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(2410, 2410, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, results from a mosquito-borne viral infection. It can lead to severe illness in some cases. Four different viruses can cause dengue fever, and Aedes mosquitoes transmit it.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Symptoms range of dengue fever from mild to severe. Severe symptoms can indicateTrusted Source dengue shock syndrome (DSS) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). These require urgent medical attention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)Trusted Source approved a vaccine for children ages 9–16 years who have had dengue in the past and live in areas where dengue is common. These areas include some United States territories.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">For most people, the best way to prevent dengue fever is to take steps to avoid mosquito bites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">There is no cure for dengue fever. However, early recognition and treatment can help manage symptoms and prevent fatalitiesTrusted Source.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In 2021, there were 117 casesTrusted Source in the U.S. and 513 cases in all U.S. territories. Some cases were in people who had traveled abroad. However, 509 cases in Puerto Rico were not related to travel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Symptoms of dengue fever will depend on the severity of the disease. Around 75% of peopleTrusted Source with dengue fever will not experience symptoms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;Mild symptoms</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>If symptoms occur, there may be a sudden fever of around 104°F (40°C)Trusted Source with one or more of the following:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;aching muscles and joints</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;rash</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;pain behind the eyes</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;nausea and vomiting</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;facial flushing</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;sore throat</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;headache</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;red eyes</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The symptoms typically last between 2–7 daysTrusted Source, and most people feel better after one week. The fever may spike, go away for 24 hoursTrusted Source, then spike again.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Severe symptoms</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Between 0.5% and 5% of casesTrusted Source of dengue fever become severe. If this happens, it can be life threatening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">First, the fever typically falls to 99.5 to 100.4°F (37.5 to 38°C). Severe symptoms may then appear 24–48 hoursTrusted Source later, or around 3–7 daysTrusted Source after the person starts to feel unwell.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>They include:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;abdominal pain or tenderness</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;vomiting at least three times in 24 hours</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;bleeding from the nose or gums</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;vomiting blood</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;blood in the stool</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;fatigue</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;feeling restless or irritable</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;changes in temperatureTrusted Source from very hot to very cold</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">cold, clammy skin</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;a weak and rapid pulse</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;a reduced difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Anyone with severe symptoms needs immediate medical attention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Severe signs and symptoms can indicate DSS or DHF. They are potentially fatal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">This article looks at the symptoms and causes of dengue fever and who is at risk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Treatment</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Treatment for dengue involves managing the symptoms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>According to 2009 researchTrusted Source, treatment for milder forms includes:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;drinking water to help prevent dehydration</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;getting plenty of rest</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;using pain relief, such as Tylenol or paracetamol, which can also help reduce fever</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin or ibuprofen are not suitable as they can increase the risk of internal bleeding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>In some cases, a doctor may recommendTrusted Source hospitalization and:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;IV fluid supplementation</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;a blood transfusion</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;a platelet transfusion, in some cases</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Without treatment, 10–20% of severe casesTrusted Source may be fatal. Treatment reduces this figure to 1%.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Causes:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Four virusesTrusted Source can cause dengue fever. They are all transmitted either by the Aedes aegypti mosquito or, more rarely, the Aedes albopictus mosquito.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">These species of mosquitoes live in tropical and subtropical areas around the world, including parts ofTrusted Source the U.S. Rates of infection have grown in recent decades, especially in urban areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A mosquito carrying the virus passes it to a human by biting them. When another mosquito bites a person with the condition, it will pick up the condition. Then the mosquito will pass the virus on to the next person it bites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A person can have dengue fever more than once. They will become immune to the specific virus that caused it, though they will not be immune to the other three viruses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Risk factors and areas of high risk</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A person is at risk of dengue fever if they live or travel in an area where dengue occurs and mosquitoes that can carry it live.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Dengue occurs in over 100 countriesTrusted Source across:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;North and South America</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;South-East Asia</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;the Pacific Islands</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;Australia</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;Africa</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&lt;&gt;the Eastern Mediterranean</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Around 70% of cases occur in Asia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Among U.S. citizens, most casesTrusted Source occur in:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;Puerto Rico</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;the U.S. Virgin Islands</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;American Samoa</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Americans are most likely to contract the infection while traveling. However, local transmission is possible in many parts of the U.S., as the mosquitoes that transmit it live there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>&lt;&gt;</b>Diagnosis</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The signs and symptoms of dengue fever are similar to some other diseases such as influenza and malaria. This can make diagnosis challenging.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>A doctor will most likelyTrusted Source:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;assess the symptoms</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;ask about the person’s medical and travel history</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;order blood tests to confirm the diagnosis</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;Prevention</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In May 2019Trusted Source, the FDA approved the first dengue vaccine. It can prevent dengue caused by all four viruses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>It is for people who:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;are ages 9–16 years</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;have had dengue in the past</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">live in areas where dengue is common, including Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">People who are not eligible for the vaccine can lower their risk by taking steps to avoid mosquito bites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Tips includeTrusted Source:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;wearing clothes that cover the body</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;using mosquito repellents on the body</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;using mosquito nets</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;using window and door screens</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;treating camping gear or clothes with insect repellent before use</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;if possible, avoiding being outside at dawn, dusk, and early evening</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;remove any stagnant water around the home and avoid camping near still water</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&gt;check that drains, plant pots, and other features are not collecting water</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>What are the best natural mosquito repellents?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Summary</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mosquitoes spread the virus that causes dengue fever. Most people do not experience symptoms. However, if they do, the symptoms are often mild. In some cases, dengue fever can be life threatening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Symptoms include fever, aches and pains, and a rash. A person with more severe symptoms may start vomiting persistently, or experience bleeding from their gums or nose, among other symptoms. Severe dengue needs immediate medical attention.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 16:39:05', '2022-10-18 16:39:05'),
(2411, 2411, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, who is being targeted in British tabloids for handling of pressing issues, has apologised for going “too far and too fast” with tax reforms – the plans for which were junked by her newly-appointed chancellor Jeremy Hunt, after it caused investor confidence to dip. </span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In an interview with the BBC, Truss apologised for her mistakes, saying her month-old leadership “hasn\'t been perfect” but she had “fixed” the errors.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I\'m sticking around because I was elected to deliver for this country, and that is what I\'m determined to do,” the UK PM vowed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I do want to accept responsibility and say sorry for the mistakes that have been made... we went too far and too fast,” she said, adding that it would have been “irresponsible” not to change course. Asked if she was now prime minister in name only, Truss said she had appointed Hunt because she knew she had to change direction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truss said she was “committed to the vision” but with a new strategy, and that she will do this despite questions over who was in control of government policy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, her government axed nearly all of its debt-fuelled tax cuts unveiled last month to avert a market turmoil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UK\'s finance minister Jeremy Hunt, who was appointed Friday after Truss sacked her close ally Kwasi Kwarteng, jettisoned the remaining major planks of her tax-cutting agenda, including the energy support scheme. “The prime minister and I agreed yesterday to reverse almost all the tax measures announced in the growth plan three weeks ago,” Hunt said in the parliament, flanked by a grim-faced Truss. The decision has been welcomed by investors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following two embarrassing budget U-turns, Truss is now facing calls to resign even from some of her own MPs – triggering the running joke in British media of whether a lettuce can last longer than her premiership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shadow treasury minister James Murray said the Truss\' apology “after weeks of blaming everyone else” would not \"undo the damage\" caused by her mini-budget, the BBC reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sudden move by new finance chief Jeremy Hunt left the parliamentarians, like Conservative MP Roger Gale, thinking that he was “de facto prime minister”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chancellor has also announced the formation of an economic advisory council, featuring four experts outside of government. A proposed reduction in shareholder dividend tax was also dumped, along with the planned tax-free shopping for tourists, as well as a freeze on alcohol duty.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 17:08:48', '2022-10-18 17:08:48'),
(2412, 2412, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Ram Charan on Tuesday along with his wife Upasana Konidela and their pet dog Rhyme jetted off to Japan via a chartered flight for the promotions of RRR.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A picture of Ram Charan from the airport has surfaced on social media. Ram Charan will be joined by Jr NTR as well as filmmaker SS Rajamouli for the pre-release promotions of RRR which hits the screens in Japan on Friday, October 21.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RRR, which grossed over ₹1000 crore worldwide during its theatrical run and was massively celebrated for its breath-taking action, powerful performances and grand sets, is gearing up for a massive release in Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In July, a tweet from the official account of RRR page read that the film will release in cinemas all over Japan on October 21.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RRR is a fictional story set in the 1920s pre-independent era and is based on the lives of two real heroes and well-known revolutionaries – Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem. While Ram Charan played Ram, Jr. NTR aka Tarak was seen as Bheem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Made on a budget of approximate ₹300 crore, the film emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian films ever, next to only Rajamouli’s own Baahubali series.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Hindi-dubbed version of RRR is streaming on Netflix while the original Telugu as well as Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam versions are streaming on ZEE5. Recently, Netflix released figures that showed it was the most-popular non-English film on the platform globally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the last few months, RRR has been re-released across several cities in the US as part of the Beyond Fest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, the film was showcased at TCL Chinese Theatre and was received with thunderous response from the audience. A Deadline report confirmed that 932 seats in the theatre were sold out in 20 minutes.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the single show, the film minted $21,000, taking its cumulative box-office earnings from re-release to $221,156. 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, '2022-10-18 17:50:34', '2022-10-18 17:50:34'),
(2413, 2413, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mohammed Shami perhaps bowled the most comforting, reassuring six balls by any India pacer in recent times in the T20 World Cup warm-up match against Australia in Brisbane on Monday. Playing his first T20 in Indian colours, albeit in a warm-up match, after almost 12 months, Shami was straightaway thrown in a pressure situation by captain Rohit Sharma, who gave him the last over when Australia needed 11 runs.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shami responded brilliantly with three wickets, giving away only four runs in the over to secure a come-from-behind six-run win for India.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The smiles from captain Rohit Sharma and the other Indian cricketers after the match was for two reasons. Of course, the major one being India\'s win but a close second was Shami proving that he can take the centrestage in Jasprit Bumrah\'s absence, the man he replaced in India\'s World Cup squad after he suffered a back injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former India batter Suresh Raina, however, feels there can never be a \'perfect replacement\' for Bumrah because players like him are rare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I would not call him a perfect replacement because you cannot replace Jasprit Bumrah or Ravindra Jadeja. They have played consistently for India and they have given performances,\" Raina told NDTV.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2011 World Cup winner, however was quick to add that among the available options - Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur - Shami was the best option.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But the best option you had, you have selected him. Shami has given good performances, he has been in good form. BCCI have done really well in sending the team to Australia 15 days prior to the tournament. The grounds are big, overall I think the preparation has been nice. We will need to play fearless cricket and show good intent,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement of Bumrah\'s injury replacement was delayed by the selectors as Shami, the automatic choice, had missed the home series against Australia and South Africa due to Covid-19. The veteran right-arm seamer was officially drafted into the Indian side on October 14. He joined the Indian squad in Brisbane and was straightaway in the thick of things.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shami, who last played a T20I in the T20 World Cup last year, will be eager to bowl his full quota in the next warm-up match against New Zealand on Wednesday. If Shami has another good outing then he will be one of the frontrunners among the seamers to start in India\'s first Super 12 stage match against Pakistan in Melbourne on October 23. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 18:06:48', '2022-10-18 18:06:48'),
(2414, 2414, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nasal vaccines could still be a powerful future weapon in the fight against Covid-19 despite \"disappointing\" recent trial results for an AstraZeneca spray, experts say.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>By entering the body the same way as the virus, nasal vaccines aim to build immunity in the mucous membrane that lines the nose and mouth.</div><div><br></div><div>This could block people from getting infected in the first place -- and also potentially hamper those who have Covid from spreading it further.</div><div><br></div><div>That would represent a huge boost compared to traditional shots in the arm, which have proved very effective at preventing severe Covid but perform far less well when it comes to stopping transmission.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month China became the first country to approve a needle-free Covid vaccine, an aerosolised mist inhaled through the nose and mouth using a nebuliser device, while India greenlit a homegrown nasal drop vaccine days later.</div><div><br></div><div>With some wondering when Western nations would catch up, last week Oxford researchers revealed the results of a phase 1 trial for a simple nasal spray using the AstraZeneca vaccine.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the vaccine promoted mucosal antibodies only in a minority of the participants, and the immune responses were weaker compared to those from traditional vaccines, according to a study published in the journal eBioMedicine.</div><div><br></div><div><b>- Don\'t be \'too downhearted\' -</b></div><div><br></div><div>\"The nasal spray did not perform as well in this study as we had hoped,\" said the trial\'s chief investigator, Sandy Douglas of Oxford University.</div><div>\"This was quite different from recent data from China, which has suggested good results can be achieved by delivery of a similar vaccine deep into the lungs with a more complex nebuliser device,\" Douglas said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>\"One possibility is simply that the majority of the nasal spray vaccine ends up being swallowed and destroyed in the stomach -- delivery to the lungs could avoid that.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Connor Bamford, a virologist at Queen\'s University Belfast, told AFP that it was important to \"not be too downhearted\" about the AstraZeneca results.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that working out exactly why the nasal spray fell short could help researchers discover how to make a future version more effective.</div><div><br></div><div>Unlike AstraZeneca, successful nasal vaccines used for other diseases such as polio, rotavirus and influenza are all live vaccines, which means they replicate inside the nose, Bamford said, potentially pointing a way forwards for researchers.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric Tartour, an immunologist at the European Hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris, said that while the AstraZeneca results \"are indeed disappointing\", he did not think the news \"dampens hope for nasal vaccines\".</div><div><br></div><div>It was \"reassuring\" that the AstraZeneca, Chinese and Indian nasal vaccines have not shown any serious side effects, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 100 different intranasal Covid vaccines are under development worldwide, according to analysis by health data firm Airfinity and Nature last month, with some 20 being tested on humans.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia and Iran have also approved nasal vaccines. However, like China and India, they have not published trial data showing that their vaccines stop transmission in a peer-reviewed journal.</div><div><br></div><div>And with falling inoculation rates worldwide leading some countries to destroy millions of expired doses, the demand for a new Covid vaccine remains unclear.</div><div><br></div><div><b>- \'Wake up and lead\' -</b></div><div><br></div><div>For example, in 2020 France\'s Pasteur Institute and biotech firm TheraVectys developed a nasal vaccine candidate that was found to block transmission and produce antibodies for different variants in tests on animals, according to chief scientific officer Pierre Charneau.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the vaccine has not \"aroused enough interest from funding agencies or \'Big Pharma\' to hold trials on humans,\" so the firm has turned its focus back towards cancer vaccines, Charneau said.</div><div><br></div><div>US biotech firm Meissa Vaccines has developed a nasal vaccine shown to produce an immune response in phase 1 trials on humans, said its chief scientific officer Martin Moore.</div><div><br></div><div>So how long could it take for such a nasal vaccine to be made available to the public? It depends, Moore said.</div><div><br></div><div>He called for the world to put similar resources into creating a nasal vaccine as it did into the first round of Covid jabs, which were developed and deployed en masse in less than a year -- the fastest rate in history.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If there was a Warp Speed 2.0, and there should be, our vaccine could be available to the public with a similar timeline,\" Moore said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Reducing transmission is the best way to gain control over the virus,\" Moore said. \"The challenge is proving that a nasal vaccine can actually do this,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The upside to our health and economies is enormous. Western countries need to wake up and lead.\" AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 18:25:27', '2022-10-18 18:25:27'),
(2415, 2415, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is a big obstacle to the country\'s security, democracy and law and order, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The country\'s democracy and the legal system will not be safe in the hands of BNP,\" Quader told reporters on the sidelines of a prayer ceremony in memory of Sheikh Russell at Banani graveyard on Tuesday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>\"History will not forgive those who were involved in the murder of Sheikh Russell, the youngest son of Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on August 15, 1975. The killing is unpardonable,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>On his part, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Tapas said that \"the day the trial of Sheikh Russell\'s killers is over, Russell\'s soul will rest in peace\". UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 18:38:49', '2022-10-18 18:38:49'),
(2416, 2416, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Like many humans, honeybees seem to prefer their numbers ordered from left to right.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Honeybees trained to recognize a specific number tend to fly left when given two side-by-side options of a smaller number and right when the options represent a larger number, a new study claims. The finding suggests that honeybees have a “mental number line” and that this association has biological roots, researchers report October 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While some scientists agree that the study makes a compelling case for a mental number line in honeybees, others argue that the new work is an oversimplification of complex human behavior.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many humans have a mental number line that often puts smaller numbers on the left and bigger numbers on the right — if asked to organize several bunches of grapes by size, you’d likely line them up by increasing number of grapes from left to right. Whether this association is present at birth or learned later in life has long been a subject of debate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previous work has shown that honeybees can count, and that they even understand the concept of zero (SN: 6/7/18). “When you realize all these facts, an obvious question [is whether honeybees have] the so-called mental number line,” says Martin Giurfa, a biologist at the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Working from home during COVID-19 lockdowns, Giurfa tested 134 honeybees (Apis mellifera) on their number-ordering abilities using a design developed with researchers who had done similar experiments with chicks and human babies (SN: 1/29/15).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, Giurfa had to teach his bee pupils to recognize numbers. Using sugar water, he lured honeybees into a testing chamber built from a repurposed wine box. For each bee, he hung a panel on the back of the box with a certain number of symbols on it — one, three or five — and fed them the sugar water so they’d learn to associate the number with food.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By varying what the symbols looked like between visits, he ensured the bees were learning the number itself and not certain shapes or arrangements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After 30 trips to the box, it was time for a test: Giurfa removed the training panel and set up two, mirror-image panels, one on the left wall of the box and one on the right. These new panels either had the same number of symbols as the training panel, fewer symbols or more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which panel did the bees fly to — left or right? “It depends on your reference number,” Giurfa says. Of the bees trained on “one,” 72 percent flew to the “three” panel to the right, but of the bees trained on “five,” 73 percent went to the “three” panel to the left. “That’s exactly the concept of the mental number line,” Giurfa says. “You align numbers based on your reference.” If the test number was the same as the training number, the bees showed no preference for left or right.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These experiments “make a very compelling case” for a mental number line in honeybees, says Felicity Muth, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who was not involved with the study. “They have a number of controls that really rule out any of the alternative explanations I can think of.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giurfa believes these results show that mental number lines, or at least some component of them, are present across the animal kingdom. However, not everyone is convinced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The oversimplification of complex human concepts, such as that of ‘number line,’ must be avoided, since they severely distort the reality of the phenomena that make them possible,” says Rafael Núñez, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Núñez, who coauthored an article critical of the earlier chick study, thinks animal research should address why bees and chicks would have inborn mental number lines while some human groups, like those he’s studied in Papua New Guinea, don’t. Giurfa acknowledges that culture plays a role in explaining why not every adult naturally orders numbers from left to right, but feels that the proof is there for a biological underpinning (SN: 8/23/21).&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This study stops short of explaining why the brains of bees, chicks and babies have all converged on the same left-to-right number ordering but does offer a possible answer — their asymmetrical brains. All three have brains that process information differently on the left and right sides. “It might be an inherent property to these lateralized brain systems,” Giurfa says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A shared system for organizing numbers, if truly widespread, would highlight how surprisingly similar animal minds can be to our own. Though some cognitive powers seem to be uniquely human, Giurfa thinks there is danger in dismissing the abilities of animals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are different from animals in some aspects,” he says, “but we are very similar in others. Denying this similarity is not what will help us understand what we are.” SN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 19:34:24', '2022-10-18 19:34:24'),
(2417, 2417, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bas de Leede took two wickets and made an unbeaten 30 as the Netherlands took a giant step towards the Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 on Tuesday with a tense five-wicket victory over giant-killing Namibia.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a sun-soaked but near-empty Kardinia Park in Geelong the African nation were restricted to 121-6 in their 20 overs, with the Dutch using seven different bowlers to put the clamps on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">De Leede was the best of the bunch, taking 2-18, complemented by outstanding fielding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Europeans, boosted by former South Africa and India coach Gary Kirsten on their coaching staff, were cruising at 91-1 in the 14th over in reply before Namibia took four late wickets to set up a nervous finale.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Netherlands needed six runs off the last over, with De Leede the hero, hitting a boundary then two to secure the win with three balls left.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We lost wickets at bad times, we can\'t afford to do that and we can learn from that as a team,\" said De Leede.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But the self-belief has always been there and it\'s nice to win two tight games. Maybe it opens up a bit more freedom for the boys.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a huge victory against a team that sent shockwaves around the cricketing world with a stunning 55-run triumph over Asian champions Sri Lanka on Sunday on day one of the World Cup in Australia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Netherlands beat the United Arab Emirates on the same day by three wickets and with two wins from two they will progress to the Super 12 if the UAE upset Sri Lanka later Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have made the second stage once before, in 2014, when they topped their group and then sensationally beat England.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Never nice to be on the losing side when it\'s so close,\" said Namibia skipper Gerhard Erasmus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We put a good show in the field. With the bat, it seemed difficult for both sides but they ran better than us.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erasmus won the toss and chose to bat, but it looked a poor decision as Namibia slumped to 32-3 in the sixth over, struggling with their timing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephan Baard and Jan Frylinck steadied the ship with a 31-run partnership before Roelof van der Merwe removed Baard for 19.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frylinck compiled 43 before De Leede tempted him into a big hit and he was caught in the deep, then he trapped Erasmus in the same over.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-seven off the last three overs set a decent target but just seven boundaries in total was testament to the Dutch bowling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply, Max O\'Dowd and Vikram Singh powered to 44 without loss for the Dutch after five overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Singh whacked two sixes in his 39 before going for another off Bernard Scholtz and he was caught by the ropes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fired up, Namibia snared four more quick wickets, including O\'Dowd for 35, to set up a nervy finish. 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, '2022-10-18 19:39:29', '2022-10-18 19:39:29'),
(2418, 2418, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Slamming BNP for obstructing the trial in the August 15 massacre, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said it’s an irony for the nation that the patrons of the killers are now lecturing on democracy and human rights.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Today we are to hear the words of democracy, vote and human rights from them. Unfortunately, the same people are the killers, patrons of killers and violators of human rights,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier was addressing the inauguration of Sheikh Russel Day-2022 and Sheikh Russel Medal-2022, joining it through a virtual platform from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was organised at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) to mark the 59th birthday of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Russel was one of the martyrs of the August 15 tragedy when he was 10 just years old.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Hasina said she and her sister Sheikh Rehana was not allowed to seek justice for the assassination of their family members until she formed the government in 1996.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Today why do we hear so many words – the words on humanity and human rights? Can anyone give the answer to my question that we could try the killers only when I had been able to form the government and become the Prime Minister of Bangladesh overcoming many hurdles and obstacles?” she wondered.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM said everyone who came to power after 1975 --Ziaur Rahman, General Ershand and Khaleda Zia-- patronized and rewarded the brutal killers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the function, the prime minister inaugurated 5,000 digital Sheikh Russel Digital Labs and 300 Sheikh Russel Schools of Future (a school in each of the 300 parliamentary constituencies) as part of the government\'s move to equip the future generations with modern and technology-based knowledge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina also unveiled a book titled “Duronto Pranobanto Sheikh Russel” featuring his childhood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video message from Nobel Peace Laureate and renowned child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, the trailer of an animated film “Amader Chotto Russel Sona,\'\' a video documentary on Sheikh Russel and a theme song marking Sheikh Russel Day-2022 were played at the event. The ICT Division made the 3D animated film, documentary and theme song.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak presided over the event, while ICT Division Senior Secretary NM Zeaul Alam, Bangladesh Jatiyo Shishu Kishore Parishad Secretary General KM Shahidullah and child speaker Afsa Zafar Srijita spoke on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Russel was born on October 18, 1964, at the historic Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, the government declared October 18 as Sheikh Russel Day under the category ‘Ka’ to observe the day nationally. 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, '2022-10-18 19:57:34', '2022-10-18 19:57:34'),
(2419, 2419, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Karthik Meiyappan of the United Arab Emirates took the first hat-trick of the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia on Tuesday, stunning Sri Lanka.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Asian champions Sri Lanka were motoring at 117-2 in the 15th over when the leg-break bowler struck, removing Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Charith Asalanka and Dasun Shanaka in successive balls. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>bnbd24/fas</b></div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 20:52:02', '2022-10-18 20:52:02');
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(2420, 2420, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two Indian laborers in disputed Kashmir were killed in a grenade attack which police blamed on militants fighting Indian rule.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Police said Tuesday that a suspect arrested in the attack was a “hybrid terrorist,” a term authorities use for alleged undercover militants who slip back into normal lives and lack police records.</div><div><br></div><div>Police said the grenade was lobbed at the two workers in their rented dwelling in southern Shopian district on Monday night. The men were taken to a hospital, where they died, police wrote on Twitter.</div><div><br></div><div>The two victims were from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and were in Kashmir as day laborers, who commonly work in apple orchards or in construction.</div><div><br></div><div>The incident came two days after assailants fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man in Shopian in violence police also blamed on militants.</div><div><br></div><div>Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both in its entirety.</div><div><br></div><div>Rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been fighting against New Delhi’s rule since 1989. Most Muslim Kashmiris support the rebel goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.</div><div><br></div><div>India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, but Pakistan denies the allegation. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>Kashmir has witnessed a spate of targeted killings since October 2021. Some Hindus, including migrant workers from Indian states, have been killed. Police say the killings - including that of Muslim village councilors, police officials and civilians - have been carried out by anti-India rebels.</div><div><br></div><div>Indian troops have intensified their counterinsurgency operations across the region amid a clampdown on dissent and media freedom after New Delhi in 2019 stripped the region’s semi-autonomy and removed inherited protections on land and jobs. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 21:06:31', '2022-10-18 21:06:31'),
(2421, 2421, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine announced Monday it had swapped more than 100 prisoners with Russia in what it said was the first all-female exchange with Moscow after nearly eight months of war.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Another large-scale exchange of prisoners of war was carried out today... we freed 108 women from captivity. It was the first all-female exchange,\" the Ukraine presidency\'s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on social media.</div><div><br></div><div>In his daily address late on Monday, President Vlodymyr Zelensky said \"96 (of the swapped prisoners) are servicewomen, including 37 evacuees from Azovstal, and 12 are civilians.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Zelensky thanked \"all involved for this success... the more Russian prisoners we have, the sooner we will be able to free our heroes.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The head of the breakaway region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin, confirmed the exchange, saying that out of 110 people agreed in the swap, two people had decided to remain in Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>The Russian defence ministry said that 72 people returned from Ukraine were crew of civilian ships held by Ukraine since February.</div><div><br></div><div>It said all those returned would be flown to Moscow and provided with medical and psychological assistance.</div><div><br></div><div>Yermak said on the Ukraine side that some of the people exchanged were mothers and daughters who had been held together. Thirty-seven, he said, had surrendered at the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol.</div><div><br></div><div>Images released by Yermak showed dozens of women -- some wearing coats and military fatigues -- disembarking from white buses.</div><div><br></div><div>Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov in southeastern Ukraine, withstood weeks of relentless Russian bombardment, with resistance concentrated in a dense network of underground tunnels at its Azovstal steel plant. Source; AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 21:30:32', '2022-10-18 21:30:32'),
