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(3762, 3762, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine said Wednesday it had shot down more than a dozen Iranian-made drones in Moscow\'s latest assault on Kyiv.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack came as the Kremlin promised no let-up to fighting over Christmas and as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged European leaders to assist in setting up a court to try Russian leaders over the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The terrorists started this morning with 13 Shaheds,\" Zelensky said, referring to the Iran-made weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All 13 were shot down,\" he added, urging residents to heed air raid sirens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The national energy provider Ukrenergo said no electricity facilities had been damaged in the attack, crediting Ukrainian air defences for their \"brilliant\" work.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such defense forces appeared set for a boost with ally Washington preparing to send a batch of Patriot missile defense batteries to Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has been subjected to frequent and deadly aerial attacks in the 10 months since Russia invaded Ukraine in February and tried to capture the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But since a series of key battlefield setbacks this summer and autumn, Russia began systematically targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With temperatures dropping, the missile and drone attacks have disrupted electricity, water and heat to millions of Ukrainians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Nearly 7 million children\' at risk -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strikes targeting energy infrastructure have piled pressure on Ukraine\'s power grid, whose operators have for weeks been forced to implement rolling blackouts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That left \"nearly seven million children without sustained access to electricity, heating and water, putting them at increased risk\", UNICEF, the UN children\'s agency said Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Explosions rang out over central Kyiv and AFP journalists later saw law enforcement and emergency service workers inspecting metal fragments at a snow-covered impact site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">City officials said debris from the downed drones had damaged residential homes and a local administrative building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one was reported injured or killed, but residents cleaning up broken window glass and assessing damage vented their frustration at the Russian barrages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Winter is coming, how can people survive?\" asked Svetlana, a local resident who described how a drone rumbled over homes before she heard a loud explosion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They do not let Ukrainians live.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest round of attacks came a day after dozens of countries and international organisations meeting in Paris responded to Zelensky\'s plea to help the country withstand Russia\'s onslaught on its energy grid with 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video message from Kyiv, Zelensky said Ukraine needed assistance for its battered energy sector and spare parts for repairs, high-capacity generators, extra gas and increased electricity imports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on Ukraine\'s allies to provide his country with more weapons to help it \"fight through the winter\" and sustain Kyiv\'s military advances.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has been a major contributor to Ukraine\'s arsenal throughout the war, and a US official confirmed to AFP that Washington is finalising plans to send batteries of the advanced Patriot missile system to Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The public announcement on the Patriot, described by the US Army as its \"most advanced air defense system,\" could come as soon as Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- US citizen freed -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine separately said Wednesday it had secured the release of a US citizen as well as 64 Ukrainian members of the military in its latest prisoner swap with Russian forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s state-run TASS news agency earlier reported that the American, Suedi Murekezi, had been arrested in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine in June and charged with attending anti-Russian protests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After nearly 10 months of fighting, Russia has yet to fulfil any of its stated key goals in what it refers to as its \"special military operation\" in Ukraine, including seizing the capital or the eastern Donbas region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the Moscow-installed leader of Ukraine\'s Donetsk province on Wednesday called for Russia to widen its goals and annex two more areas of Ukraine: the Black Sea region of Odessa and Chernigiv in the north.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a ceasefire was not on Moscow\'s agenda, and that it had not received proposals from Kyiv to pause fighting during the upcoming holiday period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile on Wednesday, Zelensky accepted the European Union Sakharov Prize for human rights on behalf of Ukraine\'s people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As he accepted the EU\'s top rights award, he urged Europe to help set up a tribunal swiftly to try Russia\'s leadership for the \"crime of aggression\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky also warned the International Olympic Committee against welcoming back Russian athletes to international competition, after US Olympic officials signaled they were open to the idea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only response is \"the complete isolation of the terrorist state on the international stage,\" Ukraine\'s leader told IOC president Thomas Bach in a statement. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 04:13:45', '2022-12-15 04:13:45'),
(3763, 3763, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The World Health Organization said Wednesday it hoped that Covid-19 would no longer be a public health emergency in 2023, as it urged China to share information that could pinpoint how the pandemic started.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the third anniversary of the original outbreak rolls around, the WHO said the virus was here to stay but would need managing alongside other respiratory illnesses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the weekly Covid death toll was now around a fifth of what it was a year ago -- but was still far too high.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Last week, less than 10,000 people lost their lives. That\'s still 10,000 too many and there is still a lot that all countries can do to save lives,\" he told a press conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But we have come a long way. We are hopeful that at some point next year, we will be able to say that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO\'s emergency committee on Covid-19, which advises Tedros on whether the virus constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), will discuss the criteria for declaring an end to the emergency phase when they next meet in January.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO\'s Covid-19 technical lead, said the committee would look at the epidemiology, variants like Omicron, and the impact of the virus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While waves of infection are still expected, the pandemic \"is not what it was in the beginning\", with cases resulting in fewer hospitalisations and deaths, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These deaths are largely happening among people who are not vaccinated,\" or have not received their full course of jabs, Van Kerkhove said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the WHO says more than 13 billion vaccine doses have been administered, around 30 percent of the world has not received a single dose, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>- Covid origins -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 650 million confirmed Covid cases and more than 6.6 million deaths have been reported to the WHO, though the UN health agency acknowledges this will be a vast undercount.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tedros said that as the world looks to end the Covid emergency, which has upended economies and left millions suffering ongoing symptoms, it needs to understand how the pandemic began.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies that we have requested, to better understand the origins of this virus,\" Tedros said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All hypotheses remain on the table,\" he said, adding that this includes the theory that the virus escaped from Wuhan\'s virology laboratories.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan said the organisation could not simply stop engaging with Beijing \"because you\'re not cooperating with us on the origins\", as a huge chunk of the world\'s population live in China.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- New vaccines hope -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tedros said the virus had been around so long, it was almost part of the family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This virus will not go away. It\'s here to stay and all countries will need to learn to manage it alongside other respiratory illnesses,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO\'s vaccines chief Kate O\'Brien said that the current crop of Covid jabs do not prevent people from catching the virus to the level that had been hoped for.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"We would love to have vaccines that are more effective against infection and transmission and have greater duration of protection,\" O\'Brien said, calling for more ongoing investment in research and development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Mpox declining -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Mpox -- formerly known as monkeypox -- Tedros said the global outbreak this year had taken the world by surprise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But like Covid, the emergency phase should be over within 12 months, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 82,000 cases have been reported from 110 countries, although the mortality rate has remained low, with 65 deaths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Thankfully, the number of weekly reported cases has declined more than 90 percent since I declared a PHEIC in July,\" said Tedros.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If the current trend continues, we\'re hopeful that next year we\'ll also be able to declare an end to this emergency.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 04:22:47', '2022-12-15 04:22:47'),
(3764, 3764, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prince Harry looked set to turn his fire on his brother William on Thursday, as Netflix airs the final episodes of the docuseries about the disgruntled royal and his wife Meghan.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">One trailer for the last three instalments of \"Harry &amp; Meghan\", released last week, already escalated the row between the brothers, who are reportedly now no longer on speaking terms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an apparent reference to Buckingham Palace, Harry, 38, accused his family of \"institutional gaslighting\" and claimed they were \"happy to lie to protect my brother but were never willing to tell the truth to protect us\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another trailer, released on Wednesday saw Meghan\'s lawyer, Jenny Afia, alleging a briefing war against the couple by the palace \"to suit other people\'s agendas\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meghan\'s friend Lucy Fraser added: \"Meg became this scapegoat for the palace.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And so they would feed stories on her whether they were true or not to avoid other less favourable stories being printed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afia said the \"barrage of negative articles\" about the breakdown of Meghan\'s relationship with her father was \"the final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry and Meghan, 41, sensationally quit royal life in early 2020 and moved to North America, from where they have launched a series of broadsides about the royal family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first three episodes released last Thursday, the couple -- also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex -- criticised the royal family for \"unconscious\" racial bias.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They accused the palace of failing to protect Meghan and Harry\'s mother Diana against tabloid excesses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of their criticisms were directed at the media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But direct mention of William, 40, in the latest trailer confirmed suspicions that the more pointed criticisms may have been saved for last.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daily Mail royal correspondent Rebecca English said \"the gloves are off\" while her counterpart at ITV, Chris Ship, said, \"It\'s getting dirty.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suggestions that his brother and his entourage were to blame for the negative coverage that Harry and Meghan received was \"a dramatic escalation\", he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Business as usual\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far the palace has declined to respond to the programme and disputed claims by Netflix that they were approached to comment on the contents of the series.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior royals, led by Harry\'s father King Charles III, are expected to attend a Christmas carol concert on Thursday in a demonstration of \"business as usual\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But commentators suggested they may be forced to act if criticism gets personal, as Harry and Meghan faced calls to give up their royal titles -- or have them removed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, Harry appeared to take a dig at his older brother and his wife Catherine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"With many people in the family, especially the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit in the mould,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netflix said last week\'s episodes recorded 81.55 million viewing hours globally -- \"the highest view hours of any documentary title in a premiere week\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several British newspapers said the docuseries was an effective declaration of \"war\" by the couple.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have already faced claims of trying to sabotage William\'s first trip to the United States as heir with the release of the first trailer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A December 9 YouGov poll indicated that the docuseries, which comes three months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, had further dented Harry and Meghan\'s popularity in the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry and Meghan saw their negative ratings with the British public fall to -26 percent and -39 percent after the programmes, from -13 percent and -32 percent before.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only Harry\'s disgraced uncle Prince Andrew, who earlier this year settled a US civil claim for sexual assault out of court without admitting liability, was less popular.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had a -79 percent rating. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 05:03:41', '2022-12-15 05:03:41'),
(3765, 3765, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least three people have died as a powerful winter storm moves east across the US, spawning tornadoes in southern states and coating others in snow.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A young boy and his mother were killed in Louisiana when their home was destroyed by a tornado.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The huge storm also brought blizzard-like conditions to the Midwest, with roads and schools closed and some areas reporting 4ft (1.2m) of snow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 3,300 flights have been delayed and over 150 more cancelled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 500,000 people across four states - Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota and Minnesota - are under blizzard warnings, with powerful winds and heavy snowfall making travel difficult. Millions more around the country are under less severe winter weather alerts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Severe storms are forecast along the Gulf coast, including in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Florida. There are also tornado warnings in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescuers searched for hours before recovering the mother and son who died in a rural area near the city of Shreveport.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The remains of the boy - Nikolus Little, eight - were found in a wooded area half a mile from the family home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body of his mother - Yoshiko A Smith, 30 - was discovered about one street away from the destroyed home, under a pile of debris, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheriff Steve Prator told the local television station KSLA that the father had reported them missing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We couldn\'t even find the house that he was describing with the address,\" said the sheriff. \"Everything was gone,\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 56-year old woman was also found dead outside her home in St Charles Parish, according to a local politician. The Louisiana Department of Health said she died after a tornado destroyed her house.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the small town of Farmerville about 100 miles (160km) away, at least 25 people were hurt after a tornado hit, according to local news outlet KNOE.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 18 tornadoes touched down in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi on Tuesday, injuring residents and wrecking homes and buildings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More were reported on Wednesday, while Louisiana\'s governor declared a state of emergency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the US is likely to feel some impact from the storm, with cold weather and snow forecast as it moves east over the coming days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a fairly vigorous storm system,\" Rich Otto, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center, told the BBC. \"This one is a little larger than your average winter storm.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The severe weather has caused hundreds of flight disruptions at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas and Denver International Airport in Colorado over the past two days, according to FlightAware.com.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The storm has also spilled into Canada, bringing heavy snow and high winds in the country\'s southern Prairie region, including the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Freezing rain and other wintry conditions are forecast to hit the upper Midwest and north-eastern US on Thursday, the National Weather Service said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The storm system began to hit the US last Friday, bringing powerful winds and snow to parts of California. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 05:32:55', '2022-12-15 05:32:55'),
(3766, 3766, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least 24 people died allegedly after consuming toxic liquor in different villages of Chhapra in Bihar\'s Saran district of India on Wednesday. One of them died at the district hospital during treatment while some others are believed to be undergoing treatment in private. The police have taken his body into their custody.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">An official said his body will be sent for post-mortem to ascertain the cause of his death.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though the victims\' relatives claim their deaths are due to toxic liquor, the authorities are yet to confirm this.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Nitish Kumar faced protests today in the Bihar assembly over liquor deaths in the state. A furious Mr Kumar also heard screaming at the opposition BJP leaders, \"sharabi ho tum (you are drunk)\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local BJP MLA Janak Singh accused the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government over the deaths. At least three of the deaths occurred in his village.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Thousands of people are dying in the state (due to toxic liquor) but the Chief Minister is not doing anything about it. Those at the helm of the government are to be blamed for this because he had said officials would be probed if such incidents occur in their area,\" he said without naming Nitish Kumar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want to ask you how many such officials have been probed under whose watch such incidents are happening? How did the toxic liquor reach my village? You are making money through police stations. You have no right to be in power for even a minute,\" he further slammed the state government. NDTV</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 05:49:35', '2022-12-15 05:49:35'),
(3767, 3767, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation this evening on the occasion of the Victory Day.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister will deliver her speech at 7:30pm today, a press release of the Prime Minister\'s press wing said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her speech will be aired by Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar as well as private TV channels and radio stations. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 05:58:16', '2022-12-15 05:58:16'),
(3768, 3768, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pakistani troops surrendered to allied Indian and Bangladesh forces on December 16, 1971 evening after a brief negotiation, while a former Indian military captain of late unveiled its prelude, sketching first moments of victor\'s interactions with the defeated army.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Retired lieutenant general Nirbhay Sharma said as a young Indian captain he was in the first group of Indian soldier to step into Dhaka city as part of advanced allied troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He recently came up with a signed memoir, describing a little known story of events of the first hours of the day, acknowledging that Bangladesh\'s freedom fighter Abdul Kader Siddique was part of the episode as well.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharma, who later served as India\'s governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram, said they had entered \"Dacca\" through the Mirpur Bridge to make their way to Pakistan\'s military headquarters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But some eventful episodes upset their first attempt to reach Pakistani commander Lieutenant General AAK Niazi, to whom they, however, reached subsequently carrying a message from Major General Gandharv Nagra, India\'s general officer commanding for 1010 area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharma said on their second journey, this time along with his commanding officer of India\'s 2 Para Battalion Colonel Pannu and few others, they succeeded in reaching the message, again as the \"first troops\" to enter the enemy held Dhaka Cantonment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While the battalion made a triumphant entry, Colonel Pannu, with me and a few other officers, made a dash to General Niazi at his headquarters,\" read Sharma\'s article, appeared in India\'s The Print newspaper.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"As we entered Pakistan\'s Eastern Command Headquarters and parked our jeeps next to General Niazi\'s office, a smartly attired, tall and well-built soldier confronted us,\" he wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sharma added that the \"stick orderly standing guard\" blocked the Indians entry into the office as he was quite unaware of the goings-on and did not know \"what to do or say\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He asked us not to park our jeeps in the space reserved exclusively for his general. We pushed him aside and barged into the general\'s room,\" Sharma wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;He recalled that Colonel Pannu \"looked hard at Niazi and the latter could not meet his gaze\" while the \"unshaven\" top Pakistani general held his head in both hands with despair.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I clearly remember his mumblings - \"Pindi mein baithe haramzaadon ne marva diya (Those sitting in Rawalpindi have let us down)\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that Rawalpindi kept fooling him until that morning that \"help was on the way\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharma, the adjutant of the Indian battalion at Dhaka\'s doorstep, recalled that their troops took the enemy by surprise knocking at the doors of Dhaka at Mirpur Bridge point on the midnight of 15-16 December while shelling and desultory firing continued till December 16 morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Nagra earlier landed at the scene in the morning and \"informed us that the Pakistani Army had agreed to surrender and we were to take a message for Lt General AAK Niazi\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The message read: \'My dear Abdullah, I am here. The game is up, I suggest you give yourself up to me and I will take care of you\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Sharma, Nagra\'s aide de camp Captain Hitesh Mehta was asked to accompany him while Pakistani troops were on position on other side of the bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially the two captains got into a jeep with Nagra\'s handwritten message for Niazi, who was acquainted to the Indian general since their early age and \"were on first-name basis\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharma said as they two moved to the jeep, two other officers, Major JS Sethi and Lieutenant Tejinder Singh jumped into the vehicle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Oblivious to the impending danger, all of us were excited at the thought of moving into Dhaka with the message of surrender and making history,\" Sharma wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, he recalled, little did they, young officers, knew at the time that the Pakistan army on the other side had not received instructions to surrender and so \"they opened fire as we crossed the bridge. We stopped\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Collecting all my wits, I shouted to tell them to stop firing. The firing stopped\" but immediately the enemy soldiers surrounded and disarmed the small Indian detachment, he wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian officers then asked a Pakistani junior commissioned officer (JCO) to call a senior officer while Sharma simultaneously threatened him with dire consequences if they tried harming them saying, the Indian army surrounded Dhaka and their general had agreed to surrender.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Sharma, luckily soon a Pakistani captain arrived and took the detachment to the Mirpur Garrison where its commander asked them to wait and nearly an hour later Major General Mohammad Jamshed, GOC of Dhaka Garrison arrived there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with Jamshed they returned to Mirpur Bridge in their Indian army jeep while a Pakistani one followed them and on their way back \"we were fired upon again, neither side knowing who we were\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Major Sethi received a medium machine gun burst on his left leg and another bullet pierced the helmet of Singh right in the middle, though was fortunately deflected but \"the situation was restored and we reached our side of the bridge\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to BSS Kader Siddique recalled that a white shirt was hoisted atop the Indian army jeep that carried the junior Indian officers as no white flag was available instantly and on their way back to the Mirpur Bridge somehow the shirt was dropped somewhere leaving them unprotected that draw the enemy fires.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharma wrote, shortly thereafter, at 10:42 am, being accompanied by Pakistani officers, the Indian officers\' detachment reentered Dhaka to hand over Niazi the Nagra\'s chit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistani military spokesman Major Siddiq Salik in his \"Witness to Surrender\" said receiving Nagra\'s message Niazi briefly discussed the situation with senior generals present, including navy\'s top commander in East Pakistan Rear Admiral Mohamad Shariff and Major General Rao Farman Ali.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They both, he said, suggested Niazi to give up and respond to Nagra\'s call as Pakistani side did not have enough strength to defend \"Dacca\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to BSS Siddique said Jamshed came to the scene in a Mercedes car followed by several Pakistani military vehicles and Nagra and two other Indian brigadiers, San Singh and Klair and he himself got on board the car\'s backseat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Jamshed sat on the front seat beside the driver on their way to Dhaka Cantonment and halted briefly at Jamshed\'s makeshift office at Dhaka Residential School, from where they tried to make a phone to Niazi but found the line to be dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation then went straight to Dhaka Cantonment and was received by a Pakistani captain at Niazi\'s office saying the general would come there shortly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"After 4 or 5 minutes Niazi came and the two sides saluted each other and shook hands . . . I could not extend my hand to shake his (Niazi\'s) hand,\" Siddique said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1971 war documents suggest nearly an after later the formal surrender negotiations took place after Indian Eastern Front\'s general staff chief Major General JFR Jacob arrived at Niazi\'s headquarters. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 06:09:45', '2022-12-15 06:09:45'),
(3769, 3769, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Amid rumours of Athiya Shetty and KL Rahul getting marrying soon, her father Suniel Shetty has said joked he will certainly attend the wedding if the reporters inform him about the confirmed dates. Athiya and KL Rahul have been together for a few years. She also accompanies him on his tours sometimes, and they go on vacations together.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, reports claimed that the cricketer had applied for leaves in January 2023 and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) approved it. Internet was soon flooded with speculations that he will marry Athiya in January. During the trailer launch event of his new show Dharavi Bank, Suniel had confirmed that the wedding will take place soon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he has now said that the dates are yet to be confirmed. Suniel told ETimes, “Let me know when you get the confirmed dates so I can attend (the wedding).”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahul had shared a couple of pictures of Athiya to mark her 30th birthday earlier this year. Sharing the photos, he wrote, \"Happy birthday to my clown (he used clown face emoji) you make everything better.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I an earlier interview with Hindustan Times, Suniel had said, “I know about all the rumours that are around their wedding now and then. And I can tell you that I am looking at it as in the date. With both their schedules and stuff like that, we are figuring out things. Hopefully soon, we will know as to when, where and what will it finally happen.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last seen in Motichoor Chaknachoor opposite Nawazuddin Siddiui, Athiya rcently made her debut on YouTube with her own channel. Salman Khan\'s Hero, starring Sooraj Pancholi in the lead marked Athiya\'s Bollywood debut in 2015.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suniel is riding high on the popularity of his debut show, Dharavi Bank, which released on MX Player on November 19. Dharavi Bank is directed by Samit Kakkad and also stars Vivek Oberoi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Athiya and KL Rahul have never confirmed their relationship in public but they often share pictures together on Instagram. They also comment and respond to each other\'s social media posts, displaying their affection for each other. Last year, the cricketer had also joined Athiya at a special screening of Ahaan Shetty’s debut film, Tadap. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 06:14:40', '2022-12-15 06:14:40'),
(3771, 3771, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Multi-billionaire Elon Musk has sold another 22 million shares, worth $3.58bn (£2.9bn), in the electric car maker Tesla.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The shares were sold on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, according to a filing with a US financial regulator.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It brings the total of Tesla stocks sold by Mr Musk over the past year to almost $40bn.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Earlier this week Mr Musk lost his position as the world\'s richest person.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason for the latest share sales has not been disclosed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He remains Tesla\'s biggest shareholder with a 13.4% stake, according to financial market data provider Refinitiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month Mr Musk revealed that he had sold 19.5 million shares of Tesla worth $3.95bn, just days after completing a $44bn takeover of social media platform Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tesla is one of the worst performing stocks among major car makers and technology companies this year, as investors worry that Mr Musk\'s buyout of Twitter is diverting his attention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday the value of Tesla shares listed on the technology-heavy Nasdaq index in New York closed below $500bn for the first time since 2020.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of last year the company was worth more than $1tn but its value has slumped in recent months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk completed the takeover of Twitter in October and since then has focused a significant amount of his time on the business.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk sold billions of dollars worth of Tesla shares to help fund his purchase, which helped to push the shares down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Twitter deal was only completed after months of legal wrangling, and some have cited the distraction of the takeover as another factor behind Tesla\'s share price fall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investors have also been concerned that demand for the company\'s electric cars may slow, as the economy weakens, higher borrowing costs discourage buyers and other companies boost their electric vehicle offerings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tesla has also been hit by recalls, as well as government probes of crashes and its autopilot feature.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week Mr Musk lost his position as the world\'s richest person after a sharp drop in the value of his shares in Tesla this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to both Forbes and Bloomberg, he was overtaken at the top spot by Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury goods group LVMH.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk is now worth $174bn, Mr Arnault\'s fortune stands at almost $191bn, according to Forbes. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 06:56:49', '2022-12-15 06:56:49');
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(3772, 3772, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Farmers engaged in vegetable farming — on floating beds made of hyacinth and bamboo — in Nazirpur and Nesarabad upazilas of Pirojpur district are devastated by low prices of their produce.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Though the farmers keep themselves engaged in cultivating vegetables, taking advantage of the availability of hyacinth in the region, anxiety over low prices has gripped them.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the district’s Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), farmers in the region have been farming vegetables, using the floating method, for over a century.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 3,200 farmers of the upazilas cultivate several varieties of vegetables including papaya, gourd, pumpkin, beans, okra, tomato, eggplant and cabbage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vegetable seedlings produced on the beds are usually sold at upazilas of the district and other parts of the country but this year the sales are not seeing a momentum due to poor response from buyers.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though it was targeted to produce 86,50,000 saplings on 175 hectares of land, it exceeded the target due to favourable weather.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, a bunch of 100 saplings was sold at Tk 250 to 300 but the price is now Tk 150 to 200. The sale of saplings goes on from June to November every year.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some areas including Deulbari-Dobra, Kalardoyania and Malikhai under Nazirpur upazila and most parts of Baldiya union under Nesarabad upazila remain under 5 to 8 feet water round they year, causing no production of any crop.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The farmers said they usually take loans from local money lenders for usury and lands as sublease for cultivating vegetables and producing saplings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The farmers are bound to take loans from the lenders with a high usury because of failure to manage loans from the banks during the Robi, Kharif-1 and 2 seasons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are deprived of bagging a good profit due to the high interest on the loans, they said.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hoping assistance from the government, the farmers said they don’t get the desired prices by selling produce due to natural disasters, damages of crops, low price, disadvantages in marketing and lack of preservation.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local farmer Jamal Hossain said he is used to cultivating vegetables on the floating beds made of hyacinth and bamboo in the water bodies taken on sublease.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I have 15 to 16 beds where I cultivate several types of vegetables including beans, papaya, tomato, chili and gourd,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have not been getting a reasonable price due to lack of dealers caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,” he claimed, adding that an amount of Tk 7,000 to 10,000 is&nbsp; needed to cultivate vegetables and produce saplings on a 60-hand long bed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Md Nazrul Islam Sikdar, deputy director of the district’s DAE, told UNB that some 60 to 70 percent farmers of Gaokhali, Monohorpur, Delbari and Malikhali areas under Nazipur upazila have been involved with vegetable farming on floating beds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We inform the farmers on maintaining quality and visit their croplands to give training,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Urging high officials of the agricultural ministry to take measures to offer loans on easy conditions, the farmers said that it will be difficult to keep vegetable cultivation on floating beds going unless loans from banks are made easy. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 07:21:26', '2022-12-15 07:21:26'),
