the wounded during the fighting, while Akram Rajoub, the governor of Jenin, said the military prevented emergency workers from evacuating them.</div><div><br></div><div>Both accused the military of firing tear gas at the pediatric ward of a hospital, causing children to choke. Video at the hospital showed women carrying children into a corridor.</div><div><br></div><div>The military said forces closed roads to aid the operation, which may have complicated rescue efforts, and that tear gas had likely wafted into the hospital from nearby clashes.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli rights group B’Tselem said Thursday marked the single bloodiest West Bank incursion since 2002, at the height of an intense wave of violence known as the Second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising, which left scars still visible in Jenin.</div><div><br></div><div>U.N. Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland said he was “deeply alarmed and saddened” by the violence. Condemnations came from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Turkey, which recently reestablished full diplomatic ties with Israel. Neighboring Jordan, as well as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries also condemned the Israeli raid.</div><div><br></div><div>The Islamic Jihad branch in Gaza has repeatedly fought against Israel, most recently in a fierce three-day clash last summer that killed dozens of Palestinians and disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis. Hamas, which seized power from the Palestinian Authority in Gaza in 2007, has fought four wars and several smaller skirmishes with Israel.</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem last year, making 2022 the deadliest in those territories since 2004, according to B’Tselem. So far this year, 30 Palestinians have been killed.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel says most of the dead were militants. But youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in the confrontations also have been killed. So far this year, not including Thursday, one-third of the Palestinians killed by Israeli troops or civilians had ties to armed groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year, 30 people were killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel says its raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart attacks. The Palestinians say they further entrench Israel’s 55-year, open-ended occupation of the West Bank, which Israel captured along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians claim those territories for their hoped-for state.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel has established dozens of settlements in the West Bank that now house 500,000 people. The Palestinians and much of the international community view settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace, even as talks to end the conflict have been moribund for over a decade. - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 03:48:38', '2023-01-27 03:48:38'),
(4778, 4778, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will on Sunday inaugurate&nbsp; 25 development projects completed at a cost of Tk 1317 crore in Rajshahi City and across the district.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the event she will also lay foundation stones of six new development projects in Rajshahi City and district to be constructed at a cost of Tk 376 crore including new Tathya Bhaban Complex in the City.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Recently completed development projects include: Flyover at Mohanpur Rail Crossing,&nbsp; Rajshahi Police Headquarters Building, Rajshahi Civil Surgeon Office building, Sheikh Russel Shishu Park, two storey hostel with six storey foundation for Girl Students of Rajshahi Government Girls College, five storey academic building at Rajshahi Charghat Technical School and College, Multipurpose Bhaban at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, Padma River Protection Dam at Charghat and Bagha Upazilas in Rajshahi, Land Reclamation and Increasing Navgation through Padma River Dredging at Charghat and Bagha Upazilas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After inaugurating the projects, the prime minister will address a public rally at Rajshahi Madrasa Ground to be arranged by the district Awami League in the afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;PM Hasina will begin the Rajshahi tour by attending the passing out parade of the probationary Assistant Police Supers of 38th BCS Police Cadre at Sarda Police Training Academy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 97 ASPs from BCS Police Cadre 38th Batch are participating in the&nbsp; year-long training at the Sarda Police Academy. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 07:17:48', '2023-01-27 07:17:48'),
(4779, 4779, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Trading in the business empire of Asia\'s richest man Gautam Adani was halted Friday following a 15 percent plunge in its share price, days after a US investment firm claimed it had committed \"brazen\" corporate fraud.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flagship Adani Enterprises tumbled to 508.45 rupees ($6.23) in Mumbai in the afternoon, triggering an automatic 105-minute trading halt, while subsidiary Adani Total Gas also halted after it tanked 20 percent. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 07:49:19', '2023-01-27 07:49:19'),
(4780, 4780, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>US President Joe Biden on Thursday called for calm after five police officers were charged in the beating death of a Black man following a traffic stop and said he backed \"peaceful protest.\"</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"As Americans grieve, the Department of Justice conducts its investigation, and state authorities continue their work, I join Tyre\'s family in calling for peaceful protest,\" Biden said, referring to the slain man, Tyre Nichols.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Outrage is understandable, but violence is never acceptable.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 08:00:11', '2023-01-27 08:00:11'),
(4781, 4781, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A light to moderate fog may occur at places over the country from late night till morning, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said Friday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Night and day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lowest temperature in the country settled at 10.4 degrees Celsius in Tetulia of Panchagarh in the 24 hours to 6am today. The highest temperature was recorded at 31.2 degrees Celsius in Jashore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather may remain dry with a temporary partly cloudy sky, the BMD said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 09:06:56', '2023-01-27 09:06:56'),