(2422, 2422, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for returning to peace, relinquishing war and arms competition to make the world a beautiful abode for the children.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“We want a peaceful world. We don\'t want war, devastation and arms trading. We don\'t want any child to turn into a refugee and to be shot to death,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier was virtually addressing a programme at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) here, from her official Ganabhaban residence.</div><div><br></div><div>The programme was arranged marking the Sheikh Russel Day-2022 and distribution of Sheikh Russel Padak-2022 among the winners.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister also inaugurated 5000 Sheikh Russel Digital Labs and 300 Sheikh Russel Schools of Future across the country at the function.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She said many children are becoming orphans, refugees and suffering pains due to the Russia-Ukraine war.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to enduring cruel experience in her life as both a refugee and a war detainee, she said, \"We want no more conflict and none to be killed like Russel rather we want a bright and developed future for all the children”.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister said with emotion choked voice Bangladesh has given shelters to forcibly displaced Rohingyas where the children are growing up as refugees.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Criticising those who raises voices on so called human rights issue, she questioned, \"Where were they, when my entire family, my father and the then President of Bangladesh, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, my mother, three brothers including little Russel along with others were killed on August 15 in 1975\".</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister said they even did not want trial of the gruesome killings as an indemnity ordinance was passed by the military dictator government so her family could not seek justice.</div><div><br></div><div>She also said the persons, who are now vocal about so called human rights issue, even did not raise their voices against the inhumanity and human rights violation committed against her family, rather became patrons of the killers.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The premier said everyone who came to power after 1975 -- Ziaur Rahman, General Ershad and Khaleda Zia-- patronized and rewarded the killers of Bangabandhu and his family members.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"None stood beside us at that time.... today why do we hear so many words ---the words on humanity and human rights? Can anyone give an answer to my question,” she said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>After assuming power, she said her government had held trial in the Bangabandhu killing case, adding that they had to overcome many hurdles in cancelling the indemnity ordinance.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“We could hold the trial of Bangabandhu killing only when I had been able to form the government and became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh overcoming many barriers and obstacles,\" she said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister said the judges of the apex court had even felt embarrassing to hear the trial in the Bangabandhu killing case and they are now becoming great philosophers and giving sermons.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Today we have to hear words of democracy, voting rights and human rights from those people who are killers, patrons of killers and violators of human rights,\" she said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>A video message marking Sheikh Russel\'s birthday from Nobel Laureate and renowned child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi was also played at the function.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister unveiled a book titled \"Duronto Pranobanto Sheikh Russel\" edited by State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak as well.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Trailer of an animated film \"Amader Chhotto Russel Sona\" written by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was also screened on the occasion.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Presided over by Zunaid Ahmed Palak, the programme was also addressed, among others, by ICT Division Senior Secretary NM Zeaul Alam, Bangladesh Jatiyo Shishu Kishore Parishad Secretary General KM Shahidullah and child speaker Afsa Zafor Srijita.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>On behalf of the prime minister, Zunaid Ahmed Palak distributed Sheikh Russel Padak-2022 among the individual and institutions winners in various categories.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Awards were also distributed among the winners of the nationwide quiz, sports, arts and cultural competitions held marking the Sheikh Russel Day.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>A video documentary on Sheikh Russel and a theme song marking Sheikh Russel Day-2022 made by the ICT Division were also screened at the function.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Sheikh Russel was born on this day (0ctober 18) in 1964. Today is the 59th birthday of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Bangamata Begum Fazilatun Nesa Mujib, which is being observed as Sheikh Russel Day across the country.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The day\'s programme began with paying rich tributes to Sheikh Russel at his grave in Banani Graveyard here by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the brutal killing of her youngest brother Sheikh Russel along with most of his family members, Sheikh Hasina said, “We don\'t want such injustice to happen in Bangladesh”.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister said 19 coups took place in the country after the 1975 massacre in which many armed forces officers and soldiers were killed and their relatives even did not get their bodies.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Hundreds of Awami League leaders and activists were inhumanly tortured, arrested and killed by the post 1975 governments, she said.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She said with an emotion-charged voice: “We don\'t want to hear cries of losing loved ones, cries of sons for losing their fathers and cries of fathers for losing their children. ---we want a beautiful and improved life for the people particularly children”.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>As part of her government move to build the future generations with the knowledge of science and technology, she said 13000 Sheikh Russel Digital Labs have so far been established across the country marking the 59th birthday of Sheikh Russel.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The prime minister said her government has a target to provide science and technology education to the children so that they can compete with the ever-changing world as they would be the future leaders of the country.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“They will be upgraded with science and technology based education as they will lead the country towards prosperity. Today\'s children will be the guardian of tomorrow,” she said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The children of today will take the country ahead and raise voice against any sort of injustice, she hoped.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“We are working to ensure that human rights aren\'t hampered and no child isn\'t tortured alongside giving a improved and beautiful life to all,” she said.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The premier said her government is creating scopes for sports and culture alongside education to prepare the children as worthy citizens of the country so that they never lag behind in anything in the competitive world.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Recalling the birthday of Sheikh Russel with the voice of sobbing, Sheikh Hasina said, “Today is his (Sheikh Russel) birthday. It is a day for happiness for us and we never forget the day. I was so happy after taking the newly born baby in my lap.---he started walking with my hand. He (Russel) was like a doll to us (four siblings)”.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>She said Russel was growing up without getting love and affection of father as his father Bangabandhu was arrested time and again by the then Pakistani ruler.</div><div><br></div><div>Even, his father Bangabandhu was not present at the time of his (Russel) birth as the Father of the Nation then was in Chattogram for the presidential polls campaign, she added.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Little Russel used to call his mother as Abba (father) while he got his father for very little time as Bangabandhu was arrested time and again for his efforts to make Bangladesh independent to give its people a beautiful and improved life, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said Russel wanted to be an army officer, but his dream did not come true as he was brutally killed on August 15 in 1975, reports BSS.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“But, by the grace of Allah and help of the countrymen, we had been able to hold trial of Bangabandhu killing case and I expressed my gratitude to them,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She continued: \"Through the trial, we not only get our human rights, but Bangladesh was also freed from the curse which had fallen upon the country after the 1975 massacre and for that reason Bangladesh is advancing forward,”.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-18 22:28:31', '2022-10-18 22:28:31'),
(2423, 2423, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">According to reports, the High Court issued a rule, asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why it shall not declare illegal the conviction and sentences given by the military tribunal formed during the rule of then President Ziaur Rahman in 1977.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>A High Court division bench comprising Justice KM Kamrul Kader and Justice Mohammad Ali passed the order after holding hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“The court asked the respondents to reply as to why it shall not pass an order to declare the punishment given by the tribunal formed under Martial Law Regulation in 1977 and declare the petitioners as patriots. It also asked why the court shall not pass order to pay the petitioners the salaries, allowances and other benefits, which they would have got if they would have been able to complete their service time and go on regular retirement,” said Advocate Motiur Rahman, who took part in the hearing for the petitioners.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The court asked officials concerned, including Defence Secretary, Home Secretary, and Law Secretary to reply the rule within four weeks.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The writ was filed on April 28, 2019, on behalf of families of 88 victims including Md Kamruzzaman Miah Lenin, son of Sergeant Saidur Rahman, a victim of 1977 court martial.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Senior Advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun and Advocate Motiur Rahman took part in the hearing for the petitioners.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Of these 88 victims, 13 were sentenced to death and 33 were given life imprisonment. The other 42 were sacked from their services.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 00:55:24', '2022-10-19 00:55:24'),
(2424, 2424, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian forces have again targeted Ukraine\'s energy facilities, leaving part of Kyiv and other cities with no power and water.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prosecutors said two people were killed in an attack on the capital. Plumes of smoke were seen billowing from around a power station near the Dnipro river.</div><div><br></div><div>Power and water were cut in Zhytomyr, west of Kyiv, and two facilities were badly damaged in Dnipro.</div><div><br></div><div>The latest attacks came 24 hours after Kyiv was hit by \"kamikaze\" drones.</div><div><br></div><div>The unmanned drones, believed to be Iranian-made, killed at least five people in the capital and four in the northern city of Sumy, and struck critical infrastructure, with power outages reported in hundreds of towns and villages.</div><div><br></div><div>President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Twitter on Tuesday that in the past eight days, \"30% of Ukraine\'s power stations have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts across the country\".</div><div><br></div><div>Russia has stepped up attacks in recent weeks on electricity infrastructure in cities away from the front lines. Officials have rushed to repair the damage, but the strikes, ahead of winter, have raised concerns about how the system will respond.</div><div><br></div><div>It was not initially clear to what extent drones were involved on Tuesday, although Ukraine said Russian bombers had fired missiles and one S-300 anti-aircraft missile had hit a residential building in the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight, killing one person. The city\'s flower market was also destroyed.</div><div><br></div><div>In other attacks early on Tuesday:</div><div>• In Zhytomyr, the mayor said there was no power or water in the city and hospitals were working on back-up power</div><div><br></div><div>• The strikes on a power plant in Kyiv left the Troyeschyna area on the bank of the Dnipro river without electricity and water</div><div><br></div><div>• Power and water supplies were disrupted in the central city of Dnipro, where a large energy facility was destroyed: officials said street lighting would be turned off</div><div><br></div><div>• Shelling was reported in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv</div><div><br></div><div>• Infrastructure in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia was also hit, although local officials said no-one had been hurt.</div><div><br></div><div>In some cities, Ukrainians are buying power generators and gas burners, while across the country, people have been urged to reduce their energy consumption at peak times. Some towns are already facing rolling blackouts.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We were expecting that Russia will intensify attacks on energy infrastructure and civilian infrastructure and increase the urban warfare towards autumn and here we are exactly with that scenario taking place,\" Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko told the BBC.</div><div><br></div><div>In its latest assessment, UK defence intelligence said that it was highly likely that Russia had becoming increasingly willing to strike civilian infrastructure in addition to military targets since its setbacks on the battlefield in recent weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia\'s missile and drone attacks have brought renewed calls from the Ukrainian government for the delivery of air defence missiles.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the US said it agreed with its French and UK allies that the supply of drones by Iran violated a UN Security Council resolution linked to a nuclear agreement, barring the transfer of certain military technology.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine has identified the drones used in deadly attacks on Kyiv and Sumy as Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Vedant Patel of the US state department said the US would not hesitate to use sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>Both Russia and Iran have denied that Iranian drones have been deployed. The EU has said it is gathering evidence and is ready to act.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, in one of the biggest prisoner swaps since Russia\'s war began in February, 218 detainees were exchanged - including 108 Ukrainian women.</div><div><br></div><div>And across the Sea of Azov from Ukraine, a Russian fighter jet crashed into the courtyard of a block of flats in the southern Russian town of Yeysk. At least 13 people were killed, including three children, while dozens of residents were rescued from the nine-storey block.</div><div><br></div><div>The pilots on board the Su-34 plane ejected. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 00:59:30', '2022-10-19 00:59:30'),
(2425, 2425, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three more dengue patients died in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 99.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this period, 900 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever as cases keep rising, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>Of the latest deaths, one each was reported from Dhaka, Khulna and Chattogram divisions.</div><div><br></div><div>The dengue death toll in Dhaka division stands at 56, in Chattogram division at 35 and in Khulna at two while it remained static in Barishal division at five and in Mymensingh at one.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, 528 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 372 outside it.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 3,227 dengue patients, including 2,148 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The Directorate has recorded 26,938 dengue cases and 23,612 recoveries so far this year. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 02:05:06', '2022-10-19 02:05:06'),
(2426, 2426, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Colombo welcomed on Tuesday a Sri Lankan author winning Britain\'s Booker prize, despite his novel focussing on the island\'s civil war -- in which government forces stand accused of atrocities.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Shehan Karunatilaka\'s \"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida\" is centred on a dead war photographer and gambler who in the afterlife seeks to expose the brutality of the conflict, which claimed at least 100,000 lives.</div><div><br></div><div>Booker Prize judges called it a \"whodunnit and a race against time, full of ghosts, gags and a deep humanity\".</div><div><br></div><div>Government spokesman Bandula Gunawardana congratulated Karunatilaka for the award Tuesday, saying his \"great achievement\" had \"brought honour to the country\".</div><div><br></div><div>Colombo\'s forces have been accused of killing at least 40,000 minority Tamil civilians in the final months of the drawn-out separatist war that ended in May 2009.</div><div><br></div><div>Successive governments have refused to investigate war crimes by both government forces and Tamil separatists, and Colombo is currently facing international censure for failure to ensure justice.</div><div><br></div><div>Gunawardana -- who is also the media minister and an author and a film producer himself -- did not directly answer a question about accountability, but told reporters that in the late 1980s alone around 60,000 had died.</div><div><br></div><div>Attackers \"came into houses and got journalists to kneel and killed them\", he said, adding: \"Because of threats and intimidation intellectuals left the country.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He had himself been blocked by the army from making a movie on the 1990 assassination of journalist Richard de Zoysa, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The new government will not try to stop it if this book is being turned into a film,\" he pledged.</div><div><br></div><div>- White van killings -</div><div><br></div><div>Accepting the award from Queen Consort Camilla in London on Monday, Karunatilaka expressed hope that his country would learn that \"ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work\".</div><div><br></div><div>At least 44 Sri Lankan journalists have been killed or disappeared during the island\'s internal conflicts -- a leftist uprising and the Tamil separatist war -- between 1971 and 2009, according to media rights organisations.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 14 of them were killed or went missing under the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose brother Gotabaya was accused of being the architect of notorious \"white van abductions\" that preceded the extrajudicial killings of dissidents.</div><div><br></div><div>Gotabaya became president in November 2019, but was forced to resign in July this year after months of protests over the country\'s worsening economic crisis and allegations of corruption and mismanagement.</div><div><br></div><div>Karunatilaka hoped that his book would still be in print in 10 years, but that it \"will be in the fantasy section of the bookshop... next to the dragons, the unicorns (and) will not be mistaken for realism or political satire\".</div><div><br></div><div>He is the second author from the island to win the award, following Sri Lankan-born Canadian Michael Ondaatje\'s victory in 1992 for \"The English Patient\".</div><div><br></div><div>Aside from the £50,000 ($56,000) prize, winning the Booker can provide a career-changing boost in sales and public profile.</div><div><br></div><div>Colombo bookshops were out of stock of the book on Tuesday, with several saying they had ordered more copies in anticipation of a run on them. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 02:36:04', '2022-10-19 02:36:04'),
(2427, 2427, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Demand for candles has skyrocketed with the recent endemic load shedding in Dhaka as well as across the country. Frequent load shedding, which is causing public sufferings, has, however, revived candle factories – putting smiles on the faces of those involved with this business.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Haji Monir, owner of a candle factory in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar, said that they usually get more orders for candles during religious events and festivals. However, due to the rise in both frequency and duration of load shedding over the past few months, demand for candles has increased significantly.</div><div><br></div><div>“There were ten candle factories in this area, but only my factory is in production now,” he added. Due to the price hike of raw materials, price of candles has almost doubled.</div><div><br></div><div>Now a candle is sold at Tk 10, which was sold at Tk 5 earlier, Haji Monir said.</div><div><br></div><div>On July 18, the government decided to enforce a nationwide, staggered area-based load shedding, as the country faces a fuel crunch disrupting power generation.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said her government is bound to carry out load shedding and limit electricity production as fuel prices are continuously increasing globally due to the Russia-Ukraine war, urging countrymen to be patient with the situation.</div><div><br></div><div>On October 11, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid urged people to be patient during the ongoing power crisis that has triggered 5-6 hour long daily load shedding in and outside Dhaka city.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the people have to wait until November for the power supply situation to improve.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on October 16 said there is no immediate solution to the ongoing load shedding in Dhaka, as the government has reduced the import of primary fuel to conserve foreign currency reserves.</div><div><br></div><div>Residents of some Dhaka areas experienced power cuts for up to eight hours yesterday (October 17, 2022). - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 02:47:28', '2022-10-19 02:47:28'),
(2428, 2428, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A helicopter carrying pilgrims to Kedarnath in India\'s Himalayan region crashed on Tuesday, killing all six on board, a police official said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Two pilots and four pilgrims died in the crash in the northern state of Uttarakhand, its police chief, Ashok Kumar, told Reuters by telephone, adding that a rescue team had been sent to the site.</div><div><br></div><div>Footage from Reuters partner ANI showed smoke billowing from a spot nestled in between some hills, surrounded by dark clouds.</div><div><br></div><div>It is too early to determine the cause of the accident, but poor weather could be a factor, Kumar added.</div><div><br></div><div>Kedarnath is a key pilgrimage site that shuts every winter. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 02:59:54', '2022-10-19 02:59:54'),
(2429, 2429, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Tuesday he was submitting a proposal to President Volodymyr Zelensky to formally cut diplomatic ties with Tehran after a wave of Russian attacks using what Kyiv says are Iranian-made drones.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Russia launched dozens of “kamikaze” drones on targets in Ukraine on Monday, striking energy infrastructure and killing several civilians.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine says the attacks were carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones. Tehran denies supplying the drones.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Kyiv was certain they were Iranian and would be ready to share a “bag of evidence” to European powers in doubt.</div><div><br></div><div>“Tehran bears full responsibility for the destruction of relations with Ukraine,” Kuleba told a news conference. “I am submitting to the president of Ukraine a proposition to sever diplomatic ties with Iran.”</div><div><br></div><div>Kuleba said he had urged the European Union to impose sanctions on Iran “for helping Russia to kill Ukrainians.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Severe sanctions against Iran are especially relevant right now, as we are witnessing reports on Iranian intentions to give Russia ballistic missiles to be used against Ukrainians,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“The actions of Iran are vile and deceitful. We won’t suffer them, because all those actions were done while Iran told us that they didn’t support the war and won’t support any of the sides with their weapons.”</div><div><br></div><div>Kuleba said Kyiv would send an official note to Israel seeking immediate air defense supplies and cooperation in the sector.</div><div>There was no immediate Israeli response to Kuleba’s remarks.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Tuesday, a member of Israel’s decision-making security cabinet, Justice Minister Gideon Saar, told national broadcaster Army Radio: “Our support for Ukraine does not include weapons systems and weaponry — and there is no change to that position.”</div><div><br></div><div>While Israel has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and provided Kyiv with humanitarian relief, it has stopped short of also providing military support, citing concern for continued cooperation with Moscow over next-door Syria. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 03:37:33', '2022-10-19 03:37:33'),
(2430, 2430, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The commander of Russian forces in Ukraine says the situation in the southern city of Kherson is \"difficult\" and residents are to be evacuated.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">General Sergei Surovikin said Ukrainian troops using Himars rockets were hitting the city\'s infrastructure and housing. He spoke on Russian state TV.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Russian army will above all ensure the safe evacuation of the population\" of Kherson, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His rare admission of big problems was echoed by a top local official.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian-installed regional official Kirill Stremousov warned Kherson residents that \"in the very near future\" Ukrainian troops would launch an assault on the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Please take my words seriously - I\'m talking about evacuating as quickly as possible,\" he said on the Telegram messaging service. He added that people on the River Dnieper\'s west bank (called Dnipro in Ukraine) were most at risk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was confirmed by the region\'s Governor Vladimir Saldo, who was also appointed by Russia, in a video message.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson was the first big city to fall to the Russians, back in February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian forces have been steadily retaking nearby territory for the past few weeks. They have pushed as far as 30km (19 miles) south along the Dnieper, threatening to trap Russian troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"As a whole the situation in the special military operation zone can be described as tense,\" Gen Surovikin said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kherson is the only Ukrainian regional capital to have been captured by the Russians in their invasion. The Kremlin now claims Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions to be part of Russia - a claim rejected internationally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Infrastructure damage</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Gen Surovikin, who has a reputation for harsh methods, said Ukraine\'s volley of rockets had damaged Kherson\'s Antonivsky Bridge and the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, blocking traffic along those key arteries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That had created supply problems for essential services, namely food deliveries, water and electricity, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC has been unable to verify the hardship in Kherson described by the general.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said the Ukrainians were launching constant attacks across a wide front - in the areas of Kupiansk and Lyman in the east and, in the south, on the Mykolaiv-Krivyi Rih front.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gen Surovikin is the new commander of Russia\'s war in Ukraine - what the Kremlin calls a \"special military operation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is nicknamed General Armageddon and is a veteran of Russia\'s wars. In Syria he oversaw Russian bombing raids that killed many civilians. He has also commanded troops accused of human rights abuses in Chechnya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gen Surovikin was speaking on a day of further Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, many of them targeting Ukraine\'s electricity supply. Parts of Kyiv now have no power or running water.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 30% of his country\'s power stations had been destroyed in the past eight days. 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, '2022-10-19 12:50:18', '2022-10-19 12:50:18'),
(2431, 2431, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">One of China\'s most senior UK diplomats was involved in violence against protesters at the Manchester consulate on Sunday, a British MP says.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"What we saw was the Chinese consul-general then ripping down posters and peaceful protest,\" Alicia Kearns told MPs in the House of Commons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MPs in Parliament have privilege, allowing them to speak freely without fear of legal action.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China has not commented on Zheng Xiyuan\'s alleged involvement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the foreign ministry in Beijing defended the actions of consulate staff.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spokesman Wang Wenbin said people had \"illegally entered\" the grounds and any country\'s diplomats would have taken \"necessary measures\" to protect their premises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tweet, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said: \"I\'ve ordered the summoning of the Chinese chargé d\'affaires to demand an explanation for the shocking scenes outside the Chinese consulate-general in Manchester on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Peaceful protest is a fundamental right in Great Britain and the Chinese government must respect that.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK said that a meeting was held with China\'s chargé d\'affaires - the ambassador\'s deputy - Yang Xiaoguang, where it was reiterated that all diplomats and consular staff based in the UK must respect the UK\'s laws and regulations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official Chinese version of what happened is at odds with video footage and statements from police. Officers had to drag back a protester from inside the consulate gate as he was being attacked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Ms Kearns told MPs that after Consul-General Zheng Xiyuan ripped down the placards, there was \"grievous bodily harm against a Hongkonger, one of whom was hospitalised for taking part in a peaceful protest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Some were then dragged onto consulate territory for a further beating by officials who have been recognised to be members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\"We cannot allow the CCP to import their beating of protesters, their silencing of free speech and their failure to allow time and time again protests on British soil. This is a chilling escalation.\"</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a statement by the Greater Manchester Police, around 30 to 40 people had gathered outside the consulate to protest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Shortly before 4pm a small group of men came out of the building and a man was dragged into the consulate grounds and assaulted,\" the statement said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Due to our fears for the safety of the man, officers intervened and removed the victim from the consulate grounds.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The consulate is UK territory, but cannot be entered without consent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another MP, Labour\'s Afzal Khan - who represents the constituency where the consulate is, Manchester Gorton - told the House of Commons he was \"sickened\" by the scenes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The UK stands for freedom, the rule of law, and democracy,\" said the Labour MP. \"The quashing of peaceful protests will never be tolerated on British soil.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Khan and other MPs called for the consul-general to be declared a \"persona non grata\" - meaning a person who is unwelcome in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith asked if the government would \"be prepared to expel the consul-general and any of those that are found to have been part of that punishment beating and the vandalism?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some MPs called for the Foreign Office to go further, including Labour\'s Andrew Gwynne who said: \"Had these incidents happened on the streets of Hong Kong, there would have been outrage from the British government, rightly so.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They happened on the streets of Manchester and yet we have this situation where the minister is basically sending a memo to the Chinese embassy, an offer of a cup of tea and a chat with the ambassador.\" 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, '2022-10-19 12:57:14', '2022-10-19 12:57:14'),
(2432, 2432, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A female Iranian climber who competed with her hair uncovered did so because her hijab fell off \"inadvertently\", a post on her Instagram account says.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Elnaz Rekabi, 33, was praised by those protesting against Iran\'s dress code after video showed her violating it at the Asian Championships in South Korea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BBC Persian reported on Monday that friends had been unable to contact her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before dawn on Wednesday morning, she flew into Tehran, where large crowds had gathered to greet her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Videos on social media show many of them clapping and chanted \"Elnaz is a heroine\" as she arrived. Where the athlete is heading now is unknown.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The post that appeared on Instagram on Tuesday apologised for \"getting everybody worried\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Due to bad timing, and the unanticipated call for me to climb the wall, my head covering inadvertently came off,\" it explained.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The post added that she was on her way back to Iran \"alongside the team based on the pre-arranged schedule\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BBC Persian\'s Rana Rahimpour says that to many people the language used in this post looks like it has been written under duress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other Iranian women who have competed abroad without wearing a headscarf in the past have said they came under pressure from Iranian authorities to issue similar apologies, she adds. Some of them decided not to go back to Iran.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women in the country are required to cover their hair with a hijab and their arms and legs with loose clothing. Female athletes must also abide by the dress code when they are officially representing Iran in competitions abroad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the Iranian embassy in South Korea said Ms Rekabi had left Seoul for Iran on Tuesday morning. It also strongly denied what it called \"all fake news, lies and false information\" about her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) said it had been in contact with Ms Rekabi and the Iranian Climbing Federation, and that it was \"trying to establish the facts\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is important to stress that athletes\' safety is paramount for us and we support any efforts to keep a valued member of our community safe in this situation,\" it added. \"The IFSC fully support the rights of athletes, their choices, and expression of free speech.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A source told BBC Persian on Monday that Ms Rekabi\'s passport and mobile phone were confiscated, and that she left her hotel in Seoul two days before her scheduled departure date. Her family and friends lost contact with her after she said she was with an Iranian official.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two years ago, an Iranian international chess referee said she had received death threats after a photo circulated that appeared to show her without a hijab at the Women\'s World Chess Championship in Shanghai.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shohreh Bayat insisted that she had been wearing a headscarf loosely over her hair at the time, but she subsequently stopped covering her hair and claimed asylum in the UK after being warned that she could face arrest in Iran.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I had to chose my side because I was asked to write an apology on Instagram and to apologise publicly,\" Ms Bayat told BBC World News on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I was given a list of things to do. I knew that if I just followed those things that I did not believe in, if I apologised for not wearing a headscarf, then I could not forgive myself.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked what she thought about Elnaz Rekabi\'s Instagram post, she said: \"I think actions speak louder than words. And she made a very powerful statement in not wearing a headscarf.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Bayat has called on the international community to act over the violent crackdown by Iranian authorities in response to nationwide protests against the compulsory hijab laws and the clerical establishment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protests were sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested by morality police in Tehran on 13 September for allegedly wearing her headscarf too loosely.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police denied reports that she was beaten on the head with a baton and said she suffered a heart attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Office said it was deeply worried by the \"unabated violent response by security forces against protesters, and reports of arbitrary arrests and the killing and detention of children\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Some sources suggest that as many as 23 children have been killed and many others injured in at least seven provinces by live ammunition, metal pellets at close range and fatal beatings,\" spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added that a number of schools had also been raided and children arrested by security forces, while some principals had been arrested for not co-operating. 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(2433, 2433, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Indonesia has announced plans to demolish the stadium where at least 131 football fans died and hundreds were injured in a stampede this month.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">President Joko Widodo said the Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang would be rebuilt according to safety standards set by the sport\'s governing body Fifa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the country must \"thoroughly transform\" how it managed the sport.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Widodo made the announcement after meeting Fifa president Gianni Infantino earlier on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indonesia is set to host the 2023 under-20 World Cup, and the pair agreed to form a joint task force ahead of the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking alongside Mr Widodo, the Fifa chief said it was imperative that fans attending the tournament were provided with a safe environment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is a football country, a country where football is a passion for over 100 million people,\" he said. \"We owe it to them that when they see a match they are safe and secure.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 1 October, fans were caught in a deadly crush as they attempted to leave the Kanjuruhan stadium after the defeat of the home side Arema FC by Persebaya Surabaya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six people, including police officers and organisers, are facing criminal charges over the crush, which is one of the world\'s worst stadium disasters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will be charged with criminal negligence causing death, which carries a maximum sentence of five years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An investigation published last week ruled that the tragic incident had been sparked by police firing tear gas into the stands - a crowd control measure banned by Fifa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report also found several other contributing factors, including the stadium being filled beyond capacity and locked exit doors, as well as a push by league officials to hold the game at night to secure higher television ratings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigators also called on the Indonesian Football Association\'s board to step down, urging them to \"resign as a form of responsibility\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mr Infantino has already assured organisers that Indonesia will not have the 2023 under-20 event stripped from it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 24 countries will compete in venues across six Indonesian cities next summer. The Kanjuruhan stadium was not due to host any games during the competition. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 13:25:47', '2022-10-19 13:25:47'),
(2434, 2434, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Jammu &amp; Kashmir (J&amp;K) Police on Wednesday said a terrorist involved in the grenade attack, which left two migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj dead on Tuesday, has been killed. Manish Kumar and Ram Sagar were killed in the second targeted attack in J&amp;K’s Shopian in three days.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police earlier on Tuesday said two terrorists responsible for the killings have been arrested and a hunt was on for their commanders. They said terrorists lobbed a grenade into Kumar and Sagar’s rented tin shed at Harmain village. The two were injured and later succumbed to their injuries at a hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The grenade attack came three days after Puran Krishan Bhat, 56, a Kashmiri Pandit, was shot dead at his residence in Shopian on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A little-known outfit Kashmir Freedom Fighters earlier claimed responsibility for Bhat’s murder, which triggered a series of protests across Kashmir.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tuesday’s attack was the latest in a series of attacks on migrant workers. On September 2, Muneer ul Islam, a worker from West Bengal was shot at in Pulwama.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Islam was shot at days after Mohammad Amrez, a migrant worker from Bihar’s Madhepora was killed at Sumbal in the Bandipora district on August 11.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, 17 civilians, including six migrant workers, have been killed in targeted attacks in Kashmir. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 14:00:51', '2022-10-19 14:00:51'),