(3773, 3773, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The nation is set to celebrate the Victory Day, the most precious day of the Bangalees, tomorrow as the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces on that day 51 years back after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 16 in 1971, Bangladesh was born as an independent country under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the cost of supreme sacrifice of three million people and the honour of nearly half a million women.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will issue separate messages on the occasion, paying glowing tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War in 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programmes marking the \'Victory Day\' will include a 31-gun salute, placing of wreaths at the monuments to pay homage to martyrs, hoisting of the national flags atop all government, semi-government and private offices as well as offices of autonomous bodies across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victory day programmes also include decorating city streets and illumination of important buildings and establishments, roads and street islands at night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar on the outskirts of the capital with the rise of the sun tomorrow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This will be followed by the family members of Bir Sreshthos, wounded freedom fighters and Bir Muktijoddhas while Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq will lead them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, foreign diplomats, leaders of Awami League and different political and social organisations and people from all walks of life will pay homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Combined forces will participate in a parade at the National Parade Square in the city at 10.30am tomorrow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdul Hamid will be present there and take salute while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will also be present there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day is a public holiday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">National dailies will bring out special supplements on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state-owned and private televisions and radios will broadcast special programmes highlighting the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marking the day, improved diets will be served to inmates of jails, hospitals, orphanages and vagrant homes across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, various political, social and cultural organizations including Bangladesh Awami League, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangla Academy, National Museum, Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh Shishu Academy, will celebrate the day with different programmes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, receptions of valiant freedom fighters and family members of martyrs will be held in the metropolis, districts and upazilas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Special prayers will be offered at mosques and other places of worship, seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of the martyrs of the Liberation War and peace, progress and prosperity of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similar programmes will be taken at district and upazila levels as well as Bangladesh missions abroad, highlighting the significance of the day. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 07:36:07', '2022-12-15 07:36:07'),
(3774, 3774, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Light to moderate fog was noticed across the country early this morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Night temperature may remain nearly unchanged and day temperature may fall slightly over the country, said a latest bulletin of Bangladesh Meteorological Department.</div><div><br></div><div>Weather may remain dry over the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The lowest temperature in the country, recorded on Wednesday, was 11.5 degree Celsius in Rajshahi and Chuadanga, while the highest temperature was 30.5 degree Celsius in Khulna.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, a low-pressure area has formed over southeast Bay and adjoining area. It is likely to intensify.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka city dwellers have been experiencing foggy weather since this morning as the month of ‘Poush’, ninth month of the Bengali calendar, will start from Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>As winter approaches, shopping malls, footpaths and shops are packed with people buying warm cloths. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 08:57:23', '2022-12-15 08:57:23'),
(3775, 3775, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina today said BNP plays ducks and drakes with the election and people\'s voting rights side by side pushing the country behind whenever they come to power.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"Whenever BNP assumed power, they played the ducks and drakes with the elections and people\'s voting rights and this is its character,\" she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She also said BNP does it as it is not a party of the masses. \"So, they don\'t care for the people as they consider power as something to enjoy and a chance of looting,\" she added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The premier made the remark while addressing as the chief guest the triennial national council of the Bangladesh Jubo Mohila League (BJML), an affiliated body of the AL, at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Referring to statistics of various developments carried out between the AL and BNP government, she said, \"The trend of development continues. But, the development backtracked whenever the BNP came to power.\"</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She said her government elevated the education rate to 65 percent from 45 and increased electricity generation to 4300MW from 3200MW after assuming power for the first time in 1996.</div><div><br></div><div>But the education ratio got down to 45 percent and electricity generation reduced to 32,00MW when BNP came to power for the second time in 2001, she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"BNP can only develop itself after opening Hawa Bhaban and Khawa Bhaban. They can do nothing for the welfare of the country and its people. For that reason the people have boycotted them time and again,\" she added.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister said the people know that their fate will only be changed whenever Awami League comes to power and it had helped achieve the country\'s independence under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Road Transport and Bridges Minister and General Secretary of the Awami League Obaidul Quader addressed at the function as the special guest.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>President of the Jubo Mohila League Nazma Akter presided over the council while its General Secretary Apu Ukil conducted it and presented the organisational report.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Earlier, the prime minister opened the council by hoisting the national flag and releasing pigeons, the symbol of peace and balloons.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She later witnessed a colourful cultural programme starting with playing the party song of the BJML.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>A one minute silence was observed to show profound respect to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War, August 15, 1975 and all the democratic and progressive movements at the council.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Leaders, activists, councillors and delegates from across the country thronged the conference venue in thousands with colourful festoons, placards and banners to make the council a grand success.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The second and last council of the Bangladesh Jubo Mohila League, which was founded on July 6 in 2002, was held on March 11, 2017. According to BSS reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 10:30:03', '2022-12-15 10:30:03'),
(3776, 3776, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The father of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash has said that he firmly believes his son didn\'t die by suicide.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fardin\'s father Kazi Nooruddin told to media in front of the DB office in Dhaka.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"I will file no-confidence petition. My son didn\'t die by suicide,\" he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 11:12:53', '2022-12-15 11:12:53'),
(3777, 3777, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Daisy Sarwar has been made new president while Sharmin Sultana Lily general secretary of Jubo Mohila League, the youth women front of Awami League.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced the names of the president and the general secretary of Jubo Mohila League from its third triennial council of the organisation held at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>Awami League president Sheikh Hasina was present as the chief guest at the council.</div><div><br></div><div>During its founding in 2002, a convening committee of 101 members was formed.</div><div><br></div><div>In the first council of the organisation held in 2004, Najma Akhtar was made president and Apu Ukil the general secretary.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 11:22:52', '2022-12-15 11:22:52'),
(3778, 3778, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The group of Buet students, who went to the DB office today to get details about the death of their peer Fardin Noor Parash, said that detectives could not produce any solid evidence in favour of their claim that he died by suicide, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The students said that it was not clear whether Fardin actually took his own life, and DB officials could not show any such solid or concrete evidence.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The DB officials said they were also not 100 percent sure that Fardin died by suicide, the students said.</div><div><br></div><div>They were talking to media after coming out of the DB office.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Nevertheless, the evidence shown seemed relevant to us, they have made a lot of effort\" one of the students said.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the students also claimed the evidence provided to them had gaps.</div><div><br></div><div>Citing an example, the students said the driver of the human haulier, that dropped Fardin near a bridge on the night he disappeared, told investigators that there was someone with Fardin that night.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"But, it is not yet clear who that person was,\" the student said.</div><div><br></div><div>They said apart from such gaps, the investigating officer showed them concrete evidence on other issues and they said they were pleased with police\'s work.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 11:30:39', '2022-12-15 11:30:39'),
(3779, 3779, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President M Abdul Hamid will attend the parade at the National Parade Ground marking the 52nd Victory Day.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The President, also supreme commander of the armed forces division, will take salute and inspect the parade on the occasion, President\'s press secretary Md Joynal Abedin told BSS.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bangladesh Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, Coast Guard, Ansar, paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) will take part in the parade.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Head of the State and other invited guests will witness armoury acquisitions of different regiments and contingents of the armed forces, a spectacular fly-past conducted by army aviation, helicopters of anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), navy aviation, parachute landing by army paratroopers and the air force of Bangladesh.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Earlier, on his arrival at the parade venue at about 10:30 am, Abdul Hamid is scheduled to receive by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, parliament members and the chiefs of the three services and senior officers of armed forces division, according to programme schedule.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Earlier in the morning, President Hamid will pay glowing tributes to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War by placing wreath at the National Memorial in Savar on the outskirts of the capital on the occasion.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The President is scheduled to place the wreath at the altar of the National Memorial at about 6:30 am followed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Fifty two years back, the country achieved victory through the nine-month War of Liberation against Pakistani occupation forces on this day.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>On this day in 1971, the Pakistani military conceded defeat to the allied forces and commanding officer of Pakistani forces general A A K Niazi surrendered arms with all members of his forces. ‍Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 12:06:01', '2022-12-15 12:06:01'),
(3780, 3780, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After a delay of more than two years, finally the Aminbazar-Gopalganj 400 KV power transmission line came into operation crossing the Padma River.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The line was commissioned successfully at 1:40 pm on December 15 (Thursday) from Gopalganj grid substation with 400 KV voltage”, the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) said in a Facebook post.</div><div><br></div><div>However, PGCB managing director Golam Kibria said that although the line was commissioned, electricity flow will not be given through this line.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'ve planned to flow electricity from next Saturday on test basis and then step by step it will be fully commissioned by gradually synchronising with all the systems”, he told UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>PGCB officials said that the full commissioning of the newly constructed line will facilitate electricity transmission from the two large power plants—1320 MW Payra and 1320 MW Rampal power plants—in the country’s southern region to Dhaka city.</div><div><br></div><div>Of these, the Payra power plant having two units, each 620 MW capacity, set up in joint venture with Chinese company, have already been commissioned. The first unit (620 MW capacity) of Rampal power plant is also being built in joint venture with an Indian company and it is expected to be commercially commissioned in March next year.</div><div><br></div><div>“If the electricity from these two plants can come to the capital city, it will play an important role to improve the power supply situation”, said a top official of the Power Division.</div><div><br></div><div>The government had undertaken the implementation of the Aminbazar-Gopalganj transmission line in 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>But due to construction of the Padma Bridge, works of tower installation in Padma River remained suspended until completion of the bridge construction. As a result, the project experienced a huge delay to complete.</div><div><br></div><div>The PGCB in the Facebook post mentioned that the newly constructed Aminbazar-Gopalganj 400 KV power transmission line has been successfully commissioned with charging power by the PGCB.</div><div><br></div><div>The length of the line from Gopalganj to Aminbazar grid substation is 82.5 km. Of which there is a 7.5 km river crossing on Padma River.</div><div><br></div><div>The Gopalganj to Aminbazar line has a total of 226 towers. A total of 11 tall towers have been constructed in the Padma River and also on both sides for facilitating the river crossing.</div><div><br></div><div>As the line has been successfully charged at 400 KV voltage, soon after all technical preparations and evaluations, power transmission (load flow) will be started on this line.</div><div><br></div><div>With the commissioning of the newly constructed line, the previously constructed Payra-Gopalganj 400 KV line and Gopalganj-Mongla 400 KV line have been connected to the Aminbazar grid substation on the outskirts of Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>This has made the connection to the national grid stronger and more reliable with the greater Khulna and Barishal regions, the PGCB mentioned. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 12:09:37', '2022-12-15 12:09:37'),
(3781, 3781, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Terming BNP a party of killers, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said those who have been identified as killers will not be able to develop the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Those who were involved in the killings on August 15, 1975, the Jail killing on November 3, 1975 and grenade attack on August 21, 2004 would not able to do any welfare of the state”, he told the triennial conference of Jubo Mahila League at Suhrawardy Uddhyan here.</div><div><br></div><div>Coming down heavily on a BNP leader for making statement that BNP is preparing a design to rebuild the country and it [the design] will be made public, Quader said how the BNP will do so as the party sponsored the three major bloodsheds in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Calling the BNP’s plan a ridiculous one, he surprised that how the party will rebuild the state as it had amended the country’s Constitution to give impunity to the self-confessed killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, mentioned that BNP made Bangladesh the world champions in graft for five consecutive times while a top BNP leader was convicted in a graft case on charge of siphoning off a huge amount of money abroad.</div><div><br></div><div>About on an arrogant comment made by a BNP leader that the country would be led by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia after the December 10 this year, he minister said: “Where your arrogance is now as the country’s people smashed your pride”.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>Highlighting the country’s progress achieved by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the AL general secretary said Sheikh Hasina is doing everything for the welfare of the country’s people by taking risk and no politician is leading a risky life like her after 1975.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that Sheikh Hasina is a leader of development ,he said the long-cherished Padma Bridge was constructed with own finance, over 100 bridges opened simultaneously, metro rail project is set to be launched, Bangabandhu tunnel is under construction beneath Karnaphuli River in Chattogram, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>Some 100 roads will be inaugurated in one day, Quader added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 12:54:14', '2022-12-15 12:54:14'),
(3782, 3782, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With two more deaths from dengue recorded in 24 hours till Thursday morning, the official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 269 this year.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this period, 163 more patients, including 95 in Dhaka city, were hospitalised, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 803 dengue patients, including 477 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div>The DGHS has recorded 61,089 dengue cases and 60,017 recoveries so far this year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 13:58:50', '2022-12-15 13:58:50'),
(3783, 3783, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister&nbsp; has urged people not to pay any heed to rumours about a cash crisis at banks.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina in her televised address to the nation on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>She said, “Rumours of banks running out of money are being spread to try and sow panic,”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Do not pay attention to unsubstantiated gossip. There is no shortage of money in banks. Don’t try to court danger by keeping your earnings at home. Our investment, remittance inflow and export-import situation are normal.”</div><div><br></div><div>Many people have also made false claims about Bangladesh’s foreign currency reserves, according to the prime minister.</div><div><br></div><div>“A country can make do if it has reserves to meet import bills for three months,” Hasina said. “Currently, we have enough foreign currency in reserve to meet our import expenditure for five months.”</div><div><br></div><div>During the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh’s reserves swelled to $48 billion as imports of heavy equipment, foreign trips, and imports of other goods were put on hold, Hasina said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Instead of keeping this massive amount of money idle, we have taken some of it and used it to form a special fund,” she said. “Some important projects are being implemented through that fund.”</div><div><br></div><div>The state-owned Sonali Bank is also offering loans at a 2 percent interest rate. The money and interest from these loans ultimately return home, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>If the money was borrowed from a foreign bank, the interest rate would have been as high as 4-5 percent, Hasina said. The payment would also have to be made from foreign currency reserves.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukraine-Russia war and the series of sanctions and counter-sanctions levied by Western countries in response to it has put developing and import-reliant countries such as Bangladesh in trouble, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Global commodity prices have gone up and there have been disruptions to the supply chain as transport costs have increased, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh is trying to procure the goods needed by the public from wherever we can,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Another reason for the drop in foreign exchange reserves is that the Bangladesh government buys fuel oil, cooking oil, wheat, lentils, corn and other commodities at higher prices from the world market before selling them at a subsidised rate locally, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 14:51:28', '2022-12-15 14:51:28'),
(3784, 3784, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India has successfully carried out night trials of the Agni V nuclear-capable ballistic missile which can hit targets beyond 5,400 km, sources in the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, amid heightened tensions with China over clashes along the de facto border in Arunachal Pradesh last week.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The test was carried out to validate new technologies and equipment on the missile and has proved that the missile can now hit targets further away than before, they added.</div><div><br></div><div>The intercontinental nuclear-capable ballistic missile was fired from Abdul Kalam Island, off the coast of Odisha. This is the ninth flight of the Agni V - a missile first tested in 2012 - and was a routine test, Defence Ministry sources said.</div><div><br></div><div>While the test was carried out days after the clashes, it had been planned earlier. India had announced its intention to test a long-range missile and issued a NOTAM or Notice to Airmen well before the incident in Arunachal\'s Tawang.</div><div><br></div><div>With the incursion in Arunachal, China had tried to \"unilaterally change the status quo\" on the de facto border known as Line of Actual Control last week, triggering clashes that left troops on both sides injured, the government had said, adding that the attempt had been successfully repulsed.</div><div><br></div><div>The incident is thought to be the most serious on the nuclear-armed Asian giants\' disputed frontier since 2020 when 20 Indian troops and four Chinese soldiers died in brawling in Ladakh\'s Galwan Valley. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 14:57:23', '2022-12-15 14:57:23'),
(3785, 3785, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Outgoing Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam&nbsp; paid a courtesy call on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Thursday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>During the meeting, the outgoing cabinet secretary expressed his gratitude to the President for providing guidance and overall cooperation in fulfilling his assignments, President\'s press secretary Md Joynal Abedin told press this evening.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Head of the State thanked the outgoing cabinet secretary for his successful performance.</div><div><br></div><div>Secretaries concerned to the President were present. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-15 15:01:54', '2022-12-15 15:01:54'),
(3786, 3786, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday released a special commemorative postage stamp, an opening day cover and a data card, on the occasion of the Great Victory Day-2022.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The premier unveiled the commemorative postage stamp of Taka 10 at a ceremony at her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A special canceller was used on the occasion, Prime Minister\'s Assistant Press Secretary MM Emrul Kayas told BSS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister\'s Principal Secretary Md. Tofazzel Hossain Miah, Prime Minister\'s Office Secretary Mohammad Salahuddin, Posts and Telecommunications Secretary Md Khalilur Rahman and Director General of Directorate of Posts Md Harunur Rashid were present on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The postage stamp, the first-day cover and data card, will be sold from Philatelic Bureau of Dhaka GPO and will also be available at other GPOs and head post offices across the country later. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 07:09:50', '2022-12-16 07:09:50'),
(3787, 3787, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>President M Abdul Hamid paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial in Savar on the outskirts of the capital this morning marking the 52nd Victory Day.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Head of the State placed the wreaths at the altar of the National Memorial at about 6.32am followed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After placing the wreaths, the President stood in solemn silence for a while as a mark of deep respect to the memories of the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A smartly turned out contingent drawn from the Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force presented the state salute on the occasion, as the bugles played the last post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President also signed the visitors\' book kept on Memorial premises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nation is celebrating the 52nd Victory Day today, the most precious day of Bangalee people, as the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces on the day in 1971 after a nine-month long bloodstained Liberation War. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 07:20:20', '2022-12-16 07:20:20'),
(3788, 3788, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prince Harry accused his brother William of a furious response to his plans to quit royal life but insisted he had few regrets about leaving in final docuseries episodes out on Thursday.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry, 38, and his wife Meghan, 41, have lifted the lid on their experiences in the institution in the new series, risking a further rift with his family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As young boys, the brothers provided the enduring image from their mother Princess Diana\'s funeral, walking behind her coffin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But they are reportedly now no longer on speaking terms since Harry and Meghan -- also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex -- left for North America, settling in California.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the final three episodes of \"Harry &amp; Meghan\", Harry recalled a family summit in January 2020 over their plans to move abroad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he proposed to be \"half in, half out\" of the royal family, working for his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II but being self-funded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It became very clear, very quickly that goal was not up for discussion or debate,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father (King Charles III) say things that just simply weren\'t true.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry returned for his grandfather Prince Philip\'s funeral last year, where they discussed the move and how it was portrayed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just before the Duke of Edinburgh\'s death Harry and Meghan gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey, claiming racism in the royal family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He indicated his father, 74, and brother, 40, misinterpreted the situation but maintained he and Meghan were \"moving on\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Heartbreaking\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much of the content of the final episodes covered familiar ground, particularly Meghan\'s difficulties adapting to royal life, suicidal thoughts and negative media coverage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry accused the Daily Mail newspaper of responsibility for her suffering a miscarriage after it printed a letter to her father. She later successfully sued for breach of privacy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he also blamed heir-to-throne William\'s office for being behind negative coverage of the couple, which he suggested was because they were \"stealing the limelight\" from other senior royals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He criticised \"constant briefings\" by palace media teams pitting one member of the family against another in collusion with the media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a dirty game. There is leaking but there is also planting of stories,\" he said. \"The offices end up working against each other.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"William and I both saw what happened in our dad\'s office and we made an agreement that we\'d never let that happen to our office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"To see my brother\'s office copy the very same thing that we promised the two of us would never, ever do, that was heartbreaking.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Changed -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far the palace has declined to respond to the programme and disputed claims by streaming service Netflix that they were approached to comment on the contents of the series.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior royals, led by Harry\'s father King Charles III, are expected at a Christmas carol concert on Thursday in a demonstration of \"business as usual\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But commentators suggested they may be forced to act if they feel the criticism is too personal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry and Meghan have even faced calls to give up their royal titles -- or have them removed. Harry said in the programme he offered to voluntarily relinquish them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his new life in the United States, Harry said he missed \"the weird family gatherings\", the UK and his friends.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But despite losing some friends as a result of his move, he insisted he had done the right thing, as there was \"no other option\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I came here because I was changed. I changed to the point that I\'d outgrown my environment,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netflix said last week\'s episodes recorded 81.55 million viewing hours globally -- \"the highest view hours of any documentary title in a premiere week\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it appears to have dented the couple\'s popularity in the UK, with one poll suggesting it had worsened their already negative approval ratings with the British public. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 08:00:27', '2022-12-16 08:00:27'),
(3789, 3789, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The nation is celebrating the 52nd Victory Day, 2022 on Friday, the most joyous day when the country was born at the cost of the supreme sacrifice of three million martyrs and the honour of nearly half a million mothers and sisters, with elaborate programmes.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this glorious day in 1971, Bangladesh was liberated as an independent country after the Pakistani occupation forces surrendered following a bloody nine-month-long war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid homage to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War by placing a wreath at the National Memorial in Savar in the morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of the state placed a wreath at the altar of the National Memorial at about 6:30am followed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After placing the wreath, they stood in solemn silence for a while as a mark of deep respect to the memories of the martyrs of the Liberation War in 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A smartly turned out contingent drawn from the Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force presented the state salute on the occasion as the bugles played the last post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flanked by senior leaders of the party, Sheikh Hasina, also the President of the ruling Awami League (AL), laid another wreath at the National Memorial as the party chief.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, Sheikh Hasina as the Prime Minister and the president of Bangladesh Awami League paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman placing two separate wreaths at his portrait at Bangabandhu Bhaban in the city’s Dhanmondi-32 area in the morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Freedom fighters, their family members, foreign diplomats, leaders of Awami League and different political and social organisations and people from all walks of life also paid homage to martyrs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various programmes will be held today to pay deep homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the country during the Liberation War in 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with the government, different socio-political, educational and cultural institutions and organisations have chalked out a series of programmes to celebrate the day. Bangladeshis will celebrate the day at home and abroad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day’s programme began with a 31-gun salute.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Discussion meetings will be held at the national level on the theme of \'Empowering the spirit of the liberation war and the best use of digital technology in building&nbsp; Sonar Bangla as dreamt by the Father of the Nation.’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from this, reception of brave freedom fighters and martyr family members will be held in the metropolis, districts and upazilas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The national flag will be hoisted atop government, semi-government, autonomous and private offices across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this day, an exhibition of documentary films and posters based on the history and tradition of the Liberation War will be organized at the ‘Swadhinota Stombha’ and the Museum of Suhrawardy Udyan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh embassies abroad will also undertake similar programs highlighting the significance of the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more:| Victory Day: PM pays tributes to Liberation War martyrs</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day is a public holiday. National dailies brought out special supplements on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State-owned and private television channels and radios will broadcast month- long special programmes highlighting the significance of the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Receptions will be accorded to the freedom fighters and family members of martyrs at city, district and upazila levels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Destitute children will be allowed to visit the children park in the capital on the day free of cost. Improved diets will be served in jails, hospitals, orphanages across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on the occasion. 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(3790, 3790, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today attended the parade at the National Parade Ground marking the Victory Day.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The President, also supreme commander of the armed forces division, took salute and inspected the parade on the celebration of 51 years of Bangladesh\'s victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The parade was organized and conducted by the 9th Infantry Division of Bangladesh Army under the supervision of Armed Forces Division with the directives of the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Hamid, accompanied by Major General Mohammad Shaheenul Haque, the parade commander and also General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 9th Infantry Division and Area Commander of Savar Area, riding an open jeep inspected the parade and took the salute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, Coast Guard, Ansar, paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) participated in the parade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Hamid, accompanied by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also exchanged greetings with the commanders of the contingents who took part in the parade before departing from the ground.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion, the parade ground was decorated with the images of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, four national leaders, seven Birshreshthas, different development works of the government, including the image of Padma Bridge and metro rail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from this, the nearby road of the parade ground was also decorated with banners and festoons highlighting the spirit of the Liberation War and the Victory Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier along with her daughter Saima Wazed Hossain Putul and grand-daughter Samaa Hossain, the invited guests also witnessed armoury acquisitions of different regiments and contingents of the armed forces, a spectacular fly-past conducted by army aviation, helicopters of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and navy aviation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, a well-decorated horse-mounted forces and dog squad team also ensured their presence on the parade ground.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At last stage of the programme, a spectacular aerobatic display was exhibited on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of people from all walks of life also witnessed the spectacular parade through the television and different social media that lasted for over two hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on his arrival along at the parade venue at about 10.30am, Abdul Hamid was received by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, parliament members and the chiefs of the three services and senior officers of armed forces division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, cabinet members, political leaders, lawmakers, foreign diplomats, senior civil and military officers were present on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifty one year back, the country achieved victory through the nine-month War of Liberation against Pakistani occupation forces on this day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this day in 1971, Pakistani military conceded defeat to the allied forces and commanding officer of Pakistani forces general AAK Niazi surrendered arms with all members of his forces. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 09:06:56', '2022-12-16 09:06:56'),
(3791, 3791, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said the anti-liberation forces are still plotting to destablise the country even after 51 years of victory.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Communal forces, militants are conspiring to thwart the joy of victory,” he told reporters after paying tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War at the National Memorial in Savar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, also urged the pro-liberation forces to come forward to resist them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL presidium member Abdur Rahman, publicity secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap were also present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also paid tributes to the heroes of 1971 at the National Memorial. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 09:16:28', '2022-12-16 09:16:28'),
