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(4576, 4576, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2bn (£972m) in severance and reorganisation costs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that while customer spending had grown during Covid, more people were now choosing to \"exercise caution\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the firm would continue to hire in key areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breaking the news in a memo to staff, Mr Nadella said many parts of the world were in recession or anticipating one, while \"at the same time, the next major wave of computing is being born, with advances in AI\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft is considering a multi-billion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence company OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), according to the Financial Times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">We didn\'t have to wait very long for the next round of lay-offs from big tech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft is the latest but it won\'t be the last, as the giants seek to tighten their belts following the boom time of the pandemic, when lockdowns meant people were stuck at home, wanting to spend their cash on digital entertainment and devices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\'s not to say the sector is stagnating, though - reports suggest Microsoft is considering a $10bn investment in the company behind ChatGPT, the chatbot that\'s not only captivated the millions of people who have tried it out but is also predicted by some experts to be the future of search.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft knows from its search engine, Bing, that you only need a fraction of that market for it to prove very lucrative.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And let\'s not forget its proposed acquisition of the games giant Activision Blizzard, which would bring a whole new portfolio of high-profile gaming titles under its wing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\'s small comfort, though, for the thousands of staff facing redundancy in the early days of 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">2px presentational grey line</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of tech firms, including some of the sector\'s biggest names like Amazon and Instagram-owner Meta, have revealed lay-offs in recent weeks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the start of this year, Amazon announced that it planned to cut more than 18,000 jobs because of \"the uncertain economy\" and rapid hiring during the pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November, Meta announced that it would cut 13% of its workforce, a total of 11,000 employees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Jason Wong, a tech industry analyst with consultants Gartner, warned against assuming redundancies in \"enterprise\" businesses like Microsoft and Amazon happened for the same reasons as the cuts by big social media firms, some of which had faced additional challenges because of \"where they intend to take the business\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case of Twitter, that was moving to \"a model away from pure advertising\", and for Facebook he pointed to its pursuit of the metaverse.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like other tech companies, Microsoft\'s business boomed during the pandemic, fuelled by the increase in remote work and other online activity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its workforce grew by roughly 40,000 between June 2021 and June 2022, when it reported having about 221,000 full-time employees, including 99,000 outside the US.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As business slowed last year, the firm embarked on a series of job cuts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest 10,000 are expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The memo said some staff would be notified immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Nadella promised to \"treat our people with dignity and respect and act transparently\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 1,000 tech companies laid off 154,336 employees in 2022 alone, according to Layoffs.fyi which tracks redundancies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, including the latest Microsoft losses, the site says 26,061 tech sector employees have already been made redundant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experts say there is still demand for job hunters with the right skills, particularly engineers experienced in AI and data science.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Kevin Poulter, an employment lawyer at law firm Freeths, warns \"employees affected by these cuts may struggle to secure alternative work in light of similar reductions already announced across Meta, Amazon, Salesforce and across the wider tech sector\". 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(4577, 4577, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former President Donald Trump said he has never read any part of a book in which the columnist E. Jean Carroll accused him of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, according to court records unsealed Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump was questioned under oath in October by lawyers for Carroll, who is suing the Republican. During his 5 1/2-hour deposition, Trump said he hasn\'t read Carroll\'s book, “What Do We Need Men For?\" and didn\'t see excerpts of it in a New York magazine article when the book was released in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Portions of the transcript of Trump\'s deposition were ordered unsealed in court records by a judge who would preside over a trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carroll, a former longtime Elle magazine advice columnist, accused Trump in the book of attacking her in an upscale Manhattan department store in late 1995 or early 1996 after they ran into each other by chance and exchanged lighthearted banter about who should try on a piece of lingerie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the book was published, Trump said the encounter never happened and claimed Carroll was making it up to fuel book sales. He also said he had never met Carroll and dismissed her as “not my type.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said a photograph showing him with Carroll and both of their spouses at an event in 1987 was apparently an unmemorable encounter on a receiving line.