(2435, 2435, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India are yet to officially start their T20 World Cup campaign but they already made a statement with their performance in the warm-up fixture against Australia in Brisbane on Monday. </span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav led India\'s charge with the bat and a one over display by Mohammed Shami showed that the Men In Blue means business heading into the competition.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">India will launch their campaign against arch rivals Pakistan, who didn\'t have the best of outings in the first warm-up match against England.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"> Babar Azam and his boys were completely outplayed by the Three Lions, who made a mockery of the 161-run chase and completed it with 26 balls to spare in the 19-overs a side contest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaheen Afridi, who is making a return following his injury, was once again clinical with the ball, conceding just seven runs in the two overs he bowled. However, former India cricketer and batting coach Sanjay Bangar feels he is not as impactful as he was before the injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I don\'t think Afridi\'s return was as good as Shami\'s. The special thing was that he didn\'t bowl a single incoming delivery. All his deliveries were going away from the batters, which means it is clear that he is not yet fully confident of his position on the crease, the strong position he has,” Bangar mentioned during a discussion on Star Sports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Discussing Shaheen\'s return in length, Bangar also highlighted a slight change in the pacer\'s technique, which he believes are not good sign for Pakistan ahead of a big tournament such as the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I also feel he has made a slight change in his technique. If he has made a change at this stage, especially the way he is releasing the ball, they are not good signs for Pakistan. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The fact that the balls are not swinging into the right-handed batters will be a slight breath of relief for the Indian top-order batting,\" he added. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 14:10:56', '2022-10-19 14:10:56'),
(2436, 2436, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday he\'s putting the final 15 million barrels on the market from a record release of US strategic oil reserves, with more releases possible if energy prices spike, a senior US official said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new tranche of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be \"completing the 180 million barrel release authorized in the spring,\" in response to price hikes linked to Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine, a senior US official said Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The order, which Biden will announce in a speech, means the president will be \"making clear that the administration is prepared to undertake significant additional... sales this winter if they are needed due to Russian or other actions disrupting global markets,\" the official added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision to make the biggest ever dip into the emergency oil reserves -- usually kept for responding to situations such as hurricane-related shutdowns at oil refineries -- was Biden\'s gambit to calm energy markets and shield the world\'s biggest economy from Ukraine war shocks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Major energy exporter Russia was hit with US and European sanctions soon after it invaded Ukraine in February, causing turmoil on markets. In addition, the Kremlin has threatened to use its leverage over energy supplies as an economic weapon against the West, which supports Ukraine\'s fight to repel the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Biden there are serious domestic concerns, with gasoline prices at one point averaging more than $5 a gallon, causing nationwide anger. While prices have since moderated, inflation remains the biggest factor driving Republican hopes of defeating the Democrats in November\'s midterm legislative elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Reserves in good shape -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stressed that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was not being used irresponsibly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time as announcing the 15 million barrel drawdown for delivery in December -- and flagging the possibility of more to come -- Biden is highlighting a plan to refill the reserve as soon as prices hit around $67-72 a barrel, the official said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is \"an important signal for producers that the SPR will be part of helping to moderate and stabilize price flows, not only when prices are going high but when prices are going low,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reserve, meanwhile, remains in good shape, the official said, with more than 400 million barrels. \"That is still a large amount\" and allows for \"additional opportunity... if we need to do more sales.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official described the SPR use as a \"brilliant\" bridge out of a crisis moment, playing \"an incredibly constructive role through a very challenging time period.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, with \"additional volatility\" expected from Russia and production levels still not back to pre-Covid pandemic levels, stability is \"not quite there yet.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked whether the United States could take the more radical measure of curbing fuel exports -- something that would help tamp down domestic prices but hurt foreign buyers, including in allied countries -- an official declined to confirm or deny.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re keeping all tools on the table,\" the official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But with the midterm vote just three weeks away, Republicans are seeking to paint Biden as a manipulator of the oil reserves in order to win support for his Democrats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move is not an effort to steady markets, \"it\'s a bid to try and save his party from getting walloped in the Midterm elections,\" House Republican Byron Donalds tweeted, adding that \"Biden\'s mismanagement of our strategic oil reserves is a dire threat to national security.\" 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, '2022-10-19 15:22:01', '2022-10-19 15:22:01'),
(2437, 2437, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Katrina Kaif, in a new interview, revealed her first reaction to Vicky Kaushal. Katrina and Vicky who got married last year, will be completing one year of their marriage in December. Looking back in time, it was Vicky’s talent that caught Katrina’s attention after she saw him in the promo of his 2018 film Manmarziyaan.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Katrina and Vicky Kaushal dated for quite some time in secret. They got married at Rajasthan’s Six Senses Resort, Fort Barwara in Sawai Madhopur on December 9, 2021. Their wedding was an intimate affair only attended by family members and close friends.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about first reaction to Vicky Kaushal, Katrina told Indian Express, “I remember (producer) Aanand L Rai showing me a promo of Manmarziyaan and I was like, ‘Who is this guy?!’ At that point I just found it. Wow! He was so effortless and raw. He has that talent.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before Manmarziyaan, Vicky Kaushal starred in films like Raazi and Lust Stories. He made his acting debut with Masaan, opposite Shweta Tripathi Sharma. Vicky was last seen in Sardar Udham, directed by Shoojit Sircar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vicky has some interesting projects in his pipeline. He will be next seen in director Laxman Utekar\'s untitled romantic comedy film. The film marks his first project with Sara Ali Khan. He also has Govinda Naam Mera with Bhumi Pednekar and Kiara Advani, besides an untitled film with Triptii Dimri. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is also playing the lead as Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw in Meghna Gulzar\'s next biopic film Sam Bahadur with Sanya Malhotra and Fatima Sana Sheikh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Katrina Kaif, on the other hand, is gearing up for the release of his horror-comedy, Phone Bhoot. It also stars Siddhanth Chaturvedi and Ishaan Khatter, and will release on November 4. Katrina is also a part of Vijay Sethupathi’s Merry Christmas and Salman Khan’s Tiger 3. 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, '2022-10-19 15:51:46', '2022-10-19 17:21:19'),
(2438, 2438, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>South Korea on Wednesday criticised North Korea for unleashing a fresh artillery barrage into waters off its east and west coasts, targeting a maritime \"buffer zone\" set up in 2018 to reduce tensions.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Pyongyang has dramatically ramped up missile launches and military exercises in recent weeks, as Seoul and Washington say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is close to conducting what would be his country\'s seventh nuclear test.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Roughly 250 rounds were launched late Tuesday, South Korea\'s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, calling it a \"clear violation\" of the 2018 agreement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We strongly urge North Korea to immediately halt its actions,\" the JCS said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"North Korea\'s continued provocations are actions that undermine peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the international community,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pyongyang on Wednesday said the barrage was intended to counter the \"enemy\'s war drill against the North\" along the border.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korea\'s military \"fired dozens of shells of multiple rocket launchers in the forefront area... from 9:55 to 17:22 on Oct. 18,\" a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People\'s Army said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"KPA units on the east and west fronts conducted a threatening, warning fire toward the east and west seas on the night of Oct. 18, as a powerful military countermeasure.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The North also fired artillery rounds into the military buffer zones last week. 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, '2022-10-19 16:07:10', '2022-10-19 16:07:10'),
(2439, 2439, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated installation of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Unit-2 of the 2400MW Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), enabling Bangladesh to reach nearer to produce electricity from nuclear.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier joined virtually the opening ceremony at the RNPP in Ishwardi of Pabna from her official Ganabhaban residence here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the project plan, the first unit of the nuclear power plant will supply 1,200 MW power in 2023 while the same amount of electricity will be available from the second unit in 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project has seen around 53 % financial progress and 55% physical progress. However, the overall progress of the first unit is 70%.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Rooppur project is being implemented by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission with the technical and financial support of Russia. The project\'s construction cost, including manpower training, amounts to $12.65 billion, and 90% of it is being funded by Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on October 10 of last year, the prime minister had inaugurated the RPV at the first unit of the RNPP, which entitled Bangladesh as the 33rd country to have a nuclear power plant for producing electricity from nuclear energy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Science and Technology Minister Architect Yeafesh Osman and Director General of Rosatom, Russia\'s Atomic Energy Organisation, Alexey Likhachev spoke on the occasion while Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology Ziaul Hasan gave the address of welcome.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A documentary on the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant was also screened at the function. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 16:10:16', '2022-10-19 16:10:16'),
(2440, 2440, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh has been elected Vice-President from Asia-Pacific region at the 5th assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) that began in the Indian capital on Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Indian Union Minister of Power and New &amp; Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh inaugurated the Fifth Assembly of the ISA as the President of the organization.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India was re-elected President while France as Co-President of the 110 member and Signatory countries of the International Solar Alliance, sources familiar with the development told BSS on Tuesday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ministers from 20 countries and delegates from across 110 Member and Signatory countries and 18 prospective countries joined the inaugural ceremony of the 5th ISA Assembly in New Delhi, official sources said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Md. Habibur Rahman, Secretary, Power Division of the ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources led a nine-member Bangladesh delegation to the 5th ISA assembly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his opening remarks, Raj Kumar Singh stated that ISA would assist member nations in formulating and implementing solar-ready policies and regulatory development of national energy landscapes and for engaging with public and private sector entities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the ISA is structured as an international resource hub with in-house technical expertise that will be readily accessible by member nations and is capable of guiding project implementation at scale.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ISA has come a long way since its formation, and we are moving forward at a great pace, thanks to the guidance and support provided by each and every member of ISA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the sidelines of the event, Bangladesh delegation led by Power Division Secretary held a meeting with Ajay Mathur, Director General (DG) of the organization.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, the DG, ISA assured Bangladesh of extending all out support and cooperation for making solar energy available round the clock with affordable cost, said Nirod Chandra Mandal, National Focal Point of ISA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this connection, The ISA, DG also assured Bangladesh for extending solar energy cooperation in five sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are- solar irrigation cooperation, expansion of roof-top solar system, cooperation in floating solar system, cooperation in ensuring solar energy supply for cooling and heating system in godown and setting up technical application and research centre of solar energy in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DG is expected to visit Bangladesh in December this year to sign an agreement to this end, sources said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The assembly is the apex decision-making body of ISA, in which each Member Country is represented. This body makes decisions concerning the implementation of the ISA\'s Framework Agreement and coordinated actions to be taken to achieve its objective.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Fifth Assembly of the ISA, which began its journey in 2018, deliberates on the key initiatives of ISA on three critical issues energy access, energy security, and energy transition. 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, '2022-10-19 16:31:48', '2022-10-19 16:31:48'),
(2441, 2441, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Around 1.5 million lives could be saved every year if the world worked together to more swiftly approve new cancer drugs, researchers said Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The figure was based on how long it took two recent cancer drugs to be approved across the world after they were given the green light by the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Pembrolizumab, an effective treatment for most lung cancers, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2016.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More than 600,000 years of patients\' lives could have been saved if Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan and the European Union had approved the drug at the same time, according to an analysis published in the Harvard Business Review, which is not peer-reviewed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The authors, including US oncologist Bobby Daly, also looked at enzalutamide, which is used to treat prostate cancer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Enzalutamide was approved by the FDA in 2012, but was not authorised in China for another seven years, partly due to a requirement for separate trials to be carried out there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The analysis by members of the Bloomberg New Economy International Cancer Coalition found that 284,000 years of patient lives could have been saved if other countries had approved the drug alongside the FDA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Extrapolating out from their findings, the researchers estimated that if each of the approximately seven cancer drugs approved by the FDA a year were authorised worldwide, it would reduce the number of cancer-related deaths by 10-20 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">That represents roughly 1.5 million of the around 10 million people who die of cancer every year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- \'Challenging\' for doctors -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"In China alone an estimated 500,000 patient life-years could be saved through harmonisation of trial requirements that have delayed patient access to treatment,\" former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, co-chair of the Bloomberg cancer coalition, said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mary Gospodarowicz, also a member of the coalition, said that it was \"challenging\" as an oncologist in Canada when a drug was approved in the US but would take years to be able to prescribe it to her patients.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The study assumed that the rest of the world had the infrastructure to diagnose and treat cancer as well as the US, which is not always the case, Gospodarowicz told AFP via phone from the World Cancer Congress in Geneva on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But it served as an example of how \"removing the barriers to drug approval would be beneficial to patients around the world,\" said the former president of the Union for International Cancer Control, which is holding the congress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The authors of the analysis called on countries to embrace Project Orbis, a US-led framework aiming to get cancer drugs trialled and approved at the same time in multiple countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The US has already made significant progress in setting up the regulatory infrastructure for cancer treatment with the Project Orbis initiative and the task ahead is to take that framework and internationalise it,\" former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. 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, '2022-10-19 17:14:25', '2022-10-19 17:14:25'),
(2442, 2442, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the people are getting electricity even though the government has imposed some austerity measures amid global crisis.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“People are getting electricity and will get it, but all have to maintain austerity,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are also maintaining austerity in some cases. we are compelled to do so for the present situation,” she said while inaugurating the installation of a reactor pressure vessel at the second unit of the 2,400 MW Rooppur nuclear power plant (RNPP).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She joined the programme virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban while it was held at Ishwardi of the northern district of Pabna.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said her government has fulfilled its promise of providing electricity to all.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have kept our promise. We have been able to reach electricity to every house of Bangladesh,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this connection, she that the current problem has arisen due to a war like situation in the world and COVID-19 pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“…prices have gone up in everything including transportation. As a result the developed countries are suffering from various problems,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She went on saying that the developed countries also have focused on savings in every spheres of life. We are also doing that.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Because the world is now a global village one is dependent on another. When the world is suffering from economic recession that blow also comes to us,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, she went on, \"We have also started maintaining austerity.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“That does not mean, people of the country will not get electricity,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She once again blamed the Russia-Ukraine war and subsequent sanctions for compounding the problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I hope that the world will get relief from this situation very quickly,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman, Director General of Russia’s Rosatom State Corporation Alexey Likhachev and Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology Ziaul Hasan also spoke at the event.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A documentary on the RNPP was also screened at the programme. 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, '2022-10-19 18:41:26', '2022-10-19 18:41:26'),
(2443, 2443, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone on Wednesday morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 141 at 9.30am, the metropolis ranked ninth in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Canada\'s Vancouver BC, the United Arab Emirates\' Dubai and China\'s Chengdu occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 195, 169 and 161, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</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, '2022-10-19 19:01:25', '2022-10-19 19:01:25'),
(2444, 2444, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A pair of stars in our galaxy is revealing how light pushes around matter. It’s the first time anyone has directly seen how the pressure of light from stars changes the flow of dust in space.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Such radiation pressure influences how dust clears from the regions near young stars and guides the formation of gas clouds around dying stars (SN: 9/22/20). The dust pattern surrounding a stellar pair 5,600 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation is providing a rare laboratory to observe the effect in action, astronomer Yinuo Han and colleagues report in the Oct. 13 Nature.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Astronomers have long known that the dust emerging from the star WR 140 and its companion is formed by gas from these two stars colliding and condensing into soot. But images of the pair taken over the course of 16 years show that the dust is accelerating as it travels away from the stars.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dust initially departs the stars at about 6.5 million kilometers per hour, the researchers report, and over the course of a year accelerates to nearly 10 million km/h. At that speed, the dust could make the trip from our sun to Earth in a mere 15 hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The revelation came from comparing the positions of concentric dust shells year to year and deducing a speed. The researchers’ calculations show that the force accelerating the dust is the pressure exerted by light radiated from the stars, says Han, of the University of Cambridge. “Radiation pressure [becomes apparent] only when we put all the images next to each other.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not only are those layers of dust feeling light’s push, they also extend out farther than any telescope could see — until this year. Images from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, depict more of the dusty layers around WR 140 and its companion than ever seen before, Han and another team report October 12 in Nature Astronomy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first glance, the intricate patterns surrounding the stars resemble a gigantic spider web. But the researchers’ analysis reveals that they are actually enormous, expanding, cone-shaped dust shells. They’re nested inside each other, with a new one forming every eight years as the stars complete another journey around their orbits. In the new images, the shells look like sections of rings because we observe them from the side, Han says.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The patterns don’t completely surround the stars because the distance between the stars changes as they orbit one another. When the stars are far apart, the density of the colliding gas is too low to condense to dust — an effect the researchers expected.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What surprised them is that the gas doesn’t condense well when the stars are closest together either. That suggests there’s a “Goldilocks zone” for dust formation: Dust forms only when the separation between the stars is just right, creating a series of concentric dust shells rippling away from the duo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Their Goldilocks zone is a new idea,” says astrophysicist Andy Pollock of the University of Sheffield in England, who was not part of either study. “A similar sort of thing happens in my field of X-rays.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his work, Pollock has observed that WR 140 and its partner emit more X-rays as the stars approach each other, but then fewer as they get very close together, suggesting there’s a Goldilocks zone for X-rays coming from the stars as well. “It would be interesting to see if there’s any connection” between the two types of Goldilocks zones, he says. “All of this must somehow fit together.” SN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 19:23:18', '2022-10-19 19:23:18'),
(2445, 2445, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Taqwa (piety) has been mentioned in the Holy Quran in more than 60 locations, and the derivatives, have been mentioned in more than 190 locations. We hear it mentioned all the time at the beginning of every Jummah (Friday Prayer). So the question that often arises, “What is Taqwa?” and “How can I attain Taqwa?”</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">W<b>hat is the meaning of Taqwa?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">There are many meanings and understandings of the word Taqwa. Often, it is translated as “Fear of God”, and while fearing Allah is part of Taqwa, its meaning is deeper than this.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The linguistic meaning of Taqwa is “a shield or protective barrier”. It is to protect oneself from what angers Allah. Some scholars define Taqwa as placing a protective barrier between yourself and Allah’s punishment. Taqwa also means doing that which Allah has enjoined and avoiding that which He has forbidden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An incredible example that demonstrates this, is when Umar Ibn Al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) asked Ubay Ibn Ka’ab (may Allah be pleased with him) about Taqwa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ubay said “Have you ever taken a thorny path?” Umar replied, “Yes I have.” Ubay then asked, “So how did you travel along this thorny path?” Umar replied, “I rolled up my garment and was cautious as to where I would tread to avoid being pricked by the thorns.” So Ubay responded and said, “This is Taqwa.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This example explains the meaning of Taqwa. It illustrates how a person of Taqwa is cautious and careful with where they tread, not out of fear of stepping on a thorn, but out of fear of stepping into what Allah SWT has prohibited. They are aware of Allah SWT with every action and step they take.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>The virtues and benefits of having Taqwa</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Taqwa is one of the most virtuous characteristics a Muslim can have. Allah says:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>“Verily, the most honourable of you with Allah is that (believer) who has At-Taqwa. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.”</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Quran 49:13</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>“Indeed, Allah loves the Muttaqeen.”</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Quran 3:76</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through these verses, we understand that the believers most honored by Allah are those that have Taqwa. If we want to please Allah and earn Allah’s pleasure, we should strive to have Taqwa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Sa`id Al Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked, “Which of the people are most virtuous?” He said, “A man who takes part in Jihad in Allah’s cause.” They said, “Then whom?” He said, “Then a believer who stays in one of the mountains path out of Taqwa for his Lord, leaving the people secure from his evil.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al Tirmidhi</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"\"><b><u>Taqwa leads to guidance from Allah:</u></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>“This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for the Muttaqeen”</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Quran 2:2</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Taqwa grants us the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“O you who have believed, if you have Taqwa of Allah, He will grant you a criterion and will remove from you your misdeeds and forgive you.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quran 8:29</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When facing difficulties, those who have Taqwa will be granted a way out by Allah SWT and will be granted ease in their affairs:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>“And whoever has Taqwa of Allah – He will make for him a way out and will provide for him from where he does not expect.”</b></div><h5 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; \">Quran 65:2-3</h5><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>“And whoever has Taqwa of Allah – He will make for him of his matter ease.”</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Quran 65:4</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"7\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 19:56:01', '2022-10-19 19:56:01');
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(2446, 2446, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ireland pulled off a stunning six-wicket upset of Scotland at the Twenty20 World Cup Wednesday with George Dockrell and Curtis Campher starring in a 119-run partnership after they looked out for the count.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In perfect conditions at Bellerive Oval in Hobart, the Scots powered to 176-5 -- the tournament\'s highest score so far on the back of 86 from Michael Jones -- then reduced the Irish to 65-4 after 10 overs.</div><div><br></div><div>But Campher (69 off 32 balls) and Dockrell (39 off 27) came to the crease and unleashed some fireworks to steer them home against the odds with an over to spare.</div><div><br></div><div>It was their first win of the tournament after crashing to Zimbabwe on Monday and leaves Group B wide open.</div><div><br></div><div>Ireland came into the game needing a victory to keep their hopes alive and they did so with their highest ever successful run chase at a World Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>They lost openers Andy Balbirnie and Paul Stirling cheaply to make their task even harder.</div><div><br></div><div>Lorcan Tucker (20) and Harry Tector (14) put on 28 before both departed within six balls as they crumbled to 65-4 after 10 overs and it looked all but over.</div><div><br></div><div>But the momentum shifted with Dockrell and Campher at the crease as they began swinging the bat, hitting 18 off one Mark Watt over.</div><div><br></div><div>They reduced the runs needed to 52 off the last five overs and steered them home.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Jones smacked a blistering 86 off 55 balls as Scotland looked to build on their stunning 42-run upset of two-time champions West Indies on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>It was the highest score at the tournament and the best ever by a Scot at a T20 World Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>Scotland made a shaky start after winning the toss and choosing to bat with opener George Munsey, who starred against the West Indies, lasting just two balls, trapped lbw by Mark Adair.</div><div><br></div><div>Matthew Cross joined Jones and they put on a breezy 59.</div><div><br></div><div>But Cross was undone when Campher came into the attack and he was deceived by a slower delivery, caught at long-on for 28.</div><div><br></div><div>Jones played beautifully and brought up his maiden T20 half-century off 38 balls with a single, ably supported by Richie Berrington (37) then Michael Leask (17) before eventually falling in the penultimate over. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 22:52:41', '2022-10-19 22:52:41'),
(2447, 2447, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As the first franchise of this year\'s Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), Sylhet Strikers named their icon players and some important foreign recruits.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, the former captain of Bangladesh national team, is the icon of Sylhet Strikers. They also roped in Pakistan pace-bowling star Mohammad Amir along with Sri Lankan stars Thisara Perera, Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva.</div><div><br></div><div>They have announced it in their logo unveiling ceremony on Wednesday in a Dhaka hotel.</div><div><br></div><div>Sylhet have also named Rajin Saleh, the former national team captain, as their assistant coach and Nafis Iqbal as their team manager respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of seven teams will participate in this year\'s BPL which will begin in early January 2023. - UNB</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 23:08:46', '2022-10-19 23:08:46'),
(2448, 2448, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Under the new visa plan, recent graduates of the world’s top 100 universities will be eligible for work visas.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hong Kong is cutting property taxes and easing visa rules for non-permanent residents to attract global talent, its chief executive John Lee announced on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The aim of the new measures is to revive the city as an international financial hub.</div><div><br></div><div>Marking one of the city\'s most aggressive efforts to counter Singapore which has been attracting companies and workers to consider owing to Hong Kong’s pandemic restrictions, the plan was introduced by John Lee in his maiden policy address.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the key points on Hong Kong\'s new measures:</div><div><br></div><div>1. The new property rule will refund extra stamp duties that non-permanent resident property buyers have to pay after their stay in the city for seven years.</div><div><br></div><div>2. After becoming permanent residents, the property buyers can apply for refunds of two separate stamp duties that are each fixed at 15%.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Under the new visa plan, recent graduates of the world’s top 100 universities will be eligible for work visas.</div><div><br></div><div>4. Hong Kong will set aside HK$30 billion to establish “co-investment fund” aimed at attracting companies to set up operations in Hong Kong.</div><div>5. Hong Kong aims to attract 100 high-potential innovation and technology enterprises to the city and will also promote fintech industry and offer tax concessions to family offices.</div><div><br></div><div>6. Hong Kong has rolled back its most stringent Covid curbs that resulted in deep economic turmoil in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>7. Hong Kong has also announced an end to hotel quarantine for travelers. Source: Hindustan Times</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 23:19:40', '2022-10-19 23:19:40'),
(2449, 2449, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Khulna bus-minibus owners association and motor workers’ union have decided to keep bus services suspended on October 21 and 22 due to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s divisional rally on October 22.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>They took the decision on Wednesday night.</div><div><br></div><div>General secretary of motor workers’ union Jakir Hossain said movement of all buses from Khulna will remain suspended on October 21 and 22.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP will organize the rally on Sonali Bank premises in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>District unit BNP general secretary Monirul Hasan Bappi alleged that the decision was taken to restrict the BNP leaders and activists of different upazilas of Khulna district and nine districts of Khulna division from joining the rally.</div><div><br></div><div>“We apprehended the matter earlier and have taken preparations accordingly,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP activists were asked to come to the city few days ahead of the rally and stay in hotels or relative’s houses, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on September 28, BNP announced to hold public rallies in 10 divisional cities in protest against the killings and filing of cases against the party leaders and activists, price hikes of fuel and daily essentials and demanding the unconditional release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div><br></div><div>The party has already arranged two massive rallies in Chittagong and Mymensingh.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP leaders alleged that many BNP leaders and activists were attacked, arrested and implicated in ‘false’ cases in Chittagong and Mymensingh over holding the rally. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-19 23:56:36', '2022-10-19 23:56:36'),
(2450, 2450, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Putin said Wednesday that he will give “additional powers” to the local leaders of all Russian regions.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Senior officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation should pay the necessary attention to the implementation of measures designed to ensure the safety of people, the protection and anti-terrorist protection of critical facilities, maintaining public order, increasing the stability of the economy, industry and expanding the production of means necessary for a special military operation,” Putin said.</div><div><br></div><div>This comes after Putin announced on Wednesday that he has signed a law introducing martial law in four Ukrainian regions the Kremlin has sought to annex, in violation of international law. The regions — Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk — are not under full Russian control. Western nations have decried the annexations and vowed not to recognize them as Russian territory.</div><div><br></div><div>“To coordinate the work of the heads of regions will receive the authority to create the appropriate headquarters. I instruct the government, the Ministry of Defense and other departments to provide them with all necessary assistance,” Putin added.</div><div><br></div><div>Putin also said that he has instructed the government to establish a special council to coordinate the changes, reports Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The council will include vice-premiers, representatives of law enforcement agencies, the socio-economic bloc of the government, the presidential administration, and the State Council, which will ensure close interaction with the regions,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 00:05:51', '2022-10-20 00:05:51'),
(2451, 2451, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Train services on the Dhaka-Mymensingh route have been suspended since Thursday morning, with a crane overturning on the railway track in the Satkhamair area of Gazipur\'s Sreepur upazila.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Harun-or-Rashid, station master of Sreepur Railway Station, said the crane was brought to Sreepur for carrying out repairs of the railway track in the morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"However, around 9am, the crane overturned on the railway track, halting train movement on the route,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Mymensingh-bound ‘Teesta Express’ and a Dhaka-bound commuter train are currently stranded at Sreepur railway station and Kawraide point, respectively,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Efforts are on to remove the crane from the railway track soon,” he added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 18:00:38', '2022-10-20 18:00:38'),
(2452, 2452, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Malaysia will head to the polls on November 19, officials said Thursday, after the prime minister called for a snap election to restore political stability.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved parliament earlier this month and called for the vote a year ahead of schedule to shore up his slim majority in the 222-member legislature.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \"election date is November 19\", Election Commission chairman Abdul Ghani Salleh said at a press conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nomination day for candidates will be on November 5, with 97-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad among those expected to join the fray.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ismail\'s UMNO, the dominant party in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, will contest the polls head-on with its bitter rival Pakatan Harapan alliance led by veteran opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others in the fray include a host of Malay-based parties, including Pejuang which is led by Mahathir, who has said he will be available to become prime minister for the third time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ismail is the third prime minister Malaysia has had in four years, underscoring the political instability that followed the last general elections in 2018.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UMNO -- which ruled the country for over 60 years -- had suffered a shock defeat amid allegations of massive corruption linked to state fund 1MDB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then-prime minister Najib Razak, embroiled in the scandal involving billions of dollars allegedly pilfered from the sovereign wealth fund, was ousted, charged with corruption and convicted after a lengthy trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August, he started serving a 12-year jail sentence for the initial batch of charges, although he faces dozens more that could keep him in prison longer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Will Najib be freed? -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is a crucial election because they are electing a government that will bring Malaysia out of the pandemic and back to normality,\" said James Chin, a Malaysia expert at the University of Tasmania.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UMNO, which returned to power last year due to political infighting in the previous governments, expects to win big and cement its rule.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But while it has the political machinery, the party remains tainted with the 1MDB corruption scandal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are fears that if the party comes to power, Najib could be freed and efforts to pursue corruption charges against other party members will slacken.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among those facing charges is UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If UMNO wins, there are concerns that the rule of law will not be honored in Najib\'s conviction,\" Bridget Welsh of the University of Nottingham Malaysia said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Voters will be deciding effectively whether Najib and UMNO party president Zahid will not face punishment for the criminal charges they face.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1MDB scandal triggered investigations in the United States, Switzerland and Singapore, whose financial systems were believed to have been used to launder the money, and battered Malaysia\'s global image.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US Justice Department has said more than $4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB between 2009 and 2015 by high-level officials at the fund and their associates and spent on everything from high-end real estate to pricey art.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economy and the rising cost of living will be key election issues with inflation soaring and the local ringgit currency tumbling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are also concerns with the polls being held in the monsoon season, which usually brings widespread floods. 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, '2022-10-20 18:06:03', '2022-10-20 18:06:03'),