(3792, 3792, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A fresh barrage of fatal Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine early Friday, cutting water and electricity in major urban hubs and piling pressure on the grid in sub-zero temperatures.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AFP journalists in Kyiv reported several loud explosions and the mayor said the metro had stopped running to allow residents to take shelter in underground stations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The strikes killed two people and injured several others -- including children -- in the southern city of Kryvyi Rig, President Volodymyr Zelensky\'s hometown.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Another wave of massive Russian attacks on energy infrastructure,\" Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on social media, adding that: \"There will be emergency power outages.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The onslaught is just the latest of several waves of strikes that began in October after a series of embarrassing battlefield defeats for Russia in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s second largest city Kharkiv, near the border with Russia, was without electricity, its mayor said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central cities of Poltava and Kremenchuk also had no power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air raid sirens were sounding across the entire country while the extent of the damage was being assessed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Regional officials in Kryvyi Rig said rockets had hit a residential building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Two people have died,\" governor Valentyn Reznichenko said, adding that \"at least five people were injured, including two children. All are in hospital.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oleksandr Starukh, the head of the frontline Zaporizhzhia region, which houses Europe\'s largest nuclear power plant, said the territory under Ukrainian control has been targeted with more than a dozen Russian missiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Water cuts in Kyiv -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were explosions in several central districts of Kyiv, and water supplies were disrupted, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said metro services had been suspended so that stations could be used as bomb shelters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Due to damage to energy infrastructure, there are interruptions to water supplies in all areas of the capital,\" Klitschko said on social media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Metro traffic is temporarily stopped on all lines.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Russian shelling in the southern city of Kherson recently recaptured by Ukraine cut power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson has been subjected to persistent Russian shelling since Moscow\'s forces retreated in November.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that a Ukrainian Red Cross volunteer had been killed by the strikes in Kherson and urged that humanitarian \"personnel and property\" be spared.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow has said the strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure are a response to an explosion on the Kerch bridge connecting the Russian mainland to the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kremlin has also said Kyiv was ultimately responsible for the humanitarian impact of the strikes for refusing to capitulate to Russian negotation terms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wave of attacks has spurred urgent pleas from Kyiv for greater air defence capabilities from Western allies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Ukrainian defence officials have credited newly supplied systems for downing Russian missiles and drones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defence officials said this week Ukraine forces had shot down a swarm of more than a dozen Iranian-made attack drones launched at Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Separately on Friday Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he will visit Belarus next week for talks with his counterpart and ally Alexander Lukashenko.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minsk said the pair will hold one-on-one talks as well as wider negotiations with their ministers on \"Belarusian-Russian integration\". 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(3793, 3793, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There is ample opportunity to further expand the economic, trade and commercial relations between Bangladesh and Japan, Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan Shahabuddin Ahmed has said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh welcomed Japan’s technical and financial investments in Bangladesh under the Bay of Bengal Industrial Growth Belt (BIG-B) initiative which complemented Bangladesh Government’s effort in augmenting infrastructure, communications, power and energy sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further investment from Japan is expected in the coming days as the Japan specific Economic Zone in Narayanganj was inaugurated on December 6 by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said the Ambassador.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few mega projects being built under Japanese assistance are at the final stages of completion to strengthen infrastructure for business and improve the country’s ease of doing business rating, the envoy said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Embassy of Bangladesh in Japan celebrated the Glorious 51st Victory Day on Friday with due fervor and solemnity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the occasion, Ambassador Shahabuddin said Japan continued to be a true friend and trusted partner in Bangladesh\'s development pursuit since independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He underscored that the foundation of our strong bilateral relations was laid down by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during his visit to Japan in 1973 and has strengthened our friendship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the years, especially in the last 13 years her able daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through her visits in 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2019 has created a robust and multifaceted relations with Japan, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Especially, he mentioned the bilateral relations was elevated to a “Comprehensive partnership” in 2014. Both the countries are working together to take the relations to a new heigh in the coming days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Shahabuddin thanked all to join the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Independence of Bangladesh in 2021 and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Japan this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was graced by the presence of Japanese dignitaries including Ambassador Matsushiro Horiguchi, Ambassador Masato Watanabe, Ambassador Kiyokazu Ota and Professor Otsubo, who gifted the half bust of Bangabandhu to the Embassy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They congratulated Bangladesh on the victory day and talked about their involvement with Bangladesh over all these years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A significant number of Bangladeshi expatriates, Japanese dignitaries, academicians and Embassy officials attended the program held at the Bangabandhu auditorium in the Embassy by following existing Covid-19 health protocol.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The program started in the morning with the hoisting of the national flag by Ambassador Shahabuddin Ahmed along with rendition of the national anthem in the presence of community members, Embassy officers and staff.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was followed by observance of one minute silence in memory of the martyrs of the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the programme continued with offering special prayer (munajat) for the salvation of the souls of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, Liberation War martyrs, four national leaders and for the continued peace and prosperity of the country as well as for the wellbeing of the Bangladeshi expatriate Community.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The messages issued by the President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and State Minister for Foreign Affairs on the occasion of Victory Day-2022 were read out by Embassy officials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Shahabuddin paid rich tribute to the Greatest Bengali of all times and architect of independent Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and all martyrs of 15 August 1975, the four national leaders and all martyred freedom fighters, those who were injured and also the two lac women who lost their dignity in the nine-month long war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He recalled with deep gratitude the support extended by the government and the people of Japan, and the Friends of Bangladesh here to the liberation movement and struggle for independence. 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(3794, 3794, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina witnessed the Victory Day parade at national parade square Friday morning, marking the 52nd Victory Day.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdul Hamid took salutes and inspected the parade as the chief guest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Great Victory Day Parade was held under the supervision of the Armed Forces Division and management of the 9th Infantry Division of the Bangladesh Army.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Victory Day-2022 Parade Commander Major General Mohammad Shahinul Haque accompanied the President during the inspection.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamid also witnessed armoury acquisitions of different regiments and contingents of the armed forces, a spectacular fly-past conducted by army aviation, helicopters of anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), navy aviation, parachute landing by army paratroopers and the air force of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Army, Navy, Air Force,Police,Coast Guard,Ansar, paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh ( BGB) and Bangladesh National Cadet Corps ( BNCC) took part in the parade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his arrival at the parade venue at about 10:30 am, Hamid was received by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, parliament members and the chiefs of the three services and senior officers of the armed forces division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President and the Prime Minister enjoyed the attractive march past, spectacular fly-past and aerobatic display there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM\'s daughter Saima Wazed Putul and grand daughter Sama Hossain were present in the time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the arrival of the premier at the parade ground at 10:22am, she was escorted by a ceremonial cavalcade, a motorcade and military police, while advancing towards the saluting dais.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Liberation War Affairs Minister, Chiefs of three services, the Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division and The Liberation War Affairs Secretary received the PM.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nation is celebrating its 52nd Victory Day with elaborate programmes paying homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the country during the Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this glorious day in 1971, Bangladesh was liberated as an independent country after the Pakistani occupation forces surrendered following a bloody nine-month war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The people of Bangladesh at home and abroad are celebrating the Victory Day, the most joyous day when the country was born at the cost of the supreme sacrifice of three million martyrs and the honour of nearly half a million women. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 10:59:45', '2022-12-16 10:59:45'),
(3795, 3795, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Chuadanga: People of the district are experiencing severe cold as this year’s lowest temperature in the counry 9.5-degree Celsius was recorded here on Friday morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rakibul Hasan, in-charge of Chuadanga meteorological office, said the lowest temperature of the country was recorded 9.5-degree Celsius around 9am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;He predicted that mercury may fall further in the district tomorrow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chilly weather is disrupting daily life, forcing people to stay indoors and causing woes to low-income people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins, and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere over the country from late night to morning. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 11:22:54', '2022-12-16 11:22:54'),
(3796, 3796, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Another 49 people were hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The total fatalities remained unchanged at 269 as no death was reported during this period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the new patients, 28 were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 21 outside it, said DGHS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A total of 774 dengue patients, including 451 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The DGHS has recorded 61,138 dengue cases and 60,095 recoveries so far this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The 269 fatalities is by far the highest ever recorded in a single year in Bangladesh, far outstripping the previous record of 179 deaths against 101,354 cases recorded in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That means a 50% jump in the number of deaths, despite a 40% decline in cases from 2019. The significantly increased case fatality rate could be down to the discovery of a new strain of the virus previously never spotted in Bangladesh, that DGHS scientists reported back in August.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Generally it is seen that severe dengue disease is most common in those who suffer a second infection, usually by a different strain to the first. The chances of that naturally increase with the introduction of a new strain in the environment. There are four known strains of the dengue virus. 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, '2022-12-16 11:28:11', '2022-12-16 11:28:11'),
(3797, 3797, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">DHAKA- Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury today paid deep respect to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing a wreath at the National Memorial in capital\'s outskirts Savar marking the 52nd Victory Day.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After placing the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the martyrs of the Great War of Liberation in 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speaker also laid a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in city\'s Dhanmondi Road No 32 to pay homage to the architect of the independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, JS Deputy Speaker Md Shamsul Haque Tuku and on behalf of Chief Whip and Whips of JS, Whip Abu Saeed Al Mahmud Swapan laid wreaths at Savar National Memorial and the city\'s Dhanmondi Road No 32 on the occasion of the Great Victory Day. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 11:58:06', '2022-12-16 11:58:06'),
(3798, 3798, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">DHAKA - The 52nd Victory Day, the most precious day of the Bangalee nation, was celebrated today across the country in a befitting manner.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 16 in 1971, Bangladesh was born as an independent country under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the cost of the supreme sacrifice of three million people and the honour of nearly half a million women.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the occasion, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The President placed the wreath at the altar of the National Memorial at about 6.32 am followed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After placing the wreaths, the President stood in solemn silence for a while as a mark of deep respect to the memories of the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A smartly turned out contingent drawn from the Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force presented the state salute on the occasion, as the bugles played the last post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President also signed the visitors\' book kept on the Memorial premises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After placing the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the martyrs of the Great War of Liberation in 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flanked by senior leaders of the party, Sheikh Hasina, also the President of the ruling Awami League, placed another wreath at the National Memorial as the party chief.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister also signed the visitor\'s book kept there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, AL presidium members Matia Chowdhury, Dr Abdur Razzaque, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Shajahan Khan, Quamrul Islam and Abdur Rahman, its joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Dr Dipu Moni, Dr Hasan Mahmud (also information and broadcasting minister) and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretaries Ahmad Hossain, BM Mozzamel Haque and Abu Sayeed Al Swapan, publicity and publication affairs secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap, cultural affairs secretary Ashim Kumar Ukil, since and technology affairs secretary Abdus Sabur, health and population affairs secretary Dr Rokeya Sultana and forest and environment affairs secretary Delwar Hossain were, among others, present on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, leaders of other political and socio-cultural organisations placed wreaths at the National Memorial to show respect to the memories of the war martyrs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to Dhanmondi Road No 32 in the capital and laid separate wreaths, as Prime Minister and the AL President, at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the programmes taken at national level marking the \'Victory Day\' included a 31-gun salute, placing of wreaths at the monuments to pay homage to martyrs, and hoisting of the national flag atop all government, semi-government and private offices as well as offices of autonomous bodies across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victory day programmes also included decorating city streets with miniature national flags and colourful festoons, and illumination of important buildings and establishments, roads and street islands at night. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 13:46:40', '2022-12-16 13:46:40'),
(3799, 3799, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka– United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator (RC) in Dhaka Gwyn Lewis today said Bangladesh made itself an example for other countries to emulate, while greeting the countrymen on the 51st Victory Day.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“On the eve of the 51st anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, the United Nations stands with Bangladesh in partnership and wishes all Bangladeshi nationals, in the country and abroad a very happy Victory Day,” she said in a statement.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN RC said Bangladesh has been on an extraordinary voyage from being a war and famine-ravaged newborn nation, to its current standing as a UN member state standing at the threshold of LDC graduation, and providing shelter to nearly a million Rohingya refugees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Bangladesh’s achievements in human development and disaster response, long before it became a middle-income country, made it an example for other countries to emulate,” she wrote.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said Bangladesh too has contributed to shaping the UN’s development agenda and peace operations globally. Bangladesh has also been a vocal advocate for multilateralism, climate justice and the interests of least developed countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said Bangladesh sponsored the Culture of Peace resolution that was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1999 and it was thanks to Bangladesh’s advocacy that the UN General Assembly recognized the International Mother Language Day in 2008.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Bangladesh’s advocacy internally for the rights of the most vulnerable, and its constitution illustrates the country’s determination to be a democracy in which fundamental human rights and freedoms and respect for the dignity and worth of the human person shall be guaranteed,” Lewis wrote. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 13:51:52', '2022-12-16 13:51:52'),
(3800, 3800, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported 16 more Covid cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new numbers, the country\'s total caseload rose to 2,036,897, 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 29,437 as no new fatalities were reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The daily case test positivity dropped to 0.67 percent from Thursday’s 0.44 percent percent as 2,531 samples were tested during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mortality and recovery rates remained unchanged at 1.45 percent and 97.53 percent, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November, the country reported 10 Covid-linked deaths and 1,345 cases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 14:16:55', '2022-12-16 14:16:55'),
(3801, 3801, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">DOHA- Argentina fans staged a second day of demonstrations Friday outside a Doha hotel demanding that their country\'s national federation help them to get tickets for the World Cup final.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Amid a growing frenzy ahead of Sunday\'s game against defending champions France, supporters said the cheapest official tickets are selling on underground markets for more than $4,000.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scores of fans gathered outside the Doha hotel where the Argentina Football Association is based.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday night there were angry exchanges with officials outside the hotel. Some fans carried placards reading \"AFA give us tickets\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The federation finally agreed to a meeting with a delegation of three fans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each country that qualified for the quarter-finals was given an extra allocation of tickets for matches they reached.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But with even more fans arriving from Argentina and France for the game, no announcement was made on whether more tickets will be made available.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Lusail Iconic Stadium holds about 88,900 people but more than 30,000 Argentinians are reported to be in Qatar. Many have taken out loans to be in the Gulf state to see Lionel Messi\'s last bid to win a World Cup title.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ticket negotiations are being held on a multitude of WhatsApp groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some Argentinian fans showed AFP messages requesting more than $4,000 for final tickets with a face value of $750.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most expensive tickets, which FIFA says should cost $5,850, are being offered for more than $14,000.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roberto Bascur, 53, who has been in Qatar since the start of the tournament, said he had bought tickets for every Argentina match from unofficial sources.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Whoever was selling outside the stadium had at least 15-20 tickets.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cintia Echanis, 51, said the protesters wanted access to tickets at the official price.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What happens is that the resale is about $5,000, and it is a lot for those of us who have been here since the beginning and who have paid for many tickets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t want problems. What we want as Argentinians is to have the chance cheer for Argentina again,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Argentina association did not immediately comment on the availability of tickets. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-16 16:05:18', '2022-12-16 16:05:18'),
(3802, 3802, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>High-level talks are taking place in Peru to try to resolve a deepening political crisis triggered by the ousting of the former president.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Council of State, the body made up of representatives of all branches of power, and the country\'s church leaders have been meeting in the capital, Lima.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Earlier, two government ministers resigned, following days of violent protests over the impeachment of Pedro Castillo on 7 December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More than 20 people have been killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In another development, thousands of tourists are trapped in the south-eastern city of Cusco after protesters forced the local airport to close.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Peru has been through years of political turmoil, with the latest crisis coming to a head when Mr Castillo announced he was dissolving Congress and introducing a state of emergency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, his plan backfired and Congress instead voted overwhelmingly to impeach him. Mr Castillo, who is currently in detention, is being investigated on charges of rebellion and conspiracy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He denies all the accusation, insisting that is still the country\'s legitimate president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Demonstrators are calling for the closure of Congress, the resignation of new president Dina Boluarte and early elections. On Friday, Congress voted against a proposal to bring elections forward to next year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Thursday\'s clashes between the army and Castillo supporters in the central Ayacucho region left at least eight people dead, health authorities said. Footage on social media showed protestors blocking main roads and airports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Just hours later, Education Minister Patricia Correa said she was stepping down. In a Twitter post on Friday, she wrote that the \"death of compatriots has no justification\", and that \"state violence cannot be disproportionate and cause death\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Culture Minister Jair Perez also resigned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The protests are also affecting the country\'s tourism industry. The mayor of Cusco told AFP news agency that about 5,000 tourists are stranded in the city after the airport there closed when protesters tried to storm the terminal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The city is the gateway to Macchu Picchu, an ancient Inca citadel which is visited by hundreds of thousands of people a year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">About 800 tourists are also stuck in the small town at the foot of the mountain where the citadel stands, because the railway line which serves it has stopped running.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Some mostly American and European tourists have reportedly left the town on foot along the train tracks in an attempt to return to Cusco. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 03:16:44', '2022-12-17 03:16:44');
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(3803, 3803, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United Nations has joined the European Union in condemning Twitter\'s decision to suspend some journalists who cover the social media firm.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Reporters for the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post were among those locked out of their accounts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN tweeted that media freedom is \"not a toy\" while the EU has threatened Twitter with sanctions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Twitter spokesman told a US tech news website the bans were related to the live sharing of location data.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Melissa Fleming, the UN\'s under secretary general for global communications, said she was \"deeply disturbed\" by reports that journalists were being \"arbitrarily\" suspended from Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Media freedom is not a toy,\" she said. \"A free press is the cornerstone of democratic societies and a key tool in the fight against harmful disinformation.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Friday, EU commissioner Vera Jourova threatened Twitter with sanctions under Europe\'s new Digital Services Act which she said requires \"the respect of media freedom and fundament rights\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Elon Musk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk has not commented directly on the suspensions, but said in a tweet that \"criticising me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The technology tycoon later set up a poll asking whether he should unsuspend the accounts \"now\" or \"in seven days\", suggesting the decision could be reversed sooner rather than later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Same doxxing rules apply to \'journalists\' as to everyone else,\" he added, using a term to describe the release of private information online about individuals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesman for the New York Times called the suspensions \"questionable and unfortunate\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspensions come after Mr Musk vowed to sue the owner of a profile that tracks his private jet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said a \"crazy stalker\" had used live location sharing to find and accost a vehicle carrying his children in Los Angeles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But following the suspensions, the German Foreign Office warned Twitter that \"press freedom cannot be switched on and off on a whim\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>\'A town square\'</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Musk took control of Twitter in October in a $44bn ($36bn) deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When he completed his takeover, the billionaire told advertisers he bought the site because he wanted to \"try to help humanity\", and for \"civilisation to have a digital town square\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has made a host of changes to its moderation practices. The moves have alarmed some civil rights groups, who have accused the billionaire of taking steps that will increase hate speech, misinformation and abuse.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any sanctions placed on Mr Musk\'s business over the account suspensions could be applied under the bloc\'s new Digital Services Act, which was approved by the EU earlier this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the terms of the proposed new law, the EU Commission will be allowed to impose fines of up to 6% of the global turnover of a firm that it finds breaks its rules.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In extreme cases, the EU could ask a court to suspend a rogue service, but only if it is \"refusing to comply with important obligations and thereby endangering people\'s life and safety\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matt Binder, a journalist for Mashable and one of those suspended, said he didn\'t know why he had been banned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'ve been very critical of Musk in my reporting,\" he told the BBC. But he said that Mr Musk\'s claim \"that everyone that got suspended was doxxing him - due to the jet tracker\" was not true.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Journalist Matt Binder tells the BBC he\'s baffled by Twitter\'s decision to suspend his account.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he had never tweeted a hyperlink to the tracker, but had mentioned the account after it had been suspended.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Clearly the people who were suspended were handpicked, because there are literally hundreds of accounts per minute who tweeted the link.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Binder, who has been on Twitter since 2008 and has been reporting on the developments at the social media site, said he was surprised at the ban on journalists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I knew it was a possibility but really thought he wouldn\'t because it would entirely wreck the facade of being a free speech platform.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, it emerged that NBC News executives had made the decision to pull their disinformation reporter, Ben Collins, from broadcasts due to his tweets earlier this month that were critical of Mr Musk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk later spoke to journalists on Twitter Spaces, part of the social media app that allows live audio conversations, but after answering a few questions about the ban he left and Twitter Spaces itself has since appeared to be suspended.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter also suspended the official account of Mastodon, which has emerged as an alternative to Twitter since Mr Musk\'s takeover.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Links to individual Mastodon accounts also appeared to be banned. An error message notified users that links to Mastodon had been \"identified\" as \"potentially harmful\" by Twitter or its partners.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the heart of all this is a father raging about the sharing of location data of his private jet, which he claims led to a security incident involving his young son X. The Twitter feed that started it all was scraping publicly available flight data. Not very decent, perhaps, but not illegal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His fury has now extended to journalists who he claims also shared his location.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But this is a fundamentally flawed approach to moderation. I bet many of us wish we could suspend or ban social media accounts that post content we dislike.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s not the first time Elon Musk has taken a very personal approach to content moderation. He refused to allow Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back on Twitter because he had used the death of children to further his career - and mentioned the loss of his own child, 10-week-old Alexander.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has also suspended accounts which impersonated him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fundamentally, Elon Musk has shot down in flames his much-trumpeted commitment to \"free speech\". Free speech as long as it doesn\'t upset him personally, appears to be the message. 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(3804, 3804, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine\'s second city of Kharkiv was for hours left without power after the latest wave of Russian strikes targeted energy stations across the country.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Local officials said as many as nine power facilities were hit as Russian forces fired 76 missiles and carried out drone attacks on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kharkiv\'s mayor said the city suffered \"colossal\" damage. By the evening, 55% of residents had electricity back.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One resident, Anastaisa, told the BBC the strikes began on Friday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In a matter of minutes, the lights started blinking,\" the mother of a two-month-old child said. \"Just 10 seconds later, we were out of power, everything just went still and that\'s it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"At the moment, there is also no water because the pumping stations cannot work when there\'s no power in the city, so technically, what we have now is a city without power and water supply.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, Oleg Synegubov, head of Kharkiv\'s regional administration, said electricity supplies had been restored to 55% of city residents and 85% of those living in the north-eastern region. He added that energy sector employees were working to restore full power by midnight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Ukraine\'s power grid operator, Ukrenergo, warned that the scale of the damage could mean it will take longer to restore supplies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body said in a statement that the energy system had lost more than half of its capacity because of the latest strikes, adding that priority would be given to \"critical infrastructure - hospitals, water supply facilities, heat supply facilities, sewage treatment plants\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defence Ministry adviser Yuriy Sak told the BBC that emergency services were working to restore electricity supplies, but the situation was \"still difficult\". Russia\'s frequent attacks mean that repairing the damage is getting harder.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elsewhere, three people were killed and 13 more injured when a residential building was hit in Kryvyi Rih and a third died in Kherson. In the capital, Kyiv, the city\'s metro was left at a standstill.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The alarm was raised across Ukraine on Friday and Commander-in-Chief General Valeriy Zaluzhny said air defences had intercepted 60 of the 76 missiles fired, most of them cruise missiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv city officials said about 40 missiles had been fired at the capital alone - one of the biggest barrages since Russia\'s 24 February invasion. Thirty-seven were brought down by air defences, the officials added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s very stressful, but now I\'m used to this,\" said 42-year-old Oksana, who lives in the capital. \"I don\'t want our children to live through this, to be in basements, shelters, I don\'t want this for them.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has accused Russia of \"weaponising winter\" by striking essential facilities, as temperatures in much of the country are below freezing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s attacks also cut power in the north-eastern Sumy region that borders Russia, and also in the central cities of Poltava and Kremenchuk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifteen rockets were reportedly fired at Zaporizhzhia in the south, while Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said several areas of the capital were hit. Damage to energy infrastructure had affected its water supplies, while city metro lines were for the moment not running, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia has launched more than 1,000 missiles and Iranian-made attack drones since the wave of strikes began on 10 October, although most of them have been intercepted by air defences. The biggest barrage, in mid-November, involved more than 100 missiles and drones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN human rights commissioner Volker Turk warned on Thursday that further attacks on power facilities could \"lead to a further serious deterioration in the humanitarian situation and spark more displacement\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal described the latest wave of strikes as \"another attempt to commit genocide against the Ukrainian people\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In some areas, electricity is available for just a few hours a day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m angry,\" said Yelyzaveta, 21. \"They [Russia] are destroying our lives. We are used to it now. The most important thing is that Russia isn\'t here.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Anastasia said that life was becoming more difficult as winter sets in.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"When it\'s daytime it is still OK, it is tolerable and I can manage the situation, but when it\'s dark outside, this is when my problems begin because I need to see clearly, to measure baby formula and also to attend to the baby - those are stressful,\" she said</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And, of course, just the effect that we are out of power creates a lot of tension and lots of stress. So we just survive through the night and when the day breaks, it gets a bit better, but we cannot compare it to our normal day.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strikes came as the EU announced a ninth wave of sanctions against Russian officials and businesses. Almost 200 individuals and entities were added to an asset freeze and visa ban blacklist.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among those sanctioned was Larisa Falkovskaya - head of Russia\'s Department of State Policy for the Protection of Children\'s Rights - who was accused of \"the illegal transportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and their adoption by Russian families\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several Russian regional governors were sanctioned on identical charges. The EU said the officials had been involved in the forced deportation and adoption of more than 2,000 Ukrainian children since the war began.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian officials say the deportations amount to a war crime under Article 49 of the Geneva Convention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Russian-backed proxy officials in Ukraine\'s eastern Donbas region accused Ukrainian forces of shelling a town and a village overnight in the Luhansk region. Details of the deaths could not be confirmed. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 03:27:20', '2022-12-17 03:27:20'),
(3805, 3805, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two students were killed and two other teens were wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon near a high school on Chicago\'s West Side, authorities said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Chicago fire officials said the four 16-year-olds were shot near Benito Juarez High School. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown, speaking at a news conference, confirmed the deaths of two of the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police spokesman Tom Ahern said the four were shot outside the school. Police and paramedics responded to the shooting shortly before 3 p.m. Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Chicago Fire Department spokesperson said all four were taken to the same hospital. One boy was pronounced dead on arrival, another boy was in critical condition, and two other teens, a boy and a girl, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Ahern initially said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also read: Vigil planned after 2 killed, 4 wounded in campus shooting</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez also appeared at the news conference, saying, “We want to first make sure we have the victims in our prayers.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The school system, also known as CPS, released a statement saying in part that “the safety of our school community is our top priority.\" It added the system\'s safety and security office was working with school officials and school leaders to gather information on what happened. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 03:31:31', '2022-12-17 03:31:31'),