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carroll\'s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, asked Trump if he read the book or any portion of it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“No, never have. I’ve never seen the book actually,” he responded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kaplan also asked Trump about the black and white photograph that shows him with Carroll, her husband, and Trump\'s then-wife, Ivana Trump, who died last July at age 73.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump pointed at Carroll in the picture and said: “It\'s Marla.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“You\'re saying Marla is in this photo?” Kaplan asked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“That\'s Marla, yeah. That\'s my wife,” Trump answered, according to the transcript, apparently referring to Marla Maples, who he married several years after the picture was taken.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump\'s attorney, Alina Habba, interjected to say: “No, that\'s Carroll.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Oh, I see,” Trump then said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The transcript excerpts in four dozen pages released Wednesday came a week after several dozen other pages were unsealed by the court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Habba did not immediately comment Wednesday. Kaplan declined comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deposition was recorded on video, but the recording was not put in the public record for two lawsuits seeking unspecified damages that Carroll has brought against Trump.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carroll first sued him for defamation, saying his statements damaged her reputation. In November, she brought a separate lawsuit specifying that she is owed damages for rape, a legal road made possible when New York state enacted a temporary law allowing adult rape victims to sue their abusers, even if the attacks occurred decades ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the pages unsealed Wednesday, Kaplan asked Trump if he was talking about Carroll\'s physical appearance in pictures when he said she was not his type.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Physically she’s not my type, and now that I’ve gotten indirectly to hear things about her, she wouldn’t be my type in any way, shape, or form,” he said, calling her accusation “ridiculous.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late in the deposition after Trump characterized Carroll as a “sick woman,” Kaplan confronted him with accusations that two dozen women have made against him, asking: “They\'re all sick, too, right?”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump answered: “I don’t know about any of these people or very many of them. I mean, every once in a while, you get — I think a lot of famous people have charges thrown at them, and many of them are false and some of them are true. But in my case —”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“None of it is true?” Kaplan interrupted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I would say. I mean, I don’t see any. I mean, you haven’t shown me anything,” Trump responded, according to the transcript. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 03:04:44', '2023-01-19 03:04:44'),
(4578, 4578, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A lawyer for angry Tesla investors told a California courtroom on Wednesday that CEO Elon Musk \"lied\" about having funding in place to take the company private, costing his clients millions of dollars.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than four years after Musk fired off tweets saying he had funding secured to buy the electric car maker at $420 a share, investors who felt burned by the misleading statements began to make their case in the San Francisco court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tweets in the summer of 2018 sent the Tesla share price on a rollercoaster ride and Musk was sued by shareholders who say the tycoon acted recklessly in an effort to squeeze investors who had bet against the company.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Elon Musk, Tesla\'s chair and chief executive, lied,\" said attorney Nicholas Porritt, who represents Glen Littleton and other investors in the automaker.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And his lies cost regular people like Glen Littleton to lose millions and millions of dollars,\" Porritt added in opening remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Called as the first witness, 71-year-old Littleton told jurors he was heavily invested in Tesla in 2018 in a way that banked on the share price climbing to $500 or more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Littleton testified that he was \"pretty shocked\" by Musk\'s tweet about taking the company private at $420 a share because it threatened almost all the money he had invested in Tesla.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was going to pretty much wipe me out,\" Littleton said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Littleton told jurors he scrambled \"in a fog of war\" to save what he could of his investments, getting out of most of his positions at a huge loss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fraud trial had opened Tuesday with the selection of a nine-person jury, and is expected to last three weeks. Musk is scheduled to take the stand, possibly as early as Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk denies he was being deceitful and his lawyers are expected to call on witnesses to vouch for his plans at the time, including testimony from Musk\'s friend and fellow billionaire Larry Ellison.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Not fraud\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case revolves around a pair of tweets in which Musk said \"funding secured\" for a project to buy out the publicly-traded electric automaker, then in a second tweet added that \"investor support is confirmed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Porritt told jurors that Musk had selected the $420 share price in the tweet \"as a joke\" and that the funding to take Tesla private was never locked in, nor credibly pursued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his own opening remarks, Musk attorney Alex Spiro said that even though the tweets may have been a \"reckless choice of words\", they were \"not fraud, not even close.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What Mr. Musk was communicating in those tweets was that Mr. Musk was serious about taking Tesla private,\" Spiro told jurors, adding that anything more detailed or official \"would have had the same effect on the market.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trial comes at a sensitive time for Musk, who has dominated the headlines in recent months for his chaotic takeover of Twitter where the entrepreneur laid off more than half of the 7,500 employees and downsized content moderation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tesla\'s share price has plummeted with investors accusing Musk of spending too much time on Twitter when the car company faces new challenges, including a slumping economy and the arrival of new rivals on the electric car market. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 03:46:15', '2023-01-19 03:46:15'),