(2453, 2453, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The EU\'s drug watchdog on Wednesday approved Pfizer and Moderna\'s Covid injections for children aged six months and up as fears grow of a winter wave of infections.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, the European Medicines Agency also approved a separate shot by Moderna, specifically targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the coronavirus Omicron variant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EMA\'s human medicines committee \"recommended... the use in children aged six months to four years for Comirnaty and use in children aged six months to five years for Spikevax,\" the Amsterdam-based watchdog said, referring to Pfizer and Modern\'s jabs respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it said that compared to shots recommended for people aged five years and older, the doses for infants will be lower.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pfizer\'s Comirnaty can be given as a primary vaccination consisting of three doses while Spikevax will consist of two doses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For children within these age groups, both vaccines are given as injections in the muscles of the upper arm or thigh,\" the EMA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile it also approved Moderna\'s adapted Spikevax booster jab against the new strains of the Omicron variant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The bivalent vaccine is recommended for adults and children from 12 years of age who have already had a primary vaccination course against Covid-19,\" the EMA said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The adapted Spikevax vaccine is the second in the 27-nation bloc\'s toolbox to fight the highly infectious BA.4 and BA.5 types of the variant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the original Covid vaccines that emerged nearly two years ago provide some protection against newer variants, the race has been on to produce jabs that specifically target the milder but more infectious Omicron strains.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previous \"variants of concern\" like Alpha and Delta eventually petered out but Omicron and its sub-lineages have dominated throughout 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BA.4 and BA.5 types have in particular helped to drive new cases of the disease in Europe and the United States in recent months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EMA warned last month that while death rates were down the pandemic is \"still ongoing\" and urged countries to roll out booster programmes before winter, when cases are expected to rise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EMA\'s recommendations will be sent to the European Commission for a final decision. 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, '2022-10-20 18:19:41', '2022-10-20 18:19:41'),
(2454, 2454, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>People who let off firecrackers in Delhi during Diwali will face up to six months in jail, the city\'s environment minister has announced amid worsening pollution levels in the Indian capital.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has also imposed a fine of 200 Indian rupees ($2.41; £2.15) on those caught bursting firecrackers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rules are part of a broader ban on firecrackers announced in September to help curb extreme pollution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi is the world\'s most polluted capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various factors such as factory emissions, traffic fumes, and general weather patterns contribute to the high pollution levels in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air turns particularly toxic every winter when farmers in neighbouring states burn crop stubble. And fireworks during the Hindu festival Diwali worsen the air quality as low wind speeds trap the pollutants in the lower atmosphere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The smog-filled air, which covers the city during this time, contains dangerously high levels of fine particulate matter called PM2.5 - tiny particles that can clog lungs and cause a host of diseases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year too, air quality is expected to dip to the \"very poor\" category ahead of the festival on 24 October, due to calm winds and the stable atmospheric conditions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the air quality index or AQI, a figure between 301-400 is considered \"very poor\" while zero and 50 is considered \"good\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September, the Delhi government had imposed a complete ban on the production, sale and use of all types of firecrackers till 1 January - a practice it has followed for the last two years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday said that anyone found storing or selling fireworks will face a fine of up to 5,000 rupees and three years jail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the government has set up 408 teams - comprising police officials and pollution officers - to implement the rules. Hours later, the police seized over 2,200kg of firecrackers from across the city, Times of India newspaper reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A public awareness campaign will also be run on October 21 to sensitise citizens about the ban,\" Mr Rai said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many, however, have criticised the move, saying it is unfair and harsh. Some have also called the ban \"anti-Hindu\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Why [are] only Hindu festivals causing pollution. If people in Delhi burst crackers for 3-4 hours, how does it matter?\" a social media user wrote on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the years, celebratory fireworks during Diwali has become a sensitive topic in India, with many Hindus arguing that a cracker ban is discriminatory. Several celebrities, who have done anti-cracker campaigns, have been also accused of hurting religious sentiments. 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, '2022-10-20 18:28:18', '2022-10-20 18:28:18'),
(2455, 2455, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone on Thursday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>With an air quality index (AQI) score of 162 at 9am, the metropolis ranked eighth in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div><br></div><div>The USA’s Seattle, Pakistan’s Lahore and India’s Delhi occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 251, 235 and 173, respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div><br></div><div>AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div><br></div><div>In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 18:37:17', '2022-10-20 18:37:17'),
(2456, 2456, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Rosatom Director General (DG) Alexey Likhachev today said Bangladesh will be given high powered nuclear reactor for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) for the optimum electricity generation as he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fresh nuclear fuel will come to Bangladesh in October next year for the RNPP as well, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Likhachev met the prime minister at her official residence Ganabhaban here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister\'s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the newsmen after the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Rosatom DG told the premier that they want to celebrate the arrival of the fresh nuclear fuel in Bangladesh with participation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general and concerned persons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that they are training up the Bangladeshi people for the RNPP, he said Russia is also interested to conduct research on nuclear science and technology in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia is also providing assistance in building infrastructure for nuclear governance in Bangladesh, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the outset of the meeting, Likhachev briefed and explained the Bangladesh premier about the development and progress of the work of the RNPP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended her thanks to Russia, particularly Rosatom DG for providing support and continuing full swing construction during the Covid-19 pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also appreciated Russia for their assistance in the power and energy sector since Bangladesh became independent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina said Russian stakeholders may give emphasis on manpower development of RNPP so that Bangladeshi people could become capable in operating and maintaining the RNPP independently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also laid emphasis on security aspects of the nuclear power plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador-at-large Mohammad Ziauddin, Prime Minister\'s Principal Secretary Dr. Ahmad Kaikaus, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology Ziaul Hasan, Bangladesh Ambassador to Russia Kamrul Ahsan and Ambassador of Russia in Dhaka Alexander Mantytskiy, among others, were present. 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, '2022-10-20 18:44:47', '2022-10-20 18:44:47'),
(2457, 2457, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Opener Kusal Mendis slammed a 44-ball 79 as Asian champions Sri Lanka beat the Netherlands by 16 runs to sweep into the Super 12 stage of the Twenty20 World Cup on Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world\'s eighth-ranked team plundered 162-6, blasting 102 of them off the final 10 overs to set up a big target which the Dutch were unable to reach, finishing on 146-9.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In which Super 12 group they play will be determined after the later game in Geelong between Namibia and United Arab Emirates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A win for the African side will knock out the Dutch and send them through, as they already have a superior net run rate. If the UAE upset Namibia, the Dutch will progress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It is the third successive time Sri Lanka have reached the Super 12 and they will be hoping to repeat their heroics from 2014, when Dinesh Chandimal skippered them to the title.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it was a rocky road to get there, stunned by Namibia in the tournament\'s opening game before crushing UAE and now the Netherlands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After winning the toss and choosing to bat, Sri Lanka started slowly with Pathum Nissanka and Mendis plodding to just 22 off the first five overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nissanka was dropped in the fifth over, and came undone on 14 when hostile pace bowler Paul Van Meekeren returned to the attack and sent down a yorker.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhananjaya de Silva followed him back to pavilion the next ball, out lbw, as Sri Lanka lived dangerously with countless chances falling just short of the fielders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charith Asalanka and Mendis knuckled down in a 60-run stand to step up the run rate before Asalanka was caught behind off all-rounder Bas de Leede for 31.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mendis brought up his ninth T20 half-century with a six then smacked successive sixes in the penultimate over before he was out going for another boundary, almost carrying his bat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite missing injured pace spearheads Dushmantha Chameera and Pramod Madushan, a Sri Lankan attack with replacements Lahiru Kumara and Binura Fernando kept the Dutch at bay in the opening overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opener Vikramjit Singh was out for seven, caught by Dusan Shanaka off Maheesh Theekshana then Kumara got the big wicket of rising star De Leede for 14.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The experienced Colin Ackermann went for a golden duck to the spin of Hasaranga de Silva as they reached 63-3 at halfway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opener Max O\'Dowd (71 not out) gamely hung on but when captain Scott Edwards was bowled by Fernando after a quick-fire 21 they slumped from 100-4 to 109-8 and the game was all-but over. 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, '2022-10-20 19:31:19', '2022-10-20 19:31:19'),
(2458, 2458, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner  Md Shafiqul Islam will go on retirement on October 30.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A gazette notification in this regard was issued by the Home Ministry\'s Public Security Division on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>He will be on post-retirement leave (PRL) from October 30 this year to October 29 next year.</div><div><br></div><div>He will be entitled to retirement and post-retirement leave benefits as per government rules, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>The tenure of DMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam was extended for another year in 2021. On September 13, 2019 he took the responsibility as 34th Commissioner of DMP.</div><div><br></div><div>He began his career in 1989 as Assistant Superintendent of Police as the 8th Bangladesh Civil Service cadre (police).</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier he served as Additional Inspector General of Police in the Crime Investigation Bureau of Bangladesh police. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 19:53:17', '2022-10-20 19:55:37'),
(2459, 2459, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The death toll from the Gazipur filling station fire rose to four, with another victim succumbing to his burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased was identified as filling station worker Sirajul Islam, 28.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sirajul, who sustained 40% burns, breathed his last at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of DMCH at 7.30 am, said inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH police camp.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">One more burn victim of the same fire -- Anwar, 30 -- is being treated at the same hospital, and his condition is also critical, said a doctor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on Tuesday, another worker, Al Amin, 30, succumbed to his injuries at the same hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, driver Parvez, 33, who sustained 86% burns succumbed to his injuries on Monday. On Friday, another injured, named Mithu Mia, 26, who suffered 100% burns, died at the same hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 13 evening, the fire was triggered by an explosion that occurred in a cylinder-laden van while refuelling gas at Wahed Ali Filling Station in Gazipur’s Borobari area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seven people who sustained burn injuries in the fire were all standing nearby.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were first taken to Tahirunnesa Memorial Medical College Hospital (TMMC) and five of them had to be later shifted to DMCH as their condition was critical. 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, '2022-10-20 20:08:12', '2022-10-20 20:08:12'),
(2460, 2460, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has said the media can play their roles in promoting the activities that can help further deepen the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She urged the journalists of both Bangladesh and India to play constructive role in improving Dhaka-Delhi ties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Speaker was speaking at the inaugural session of a seminar titled “Role of Bangladesh-India Relations: Challenges and Prospects” organised by the Jatiya Press Club.The Speaker inaugurate the session virtually.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior journalists from Bangladesh and India attended the seminar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaker Chaudhury said the two countries have addressed many challenges in the past years, including land and maritime boundaries demarcation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two countries signed a number of agreements and MoUs on social, economic, maritime and environmental cooperation, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian Journalists’ Union President Geetartha Pathak said Bangladesh and India share common history and culture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though the two countries addressed many problems, some issues like water sharing still need to be addressed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said as a lower riparian country, Bangladesh has the right to have equal water sharing of the common rivers but that is not being ensured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh faces immense problems due to flooding that the upper riparian countries India, Nepal or Bhutan do not face, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I hope the journalists of India and Bangladesh can focus on these issues,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam, JPC president Farida Yasmin, its general secretary Elias Khan, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) president Sohel Haider Chowdhury, among others, spoke. 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, '2022-10-20 21:24:39', '2022-10-20 21:24:39'),
(2461, 2461, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said the Chinese side is yet come up with any good news on the Rohingya repatriation but they are continuing their efforts to that end.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"My key discussion (with Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh) today focused on Myanmar and the Rohingya issues,\" he told reporters after his meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming.</div><div><br></div><div>The hour-long meeting was held at the State guesthouse Padma while the Foreign Minister briefed the media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said the Chinese side is trying to help find a solution. \"They (China) are the facilitator, not the decision maker. We are requesting them again and again,\" he said, adding that the Bangladesh side is keeping them under pressure.</div><div><br></div><div>The current Myanmar government honours all the previous agreements signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar and expressed willingness to take back the Rohingyas after verification. \"That\'s good news but there is no specific date (when repatriation will begin),\" Momen said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Foreign Minister said the Rohingya issue is a priority issue for Bangladesh. \"We need a quick and sustainable resolution to the crisis.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question, Momen said there has been no discussion on Teesta issue with the Chinese Ambassador. \"I said this issue was never raised to me.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said he conveyed the Chinese Ambassador to play a role so that the Rohingyas living on zero point can be taken back inside the Myanmar side.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question, he said, \"I am always a very optimistic person.\"</div><div>He, however, said the situation along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border has improved what he sees as good news.</div><div><br></div><div>Brokered by China, Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an agreement for starting repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar under a tripartite mechanism, but the process remained stalled.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea of a tripartite mechanism among Bangladesh, China and Myanmar came four years ago in New York to evaluate the situation on the ground and take steps for the early repatriation and there had been few meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador Jiming at a recent event indicated that they are going to formally share the “feedback” with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka based on what they talked with the Myanmar side. “I am not going to disclose it right now.”</div><div><br></div><div>Despite assurance from Myanmar, not a single person was taken back over the last five years. Bangladesh is hosting over 1.1 million Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.</div><div><br></div><div>On October 13, the Chinese envoy said the key to the Rohingya issue is building confidence between the stakeholders, not the unilateral efforts from a certain country.</div><div><br></div><div>He said China has been working on Bangladesh and Myanmar to help to resolve the Rohingya issue through talks because both Bangladesh and Myanmar are China\'s friendly neighbors.</div><div><br></div><div>Thus, he said, the Chinese side hopes Bangladesh and Myanmar could work in the same direction so that the repatriation could start at an early date.</div><div><br></div><div>On October 17, Momen said Myanmar \"should keep their promise\" for the repatriation of the Rohingya to “their place of origin in Rakhine State.”</div><div><br></div><div>Momen also criticised the countries which are doing “business as usual” with Myanmar though they talk about human rights issues.</div><div><br></div><div>They made a commitment to create a condition for a safe and dignified return, but the saddest thing is that not a single Rohingya could return, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting Myanmar’s internal problems, the foreign minister said where there is a will, there is a way despite those problems. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 21:59:16', '2022-10-20 21:59:16'),
(2462, 2462, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A mobile court arrested 20 fishermen along with current nets, fishing boats and Hilsha for violating the government\'s ongoing 22-day ban on Hilsha fishing conducting separate drives in different points of Padma and Meghna rivers here in the last 12-hour.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Chandpur Naval Station Md. Kamruzzaman said a total of 20 fishermen were arrested with 103 kgs of mother Hilsha, eight fishing boats and 1.22 lakh meters of banned current nets during the drives in the river Padma and Meghna in the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mobile court sentenced six fishermen to 10 days imprisonment each and 10 fishermen were sent to the jail with filing a case and rests four juveniles were released as they were minor, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has imposed a 22-day ban starting from October 7 on catching, selling, storing and transporting Hilsha, to ensure safe spawning of the Mother Hilsha, during its peak breeding period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seized boats and nets were destroyed and 50 kgs of Hilsa has been stored in cold storage and rests of the 53 kgs of Hilsha has been distributed to the local orphans. 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, '2022-10-20 22:07:17', '2022-10-20 22:07:17'),
(2463, 2463, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported another Covid-19-linked death and 243 fresh cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The country\'s total fatalities rose to 29,411 with the new deaths and the new cases raised the total caseload to 2,033,662, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The daily case test positivity rate dropped to 5.82 per cent from Wednesday’s 7.18 per cent as 4,174 samples were tested during the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The latest deceased was a woman from Sylhet division.</div><div><br></div><div>The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 per cent and the recovery rate rose to 97.18 per cent.</div><div><br></div><div>In September, the country reported 40 Covid-linked deaths and 13,251 cases.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and its highest number of fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 22:46:22', '2022-10-20 22:46:22'),
(2464, 2464, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The air turns particularly toxic every winter when farmers in neighbouring states burn crop stubble. And fireworks during the Hindu festival Diwali worsen the air quality as low wind speeds trap the pollutants in the lower atmosphere.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The smog-filled air, which covers the city during this time, contains dangerously high levels of fine particulate matter called PM2.5 - tiny particles that can clog lungs and cause a host of diseases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year too, air quality is expected to dip to the \"very poor\" category ahead of the festival on 24 October, due to calm winds and the stable atmospheric conditions. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 22:50:47', '2022-10-20 22:50:47');
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(2465, 2465, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam today said that the present Bangladesh is marching forward vibrantly under the prudent and farsighted leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Import-dependency of Bangladesh is the lowest among 193 countries in the world,\" he said while inaugurating the newly constructed building of Kaluhati High School under Charghat Upazila in the district as chief guest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State Minister said the economy of the western countries is being squeezed in terms of dealing with the Covid-19.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Whereas, IMF said Bangladesh\'s GDP will be six percent during the current year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the development of the educational sector, he said sufficient allocation has been given in the national budget for the education sector.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there is no alternative to ensure qualitative education for taking the nation forward. So, the present government has attached top priority to the sector.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shahriar Alam told the meeting that the country attained remarkable success in all development sectors due to the consistency of Sheikh Hasina\'s government for the last around 14 consecutive years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said now none needs to come to her with the problems related to power and road communication and the application for construction of school buildings has reduced to half as most of the educational institutions have got buildings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling for turning the educational institutions into the best places of acquiring knowledge he added that there is no alternative to operate the educational institutions competently for quality development of education side by side with generating skilled and worthy manpower.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quality education will be ensured in both urban and rural areas if the academic classes are conducted by the skilled and competent teachers. 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, '2022-10-20 23:13:18', '2022-10-20 23:13:53'),
(2466, 2466, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday approved a charge sheet against nine people including five former members of the board of trustees of North-South University&nbsp; (NSU) for laundering around Tk 304 crore.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ACC Secretary Mahbub Hossain said the investigation officer of the case and director of ACC’s investigation and inquiry cell will submit the chargesheet before the court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused are - NSU trustee board chairman Azim Uddin Ahmed, members- Benajir Ahmed, MA Kashem, Rehana Rahman, Mohammed Shajahan,&nbsp; &nbsp;Ashaloy Housing and Developers Amin managing director Md Hilaly, its chairman Omar Faruk and directors- Anwara Begum and Syed AK Haque.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On May 5, the ACC filed the case against the NSU trustees and others on charges of embezzling money in the name of buying land for the campus and money laundering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Private University Act, 2010, the board of trustees is the highest governing body of a private university like North South University. According to the Memorandum of Association and Articles (Rules and Regulations) of the University, the university is a charitable, welfare oriented, non-commercial and non-profit educational institution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case stated that over 9,088 decimal land was bought in the name of campus development of NSU through the consent of some members of the board of trustees bypassing the approval of the university syndicate, the University Grants Commission, and the Ministry of Education.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They later withdrew cash from the buyer through cheques in their own names and kept FDR in their own names. Later, they themselves embezzled the FDR money.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They unjustly benefited themselves by committing illegal activities, criminal misconduct through misuse of power and embezzling university and government funds, according to the case statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In carrying out such illegal activities, they have committed a punishable offence by resorting to fraud and forgery and exchanging commissions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday approved a charge sheet against nine people including five former members of the board of trustees of North-South University&nbsp; (NSU) for laundering around Tk 304 crore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ACC Secretary Mahbub Hossain said the investigation officer of the case and director of ACC’s investigation and inquiry cell will submit the chargesheet before the court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused are - NSU trustee board chairman Azim Uddin Ahmed, members- Benajir Ahmed, MA Kashem, Rehana Rahman, Mohammed Shajahan,&nbsp; &nbsp;Ashaloy Housing and Developers Amin managing director Md Hilaly, its chairman Omar Faruk and directors- Anwara Begum and Syed AK Haque.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On May 5, the ACC filed the case against the NSU trustees and others on charges of embezzling money in the name of buying land for the campus and money laundering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Private University Act, 2010, the board of trustees is the highest governing body of a private university like North South University. According to the Memorandum of Association and Articles (Rules and Regulations) of the University, the university is a charitable, welfare oriented, non-commercial and non-profit educational institution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case stated that over 9,088 decimal land was bought in the name of campus development of NSU through the consent of some members of the board of trustees bypassing the approval of the university syndicate, the University Grants Commission, and the Ministry of Education.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They later withdrew cash from the buyer through cheques in their own names and kept FDR in their own names. Later, they themselves embezzled the FDR money.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They unjustly benefited themselves by committing illegal activities, criminal misconduct through misuse of power and embezzling university and government funds, according to the case statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In carrying out such illegal activities, they have committed a punishable offence by resorting to fraud and forgery and exchanging commissions. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-20 23:39:01', '2022-10-20 23:39:01'),
(2467, 2467, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation, just a month and a half after taking office.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thursday’s development came after her new chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, rolled back virtually all of her economic agenda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hunt’s move was supposed to be an impetus for growth, but it became Truss’s declaration of political bankruptcy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At the beginning of this month, at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Truss had still attempted to rally the party around her controversial approach of boosting the United Kingdom’s economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I have three priorities for the economy: growth, growth, growth,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But what was supposed to be a change from the tumultuous era of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a sense of chaos under Truss unravelled at a pace that is almost unprecedented in British history, Nicholas Allen, professor of politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, told Al Jazeera.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Previous prime ministers’ central policies have unravelled very quickly, for instance – Neville Chamberlain’s leadership during the spring of 1940, Sir Anthony Eden’s Suez adventure, and David Cameron’s campaign to remain in the EU. I can also think of the backlash to Gordon Brown’s decision not to call a general election in the early autumn of 2007,” Allen said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“But no new prime minister’s position has unravelled so early into their premiership or so catastrophically as Truss’s has over the last few weeks.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 47-year-old, who entered parliament in 2010, found herself in a first cabinet position in 2014 as secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs under former Prime Minister David Cameron.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She since served under Theresa May and Johnson in various positions. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-21 00:39:37', '2022-10-21 00:39:37'),
(2468, 2468, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Law Minister Anisul Huq said that the release period of Khaleda Zia is being extended after every six months by suspending her punishment considering her health condition to facilitate taking treatment at home.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Khaleda Zia got release from jail on two conditions under the section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CRPC). She is now free and undergoing treatment,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said this replying to a question from journalists after attending a view exchange meeting with factory owners and workers and Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) officials at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) here this afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anisul said the government released Khaleda from jail suspending her sentence though she is convicted as per the law.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was freed as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed her generosity, responding to Khaleda Zia\'s family members\' appeal citing that she (Khaleda) was sick during the Covid-19 pandemic situation, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking about wage hike of the garment workers, the minister said the wage of the garment workers was increased for ensuring their wellbeing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Law and Justice Division Secretary Md Golam Sarwar and BEPZA Executive Chairman Major General Abul Kalam Mohammad Ziaur Rahman were present on the occasion, among others. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-21 00:44:45', '2022-10-21 00:44:45'),
(2469, 2469, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Country\'s tea production reached a record milestone of 14.74 million kg in September this year which is also higher than the production of any month in the past.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The tea production in September this year witnessed a growth of 17 percent compared to September last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tea industry of the country has bounced back from the work abstention of the tea workers due to favourable weather, distribution of fertilizer at subsidized rate, regular monitoring by the Commerce Ministry and the Tea Board, and overall relentless efforts from the tea garden owners and workers, said a press release of the Bangladesh Tea Board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The release said that Bangladesh witnessed its previous highest production of 14.58 million kgs of tea in October last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Tea Board Chairman Major General Md Ashraful Islam said although tea production was halted for some days in August this year due to the work abstention by the tea workers, but the usual operations resumed again soon with the increase of wages of the tea workers following directives from the Prime Minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, necessary rainfall, distribution of fertilizer at right time at subsidized rate, providing incentives in tea export, regular monitoring of tea gardens, increase of wages of tea workers and ensuring their welfare have led to the record production of tea in September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first nine months of the current Calendar year, the overall tea production at some 167 tea gardens and other small-scale tea gardens in the country reached 63.83 million kg. 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, '2022-10-21 01:02:32', '2022-10-21 01:02:32'),
(2470, 2470, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister in a statement outside Downing Street, reports BBC.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She said she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected as Tory leader and had notified the King that she was resigning.</div><div><br></div><div>There will be Conservative leadership election to be completed within the next week, she says.</div><div>\"I will remain as Prime Minister until a successor has been chosen,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>It comes after she met the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs as more Tories called for her to quit.</div><div><br></div><div>Truss\'s premiership came under renewed pressure after the home secretary resigned and a chaotic vote on fracking.</div><div><br></div><div>There was fury on Wednesday evening around the vote and the methods used to get MPs to vote with the government.</div><div><br></div><div>Muted response on markets to resignation</div><div>There has been a muted response on the markets after Liz Truss announced she was resigning as prime minister.</div><div><br></div><div>The pound rose initially in the immediate aftermath of the statement before settling back at around $1.12.</div><div>Before she delivered her statement, one analyst said the markets were \"watching in a kind of stunned, open-mouthed horror\" at political events.</div><div><br></div><div>Truss the briefest serving PM in UK history</div><div>Liz Truss has been in office for just 45 days - the shortest tenure of any UK prime minister. The second shortest serving PM was George Canning, who served for 119 days before dying in 1827.</div><div><br></div><div>Trouble began when her first Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, spooked the financial markets with his mini-budget on 23 September.</div><div><br></div><div>Since then, Conservative disquiet has morphed into widespread anger within the parliamentary party.</div><div><br></div><div>Her stepping down today follows dramatic scenes in the House of Commons last night over a vote on fracking. Calls for her to go kept growing in the hours afterwards.</div><div><br></div><div>Starmer demands election as Truss quits</div><div>Labour leader Keir Starmer has demanded a general election \"now\" after Liz Truss announced her resignation as prime minister. Source: BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-21 02:17:32', '2022-10-21 02:17:32'),