(3806, 3806, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A thunderous crush of soil and debris killed 21 people at a campground in Malaysia on Friday, and rescuers dug through the mud in the night for another 12 who were feared buried in the landslide.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 90 people were sleeping on an organic farm when the dirt tumbled from a road about 30 meters (100 feet) above the site and covered about 1 hectare (3 acres). Two of the dead were found locked in an embrace, according to the state fire department chief.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Authorities told local media that the landowners did not have a license to run a campground. At least seven people were hospitalized and dozens more were rescued unharmed, said district police chief Suffian Abdullah.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leong Jim Meng told the New Straits Times English-language daily that he and his family were awakened by a loud bang and felt the earth move at the campsite in Batang Kali, around 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital of Kuala Lumpur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“My family and I were trapped as soil covered our tent. We managed to escape to a carpark area and heard a second landslide happening,” the 57-year-old was quoted as saying. He said it was surprising because there was no heavy rain in recent days, only light drizzles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also read: Landslide kills four of a family in Cox\'s Bazar\'s Ramu</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is currently the season for monsoon rains in Malaysia, and the country\'s government development minister, Nga Kor Ming, said all campsites nationwide that are near rivers, waterfalls and hillsides would be closed for a week to assess their safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Selangor state fire department posted photos of rescuers digging through soil and rubble with an excavator and shovels. Officials said the rubble is believed to be 8 meters (26 feet) deep. More than 400 rescuers as well as tracking dogs are set to work through the night to find the dozen people still missing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Selangor state fire chief Norazam Khamis was cited by the Free Malaysia Today news portal as saying that two of the bodies found were “hugging each other” and believed to be mother and daughter. The fire department said five children were among those who perished.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An estimated 450,000 cubic meters (nearly 16 million cubic feet) of debris — enough to fill 180 Olympic-sized swimming pools — hit the campsite, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, the natural resources, environment and climate change minister, told local media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suffian, the district police chief, said the victims entered the area, a popular recreational site for locals to pitch or rent tents from the farm, on Wednesday. The campsite is not far from the Genting Highlands hill resort, a popular tourist destination with theme parks and Malaysia’s only casino.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After visiting the site late Friday, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced a special payment to the families of those killed as well as survivors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nga told local media that the campsite has been operating illegally for the past two years. The operator has government approval to run an organic farm but has no license for camping activities, he said. If found guilty, Nga warned, the camp operator could face up to three years in prison and a fine. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 03:36:34', '2022-12-17 03:36:34'),
(3807, 3807, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka’s air has ranked as the second most polluted in the world this morning. Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) score was 238 at 8:47 am.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Lahore and Karachi occupied the first and third spots on the list, with AQI scores of 264 and 218, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups while a reading of 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 04:02:03', '2022-12-17 04:02:03'),
(3808, 3808, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith has said the attacks against the peacekeepers must be dealt with seriously.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Reinvigorated efforts and initiatives are needed by all stakeholders to ensure and promote accountability for crimes against peacekeepers,\" he said while speaking at the launching event of “Group of Friends to Promote Accountability for Crime against Peacekeepers” at the UN Headquarters recently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six countries – Bangladesh, Egypt, France, India, Morocco and Nepal as co-chairs have launched the “Group of Friends to Promote Accountability for Crime against Peacekeepers”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the launching event, the External Affairs Minister of India Dr. S Jaishankar delivered the keynote speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the Permanent Representatives of five other co-chair countries, including Bangladesh delivered statements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also read: Bangladesh’s achievements made it an example for other countries to emulate: UN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Under-Secretary General of the Department of Peace Operations, Jean Pierre Lacroix and the representative from the Department of Operational Support also addressed the meeting, according to a media release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the keynote speech, mentioning that upholding accountability for crimes against UN peacekeepers is a multi-stakeholders’ task, the Indian External Affairs Minister emphasised on regular monitoring and follow-up on accountability issues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Permanent Representative Muhith mentioned that Bangladesh’s commitment to the peacekeeping operations comes from the vision of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for a peaceful world.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He emphasised on effective engagement with the host state, swift investigation into the incidents, capacity building of the host state, use of digital technology and addressing misinformation and disinformation campaigns against the peacekeepers as critical issues in order to ensure and promote accountability for crimes against peacekeepers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Group of Friends will act as a platform to promote accountability for all acts of violence against the&nbsp; United Nations peacekeepers by facilitating support to the host state, creating awareness, exchanging information, sharing best practices, supporting initiatives, and mobilizing resources.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the day of launching, 36 member-states joined the newly formed Group of Friends, the media release said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 05:01:27', '2022-12-17 05:01:27'),
(3809, 3809, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi is hoping to crown his stellar career by leading Argentina to World Cup glory on Sunday but Kylian Mbappe\'s history-chasing France are standing in his way.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qatar\'s World Cup has been tarnished by controversy off the pitch but it concludes with the electrifying prospect of a final between two of global football\'s powerhouses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">France may need every hour available as kick-off looms after their camp was struck by illness, forcing a number of players to sit out training and giving coach Didier Deschamps an unwanted headache.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentina and France are both aiming to win the trophy for the third time, with Les Bleus returning to the final four years after their triumph in Moscow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back-to-back titles would be a monumental achievement for the side coached by Deschamps -- the only teams to have done it previously are Italy in the 1930s and Pele\'s Brazil in 1958 and 1962.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet that potential achievement is trumped by Messi\'s quest to win the ultimate prize in the game in what is almost certainly his final World Cup match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Barcelona star has won everything going at club level, also claiming the Ballon d\'Or seven times, and last year led Argentina to victory in the Copa America.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi has been brilliant in his fifth World Cup as the team bounced back from a shock opening loss to Saudi Arabia, while his new sidekick, Julian Alvarez, has scored four times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is exciting to be in the final, but there is still one step to go,\" said coach Lionel Scaloni.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Chase for third title -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aged 35 and driven by his desire to make up for defeat by Germany in the 2014 final, Messi has scored five goals and produced some sublime assists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday\'s match is likely to be his last chance to match the achievement of Diego Maradona, who inspired Argentina to victory in Mexico in 1986.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am really enjoying myself. I have felt happy throughout this World Cup,\" Messi said after Argentina\'s 3-0 semi-final win against Croatia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But will this World Cup be remembered as Messi\'s tournament, or will France be top dogs once again?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Les Bleus have returned to the final without ever really hitting top form and they now have to contend with illness in their camp.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Central defenders Raphael Varane and Ibrahima Konate, as well as Kingsley Coman, sat out training on Friday with cold-like symptoms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Konate replaced Dayot Upamecano in defence for the semi-final against Morocco after he was ruled out by illness, while Adrien Rabiot was also unwell for that game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The one player they cannot afford to lose is Mbappe, who scored five goals in the team\'s first four games but was largely kept quiet in the wins against England and Morocco.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four years ago Mbappe became the first teenager to score in a World Cup final since Pele when, aged 19, he helped France beat Croatia 4-2.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet the iconic image of that tournament was Mbappe consoling Messi after starring as France beat Argentina in the last 16.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These days they are club colleagues, jostling for the limelight at Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain and now jousting with each other on the greatest stage of all.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France are wary of reducing the match at the 89,000-capacity Lusail Stadium to just a showdown with Messi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Yes they have Leo Messi but there will also be 10 other players next to him who have lots of quality,\" said midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So we will need to be ready, aware of the opportunity we have to make history.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deschamps, who can become the first coach in the post-war era to win two World Cups, said: \"We will try to limit his influence as much as possible, just as the Argentines will try to limit the influence of some of my players.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antoine Griezmann has been outstanding for France in a new midfield role and might well pip Messi to the Golden Ball if his side emerge victorious.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentina welcome back defensive pair Gonzalo Montiel and Marcos Acuna after bans, and forward Angel Di Maria is expected to be fit. 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(3810, 3810, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Embassy of Bangladesh in Seoul, South Korea celebrated Victory Day on December 16, 2022 with due fervour and festivity.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The officials of the embassy and their family members and expatriate Bangladeshis living in the Republic of Korea participated in the event. On this occasion, the Chancery building was decorated with lighting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme began in the morning with the hoisting of the National Flag by Ambassador Delwar Hossain at the embassy premises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then, Ambassador Delwar Hossain, in presence of the embassy officials and expatriate Bangladeshis, paid homage to the Father of the Nation by placing floral wreaths in front of a bust inside the Chancery.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next segment of the programme commenced in the afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A special prayer was offered for the salvation of the souls of the martyrs and for the continued peace and prosperity of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The embassy officers read out the messages by the President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and State Minister for Foreign Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The embassy organized a discussion session with the participation of the embassy officials and expatriate Bangladeshis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Delwar Hossain then paid a rich tribute to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also recalled the supreme sacrifices made by the valiant freedom fighters for the independence of Bangladesh under the leadership of the Father of the Nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlighting socio-economic progress and development of Bangladesh in recent years, he called upon the expatriate Bangladeshis to devote themselves to fulfilling the dream of building ‘Sonar Bangla’ envisioned by the Father of the Nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ambassador along with the participants cut a cake to celebrate this occasion. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 05:30:26', '2022-12-17 05:30:26'),
(3811, 3811, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Gazipur – Four people were killed in road accidents on Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Mymensingh highways, in Gazipur district, on Friday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Two of the deceased were identified as Zakir Hossain, 24, and Abu Tayeb Moon, 23, of Nandail upazila of Mymensingh district while the identities of two others could not be known immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rokon Mia, sub-inspector of Bason Police Station, said Zakir and Abu Tayeb were killed on the spot when a speeding bus hit a motorbike they were o at the Chourasta area of Gazipur on Friday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Meanwhile, two more victims died on the spot when an unidentified vehicle ran them over on Dhaka-Tangail highway around 11 pm, said Faruk Hossain, sub-inspector of Bason Police Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Police rescued the bodies and took them to Shaheed Tajuddin Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 06:08:00', '2022-12-17 06:08:00'),
(3812, 3812, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss, according to new research published on Friday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The study, in the journal Science Advances, found that chain-reaction extinctions are unavoidable and predicted Earth\'s ecosystems will see average biodiversity loss of between six and 10 percent by 2050, depending on different carbon emissions scenarios.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By 2100, losses of animals and plants could rise to as much as 27 percent, they found in their research that used virtual Earths to map out thousands of food webs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The authors said their modelling suggested that the biggest changes will come before mid-century, predicting \"the bleakest time for natural communities might be imminent and that the next few decades will be decisive for the future of global biodiversity\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With life on Earth under threat from human destruction, overexploitation and pollution, scientists have warned that a million species are facing extinction in what many fear heralds the planet\'s sixth mass extinction event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Climate change is expected to dramatically accelerate the losses, with impacts of warming ranging from the effects of extreme weather, to changes in behaviour and habitat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But authors of the new study said previous modelling has not included estimates for co-extinctions, based on the \"cascading effect\" of losses on interdependent species.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers in Australia and Europe built hundreds of virtual Earths each populated with more than 33,000 vertebrate species in thousands of food webs across the planet -- \"massive computer latticeworks of \'who eats whom\',\" said co-author Corey Bradshaw, a professor at Flinders University.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They then simulated different climate change scenarios and projections of habitat degradation -- like deforestation -- to predict local biodiversity loss, the proportion of animals lost in a given area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Life support\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The virtual worlds allowed researchers to watch as species moved around and adapted to new environmental conditions and the implications of individual extinctions across food webs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They found that climate change would be responsible for the greatest proportion of extinction events.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If you look out your window in 87 years, on average you\'ll see nearly 30 percent fewer animal species than you do today based on the business-as-usual climate scenario,\" Bradshaw told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study found the greatest threat was in places with the greatest biodiversity -- 36 highly-vulnerable areas containing the most unique species.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is because the erosion of species-rich food webs makes biological communities more susceptible to future shocks,\" said Bradshaw, adding it was \"a case of the rich losing their riches the fastest.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The research comes as a UN summit in Montreal attempts to seal a historic \"peace pact with nature\" and end the rampant destruction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Global efforts to curb global warming have often eclipsed efforts to tackle the devastation being wrought on nature, but experts have increasingly warned that the two crises are inextricably linked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In many ways, biodiversity loss from climate change is far more serious than what climate change will do to human societies, because biodiversity is the very fabric of the Earth\'s life-support system that makes our lives possible,\" said Bradshaw.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The imperative of massive and rapid emissions-reduction policies is made much more urgent knowing this.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 06:36:08', '2022-12-17 06:36:08');
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(3813, 3813, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) Afreen Akhter has said the United States sees Bangladesh as a “truly important strategic partner\" and looks forward to working over the next 50 years for a stronger relationship.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She said in the last 50 years Bangladesh-US relations have seen incredible progress between the peoples, economies and governments.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The people-to-people ties between the two countries are very deep, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Praising Bangladesh\'s progress in different sectors, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary said Bangladesh\'s economy has expanded from largely agriculture society to economic powerhouse over the just few decades.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a story to really be proud of that Bangladesh has lifted millions of people out of poverty and the country will achieve the middle-income status within generations, which is truly remarkable, she said while speaking at a Victory Day function in Washington.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the economic cooperation, Afreen mentioned the close partnership between the two countries in providing COVID-19 vaccines and addressing climate change issue. She thanked the Bangladesh government for hosting some 1,1 million Rohingya from Myanmar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC celebrated the 52nd Victory Day of Bangladesh, remembering the valiant freedom fighters who fought and made the supreme sacrifice for the cause of long-aspired independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To commemorate the day, the Embassy arranged a daylong program.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day\'s first part of the programme began with the hoisting of the national flag ceremonially on the chancery premises in the morning by Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Muhammad Imran.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials and employees of the embassy were present at that time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the Ambassador along with officials and employees of the embassy placed a wreath at the bust of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Bangabandhu Corner of the embassy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The messages issued on the occasion of the Victory Day by President Md. Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen, and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam were read out by Deputy Chief of Mission Ferdousi Shahriar, Minister (Commerce) Md. Salim Reza, Counsellor (Public Diplomacy) Arifa Rahman Ruma and Counsellor (Political-I) Mohammad Moniruzzman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A special prayer was held seeking peace, progress and development of the nation as well as eternal peace of the departed soul of martyrs of the Liberation War and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was offered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A discussion was held later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Imran recalled with profound respect the greatest Bengali of all time and the founding Father of Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also paid deep homage to three million martyrs for their supreme sacrifices and two 2 lakh women who sacrificed in 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day’s other program ended with a colourful cultural function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The artistes of Dhroopodi, a Bangladeshi-American cultural organisation, performed group dances on patriotic songs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsellor Shameema Yasmin Smrite and First Secretary Md Ataur Rahman conducted the day’s programme. The embassy also arranged a photo exhibition on the day. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 07:46:25', '2022-12-17 07:46:25'),
(3814, 3814, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">When French photographer Anne de Henning was visually documenting wartime stories of Bangladesh in 1971, a youth urged her to let the world know about the atrocities committed by the Pakistan army.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The acclaimed photographer, now 76, went back to her 25-year-old self while talking to journalists at the exhibition “Witnessing History in the Making: Photographs by Anne de Henning”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samdani Art Foundation and Centre for Research and Information (CRI) jointly organized the event at Liberation War Museum. The exhibition opened on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Back in 1971, when I was capturing the stories of Bangladesh, a youth narrated how innocent people were being murdered and requested me to let the world hear about it,\" she told journalists as she was revisiting Bangladesh after 50 long years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">French photographer who documented Liberation War revisits Bangladesh after 50 years&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overjoyed at seeing happy faces on Victory Day, as opposed to the bleak days of the Liberation War, she said it was a momentous occasion to visit Dhaka on a day when the nation is celebrating victory and the red and green flags are flying all over the city. She will also take a tour of some of the places she visited during the 1971 war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reflecting on the role of female photographers and journalists in covering wartime stories, she said female journalists played an equally important part as their male counterparts. There was no difference except for the fact that women were fewer in number.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anne de Henning was among a few foreign journalists who traveled through Bangladesh during the war, evading the eyes of the Pakistan army, which had deported foreign newsmen and photographers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her photographs ranged from refuge-seeking distressed father and son to freedom fighters standing in front of a camp to a house shelled by a Pakistani Sabre jet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Henning also visited independent Bangladesh in 1972 when she captured the colour pictures of the Father of the Nation, whose leadership navigated Bangladesh towards freedom.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The colour photos of Bangabandhu she had captured and curated are among few surviving ones as most of his pictures were destroyed following his 1975 assassination and the subsequent military takeover. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 08:28:03', '2022-12-17 08:28:03'),
(3815, 3815, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Shilpa Shetty took to Instagram and shared happy picture with star =Wayne Rooney. She posted picture with him on Friday from her Mumbai restaurant. She was all smiles in the picture. She called him ‘legend.\' Along with fans, Manchester United legend Rooney reacted to his picture with Shilpa.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shilpa shared one picture with the legend former football player-football manager. In the photo, she opted for a pink dress. She accessorised her look as she wore pendant around her neck with matching bangles. She kept her hair loose. Wayne wore a black shirt with coat. He also wore a cap around his head. Both of them looked straight into the camera and smiled while posing for the camera. Shilpa added the official FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 theme song on her picture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharing the picture on Instagram, Shilpa wrote, “Football fever (football emoji) With legend himself @waynerooney, Welcome to India (handfolded emoji). Friday night done (dancing and tick emojis).” She tagged Bastian on her picture. She used ‘thank god it is friday’, ‘football’, ‘world cup’ and ‘gratitude’ as the hashtags on the post. Wayne Rooney wrote, “Pleasure to meet you and your family (smiley emoji).”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reacting to the picture, one of Shilpa\'s fans wrote, “God bless you ma\'am.” Another fan commented, “You are looking gorgeous as always.” Other fan wrote, “Mesmerizing, Merry Christmas and a very happy new year 2023.” “My favourite player, all the time”, added one. Many fans dropped heart emojis on the post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently, Chunky Panday, Ananya Pandey, Shanaya Kapoor and Sanjay Kapoor visited Qatar to watch FIFA World Cup 2022 semi-final match between Argentina and Croatia. They shared pictures from the match on their social media handles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shilpa got married to businessman Raj Kundra in 2009. She gave birth to Viaan in 2012. The couple welcomed Samisha in 2020 via surrogacy. Recently, she shared a video featuring her son and daughter from Janmashtami celebrations on her Instagram handle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shilpa was last seen in Nikamma alongside Abhimanyu Dassani and Shirley Setia. She will be next in filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s first web series Indian Police Force. It marks her OTT debut, with Sidharth Malhotra. She also has Sukhee as her upcoming project. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 08:48:05', '2022-12-17 08:48:05'),
(3816, 3816, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine\'s second city of Kharkiv was for hours left without power after the latest wave of Russian strikes targeted energy stations across the country.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Local officials said as many as nine power facilities were hit as Russian forces fired 76 missiles and carried out drone attacks on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kharkiv\'s mayor said the city suffered \"colossal\" damage. By the evening, 55% of residents had electricity back. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-17 09:06:08', '2022-12-17 09:06:08'),
(3817, 3817, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin has met his military chiefs on the same day his forces launched another wave of missiles at Ukraine\'s infrastructure.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Putin spent most of Friday at the headquarters of the \"special military operation\" discussing ideas for what Russia\'s next move should be.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes as some Ukrainian military officials claimed Russia was planning an offensive, perhaps early next year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian attacks on Ukraine\'s power grid have plunged millions into darkness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Footage from Friday\'s meeting showed Mr Putin flanked by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Armed Forces Chief Valeriy Gerasimov.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will listen to the commanders in each operational direction, and I would like to hear your proposals on our immediate and medium-term actions,\" the Kremlin leader was seen telling military officials on state TV.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gen Gerasimov\'s presence ends rumours circulating online that he had been dismissed from his position. The 67-year-old has been the target of intensive criticism from hawkish commentators, who have accused him of being too cautious.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air Force general Sergei Surovikin - who was appointed as Russia\'s commander in Ukraine in October - was also present at the meeting, photos released by state media showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian forces have made a series of major advances in recent months, including retaking Kherson - the only major city captured by Russian forces so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And the collapse of Moscow\'s forces in eastern Ukraine earlier this year saw military bosses come in for sustained criticism from pro-Kremlin media figures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting followed claims by the commander of Ukraine\'s military, Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi, that Moscow could seek to launch a new offensive in early 2023. He warned that Russia was preparing around 200,000 troops for the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv,\" he added. \"I know how many combat units I have right now, how many combat units I have to create by the end of the year - and, most importantly, not to touch them in any way now. No matter how hard it is.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the attack could originate \"in the direction of Kyiv\" and may be launched from Belarus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February, Russian troops advanced towards the Ukrainian capital Kyiv after crossing the border from Belarus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the country\'s leader Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly denied that his forces will join in the invasion, thousands of Russian troops are currently in the country taking part in what Moscow\'s defence ministry called \"intensive combat training\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Putin will visit his Belarusian counterpart in Minsk on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But analysts have questioned Russia\'s ability to launch a new offensive on the Ukrainian capital, and White House spokesperson John Kirby said that US intelligence officials \"aren\'t seeing any indication that there\'s an imminent move on Kyiv\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior US defence officials told Reuters news agency that Russia had been forced to use decades-old ammunition with high failure rates as it burns through its supplies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They added that \"the rate of fire that Russia has been using its artillery and rocket ammunition\" could see them run out of reliable munitions by early 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that power had been restored to nearly six million people after the latest wave of Russian strikes to hit the country\'s energy grid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the city\'s metro system had restarted and the water supply had been restored.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also posted photos on Telegram of a large Christmas tree that has been adapted to meet the constraints of a wartime winter. The tree will be lit with energy-saving bulbs run off a generator, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Power has also been restored in the country\'s second city of Kharkiv, authorities said, after it was left without electricity for hours following Friday\'s wave of strikes that targeted energy stations across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia has launched more than 1,000 missiles and Iranian-made attack drones since the wave of strikes on power infrastructure began on 10 October. International leaders - including French President Emmanuel Macron - have said the strikes amount to a war crime.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK\'s Ministry of Defence says there had been an \"uptick\" in Russia\'s campaign of long-range strikes against Ukraine\'s critical infrastructure in recent days. 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(3818, 3818, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iranian authorities have arrested one of the country\'s best known actresses, after she expressed solidarity with anti-government demonstrators.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taraneh Alidoosti was detained on charges of \"spreading falsehoods\" about the protest movement that has gripped the country, state media said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an Instagram post last week, she condemned the execution of a man over his involvement with the protests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Alidoosti is best known for her role in the Oscar-winning film The Salesman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her post, the 38-year-old took aim at some international organisations for not speaking out against the execution of Mohsen Shekari.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was hanged by authorities after they accused him of being a \"rioter\" who blocked a main road in Tehran in September and wounded a member of a paramilitary force with a machete.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"His name was Mohsen Shekari. Every international organisation who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is a disgrace to humanity,\" she wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a post on the state news agency IRNA\'s Telegram account, she was arrested by police for failing to provide \"any documents in line with her claims\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her Instagram account, which has more than eight million followers, was recently taken down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 38-year-old is one of Iran\'s most successful actresses. She starred in The Salesman, which won an Academy Award in 2016 for the Best International Feature Film.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But since the outbreak of the protest movement she became a vocal critic of the Iranian government\'s attempts to clamp down on the nationwide unrest, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November, she attracted attention after posting an image of herself on Instagram without a headscarf to signal solidarity with the demonstrations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protest movement has become one of the most serious challenges to the Iranian regime since it came to power in the 1979 revolution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities have already executed two men after they were found guilty of \"moharebeh\" - roughly translated as \"enmity against God\". Under Iranian law, the crime is defined as \"creating public insecurity\" by threatening lives or property with a weapon. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh\'</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 02:03:48', '2022-12-18 02:03:48'),
(3819, 3819, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tunisia\'s main opposition coalition has said President Kais Saied must resign after fewer than 9% of eligible voters took part in parliamentary elections.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Salvation Front head, Nejib Chebbi, said Saturday\'s poll was a \"fiasco\", calling for mass protests to demand snap presidential elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vote was boycotted by most opposition parties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They accuse Mr Saied of reversing the democratic progress made since the 2011 uprising - a charge he denies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After sacking the prime minister and suspending parliament in July 2021, a year later Mr Saied pushed through a constitution enshrining his one-man rule after a vote that was also boycotted by the main opposition parties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new constitution replaced one drafted soon after the Arab Spring in 2011, which saw Tunisia overthrow late dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. It gave the head of state full executive control and supreme command of the army.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Saied, 64, says such powers were needed to break a cycle of political paralysis and economic decay.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His supporters agree with him, saying the impoverished North African nation needs a strong leader to tackle corruption and other major issues that hinder the country\'s development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tunisia\'s electoral officials said late on Saturday that 8.8% of the roughly nine-million-strong electorate had voted in the parliamentary elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking shortly afterwards, Mr Chebbi said: \"What happened today is an earthquake, From this moment, we consider Saied an illegitimate president and demand he resign after this fiasco,\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Salvation Front, a coalition of several political parties, also called for mass rallies and sit-ins.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Saied has so far made no public comments on the issue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tunisia\'s uprising 11 years ago is often held up as the sole success of the Arab Spring revolts across the region - but it has not led to stability, either economically or politically. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 02:28:27', '2022-12-18 02:28:27'),
(3820, 3820, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi stands on the brink of a long-awaited World Cup winner’s medal as Argentina faces defending champions France in Sunday’s final.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of soccer’s greatest players of all time is within touching distance of the one major trophy that has eluded him in his storied career.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But having experienced defeat in the final of 2014 in Brazil, when Argentina lost 1-0 to Germany through extra time, Messi knows all too well the pain of having his World Cup dreams shattered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If Argentina is to win the tournament for the first time since 1986, here is how it might do it:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no escaping the sense that it is Messi’s destiny to emulate soccer great Diego Maradona and lead Argentina to the World Cup title. The 35-year-old Paris Saint-Germain forward has been in inspired form in Qatar, scoring five goals on the way to the final and producing some magical assists for his teammates. Maradona, who died in 2020, also scored five times in ’86 and was an iconic figure for his team and country.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi does not dominate games over 90 minutes in the way he did during his peak years. Instead he decides them with moments of brilliance that showcase the talents that have led many to describe him as the finest soccer player in history. He has carried the expectations of his nation throughout his career, but never truly delivered at a World Cup. While he may be past his best, he has been more influential in this tournament than in any of his previous four World Cups. Argentina’s fans seem convinced they will win the trophy for a third time and that there is more than just Messi guiding them on. “Maradona,” they sing, “is cheering Lionel on” from heaven.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assessing his team’s semifinal loss to France, Morocco coach Walid Regragui provided a fascinating observation. “I believe any country that plays France believe they are close to winning,” he said. “But when you’re close to winning, actually you are quite far from winning.” After putting France under pressure for long periods, Morocco eventually lost 2-0. It was a similar story for England in the quarterfinals. France won 2-1 in that game, despite England’s players believing they had been the better team. The warning is there for Argentina.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both teams have been comfortable giving up possession of the ball and attacking on the break. Perhaps the winner will be the team that manages to stick to those tactics, rather than being sucked in and pushing too far forward. Maintaining that concentration and discipline will be vital for Argentina — especially with the threat of Kylian Mbappe’s speed when France breaks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been emotional for Argentina and its supporters, who have lit up the tournament in Qatar. The mass outpouring of feelings has been a feature after every win. That can take a lot out of players — but in this instance, it has felt like the opposite has been true. Messi and Co. look like they are being driven on by the weight of expectation, rather than burdened by it. There is a sense that the players and the fans are in this together, and if, as expected, Argentina’s supporters outnumber France’s at Lusail Stadium on Sunday, that could give the edge to Messi and his teammates. That being said, Morocco’s fans totally dominated the atmosphere in their country’s semifinals match against France and still ended up on the losing side. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 02:35:00', '2022-12-18 02:35:00'),