(4782, 4782, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israeli forces in the West Bank killed 10 Palestinians on Thursday, officials in the occupied territory said, nine of them in a raid the Israeli military described as a counterterrorism operation.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The bloodiest day in the West Bank in years erupted during a raid on the crowded refugee camp in the northern city of Jenin, where gunshots rang through the streets and smoke billowed from burning barricades.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palestinian health officials put the death toll from the clashes at nine, adding that 20 people were wounded before Israeli forces withdrew mid-morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The military said Israeli forces came under fire during a \"counterterrorism operation to apprehend an Islamic Jihad terror squad\" and shot several enemy combatants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since its records began in 2005, the United Nations has never logged such a high death toll in a single operation in the West Bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A tenth Palestinian was subsequently shot dead by Israeli forces in Al-Ram, near Ramallah, the Palestinian health ministry said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the man was shot in clashes that erupted during a protest over the Jenin killings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The violence prompted the Palestinian Authority to announce it was cutting security coordination with Israel, a move criticised by the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among those confirmed dead in Jenin was Majeda Obeid, 61, who lived some metres from the house targeted by the Israeli forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her daughter, Kefiyat Obeid, told AFP her mother was shot as she peered out her window at the clashes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"After she finished her prayers, she stopped for a moment to look and, as she stood up, she was hit in the neck by a bullet and she fell against the wall and then to the floor,\" the 26-year-old told AFP, as bloodstains soaked into the rug of their home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'State of panic\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The military said the incursion targeted Islamic Jihad militants who were allegedly behind attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians and, according to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, were planning \"to conduct a terror attack in Israel\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three Palestinians were shot in a firefight, while Israeli forces shot a further two \"fleeing the scene\", an army statement said. Israeli forces also shot a sixth suspect inside a building, and other Palestinians were hit after firing on troops, the army said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Claims regarding additional casualties during the exchange of fire are being looked into,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were no casualties among the Israeli forces, the military said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wisam Bakr, director of the Jenin Government Hospital, said there was a \"state of panic\" in the paediatric ward, with some children suffering from tear gas inhalation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military told AFP \"the activity was not far away from the hospital, and it is possible some tear gas entered through an open window\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jenin resident Umm Youssef Al-Sawalmi said homes were hit during the raid. \"Windows, doors, walls and even the refrigerator, everything was damaged by the bullets,\" she told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Islamic Jihad spokesman Tariq Salmi vowed that \"the resistance is everywhere and ready and willing for the next confrontation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this year to 30, including fighters and civilians, most of whom were shot by Israeli forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saleh al-Arouri, deputy leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, vowed that Israel \"will pay the price for the Jenin massacre\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Bloody massacre\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly after midnight (2200 GMT), two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory, according to witnesses and local security sources.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were intercepted by Israel\'s air defence system, an army spokesman said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington earlier Thursday announced US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would travel next week to Israel and the Palestinian territories, where he will push for an \"end to the cycle of violence\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US regional allies Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia all strongly condemned the deadly Israeli incursion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mounting toll follows the deadliest year in the Palestinian territory recorded by the UN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 26 Israelis and 200 Palestinians were killed across Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2022, the majority in the West Bank, according to an AFP tally from official sources.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN peace envoy Tor Wennesland said he was \"deeply alarmed and saddened by the continuing cycle of violence in the occupied West Bank\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands flocked to funerals in Jenin, as the Palestinian presidency announced three days of mourning. It charged that Thursday\'s raid was happening \"under international silence\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is what encourages the occupation government to commit massacres against our people in full view of the world,\" said Nabil Abu Rudeinah, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 09:10:13', '2023-01-27 09:10:13'),
(4783, 4783, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered clarifying the methodology for determining prices for oil and petroleum products in taxation of oil companies by March 1.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;According to the instruction published on the Kremlin\'s website on Friday, it is necessary for reducing the influence of sanctions on the country\'s budget.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"To present proposals on clarifying the methodology for determining prices for oil and petroleum products used for taxation of entities operating in the oil sector for minimizing the negative influence on federal budget revenues considering the peculiarities of the formation of indicative oil prices amid sanctions restrictions,\" one of the items on the list of requests reads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The president expects the government to report on the issue by March 1.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The instruction was given following a meeting with the cabinet on January 11. TASS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 09:55:46', '2023-01-27 09:55:46'),