(2471, 2471, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukraine began curbing electricity consumption on Thursday as it raced to carry out repairs on infrastructure destroyed by Russian bombing as winter approaches.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Energy-saving measures were put in place across the country after Russian missile and drone strikes destroyed at least 30 percent of the country’s power stations in a week.</div><div><br></div><div>Following blackouts in parts of the capital Kyiv overnight, the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko urged businesses to limit screens and signage lights “as much as possible.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Even small savings and a reduction in electricity consumption in every home will help stabilize the operation of the national energy system,” he said on social media.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainians have responded defiantly to the attacks.</div><div>“It’s not going to change our attitude, maybe we will only hate them more,” said Olga, 22, a resident of Dnipro in central Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>“I would rather sit in the cold, with no water and electricity than be in Russia,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia invaded Ukraine in February and quickly seized more than 20 percent of the country but has lost ground after a series of battlefield defeats in recent weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow has retaliated by annexing the areas it holds and launching a wave of strikes on energy facilities, including with what Kyiv and Western powers said are Iranian drones.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia and Iran have denied the use of such drones in Ukraine but the EU on Thursday imposed sanctions on three Iranian generals and an arms firm accused of supplying them.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is our clear response to the Iranian regime providing Russia with drones, which it uses to murder innocent Ukrainian citizens,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian foreign ministry spokesman said the West was seeking to put “pressure” on Tehran, while Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba welcomed the “prompt action” from Brussels.</div><div>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Russia’s “scorched earth” attacks only strengthened the Western alliance against Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>But Russian lawmaker Andrey Gurulev told state television the attacks were “extremely effective” and would “collapse” Ukraine.</div><div>In his nightly address Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of energy “terror.”</div><div><br></div><div>After a meeting with energy companies, he said preparations were under way “for all possible scenarios with a view to winter.”</div><div><br></div><div>The government was “working on the creation of mobile power supply points for critical infrastructure,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian President Vladimir Putin also on Wednesday declared martial law in four annexed areas and heightened security in Russian regions bordering Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>The move came after Kremlin proxies in the Russian-occupied Kherson region in southern Ukraine said they were leaving the area in the face of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow-installed officials also said they would be organizing an “evacuation” of tens of thousands of civilians from the area.</div><div>The region’s main city, also called Kherson, has been in Moscow’s hands since the earliest days of the invasion.</div><div><br></div><div>Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, denounced Moscow’s move as criminal.</div><div><br></div><div>“Putin’s martial law in the annexed regions of Ukraine is preparation for the mass deportation of the Ukrainian population to depressed areas of Russia in order to change the ethnic composition of the occupied territory,” Danilov said.</div><div><br></div><div>Pro-Russian officials in the town of Oleshky across the Dnieper said residents from Kherson city were already arriving.</div><div>Russia’s Rossiya 24 TV showed images of people waiting to board ferries, unable to use bridges damaged by Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine’s resilience has won plaudits internationally and the European Parliament on Wednesday awarded the annual Sakharov Prize for human rights to “brave” Ukrainians.</div><div><br></div><div>The award was welcomed by Natalya Boykiv, an engineer, walking in Kyiv city center.</div><div>“We deserve it,” said.</div><div><br></div><div>“The world should see who Ukrainians are. Thanks to this we attract the world’s attention,” the 24-year-old added.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, in parts of Ukraine recently recaptured from Russian forces, repairs were under way before the onset of winter. Many residents there are still depending on humanitarian aid.</div><div><br></div><div>“Apart from this, nothing is working,” said Ivan Zakharchenko, a 70-year-old resident of Izyum queueing for aid in the square where Zelensky celebrated the town’s liberation just over a month ago. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-21 03:55:51', '2022-10-21 03:55:51'),
(2472, 2472, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Here are the main contenders potentially in the running to succeed UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, after she announced her resignation on Thursday:</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Rishi Sunak -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Truss easily beat the former chancellor of the exchequer in this summer\'s Tory leadership contest, winning party members over with promises to slash taxes and regulations without curbing government spending. Rishi Sunak, 42, had warned that her plans to fund the proposals through extra borrowing were reckless and could worsen decades-high inflation as well as market confidence in the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that he has been proved right, Sunak was installed by bookmakers as the early favourite following Truss\'s dramatic announcement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He garnered the support of the largest number of Tory lawmakers in successive rounds of voting, before party members installed Truss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new YouGov poll on Tuesday found he has the best ratings of the touted alternatives to Truss -- albeit still with an overall net favourability rating of -18.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he is also now viewed as a divisive figure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many party members, who usually get the final say on who leads the party, are unwilling to forgive him for his role in ousting ex-prime minister Boris Johnson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Boris Johnson -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former premier left office early last month after a revolt among his cabinet and Tory MPs, sparked by the resignation of Sunak and others from his faltering government following months of controversies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Encouraged by several strong hints from Johnson himself, speculation has swirled ever since that he would attempt an eventual comeback -- though few thought that could be feasible this quickly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Times reported after Truss\'s demise that he was planning to enter the race.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ever-ebullient Brexit figurehead remains popular with a section of Conservative MPs and the party. But his brand among the wider electorate was severely damaged by his scandal-tainted three-year tenure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A recent YouGov poll showed the 58-year-old is far more popular than Truss. Yet around two-thirds of those asked had an unfavourable opinion of him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson has kept a low profile since resigning, giving a paid speech in the United States last week but no indications of his views on the current crises gripping the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was thought to favour Truss in the summer leadership contest -- although his former top aide-turned-arch-critic Dominic Cummings argued that this was because he expected her tenure to be disastrous and short-lived, paving the way for his return.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Ben Wallace -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wallace has impressed as defence minister, with Britain playing a pivotal role in the global response to Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Popular with members, it came as a surprise when the former army captain opted not to enter the race to replace Boris Johnson over the summer, saying he \"didn\'t want it enough\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But asked at the recent Conservative party conference if he would consider running, the 52-year-old said: \"I don\'t rule it out.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the most recent survey of Tory activists by website ConservativeHome, Wallace scored a net approval rating of 85.8 points, far ahead of any potential rivals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While a soldier, Wallace led a patrol that captured an IRA unit attempting to carry out a bomb attack. He was also part of the team that brought home the body of Princess Diana following her car crash in Paris.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Penny Mordaunt -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current cabinet member, 49, was an early grassroots favourite to succeed Johnson, and came within eight MPs\' votes of beating Truss to make the final run-off against Sunak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former defence and trade minister was a strong Brexit supporter and key figure in the 2016 \"Leave\" campaign.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But she faced criticism in the recent leadership race, some MPs accusing her of being ineffective in previous government roles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mordaunt\'s profile rose this week after she was sent out on Monday in place of Truss to answer an urgent question in parliament from the Labour opposition about the recent economic turmoil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite being forced to explain that the prime minister was \"not under a desk\" -- in response to accusations that Truss was in hiding -- Mordaunt was seen to have coped well with a febrile House of Commons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among other potential runners, new finance minister Jeremy Hunt and former cabinet heavyweight Michael Gove were both said to have ruled themselves out. 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(2473, 2473, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With winter inching closer, Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone Friday morning.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 114 at 9am, the metropolis ranked 23rd in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s Delhi, the USA’s Seattle and China’s Beijing occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 209, 177 and 175, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</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, '2022-10-21 17:27:03', '2022-10-21 17:27:03'),
(2474, 2474, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Robert Lewandowski struck twice as a hurting Barcelona flexed their muscles to thrash Villarreal 3-0 and stay three points behind La Liga leaders Real Madrid on Thursday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Sunday\'s Clasico defeat and virtual elimination from the Champions League, the Catalans and coach Xavi Hernandez were desperate to prove a point at Camp Nou.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lewandowski, the top scorer in La Liga, extended his domestic tally to 11 goals and his brace, along with Ansu Fati\'s strike, came in an eight-minute blitz near the end of the first half which effectively killed the game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xavi made five changes from the side which lost to Real Madrid, most notably dropping Sergio Busquets and deploying Frenkie de Jong in the pivot role, where he excelled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"After the bad results against Inter Milan and Madrid, we needed to win,\" De Jong told Movistar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If you win games, it always helps, the atmosphere in the dressing room is much better, I\'m very happy with the victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t care where I play, I feel comfortable in any position.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women\'s Ballon d\'Or winner Alexia Putellas presented her trophy to Camp Nou before kick-off, and Barcelona could have used some of her creativity in the opening stages as Villarreal\'s defence stood firm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arnaut Danjuma had the first chance of note, firing into the side netting after winning space against Jules Kounde. However the Catalans played their way into the game as De Jong pulled the strings, and with Lewandowski up front, goals are never far away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Soothing the pain -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Just after the half-hour mark Jordi Alba guided Pedri\'s finely-weighted pass to Lewandowski, whose turn sent two defenders flying out of the picture, and a third flung himself in vain to try and block as the Poland international fired home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lewandowski won an award for his scoring exploits on Monday at the Paris gala too, and combined with Kopa Trophy winner Gavi for the second goal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After being fed by the 18-year-old, voted the best under-21 player in the world, Lewandowski took his time on the edge of the box before arcing a superb strike out of Geronimo Rulli\'s reach and into the net.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The third was quick to follow, with Ferran Torres setting up Fati, who hit the post with his first attempt but flicked the rebound home from virtually on the goal-line.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villarreal had let in three goals in their first nine games, then three more goals in an eight-minute spell at Camp Nou, as Barcelona offered a riposte to their critics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We made rotations because the team had to be 100 percent to press high, not to single anybody out,\" said Xavi. \"It\'s not easy to be a Barcelona player, you have to be very emotionally balanced.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde returns with Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, before the Catalans host Bayern Munich, by which point they might be out of the Champions League, depending on Inter Milan\'s result against Viktoria Plzen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fans chanted Xavi\'s name in support of the coach, after he had readily admitted his head would be on the chopping block if the club didn\'t win a trophy this season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More pain seems inevitable in the Champions League, but this victory at a canter ensures second-place Barcelona remain on Madrid\'s tail and firmly in the title fight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"(The attendance) tells me that the fans\' hope is still intact,\" added Xavi. \"Getting 73,000 on a Thursday is a very positive thing. We want to pay them back for this with work, we will try and win everything we can.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a moment of silence before kick-off to mourn the death of Villarreal vice-president Jose Manuel Llaneza, who passed away earlier Thursday after a battle with leukaemia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The news of Jose Manuel\'s death affected us because it was him who started this project,\" said Villarreal coach Unai Emery.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I spent two intense years with him, he loved Villarreal, the main reason to have pride and motivation was to give him the victory, but in the end it didn\'t come through in our game because Barca were better.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elsewhere Almeria edged Girona 3-2 in a thrilling clash, while Osasuna won for the first time in four, beating Espanyol 1-0 at home to go seventh. 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(2475, 2475, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter’s workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk has told prospective investors in his Twitter purchase that he plans to cut nearly 75% of Twitter’s employee base of 7,500 workers, leaving the company with a skeleton crew, according to the report. The newspaper cited documents and unnamed sources familiar with the deliberations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">San Francisco-based Twitter and a representative for Musk attorney Alex Spiro did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">While job cuts have been expected regardless of the sale, the magnitude of Musk\'s planned cuts are far more extreme than anything Twitter had planned. Musk himself has alluded to the need to cull some of the company\'s staff in the past, but he hadn\'t given a specific number — at least not publicly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A 75% headcount cut would indicate, at least out of the gates, stronger free cash flow and profitability, which would be attractive to investors looking to get in on the deal,\" said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. “That said, you can’t cut your way to growth.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ives added that such a drastic reduction in Twitter\'s workforce would likely set the company back years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Already, experts, nonprofits and even Twitter\'s own staff have warned that pulling back investments on content moderation and data security could hurt Twitter and its users. With as drastic a reduction as Musk may be planning, the platform could quickly become overrun with harmful content and spam — the latter of which the Tesla CEO himself has said he\'ll address if he becomes owner of the company.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After his initial $44 billion bid in April to buy Twitter, Musk backed out of the deal, contending Twitter misrepresented the number of fake “spam bot” accounts on its platform. Twitter sued, and a Delaware judge has given both sides until Oct. 28 to work out details. Otherwise, there will be a trial in November. 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, '2022-10-21 17:35:03', '2022-10-21 17:35:03'),
(2476, 2476, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Eighteen people, including two policemen, were killed in intercommunal violence between nomadic herders and farmers in central Nigeria\'s Benue State, officials said Thursday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Violence broke out early on Wednesday when herders stormed Gbeji farming village in Ukum district, shooting indiscriminately, Paul Hemba, security adviser to Benue state governor said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disputes between cattle herders and local farming settlements over land, grazing and water rights are common in central and northwestern regions of Africa\'s most populous nation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"From the latest report I received, 18 people were killed in the attack, two policemen and 16 residents of the village,\" Hemba said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Security agencies were alerted and they deployed in the affected area which helped in stopping the attack, otherwise the casualties would have been higher,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several other people were injured in the attack and were taken to local hospitals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benue state police commissioner Wale Abbas said the attack was a reprisal for the killing of five ethnic Fulani herders by locals in the area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The crisis started on Tuesday when five Fulani herdsmen were attacked and killed in three separate incidents and their cows rustled,\" Abbas said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he was preparing to summon a peace meeting between the herdsmen and the people in the area when he received reports that Gbeji had been attacked by herdsmen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abbas gave a lower death toll of 10, including a policeman, locals and herders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The dead policeman was hit by a stray bullet and died on the way to hospital,\" Abbas said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security personnel were searching for the herders and locals accused of involvement in the clashes, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tensions between communities sometimes take on ethnic and religious dimensions in Nigeria which has dozens of ethnic groups and is almost equally split between the mostly Christian south and predominantly Muslim north.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Northwest and central Nigeria have also been hit hard by violence from criminal gangs called bandits by locals, who raid villages, killing and burning homes after looting them and carry out mass kidnappings for ransom. 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, '2022-10-21 17:43:16', '2022-10-21 17:43:16');
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(2477, 2477, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A New York court on Thursday dismissed a $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against Kevin Spacey by an actor who claimed the Hollywood star targeted him when he was 14.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A jury found that Anthony Rapp, who was seeking damages for \"emotional anguish,\" failed to prove that the two-time Oscar winner had \"touched a sexual or intimate body part,\" leading Judge Lewis Kaplan to dismiss the civil case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After deliberating for about an hour \"the jury found the defendant not liable,\" according to the US district court for the Southern District of New York.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 63-year-old star of \"The Usual Suspects\" and \"House of Cards\" was seen leaving court soon after the verdict was announced, without addressing reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His lawyer said in a statement that \"Mr. Spacey is grateful to live in a country where the citizens have a right to trial by impartial jurors who make their decision based on evidence and not rumor or social media.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rapp \"told his truth in court,\" said his attorney Peter Saghir in a statement to AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While we respect the jury\'s verdict, nothing changes what happened to him,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the first stars to be caught up in the global #MeToo reckoning, Spacey has separately pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting three men in Britain between March 2005 and April 2013.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2019 charges against the actor of indecent assault and sexual assault were dropped in Massachusetts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rapp, who stars in the series \"Star Trek: Discovery,\" alleged he was assaulted by Spacey at a party in Manhattan in 1986, when he was 14 and Spacey 26.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his lawsuit the actor, now 50, accused Spacey of coming into a bedroom where he was watching television, of picking him up, lifting him onto a bed and briefly laying down next to him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a court document, Rapp claimed Spacey\'s hand \"grazed\" his buttocks while doing so.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the two-week trial, Rapp recounted that he \"felt frozen\" -- until he managed to \"wiggle his way\" out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rapp agreed however there had been \"no kissing, no undressing, no reaching under clothes, and no sexualized statements or innuendo,\" during an incident that lasted no more than two minutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Troubled past -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since Rapp\'s accusations first emerged in 2017, Spacey has disappeared from screens and theaters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \"American Beauty\" star took the stand repeatedly in New York to deny Rapp\'s account of events, saying he had no recollection of attending the party in question with him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of Rapp\'s accusations, Spacey came out publicly as gay for the first time, which he said led to charges he was \"trying to change the subject, or trying to deflect.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During cross-examination in New York, Spacey described a troubled family past, with a father he described as a \"white supremacist\" and a \"neo-Nazi,\" who disliked gay people and did not appreciate his son\'s interest in the theater.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spacey said Rapp\'s accusations made him feel \"shocked, frightened and confused\" and that urged by his advisors he issued a public apology which he said he now regrets. 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(2478, 2478, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Kyiv accused Russia of planning to destroy a hydroelectric dam in the eastern Kherson region, where Ukrainian soldiers have been steadily advancing and Moscow-installed authorities have begun evacuations.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces had mined the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant with the intent of blowing it up, in what would amount to a \"catastrophe on a grand scale\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of thousands of people around the lower Dnipro River would be in danger of rapid flooding if the dam was destroyed, Zelensky warned in a speech Thursday to European leaders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said cutting water supplies to the south could also impact the cooling systems of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe\'s largest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And the North Crimean canal, which provides a crucial water supply to Crimea -- occupied since 2014 by Russia -- could be destroyed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s goal is to halt the Ukrainian advance in the region and protect Russian troops, according to Zelensky\'s adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Energy battlefield-</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cities across Ukraine began curbing electricity consumption ahead of winter Thursday as authorities warned that heavy damage to the country\'s energy grid by Russian attacks would spark a new wave of refugees from the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Russia\'s leadership has given the order to turn the energy system itself into a battlefield. The consequences of this are very dangerous, again for all of us in Europe,\" Zelensky said in an address to the EU council</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Energy-saving measures were put in place across the country after Russian missile and drone strikes destroyed at least 30 percent of the country\'s power stations in a week, according to authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following blackouts in parts of Kyiv overnight, the city\'s mayor Vitali Klitschko urged businesses to limit screens and signage lights \"as much as possible\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Even small savings and a reduction in electricity consumption in every home will help stabilise the operation of the national energy system,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainians responded defiantly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s not going to change our attitude, maybe we will only hate them more,\" said Olga, a resident of Dnipro in central Ukraine who declined to give her last name.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I would rather sit in the cold with no water and electricity than be in Russia,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People were rushing to buy auxiliary power supplies like generators and batteries, according to Kyrylo, an electronics vendor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking of the coming winter, he said: \"I think that there will be nothing that we cannot survive.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There will be some kind of heating in any case, and the fact that it will be 16 (degrees Celsius, or 61 Fahrenheit) instead of 20 doesn\'t matter much. Just put on a thermal and socks,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Iranians on the ground -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The White House meanwhile said it had evidence of Iranians taking a direct role in the war, helping Russians direct their Iranian-made \"kamikaze drones\" -- which are destroyed in attacks on Ukrainian targets such as power stations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Tehran is now directly engaged on the ground, and through the provision of weapons that are impacting civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine,\" said White House national security spokesman John Kirby.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that there was also concern Iran might supply surface-to-surface missiles to Russia for use in the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The United States is going to pursue all means to expose, deter and confront Iran\'s provision of these munitions against the Ukrainian people,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Union and United Kingdom announced sanctions on three Iranian generals and an arms firm accused of supplying Russia with drones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, bipartisan support for military aid to Ukraine is starting to wane in Washington, with Republicans signalling that funding could be cut after congressional midterm elections next month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They said that if they win they\'re not likely to fund, to continue to fund Ukraine,\" US President Joe Biden said while campaigning in Pennsylvania.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They have no sense of American foreign policy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Kherson evacuation-</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Little changed along the long front lines, where Russia has been sending many of the 200,000 troops newly called up to the fight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday visited a training centre for mobilised troops south-east of Moscow where he embraced soldiers and fired a gun.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some fighters opened their rucksacks to show him what they had been equipped with, and he asked one about his family, who replied he had a five-year-old daughter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Putin hugged him and wished him \"good luck.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile Russia continued to evacuate people from Kherson city as Ukrainian forces inched closer to the southern hub, in Moscow\'s hands since the earliest days of the invasion in February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow-installed authorities in Kherson said that around 15,000 people have been moved out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s Rossiya 24 TV showed images of people waiting to board ferries, unable to use bridges damaged by Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kirill Stremousov, a pro-Russian official, said on Telegram that the evacuations would give Russian forces more room to fight, and said they would not cede the city back to the Ukrainians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Remember, nobody is going to give up Kherson,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Ukrainians said the exit of civilians from the area was in fact forced deportations to Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US-based Institute for the Study of War, in its daily analysis, said that as Ukrainian forces continue to close in on Kherson city, Russian authorities \"are likely setting information conditions to justify planned Russian retreats and significant territorial losses.\" BSS/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, '2022-10-21 17:57:51', '2022-10-21 17:57:51'),
(2479, 2479, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Veteran opener Paul Stirling slammed an unbeaten 66 as Ireland made the Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 on Friday and sent two-time champions West Indies crashing out in a stunning upset.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Disciplined bowling restricted the Caribbean side to 146-5, with Gareth Delany taking a career-best 3-16, before the Irish romped to their target for the loss of just one wicket with 15 balls to spare in Hobart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stirling, at his seventh World Cup, shared in a blistering 73-run opening stand with captain Andy Balbirnie to supercharge Ireland\'s run chase.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final Super 12 slot will be decided later Friday when Zimbabwe meet Scotland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The West Indies won the tournament in 2012 and 2016, but came to Australia with a new-look team after the likes of Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard retired, and Andre Russell was overlooked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They stumbled badly in their opening match against Scotland, crashing by 42 runs, before recovering to emphatically beat Zimbabwe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in Ireland, who are playing in their seventh straight World Cup and had only been beyond the first round once before, in 2009, they again hit the wall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the West Indies won the toss and batted at a breezy Bellerive Oval in Hobart, the Irish bowlers sent down nine dot balls among their first 15.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In frustration, Kyle Mayers launched at a delivery from Barry McCarthy and was caught by Harry Tector at mid-off for one.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dangerous Johnson Charles slammed 4-4-6 off Curtis Campher but his luck ran out in the next over, slicing to Campher off spinner Simi Singh for 24.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brandon King, who missed the West Indies\' last game with illness, was dropped two balls later and made the most of the opportunity, crunching four boundaries to steer them to 67-2 at halfway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Evin Lewis received treatment for a hamstring issue and was out soon after for 13, ending a 44-run partnership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Skipper Nicholas Pooran (13) and Rovman Powell (6) didn\'t last against a quality attack as King (62 not out) did his best to push the scoreboard forward.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply, Ireland got off to a cracking start with Stirling and Balbirnie on a mission, blazing 54 off the first five overs, with eight boundaries, four of them sixes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spin of Akeal Hosein finally gave the West Indies a breakthrough in the eighth over with Balbirnie caught by Mayers after an entertaining 37 off 23 balls to end a decisive opening stand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The run rate dipped but Stirling, in his 177th international, kept going and reached his 21st T20 half-century with another boundary and with Lorcan Tucker (45 not out) saw them home. 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, '2022-10-21 20:09:51', '2022-10-21 20:09:51'),
(2480, 2480, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Not only transport owners, the launch workers in Khulna have also embarked on a 48-hour strike since Friday morning, demanding a hike in wages.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delwar Hossain, divisional organisational secretary of Bangladesh Launch Labour Association, said they called the strike to press home their ten-point demands, including wage hike, \"and it has no connection with the BNP’s mass rally slated for Saturday\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 15 launches ply on a southern route from Khulna but none of them left terminals since this morning, giving passengers a harrowing time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workers on strike said their demands included wage hike, river excavation from Bhairab to Nowapara, and landing pass for India-bound launches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Thursday evening, none of the passenger carrying launches left Khulna due to the strike announcement but freight launches and boats have been operating.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">SM Shafiqul islam Mona, BNP’s Khulna metropolitan unit convener, said on government’s signal, \"first, bus owners called a strike and now the launch services are also shut to obstruct the BNP’s mass rally on Saturday\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The mass rally will be made successful at any cost, defying all these obstructions,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Khulna Bus-Minibus Owners\' Association and the Motor Workers’ Union decided to go on a two-day strike in protest against the plying of unauthorised three-wheelers in the district. 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, '2022-10-21 20:13:56', '2022-10-21 20:13:56'),
(2481, 2481, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Friday briefed the media about the details of the recent operation in the forested hills of Bandarban and Rangamati that saw the arrest of 10 militants and separatists.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The main purpose of the drives by the elite force was to capture those who are taking shelter and taking training there after tracing their location, Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rab’s legal and Media Wing told the briefing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Rab spokesman disclosed that the arrestees included seven members of newly launched militant outfit Jama\'atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya and three members of the armed separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) from Bandarban and Rangamati.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were arrested on Thursday night, said Commander Moin. Rab started their drives in these areas on October 9.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrestees were identified as: Sayed Maruf Ahmed alias Manik, 31, of Sunamganj, Imran Hossain alias Shaon, 31, of Pirojpur, Kawsar alias Shishir, 46, of Jhenaidah, Jahangir Ahmed alias Jonu, 27, of Sylhet, Md Ibrahim Ali, 19, of Barishal, Abu Bakar Siddique alias Bappi, 23, of Sylhet, Rofu Mia, 26, of Sunamganj, and the members of the separatist group Jouthang Sang Bom, 19, Stephen Bom, 19, and Mal Som Bom, 20, of Bandarban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The arrestees confessed that they had an agreement with a separatist group (KNF) to provide them shelter and training in exchange for money,” said the Rab officer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2021, the Amir of Jamatul Ansar fil Hindal Sharqiya had an agreement with the CHT-based armed group KNF regarding militant training in the area till next year. As per the agreement, Tk 3 lakh per month and food expenses of all KNF members were to be borne, according to the briefing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In this regard, details can be known after interrogating the three of the separatist group,” said Commander Moin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are conducting drives through the remote hilly areas (mostly 2,500 feet high) and deep forests where they (militants) are hiding. They are also changing their location, sensing our presence,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 50 militants were being trained at the militant camps in the CHT area, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Rab officer also referred to the recent cases of some young men missing from their homes and most of those still missing are hiding in these dense remote areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there is no incident of any militant or separatist being injured during the drives. The law enforcers involved in the operation were also safe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the tourist ban in Bandarban, the Rab Commander said local administration has imposed a temporary restriction on visitors in Ruma and Rowangchhari upazilas from October 18 morning as a security operation was going on. “They will lift the ban once our operation is over here.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the separatist groups who are assisting the militants will be brought under justice. 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, '2022-10-21 20:19:22', '2022-10-21 20:19:22'),
(2482, 2482, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Indian authorities have fined Google 13bn rupees ($161m; £144m) for using its Android platform to dominate the market.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The country\'s competition regulator has accused the tech giant of entering into \"one-sided agreements\" with smartphone makers to ensure the dominance of its apps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has ordered Google to \"cease and desist\" from such practices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Google has not responded to the fine or the accusations yet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in a statement on Thursday that Google was \"abusing\" the licensing of its Android operating system for a range of smartphones, web searches, browsing and video hosting services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said that Google was entering into forced agreements with players in the space to ensure that its bouquet of apps - such as Google Chrome, YouTube, Google Maps and others - were used. 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, '2022-10-21 20:24:52', '2022-10-21 20:24:52'),
(2483, 2483, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Another 409 patients were hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the new patients, 304 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 105 outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A total of 3,207 dengue patients, including 2,182 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;\">This year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh rose to 110 on Thursday with four more deaths reported from Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dengue death toll in Dhaka division now stands at 66, in Mymensingh at two while it remained static in Chattogram division at 35, in Khulna at two and in Barishal division at five.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Directorate has recorded 29,107 dengue cases and 25,790 recoveries so far this year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-21 21:27:58', '2022-10-21 21:27:58'),
(2484, 2484, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul-Alam Hanif, MP, today said the barbaric killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman\'s youngest son Sheikh Russel is a symbol of brutality.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bangladesh came into being under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Thirty lakh martyrs sacrificed their lives and two lakh women sacrificed their supreme honour for this country. We cannot let this country to go haywire from the spirit of liberation war. We have to teach our young generation about this history,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hanif came up with the observations while addressing as chief guest National Child Art Competition marking the 59th birthday of Sheikh Russel at Dhaka University Faculty of Arts premises. Cultural and social platform Gourab 71 organized the competition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presided over by Gourab 71 president SM Monirul Islam Moni, the function was conducted by its General Secretary FM Shahin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka University Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Samad, Awami League Industries and Trade Affairs Secretary Siddiqur Rahman, National University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Md Moshiur Rahman, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University, Kishoreganj Vice Chancellor ZM Pervej Sazzad and Bangladesh Awami League Central Executive Committee Member Adv Sanzida Khanom, were present at the function among others.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 700 children took part in the competition under three categories. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-21 21:37:18', '2022-10-21 21:37:18'),