(3821, 3821, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rescuers on Saturday found the bodies of a woman and two children, raising the death toll from a landslide on an unlicensed campground in Malaysia to 24 with nine others still missing.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Selangor state fire chief Norazam Khamis told reporters the bodies of a mother and son were found buried under a meter (3 feet) of mud and debris. The body of a little girl was discovered later. He said there was hope of finding survivors if they clung on to piles or branches or rocks with pockets of air but that chances were slim.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities said 94 people were sleeping at the camp site on an organic farm early Friday when the dirt tumbled from a road about 30 meters (100 feet) above them and covered about 1 hectare (3 acres). Most were families enjoying a short vacation during the yearend school break.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 24 victims included seven children and 13 women. Authorities were still carrying out autopsies and waiting for next of kin to identify the victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mother and her toddler daughter were found Friday hugging each other in a heart-rending scene, rescuers said. Seven people were hospitalized and dozens more, including three Singaporeans, were rescued unharmed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wearing helmets and carrying shovels and other equipment, rescuers worked in teams Saturday to comb through debris as deep as 8 meters (26 feet). Excavators were deployed to clear mud and fallen trees and rescue dogs were sent to sniff out possible signs of life and cadavers. Officials said an estimated 450,000 cubic meters (nearly 16 million cubic feet) of debris — enough to fill 180 Olympic-sized swimming pools — hit the campsite.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Norazam said rescuers were treading carefully as underground water streams may trigger further landslides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities have said the landowners did not have a license to run a campground. Officials are unable to pinpoint the exact cause of the landslide, which came without warning, but believed it could be due to underground water movement while the yearend monsoon rains made the soil unstable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Survivors recounting their ordeal told local media they heard a thunderous noise and felt the earth move before soil collapsed on their tents. The government has ordered all campsites nationwide that are near rivers, waterfalls and hillsides to be shut for a week to assess their safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The campsite in Batang Kali, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur, is a popular recreational site for locals to pitch or rent tents from the farm. But authorities said it has been running illegally for the past two years. It has permission to run the farm but no license to operate camping activities. If found guilty, the operator faces up to three years in prison and a fine. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 03:05:47', '2022-12-18 03:05:47'),
(3822, 3822, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Luka Modric led Croatia to third place in what was likely the midfield great’s last appearance at the World Cup.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The runners-up from four years ago secured another medal by beating Morocco 2-1 in the third-place match on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mislav Orsic scored the decisive goal shortly before halftime at Khalifa International Stadium to ensure Modric finished on a winning note, if this does turn out to be his last World Cup match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the age of 37, that seems likely, even if there are hopes he will lead his country at the 2024 European Championship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Josko Gvardiol put Croatia ahead in the seventh minute, but Achraf Dari evened the score in the ninth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the second time Croatia has taken third place. The team also achieved that feat in its first World Cup as an independent nation 1998.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After becoming the first African team to reach the World Cup semifinals, Morocco’s tournament ended in two losses. But the team’s achievements in Qatar will be remembered for the outpouring of pride among Arab nations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Cup final between defending champion France and Argentina is scheduled for Sunday at Lusail Stadium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The third-place match is considered by some to be a meaningless exhibition. Even Morocco coach Walid Regragui described it as a “booby prize” in the buildup. But neither team lacked motivation in a fiercely contested game between two nations that few expected to go so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was underlined by a host of players needing to be substituted because of injury in the second half as Morocco pushed for an equalizer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The teams had already played out 0-0 draw in the group stage and had made to the semifinals on the back of tough defenses, with a combined six shutouts. Goals weren’t a problem this time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps that was because of the relative freedom of playing in a game with supposedly little at stake. Another factor for Morocco, at least, was the absence of three key defenders, Romain Saiss, Nayef Aguerd and Noussair Mazraoui.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impact of those absences was felt when Croatia took the lead off Gvardiol’s diving header. In a slick move, Ivan Perisic flicked a free kick into the middle of the penalty box and the center back did the rest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morocco responded two minutes later when Lovro Majer inadvertently helped on Hakim Ziyech’s free kick and Dari headed in to even the score.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Croatia, however, was back in front three minutes before halftime.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Orsic picked up the ball on the left of the box and curled a shot toward the top corner. Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou got a touch on the ball, but could only push it onto the post on its way into the net. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 03:40:51', '2022-12-18 03:40:51'),
(3823, 3823, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Abhishek Bachchan was the happiest after his team Jaipur Pink Panthers lifted the trophy at the Pro-Kabaddi League on Saturday. A video from the final match showed Abhishek pulling in wife Aishwarya Rai and daughter Aaradhya for a tight hug.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After their initial reaction, Abhishek looked to his right at Aishwarya and Aaradhya and quickly pulled them in for a hug. Aishwarya was also screaming and celebrating with Abhishek and the rest of the crowd. Later, Aaradhya got to lift the trophy as well and pose with it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aishwarya also took to Instagram to share her feelings at the win. “Jaipur Pink Panthers are the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 CHAMPIONS. What a fabulous season! We are so proud of our team of incredibly talented, focused and hardworking kabaddi sportsmen… Kudos boys!!! God Bless always. Love, Light, more power to you and Shine on,” she wrote as she shared a bunch of photos from the match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abhishek also shared photos and his thoughts after the win. “So proud of this team. They’ve quietly worked towards this cup. Despite criticism they kept believing and working. Everybody wrote them off…. But they had confidence in themselves. That’s the way to do it!!! it’s taken us 9 years to win this cup again. And I’m so happy with this team. Teamwork, hard work and silent determination…. The @jaipur_pinkpanthers way,” he wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abhishek\'s father, veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan also congratulated the team. “CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS .. !!!! JAIPUR PINK PANTHERS CHAMPIONS Abhishek you are a CHAMPION !! YOU PLAY SILENTLY, with dedication and resolve, amidst biast criticism ..AND THEN YOU WIN .. !!! So so proud of you,” he wrote. Abhishek replied, \"We missed you, Pa. Thank you from the entire team</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jaipur Pink Panthers defeated Puneri Paltan 33-29 in the summit clash to emerge champions of the Pro Kabaddi League Season 9 on Saturday. The Panthers played their cards perfectly in the final seconds of the match and clinched their second Pro Kabaddi League title. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 03:45:30', '2022-12-18 03:45:30'),
(3824, 3824, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">North Korea fired an \"unidentified ballistic missile\" Sunday, Seoul\'s military said, days after Pyongyang announced a successful test of a solid-fuel motor for a new weapons system.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Military tensions on the Korean peninsula have risen sharply this year as Pyongyang has carried out an unprecedented blitz of weapons tests, including the launch of its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile ever last month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"North Korea fires an unidentified ballistic missile into the East Sea,\" South Korea\'s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday\'s launch came days after North Korea tested a \"high-thrust solid-fuel motor\", with state media describing it as an important test \"for the development of another new-type strategic weapon system\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite heavy international sanctions over its weapons programmes, Pyongyang has built up an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All its known ICBMs are liquid-fuelled, however, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has placed strategic priority on developing solid-fuel engines for more advanced missiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kim said this year that he wants North Korea to have the world\'s most powerful nuclear force, and declared his country an \"irreversible\" nuclear state.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wishlist he revealed last year included solid-fuel ICBMs that could be launched from land or submarines.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest motor test was a step towards that goal, but it is not clear how far North Korea has come in the development of such a missile, analysts said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Key party meeting -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After overseeing the launch of the Hwasong-17 \"monster\" missile last month, Kim declared he wanted North Korea to have the world\'s most powerful nuclear force.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The isolated country\'s policy direction for next year will be laid out at a key party meeting later this month, and the official Korean Central News Agency earlier reported Kim saying that 2023 would be a \"historic year\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In past years, Kim had delivered a speech every January 1, but has recently dropped the tradition in favour of making announcements at the year-end plenary meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his most recent address, which was released last New Year\'s Day, Kim focused on domestic affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experts say while Kim refrained from directly addressing the United States last year, he could change his tone this time around.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States and South Korea have warned for months this could come in North Korea conducting its seventh nuclear test.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea is under multiple UN Security Council sanctions over its nuclear and missile activity since 2006. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 04:18:17', '2022-12-18 04:18:17');
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(3825, 3825, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">High blood pressure or hypertension is considered a silent killer and before you know it can severely damage your arteries and make them less elastic which could affect blood and oxygen flow to your heart making you more susceptible to heart ailments and heart attack. While other chronic ailments like diabetes have clear symptoms like hunger, feeling weakness, drowsiness if your blood sugars are not controlled, in case of blood pressure, it is difficult to know how it is harming your body. Headache, shortness of breath, nosebleeds, anxiety are among the high blood pressure symptoms. If not treated high blood pressure can lead to stroke, kidney damage, heart failure among other health issues.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from medication, it is advisable to make certain lifestyle changes to regulate blood pressure naturally. Doing regular exercises and Yoga can help improve blood circulation and heart rate which could help BP patients. Reducing sodium in diet, tea-coffee intake and learning to manage stress are also advised for better blood pressure regulation. Besides, adding certain foods that can naturally manage blood pressure are also helpful.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Dixa Bhavsar in her latest Instagram post suggested some effective foods to regulate blood pressure:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>1. Black pepper</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Available in almost all Indian kitchens, black pepper or kaali mirch is a strong and pungent spice. It is hot in potency, light to digest and balances Vata and Kapha. It is best for people who have high cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension or blood pressure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>How to consume it</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Have 1 black pepper on an empty stomach with warm water.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>2. Amla</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It is the season of Amla and the potent fruit is abundant during this time of the year. The citrus fruit contains all tastes as per Ayurveda except lavana (salty) which makes it the best fruit for people with high blood pressure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>How to consume it</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have amla as a fruit or in juice form on empty stomach during winters when they are available in market. During other seasons, one can have amla powder or tablet and the dosage can depend on your condition on the advice of an expert.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>3. Garlic</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Garlic is a wonderful natural remedy for hypertension as it possesses anti-hypertensive property due to its piercing, pungent and vata-kapha reducing qualities which helps in clearing the body channels (best for blockages).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>How to consume it</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chew on 1 garlic clove on empty stomach daily.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>4. Black raisins</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Black raisins of kaali kishmish are made from dried black grapes. They can be added to a variety of desserts and an excellent source of fibre and vital nutrients. They contain potassium which helps reduce blood pressure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>How to consume it</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have 5-7 overnight soaked raisins 25-30 minutes before breakfast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>5. Arjun Tea</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arjun is best cardio-protective Ayurvedic herb. It also helps maintain healthy cholesterol and blood pressure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>How to consume it</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have Arjun tea at bedtime (1.5 hours post dinner) around 9:30 pm daily.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of water, put 1 tsp (5 gm) of arjun chaal/bark powder in it and boil it until the water evaporates. Add 1 pinch of cinnamon, 1/2 tsp turmeric and 1 black pepper (crushed) in the milk while it\'s boiling. Then strain and sip on your milk. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 04:36:23', '2022-12-18 04:36:23'),
(3826, 3826, '<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire\'s plane.</b><br></p><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The reinstatements came after the unprecedented suspensions evoked stinging criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and journalism organizations from several parts of the globe on Friday, with some saying the microblogging platform was jeopardizing press freedom.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Twitter poll that Musk conducted later also showed that a majority of the respondents wanted the accounts restored immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now,\" Musk said in a tweet on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. A Reuters check showed the suspended accounts, which included journalists from the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post, have been reinstated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN human rights chief welcomed the reinstatements, but said he continued to have concerns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Twitter has a responsibility to respect human rights: @elonmusk should commit to making decision based on publicly-available policies that respect rights, including free speech. Nothing less,\" Volker Turk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Donie O\'Sullivan, a CNN reporter who had been among the journalists who were suspended and then reinstated, said he still could not tweet because the platform was demanding his removal of one of his posts. He said he would appeal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials from France, Germany, Britain and the European Union had earlier condemned the suspensions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The episode, which one well-known security researcher labeled the \"Thursday Night Massacre\", is being regarded by critics as fresh evidence of Musk, who considers himself a \"free speech absolutist,\" eliminating speech and users he personally dislikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also occurred amid an exodus of advertisers and as the company has slashed jobs. Sources familiar with the matter said there had been layoffs in Twitter\'s engineering departments this weekend. The employees affected worked for the part of the company that kept the social media platform running and were told via email on Friday evening, The Information reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shares in Tesla, an electric car maker led by Musk, slumped 4.7% on Friday and posted their worst weekly loss since March 2020, with investors increasingly concerned about his being distracted and about the slowing global economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roland Lescure, the French minister of industry, tweeted on Friday that, following Musk\'s suspension of journalists, he would suspend his own activity on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Melissa Fleming, head of communications for the United Nations, tweeted she was \"deeply disturbed\" by the suspensions and that \"media freedom is not a toy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The German Foreign Office warned Twitter that the ministry had a problem with moves that jeopardized press freedom.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Elonjet</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The suspensions stemmed from a disagreement over a Twitter account called ElonJet, which tracked Musk\'s private plane using publicly available information.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, Twitter suspended the account and others that tracked private jets, despite Musk\'s previous tweet saying he would not suspend ElonJet in the name of free speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly after, Twitter changed its privacy policy to prohibit the sharing of \"live location information.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then on Thursday evening, several journalists, including from the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post, were suspended from Twitter with no notice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an email to Reuters overnight, Twitter\'s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, said the team manually reviewed \"any and all accounts\" that violated the new privacy policy by posting direct links to the ElonJet account.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I understand that the focus seems to be mainly on journalist accounts, but we applied the policy equally to journalists and non-journalist accounts today,\" Irwin said in the email.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing said in a statement on Friday that Twitter\'s actions \"violate the spirit of the First Amendment and the principle that social media platforms will allow the unfiltered distribution of information that is already in the public square.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk accused the journalists of posting his real-time location, saying it amounted to providing \"basically assassination coordinates\" for his family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The billionaire appeared briefly in a Twitter Spaces audio chat hosted by journalists, which quickly turned into a contentious discussion about whether the suspended reporters had actually exposed Musk\'s real-time location in violation of the policy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If you dox, you get suspended. End of story,\" Musk said repeatedly in response to questions. \"Dox\" is a term for publishing private information about someone, usually with malicious intent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Washington Post\'s Drew Harwell, one of the journalists who had been suspended but was nonetheless able to join the audio chat, pushed back against the notion that he had exposed Musk or his family\'s exact location by posting a link to ElonJet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after, BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos, who hosted the Spaces chat, tweeted that the audio session was cut off abruptly and the recording was not available.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tweet explaining what happened, Musk said \"We\'re fixing a Legacy bug. Should be working tomorrow.\" Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 04:45:03', '2022-12-18 04:45:03'),
(3827, 3827, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A mild cold wave may sweep the country from December 20 to 24, Bangladesh Weather Observatory Team (BWOT) has said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The intensity of cold may remain slightly less till December 20 while the temperature may fall up to (&lt;10°C) as cold wave may sweep most areas during this period, said BWOT, an independent weather research group.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mild cold wave (8≤10°C) may hit the country during this period, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, moderate to thick fog may occur at places over the country from midnight till morning commencing 9am on Sunday, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Night temperature may rise slightly and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, as per the BMD bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 12.4 degree Celsius in Tetulia of Rangpur division while the highest temperature was 30.01 degree Celsius recorded in Teknaf of Chattogram division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the low pressure area over Southeast Bay and adjoining area persists. Its associated trough extends up to North Bay. Ridge of Sub-continental high extends up to West Bengal and adjoining area. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 06:58:07', '2022-12-18 06:58:07'),
(3828, 3828, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Despite a counterattacking knock of skipper Shakib Al Hasan and a maiden hundred of opener Zakir Hasan, Bangladesh suffered a huge 188-run defeat to India in the opening game of the two-match Test series at the Zahur Ahmed Chwodhury Stadium here today.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The defeat looked highly likely after Bangladesh began the fifth and final day with 272-6, still needing a 241 runs to win. However they failed to put up minimum resistance and could survive in less than an hour on the final day to be bowled out for 324 runs in the chase of a mammoth target of 513 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan counterattacked with 84 off 108, smashing six fours and six sixes and scored 44 runs of 52, his side made on the final day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav followed his 5-40 with 3-73 in the second innings to register his career-best match haul of 8-113. Kuldeep’s bowling indeed threw Bangladesh out of the game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Bangladesh looked to give India some tough fight, pacer Mohammed Siraj (1-67) claimed the wicket of Mehidy Hasan Miraz for 13 in just second over of the day and dented any hope of making any resistance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Mehidy got dismissed, Shakib came up with whirlwind batting, knowing that attack is the best defense to survive on last day pitch. He however charged spinners to hit them some sixes to entertain the sparse crowd in the ground. But while going for a sweep shot, he failed to connect one properly against the delivery of Kuldeep and got bowled out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the dismissal of Shakib, India needed just two overs to wrap up Bangladesh’s innings. Left-arm spinner Axar Patel who finished with 4-77, got the wicket of Taijul Islam (4) and Kuldeep then brought an end to the innings, getting rid of Ebadot Hossain for duck.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, opener Zakir Hasan hit a maiden ton before being out on exact 100 and Najmul Hossain scored 67 in this innings for Bangladesh. Zakir became the fourth Bangladeshi batter and first opener to hit centuries on debut and also became the only second opener in Test cricket’s 145-year history to score a century on debut in the fourth innings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The duo put up a 124-run partnership for the opening stand to give Bangladesh a ray of hope but India remained calm and that brought up a fruitful result for them at the end.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India racked up 404 in its first innings before being out all and then took a 254-run lead, dismissing Bangladesh for 150.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to a maiden century of opener Shubhman Gill (110) and the 19th ton of Cheteshwar Pujara (102 not out) who also made 90 in the first innings, India declared second innings at 258-2 to set Bangladesh a record chase of 513 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh who never successfully chased down a target more than 215 runs, finally crumbled in pressure to taste their 101st defeat in their 135th Test match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second and series-ending Test starts form December 22 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 07:03:50', '2022-12-18 07:03:50'),
(3829, 3829, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There is no respite for Dhaka dwellers from unhealthy air as it again ranked worst among cities in the world on the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Sunday morning (December 18, 2022).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had a score of 308 at 9 am. The air was classified as ‘hazardous’ and in this condition, everyone may experience more serious health effects.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the AQI value is more than 300, people are advised to avoid all outdoor exertion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Delhi occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 278 and 257, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, an AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups while a reading of 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 07:15:34', '2022-12-18 07:15:34'),
(3830, 3830, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The country’s rivers had played a vital role in defending and guiding the trajectory of the 1971 War of Liberation to victory as a larger number of operations run by the freedom fighters was on the rivers.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1971, rivers played one of the critical strategic roles, resisting the free and frequent movement of the enemies – Pakistani occupation forces. Most importantly, rivers acted as front-line soldiers by encountering enemies in the first place in the War of Liberation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the War of Liberation, Bangladesh was strategically divided into 11 sectors to defeat the Pakistani army. As Bangladesh is a riverine country, rivers formed most sector boundaries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 87 percent (precisely 86.89pc) of the total boundary of the 11 sectors was demarcated by the rivers, according to a study conducted over the role of rivers in the War of Liberation by a non-government organisation --River and Delta Research Centre (RDRC).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mainly, rivers such as Padma, Brahmaputra, Meghna, Jamuna, Surma, Madhumati, and Muhuri played a key role in the formation of the sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The highest 100 percent boundary of Sector-1 was demarcated by rivers, while lowest 76.32 percent of Sector-7 was drawn by rivers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on the study findings, the RDRC prepared several maps that help understand the geographical aspects, especially rivers and water bodies of Bangladesh in 1971 and how they influenced Bangladesh’s birth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sector-10, which covered the entire waterways of Bangladesh including coastal areas, rivers and seaports was formed on May 13, 1971, before the other sectors formed on 12-15 June, 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to government official data, naval commandos of sector-10 had undertaken 78 operations along with Jackpot and Hot Pants. In addition, the RDRC in its study found more than 300 guerrilla operations carried out on rivers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In these operations, rivers served as a natural defence, and tactical advantage support mechanism that holds an unassailable position on the enemy side of the river.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this manner, rivers led to the success in the Liberation War. Big and small rivers, monsoon and rains, have isolated, slowed the enemy forces from their occupation, led to national strength and often to war success, cumulating to national independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We found 1270 rivers and streams existed during 1971 in Bangladesh. Every channel and stream played a role of direct defence, as well as served as a tactical advantage support mechanism that holds an unassailable position,” said RDRC chairman Mohammad Azaz.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the eastern units of Pakistani troops were supported and supplied the logistics and ammunition through river networks from the beginning of the war in March 1971.&nbsp; In the beginning, the guerilla operations were mainly on land, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the operations increased, Pakistani troops used rivers and waterways as the safest network. Ships and supply chain networks were active and transported across all the major river ports in the country. This situation was functional up to mid-August, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We found that the naval operations and other operations on rivers gained attention globally, and Pakistani forces started losing their confidence and started losing the war from August to December 1971.The guerrilla operations had also lowered the morale of the Pakistani army,” said Azaz.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the 1971 War of Liberation, rivers and waterbodies played a vital role in facilitating communication within and outside the country and helped demolish the Pakistani Military. The influence of Pakistani occupation forces started declining sharply due to naval operations particularly after August 16, 1971, which led to the victory and birth of Bangladesh as a new country in the world’s map. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 07:30:46', '2022-12-18 07:30:46'),
(3831, 3831, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the verdict of the High Court (HC) that declared the registration of the political party, ‘Trinamool BNP’, as valid.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A bench of three justices led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order rejecting a leave-to-appeal petition filed by the EC against the HC order, said the plaintiff’s counsel Advocate Shah Manjur Hoque. Advocate Mohammad Yeasin stood for the EC at the court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the HC order to register Trinamool BNP, led by former BNP leader and ex minister Barrister Nazmul Huda, will remain in place from today (Sunday).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on November 4, 2018, an HC bench of Justice Tariq Ul Hakim and Justice Md Shohrowardi directed the authorities concerned to grant Trinamool BNP registration as political party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the EC moved the SC with the leave-to-appeal against the order after rejecting the party\'s appeal for registration on June 14, 2018.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being rejected by the EC, Nazmul Huda moved the HC with a writ petition challenging the EC decision.UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 08:26:26', '2022-12-18 08:26:26'),
(3832, 3832, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated her call to the people to remain alert as the murders and war criminals cannot come to the power again to destroy the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We have achieved victory. We have to march ahead upholding the flag of victory. So, we all have to be alert to make sure that the killers and war criminals cannot destroy the country after coming to power again,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said this while presiding over a discussion organised by the Awami League (AL) at the Krishibid Institute Bangladesh (KIB) at Khamarbari of Farmgate in the capital city, marking the 52nd Victory Day.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the BNP wanted to oust the AL government giving an ultimatum of December 10 when the process of killing of the country\'s intellectuals started ahead of the cherished victory 51 years back. BNP even is not observing programme marking the Victory Day, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Is it (thwarting the AL government) so easy?\" She posed a question.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said, \"AL can (to topple governments). We had ousted Ayub Khan. We had removed Yahya Khan after defeating him in the Liberation War. We could not oust Ziaur Rahman, but protests were staged wherever he had gone. We had thwarted Ershad\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"We also have removed Khaleda Zia on charges of rigging vote in the February 15, 1996 national election and foiled the attempt of holding a farcical election with 1.23 crore fake voters in 2006 by Khaleda Zia,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>But, she said it is difficult to oust the Awami League government through movements.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Conspiracies are hatched whenever Awami League is in power. We had been barred from coming to power due to conspiracies in 2001. The people of the country had to suffer for it,\" the premier said.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;People have to take decision whether they want to suffer or to march towards prosperity with indomitable pace holding the flag of victory, she said, adding, \"We will build \'Smart Bangladesh\' by 2041\".</div><div><br></div><div>Road Transport and Bridges Minister and AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader MP, gave the address of welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>AL Advisory Council Member Amir Hossain Amu, MP, Presidium Members Begum Matia Chowdhury, MP, Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, MP, Shajahan Khan, MP, Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdury Maya, Bir Bikram, and Simeen Hussain Rimi, MP, Joint General Secretary and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, MP, Liberation War Affairs Secretary Advocate Mrinal Kanti Das, MP, Dhaka North and South City AL President and General Secretary Sheikh Bazlur Rahman and Humayun Kabir respectively, among others, spoke on the occasion.</div><div><br></div><div>AL Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, MP, and his deputy M Aminul Islam moderated the discussion. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 09:26:09', '2022-12-18 09:26:09'),
(3833, 3833, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least eight Iraqi federal policemen were killed on Sunday after a bomb struck their convoy southwest of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, two security sources told Reuters.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The blast took place near the village of Safra , which lies about 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, said the source, adding that two other policemen were critically wounded.</div><div><br></div><div>There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Islamic State militants are active in the area. Iraq declared victory over the group, which once held large swathes of the country, in December 2017. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 10:01:16', '2022-12-18 10:01:16'),
(3834, 3834, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">EU member states and parliamentarians on Sunday announced agreement for major reform to the bloc\'s carbon market, as part of its ambition to reduce emissions and invest in climate-friendly technologies.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deal aims to accelerate emissions cuts, phase out free allowances to industries and targets fuel emissions from the building and road transport sectors, according to a European Parliament statement. - AFP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 10:21:33', '2022-12-18 10:24:40'),
(3835, 3835, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital Kabul, a local official said Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Salang Tunnel, which is around 80 miles north of Kabul, was originally built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion. It is a key link between the country’s north and south.</div><div><br></div><div>A spokesman for Parwan province, Said Himatullah Shamim, said Saturday night’s tunnel explosion killed at least 19 people, including women and children. He said survivors remain trapped under rubble and that the number of casualties could rise.</div><div><br></div><div>It was not immediately clear what caused the incident, which happened at around 8:30 p.m.</div><div><br></div><div>Parwan’s health department has received 14 dead and 24 injured so far, according to local official Dr. Abdullah Afghan.&nbsp;</div><div>There are five women and two children among the dead, he said, and the rest are men who are severely burnt and cannot be recognized.</div><div><br></div><div>A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works, Molvi Hamidullah Misbah, said earlier Sunday that the fire was extinguished and that teams were still working to clear the tunnel. - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 11:20:39', '2022-12-18 11:20:39'),
(3836, 3836, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday has said her government has fulfilled its commitment to provide electricity connection to every house.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She said the government had to ration electricity in the country for some days due to the global price hike of fuel and gas.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“But now, that problem is over,” she said, adding that the supply of 800MW electricity from Payra Thermal Power Plant started last week.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier was addressing a discussion arranged by Bangladesh Awami League (AL) at Krishibid Institution in Dhaka’s Farmgate area, on the occasion of Victory Day.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said that the government supplies electricity to everyone at subsidized prices though the production cost is much higher. But it will not be possible to provide electricity at lower prices considering the global recession, she said. “The actual cost will have to be paid,” she said, adding that the price of gas has increased in the international market.</div><div><br></div><div>“Everyone, including businessmen in the country, will have to exercise austerity and will have to be ready to pay the money spent on the (increased) price of gas and transport cost. Otherwise, we will not be able to provide electricity. If you want (electricity), you will have to pay the real prices,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said costs over electricity, gas, water and fuel can be reduced by exercising austerity.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 11:48:07', '2022-12-18 11:48:07'),