(4784, 4784, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 446 school and high school students in the country killed themselves in 2022.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among them, 340 were school students and 106 high school students, according to the latest study of Anchal Foundation revealed Friday. The study is based on the reports of more than 150 national, local newspapers and online portals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka division saw the highest number of school and high school students, 23.77 percent, ending their lives. It was followed by Chattogram (17.27 percent) and Rajshahi (16.81 percent), Khulna (14.13 percent), Rangpur (8.74 percent), Barishal (8.53 percent), Mymensingh (6.27 percent), and Sylhet (4.48 percent).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, 85 university and 54 madrasa students killed themselves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On average, 37 school and high school students tried to commit suicide every month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A gender analysis of the suicide data of high school students found that girls showed more suicidal tendencies (60.15 percent) than boys.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among school students who committed suicide, 63.90 percent were girls. And 59.44 percent of the high school students who killed themselves were girls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">School and high school students, who committed suicide, faced different issues, including being emotionally hurt (27.36 percent), troubled romantic attachment (23.32 percent), family conflict (3.14 percent), depression (2.01 percent), psychological problems (1.79 percent), financial problems (1.79 percent), harassment (1.79 percent), and rape or sexual harassment (1.34 percent).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anchal Foundation General Secretary Samira Akhter Siam said what is \"very fretful for us\" is that the suicide rate is highest among students aged 13 to 19 years. \"From an early age, mental health and emotion management techniques should be taught in the home by families, social settings, and at educational institutions.\" UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 10:21:13', '2023-01-27 10:21:13'),
(4785, 4785, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The under-construction Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-tech Park is now on the final stage of creating employment opportunities for around 14,000 youths, both male and female, in Rajshahi.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director of the \"Establishment of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-Tech Park\" project Engineer Fazlul Haque said 88 percent work of the park has so far been completed on an average.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are two portions- Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Building and Sajeeb Wazed Joy Silicon Tower- in the park.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The construction of the Sheikh Kamal IT Incubation and Training Centre was completed around two years back, while the Joy Silicon Tower is now at the final stage, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haque said10 companies have so far been allocated spaces in Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Building, while seven others in Joy Silicon Tower.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He mentioned that the park has started becoming an employment hub for youths creating an enthusiasm among the young generation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At present, around 400 youths are engaged in various works, including software development, site maintenance of famous companies and file works as per demand from abroad, generating working atmospheres in the park.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afroza Arbi Tusi, who is working in Fleet Bangladesh, said she has got chances of developing her career living in Rajshahi with her family members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I was very much anxious about developing my career during university life and always thought about going to Dhaka for career development,” she said while talking to BSS here on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added that the Bangabandhu Hi-tech Park has become a blessing for her as it has created scopes of building careers for many youths interested in the IT sector.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">‘Tech Rajshahi’ has been working to deliver services related to mobile games and other software.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahfuzur Rahman, Chief Executive of the organization, said they have 142 workers and 28 of them are working in the hi-tech park.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the location of the park along with its modern facilities has enhanced the brand value of his institution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Executive Officer of ‘MD Info’ Monzurul Murshed said they have got spaces in Joy Silicon Tower and Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have around 1,000 workers and 150 of them are working in the office as ninety-five percent of the workers are the residents of Rajshahi, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Project Director Engineer Fazlul Haque said that the park has been built on around 31 acres of land in Nabinagar area adjacent to Rajshahi metropolis along the bank of the River Padma with involvement of around Taka 335.51-crore aimed at establishing knowledge-based IT industries together with ensuring an area-based development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The infrastructure development works include land development, a ten-storey silicon tower in the area of 2.70 lakh square feet, a substation building, internal roads and drains, boundary wall and high-speed internet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 62,000 square-feet IT Incubation centre with an energy-efficient state of the art office building has multipurpose training facilities, high-quality start-ups, rainwater harvesting and renewable energy sources.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a 172-seat Star Cineplex opened at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-tech Park on January 14 last.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Side by side with showing cinema, the Cineplex will be used for the purposes of project training and audio-visual by the entities concerned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Engineer Fazlul Haque said there is also a provision of the Cineplex for showing video documentaries to the investors from both home and abroad besides an auditorium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the silicon tower will have multipurpose facilities including two basement parking floors, high standard training, seminar and conference rooms, rentable office spaces and a lounge and recreation area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All sorts of business environments were ensured for attracting investors from both home and abroad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a whole, the park will contribute a lot towards establishing a knowledge-based IT industry in Rajshahi side by side with creating a business environment through attracting domestic and foreign investors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will also play a significant role in the national economy through creating opportunities for new IT entrepreneurs besides creating employment scopes, experts hoped. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-27 10:32:58', '2023-01-27 10:32:58');