(2485, 2485, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in Economic Zones (EZs) on October 26 marking the 50 years of independence.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Talking to reporter, Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) Executive Chairman Shaikh Yusuf Harun said the Prime Minister will virtually inaugurate 50 industrial units, projects and facilities in the EZs across the country and BEZA will have the event at eight venues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These include commercial operations of four factories at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) in Chattogram and eight factories in different privately-run EZs,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said these industrial units have already invested more than US$ 967.73 million, and will make further investment of nearly $331.27 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He informed that the PM will also lay foundation stone of 29 industrial units in different EZs, which have so far invested $610 million, and are in a process to invest $1,922.39 million more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EZ facilities, to be inaugurated, include administration buildings of BSMSN, Jamalpur Economic Zone, Srihatta EZ, and Sabrang Tourism Park, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the BEZA chief said, the PM will also formally open 20-kilometre Sheikh Hasina Sarani, 230-KVA gridline and substation at the BSMSN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will also lay the foundation stone of a water treatment plant - having 50 million litres per day (MLD) capacity, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the industrial plants, which will be inaugurated, four establishments are at the Bangabandhu Shilpa Nagar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">McDonald Steel Industries Ltd, one of these, produces prefabricated structural steel, used in steel bridges and steel high rise buildings, factories and power plants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nippon &amp; McDonald Steel Industries Limited produces MS Plate manufacturing from imported steel, purlin, slitting sheets and coil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asian Paints Bangladesh Limited, which produces paints and allied products, emulsions, has invested $34 million in the economic zone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samuda Construction Limited, manufacturer of phc pile, is constructing their factory on 4-acre land with an investment of $8.2 million.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BEZA aims to establish economic zones in all potential areas in Bangladesh including backward and underdeveloped regions with a view to encouraging rapid economic development through increase and diversification of industry, employment, production and export.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the planned 100 economic zones, the government has approved 97 economic zones, 28 of which are currently under development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, 12 privately owned economic zones have received licenses to operate and nearly $4 billion have been invested in these economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The goal is to create employment for 10 million people directly and indirectly. It is also expected to produce and export products worth $40 billion annually in these economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investors can avail of tax holiday, duty-free imports of raw materials and machinery at the economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economic zones have attracted foreign direct investments from countries including Japan, China, India, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, America, the United Kingdom, Singapore, South Korea, and Norway. 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, '2022-10-21 22:34:59', '2022-10-21 22:34:59'),
(2486, 2486, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported 216 more Covid cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,411 as no death was reported during the period. With the new infections, the caseload rose to 2,033,878, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The daily case test positivity rate rose to 5.87 per cent from Thursday’s 5.82 per cent as 3,680 samples were tested during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 per cent and the recovery rate rose to 97.20 per cent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September, the country reported 40 Covid-linked deaths and 13,251 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 its highest number of 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, '2022-10-21 22:43:17', '2022-10-21 22:43:17'),
(2487, 2487, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The National Road Safety Day will be observed in the country tomorrow in a befitting manner.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\'s theme of the day is \'Ain Meney Sorokey Choli, Nirapodey Ghorey Phiri (Let us follow the law on road and return home safely).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued separate messages on the eve of the National Road Safety Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President, in his message, said the number of vehicles on streets is rapidly increasing with the increase of developed road infrastructure in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Road accidents and loss of life and property happen due to various reasons including competition of drivers, reckless overtaking, inefficiency in driving, overloading, lack of adequate rest for drivers, not obeying traffic laws by pedestrian and social unawareness, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Developed communication infrastructure and up-to-date transport services are perquisites to sustainable socio-economic development, the head of the state said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdul Hamid said the government is carrying out activities aimed at repairing, renovating and maintaining, developing and expanding the highway network and building an integrated modern public transport system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giving importance to easy and comfortable communication and road safety, various initiatives and activities including upgrading of highways to four or more lanes, construction of road dividers, simplification of dangerous turns, construction of flyovers, underpasses, overpasses, installation or reinstallation of traffic signs and signals, training of motorists are continuing, he continued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President underscored the need for acquiring knowledge of the relevant laws and regulations in ensuring road safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged all including transport owners, workers, passengers and pedestrians to know traffic rules and follow those.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I hope that all concerned will be aware as well as perform their responsibilities properly to sustain the road safety programme,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the Greatest Bangalee of All Time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took different programmes and plans to build a modern road transport system in the war-ravaged Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Within the year of 1974, he rebuilt all the bridges destroyed during the Liberation War and made those usable, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, Bangabandhu built several new bridges along with the construction of new roads, she said, adding that during his visit to Japan in October 1973, he proposed the construction of a bridge over the Jamuna River to the Japanese government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the footsteps of the Father of the Nation, the government made 15,128 kilometers (km) paved roads (Paka Sarak) in five years after the formation of the government in 1996, the premier said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 37,171 km roads were turned into \'Herringbone bond\' shape, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, about 6,526 km paved roads and 10,865 km rural roads were made under the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), she said, adding that the government also constructed about 19,000 large, medium, small bridges and culverts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We started construction of many important bridges including Pakshi, Dharla, Doarika, Gabkhan, Rupsa, Surma (II) and Meghna Bridges,\" Sheikh Hasina continued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She further said that after the formation of the Awami League-led government in 2009, all national highways in the country were gradually upgraded to four or more lanes by prioritizing road safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added that the government has ushered in a new era in constructing and re-constructing new roads and bridges including construction of Metrorail, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines, elevated expressways, flyovers, overpasses and underpasses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We built the Padma Bridge with our own funding and opened it for traffic on June 25,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government formed the taskforce to bring discipline in the road transport sector, create efficient drivers and control accidents, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our government aims to establish a modern, technology-based, sustainable and safe highway network,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She urged all to come forward in creating mass awareness to prevent road accidents and create a culture of obeying traffic laws in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both the President and the Prime Minister wished success of all programmes of the day. BBS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-21 23:50:15', '2022-10-21 23:50:15'),
(2488, 2488, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>&nbsp;Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said without polls, there is no scope to oust the government through a secret alleyway.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said this in a statement in protest against BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir\'s comments, describing those as \"baseless, ill-motivated and conspiratorial\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Fakhrul\'s claim that the nation\'s existence will get ruined if the government cannot be ousted, Quader said BNP itself is the major barrier to Bangladesh\'s existence, progress and prosperity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noting that Awami League is the vigilant sentinel of Bangladesh\'s meaningful existence and sovereignty, he said today the country\'s existence is established on solid foundation under the vigorous leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said Bangladesh\'s footing has become stronger now than any time in the past in all aspects, including socioeconomic and geopolitical periphery.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing to BNP, he said in the statement that the party has resorted to various conspiracies and plots with an evil attempt to destroy the country\'s existence in the name of opposing the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As BNP has a brutal mentality, it had promulgated Indemnity Ordinance to save the killers of Bangabandhu and perpetrated gruesome grenade attacks on Awami League\'s anti-terrorism rally on August 21, 2004, he mentioned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Describing Tarique Rahamn, BNP acting chairman and fugitive convict in several cases, including August 21 grenade attack, as killer and perpetrator of August 21 massacre, he said Tarique and his party leaders are the key obstacles to the country\'s peace and stability.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the nation\'s existence has sustained for hundreds of years and it still continues and it will remain intact in the days to come as well. But it is now a major question whether BNP\'s existence will sustain or not.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About BNP\'s motto of movement to bring back Tarqiue Rahman to the country, Quader questioned the BNP leaders who is obstructing the return of their fugitive leader to Bangladesh and said Awami League and the government want Tarique to come back to face the sentence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If Tarique has the courage, let him return home and there is no need of movement to this end, he said. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 00:37:40', '2022-10-22 00:37:40'),
(2489, 2489, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Four people, including two school teachers, have been detained for supplying a cheat sheet containing the answers to an examinee during the recruitment test of the Department of Social Services in Thakurgaon on Friday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The incident occurred at the Thakurgaon Government Girls High School centre. The exam committee handed over the culprits to police for further action.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Shaharia Nazir, the Executive Magistrate in charge of the exam center, office assistants Md Jahirul and Deepti Rani were caught red-handed while handing a sheet containing the answers to the exam questions to examinee Shafikul Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>“Teachers Kabir Iqbal and Ahmed Jibril didn’t take any actions against either the examinee or the peons. Instead, Iqbal tore the answer copy apart and threw it out of the window when he got it. Jibril, despite being the centre\'s invigilator, let it go,” said Nazir.</div><div><br></div><div>Atiqur Rahman, Investigation Officer (IO) of Thakurgaon Sadar Police Station, confirmed the development. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 01:10:29', '2022-10-22 01:10:29');
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(2490, 2490, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>New Delhi-- As many as 15 people were killed and 40 others injured after a bus crashed into a truck parked along a busy stretch in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in the small hours of Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The tragedy occurred near Suhagi Pahari in Rewa district, some 600km from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, when a group of 100 migrant workers was returning to their home district of Uttar Pradesh in northern India for Diwali (festival of lights) on that ill-fated bus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The bus hit the truck from behind at high speed after its driver failed to spot the parked vehicle. The impact of the collision was so strong that 15 passengers died on the spot,\" a senior police officer told the local media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those injured were taken to a hospital in Suhagi. \"Few with serious injuries were later shifted to Rewa\'s Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A probe has been ordered into the accident, the officer added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Road accidents are common in India, with one taking place every four minutes. These accidents are often blamed on poor roads, rash driving and scant regard for traffic laws.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian government\'s implementation of stricter traffic laws in recent years has failed to rein in accidents, which claim over 100,000 lives every year. 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, '2022-10-22 17:27:05', '2022-10-22 17:27:05'),
(2491, 2491, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rishi Sunak is close to reaching the 100 MP nominations needed to enter the race to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ex-chancellor has 93 endorsements from Tory MPs so far, though a campaign source said he had already reached 100.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former leader Boris Johnson, second with 44 backers, is poised to enter the contest to succeed Liz Truss and is flying back from a Caribbean holiday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Penny Mordaunt was the first to declare, counting 21 supporters so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Trade Minister Sir James Duddridge, who is backing Mr Johnson, told BBC News: \"He is coming home and is up for it.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neither Mr Sunak nor Mr Johnson have officially launched their campaigns, but this has not stopped backers declaring their support.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Johnson is on a flight back from a holiday in the Dominican Republic, and is due to arrive in London on Saturday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A BBC reporter on the flight says some passengers who tried to take selfies were stopped from doing so by his sizeable security team.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MPs will be waiting to see if he makes a statement when he lands. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 17:41:52', '2022-10-22 17:41:52'),
(2492, 2492, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>China\'s five-yearly Communist Party Congress wrapped up on Saturday with President Xi Jinping set to emerge from the event as leader for an unprecedented third term.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi delivered a speech starting about midday (0400 GMT) in one of the final events of the week-long gathering at Beijing\'s Great Hall of the People.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Dare to struggle, dare to win, bury your heads and work hard. Be determined to keep forging ahead,\" he told the party faithful.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">His speech ended a week of largely rubber-stamp meetings among 2,300 party delegates, who were selected by the party to approve a reshuffle of its leadership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However in an unexpected move at such a heavily choreographed event, former leader Hu Jintao was led out of the closing ceremony. No official explanation was given.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new Central Committee of around 200 senior Party officials was elected shortly after 11 am Saturday, state media agency Xinhua reported, without disclosing a full list of members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delegates also voted to endorse Xi\'s \"work report\" delivered at the Congress\'s opening last Sunday and a resolution on the Party\'s constitution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi is now widely expected to be unveiled as general secretary on Sunday, shortly after the first meeting of the new Central Committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This will allow Xi to sail through to a third term as China\'s president, due to be announced during the government\'s annual legislative sessions in March.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi previously abolished the presidential two-term limit in 2018, paving the way for him to rule indefinitely.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weekend will also see the new Central Committee approve a reshuffled 25-member Politburo, as well as a Politburo Standing Committee -- China\'s apex of power -- of around seven people, which analysts expect to be stacked with Xi allies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At Sunday\'s Congress opening ceremony, Xi delivered a 105-minute speech lauding the party\'s achievements and glossing over domestic problems such as the stalling economy and the damage wrought by his harsh zero-Covid policy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heavy on ideological rhetoric and light on policy, a defiant Xi also urged Communist Party members to steel themselves against numerous challenges including a hardening geopolitical climate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We must... be ready to withstand high winds, choppy waters and even dangerous storms,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Confronted with drastic changes in the international landscape, especially external attempts to blackmail, contain, (and) blockade... China, we have put our national interests first.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security was also a main focus of the speech, in which Xi lauded Hong Kong\'s transition from \"chaos to governance\" and vowed to \"never commit to abandoning the use of force\" to seize the self-ruled Taiwan. 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, '2022-10-22 17:45:50', '2022-10-22 17:45:50'),
(2493, 2493, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The overall number of global Covid-19 cases is gradually nearing 633 million.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 632,438,082 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,581,228 on Saturday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The US has recorded 98,055,537 cases so far, while 1,092,606 people have died from the virus in the country, both highest counts around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\'s daily COVID-19 caseload on Friday decreased to 2,119, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to federal health ministry data released on Friday morning, 2,119 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,638,636 in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the reporting of fresh cases, India\'s active caseload currently stands at 25,037.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country also logged 10 related deaths in 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll to 528,953 since the beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Covid in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh reported zero Covid-linked deaths and 216 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country’s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,411 as no deaths were reported during the period. With the new infections, the caseload rose to 2,033,878, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). 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, '2022-10-22 17:51:42', '2022-10-22 17:51:42'),
(2494, 2494, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Australia have won the toss and opted to bowl first against New Zealand. 2021 T20 World Cup champions Australia start their title defence with match against New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The game will also mark the beginning of Super-12 stage of the T20 World Cup 2022. It is worth noting that New Zealand have not won any game against Australia in any format on latter\'s home soil since 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>Both the teams had already entered the main event based on their rankings, while Sri Lanka and Ireland are the other two teams that have entered their group from the first round.</div><div><br></div><div><b>New Zealand (Playing XI): Devon Conway (w), Finn Allen, Kane Williamson (c), Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Australia (Playing XI): Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (w), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood</b>. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 18:09:39', '2022-10-22 18:09:39'),
(2495, 2495, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>With winter inching closer, Dhaka’s air quality continues to be in the \'unhealthy\' zone.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With an air quality index (AQI) score of 144 at 8.50am on Saturday, the metropolis ranked eighth in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div><br></div><div>India’s Delhi, and Pakistan’s Karachi and Lahore occupied the first three spots, with AQI scores of 213, 183 and 183, respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'poor\', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div><br></div><div>AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 18:13:40', '2022-10-22 18:13:40'),
(2496, 2496, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Commuters faced a harrowing time on Saturday morning as the 48-hour bus and launch strike in Khulna entered its second day.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, defying all odds, thousands of opposition BNP leaders and activists have been gathering in front of Sonali Bank in the district town since morning ahead of the party\'s mass rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A reality check by UNB at Sonadanga Bus Terminal and near the Royal Intersection revealed that hundreds of commuters were waiting to hail public transport to reach their respective destinations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Manira Sultana, a commuter, said that she had earlier bought a bus ticket for Dhaka. \"I have been waiting at Sonadanga terminal for a public transport since 8am.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mahmud Kamal, another person, said, “I have no idea what to do now. I would have purchased a train ticket for my destination had I known about the strike 4-5 days back.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, a large number of job seekers in Khulna failed to appear in their examination under the Department of Social Welfare on Friday. Due to lack of public transport, most of them failed to reach their exam centres on time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riad Hassan, a job aspirant, said, “I could not reach my exam hall due to lack of public transport. My dreams have been shattered.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 19, Khulna Bus-Minibus Owners\' Association, in the presence of the Motor Workers’ Union leaders, announced their decision to go on the two-day strike on October 21 and 22.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union leaders had said that the strike would be to protest against the movement of unauthorised three-wheelers, locally known as Nasiman, Kariman and Bhatbhati.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their other demand included the shutting of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) bus counters at every nook and corner of the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the launch workers in Khulna have also embarked on a 48-hour strike since Friday morning, demanding a hike in wages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delwar Hossain, divisional organisational secretary of Bangladesh Launch Labour Association, said they had called the strike to press home their ten-point demands, including wage hike, \"and it has no connection with the BNP’s mass rally slated for Saturday\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 15 launches ply on a southern route from Khulna but none of them left terminals since Friday morning, giving passengers a harrowing time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workers on strike said their demands included wage hike, river excavation from Bhairab to Nowapara, and landing pass for India-bound launches. 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, '2022-10-22 18:18:57', '2022-10-22 18:18:57'),
(2497, 2497, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday accused Russia of \"deliberately delaying\" the export of grain from Ukrainian ports bound for countries in Africa and Asia.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Today more than 150 ships are in a queue to fulfil contractual obligations for the supply of our agricultural products,\" Zelensky said in a video address.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is an artificial queue. It arose only because Russia is deliberately delaying the passage of ships.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He did not specify what was causing the queues but said Algeria, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia were among the countries affected by these delays. AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 18:24:00', '2022-10-22 18:24:00'),
(2498, 2498, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The low over the Andaman Sea and the adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal has intensified into a well-marked low over the same area and it is likely to intensify into a depression in the next 24 hours, the weather department said on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>However, the weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country, the department said in its weather bulletin.</div><div><br></div><div>Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country.</div><div><br></div><div>The mercury reached 35.3 degrees Celsius – the highest – in Sandwip of Chattogram division, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 17.0 degrees in Tetulia of Rangpur division. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 19:01:24', '2022-10-22 19:01:24'),
(2499, 2499, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The US budget deficit fell by half in the past year to $1.4 trillion on the back of a pandemic recovery and as relief spending eased, the government said Friday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Covid-related spending on things like unemployment insurance and other programs have declined following a recovery in the world\'s biggest economy from the virus outbreak, with businesses returning to normal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The drop in the budget deficit marks the \"largest one-year decrease,\" said the Treasury Department and White House budget office on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">This was helped by higher individual and corporation tax collections, bolstered by employment growth, with tax revenues for the fiscal year ended September 30 surging a record $850 billion from 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Joe Biden hailed the big drop as evidence of a resurgent economy just three weeks ahead of November\'s crucial midterm elections to decide control of Congress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hailing the \"largest ever decline in the federal deficit,\" Biden called the development \"further proof that we\'re rebuilding the economy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The development, he said, was part of \"the good news on the economy\" that he predicted would help Democrats climb back in the polls, which currently show Republicans poised for victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a statement citing the American Rescue Plan stimulus package, said \"today\'s joint budget statement provides further evidence of our historic economic recovery.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, officials also added that the US has \"more than recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economy added more than 10 million jobs since early 2021, while unemployment returned to its pre-pandemic level.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The figures for the latest fiscal year showed government outlays dipped $550 billion to $6.3 trillion, in part reflecting reductions in Covid-19 related spending.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But spending for categories such as student loans increased, the report added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the first fall in outlays since 2013, Treasury officials told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Loan forgiveness -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The overall drop in the deficit came after Biden announced plans to forgive part of the country\'s massive student debt burden, a topic of controversy between Democrats and Republicans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Republicans accuse Biden of wasting money on the measure, arguing that public funds could be used more effectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Loan modifications had a $430 billion impact in September, with a Treasury official acknowledging that loan forgiveness was one of the primary reasons for the increase.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the department does not expect to see \"similar large modifications\" in the future unless there were further changes to policy moving forward.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the latest fiscal year, federal borrowing rose by $2 trillion to $24.3 trillion, still close to the size of the world\'s biggest economy, data showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With soaring inflation bringing a sharp rise in borrowing costs, interest on the public debt came in at $36.6 billion higher than estimated, the Treasury Department said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark lending rate several times this year to cool surging prices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a breakdown, the report on Friday also showed that individuals paid $2.6 trillion in taxes and those from corporations totaled $425 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Health and Human Services Department spent $1.6 trillion while the Defense Department spent $727 billion and foreign aid came up to an estimated $24.6 billion, the report said. 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(2500, 2500, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Thousands of leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies joined the party\'s divisional rally in Khulna city today, defying various obstacles and transport strike.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rally, organised by Khulna city unit of BNP, formally began on the Sonali Bank premises around 11:30am, two and half hours earlier than the scheduled time, with recitation from the Holy Quran.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police and other security officials have been deployed around the rally venue and at different points of the city to prevent any untoward incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisers said the rally was meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuel, the death of five party men in previous police action in Bhola, Narayanganj, Munshiganj and Jashore, and to ensure the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP has long been demanding that the next general election be held under a caretaker government, not under any political government — a demand rejected by the ruling Awami League as the constitution does not allow it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP senior leaders, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and some standing committee members, are expected to address the rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP activists started gathering at the rally venue last night and many of them stayed overnight there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruling party activists were seen taking position in different entry points with sticks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khulna city unit BNP member secretary Shafiqul Alam Tuhin alleged that their party activists faced various obstructions on their way to Khulna.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He alleged that police started raiding the houses of their party leaders and activists since Thursday and arrested 47 of them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today’s rally is the third by the BNP at the divisional level as the first one was held in Chattogram and the second one in Mymensingh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similar rallies have been planned in other divisional headquarters to drum up support in the run up to the next election expected to be held late next year or in early 2024.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP will conclude the divisional rallies through a mass gathering in Dhaka city on December 10.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khulna city virtually turned into a city of processions since this morning centring the rally. 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, '2022-10-22 19:27:54', '2022-10-22 19:27:54'),
(2501, 2501, '<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Bangladesh cricket team reached Hobart today to play their first game of the T20 World Cup against the Netherlands on October 24.</b></span><br></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The consistent rain, however, threatens to ruin the game in the capital city of Australia\'s state Tasmania as Bangladesh are looking to make a winning start despite being in a defeat spree.</span><br></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh\'s second and last warm-up game against South Africa in Brisbane was washed out and now here the rain welcomed them. The weather also forecast consistent rain in the match day on Monday. Obviously it will be a bad news for Bangladesh, whose fans looked happier to get Netherlands as the opponent rather than a relatively stronger outfit Namibia from Group A.</span><br></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh are looking forward to break the jinx of series of defeat in the main round of T20 World Cup as they won just one game against West Indies in tournament proper in 2007. Since then they remained winless and the opponent Netherlands give everyone a ray of hope.</span><br></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In group 2, Bangladesh\'s also got Zimbabwe who moved here after being Group B champions. India, Pakistan and South Africa are the other teams alongside Netherlands in Group 2.</span><br></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In this year, Bangladesh played 18 matches and won just six. Overall since the 2021 T20 World Cup, they played 27 matches and lost a staggering number of 20 matches. They will start their 2022 T20 World Cup mission with four-match losing streak, all of which came in the tri-nation series in New Zealand. They also lost the first warm-up game to Afghanistan by 62 runs before the second match against South Africa was washed out. BSS</span><br></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 20:43:33', '2022-10-22 20:43:33'),
(2502, 2502, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Delhi\'s Patiala House Court on Saturday extended interim protection granted to actor Jacqueline Fernandez till November 10 in connection with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case related to ₹200 crore money laundering case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekar and others. Hearing on regular bail and other pending applications have been scheduled for November 10.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also directed the ED to provide a charge sheet and other relevant documents to all parties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court was scheduled to hear the regular bail plea of the Bollywood actor. On the last date of the hearing, Jacqueline was granted interim bail in the matter. Fernandez appeared at the court along with her lawyer Prashant Patil for the hearing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The interim bail was granted following the court\'s order for the ED to file a reply to the star\'s bail application.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On August 17, a supplementary charge sheet filed by the probe agency in the case against Chandrashekar in a Delhi court mentioned the name of Fernandez as an accused.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to ED\'s earlier charge sheet, Fernandez and another actor Nora Fatehi examined and stated that they got top models of BMW cars, the most expensive gifts from the accused.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ED charge sheet stated that “during the investigation, statements of Jacqueline Fernandez were recorded on August 30, 2021, and October 10, 2021. Jacqueline stated she received gifts viz three designer bags from Gucci, Chanel, and two Gucci outfits for gym wear. A pair of Louis Vuitton shoes, two pairs of diamond earrings and a bracelet of multi-coloured stones, two Hermes bracelets. She also received a Mini Cooper which she returned”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Fernandez denied “unity of design with Sukesh” and said that she was herself a victim of the circumstances and criminal acts committed by the conman and his associates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plea has said that even though she has never denied receipt of gifts, at no point of time did she had knowledge that these were proceeds of crime “on account of the deceitful and duplicitous conduct of Sukesh due to which she has suffered, and continues to suffer, tremendous hardship”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In fact, Jacqueline is another victim of the criminal acts committed by the main accused and his associates, who consistently lied about his real identity and exercised undue influence over the applicant’s personal and professional life either by showering her (and her family) with expensive gifts or claiming that he had done so I would do so, without ever mentioning their source,” the bail plea read, adding that she was “misled” in accepting the gifts. 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, '2022-10-22 20:50:30', '2022-10-22 20:50:30'),
(2503, 2503, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the government remains vigilant to stop any abuse through the Digital Security Act (DSA), noting that some abuses are reported while implementing any new law in every country.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The issue of amendment to the law comes when there are abuses, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"If there is a necessity for any amendment, we will do that,\" said the Law Minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He, however, said bringing amendments to any law is a lengthy process and the government may go for shortening the process.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Law Minister was speaking at a discussion today on DSA, moderated by Editors Guild President and Editor-in-Chief of Ekattor Television Mozammel Babu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Minister Huq said a perception regarding the DSA has been created and the government is aware of it.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said the government is listening to all and trying to address the issues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Human rights activist advocate ZI Khan Panna, cultural personality Nasiruddin Yousuff Bachchu, Regional Director for ARTICLE 19 South Asia and Bangladesh Faruq Faisel, filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon, Prothom Alo joint editor Sohrab Hassan, and journalist Syed Ishtiaque Reza, among others spoke at the discussion. 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, '2022-10-22 21:20:43', '2022-10-22 21:20:43'),
(2504, 2504, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP activists clashed with police at Khulna Railway Station today, alleging that they were being obstructed from joining the party\'s divisional rally.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Around 11:30 am, BNP activists coming from different parts of the country got into a fight amongst themselves and vandalized some window glasses at the station, Khulna station master Manik Chandra Sarkar said.</div><div><br></div><div>When police came to the spot after being informed, BNP activists threw brick chips and vandalized more doors and windows of the station, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Additional Deputy Commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan police Sonali Sen said police didn\'t obstruct anyone and tried to handle the situation patiently.</div><div><br></div><div>Tajul Islam, Railway Labour Union Genertal Secretary told UNB the situation at the rail station is peaceful at the moment as the rally began.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Bangladesh Awami League has claimed that BNP-Jamaat men attacked Khulna Railway Station and ransacked it.</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh Railway is our national asset. It is the responsibility of all to protect it,” AL said in a message from its verified Facebook page. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 21:30:34', '2022-10-22 21:30:34'),
(2505, 2505, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">England won the toss and elected to bowl against Afghanistan in a T20 World Cup Group 1 match at Optus Stadium in Perth on Saturday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>England, who reached the semi-finals of tournament last year, head into the tournament with series wins over Pakistan and defending champions Australia. The 2010 champions, however, could get a tough competition, especially in the bowling department, with the likes of Rashid Khan and Afghanistan skipper Mohammad Nabi in top form.</div><div><br></div><div>England suffered a big blow earlier this week when in-form pacer Reece Topley ruled out of the tournament. The Three Lions has roped in Tymal Mills as a like for like replacement for the lankey Topley. Chris Woakes\' participation in the match is also a doubt, after reports suggesting that the all-rounder has a slight fitness issue. NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 22:20:13', '2022-10-22 22:20:13'),
(2506, 2506, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported another Covid-linked death and 124 more cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,412 while&nbsp; the caseload rose to 2,034,002 with the new infections, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The daily case test positivity rate declined to 5.49 per cent from Friday’s 5.87 per cent as 2,259 samples were tested during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 per cent and the recovery rate rose to 97.22 per cent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September, the country reported 40 Covid-linked deaths and 13,251 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 its highest number of 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, '2022-10-22 23:14:03', '2022-10-22 23:14:03'),