(3837, 3837, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With Argentina reaching fever pitch just hours before Lionel Messi and his teammates take on France in the World Cup final, football fans throughout the country felt a sense of destiny brewing.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>From Jujuy in the north to Chubut, some 2,800 kilometers to the south, from Mendoza at the foot of the Andes mountain range in the west to Mar del Plata on the Atlantic coast, the country was preparing to rejoice at a much sought after third world title -- 36 years after their last one.</div><div><br></div><div>At the Obelisk monument in central Buenos Aires where fans usually flock to celebrate the team\'s victories, dozens jumped up and down singing songs as passing drivers honked their car horns on Friday, with the final still 18 hours away.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I feel very proud to be Argentine, I know Messi will bring home the cup,\" said Franco Llanos, 22, decked out in Argentina shirt, blue and white joker\'s hat, draped in a flag and carrying a plastic replica of the World Cup trophy.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My passion is wooo-ooo-ooo!\"</div><div><br></div><div>Carina Disanzo, 44, who was wearing Messi\'s number 10 jersey in the historic Boca neighborhood, said the team \"absolutely\" deserves to win.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If what we all hope happens, it\'s going to be a huge party but even if it doesn\'t happen there\'s going to be a huge party because we\'re in the final with the best player in the world,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s a really football country, what happens in Argentina ... on the pitch, in the stands, with the people, doesn\'t happen anywhere else.\"</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Everyone for Messi\' -</div><div>The Argentine capital was a sea of blue and white jerseys, most bearing Messi\'s number 10, flags, painted faces, hats and other memorabilia.</div><div><br></div><div>Vendors were making a packet, with Raul Machuca, 22, saying face paint and flags were selling like hot cakes at the Melu store in central Buenos Aires where he works.</div><div><br></div><div>With Christmas around the corner, he said it was a double boon for the shop.</div><div><br></div><div>In some major avenues, the city council had painted pedestrian crossings in the national team\'s blue and white stripes.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreign football fans were also getting in on the act.</div><div><br></div><div>English friends Josh Gwilt, 27, and Greg Layhe, 28, were traveling in Brazil but decided to switch their itinerary to Buenos Aires \"on a whim.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"When are you ever going to be in South America and get to see Argentina in the final of a World Cup,\" said Gwilt, who was wearing the goalkeeper\'s jersey of Emiliano Martinez.</div><div><br></div><div>Layhe, wearing a Messi shirt, said they had partly decided to put on their jerseys as a precaution, given the historic bad blood between England and Argentina both on and off the pitch.</div><div><br></div><div>Even so, he said he was firmly behind Argentina, especially Messi, who has won everything in the game except this.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We all hope he wins the World Cup, even some French fans we\'ve spoken to have been semi-torn because it would be an amazing end to his career. I think he\'s the greatest player of all time and deserves to win the World Cup,\" said Layhe.</div><div><br></div><div>Puerto Rican couple Lilly Oronoz and Antonio Secola, both 51, had also come to Argentina for the game.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Us Latinos are very supportive,\" said Oronoz. \"Everyone for Messi, everyone for Argentina.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s for the passion, we\'ve got more passion, and the conviction that they will win,\" added Secola.</div><div><br></div><div>- Uniting issue -</div><div><br></div><div>At midnight from Saturday to Sunday, Argentina\'s main television channels were due to mark 12 hours to kick off with a special rendition of the national anthem recorded by the players themselves in Qatar, with goosebumps guaranteed.</div><div><br></div><div>Football is one of only two things in a politically polarized country with huge wealth disparities that brings all people together.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This national team and the Falklands united us,\" said Edgar Esteban, a veteran of the 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic and director of the Malvinas Museum in Buenos Aires. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 12:14:31', '2022-12-18 12:14:31'),
(3838, 3838, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A woman and her six-year-old daughter sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a house near Narayanganj Police Lines in the district early Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The victims were identified as Nargis Akter, wife of Monir Mia and Mariam Akter of Tagarpar area.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr SM Ayub Hossain, a physician of the Burn Institute of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said the fire broke out at the house from gas pipeline leakage around 2:30 am and engulfed soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Nargis and her minor daughter who were at the house sustained burn injuries. Monir Mia was out of his house when the incident occurred.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, they were taken to a local hospital and then shifted to DMCH.</div><div><br></div><div>Of them, Nargis sustained 70 percent burn injuries while Mariam received 55 percent injures. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 13:48:55', '2022-12-18 13:48:55'),
(3839, 3839, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh on Sunday called up uncapped left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed and left out injured pace bowler Ebadot Hossain for the second Test against India starting in Dhaka on December 22.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Ebadot received an injury on his back in the first Test. He will not be fit for the second Test. That\'s why we took Nasum in his place though we have yet to decide whether we would play an extra spinner in Dhaka,\" said selector Habibul Bashar.</div><div><br></div><div>India defeated Bangladesh by 188 runs in the first Test to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.</div><div><br></div><div>India scored 404 runs and declared their second innings at 258-2 after bowling out Bangladesh for a paltry 150 runs in the first innings.</div><div><br></div><div>Set a monumental target of 513 runs, Bangladesh were all out for 324 runs after debutant Zakir Hasan made 100 and skipper Shakib Al Hasan added 84.</div><div><br></div><div>The hosts looked short on options during India\'s second innings, as Ebadot and Shakib did not bowl due to injury concerns.</div><div><br></div><div>Nasum has played four one-day internationals and 28 Twenty20 internationals but is yet to play a Test.</div><div><br></div><div>He was part of the Bangladesh ODI squad that beat India 2-1 in the preceding three-match series.</div><div><br></div><div>Opening batsman Tamim Iqbal, who missed the ODI series and first Test due to a groin injury, failed to make it to the squad for the second Test.</div><div><br></div><div>Batsman Anamul Haque and pace bowler Shoriful Islam were also left out.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh: Zakir Hasan, Najmul Hossain, Mominul Haque, Yasir Ali, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Liton Das, Nurul Hasan, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Khaled Ahmed, Mahmudul Hasan, Rejaur Rahman Raja. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 14:50:51', '2022-12-18 14:50:51'),
(3840, 3840, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today upheld a High Court (HC) judgment that declared the registration of former BNP minister Nazmul Huda led Trinamool BNP as a political party, valid.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A three-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order, dismissing a civil petition filed by the Election Commission against the High Court order, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Dr Md Yeasin Khan argued for the EC, while Advocate Shah Manjurul Haque stood for Nazmul Huda.</div><div>The High Court on November 4, 2018, declared the registration of Trinamool BNP as political party valid.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The EC later filed the plea against the High Court judgment.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 15:01:23', '2022-12-18 15:01:23');
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(3841, 3841, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all to remain alert so that the people of the country dot not experience again the “culture of impunity” that prevailed after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh must not be trapped into that (culture of impunity) situation again,” she said, while addressing the Golden Jubilee ceremony of Bangladesh Supreme Court as chief guest in city’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC).</div><div><br></div><div>After the brutal killing of her father, mother, brothers and sisters she was not allowed to seek justice, Sheikh Hasina said, adding: “My scope to seek justice was barred through Indemnity Ordinance.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said that she doesn’t want that anyone ever experience the culture of impunity situation like them.</div><div><br></div><div>She regretted that the people who was behind the all evil deeds in the country including the assassination of Father of the Nation and promulgating the Indemnity Ordinance were being treated as the “so-called protector and bearer” of democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>She said, “This is really very much disgraceful for the nation, country, independence and an independent country.”</div><div><br></div><div>With Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice Hasan Foez Siddique in the chair, Justice Obaidul Hassan delivered welcome address in the function.</div><div><br></div><div>Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Haq spoke on the occasion as special guest.</div><div><br></div><div>Distinguished guest Justice of Indian Supreme Court Justice Mukesh Kumar Rashik Bhai Shah and Bangladesh Law Commission Chairman and former Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice ABM Khairul Haque also spoke.</div><div><br></div><div>An audio-visual documentary titled “Nay Bichar Er Anirban Suborno Jatray” on the golden jubilee of Bangladesh Supreme Court was screened.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister released commemorative note of Taka 50 and commemorative postage stamp on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh Constitution and Bangladesh Supreme Court.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She also unveiled cover of 50 Bachhar er Path Chalay Supreme Court (50 Years Journey of Supreme Court) and English version of Bangladesh Constitution.</div><div><br></div><div>At the ceremony, the Prime Minister handed over the first ever introduced Chief Justice Padak (award) in six categories among the judges of the lower court. The recipients are District and Session Judge Chattogram Zebunnesa, Additional District and Session Judge Tangail Saud Hasan, Joint District and Session Judge Naogaon Khorshed Alam, Senior Assistant Judge Chattogram Reshma Khatun, Assistant Judge Rangpur Hasinur Rahman Milon, and Mymensingh District and Session Judge Court.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said Father of the Nation had sacrificed so much for the people of this country throughout his entire life, but through his assassination the spirit and ideals of the Liberation War were actually killed.</div><div><br></div><div>She said: “And the Indemnity Ordinance was enacted to protect these killers from being prosecuted. Through the ordinance, the murderers were not only freed from trial, but also rewarded with jobs in various embassies. A culture of injustice started in Bangladesh.”</div><div><br></div><div>\"Father of the Nation had always wanted to establish justice, but what is unfortunate for us is that laws were enacted in the country to bar the prosecution of his killers,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>After 21 years, Awami League took the initiative to repeal this indemnity law after forming the government and through this, the way of trial of the killers of Father of the Nation was unblocked, she continued.</div><div><br></div><div>“I thank the Supreme Court because our opposition has always been active to ensure that this ordinance is not revoked,” she said, adding: “When it came (to the court), the Supreme Court in their judgment ordered to quash it and we also quashed it in the parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>The head of government said that the Awami League government always tried that the apex court of the country could run independently.</div><div><br></div><div>“For that purpose, I handed over the financial management to the Supreme Court which was previously in the hands of the government. We provided separate budget allocation, simultaneously we prepared a policy to separate the judiciary and established permanent Law Commission,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that the lawyers are the essential part of the judiciary, she said, “Therefore, I will urge all of you that they should use their merit, creativity, honesty and sincerity for ensuring justice for the justice-seekers.”</div><div><br></div><div>She agreed on establishing a law university in the country as it is urgently needed for all.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said, \"I’ve lost my parents, brothers and sisters. I’ve come to the country to change the fate of the people bearing the pain of that loss. I didn’t come here to make money through corruption but to spend my own life.”</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the World Bank\'s complaint about corruption in Padma Bridge which was later proved as false, she said, “At least, we can say that I or my family, none of us didn’t do any deed or will never do anything that would make heads of the people of Bangladesh down and belittle them and Bangladesh would be ashamed somewhere. I love this country, I love the people of the country,” reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said that aim of her life is to provide a better life to the people of the country. “I am working on that, there will be rule of law, people will get justice, people will get better socioeconomic status. People of Bangladesh will roam across the globe with their heads ever high,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 15:45:37', '2022-12-18 15:45:37'),
(3842, 3842, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police shut doors into Doha\'s main metro station for an hour amid a surge of thousands of people just ahead of Sunday\'s World Cup final.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Witnesses said station security could not cope with the sudden crowds at the Msheireb station, a busy interchange where three metro lines meet.</div><div><br></div><div>Station staff tried to restrict people entering with crowd barriers but groups broke through causing the surge inside, witnesses said. The doors were then ordered closed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There were just suddenly hundreds of people trying to get down the steps to the platforms. It was scary but I did not see anyone hurt,\" said Fatima Ismael, who came out with her two children as hundreds grouped around entrance doors.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of the crowds were fans trying to get trains to fan zones with giant screens set up for the match between Argentina and France. Thousands of people wore Argentina shirts for the day.</div><div><br></div><div>The station re-opened an hour later and although it was crowded, passengers were moving towards their trains, an AFP reporter said.</div><div><br></div><div>Traffic jams built up around Doha and big crowds were also reported around the 88,000 capacity Lusail stadium where the final was to start at 6.00pm (1500 GMT). - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 15:50:58', '2022-12-18 15:50:58'),
(3843, 3843, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Argentina led defending champions France 2-0 at half-time in the World Cup final at the Lusail Stadium in Doha on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A 23rd-minute penalty from Argentina captain Lionel Messi and a 36th-minute strike from Angel Di Maria left the South Americans in a commanding position at the break.</div><div><br></div><div>Argentina are bidding to win the World Cup for the first time since a Diego Maradona-inspired victory at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-18 16:24:35', '2022-12-18 16:24:35'),
(3844, 3844, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After finally winning the World Cup, Lionel Messi made his strongest case yet to be considered soccer’s greatest player of all time.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will never be possible to say definitively, though, even after Argentina\'s 4-2 penalty shootout victory over France on Sunday in the final at Lusail Stadium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Messi has been his country\'s inspiration throughout the tournament in Qatar and scored twice in the game that finished 3-3 through extra time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It’s just crazy that it became a reality this way,\" Messi said. \"I craved for this so much. I knew God would bring this gift to me. I had the feeling that this was the one.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kylian Mbappe certainly made Messi work for a golden trophy that had eluded him throughout his storied career. The France forward scored a hat trick as the defending champions came back from 2-0 down and then evened the match again after Messi made it 3-2 in extra time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But this was Messi\'s night and Messi\'s World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It took so long, but here it is,\" Messi said. “We suffered a lot, but we managed to do it.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For some, no one will ever surpass Pele, who won the World Cup three times with Brazil. Even in Messi’s homeland of Argentina, Diego Maradona remains, for many, the country\'s ultimate soccer icon after captaining the national team to the 1986 World Cup title.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And for the past 15 years or so, Messi has had a personal rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo just to establish himself as the finest player of his generation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Competition is fierce when it comes to determining the greatest of all time, or the GOAT, as it has come to be known. It can come down to the smallest of margins that separate players of such brilliance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi’s failure to win the sport’s biggest prize has always counted against him when measuring his achievements against Pele and Maradona. The same goes for Ronaldo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi is a seven-time winner of the Ballon d\'Or award for the best player in the world and lifted club soccer\'s biggest prize, the Champions League trophy, on four occasions. He ended his wait for a first major trophy with his country at last year’s Copa America.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Cup, however, is the ultimate measure of greatness and Pele and Maradona secured immortality with inspirational performances on that stage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That had eluded Messi until Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes, he was part of the Argentina team that lost to Germany 1-0 in the 2014 final, but the magic he produced game in, game out during his peak years for Barcelona never seemed to translate when wearing the blue and white stripes of his country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 35 and nearing the end of his career, the tournament in Qatar was widely seen as his final shot at the World Cup. And if that is the case, he saved his best for last.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi does not dominate over 90 minutes anymore, but instead decides matches with moments of genius. He scored seven goals in Qatar, but, arguably, his assists have been more memorable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His disguised pass for Nahuel Molina’s goal against the Netherlands in the quarterfinals was weighted and measured to perfection. His twisting and turning run to beat Croatia defender Joško Gvardiol and set up teammate Julian Alvarez in the semifinals felt like peak Messi, only in slow motion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has now surpassed Pele with 13 goals at World Cups and is tied for fourth with Just Fontaine on the all-time list. His seven in this year\'s tournament surpassed Maradona’s five at the 1986 edition in Mexico.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi has now scored a national team-record 98 goals in 172 games. That places him third in the all-time scoring list for men’s internationals, behind Cristiano Ronaldo (118) and Ali Daei (109).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There has been a sense of destiny for Messi and Argentina, even after its shocking 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in the team\'s opening game of the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messi had to summon every bit of energy in his aging limbs to get Argentina through the final and hold off Mbappe. Leading 2-0 and cruising to the title as the game approached the last 10 minutes, Mbappe intervened to remind everyone that he has already overtaken Messi and Ronaldo as the best player in the world right now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He scored in the 80th and 81st minutes to turn the game upside down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Messi put Argentina back in front in the 108th minute, he looked to have scored the winner. But Mbappe\'s penalty in the 118th saw the Paris Saint-Germain star complete the first hat trick in a World Cup final in 56 years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the penalty shootout, Gonzalo Montiel scored the decisive kick to secure Messi\'s place among the pantheon of greats and, perhaps, confirm his position as the true GOAT. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 02:43:51', '2022-12-19 02:43:51'),
(3845, 3845, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kylian Mbappé scored a hat trick seemingly from out of nowhere to electrify the World Cup final, he ended the tournament as the leading scorer with eight goals, and he still missed out on winning a second straight title.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The France superstar was on the losing side of an epic final against Argentina that was settled in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw on Sunday. He was then consoled on the field by French President Emmanuel Macron.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Kylian has really left his mark on this final,” France coach Didier Deschamps said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappé had been the leader France desperately needed as time was running out with the defending champions trailing 2-0 and playing poorly. The forward had also been almost invisible up to that point.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But his goals carried France back into the match — twice. First, late in regulation time. Then again deep in extra time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappé converted a penalty in the 80th minute and then scored with a volley from just inside the area in the 81st.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took only 97 seconds for him to get France even with Argentina and the great Lionel Messi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappé scored a second penalty in extra time, about 10 minutes after Messi had given Argentina the lead again in what became a compelling duel between the two players.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappé\'s hat trick was only the second in a World Cup final — the other was by England striker Geoff Hurst in 1966.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Frenchman leaves Qatar with the Golden Boot trophy as the tournament’s top scorer with eight goals. At the age of 23, he\'s matched Pelé\'s career total of 12 World Cup goals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mbappé couldn\'t quite match the Brazil great\'s back-to-back World Cup titles — both players were teenagers when they won their first one, Pelé in 1958 and Mbappé in 2018.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One minute before Mbappé turned the game on its head, Argentina’s fans began to taunt him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chants of “Olé, Olé” rained down from the stands at Lusail Stadium as Mbappé futilely chased the ball while his opponents passed it over and around him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappé gestured in frustration with his right arm at the apparent hopelessness of the situation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But after scoring his first two goals, Mbappé surged into the Argentina half looking for a game-winning third. His darting, twisting run resulted in a shot deflected just too high.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once he eventually got the hat trick to make it 3-3 in extra time, Mbappé set out for a fourth. His curling cross barely eluded the head of substitute Randal Kolo Muani, and a final dribble deep into the Argentina penalty area was scrambled clear as he looked to shoot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He shouted out loud as his last attempt to win the game single-handedly slipped away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappé tried to set the tone in the penalty shootout, taking responsibility for the first kick. He converted the penalty but France still ended up losing 4-2. Messi did the same for Argentina to start the shootout, but his teammates all scored their penalties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the shootout, Mbappé made sure he was the first to console Kingsley Coman and Aurélien Tchouaméni on their slow walks back to the center circle after their failures to score.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappé stood bent over in the center circle, hands on his knees, as Argentina defender Gonzalo Montiel prepared to take the decisive kick. He then squatted, saw the net ripple and walked away alone amid the Argentina celebrations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deschamps eventually came over behind his player to put arms around his neck. Mbappé soon went to the team dugout and sat slumped in a chair with his dark blue shirt pulled up over his face to hide his emotions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Long after the game was over, Mbappé left the stadium with his head bowed and the World Cup trophy securely in the hands of Messi. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 02:51:01', '2022-12-19 02:51:01'),
(3846, 3846, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Argentines let loose on Sunday and streets across the country became places of celebration after an epic World Cup final in which the national team beat France on penalties.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It was the country’s third World Cup title, and the first since 1986.</div><div><br></div><div>“I’m very happy, we really deserved this. The team suffered quite a bit, but it recovered as time went on,” said Josefina Villalba, a 55-year-old nanny who joined hundreds of fans at one of the many public plazas where giant screens were set up to watch the long-awaited match.</div><div><br></div><div>Millions of Argentines cried, yelled and hugged as they followed the game, which was a roller coaster of emotions.</div><div><br></div><div>Throughout the match, many watching in a public square in Buenos Aires chanted the name of captain Lionel Messi, often considered the world\'s greatest soccer player who had long talked about how he yearned for a World Cup victory.</div><div><br></div><div>“I feel an immense happiness in my heart because this is the first World Cup I truly enjoy,” Hector Quinteros, a 34-year-old security guard, said as his eyes welled up with tears. “This always happens. They always make us suffer.”</div><div><br></div><div>After 36 long years, Argentina finally won a World Cup title, erasing years of doubts and questions about whether a country known for having some of the world\'s greatest soccer players could really perform on an international stage. The country won its first title in 1978, but lost finals in 1930, 1990 and 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>At the end of the first half, many were gearing up to celebrate as Argentina led 2-0 and clearly dominated the match.</div><div><br></div><div>But that early happiness turned to anxiety as France caught up, ultimately leaving the score at 3-3 before Argentina beat France 4-2 on penalties.</div><div><br></div><div>For many, the agonizing feelings of the match made the victory all the sweeter.</div><div><br></div><div>“When you suffer over something so much, the satisfaction is greater,” Fabio Villani, a 45-year-old video editor said, noting he still couldn’t quite believe Argentina had won a World Cup title.</div><div><br></div><div>It also felt par for the course for Argentina, a country known for its seemingly endless economic crises.</div><div><br></div><div>“Suffering is something that is very Argentine,” said Maria Isabel Ayala, a 53-year-old hairdresser. “If we suffer, it’s because we truly feel it in our hearts.”</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo Nogueria, a 34-year-old photographer, said that “it’s a bit of a downer that we had to spend so much time suffering, but it’s also our way of life a bit,” adding that ”in some ways we’re used to it too.”</div><div><br></div><div>Many fans were quick to remember Argentina great Diego Maradona, who died two years ago, saying he had something to do with today\'s victory.</div><div><br></div><div>“Diego sees everything from heaven, he wouldn\'t have wanted Argentina to lose. The first cup without him and we won! Diego is always here, he\'s eternal,” said Javier López, 18, whose voice broke as he spoke of Maradona, who led the national team to what had been its last World Cup title in 1986.</div><div><br></div><div>“Diego is certainly smiling now,” Brazil soccer legend Pelé wrote on social media as he congratulated Argentina for the victory.</div><div><br></div><div>In Rosario, Messi’s hometown, a sea of people went out into the streets to celebrate that their local hero had finally won a World Cup title.</div><div><br></div><div>“It’s madness. It surpassed my expectations with so many people on the same wavelength, everyone celebrating. That\'s what’s most beautiful about today,” said Jeremías Regolo, 26, who joined the tens of thousands of people who descended on the National Flag Memorial, the symbol of Argentina’s third largest city.</div><div><br></div><div>People started arriving after Messi lifted the trophy and they were still holding strong into the evening.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re champions, which is all we wanted, more than anything for (Messi) and for the whole team,” Santiago Ferraris, 25, said.</div><div><br></div><div>The national squad led by Messi has managed to unite Argentines with a sense of joy that isn\'t frequent in a country that has been stuck in economic doldrums for years, is suffering one of the world’s highest inflation rates and almost four in 10 live in poverty.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re very happy that they gave us this triumph that the people needed beyond the socioeconomic problems that we’re having,” Gabriel Fernández, a 42-year-old artisan, said as he celebrated his victory surrounded by his family in a Buenos Aires park.</div><div><br></div><div>“We needed this, we needed this for all the things that we\'re going through economically, politically, socially,” Alberto Czornenki, a 45-year-old retail worker, said as he joined the celebrations in a public square in Argentina\'s capital.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our lives are full of suffering due to all that, that karma that we have, and this at least gives us some happiness. We\'re then going to wake up to reality and we\'re going to be in the same place, but with a different kind of enthusiasm.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fans also had particular praise for this squad coached by Lionel Scaloni.</div><div><br></div><div>This team “transmits something that is very different from other squads before that did not feel pride for the national jersey, while these players give everything of themselves in each match,” said Facundo Alonso, a 26-year-old retail worker.</div><div><br></div><div>President Alberto Fernández joined in on the celebrations and thanked the national team for the victory.</div><div><br></div><div>“Thank you to the players and the technical team. They\'re an example that we must never give up. That we have great people and a great future,” Fernández wrote on social media.</div><div><br></div><div>Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wrote on social media that he was “happy with the victory of our Argentine neighbors.”</div><div><br></div><div>President Gabriel Boric of Chile, who had been rooting for the neighboring country during the match, also sent a “gigantic hug to our Argentine brothers.”</div><div><br></div><div>On a scorching summer day, the Obelisk in downtown Buenos Aires quickly started filling with people as thousands went downtown to celebrate.</div><div><br></div><div>Shortly after the end of the match, the subway turned into a party as fans packed the cars, singing, chanting and jumping for joy as they headed to join the celebrations at the Obelisk.</div><div><br></div><div>“Holding Leo Messi by the hand, we’re going to go all the way,” the crowd chanted as euphoria took over. 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(3847, 3847, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Twitter\'s owner Elon Musk is asking users of the social media platform to vote on his future as its chief executive officer.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a poll to his 122 million followers, he tweeted: \"Should I step down as head... I will abide by the results...\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The technology tycoon, who also runs Tesla and Space X, has faced tremendous criticism since taking over Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a major legal battle, Mr Musk took control of the company in October in a $44bn (£36bn) deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes as Twitter says it will shut down accounts solely designed to promote other social media platforms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The measure would also affect accounts that link off to or contain usernames from platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post, the company said in a tweet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But cross-content posting from other sites will still be allowed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey, who recently invested in Nostr, replied to the Twitter post with one word: \"Why?\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a reply to another user posting about the Nostr promotion ban, Dorsey said, \"doesn\'t make sense\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz was suspended for breaking the new rule before it had been formally announced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After being reinstated on Sunday she posted a link to the tweet she claimed got her barred.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter had already blocked users from sharing some links to Mastodon, the platform many Twitter users moved to after Mr Musk\'s takeover.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in a series of tweets on Sunday Twitter said: \"We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Examples of possible violations could include tweets such as \"follow me @username on Instagram\" or \"check out my profile on Facebook - facebook.com/username\", it said in a blog setting out the details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any attempts to bypass the restrictions would also be a breach, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who break the rules for the first time or as in an \"isolated incident\" could be asked to delete the offending tweets or be temporarily locked out of their accounts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But any subsequent offenses \"will result in permanent suspension\", it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Users can continue to post content to Twitter from prohibited platforms, however, and paid adverts from those sites will still be allowed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few hours after the announcement, Mr Musk appeared to contradict it by tweeting that \"casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the boss of Post, one of the prohibited platforms, promoted his site in a tweet following the announcement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We make it easy to add all your social media links to your profile since none of us only use one platform,\" Noam Bardin tweeted, adding \"Freedom = Choice.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There has been flurry of controversial changes at Twitter since Mr Musk bought the social media site for $44bn (£36bn) in October.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has fired around half of its staff and attempted a chaotic rollout of Twitter\'s paid-for verification feature before putting it on pause. The feature was relaunched last week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The billionaire\'s approach to content moderation has also been criticised, with some civil liberties groups accusing him of taking steps that will increase hate speech and misinformation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, he reinstated a number of journalists he had suspended for allegedly sharing location data about him after the EU and UN called it an attack on press freedom.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reporters for the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post were among those locked out of their accounts. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 03:11:35', '2022-12-19 03:11:35'),
(3848, 3848, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">All the talk before Sunday\'s incredible World Cup final between Argentina and France was understandably about Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe, but by the end, another name was on everyone\'s lips - Emiliano Martinez.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After an enthralling, twisting, turning and emotionally draining 120 minutes and the game level at 3-3, penalties were needed to determine who would lift football\'s greatest prize.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Argentina\'s takers did their job by calmly converting all four of their spot-kicks, Martinez stepped up to break French hearts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe had scored two penalties in the game so there was little surprise he converted France\'s first of the shootout, although Martinez was not far off getting a hand to it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From then on, though, the Aston Villa goalkeeper took centre stage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He went the right way again to deny Kingsley Coman, before the mind games were ramped up to further unsettle the French players.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Aurelien Tchouameni walked up for his turn, perhaps already feeling the weight of expectation, Martinez rolled the ball away from the Real Madrid midfielder, forcing him to have to walk over to collect it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a word for such antics by Martinez that can\'t be stated here, but they had the desired effect as the 22-year-old Tchouameni dragged his penalty wide, prompting a dance reminiscent of Alan Pardew\'s mesmerising moves in Crystal Palace\'s 2016 FA Cup final against Manchester United.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That put Argentina within touching distance of a first World Cup since 1986 and, although Randal Kolo Muani fired home France\'s next penalty, it only delayed the celebrations from the South Americans as substitute Gonzalo Montiel scored to kick off the party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Emi Martinez is a very positive guy and told his team-mates he was going to save some penalties,\" revealed Argentina boss Lionel Scaloni.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BBC Sport\'s pundits at the game were all in agreement too that Martinez\'s antics played a huge part in the victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is no doubt he had a massive impact mentally in the shootout,\" said former England midfielder Jermaine Jenas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ex-England striker Alan Shearer added: \"He was trying to wind them up, he was kicking the ball away, he was talking to the players, he was putting as much pressure as possible on them.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former England defender Rio Ferdinand said: \"Even his movements behind the line, he was moving, trying to catch the eye of the person striking the ball.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The game may have not even got to a shootout if not for a brilliant save by Martinez in the final seconds of extra time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate hit the ball forward and Muani raced through, only to be denied by Martinez who rushed out to close down the gap before spreading himself out to block the finish.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was one of a number of big saves Martinez made in Qatar, earning him the tournament\'s Golden Glove award for the most clean sheets with three.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has certainly had a big impact in his short time with the national team. Since making his debut last year he has helped Argentina win the Copa America and now the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has had to be patient for his career to kick off. Martinez spent eight years at Arsenal, going out on loan six times and playing just 11 Premier League games for the Gunners, before joining Villa two years ago and growing in stature.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have no words for it. I was calm during the penalty shootout and everything went as we wanted,\" Martinez said after Sunday\'s final.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All that I have dreamed of has been achieved.\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 03:35:30', '2022-12-19 03:35:30'),