(4579, 4579, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A system that allows big corporations to buy carbon offsets in rain forests to cancel out their harmful emissions is essentially \"worthless,\" an analysis by several media organisations showed Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buying carbon credits by financing projects to protect rainforests has become a popular way for companies to claim they are carbon neutral, even though their activities generate gases that cause global warming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, some 90 percent of credits offered by the world\'s leading provider, Verra, are likely \"phantom credits,\" said the study by British newspaper The Guardian, German weekly Die Zeit and SourceMaterial, a nonprofit investigative journalism organisation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their nine-month investigation, including an analysis of existing studies into Verra\'s rainforest schemes and on the ground reporting, found that the offsets largely did not lead to effective reductions in deforestation or any climate benefit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Only a handful of Verra\'s rainforest projects showed evidence of deforestation reductions, according to two studies, with further analysis indicating that 94 percent of the credits had no benefit to the climate,\" said The Guardian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Verra, the world\'s largest carbon credit provider that has issued over one billion carbon credits since 2009, wrote on its website that the studies cited had reached \"incorrect conclusions.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said their methodology did not account for \"project-specific factors that cause deforestation.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To generate a \"carbon credit,\" a project must be implemented to protect a part of a rainforest and ensure it is not felled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, the area saved corresponds to an amount of carbon those trees are able to absorb from the atmosphere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A company can buy credits to offset its emissions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Companies like Verra are supposed to ensure that the projects they invest in are real and effective, however questions have long hung over the methodology used to determine this.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Verra said it has \"recently\" reviewed its calculation methods and is in the process of standardising its methodology. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 03:51:17', '2023-01-19 03:51:17'),
(4580, 4580, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police arrested two people and seized 20 gold bars from Sitakunda in Chattogram district on Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrestees were identified as Basu Pal, 35, son of Sunil Pal of Anwara upazila, and Ratan Pal, 60, son of Shashank Pal of Bashkhali upazila.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tofayel Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda Police Station, said suspecting the movement of two people, police challenged them in front of Shyamoli Paribahan bus counter in the morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, police recovered 20 gold bars, weighing 2332.11 grams, from their shoes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After interrogation, police came to know that they were waiting for a bus to go to Dhaka to sell the gold bars.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The market value of the seized gold bars is Tk 1.70 crore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case was filed with Sitakunda Police Station. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 04:17:55', '2023-01-19 04:17:55'),
(4581, 4581, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Japan logged its largest ever annual trade deficit last year, with the soaring price of energy and raw materials compounded by the dramatic fall of the yen.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resource-poor country is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels, which became sharply more expensive last year, largely due to Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2022, the value of imports was 19.97 trillion yen ($155 billion) higher than exports -- Japan\'s largest ever deficit. Comparable data has been available since 1979.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reading also marked a jump from Japan\'s previous record trade deficit of 12.82 trillion yen in 2014.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan has stopped Russian oil imports in reaction to the war in Ukraine, but it still buys coal and natural gas from the country, and its LNG imports from Russia rose more than four percent in 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The yen also hit multi-decade lows against the dollar last year, prompting expensive government interventions to prop up the currency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Driven down by the gap in monetary policy between Japan and other countries, the weaker yen inflated profits for exporters but ramped up the price of imports like energy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taro Saito, executive research fellow at NLI Research Institute, said Japan would continue to see large trade deficits in the near term.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While exports are expected to slump on the back of a slowing overseas economy, the value of imports should also ease after the yen\'s slide takes a breather,\" he wrote in a report published after the data\'s release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The trade deficit is expected to gradually fall while remaining at a high level.\" 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, '2023-01-19 04:56:31', '2023-01-19 04:56:31'),