(2507, 2507, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NASA shared a mesmerising image of a supernova captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shared the picture on its Instagram page which shows the rotating neutron stars, ever detected in 2016. It exhibits properties of a highly magnetized neutron star or magnetar, yet its deduced spin period is thousands of times longer than any pulsar ever observed, said NASA in a press release.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The composite image shows the remains of a supernova which is around 9,000 light-year from Earth, in three bands of X-ray light. In this image, the lowest energy X-rays from Chandra are red, the medium band is green, and the highest energy X-rays are blue. The bright blue X-ray source in the middle of RCW 103 is 1E 1613, according to the press release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA in its Instagram caption reads, \"Our Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope and several other X-ray telescopes observed one of the most extreme rotating neutron stars or pulsars - ever detected in 2016. Swift Observatory helps detect gamma-ray bursts - large gamma radiation pulses which form when a massive star collapses, creating a black hole - using optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray light.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It further added, \"This composite image shows the remains of a supernova, around 9,000 light-years from Earth, in three bands of X-ray light detected by @NASAChandraXRay, with low energy X-rays in red, medium in green, and the highest in blue.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Image description: Blank space as black as #Midnight is dotted with tiny white stars across the image. A swirling labyrinth of colours of blue, green, yellow, purple, and red makes up the center of the photo surrounding the neutron star in bright blue,\" NASA wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image has amassed several likes and comments. Social media users were stunned after seeing the image, a user wrote, \"Space Midnight should be a new colour.\" Another commented, \"I see what you did there NASA!\" The third commented, \"This is soooo beautiful. Our universe can be so cinematographic,\" the third commented.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Swift detection caught astronomers\' attention because the source exhibited intense, extremely rapid fluctuations on a time scale of milliseconds, similar to other known magnetars. These exotic objects possess the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe -trillions of times that observed on the Sun - and can erupt with enormous amounts of energy, NASA said in a release. NDTV</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-22 23:16:43', '2022-10-22 23:16:43'),
(2508, 2508, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Chinese former leader Hu Jintao has been led out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The frail-looking 79-year-old was sitting beside President Xi Jinping when he was approached and led away by officials. No explanation was given.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After its week-long congress, the party is expected to confirm Mr Xi, 69, for a historic third term.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event, held in Beijing every five years, cemented his position as China\'s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hu Jintao, who held the presidency between 2003 and 2013, was on stage when two officials approached him. He said something to Xi Jinping, who nodded back.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then Mr Hu was escorted out of the Great Hall of the People.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Saturday, the Central Committee of 205 senior party officials was elected. Delegates rubber-stamped amendments to the party\'s constitution endorsing Mr Xi\'s ideas as guiding principles for China\'s future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his opening speech at the Congress last Sunday, he hailed the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong as a move from \"chaos to governance\". He also reaffirmed China\'s right to use force to seize the self-ruled island of Taiwan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Xi currently combines the positions of general secretary of the Communist Party, president and head of the armed forces. He is also referred to as Paramount or Supreme leader.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday he is expected to be officially confirmed for a third term as general secretary and to unveil his new leadership team.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2018, he abolished the presidential two-term limit, paving the way for him to rule indefinitely. 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, '2022-10-22 23:40:28', '2022-10-22 23:40:28'),
(2509, 2509, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP wants dead bodies to intensify its movement.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"BNP tries to frighten people. If they incite killing, the government will not remain liable. We won\'t let them become successful,\" he told a discussion at Osmani Memorial auditorium marking the National Road Safety Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said if BNP carries out violence likewise 2013-14 period, they will get a befitting reply.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turning to road accidents, Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said though the number of accidents decreased, death rate in accidents is higher now than earlier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said lack of discipline on streets can ruin all achievements in the sector including the establishments of massive infrastructures - Padma Bridge, metro-rail, tunnel, under-pass and flyovers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All achievements will be in vain, if we cannot bring discipline on roads,\" he observed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged his ministry\'s concerned officials not to show mercy to any kind of corruption.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Corrupt person cannot stay anywhere in the ministry. Corrupt persons should be identified to expose them to music,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister also called upon the ministry officials to put special emphasis on lessening accidents and traffic congestion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said last year they expected that road accidents, traffic congestion and reckless plying of motorbikes will lessen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Now everyone wears helmet while riding motorcycles,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Road Transport and Highways Division Secretary ABM Amin Ullah Nuri chaired the discussion while AL Presidium Member Shajahan Khan, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Road Transport and Bridges Rawshan Ara Mannan, Road Transport Owners Association President Mashiur Rahman Ranga, General Secretary Khandker Enayetullah, Road Transport Workers Federation General Secretary Osman Ali and \'Nirpad Sarak Chai\' President Ilias Kanchan also addressed it. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 00:24:20', '2022-10-23 00:24:20');
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(2510, 2510, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Hurricane Roslyn grew to Category 4 force on Saturday as it headed for a collision with Mexico’s Pacific coast, likely north of the resort of Puerto Vallarta.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn’s maximum sustained winds stood at 130 mph (215 kph) early Saturday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The storm was centered about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Cabo Corrientes — the point of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and moving north at 10 mph (17 kph).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The forecast called for Roslyn to begin shifting to a northeast movement, putting it on path that could take it close to Cabo Corrientes and the Puerto Vallarta region late Saturday before making landfall in Nayarit state early Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3 a little farther north in roughly the same region, about 45 miles (75 kilometers) southeast of the resort of Mazatlan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hurricane-force winds extended out 30 miles (45 kilometers) from Roslyn’s core, while tropical storm-force winds extended out to 80 miles (130 kilometers), the U.S. hurricane center said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mexico issued a hurricane warning covering a stretch of coast from Playa Perula south of Cabo Corrientes north to El Roblito and for the Islas Marias.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seemingly oblivious to the danger just hours away, tourists ate at beachside eateries around Puerto Vallarta and smaller resorts farther north on the Nayarit coast, where Roslyn was expected to hit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We\'re fine. Everything is calm, it\'s all normal,” said Jaime Cantón, a receptionist at the Casa Maria hotel in Puerto Vallarta. He said that if winds picked up, the hotel would gather up outside furniture “so nothing will go flying.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While skies began to cloud up, waves remained normal, and few people appeared to be rushing to take precautions; swimmers were still in the sea at Puerto Vallarta</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The place is full of tourists,” said Patricia Morales, a receptionist at the Punta Guayabitas hotel in the laid-back beach town of the same name, farther up the coast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked what precautions were being taken, Morales said, “They (authorities) haven\'t told us anything.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nayarit state government said the hurricane was expected to make landfall Sunday around the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of Puerto Vallarta.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of the state civil defense office, Pedro Núñez, said, “Right now we are carrying out patrols through the towns, to alert people so that they can keep their possession safe and keep themselves safe in safer areas.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the neighboring state of Jalisco, Gov. Enrique Alfaro wrote that 270 people had been evacuated in a town near the hurricane\'s expected path and that five emergency shelters had been set up in Puerto Vallarta.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfaro said on Twitter that any school activities in the region would be cancelled Saturday and he urged people to avoid touristic activities at beaches and in mountainous areas over the weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding. and the U.S. hurricane center warned of dangerous storm surge along the coast, as well as 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) of rain. UNB/AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 17:56:39', '2022-10-23 17:56:39'),
(2511, 2511, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russia has launched a \"new massive strike\" targeting Ukraine\'s energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the attacks were on a \"very wide\" scale, hitting Ukraine\'s regions in the west, centre, south and east.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 1.5 million households were without electricity, Kyiv said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mr Zelensky said most of the Russian missiles and drones were being shot down, and such strikes would not stop a Ukrainian military advance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Almost a third of Ukraine\'s power stations and other energy-generating facilities have been destroyed in a wave of air strikes since Monday last week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The areas targeted by the latest attacks include the Cherkasy region, south-east of the capital Kyiv, and the city of Khmelnytskyi, further west.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air strikes and power disruptions were also reported from Odesa in the south to Rivne and Lutsk in the north-west. 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, '2022-10-23 18:00:15', '2022-10-23 18:00:15'),
(2512, 2512, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Thousands of people, including many of Iranian origin, marched Saturday in Washington to show support for nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini last month.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They chanted slogans such as \"Women, life, freedom\" and \"Justice for Iran\" as they walked from the National Mall -- the vast green expanse that is home to the Washington Monument -- to the White House.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siamak Aram, one of the organizers, said attendance would surpass 10,000 by the end of the procession and that this was the fifth such rally in Washington, in solidarity with women-led protests in Iran that are now in their sixth week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amini died last month in police custody after her arrest for allegedly breaching Iran\'s strict dress code for women. Her death has fueled the biggest protests seen in the Islamic republic for years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other rallies in support of the protesters in Iran were also held Saturday in Berlin and Tokyo. 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, '2022-10-23 18:04:38', '2022-10-23 18:04:38'),
(2513, 2513, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Erik ten Hag hailed Manchester United\'s \"spirit\" as Casemiro grabbed his first goal for the club in stoppage-time to salvage a dramatic 1-1 draw at Chelsea on Saturday.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ten Hag\'s side were seconds away from defeat after Jorginho\'s 87th minute penalty put Chelsea ahead in United\'s first match since Cristiano Ronaldo was sent into exile.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But former Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro ensured United left west London on a six-match unbeaten run as he netted with a header that was awarded by goal-line technology after crossing the line by millimetres.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have to make a big compliment to my team. To fight back with a fourth game in 10 days, you see the spirit and how they deal with setbacks. Really good,\" Ten Hag said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We dictated the game and I am happy with that. If you concede a goal late it is difficult. It is a fair result.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ronaldo was missing from the United squad after being dropped by Ten Hag after his refusal to come on as a substitute in Wednesday\'s win over Tottenham.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It would be no surprise if United and Ronaldo parted ways in the January transfer window, but Ten Hag\'s men did not appear troubled by the striker\'s latest petulant outburst.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Ronaldo banished, United were still the stronger side for long periods, while there were no chants in support of the 37-year-old from the visiting fans packed into one corner of Stamford Bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifth-placed United remain one point behind fourth placed Chelsea, who are unbeaten in eight matches in all competitions since Graham Potter replaced the sacked Thomas Tuchel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s disappointing because we\'re 1-0 ahead at the end but over the course of the game a point is about right and I\'m not sure if we did enough to win it,\" Potter said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A really fighting performance from us, we improved a lot after 30 minutes so we will take what we get.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only concern for United was the sight of France centre-back Raphael Varane limping off in tears in the second half after a World Cup injury scare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Varane\'s leg twisted awkwardly as he stretched in a failed attempt to intercept a pass towards Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, leaving him crumpled in a heap on the pitch for several minutes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 29-year-old was eventually able to walk around the pitch unaided, but his angst at potentially missing the World Cup, which starts on November 20, was clear as he punched the corner flag in frustration.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have to wait 24 hours and then we will know what it is,\" Ten Hag said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Vibrant United -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lost in the fuss over Ronaldo\'s antics was the vibrancy of United\'s performance against Tottenham and they retained that quality at the Bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luke Shaw fizzed a low drive just wide from the edge of the area, then Anthony\'s curler forced a good save from Kepa Arrizabalaga.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fernandes\'s pin-point pass opened up the Chelsea defence again, leaving Marcus Rashford one on one with Kepa but a poor first touch saw his shot thud into the keeper\'s chest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rashford didn\'t let that mess drain his confidence and he surged into the Chelsea area for a fierce strike that Kepa palmed away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Chelsea being over-run in central areas, Potter responded by replacing centre-back Marc Cucurella and sending on midfielder Mateo Kovacic in a bid to disrupt United\'s rhythm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chelsea finally managed a menacing raid after Kovacic\'s introduction as Aubameyang stabbed just wide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anthony missed a glorious chance, the winger firing wide after Fernandes sent him racing clear on goal, while Chelsea\'s Trevoh Chalobah hit the bar with a second half header.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Potter\'s men looked to have won it in when Scott McTominay needlessly fouled Armando Broja and Jorginho calmly slotted past David De Gea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But four minutes into stoppage-time, Casemiro met Shaw\'s cross with a superb header that Kepa could only tip onto the post, the ball bouncing down just over the line to spark wild United celebrations. 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(2514, 2514, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sri Lanka cruised to a nine-wicket victory over Ireland in their Super 12s opener at the T20 World Cup in Hobart.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kusal Mendis smashed an unbeaten 68 from 43 balls as Sri Lanka secured victory with five overs to spare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ireland earlier limped to 128-8, with top-scorer Harry Tector, who hit 45 off 42, one of only three players to reach double figures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka\'s spinners were particularly impressive, with Maheesh Theekshana taking 2-19 and Wanindu Hasaranga 2-25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The result means Sri Lanka sit second in the early Group 1 table as one of three teams on two points, with New Zealand top and England third on net run rate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2014 champions now travel to Perth for a match against holders Australia on Tuesday (12:00 BST). Ireland take on England at Melbourne the following day (05:00).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ireland slump to disappointing defeat</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ireland went into this game full of confidence after thrashing two-time winners West Indies by nine wickets in their final group match to reach this stage, but this was a sobering reality check on a chilly afternoon in Hobart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following successful chases in their previous two matches, captain Andy Balbirnie surprisingly chose to bat first after winning the toss, but their innings never got going.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were reduced to 26-2 inside five overs, with Balbirnie bowled by Lahiru Kumara for one and Lorcan Tucker bowled around his legs by Theekshana for 10.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dangerous Paul Stirling, dropped by Kumara on 28, added just six more runs before being caught at long-off by Bhanuka Rajapaksa off the bowling of Dhananjaya de Silva. And when Curtis Campher went for two in the following over, Ireland were in deep trouble at 60-4.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tector\'s patient innings steadied the ship, but disciplined bowling in the middle overs meant Ireland struggled for boundaries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They only hit two sixes in the entire innings and scored just 28 runs off the final five overs for the loss of four wickets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Mendis and De Silva raced to 50-0 after the powerplay in reply the result was never in doubt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">De Silva\'s dismissal for 31 thanks to a sharp take by wicketkeeper Tucker failed to halt their momentum, with Charith Asalanka adding 31 from 22 deliveries before Mendis sealed the win with a huge six over mid-wicket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ireland will now have to lift themselves for Wednesday\'s meeting with England, the first time the teams have met at a global tournament since Ireland\'s shock victory the 2011 50-over World Cup. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 18:20:36', '2022-10-23 18:20:36'),
(2515, 2515, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number 3 as the depression over the east-central Bay intensified into a deep depression on Sunday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is likely to intensify further and move in a northwesterly direction,” said the weather department in a bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to India Meteorological Department, the deep depression will intensify into a cyclonic storm and reach West Bengal, Bangladesh coasts on October 25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maximum sustained wind speed within 48 kms of the deep depression centre is about 50-60 kph in gusts or squalls, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sea will remain rough near deep depression centre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under its influence, North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh are likely to experience squally wind of 40-50 kph in addition to heavy (44-88 MM) to very rainfall, the bulletin added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the low-lying areas of coastal districts of Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Jhalakathi, Pirojpur, Barguna, Patuakhali, Bhola, Barishal, Laxmipur, Chandpur, Noakhali, Feni, Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar are likely to be inundated by wind driven surge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All fishing boats and trawlers over North Bay and deep sea have been advised to take shelter immediately and remain in shelter till further notice, it added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 18:24:58', '2022-10-23 18:24:58'),
(2516, 2516, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bollywood actor Salman Khan has taken a pause from work after getting diagnosed with dengue. Check out his health update.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The festive season is upon us but, amid the glitz and glamour, it’s superstar Salman Khan who will be opting out of Diwali parties this year. Salman has been diagnosed with dengue. Before fans get upset with the news, his manager tells Hindustan Times, “Salman contacted dengue and is recovering well now.”</div><div><br></div><div>Salman was last seen on the sets of Bigg Boss 16. While he will not be a part of Colors TV’s upcoming episode Weekend Ka War, he will resume work soon after his recovery. “He will be fine to start shooting after Diwali,” updated his manager.</div><div><br></div><div>On the film front, Salman Khan recently announced the much-awaited release dates of his upcoming films.</div><div><br></div><div>Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan will be followed by Salman\'s return as agent Tiger in the upcoming Tiger 3. HT</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 18:33:47', '2022-10-23 18:33:47'),
(2517, 2517, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will not attend an upcoming Arab summit in Algeria in compliance with doctors’ recommendations to avoid travel, the Algerian presidency has said.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia offered no immediate acknowledgement of the comments on Saturday by Algeria about the condition of Prince Mohammed, who has quickly risen to power under his 86-year-old father King Salman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Statements carried in Arabic and French on the Algeria Press Service late on Saturday referred to a statement from the office of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune about a telephone call between him and Prince Mohammed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the call, Prince Mohammed “apologised for not being able to participate in the Arab Summit to be held on November 1 in Algiers, in accordance with the recommendations of doctors who advise him not to travel”, the statement read.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“For his part, Mr President said he understood the situation and regretted the impediment of the Crown Prince, His Highness the Emir Mohammed Bin Salman, expressing his wishes for his health and well-being.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement on the state-run Saudi Press Agency acknowledged a call between Tebboune and the prince but offered no word on the doctors’ advice. It just said the call focused on “the aspects of bilateral relations between the two fraternal countries” and possible joint cooperation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Arab League Summit in Algeria represents the first time the regional body has met since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold across the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Arab League, founded in 1945, represents 22 nations across the Middle East and North Africa, though Syria has been suspended amid its long-running war. While unified in the call for the Palestinians to have an independent state, the body has otherwise been largely fractious and unable to enforce its mandates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prince Mohammed came to power in 2015 as deputy crown prince, then became crown prince some two years later after King Salman removed Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a once-powerful figure as head of Saudi Arabia’s counterterrorism efforts and a close ally of the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His rise to power has seen the kingdom undergo rapid changes, like allowing women to drive and opening movie theatres while loosening the grip of ultraconservatives. He also launched a purported corruption crackdown that targeted the richest men in the kingdom, and led an internationally criticised Arab coalition that staged a military campaign in Yemen. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 18:51:18', '2022-10-23 18:51:18'),
(2518, 2518, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>China’s President Xi Jinping has secured a historic third term as the Communist Party’s leader, cementing his place as the nation’s most influential ruler since Mao Zedong.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elected Xi as its general secretary for a precedent-breaking five-year term on Sunday, tilting the country decisively back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among its elites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi is now all but certain to sail through to a third term as China’s president, due to be formally announced during the government’s annual legislative sessions in March next year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CCP also named a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) led by Xi, its inner circle of power dominated by the party leader’s allies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi introduced the new lineup, walking at the head of the group as he lead them onto the stage at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to meet reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shanghai Communist Party chief Li Qiang followed Xi, meaning that he is likely to succeed Li Keqiang as premier when the latter retires in March. The other members of China’s top governing body are Zhao Leji and Wang Huning, who return from the previous committee and newcomers Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I wish to thank the whole party sincerely for the trust you have placed in us,” Xi said after his appointment, and promised to “work diligently in the performance of our duties to prove worthy of the great trust of our party and our people”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All of the PSC’s new members are perceived to have close allegiance to the 69-year-old Xi, who was also named the chairman of the Central Military Commission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“An abnormally lopsided victory for one faction, which is rare in the tradition of the Communist Party, in the past there would be a rough balance of power,” Willy Lam, Senior Fellow at US think-tank the Jamestown Foundation, told Reuters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It means there won’t be any checks and balances. Xi Jinping also has total control over the larger Politburo and Central Committee,” he said. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 19:52:20', '2022-10-23 19:52:20'),
(2519, 2519, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping after securing a third term in power as the general secretary of the ruling Communist Party. According to a statement from the Kremlin, Putin wished Xi “prosperity and new success” and said that he “looks forward to continuing to develop a comprehensive partnership between Russia and China”.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the historic third win, Xi Jinping has become the nation\'s most influential leader since founder Mao Zedong.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Xi Jinping and Putin had recently met on the sidelines of the SCO Summit where the Chinese president had raised “questions and concerns” over the Ukraine conflict. The two leaders have maintained close personal relations during the 10-year tenure of the Chinese president. Beijing, in the past, has also effectively stood by Moscow\'s declining to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bringing his main supporting team out at the Great hall of the people, Xi was quoted as saying in reports, “I wish to thank the whole Party sincerely for the trust you have placed in us.” He also promised to \"work diligently in the performance of our duties to prove worthy of the great trust of our Party and our people.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laying the foundation of his rule for the next five years, Xi promoted Li Qiang, Li Xi, Ding Xuexiang, and Cai Qi to China’s highest decision-making body. The new Politburo standing committee will include ideology tsar Wang Huning, 67, and anti-corruption chief Zhao Leji, 65. HT </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 19:58:01', '2022-10-23 19:58:20'),
(2520, 2520, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Saturday was one of the busiest days for Bollywood celebrities this year as many hopped from one Diwali party to another.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After attending producer Ekta Kapoor and producer-real estate developer Anand Pandit\'s Diwali parties, many celebs headed to designer Abu Jani\'s bash on Saturday. Those spotted at Abu Jani\'s party were Akshay Kumar, Twinkle Khanna, Jaya Bachchan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Panday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Akshay Kumar was spotted in a white embroidered kurta pyjama. Twinkle accompanied him in a red saree. Twinkle also shared a candid picture with Akshay on Instagram and wrote, “The best time of the year and it’s lovely to be home for all the festivities. Happy Dhanteras!” The actor is looking forward to the release of his fifth film of the year, Ram Setu on October 25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhumi Pednekar, who had hosted a Diwali party at her residence a day before, arrived for Abu Jani\'s party in a white ethnic attire. She was accompanied by her sister Samiksha Pednekar, who also wore a white lehenga for the do. Taapsee Pannu, attended Ekta Kapoor\'s bash in a pink saree with a silver blouse, headed to Abu\'s party as well. Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi and Sonali Bendre and husband Goldie Behl were seen twinning in blue at the bash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ananya Panday too attended Ekta Kapoor\'s bash and made sure to mark her attendance at Abu\'s party. She was spotted travelling with Navya in the same car. Nysa Devgn, who had also joined Bhumi at her party a day before, also attended the party. Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal were also spotted. Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia, Swara Bhasker, Sussanne Khan and boyfriend Arslan Goni and Shanaya Kapoor also joined them. 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, '2022-10-23 20:20:43', '2022-10-23 20:20:43'),
(2521, 2521, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox\'s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number 3 as the depression over the east-central Bay intensified into a deep depression this morning.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is likely to intensify further and move in a northwesterly direction,\" said a Met Office press release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maximum sustained wind speed within 48 kms of the deep depression centre is about 50-60 kph in gusts or squalls, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sea will remain rough near deep depression centre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Under its influence, North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh are likely to experience squally wind of 40-50 kph in addition to heavy (44-88 MM) to very rainfall, the release added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the low-lying areas of coastal districts of Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Jhalakathi, Pirojpur, Barguna, Patuakhali, Bhola, Barishal, Laxmipur, Chandpur, Noakhali, Feni, Chattogram and Cox\'s Bazar are likely to be inundated by wind driven surge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All fishing boats and trawlers over North Bay and deep sea have been advised to take shelter immediately and remain in shelter till further notice, it added. 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, '2022-10-23 20:26:49', '2022-10-23 20:26:49'),
(2522, 2522, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Despite being in a perpetual defeat circle, Bangladesh want to make their first T20 International appearance in the land down under a memorable one when they take on the Netherlands for their opening game of the T20 World Cup at Bellerive Oval here.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The match starts at 10am as per Bangladesh Time and will be aired live on Gazi TV and T Sports Channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A victory is also imperative for them to snap the jinx of defeat in the main round of the tournament for which an opponent like the Netherlands give them a genuine hope.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since their only victory against West Indies in the inaugural edition of the T20 World Cup in 2007, Bangladesh have never won any game in the tournament proper. In the last World Cup in 2021 also, they lost all of the five matches after overcoming the first round of game somehow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This time, they didn\'t have to play in the first round as their rankings in the cut-off date took them to the Super 12s of the World Cup straightway but their performance since the 2021 T20 World Cup remains utmost disappointing. In this period, they played 27 matches and lost 20, a number that left the fans fuming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh also lost most of the senior players from the T20 International cricket in this period-while Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur retired from this format after the question raised against their performance, Mahmudullah Riyad was dropped, leaving Shakib Al Hasan to remain as only senior player. He also is leading a side whose most of the players continue to misfire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh indeed came in this World Cup with the back of four straight defeats, all of which came in the tri-nation series in New Zealand. They also lost their warm-up game to Afghanistan by 62 runs before the second and last practice game against South Africa was washed out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netherlands got a touch of luck to move to the Super 12s. Namibia was strong contender to move to the next round when they upset Sri Lanka in their first game. But while Sri Lanka then won the two matches with ease, Netherlands were still unsure about their chance despite beating Namibia because of their run rate. If Namibia could beat United Arab Emirates (UAE), they would have been through but simply they couldn\'t do that.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Even though the fans believed, Netherlands are the easier opponent for Bangladesh, the Tigers\' dismal performance of late couldn\'t speak a volume of their success.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However Bangladesh captain Shakib refused to take Netherlands lightly, saying that they took same preparation for all of the five teams they would face in the Super 12s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They (Dutch) have qualified, and so they have the ability to do well. You (media) may have created the impression that Bangladesh is relieved to have the Netherlands coming. We never think like that. No group in the world thinks like this who is really good, who is really bad. All teams try to do what they can for the good of the team,\" Shakib said here today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are five matches in the World Cup. We have come here with the preparation of these five matches. The preparation will be the same whoever we play here, it should be.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh so far played three matches against Netherlands-winning two and losing one. Overall Bangladesh played 138 T20 Internationals and while they won 47 matches, they had lost 89 matches. Three other matches ended in no result.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Squad:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Afif Hossain, Mossadek Hossain, Liton Das, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Najmul Hossain, Nasum Ahmed and Soumya Sarkar.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Netherlands: Scott Edwards (c, wk), Colin Ackermann, Shariz Ahmad, Logan van Beek, Tom Cooper, Brandon Glover, Timm van der Gugten, Fred Klaassen, Bas de Leede, Paul van Meekeren, Roelof van der Merwe, Stephan Myburgh, Teja Nidamanuru, Max O\'Dowd, Tim Pringle and Vikram Singh. </b>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, '2022-10-23 20:35:04', '2022-10-23 20:35:04'),
(2523, 2523, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Good news for late bloomers: Planets may have millions of years more time to arise around most stars than previously thought.</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Planet-making disks around young stars typically last for 5 million to 10 million years, researchers report in a study posted October 6 at arXiv.org. That disk lifetime, based on a survey of nearby young star clusters, is a good deal longer than the previous estimate of 1 million to 3 million years.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">“One to three megayears is a really strong constraint for forming planets,” says astrophysicist Susanne Pfalzner of Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. “Finding that we have a lot of time just relaxes everything” for building planets around young stars.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Planets large and small develop in the disks of gas and dust that swirl around young stars (SN: 5/20/20). Once a disk vanishes, it’s too late to make any more new worlds.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Past studies have estimated disk lifetimes by looking at the fraction of young stars of different ages that still have disks — in particular, by observing star clusters with known ages. But Pfalzner and her colleagues discovered something odd: The farther a star cluster is from Earth, the shorter the estimated disk lifetime. That made no sense, she says, because why should the lifetime of a protoplanetary disk depend on how far it is from us?</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The answer is quite simple: It doesn’t. But in clusters that are farther away, it’s harder to see most stars. “When you look at larger distances, you see higher-mass stars,” Pfalzner says, because those stars are brighter and easier to see. “You basically don’t see the low-mass stars.” But the lowest-mass stars constitute the vast majority. These stars, orange and red dwarfs, are cooler, smaller and fainter than the sun.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">So Pfalzner and her colleagues examined only the nearest young star clusters, those within 650 light-years of Earth, and found that the fraction of stars with planet-making disks was much higher than that reported in previous studies. This analysis showed that “the low-mass stars have much longer disk lifetimes, between 5 and 10 megayears,” than astronomers realized, she says. In contrast, disks around higher-mass stars are known to disperse faster than this, perhaps because their suns’ brighter light pushes the gas and dust away more quickly.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">“I wouldn’t say that this is definite proof” for such long disk lifetimes around orange and red dwarfs, says Álvaro Ribas, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge who was not involved with the work. “But it’s quite convincing.”</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">To bolster the result, he’d like to see observations of more distant star clusters — perhaps with the James Webb Space Telescope — to determine the fraction of the faintest stars that have preserved their planet-making disks between 5 million and 20 million years.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">If the disks around the lowest mass stars do indeed have long lifetimes, that may explain a difference between our solar system and those of most red dwarfs, Pfalzner says. The latter often lack gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, which are about 10 times the diameter of Earth. Instead, those stars frequently have numerous ice giants like Uranus and Neptune, about four times the diameter of Earth. Perhaps Neptune-sized planets arise in larger numbers when a planet-making disk lasts longer, Pfalzner says, accounting for why these worlds tend to abound around smaller stars. SN</span></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 20:53:23', '2022-10-23 20:53:23'),
(2524, 2524, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Shan Masood and Iftikhar Ahmed steadied the Pakistan innings after the powerplay after which the latter put India on the backfoot. He, however, fell to Shami as soon as he crossed his half century after which Hardik Pandya took two wickets in the 14th over to swing the momentum back in India\'s favour. Earlier, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Arshdeep Singh swung the ball around corners and the latter managed to dismiss both Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan for cheap in the powerplay.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;Pakistan 159/8 in 20 overs</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All in all, it has ended becoming a good recovery from Pakistan. Some sloppy work in the field off the last ball from India, Rauf misses but they run anyway. DK throws it at the striker\'s end but misses, then Bhuvi throws it at the non-striker\'s end and misses. The second throw allows Pakistan to take a second run. Whan an entertaining innings this was. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 21:09:25', '2022-10-23 21:09:25');