(3849, 3849, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Jews in Ukraine waging a \"war between darkness and light” lit a giant menorah on Sunday night to start the eight-day Hanukkah holiday as tens of thousands remained without electricity and Russia\'s nearly 10-month war produced new victims.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Dozens gathered in Maidan Independence Square in the capital, Kyiv, at sundown to light the first candle of what local Jewish leaders say is Europe’s tallest menorah. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko joined ambassadors from Israel, the United States, Japan, Poland, Canada and France in a ceremony organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine. They sang blessings under the flames of the menorah, which towered over the crowd and passing cars in frigid weather.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rabbi Mayer Stambler, a leader of Ukraine\'s Jewish community, drew parallels to the story of Hanukkah, an eight-day commemoration of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after their victory over the Syrians more than 2,000 years ago. When only enough oil was available to keep the temple candles lit for one day and night, the oil inexplicably burned for eight days and eight nights — a feat now celebrated as the Jewish Festival of Lights.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are actually now living through the same situation,” said Stambler, drawing a parallel with the current blackouts in Ukraine that Russian bombardments have caused. “This is a war between darkness and light.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In congratulating the world\'s Jews on Hanukkah, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, also noted the holiday\'s inspiration for his people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Dead boy pulled from rubble of latest Russian hit on Ukraine</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Those who were fewer defeated those who were more. Light defeated darkness. It will be the same this time,” he vowed in a video address late Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among those watching the Kyiv menorah lighting was 47-year-old Viktoria Herman, who said the festival of lights brought her hope during the December days with the least sunlight of the year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There will be light and everything will be fine for everyone. And finally the war will end,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, said: “I wish for the people of Ukraine all of that which Hanukkah symbolizes. I wish there was light on every Ukrainian house ... and I wish you victory.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volunteers distributed thousands of menorahs, candles, printed materials, family puzzle games and sweets for the holiday to members of Ukraine\'s Jewish minority population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the holiday symbolism as a backdrop, Ukraine\'s state-owned power grid operator Ukrenergo said it was still working Sunday to restore electricity knocked out by Russian missile damage. The grid operator said the volume of electricity consumption increased compared to Saturday, due to falling temperatures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelenskyy reported that power had been restored Sunday to 3 million Ukrainians, on top of 6 million the day before.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the battlefield, Russian military forces on Sunday shelled the center of Kherson, the major city that Russian soldiers retreated from last month in one of Moscow’s biggest battlefield setbacks in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three people were wounded in the attacks, said presidential deputy chief of staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The southern city and its surrounding region have come under frequent attack since the Russian pullback. Regional governor Yaroslav Yanushevych said Sunday that Russia had carried out 54 attacks with rocket, mortar and tank fire over the previous day, killing three people and wounding six.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the city of Donetsk, capital of a region Russia illegally annexed, a Ukrainian attack that hit a hospital killed one patient and wounded several others, the Russian-installed mayor reported on the Telegram messaging app.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, in Russia, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said Sunday that one person was killed and eight wounded in Ukrainian shelling of the region, which lies along Ukraine\'s northern border.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the latest phase of the war, Moscow’s forces have been heavily targeting infrastructure serving civilians, such as water and electricity supply lines, compounding Ukrainians’ suffering as winter deepens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelenskyy used Sunday\'s final match of the soccer World Cup to decry war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This World Cup proved time and again that different countries and different nationalities can decide who is the strongest in fair play but not in the playing with fire — on the green playing field, not on the red battlefield,” Zelenskyy said in an English video statement released hours before Argentina beat France 4-2 in a penalty shootout. 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(3850, 3850, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">North Korea said Monday it fired a test satellite in an important final-stage test for the development of its first spy satellite, a key military capability coveted by its leader Kim Jong Un along with other high-tech weapons systems.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The North’s official Korean Central News Agency also released black-and-white photos showing a space view of the South Korean capital and Incheon, a city just west of Seoul, in an apparent attempt to show the North is pushing to monitor its rival with its advancing technologies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rocket carrying the test satellite was launched Sunday to assess the satellite\'s photography and data transmission systems, KCNA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country’s National Aerospace Development Administration called the test results “an important success which has gone through the final gateway process of the launch of reconnaissance satellite.\" It said it would complete the preparations for its first military reconnaissance satellite by April next year, according to KCNA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“From the images released, the resolution does not appear to be so impressive for military reconnaissance,” Soo Kim, a security analyst at the California-based RAND Corporation, said. “I’d note, however, that this is probably an ongoing development, so we may see more improvements to North Korea’s military reconnaissance capabilities over time.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korea, Japan and U.S. authorities had said Sunday they had detected a pair of ballistic missile launches by North Korea from its northwestern Tongchang-ri area, where the North\'s satellite launch pad is located. They said the two missiles flew about 500 kilometers (310 miles) at a maximum altitude of 550 kilometers (340 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. This could mean North Korea might have fired a missile or two to send the test-piece satellite into space.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spy satellite was on a wish list of sophisticated military assets Kim announced during a ruling party meeting early last year, together with multi-warhead missiles, solid-fueled long-range missiles, underwater-launched nuclear missiles and nuclear-powered submarines. Kim has called for such high-tech weapons systems and an expanded nuclear arsenal to pressure the United States to abandon its hostile polices on North Korea, an apparent reference to U.S.-led sanctions and the U.S.-South Korean military drills that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea has since taken steps to develop such weapons systems. In February and March, North Korea said it conducted tests to check a camera and data transmission systems to be used on a spy satellite. In November, it test-launched its developmental, longest-range Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile, a weapon believed to be designed to carry multiple warheads. Last week, North Korea said it performed a “high-thrust solid-fuel motor” to be used for a new strategic weapon, an apparent reference to a solid-fueled ICBM.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that North Korea will likely make a proper orbital launch for a reconnaissance satellite next April — probably around April 15, the birthday of Kim’s late grandfather and state founder Kim Il Sung. The day is one of the most important state anniversaries in North Korea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this year, North Korea test-launched a record number of missiles, many of them nuclear-capable missiles with varying ranges to reach the U.S. mainland and its allies South Korea and Japan. It also legislated a law authorizing the preemptive use of nuclear weapons on a broad range of scenarios, causing security jitters in South Korea and elsewhere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea has avoided fresh U.N. sanctions for those moves, however, because U.N. Security Council permanent members Russia and China won\'t support U.S. attempts to impose them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Having codified his country’s nuclear law earlier this year, tested missiles of varying capabilities, and made it very clear he has no interest in diplomacy with the U.S. and South Korea, Kim has essentially paved the way for nuclearization,” Soo Kim, the analyst, said. “He’s lent the appearance that the only possible way out of this quagmire is for the international community to fold the conditions set forth by the regime.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said a handful of other high-priority geopolitical concerns involving China and Russia “has allowed Kim to buy time and the grace of the international community to push forward with his plan.” AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 03:51:32', '2022-12-19 03:51:32'),
(3851, 3851, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Countries gathered at a UN meeting on biodiversity in Montreal were inching closer Sunday to a deal to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030 and to stump up $30 billion in yearly aid for the developing world to save their ecosystems.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fraught talks to seal a \"peace pact for nature\" came to a head as summit chair China presented a long-awaited compromise text that was cautiously welcomed by many, though some nations said more work was needed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plan maps out action for the next decade to roll back habitat destruction, pollution and the climate crisis that scientists say threaten a million plant and animal species with extinction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It calls on wealthy countries to increase financial aid to the developing world to $20 billion annually by 2025, rising to $30 billion per year by 2030, while ensuring 30 percent of land and sea areas are effectively conserved and managed by the end of this decade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The text includes language safeguarding the rights of Indigenous people as stewards of their lands, a key demand of campaigners, but was watered down in other areas -- for example, only encouraging businesses to report their biodiversity impacts rather than mandating them to do so.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The draft still needs to be agreed upon by the 196 signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity before it is finalized.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environmentalists say the \"30 by 30\" goal is the biodiversity equivalent of the Paris Agreement, which seeks to limit long-term global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting, called COP15, is being held in Canada because of China\'s strict Covid rules.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Risk of pushback -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Six months ago, we didn\'t even know if we would have a COP this year, let alone a Paris moment for biodiversity, and that sincerely is where I think we\'re heading,\" said Canada\'s environment minister Steven Guilbeault in enthusiastic remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But European commissioner for environment Virginijus Sinkevicius struck a more cautious note, signaling that the funding figures being discussed could be problematic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If we have other countries committing to fulfill those goals, such as China, I think that can be realistic,\" he said, also calling on Arab states to play their part.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colombia\'s environment minister Susana Muhamad said she was \"optimistic that the main goals have been landed,\" calling the draft an \"important step forward.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Braulio Dias, however, speaking on behalf of the incoming Brazilian government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, called for \"better resource mobilization\" -- technical speak for more aid to developing countries, a concern echoed by the Democratic Republic of Congo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conservation groups said the text was a mixed bag.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The draft text makes the largest commitment to ocean and land conservation in history,\" said Brian O\'Donnell, of the Campaign for Nature.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Georgina Chandler, of Britain\'s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said she was worried about a lack of numeric \"milestones\" for restoring ecosystems on the way to 2050.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re basically not measuring progress until 28 years\' time, which is madness,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Funding dispute -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Developing countries, spearheaded by Brazil, had been seeking the creation of a new fund to signal the Global North\'s commitment to the cause. But the draft text instead suggests a compromise: a \"trust fund\" within the existing mechanism, called the Global Environment Facility.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colombia\'s Muhamad said her country would accept this as a stopgap measure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The more than 20 targets also include cutting environmentally destructive farming subsidies, reducing pesticide use and tackling invasive species.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the issue of how much money the rich countries will send to the developing world, home to most of the planet\'s biodiversity, has been the biggest sticking point.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lower income nations point out developed countries grew rich by exploiting their natural resources and therefore demand to be paid well to protect their own.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Current financial flows for nature to the developing world are estimated at around $10 billion per year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the moral implications, there is the question of self-interest: $44 trillion of economic value generation -- more than half the world\'s total GDP -- depends on nature and its services. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 04:18:07', '2022-12-19 04:18:07'),
(3852, 3852, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor supported Argentina in the FIFA World Cup final against France on Sunday. The new parents were spotted wearing Argentina\'s jersey for the match, and were clicked by paparazzi outside the Mumbai residence of director Luv Ranjan.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New parents Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt watched the FIFA World Cup final between Argentina and France together in Mumbai. The actors wore matching Argentina jerseys as they supported the team that eventually won the world cup after a nail-bitting match. Alia and Ranbir were spotted outside the home of filmmaker Luv Ranjan. Ranbir will soon be seen in Luv\'s directorial Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar alongside Shraddha Kapoor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alia and Ranbir were all smiles, when they were photographed in Mumbai wearing their white and blue Argentina jerseys. Ranbir also wore a cap for the outing. The two were also clicked inside their car near Luv\'s residence. Actors Arjun Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao were also spotted outside the filmmaker\'s Mumbai home ahead of the FIFA World Cup final.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Alia, Ranbir, Rajkummar and other celebs watched the match at home in Mumbai, celebs like Ranveer Singh, Kartik Aaryan, Farah Khan and others had jetted off to Qatar to witness the final. Moreover, Deepika Padukone also unveiled the FIFA World Cup trophy on Sunday ahead of the final between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Doha. She was accompanied by former Spain goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ranbir Kapoor will next be seen in Luv\'s Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar. The romantic comedy, co-starring Sharaddha Kapoor, is set to be released on March 8, 2023. His upcoming films also includes Animal with Rashmika Mandanna. Alia, on the other hand, will be seen in Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani alongside Ranveer Singh. She also has her Hollywood debut Heart of Stone and Farhan Akhtar\'s Jee Le Zara with Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif in her kitty. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 04:52:54', '2022-12-19 04:52:54'),
(3853, 3853, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There is no respite for Dhaka dwellers from unhealthy air as it turned ‘very unhealthy’ on Monday morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 230 at 9 am, the metropolis ranked third in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan’s Lahore and Karachi occupied the first two spots in the list, with AQI scores of 274 and 232, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 05:05:29', '2022-12-19 05:05:29'),
(3854, 3854, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Wrapping up an 18-month probe into last year\'s deadly attack on the US Capitol, lawmakers will convene Monday to vote on whether to recommend criminal charges against former president Donald Trump and some of his closest aides.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The select House of Representatives committee has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and held explosive public hearings into what happened on January 6, 2021 -- and who was responsible for it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The panel, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, will meet at 1:00 pm (1800 GMT) to unveil the findings on their investigation into the deadly riot, in which Trump supporters -- who falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from him by Joe Biden -- ransacked the Capitol.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least five people died in connection with the melee and 140 police officers were injured. About 900 people have been arrested in connection with the violent rampage, which sent shockwaves across the country and around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The panel will decide whether or not to recommend that the Justice Department seek charges against Trump -- who is running to retake the Oval Office in the 2024 election -- on at least three counts, according to reports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those charges would be inciting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the US government, NBC News reported Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lawmakers cannot authorize charges themselves but can make recommendations to the Justice Department, which has already appointed a special counsel to look into Trump\'s role in the Capitol riot and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their vote is nonbinding and largely symbolic -- the decision on charges for Trump will ultimately rest with Attorney General Merrick Garland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the three charges reportedly being considered could result in prison time and a ban from public office for the former president, who still wields considerable power in the Republican Party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think that the evidence is there that Donald Trump committed criminal offenses in connection with his efforts to overturn the election,\" Democratic committee member Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee may also make legislative recommendations to protect the process of certifying election results.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its final report is due for release on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Democrats, misfits and thugs\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Schiff did not offer details on possible criminal referrals against Trump, or even say how he himself would vote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But on CNN\'s \"State of the Union\" news program, he did say: \"I think the president has violated multiple criminal laws. And I think you have to be treated like any other American who breaks the law, and that is, you have to be prosecuted.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump has repeatedly disparaged the House panel on his own Truth Social platform, calling the members \"Democrats, misfits and thugs.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has defended the speech he gave before the January 6 riot and his other actions that day as \"mild &amp; loving.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On that day, he called on his supporters to \"fight like hell.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Attempted coup\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since July 2021, the House select committee has sought to shed light on the former president\'s actions before and during January 6, 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Across eight hearings this past summer, the panel unveiled reams of evidence on Trump\'s involvement in a labyrinthine series of connected schemes to overturn the election -- and the impossibility of the Republican not knowing he had lost to Biden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump was \"at the center\" of \"an attempted coup,\" the head of the committee, Representative Bennie Thompson, has said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The panel interviewed several Trump aides including his then Attorney General Bill Barr and even his daughter Ivanka. In snippets of interviews shown to the public, many of them said they never believed there had been election fraud.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee also revealed the pressure Trump had placed on his own vice president Mike Pence and other officials, notably in the key states of Georgia and Arizona, in a campaign of intimidation aimed at invalidating the November 2020 election. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 06:04:00', '2022-12-19 06:04:00'),
(3855, 3855, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 31 Thai Navy sailors were missing on Monday after their vessel sank off the southeastern coast of Thailand, a naval spokesperson said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The HTMS Sukhothai was patrolling the Gulf of Thailand, roughly 20 nautical miles from Bang Saphan pier in southern Prachuap Khiri Khan, when it ran into strong tides and took on water late Sunday night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A rescue mission was launched after the vessel\'s electronic system was damaged, with pictures shared by the navy showing the ship dramatically heeling to one side.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are still looking for 31 missing,\" said navy spokesperson Admiral Pogkrong Montradpalin, adding that the ship sank shortly after midnight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The ship\'s operating systems stopped working, causing the ship to lose control,\" he said earlier Monday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement said 75 of 106 personnel on board were pulled from the waters in a rescue operation involving two seahawk helicopters, two frigates and one amphibious ship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The search-and-rescue operation, which started at 7 am, was ongoing, the statement added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 11 naval personnel were being treated at Bang Saphan hospital, while some 40 others were being housed at shelters. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 06:18:23', '2022-12-19 06:18:23'),
(3856, 3856, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The onset of winters can make our daily routine go haywire if we are not careful. People wake up a little late and some even skip their morning walks or exercise routine which can change the course of their entire day. From water intake, food habits to physical activity during the day, everything gets affected in winter, which could lead to constipation. With junk and processed food intake on the rise especially among youngsters, constipation is increasingly becoming far more common.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lack of physical activity in winters only worsens the condition. Besides causing several long-term problems, chronic constipation also spoils daily routine of people suffering from it as it leaves them with less energy and enthusiasm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Constipation is a very common ailment that affects people of all ages and genders. It has become a common occurrence in young kids as well who have adopted a sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits. Constipation is not always the result of a bad lifestyle, it can also be developed as a comorbidity with diseases like IBS, diabetes, hypothyroidism, and general stomach conditions.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This condition occurs when the stool is not able to pass effectively through the digestive tract or cannot be eliminated from the rectum. As a result, the stool may also become hard and dry,\" says Dr Gurbakhshish Singh Sidhu, Senior Consultant, Medical Gastroenterology, Manipal Hospitals, Patiala.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chronic constipation can also lead to major conditions like haemorrhoids, anal fissures, and rectal prolapse. Foods play a major role in determining the symptoms of constipation and if left uncontrolled, it could get worse in the winter season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, one must know what is good for the digestive system and what is not.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Sidhu shares a list of food items that are best to avoid for a healthy stomach:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Drinks that cause dehydration</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is easy to miss the average water consumption during the winter season, and a person might go a full day without realizing that they haven’t consumed any water. Dehydration is a key player in causing constipation and drinks such as alcohol and caffeine cause dehydration when consumed regularly or in excess quantities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Processed grains</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foods with high-fibre content are good for digestion and highly processed grains such as white bread and rice lack fibre content, making them a cause of constipation in many people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. Raw bananas</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bananas are considered very good for digestion but they can trigger constipation if eaten raw. A well-ripped banana has good fibre content that could help in treating constipation. However, an unripe banana has large quantities of starch that makes it difficult to digest and causes constipation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. Dairy products</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many people in the world are lactose intolerant, due to the inability to produce lactase, which is an enzyme that helps to digest milk and milk products. The usual symptoms of lactose intolerance are diarrhoea and gas but many young children and adults also experience constipation as a side effect.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">5. Junk or fast foods</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many fast foods, including pizza, ice creams, burgers, chips, and biscuits have high salt/sugar and high-fat content with very less fibre. Fibre is essential in digestion and lack of it always causes ailments that get worse if appropriate changes are not made. Fast foods not only cause constipation but also triggers many other severe diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and fatty liver.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Although constipation is a common ailment that is bound to happen sometimes, but with proper care and attention, the issue can be avoided. In case of underlying symptoms of constipation for more than 3 weeks, it is best to consult a medical expert to avoid any complications in future,\" says Dr Sidhu. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 06:39:00', '2022-12-19 06:39:00'),
(3857, 3857, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh is likely to be covered with moderate to thick fog in next 24 hours commencing from 9am on Monday, the weather office has predicted.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Moderate to thick fog may occur over the country during midnight till morning,” according to the daily Met Office bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 12.2 degree Celsius in Cumilla of Chattogram division in last 24 hours till 6am today (Monday) while the highest temperature was 30.5 degree Celsius recorded in Srimangal of Sylhet division.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the low pressure area over Southeast Bay and adjoining area now lies over central part of South Bay &amp; adjoining area persists. Its associated trough extends up to North Bay. Ridge of Sub-continental high extends up to West Bengal and adjoining area, as per the bulletin. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 07:41:02', '2022-12-19 07:41:02'),
(3858, 3858, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least five people were killed on Sunday in a shooting incident in a condo unit in Vaughan, north of Toronto, local authorities said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Police found a \"horrendous scene\" where five people were killed, and one suspect was shot dead by the police, the authorities said.</div><div><br></div><div>The suspect\'s motive hasn\'t been revealed. The shooting remains under investigation. - Xinhua</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 08:19:35', '2022-12-19 08:19:35'),
(3859, 3859, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A diplomatic delegation from the three host countries of the 2026 World Cup were in Qatar on Sunday for a handover ceremony ahead of the final between France and Argentina.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States, Mexico and Canada will stage soccer’s biggest event in less than 3½ years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We could not be more excited,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who led a presidential delegation to the final. “We are already hard at work preparing for 2026 and we’re looking forward to welcoming fans from around the world.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greenfield told Sheikha Alya Al Thani of Qatar, a fellow ambassador to the United Nations, that the current host had “set the standards high.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The most important thing to remember is the World Cup transcends things and it plays an exceptional role in uniting people and countries and creating lasting friendships,” Sheikha Alya said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Qatar bustles with life as World Cup nears end</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2026 tournament will be played in 16 cities: 11 in the United States, three in Mexico and two in Canada.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Argentina won the title in Qatar by beating France 4-2 in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 08:22:22', '2022-12-19 08:22:22'),
(3860, 3860, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 31 Thai Navy sailors were missing on Monday after their vessel sank off the southeastern coast of Thailand, a naval spokesperson said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The HTMS Sukhothai was patrolling the Gulf of Thailand, roughly 20 nautical miles from Bang Saphan pier in southern Prachuap Khiri Khan, when it ran into strong tides and took on water late Sunday night.</div><div><br></div><div>A rescue mission was launched after the vessel\'s electronic system was damaged, with pictures shared by the navy showing the ship dramatically heeling to one side.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are still looking for 31 missing,\" said navy spokesperson Admiral Pogkrong Montradpalin, adding that the ship sank shortly after midnight.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The ship\'s operating systems stopped working, causing the ship to lose control,\" he said earlier Monday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>A statement said 75 of 106 personnel on board were pulled from the waters in a rescue operation involving two seahawk helicopters, two frigates and one amphibious ship.</div><div><br></div><div>The search-and-rescue operation, which started at 7 am, was ongoing, the statement added.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 11 naval personnel were being treated at Bang Saphan hospital, while some 40 others were being housed at shelters. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 08:37:15', '2022-12-19 08:37:15'),
(3861, 3861, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested a fugitive convict, who had been sentenced to death, over the 2013 murder of Biswajit Das.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">RAB-2 Senior Assistant Director (Media) and Senior ASP Md Fazlul Haque gave this information on Monday (December 19) morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the basis of intelligence report, a team of RAB raided Humayun Road area of Mohammadpur and arrested Nur Alam alias Limon, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrested was identified as Mir Md Nur Alam alias Limon, hailed from Pirgacha Upazila of Rangpur and son of Nurul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nur Alam had been on the run for 10 years since Biswajit was hacked to death in broad daylight by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on December 9, 2012.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police (DB) filed a charge sheet against 21 people in the Sutrapur police station murder case in that incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of the judicial process, on December 18, 2013, Dhaka\'s Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 sentenced eight people to death and 13 to life imprisonment, including Nur Alam alias Limon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The High Court later acquitted two of the eight death row convicts and commuted the death sentences of four, including Limon, to life. During the announcement of the verdict of the High Court, Mir Md. Noor Alam alias Limon was absconding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 08:38:54', '2022-12-19 08:38:54'),
(3862, 3862, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three Jordanian police personnel were killed in a raid on the hideout of the suspected killers of a policeman in the southern city of Maan, a police statement said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The police said one of the suspects believed to be a fighter was killed on Monday. The statement gave no further details.</div><div><br></div><div>A senior police officer had been killed in clashes with demonstrators in Maan on Friday, during protests over high fuel prices that have spread to several cities across Jordan. According to Al Jazeera reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 09:38:37', '2022-12-19 09:38:37'),
(3863, 3863, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sri Lanka\'s navy has rescued 104 Rohingya adrift off the Indian Ocean island\'s northern coast, an official said on Monday, as members of the Muslim minority continue to escape violence in Myanmar and hardship in Bangladesh refugee camps.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Many Rohingya risk their lives every year by attempting to reach Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia on rickety vessels, and their numbers have surged following deteriorating conditions in the camps and last year\'s military coup in Myanmar.</div><div><br></div><div>The boat was first detected by the Sri Lanka Navy when it was 3.5 nautical miles from shore and a search and rescue operation was launched to eventually tow the vessel to a northern harbour on Sunday night, a navy spokesperson, Captain Gayan Wickramasuriya, said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The people have been handed over to the police,\" Wickramasuriya told Reuters. \"The police will present them before a magistrate who will decide the next step.\"</div><div><br></div><div>A navy statement said it had 104 Myanmar nationals were found aboard a small trawler suspected to have originated from Myanmar and was heading to Indonesia when it ran into engine trouble in rough seas.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickramasuriya 39 women and 23 minors were among the rescued people, and an 80-year old man, one mother and her two children were admitted to hospital suffering from minor sickness.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2018, more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to neighbouring Bangladesh following a military crackdown in Myanmar that witnesses said included mass killings and rape.</div><div><br></div><div>Rights groups and media have documented killings of civilians and burning of villages.</div><div><br></div><div>Myanmar authorities have said they were battling an insurgency and deny carrying out systematic atrocities. According to Reuters reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 10:26:19', '2022-12-19 10:26:19'),
(3864, 3864, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Football fans in the southern Indian state of Kerala have always distinguished themselves for their love for football in a cricket-crazy country.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sunday was no different as the state geared up to watch the final between Argentina and France.</div><div><br></div><div>Makeshift screens were set up across the state as Argentinian and French flags fluttered in the streets as fans gathered in their thousands to watch the match.</div><div><br></div><div>But a couple stood out in their devotion for the beautiful game. Sachin R and R Athira\'s wedding date coincided with the final on Sunday. While they agreed on most things about their wedding, they didn\'t want to compromise on which team they supported in the final.</div><div><br></div><div>Sachin is an ardent fan of Argentina star Lionel Messi, while Athira is a passionate supporter of the French football team.</div><div><br></div><div>Hours before the two teams met in Qatar\'s Lusail Stadium in one of the most spectacular matches in World Cup history, they married each other in a ceremony held in Kochi city.</div><div><br></div><div>Over their jewellery and traditional wedding attire, the couple wore number 10 jerseys - Athira donned one for French forward Kylian Mbappe while Sachin wore Argentina\'s colours for Messi.</div><div><br></div><div>Newspaper Malayala Manorama reports that following their wedding ceremony, the couple raced through their reception and the wedding feast to make it back to Sachin\'s house in Thiruvananthapuram 206km (128 miles) away in time to watch what turned out to be a sensational final.</div><div><br></div><div>Argentina won the final in a penalty shootout 4-2, giving 35-year-old maestro Messi a chance to finally lift the World Cup trophy.</div><div><br></div><div>Kerala, where Messi has a huge fan following, has been celebrating the victory since Sunday night as fans waved Argentina flags and set off fireworks across the state.</div><div><br></div><div>In Thrissur, a hotel owner kept his promise to serve free biryani if ​​Argentina won.</div><div><br></div><div>The state\'s devotion for the game even caught the eye of FIFA last month when it tweeted about fans setting up giant carboard statues of football stars in the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Brazilian star Neymar also noticed the statues and thanked his fans in the state. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 11:34:05', '2022-12-19 11:34:05'),
(3865, 3865, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reiterated her call to increase food production to save the country from any possible trouble amid the global economic recession due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We have to increase our production and preserve those so that our country must not plunge into any danger,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier was speaking at the programme marking the 25th founding anniversary of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) and inauguration of a Technology Exhibition.</div><div><br></div><div>The programme was held at the Begum Sufia Kamal Auditorium while the PM joined it virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said that the world is witnessing an economic recession as an impact of coronavirus and war-related sanctions and counter-sanctions by the US-led Western block and Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>“As a result the prices of food items have soared beyond the purchasing capacity of all. Besides, prices of everything including power, fuel and transportation have been increased,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking about the preservation capacity, she said that the government has set up a number of modern silos to stock rice, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“Such godowns are urgently needed for food items being produced here,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She told that the government is focusing on the food processing industries in the 100 economic zones that are being set up in different parts of the country by the government.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 12:53:20', '2022-12-19 12:53:20'),