(4582, 4582, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hashim Amla ended his 22-year playing career on Wednesday, with his legacy secure as one of South Africa\'s all-time cricketing greats.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">English county Surrey announced they had been informed by Amla, 39, that he would not be returning as a player this year after helping the side to win the English county championship in 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surrey\'s director of cricket Alec Stewart lauded Amla for his \"phenomenal career\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He will quite rightly go down as a great of the game. Hashim is a fantastic cricketer and a wonderful person... Everyone at Surrey wishes him the best in the future,\" Stewart said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amla was a key member of one of South Africa\'s most powerful teams when they clinched the Test championship mace with a series win in England in 2012.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Batting in a line-up which included captain Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers, Amla made a South African record 311 not out in the first Test at The Oval in London. It remains South Africa\'s only triple century in Tests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was one of Amla\'s 28 centuries in a 124-match Test career during which he scored 9,282 runs at an average of 46.64.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had an even better average in one-day internationals, hitting 27 centuries in 181 matches and scoring 8,113 runs at 49.46.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Stylish -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amla spent much of his Test career batting at number three but opened the batting in one-day games, setting records for reaching each thousand-run milestone between 2,000 and 7,000 in the fewest innings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made his first-class debut for a Kwa-Zulu-Natal team, against the touring England team, as a 16-year-old in December 1999 and made his Test debut against India in Kolkata five years later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He struggled at the start of his Test career and was criticised for a notably angled backlift.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made what he described as minor adjustments to his technique and became one of the most stylish players in world cricket with his fluent cover driving and wristy leg-side strokes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amla captained South Africa in 14 Tests but never seemed fully at ease in the role and resigned midway through a series against England in 2015/16 after scoring a double century in a high-scoring draw at Newlands in Cape Town.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He retired from international cricket after the 2019 Cricket World Cup and did not play in South African domestic cricket after the 2018/19 season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he continued to be a prolific run-scorer for Surrey, scoring 1,712 runs at an average of 48.91 in his last two seasons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amla is currently a batting consultant with the MI Cape Town franchise in the SA20 league. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 05:07:28', '2023-01-19 05:07:28'),
(4583, 4583, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">American reality television star and social media colossus Kim Kardashian has purchased the Attallah Cross, the amethyst and diamond pendant famously worn on several occasions by Princess Diana, according to the auction house Sotheby\'s.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The piece, made in the 1920s by the British jeweller Garrard, sold for 163,800 pounds ($202,300) during the auction house\'s \"Royal and Noble\" sale in London on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pendant -- which Diana notably wore to a 1987 charity gala -- fetched more than twice the pre-auction minimum estimate, with Sotheby\'s confirming it was bought by a representative on behalf of Kardashian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Jewellery owned or worn by the late Princess Diana very rarely comes on to the market, especially a piece such as the Attallah Cross, which is so colourful, bold and distinctive,\" Sotheby\'s Kristian Spofforth said before the sale.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"To some extent, this unusual pendant is symbolic of the princess\'s growing self-assurance in her sartorial and jewellery choices, at that particular moment in her life.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pendant will not be the first piece of fashion history to cross paths with Kardashian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, the 42-year-old made headlines for attending the Met Gala in the very dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she serenaded then-president John F Kennedy on his birthday in 1962.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kardashian was initially accused of having damaged the screen legend\'s gown, but Los Angeles-based museum Ripley\'s Believe It or Not!, which owns the piece, denied the allegations. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 05:23:08', '2023-01-19 05:23:08'),
(4584, 4584, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The air quality in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka is deemed \'unhealthy\' this morning (January 19, 2023).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 194 at 9:10 am on Thursday, Dhaka ranked fifth in the list of world cities with worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s Delhi and Mumbai occupied the first and third places with AQI of 250 and 199 respectively.&nbsp; Kyrgyzstan’ Bishkek ranked second in the list with AQI of 209.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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;\">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, '2023-01-19 05:51:04', '2023-01-19 05:51:04'),