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(2525, 2525, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">English is the world’s lingua franca, a common language that people with different native languages can use to communicate.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The more fluent you are in English, the more interesting, exciting and insightful conversations you can have.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Expand your vocabulary</div><div>Learn New Words Every Day</div><div><br></div><div>Gleaning new words day in, day out is a good way to widen your vocabulary. Commit to a suitable target: it can be three daily words or it can be ten daily words.</div><div><br></div><div>Even if you only have time to learn one new word per day, it is still worth trying. By learning one word every day, after one year you will have learned 365 new English words.</div><div><br></div><div>Write the number down to remind yourself frequently. If you have a learning partner, share it with her so that she can check on your progress.</div><div><br></div><div>Some good resources for words are the news, songs and TV shows, depending on your daily habits. If you love listening to music, pay attention to the lyrics and take note of the words you do not know. Songs often contain a lot of useful vocabulary, phrases and expressions, therefore, they are great for learning English.</div><div><br></div><div>Learning words in context will help you remember them much easier, and you will be surprised by how quickly your vocabulary will grow!</div><div><br></div><div>Learn Words in Phrases and Chunks</div><div><br></div><div>It is important that you learn words in groups. For example, you refer to beverages as a glass of wine, a pint of beer, a cup of tea, a pot of coffee, etc. It is better to learn those phrases than merely wine, beer, tea and so on.</div><div><br></div><div>You can also benefit from learning words that are related. The moon has four phases during a lunar month: crescent, gibbon, waxing and waning. It is more efficient to learn all four words at the same time.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Improve your pronunciation</div><div>You might know a lot of words, but if you fail to say them correctly, you will not be understood. That seems like a waste of the time spent on remembering words, right?</div><div><br></div><div>When using online dictionaries such as Macmillan and Merriam-Webster, make use of the little speaker symbol to check the pronunciation of any word that you are not sure about. There are English pronunciation tutorials on YouTube or podcasts like English Pronunciation Pod or American English Pronunciation to teach you the many aspects of American English pronunciation.</div><div><br></div><div>When you are ready for something more challenging, try out tongue twisters. Some examples are available here. Personally, I love the Fork handles sketch from the show “The Two Ronnies.” It might not be a typical example of everyday conversation, but it shows you the richness of spoken English. Besides, you will have a good laugh.</div><div><br></div><div>Learning with these types of authentic videos is key to improving your pronunciation because you are listening to media by and for native speakers.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>But finding videos on your own, or trying to learn with just a video can sometimes be tricky. If you need some help finding relevant English videos with examples of authentic pronunciation, FluentU‘s online learning program is filled with real content and extra tools to help you get started.</div><div><br></div><div>The videos on the program each have interactive subtitles, which allows you to easily see the definition of every word that is spoken. It is great for pronunciation practice, particularly because every word you click on will be automatically added to a personalized word bank, with audio you can listen to later.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>3. Build English speaking confidence</div><div>One of the biggest barriers to developing English speaking skills is confidence. It is certainly something that all language learners have difficulty with and one of the best ways to overcome this is to get out there and practice.</div><div><br></div><div>The best way to do this is to try speaking English with strangers!</div><div><br></div><div>The following video gives some tips about avoiding mistakes, and that can help you to focus on a sometimes forgotten component of language learning: confidence! It is possible to rid yourself of any English speaking fear by building a strong foundation in the language.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>4. Self-talk</div><div>Talk to yourself in English loudly. It can be anything from a suggestion like, “Shall we go get a glass of water?” or a reminder, “I need to do a load of laundry today.”</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, pick up a book and read a couple of pages out loud. This exercise might slow down your reading, but it will speed up your speaking skills.</div><div><br></div><div>You can also record yourself, listen to the recording and watch out for any wrong pronunciations. If it is possible, ask for feedback from a native speaker.</div><div><br></div><div>5. Think in English</div><div>If you already think in English, it takes less time to produce or respond in everyday conversations. No translation needed!</div><div><br></div><div>A good way to start rethinking is to keep a diary where you express your daily thoughts in English. It does not have to be perfect, it is more about getting out thoughts in English with less and less effort.</div><div><br></div><div>6. Retell a story in English</div><div>Take the challenge a step further by retelling a story. You retrace other people’s line of thoughts in your own words.</div><div><br></div><div>I would start with a familiar story from your culture. Your translation needs to convey not only the meaning of words but all rhetorical and cultural nuances.</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, you can choose different words to retell a simple story in English. Start from the basics, reading something like a fairy tale or a fable. Either way will be beneficial to your English communication skills. - fluentU</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 21:14:10', '2022-10-23 21:14:10'),
(2526, 2526, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which underscores the need to combat Islamophobia and hatred against Islam in all its manifestations, on Saturday called for “utilizing new and emerging platforms and technological innovations to present truth” about Islam effectively.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A declaration adopted at the end of the two-day 12th Conference of the Information Ministers of the OIC in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul also welcomed the UN General Assembly resolution on International Day to Combat Islamophobia adopted by the global body on March 15.</div><div><br></div><div>The multi-national all-Muslim body emphasized on the importance of cooperation among the OIC member states in “developing necessary mechanisms to fight disinformation and other related challenges of the post-truth era, and devising short, medium and long-term strategic processes in the total fight against disinformation.”</div><div><br></div><div>It urged media outlets in the OIC member states to raise global awareness about “deliberate acts” of destruction and desecration of Islamic cultural and religious heritage in non-Muslim countries, especially in those areas where Indigenous Muslim communities were subjected to ethnic cleansing.</div><div><br></div><div>Recognizing the importance of focusing on specific issues and possible scenarios in the short term, it called for “multidimensional crisis communication and management and mechanisms to check the accuracy of information in the medium term, and news content, media literacy and digital media literacy in the long term.”</div><div><br></div><div>The 57-nation Muslim bloc stressed on the crucial role of media in Islamic countries in “exposing” the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians and called for “illuminating” the legitimate cause of the Palestinian people to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.</div><div><br></div><div>The Istanbul conference highlighted the importance of international solidarity and assistance to support refugees, people seeking shelter, particularly in the multi-national body’s member states.</div><div><br></div><div>It also praised the efforts of the OIC “towards the advancement of the mission of Islam and promote dialogue between the Islamic culture and the world’s other cultures.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Muslim bloc commended constant efforts and initiatives of OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha and his contacts within and outside the Islamic world and called for a “renewed commitment to the noble objectives of the OIC and support for all its initiatives and activities, particularly in the communication and information domains with a view to encouraging unity, solidarity and cooperation in the Islamic world.”</div><div><br></div><div>The OIC information ministers appreciated Türkiye for hospitality during the conference and called on media entities and institutions in the member states to join the OIC Media Forum.</div><div><br></div><div>At the conference, a representative of Saudi Arabia handed over to Türkiye the term presidency of the OIC Information Ministers Conference and the next OIC information ministers’ conference is expected to be hosted by Azerbaijan. - Anadolu Agency&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 21:35:52', '2022-10-23 21:35:52'),
(2527, 2527, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mark 3), which launched from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, had successfully placed 36 satellites into orbit, according to the agency.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"LVM3 M2/OneWeb India-1 mission is completed successfully. All the 36 satellites have been placed into intended orbits,\" the agency said early Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The launch took place from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, at 12.07 a.m. local time.</div><div><br></div><div>The \"mission is being undertaken as part of the commercial arrangement\" between New Space India Limited, a government-run firm, and UK-based satellite company, OneWeb, according to the agency.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The LVM3-M2 mission is a dedicated commercial mission for a foreign customer OneWeb, through NSIL. It is the first multi-satellite mission with 36 OneWeb Satellites to the LEO as the heaviest Payload mass of 5,796 kg. (12,777 lbs.) of LVM3 till date,\" it said earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>It said it is the first Indian rocket with a 6-ton payload, the first commercial mission of LVM3 and the first multi-satellite mission with 36 OneWeb satellites onboard.</div><div><br></div><div>Minister of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said: \"Yet another feather in the much-decorated hat of Team ISRO.\" - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 21:51:01', '2022-10-23 21:51:01'),
(2528, 2528, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Palestinian fighter was killed in an explosion in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, with Israel not commenting on allegations from a Palestinian armed group that it was behind his assassination.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tamer al-Kilani was killed overnight on Sunday in the Old City of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Lions’ Den, an armed group of young Palestinians that was formed last year out of frustration and disillusionment with the Palestinian leadership and its tight security ties with Israel, said Kilani was killed when an explosive device planted on a motorcycle exploded as he walked by.</div><div><br></div><div>The group described Kilani as one of its “fiercest fighters” and blamed Israel for his death.</div><div><br></div><div>“The treacherous occupation (Israel) put a sticky TNT device as the way to assassinate [Kilani]”, the group wrote on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>Palestinians gathered on Sunday around the charred remains of a motorbike that was allegedly laden with explosives.</div><div><br></div><div>Two videos provided by the Lions’ Den showed a person on a motorcycle parking and exiting the frame. The second video showed a man, believed to be Kilani, walking by a motorcycle and then what appears to be a blast.</div><div><br></div><div>“We promise and swear to reveal the details of the assassination of the martyr Tamer, and we promise the occupation and [Aviv] Kochavi a harsh, painful and painful response,” a statement by the armed group said, referring to Israel’s chief of army staff.</div><div><br></div><div>The group called on Palestinians to attend Kilani’s funeral, which will be held on Sunday afternoon in Nablus. A general strike has been called in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli military declined to comment. It has been conducting nightly raids in the occupied West Bank since March in what it says is a bid to dismantle armed networks and thwart attacks.</div><div><br></div><div>An Israeli military official said Kilani was connected to a shooting last week that killed an Israeli soldier, as well as several other attacks in the northern West Bank. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to discuss the details with the media. Source: Al Jazeera&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 22:11:01', '2022-10-23 22:11:01'),
(2529, 2529, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least one more dengue patient died in Dhaka and 1,034 were admitted to different health facilities across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The highest in a single day and also the total number of dengue cases crossed 31,000 within this time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One dengue patient also died during this time, according to the&nbsp; (DGHS) Directorate General of Health Services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 31,063 people were hospitalised with dengue infections across the country since January, of which, 113 died so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 14,971 patients or 48.20 per cent of this year’s dengue hospitalisation were reported in the first 23 days of October showing an unbridled rise in dengue infections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the total reported deaths, 58 people or about 51.32 per cent of deaths were reported in 23 days of October, 34 in September, 11 in August, nine in July and one was reported in June while no death was reported between January and May, according to the DGHS press release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the total 113 deaths this year, 67 died in Dhaka city, one in Narsingdi, 36 in Chattogram, five in Barishal, two in Khulna and two in Mymensingh divisions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 22:21:56', '2022-10-23 22:21:56'),
(2530, 2530, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya steadied the Indian chase and are now looking to move into the attack. KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma fell without troubling the scorers too much early on, just as Pakistan openers Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan did earlier in the day.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India then lost the in-form Suryakumar Yadav as Pakistan dominated the first 10 overs. Earlier, Shan Masood and Iftikhar Ahmed scored half centuries of contrasting styles to take Pakistan to a score of 159/8. Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya took three wickets each.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somebody stop Ashwin and Kohli, they are roaring, screaming, the Indian players stream, onto the field like they have won the World Cup itself. The MCG has gone insane! One of the greatest matches the T20 World Cup has ever hosted has ended in India\'s favour. Kohli, the man who has led India to so many victories, looks like he is cherishing this one more than any of the others.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Final score: </b>India won by 4 wkts</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>PAK - 159/8 (20)</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>IND - 160/6 (20)</b>. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 23:08:07', '2022-10-23 23:08:07'),
(2531, 2531, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The deep depression over the Bay is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm this evening and 19 coastal districts will be at high risk, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>If it turns into a cyclonic storm, it will be identified as “Sitrang” and it may make landfall in Bangladesh on October 25, he said while speaking at a press briefing over the cyclone issue, held at the Secretariat.</div><div><br></div><div>The cyclonic storm “Sitrang” will hit a 730 km area – from Cox’s Bazar to Satkhira districts – and the government has taken necessary steps to tackle the storm, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Due to full moon, the tidal surge will likely increase to 3-5 feet above the astronomical tide, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>However, there is no possibility that “Sitrang” will not turn into a ‘super cyclonic storm’ and it may hit 19 coastal districts, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the latest bulletin of Bangladesh Meteorological Department, the maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number 3 as the deep depression over the east-central Bay and adjoining areas moved slightly north-westwards further.</div><div><br></div><div>It was centered at noon on Sunday about 780 km south-southwest of Cox’s bazar port, 715 km south-southwest of Cox’s Bazar port, 730 km south of Mongla port, and 695 km south of Payra port.</div><div><br></div><div>It is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm and recurve initially north-westwards.</div><div><br></div><div>Sea will remain rough near the deep depression centre.</div><div>Under the peripheral effect of the deep depression, North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh are likely to experience gusty or squally wind of 40-50 kph in addition to heavy to very heavy rainfall.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the influence of deep depression, new moon phase and steep pressure gradient, the low-lying areas of coastal Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Jhalakathi, Pirojpur, Barguna, Patuakhali, Bhola, Barishal, Laxmipur, Chandpur, Noakhali, Feni, Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar districts and their offshore islands and char area likely to be inundated by the wind driven surge height of 3-5 feet above the astronomical tide. Surge height may increase afterwards.</div><div><br></div><div>All fishing boats and trawlers over North Bay and deep sea have been advised to remain in shelter till further notice. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-23 23:29:58', '2022-10-23 23:29:58'),
(2532, 2532, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President of Bangladesh Awami League and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended heartiest congratulations and warmest felicitations to Chinese President Xi Jinping on his reelection as the General Secretary (GS) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the largest political party of the world.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In a letter to Xi Jinping, she wrote: \"Your reelection is undoubtedly a fitting recognition of the trust and confidence reposed on you for your able leadership, achievements, and vision by the people of China and the CPC.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"I also convey my sincere congratulations on the successful conclusion of the 20th Congress of the CPC,\" a press release of the press wing of Prime Minister\'s office quoted the premier today as saying.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina stated that Bangladesh observed with great admiration the realization of the First Centenary goal of the CPC- building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2020- as set when President Xi first took over the position of the CPC\'s General Secretary in 2012.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said, \"\'We commend your resolve and guidance in taking China on a new journey toward building a modern socialist country in all respects through innovation, economic policies, people-centered development philosophy, and multi-sectoral reforms.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"We welcome your endeavors to build a community of shared futures and appreciate your continued support of the socioeconomic development aspirations of developing countries,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said, \"I believe you will contribute further to maintaining peace and stability across the globe in this challenging time.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina also recalled Xi\'s historic visit to Bangladesh in October 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>She stated that the visit was marked by the transformation of bilateral relations between the two friendly countries into a \'Strategic Partnership of Cooperation.\'</div><div><br></div><div>She also fondly recalled her visit to China in 2019, when she had a very productive meeting with the Chinese President.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said he looks forward to working in close cooperation with the Chinese President to enhance the bilateral engagements further, strengthen the bonds of friendship between the two countries and peoples, and promote peace and stability in the region and the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina wished Xi Jinping continued success and good health and all the CPC members and delegates progress and prosperity in the coming days. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-24 00:44:21', '2022-10-24 00:44:21'),
(2533, 2533, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun on Sunday said Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in the ship recycling industry in terms of environmental issues, professional and health safety.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The Minister made the remark when Norwegian Ambassador to Bangladesh Espen Rikter-Svendsen met him at the latter’s office here in Dhaka, said a PID handout.</div><div><br></div><div>Nurul Majid said the ship recycling sector was on the verge of closure due to failure to prevent environmental pollution, various accidents and negative publicity at home and abroad.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2011, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared ship recycling as an industry.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ministry of Industries issued the \'Shipbreaking and Ship Recycling Rules\' in 2011 and enacted the \'Bangladesh Ship Recycling Act\' in 2018 as part of developing the sector, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Norwegian ambassador urged the Government of Bangladesh to ratify the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 (The Hong Kong Convention).</div><div><br></div><div>As a result of the ratification of this convention, Bangladesh will have the opportunity to take the lead in ship recycling, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The ambassador said Norway is a shipbuilding nation and a large number of its expired vessels are there for recycling. Bangladeshi yards can be benefited by exploiting this opportunity, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“For this, environmental and safety issues should be given importance,” said the Norwegian envoy, adding that if the Hong Kong Convention is ratified by 2023, Bangladesh will get two more years to comply with the related conditions.</div><div><br></div><div>In response, the Industries Minister said Bangladesh\'s government is considering the ratification of \'The Hong Kong Convention\' introduced by the International Maritime Organization.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a yard named PHP Shipbreaking and Ship Recycling Industries Limited in Bangladesh has already achieved the industry\'s highest compliance certificate, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>In the light of the decision of the Ministry of Industry, 85 yards have already prepared \'Ship Recycling Facility Plan\' for the technical and structural development of the yards and the target was set for implementation of the plan within the next two years, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-24 03:07:35', '2022-10-24 03:07:35'),
(2534, 2534, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>As the deep depression over the Bay is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm, the local administrations in 19 coastal districts&nbsp; have started preparing shelter centres and alerting the locals.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Earlier the State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman said the deep depression is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm.</div><div><br></div><div>When it does, it will be identified as “Sitrang” and it may make landfall in Bangladesh on October 25, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Amaresh Chandra Dhali, in charge of Mongla meteorology office, said the deep depression is currently located 820 km North West of Mongla port and gathering energy. Due to inclement weather from early morning, the Met Office has advised the maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra to hoist local cautionary signal number 3.</div><div><br></div><div>Mongla Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), Kamlesh Majumder said “A total of 103 cyclone shelters have been prepared and various Government and NGO organizations including Cyclone Preparedness Program (CPP) volunteers have been asked to remain alert.”</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Sundarban East Division Forest Officer Mohammad Belayet Hossain said various stations and patrol outposts have been instructed to remain on maximum alert by the Forest Department.</div><div><br></div><div>In Bhola, 746 shelters have been prepared and another 1,306 educational institutions in the district have been informed to be prepared to operate as shelters ahead of the cyclone, said Deputy Commissioner Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury.</div><div><br></div><div>Eight control rooms have been opened in seven upazilas of the district and 13,660 CPP volunteers are on standby.</div><div><br></div><div>A medical team has been formed for each of the 70 unions and seven upazilas of the district and preparations have been made to bring the residents of isolated char areas to safe shelter, he added</div><div><br></div><div>According to Suman Chandra Debnath, Water Relief and Rehabilitation officer of Patuakhali, residents of 50 char areas in eight upazilas of Patuakhali have been alerted to go to safe shelter over loudspeaker.</div><div><br></div><div>He said 703 cyclone shelters and 26 Mujib Forts have been prepared in the district.</div><div><br></div><div>If necessary, educational institutions, public and private multi-storied buildings will also be used as shelter centres.&nbsp; Safe shelter has also been arranged for domestic animals, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Bagerhat Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Azizur Rahman said that 344 shelters have been prepared in nine upazilas of the district.</div><div><br></div><div>“In the shelter centres, an estimated 208,430 people will be able to take refuge during the disaster. People will be taken to shelters upon receiving further instructions from the Met Office and authorities,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the influence of deep depression, new moon phase and steep pressure gradient, the low-lying areas of coastal Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Jhalakathi, Pirojpur, Barguna, Patuakhali, Bhola, Barishal, Laxmipur, Chandpur, Noakhali, Feni, Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar districts and their offshore islands and char area likely to be inundated by the wind-driven surge height of 3-5 feet above the astronomical tide, said the Met Office in a special bulletin.</div><div><br></div><div>The tidal surge height may even increase afterwards, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-24 03:14:48', '2022-10-24 03:14:48'),
(2535, 2535, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain\'s next prime minister after Boris Johnson withdrew from the contest on Sunday, saying that although he had enough support to make the final ballot he realised the country and the Conservative Party needed unity.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Johnson had raced home from a holiday in the Caribbean to try and secure the backing of 100 lawmakers to enter Monday\'s contest to replace Liz Truss, the woman who succeeded him in September after he was forced to quit over a string of scandals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said he had secured the backing of 102 lawmakers and could have been \"back in Downing Street\", but that he had failed to persuade either Sunak, or the other contender Penny Mordaunt, to come together \"in the national interest\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I believe I have much to offer but I am afraid that this is simply not the right time,\" Johnson said late on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The former prime minister had secured the public backing of just under 60 Conservative lawmakers by Sunday, well under half of the nearly 150 endorsements Sunak had received.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sterling rose more than half a cent against the dollar in early trading in Asia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Johnson\'s statement likely paves the way for his arch rival, the 42-year-old former finance minister Sunak, to become prime minister, possibly as soon as Monday. If confirmed, he would replace Truss who was forced to resign after she launched an economic programme that triggered turmoil on financial markets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the rules, if only one candidate secures the backing of 100 Conservative lawmakers, they will be named prime minister on Monday.\\</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">If two candidates pass the threshold, they will go forward to a vote of the party membership, with the winner announced on Friday, just days before new finance minister Jeremy Hunt lays bare the state of the country\'s finances in a budget plan due to be released on October 31.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">That had raised concerns that Johnson would return to Downing Street with the backing of the party members, and not a majority of lawmakers in parliament, leaving the party badly divided. Hunt declared his backing for Sunak late on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Some Johnson supporters could switch to Mordaunt, who has presented herself as the unity candidate, but many immediately switched to Sunak. A source close to the Mordaunt campaign said the former defence minister would continue in the contest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"She is the unifying candidate who is most likely to keep the wings of the Conservative Party together,\" the source said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>TORN ITSELF APART</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Johnson has loomed large over British politics ever since he became mayor of London in 2008 and went on to become the face of the Brexit vote in 2016. While he led the Conservative Party to a landslide election in 2019, he was forced out just three years later by a rebellion of his ministers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sunak said he hoped Johnson would continue to contribute to public life \"at home and abroad\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">One Sunak supporter, who asked not to be named, said his main reaction was relief because if Johnson had won the \"party would have torn itself apart\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Another Conservative lawmaker Lucy Allan said on Twitter: \"I backed Boris for PM, but I think he has done the right thing for the country.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Other Johnson backers immediately jumped ship.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Cabinet office minister Nadhim Zahawi, who minutes earlier had published an article on the Daily Telegraph website praising Johnson, said \"a day is a long time in politics\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Rishi is immensely talented, will command a strong majority in the parliamentary Conservative Party, and will have my full support and loyalty,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Earlier, many of the Conservative lawmakers who normally back Johnson switched their support to Sunak, saying the country needed a period of stability after months of turmoil that has sparked headlines - and raised alarm - around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Johnson is also still facing a privileges committee investigation into whether he misled parliament over Downing Street parties during Covid-19 lockdowns. He could be forced to resign or be suspended from office if found guilty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sunak first came to national attention when, aged 39, he became finance minister under Johnson just as the Covid-19 pandemic arrived in Britain, developing a furlough scheme to support millions of people through multiple lockdowns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I served as your chancellor, helping to steer our economy through the toughest of times,\" Sunak said in a statement on Sunday. \"The challenges we face now are even greater. But the opportunities - if we make the right choice - are phenomenal.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">If chosen, Sunak would be the first prime minister of Indian origin in the United Kingdom.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">His family migrated to Britain in the 1960s, a period when many people from Britain\'s former colonies arrived to help rebuild the country after the Second World War.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">After graduating from Oxford University, he later went to Stanford University where he met his wife Akshata Murthy, whose father is Indian billionaire N R Narayana Murthy, founder of outsourcing giant Infosys Ltd. Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-24 14:35:12', '2022-10-24 14:35:12'),
(2536, 2536, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox\'s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to lower local cautionary signal no. three but instead hoist local warning signal number four (r) four.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The deep depression over east central bay and adjoining area moved north-northwestwards and intensified into a cyclonic storm sitrang (pronounciation se-trang) over east central bay and adjoining west central bay, said in the latest bulletin (Serial number-6) of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) tonight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It was centered at 6 pm today about 770 kms southwest of Chattogram port, 710 kms southwest of Cox’s Bazar port, 700 kms south-southwest of Mongla port and 675 kms south southwest of Payra port.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It is likely to intensify further and move in a northerly direction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Maximum sustained wind speed within 54 kms of the cyclone centre isa about 62 kph rising to 88 kph in gusts or squalls. Sea will remain very rough near the cyclone centre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Under the peripheral effect of the cyclone north bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh are likely to be experienced of gusty squally wind speed or 40-50kphin addition to the heavy to very heavy rainfall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Under the peripheral effect of the cyclone, new moon phase and steep pressure gradient the low lying areas of the coastal districts of Satkhira, Khulna, Bagherhat, Jhalokathi, Pirojpur, Barguna, Patuakhali, Bhola, Barishal, Laxmipur, Chandpur Noakhali, Feni, Chattogram, Cox\'s bazar and their offshore islands and chars are likely to be inundated by the wind driven surge height of 05-07 feet above normal astronomical tide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">All fishing boats and trawlers over north bay and deep sea have been asked to remain in shelter further notice. 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, '2022-10-24 14:44:59', '2022-10-24 14:44:59'),
(2537, 2537, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Netherlands captain Tom Cooper won the toss and sent Bangladesh in to bat first as the Tigers begin their T20 World Cup campaign today by taking on Netherlands on a chilly afternoon at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Shakib Al Hasan and Co will be eager to clinch their first win in the main round of the T20 World Cup since 2007, but it won\'t be an easy task against an upbeat Netherlands side, who managed to qualify for the Super 12 stage following some hard-fought wins in the first round.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Netherlands skipper Scott Edwards: \"We\'ve seen throughout the first round that teams have done pretty well chasing, there\'s obviously a little bit of weather around as well, so that\'s what we\'re thinking. [Not content with just getting through?] The first goal was just to get through [to the Super 12s] and now it\'s about competing and winning some games of cricket.</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-24 14:53:45', '2022-10-24 14:53:56'),
(2538, 2538, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Russian warplane slammed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, killing both crewmembers, authorities said. It was the second time in less than a week that a combat jet crashed in a residential area in Russia.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Irkutsk region\'s governor, Igor Kobzev, said the Su-30 fighter jet came down on a private, two-story building housing two families. He said that there were no casualties on the ground as the building\'s five residents were out at the moment of the crash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said the residents would be offered temporary accommodation and compensation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known and an official probe has started. On Oct. 17, an Su-34 bomber crashed near an apartment building in the Sea of Azov port of Yeysk and exploded in a giant fireball, killing 15 and injuring another 19.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The crashes might reflect the growing strain that the fighting in Ukraine has put on the Russian air force.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The United Aircraft Corporation, a state-controlled conglomerate of Russian aircraft-making plants, said in a statement that the plane in Sunday\'s incident came down during a training flight before its delivery to the air force. The jet carried no weapons during the flight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Surveillance camera videos posted on Russian social networks showed the fighter in a nearly vertical dive and then exploding. Other videos showed the building engulfed by flames and firefighters deployed to extinguish the blaze.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Irkutsk, a major industrial center of more than 600,000 in eastern Siberia, is home to an aircraft factory producing Su-30s, a supersonic twin-engine, two-seat fighter that has been a key component of the Russian air force. China, India and many other countries also use the planes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sunday\'s crash was the 11th reported noncombat crash of a Russian warplane since Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights increased sharply during the fighting, so did the number of crashes. 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, '2022-10-24 15:12:53', '2022-10-24 15:12:53'),
(2539, 2539, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukraine has condemned unsubstantiated claims by Russia that Kyiv might use a \"dirty bomb\" - conventional explosives laced with radioactive material.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">President Volodymyr Zelensky said this meant Russia itself could be preparing an attack of this kind.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ukraine\'s allies also dismissed the claims, with the US saying it \"rejected any pretext for Russian escalation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu made the dirty bomb remarks in a call with his UK counterpart Ben Wallace.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said he was \"concerned about possible provocations by Kyiv involving the use of a dirty bomb\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Sunday, Mr Shoigu also held a flurry of phone calls with defence ministers of the US, France and Turkey, voicing Moscow\'s alarm. He provided no evidence to back up his accusations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Responding to this, President Zelensky accused Russia of being \"the source of everything dirty that can be imagined in this war\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said Russia was threatening the world \"with a radiation disaster\" at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant which it had captured and also spoke of Moscow\'s threats to detonate a major dam in southern Ukraine. The Kremlin denies the allegations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Ukrainian leader also stressed that \"the world should react in the toughest possible way\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile, Mr Wallace said he refuted Mr Shoigu\'s allegations that \"Ukraine was planning actions facilitated by Western countries, including the UK, to escalate the conflict in Ukraine\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He also cautioned that such claims \"should not be used as a pretext for greater escalation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Similar comments were made by the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, who spoke to Mr Shoigu on Sunday, in what was the second such phone call in days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">And in a joint statement, the foreign ministers of France, the UK and the US said their governments \"all reject Russia\'s transparently false allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own territory\", stressing that they would continue supporting Ukraine in \"the face of President [Vladimir] Putin\'s brutal war of aggression\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Military analysts note that the Russian accusations come after a string of heavy Russian military defeats and as Ukrainian troops continue their counter-offensive operations in the east and south of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a series of tweets that Mr Shoigu \"likely sought to slow or suspend Western military aid to Ukraine and possibly weaken the Nato alliance in scare-mongering calls\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, the ISW added: \"The Kremlin is unlikely to be preparing an imminent false-flag dirty bomb attack. Shoigu\'s claims further a longstanding Russian information campaign.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>In other developments on Sunday:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>&lt;&gt;</b>Ukraine\'s state energy company said it had partially restored electricity supplies following massive Russian missile and drone strikes</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>&lt;&gt;</b>Russia\'s RT state broadcaster said it was suspending its senior employee Anton Krasovsky, after he was heard saying in a TV programme that Ukrainian children should be drowned or burned to death</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>&lt;&gt; </b>Ukraine\'s security service SBU confirmed that Vyacheslav Bohuslayev, former head of the Motor Sich company, was arrested after being accused of illegally selling aviation engines to Russia. 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, '2022-10-24 15:20:06', '2022-10-24 15:20:06');