(3866, 3866, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken a decision to form a fund, title \'Bangladesh Bank Agricultural Development Common Fund (BBADCF)\' for increasing farm production.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Under the initiative, banks would deposit money equivalent to the undisbursed amount of farm and rural loans in the fund and the BB would give 2 per cent interest on the deposits, as per a BB circular issued today.</div><div><br></div><div>The funds of the BBADCF would then be distributed among banks in proportion to their capacity. Banks would pay back the loans to the BB, along with 2 per cent interest, within 18 months of the fund release.</div><div><br></div><div>Banks can charge 8 per cent interest on the loans given to farmers using the money from the BBADCF. The loans have to be disbursed using banks\' own network, not through microfinance institutions, said the notice.</div><div><br></div><div>Banks would be allowed to transfer 4 percentage points of the interest to their income segment on the loans made from the fund. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 13:28:58', '2022-12-19 13:28:58');
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(3867, 3867, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian warships set off Monday to take part in a joint naval drills with China, an exercise that showcases increasingly close defense ties between the two countries as they face tensions with the United States.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Russian Defense Ministry said the Varyag missile cruiser, the Marshal Shaposhnikov destroyer and two corvettes of Russia\'s Pacific Fleet would take part in maneuvers in the East China Sea starting Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry said the Chinese navy planned to deploy several surface warships and a submarine for the exercise. Russian and Chinese aircraft will also take part in the drills, according to the ministry.</div><div>Moscow and Beijing have displayed their growing military cooperation in recent months.</div><div><br></div><div>In November, Tu-95 bombers of the Russian air force and Chinese H-6K bombers flew joint patrols over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. As part of the drills, the Russian bombers landed in China for the first time, and the Chinese bombers flew to an air base in Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>In September, China sent more than 2,000 troops along with more than 300 military vehicles, 21 combat aircraft and three warships to take part in a sweeping joint exercise with Russia. The maneuvers marked the first time that China sent forces from three branches of its military to take part in a single Russian drill, in what was described as a show of the breadth and depth of China-Russia mutual trust.</div><div><br></div><div>Defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing has grown stronger since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.</div><div><br></div><div>China, which has declared a “no limits” friendship with Russia, has pointedly refused to criticize Moscow’s actions, blaming the U.S. and NATO for provoking the Kremlin, and has blasted the punishing sanctions imposed on Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia, in turn, has strongly backed China amid the tensions with the U.S. over Taiwan. - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 14:21:01', '2022-12-19 14:21:01'),
(3868, 3868, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 10-year-old died in Karnataka today after his teacher beat him and pushed him off the first-floor balcony of the government-run school. The police said Muthappa, teacher at Adarsh Primary School at Hagli village in the northern part of the state, beat the boy with a shovel.&nbsp; Bharat was a student of Class 4.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Shivprakash Devaraju, a senior police officer of Gadak district, told reporters, \"The reason is not clear now...prima facie it looks like some family issues among them\".</div><div><br></div><div>Muthappa had even thrashed Bharat\'s mother, Gita Barker, who is also a teacher at the school. She is receiving treatment at a local hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>The man, who was a contract employee, is currently missing.</div><div>A similar incident was reported from a school in Delhi last week. The teacher, in a fit of rage, had attacked a student of Class 5 with scissors and flung her from the first floor of a government school building.</div><div><br></div><div>The attack took place during the craft class.</div><div><br></div><div>The police said the teacher apparently locked herself inside a classroom with students and \"violently\" threw water bottles before she picked up the girl, cut her hair and tossed her from the balcony.</div><div>Another teacher tried to intervene Geeta Deshwal from flinging down the student, but failed.</div><div><br></div><div>The child, who was immediately taken to the hospital, is stable, doctors have said. She has fractured her cheekbone and is unable to eat or drink. She also bruised her head and leg in the fall.</div><div><br></div><div>The school in question is run by the civic body of Delhi. The teacher has been arrested and is facing charges of attempt to murder. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 14:25:51', '2022-12-19 14:25:51'),
(3869, 3869, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia is constructing a protective dome over spent radioactive fuel stores at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant as Ukrainian forces continue to target the facility, senior regional official Vladimir Rogov has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He took to Telegram on Saturday to post a short video of the work that’s taking place. It showed technicians setting up shields over the tanks that hold spent nuclear fuel.</div><div><br></div><div>The dome is designed to protect the storage facilities from shrapnel and improvised explosive devices carried by drones, the official explained, adding that it would be reinforced further at a later period.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia’s nuclear energy corporation Rosatom had earlier warned that damage to the spent-fuel containers risks a release of radioactive material into the atmosphere, with unpredictable consequences.</div><div><br></div><div>The construction of the dome comes amid continued attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the nearby town of Energodar, which Moscow blames on Kiev. Russia has repeatedly said that such strikes could result in a nuclear disaster that would eclipse the 1986 Chernobyl incident and affect many countries in Europe.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine initially claimed that the Russian military had been hitting the plant itself as part of “false-flag” operations to make Kiev look bad. However, Ukrainian general staff eventually admitted to striking the area around the nuclear facility.</div><div><br></div><div>The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is the largest on the continent, has been under Russian control since February 28. All of the reactors at the facility are currently shut down due to the security situation.</div><div><br></div><div>Zaporozhye Region, together with three other former Ukrainian territories – Kherson Region and the People’s Republic of Donetsk and Lugnask – joined Russia in autumn after holding referendums. Source: rt.com&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 15:22:52', '2022-12-19 15:22:52'),
(3870, 3870, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">French police used tear gas to disperse crowds of fans who gathered on the Champs-Elysees in after their national team\'s defeat at the 2022 final in Qatar, Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti reported on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, Argentina defeated France 4-2 on penalties, following a 3-3 draw after extra time, and won the World Cup for the third time. Police used tear gas to disperse fans on the Champs-Elysees in Paris as they continued to pelt firecrackers at law enforcers , RIA Novosti reported. Source: ANI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 15:26:05', '2022-12-19 15:26:05'),
(3871, 3871, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">To prevent misuse of narcotics on the new year\'s eve, all bars across the country will remain closed and concerts on roads and flyovers be prohibited for 24 hours from 6 pm of the 31st night.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said this on Monday to the media after a meeting on law and order for Christmas Day and 31st night celebrations at the ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>This year Christmas Day will be celebrated in 5,682 churches across the country and security measures will be taken for all, said the minister.</div><div><br></div><div>“In large churches we have requested to provide volunteers from the Christian community along with our security forces. Special security and intelligence forces will be deployed in diplomatic zones as most diplomats are Christian. CCTV cameras will be installed and important churches will be swept as done during the VIP movement and dog squads will also be deployed,” added the minister.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a special anti-narcotic drive will also be conducted from December 28 to 31.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister urged people to not use fireworks, crackers and vuvuzela during the celebrations of 31st night creating panic among people.</div><div><br></div><div>When asked whether concerts can be arranged in the field he said it can be done on permission of metropolitan police but on condition of creating no traffic jam.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said there is no threat regarding the celebration. \"Militancy was rising but it had been identified beforehand,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>When asked about BNP promising justice for all enforced disappearance, murder, torture for last half decade in their outline of structural reforms of the state, he said they are taking a step in this regard too as it has become people’s demand now.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a list of disappeared people during the BNP regime from 2001 to 2006 is being made, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“Freedom fighters, Awami League leaders, activists were killed and fell victim of disappearance during that time. A report has been made in this regard. We also want everything to be investigated,” said Asaduzzaman Khan.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 15:32:39', '2022-12-19 15:32:39'),
(3872, 3872, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Election Commissioner Md. Alamgir on Monday said the Election Commission (EC) is not using CC cameras in the by-elections of the vacant five parliamentary seats left by BNP MPs\' resignations due to lack of budget.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said this in his office at the election building to the reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There is no budget for installing CCTV cameras in this election. Installation of CC cameras is not possible with Annual Development Programme(ADP) allocation. ADP money can be spent on projects. For CC cameras, money has to be allocated from the revenue sector,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Saying \'CC cameras are not a solution\'</div><div><br></div><div>Commissioner Alamgir said the Election Commission (EC) does not see any need for this device. Many elections did not have CCTV cameras, yet no incidents occurred.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Polls for five seats will be competitive. It will have balance. As a result, there will be no need for CC cameras,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The commissioner also said that the commission can meet and take a decision if necessary to use it as there is plenty of time for selection.</div><div><br></div><div>By-elections to the five parliamentary seats, left vacant after BNP MPs resigned, will be held on February 1, 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>EC will conduct the by-polls to parliamentary seats -- Thakurgaon-3, Bogura-4, Bogura-6, Chapainawabganj-2 and Brahmanbaria-2.</div><div><br></div><div>The EC secretary said candidates can submit their nomination papers till January 5. Returning officers will scrutinize the nomination papers on January 8 and January 15 has been set as the last date for withdrawal of candidature.</div><div><br></div><div>On December 11, five out of seven BNP members of the parliament (MPs) submitted their resignation to Speaker of Parliament Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, as part of their anti-government movement with a 10-point demand that includes dissolution of parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>The MPs who resigned were: Md. Zahidur Rahman, Thakurgaon-3; Md. Mosharof Hosen, Bogura-4; Gulam Mohammad Siraj, Bogura-6; Md. Aminul Islam, Chapainawabganj-2; and Rumeen Farhana, from women’s reserved seats.</div><div><br></div><div>Md. Harunur Rashid of Chapainawabganj-3, who is now in Australia and the ailing MP of Brahmanbaria-2 Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan could not submit their resignations to the Speaker in person.</div><div><br></div><div>The seven MPs sent their resignations through email on the same day.</div><div><br></div><div>The Parliament Secretariat published a gazette notification announcing the parliamentary seats as vacant after their resignation. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-19 15:45:16', '2022-12-19 15:45:16'),
(3873, 3873, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Even before an epic final won by Lionel Messi and Argentina, FIFA president Gianni Infantino was calling it “the best World Cup ever” in Qatar.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was clear self-interest to declare the success of a tournament that was politically fraught for most of the 12 years since the wealthy emirate was picked as host by a previous FIFA leadership broadly tainted by corruption allegations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIFA\'s fundamental role is to oversee global soccer\'s rules and make sure World Cups happen on schedule: Goal achieved, billions of dollars duly earned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As ever with arguably world sport\'s most colorful governing body, there was much else going on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>ON THE FIELD</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the games begin focus shifts to the field, and FIFA got that early on day three when Messi and Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia 2-1 in an upset for the ages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day later, Germany lost to Japan and then Brazil delighted the world in its first game against Serbia. Morocco picked up the baton and was the first African or Arab nation to still be playing on the last weekend of a World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Games were consistently compelling if not the best quality. These were not vintage Spain or Netherlands teams, and not even Brazil by the time of its quarterfinals exit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The drama rose with simultaneous group-stage games that carried Japan, South Korea and Croatia to the round of 16 and sent Germany and Belgium home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All continents got teams into the knockout rounds, letting Infantino repeat his claim of soccer “becoming truly global for the first time.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the final was a true classic on Sunday, Argentina winning on penalties after a 3-3 draw, it left everyone except France feeling like they won.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>POLITICS</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a most political World Cup. Before a game was played there was scrutiny of Qatar for its human rights record, employment practices and a years-long boycott by neighboring states in which FIFA pushed for the Gulf region to share the tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the final weeks of preparation, Qatar pushed back more confidently against its critics – a process FIFA joined after teams and media arrived on site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Infantino’s infamous “I feel gay, I feel a migrant worker” speech on Nov. 19 hit many of the host nation’s talking points that alleged western hypocrisy and racism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIFA gave assurances in private — to European teams about captains wearing anti-discrimination armbands; to fans about wearing rainbow symbols; to World Cup sponsor AB InBev about selling Budweiser beer with alcohol at stadiums – that started to collapse. Bonds of trust were severely strained.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pre-tournament talk of being open to supporting a compensation fund and better resources for migrant workers in Qatar was mostly shut down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qatar’s World Cup was a state-run project and it seemed clear who was in charge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When European women lawmakers came to games wearing the “One Love” armband, Middle East officials started sporting a Palestinian armband.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When an Italian field invader displayed European activist messages, days later a Tunisian man did the same with a Palestinian flag.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the tournament, basic operational detail was hard to get and most requests were ignored. Routine briefings and news conferences at past World Cups, including Russia in 2018, did not happen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A guiding principle seemed to be “never complain, never explain” for World Cup organizers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>FANS</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FIFA president is traditionally jeered at World Cup finals. It happened again on Sunday when Infantino was introduced for the trophy presentations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Infantino also was booed when the TV broadcast showed him sitting in VVIP seats during the England-Wales game. Both countries had armband and rainbow issues with FIFA, while British media extensively covered migrant labor issues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though Argentina and Morocco fans traveled in big numbers, fewer than expected Europeans came to Qatar. The pre-tournament target was 1.2 million international visitors but the official total was less than 800,000 entering the final week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet, when thousands of Morocco fans tried to arrive for an unexpected semifinal against France last Wednesday, several flights into Doha were canceled to limit numbers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">High-priced accommodation like tents and cabins also seemed to put off visiting fans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Empty seats at kickoff for most games would steadily fill by halftime. There was evidence and anecdotes of residents in Qatar being taken to games and offered free tickets, and the host nation’s loudest cheer squad was fans brought from Lebanon and Syria.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When tournament attendance topped 3.4 million, it was unclear and went unanswered if the total included all the volunteers, catering and security staff who clocked in to work in stadiums.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>MORE MONEY</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was a clear win for FIFA, despite a likely breach of contract issue to resolve with AB InBev.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIFA reported higher than expected revenue of $7.5 billion for the four-year commercial cycle tied to Qatar’s World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Cup was a tougher sell in the past decade when new sponsors came only from Russia and Qatar — two often problematic host nations — and China while prosecutors in the United States, Switzerland and France ran corruption investigations targeting soccer officials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A late run of sponsor signings for this World Cup included tourism in Saudi Arabia and Las Vegas, plus companies in the online gambling, cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most deals now expire and FIFA plans to cash in from staging a bigger 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, by offering sponsors huge local markets and more games being played mostly in high-yield NFL stadiums.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Infantino said on Friday that FIFA’s four-year forecast is for $11 billion through 2026. All 211 member federations will be getting millions more dollars from Zurich.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>HIGH LIFE</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIFA leaders could stay in opulent Qatari hotels that opened just in time for the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One base was the waterside Fairmont Hotel, nearly 40 stories high and shaped like a curved sword. It offered 18-karat gold tiles in the shower of some suites and a 56-meter (185-foot) high chandelier in the lobby.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coupled with an unprecedented level of security at a World Cup, it added to the feel of FIFA isolating in an ivory tower.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While France’s President Emmanuel Macron went for a brief walkabout at the main market in Doha, Infantino almost never met ordinary fans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One regular Infantino companion was a celebrity chef famed for painting gold leaf on steaks that costs hundreds of dollars at his restaurants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chef, known as Salt Bae, also seemed to breach World Cup protocol by holding the gold trophy when joining the Argentina players on the field on Sunday for post-game celebrations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For veteran FIFA watchers, it was an apt final symbol for the World Cup in Qatar. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-20 02:56:02', '2022-12-20 02:56:02'),
(3874, 3874, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A US congressional inquiry into last year\'s Capitol riot says ex-President Donald Trump should face criminal charges, including insurrection.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Democratic-led committee voted unanimously for the justice department to prosecute Mr Trump.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The panel also aired a new clip of former Trump aide Hope Hicks on her warning to him about his legacy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January 2021, interrupting Joe Biden\'s certification as president.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, released a statement slamming the panel as a \"kangaroo court\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After spending around 18 months investigating the riot, the House of Representatives select committee recommended at their final meeting on Monday that Mr Trump face four charges:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The justice department - whose prosecutors are already considering whether to charge Mr Trump - does not have to follow a congressional committee\'s referral.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the panel\'s actions are mostly symbolic, the chairman described the proposed charges as a \"roadmap to justice\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A justice department spokesman declined to comment on Monday about the referral.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"An insurrection is a rebellion against the authority of the United States,\" said congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who serves on the committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is a grave federal offence, anchored in the Constitution itself.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The panel\'s seven Democrats and two Republicans released their preliminary 161-page executive summary on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It accused Mr Trump of a \"multi-part conspiracy\" to thwart the will of voters in the run-up to the Capitol riot and during the riot itself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The House committee has argued Mr Trump spread claims that he knew were false about the 2020 presidential election being stolen, before pressuring state officials, the justice department and his own vice-president to help overturn his defeat. The panel accuses him of inciting the riot at Congress in a last-ditch bid to block the peaceful transfer of power to Mr Biden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full report, spanning hundreds of pages, is due to be released on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, the panel also released a new video from their deposition with longtime Trump aide Hope Hicks, who said she had warned Mr Trump that by continuing to make false claims about the election, he and his team were \"damaging his legacy\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump had shrugged off her concern, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The then-Republican president, she testified, \"said something along the lines of, \'Nobody will care about my legacy if I lose, so that won\'t matter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"\'The only thing that matters is winning.\'\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee also criticised the president\'s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump, a former White House aide, for not being \"forthcoming\" with investigators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Trump and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany \"displayed a lack of full recollection of certain issues, or were not otherwise as frank or direct\" as other aides to Mr Trump, the report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump\'s presidential campaign, which he launched last month, released a statement accusing the committee of holding \"show trials by Never Trump partisans who are a stain on this country\'s history\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This Kangaroo court has been nothing more than a vanity project that insults Americans\' intelligence and makes a mockery of our democracy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee also said it would refer four Republican members of Congress to the House ethics committee, including Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, for failing to comply with the committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If we are to survive as a nation of laws and democracy, this can never happen again,\" said committee chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If the faith is broken, so is our democracy. Donald Trump broke that faith,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 900 people have been charged in relation to the Capitol riot. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-20 03:01:12', '2022-12-20 03:01:12'),
(3875, 3875, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine is tightening up the defence of its border with Belarus over fears that Russia may be preparing a fresh attack, a government official has said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Yenin told the BBC Ukraine would be bolstering the Belarusian border with armed forces and ammunition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The news came as Vladimir Putin travelled to Minsk to meet Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Belarus shares a border with Russia as well as Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian president later ordered the strengthening of Russia\'s borders and of social control within Russia. He said the security services should quickly thwart any attempt to violate Russia\'s borders, combat risks coming from abroad, and identify traitors and saboteurs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said the special services should ensure the safety of people living in the parts of Ukraine that Moscow claims as its own. In some of these areas, most notably Kherson, Russia recently suffered significant military reverses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s defence ministry announced that its troops stationed in Belarus would conduct joint military exercises with Belarus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reacting to this and the visit Mr Yenin confirmed: \"We are building up our defence lines all across the border with Russia and with Belarus.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Belarus has not become involved in the war directly, it did allow Russian troops to use its territory to launch the invasion in February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minsk is coming under increasing pressure from Moscow to step up its support in the \"special military operation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the reports \"as totally stupid, groundless fabrications\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Putin flew to Minsk for talks with President Lukashenko - the first time in three-and-a-half years the pair have met in Belarus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting has been described as a \"working visit\" and lasted for more than two hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a joint press conference President Putin said Russia did not want to \"absorb\" anyone. He also said that unspecified \"enemies\" wanted to stop Russia\'s integration with Belarus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking later on Monday, US state department spokesperson Ned Price said Putin\'s statement was the \"height of irony\" given he was currently seeking to absorb Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Something rare happened today: Vladimir Putin got on a plane and flew to Minsk. Now, President Putin and President Alexander Lukashenko meet a lot - but in Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first time in three-and-a-half years, here was President Putin in Belarus. So why did he go… and why now?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were few clues at the joint press conference as the two leaders spoke a lot about economic relations, trade, but also security.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Putin indicated that some Belarusian military aircraft have been re-equipped to potentially carry nuclear missiles and that Russia is helping to train their crews.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In return, President Lukashenko thanked him for providing Belarus with an S-400 air defence system and Iskander ballistic missile system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The word \"Ukraine\" was hardly mentioned - in public.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the visit has fuelled speculation that the Kremlin leader may be trying to pressure the leader of Belarus into joining a possible new ground offensive in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This may indeed be just a rumour. Or a ploy by Moscow to make Ukraine expect a Belarusian offensive and so tie up Ukrainian soldiers in the north.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, there are reportedly several thousand Russian soldiers already in Belarus and there have been joint exercises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until now Alexander Lukashenko has been reluctant to commit his own troops to fighting in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All eyes are on Minsk to see if that remains the case. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-20 03:05:17', '2022-12-20 03:05:17'),
(3876, 3876, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the strengthening of Russia’s borders and instructed security services to keep greater control of society and root out “traitors, spies and saboteurs”, the country’s news agencies have reported.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on Security Services Day, widely celebrated in Russia, Putin on Monday instructed his security officials to protect the borders, increase control of society, and maximise their “use of the operational, technical and personnel potential” to prevent risks coming from abroad and internal traitors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Maximum composure, concentration of forces is now required from counterintelligence agencies, including military intelligence,” the TASS state news agency cited Putin as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is necessary to severely suppress the actions of foreign special services, quickly identify traitors, spies and saboteurs,” TASS said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia’s borders must also be strengthened, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Work must be intensified through the border services and the Federal Security Service [FSB],” Russia’s state-owned RIA news agency cited Putin as saying on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“And it [the border] must be reliably covered. Any attempts to violate it must be thwarted quickly and effectively using whatever forces and means we have at our disposal, including mobile action units and special forces,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Putin also said that it is the task of special security services to ensure the safety of people living in regions in Ukraine that Moscow claimed in September had been incorporated into Russia. Kyiv and its Western allies have branded the moves as illegal annexations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is your duty to do everything necessary to ensure their security to the maximum, respect for their rights and freedoms,” Putin said, promising them more “modern equipment and weapons”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Putin’s comments come as Russian missile attacks on Ukraine have intensified and there is no end in sight to Russia’s war on Ukraine, now in its 10th month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to the leaders of several NATO countries via video link on Monday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued to urge Ukraine’s allies to supply its military with more weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Russian aggression can and must fail. And our task now is to accelerate it,” he told the NATO leaders assembled in Riga, Latvia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelenskyy said in a late-night address on Sunday that some nine million of Ukraine’s estimated 40 million people had their electricity restored after Russia’s missile barrage last week focused on electricity and water infrastructure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Zelenskyy of a “lack of understanding of the seriousness of the moment and lack of concern for his people”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lavrov also made a sharp verbal attack on the West and what he described as the “hysterical reaction” to the situation in Ukraine in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel in Minsk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine had destroyed the “geopolitical games of the West”, which had wanted to turn Ukraine into a permanent threat to Russia, TASS quoted the Russian foreign minister as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in a year-end news conference on Monday, said with regret that he expected the war in Ukraine “will go on”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I am not optimistic about the possibility of effective peace talks in the immediate future,” Guterres said. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-20 03:33:58', '2022-12-20 03:33:58'),
(3877, 3877, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape and sexual assault of just one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the three guilty counts involving an Italian actor and model known at the trial as Jane Doe 1 still struck a major blow against the disgraced movie mogul, and provided another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weinstein, 70, who is two years into a 23-year sentence for a rape and sexual assault conviction in New York that is under appeal, could get up to 24 years in prison in California when he\'s sentenced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving the woman who said he appeared uninvited at her hotel room door during a Los Angeles film festival in 2013.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back. The criminal trial was brutal and Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand, but I knew I had to see this through to the end, and I did,” the woman said in a statement after the verdict. \"I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weinstein was acquitted of a sexual battery allegation made by a massage therapist who treated him at a hotel in 2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The jury was unable to reach a decision on counts involving two accusers, notably rape and sexual assault charges involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. A mistrial was declared on those counts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weinstein looked down at the table and appeared to put his face in his hands when the initial guilty counts were read. He looked forward as the rest of the verdict was read.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors and defense attorneys had no immediate comment on the verdict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Harvey Weinstein will never be able to rape another woman. He will spend the rest of his life behind bars where he belongs,” Siebel Newsom said in a statement. “Throughout the trial, Weinstein’s lawyers used sexism, misogyny, and bullying tactics to intimidate, demean, and ridicule us survivors. The trial was a stark reminder that we as a society have work to do.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siebel Newsom\'s intense and dramatic testimony, in which she described being raped by Weinstein in a hotel room in 2005, brought the trial its most dramatic moments. But only eight of the 12 jurors agreed to find Weinstein guilty of those counts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jurors were deadlocked 10-2 on a sexual battery count involving Lauren Young, the only accuser who testified at both Weinstein trials. She said she was a model aspiring to be an actor and screenwriter who was meeting with Weinstein about a script in 2013 when he trapped her in a hotel bathroom, groped her and masturbated in front of her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lacking any forensic evidence or eyewitness accounts of years-old allegations, the case hinged heavily on the stories and credibility of the four women at the center of the charges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The women’s stories echoed the allegations of dozens of others who have emerged since Weinstein became a #MeToo lightning rod starting with stories in the New York Times in 2017. A movie about that reporting, “She Said,” was released during the trial, and jurors were repeatedly warned not to see it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the defense that made #MeToo an issue during the trial, however, emphasizing that none of the four women went to the authorities until after the movement made Weinstein a target.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defense lawyers said two of the women — including the one he would be found guilty of raping — were entirely lying about their encounters with Weinstein. They said the other two had “100% consensual” sexual interactions that they later reframed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defense attorneys said during the trial that if Siebel Newsom hadn\'t reached her later prominence she would be \"just another bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get ahead in Hollywood.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Regret is not the same thing as rape,” Weinstein attorney Alan Jackson said in his closing argument.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged jurors to look past the the women’s emotional testimony and focus on the factual evidence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“‘Believe us because we’re mad, believe us because we cried,’” Jackson said jurors were being asked to do. “Well, fury does not make fact. And tears do not make truth.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All the women involved in the charges went by Jane Doe in court. The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly or agree to be named through their attorneys, as the women named here did.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors called 40 other witnesses in an attempt to give context and corroboration to those stories. Four were other women who were not part of the charges but testified that Weinstein raped or sexually assaulted them. They were brought to the stand to establish a pattern of sexual predation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weinstein beat four other felony charges before the trial even ended when prosecutors said a woman he was charged with raping twice and sexually assaulting twice would not appear to testify. They declined to give a reason. Judge Lisa Lench dismissed those charges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weinstein’s latest conviction hands a victory to victims of sexual misconduct of famous men in the wake of some legal setbacks, including the dismissal of Bill Cosby’s conviction last year. The rape trial of “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson, held simultaneously and just down the hall from Weinstein’s, ended in a mistrial. And actor Kevin Spacey was victorious at a sexual battery civil trial in New York last month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weinstein’s New York conviction survived an initial appeal, but the case is set to be heard by the state’s highest court next year. The California conviction, also likely to be appealed, means he will not walk free even if the East Coast conviction is thrown out. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-12-20 03:40:28', '2022-12-20 03:40:28');