(4585, 4585, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Kishwar Chowdhury – the Australian cook of Bangladeshi origin, who placed third in the most popular reality show on food, MasterChef Australia, and won the hearts of Bengalis worldwide for putting everyday Bangladeshi home-cooked food under the limelight – recently met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Posting photos with the Bangladesh PM and her sister on her Facebook page yesterday, Kishwar shared the experience she called “one I’ll remember for years to come.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I had the immense privilege of being invited into the home of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and creating some signature dishes that reflected my visits during winters in Bangladesh,” she wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“What I thought would be a quick meet and greet, turned into long conversations over several cups of cha, ‘Tungipara Roshogolla’ and my first time trying ‘Mukhsolli Piththa’.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also read: Masterchef Australia finalist Kishwar honoured by Australian High Commission</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It was an incredible experience sharing food, learning heritage family recipes and hearing stories of a bygone era of the lived history from two sisters who, despite having lived through so much, hold food, family and heritage at the very heart of their home,” Kishwar added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“As I left with gifts of home grown varieties of Bangladeshi rice, mustard field honey, sesame oil and homemade ‘ghee’, I was told that ‘It’s always a proud moment to see our girls doing so well’,” reads the Facebook post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Coming from the longest serving female Prime Minister in history, I have to say, I felt quite humbled. My travels always bring me unexpected experiences that linger long after I’ve come home…and this short week in Dhaka has been one I’ll remember for years to come,” she wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bengalis worldwide cheered on when Kishwar served her interpretation of the quintessential Bangladeshi humble food “panta bhaat-aloo bhorta” to the judges in the MasterChef Australia grand finale. She may not have won the ultimate prize but for Bangladeshis, she had already won. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 06:03:32', '2023-01-19 06:03:32'),
(4586, 4586, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over parts of Bangladesh. The country’s lowest temperature in 24 hours -- till 6 am today -- was recorded at 6 degree Celsius in Badalgachhi of Naogaon district, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The highest temperature was recorded at 28.4 degree Celsius in Teknaf during this period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BMD in its bulletin said, a mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over Rangpur, Rajshahi and Mymensingh divisions and the districts of Tangail, Faridpur, Rangamati, Cumilla, Moulvibazar, Chuadanga and Kushtia, and it may continue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere over the country from midnight till morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy skies over the country. Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, 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, '2023-01-19 06:57:46', '2023-01-19 06:57:46'),
(4587, 4587, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Somoy TV journalist has filed a complaint against Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists for “assaulting” him when he was covering the party’s rally held in Nayapaltan, Dhaka on January 16, 2023.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the complaint filed with Paltan Model Police Station, he also said “the unruly mob damaged a drone being used to record the turnout at the rally, and snatched his personal belongings.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Somoy TV journalist, Mobarak Hossain Shuvo, claimed that Monir Chairman, president of Kamrangir Char unit of BNP; Nayem, general secretary of the same unit; and around 60 unidentified activists started verbally abusing him when he was recording the BNP rally with a drone and tried to take it away. When Shuvo resisted, they swooped on him and beat him up, the complaint says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Later, he was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he received initial treatment, he says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Earlier, ahead of BNP’s divisional rally in Rajshahi on December 3, 2022, the party’s move of putting photos of Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman on press cards triggered criticism from local journalists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Some journalists posted on social media, criticizing the party for using Tarique Rahman’s photo on the press card, as he is a “convicted fugitive”. 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, '2023-01-19 07:11:48', '2023-01-19 07:11:48'),
(4588, 4588, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An overnight fire that broke out in the barracks of an Armenian military unit left 15 servicemen dead and three others in serious condition, the country\'s defence ministry said Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"According to preliminary information, 15 servicemen were killed as a result of a fire that broke out in the barracks of an engineer and sniper company of a military unit... and the condition of three servicemen is assessed as serious,\" the ministry said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the ministry, the fire broke out at around 01:30 am on Thursday (2130 GMT Wednesday) in the village of Azat in Armenia\'s eastern Gegharkunik region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the cause of the fire was not yet established.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last August, more than a dozen people were killed in an explosion and subsequent fire at a busy market in Armenia\'s capital Yerevan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Caucasus nation of around three million people is still recovering from a 2020 war with Azerbaijan, which ended in a heavy defeat and sparked a political crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the end of the large-scale fighting, tensions persist between the ex-Soviet rivals over their borders. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 07:28:17', '2023-01-19 07:28:17');
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(4589, 4589, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Weight loss can be a challenging and overwhelming process, but it doesn\'t have to be. With the right knowledge and approach, anyone can achieve their weight loss goals. Unfortunately, there are many myths and misconceptions surrounding weight loss that can make the process even harder. </span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many people are led to believe that crash diets, extreme calorie restriction and skipping meals are the key to weight loss, but in reality, these methods can be dangerous and ineffective in the long term. The truth is that weight loss is a complex process that involves a combination of healthy eating, regular exercise, and a healthy lifestyle. By understanding the truth about weight loss, you can make informed decisions and develop a sustainable plan that works for you.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fitness trainer and transformation coach, Mics Botma, shared five weight loss myths that can affect your weight loss journey.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Crabs make you fat</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Our bodies don\'t need carbohydrates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Carbohydrates make you fat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• It\'s better to eat carbs in the morning so you can burn them off.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Our organs require glucose and the easiest way for our bodies to receive this is through carbs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Any variety of food can make you fat if it results in you being in surplus calories.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Common sense would make it seem like you need the most carbs in the morning to energize you for the day, but the truth is the time in which you eat carbs does not affect fat loss as long as calories are controlled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Spot-reducing fat</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Training a specific muscle will result in fat loss</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Doing 100 sit-ups will get you abs</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• You can thin down your legs alone to get a thigh gap</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Fat and muscle are two different components of the body. It\'s like trying to turn water into wine. The bottom line is doing several abs or leg exercises will not make you leaner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• You don\'t get to decide where the fat is going to come off from first. All you can do is allow the body to take its course and if you\'re patient enough the stubborn fat areas will eventually disappear too.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• You can do exercises to build muscle which will improve your body composition once you\'ve lost fat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. You need to detox</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• You can lose up to 5kgs of fat per week while detox dieting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Detoxes will remove all the toxins from your body.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• I always feel better after I\'ve done a detox.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• When detox dieting the weight loss is actually water retention not fat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Many herbal detox products boast a variety of claims, such as that they regulate blood sugar levels, decrease bloating and acne, and increase energy levels. But there is no science to support any of this.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• You may feel better after detox dieting because you have been consuming little junk food compared to before.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. Eat often</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Eating frequent meals will speed up your metabolism</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Eating frequently helps you lose weight faster</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• If you don\'t eat carbs every few hours your brain will stop functioning</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• The body does expend calories digesting food but nowhere near as much as the calories you\'re actually consuming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Meal timing does not affect fat loss, all that matters is your daily calorie intake.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">5. Crash diets</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Crash diets and extreme calorie restrictions are effective for long-term weight loss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Crash diets and extreme calorie restriction can lead to rapid weight loss, but this weight is often regained once the diet is over.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• These types of diets often involve cutting out entire food groups or drastically reducing calorie intake, which can lead to nutrient deficiencies, muscle loss, and a slowed metabolism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Additionally, these diets are not sustainable in the long-term and can lead to a cycle of yo-yo dieting, which can be harmful to both physical and mental health.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">6. Skipping meals</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Skipping meals helps you lose weight</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Truth</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Skipping meals can actually slow down your metabolism and make it harder to lose weight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• When you skip meals, your body goes into \"starvation mode,\" which means it will start to conserve energy and slow down your metabolism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Skipping meals can lead to overeating later in the day, which can counteract any potential weight loss. 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(4590, 4590, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Biman Bangladesh Airlines will use its own aircraft this year for operating Hajj flights instead of leasing planes.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“As we don’t benefit from the leasing process, we have decided to use our own aircraft for Hajj flights,” Shafiul Azim, CEO and managing director of the national flag carrier, told UNB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Mecca Route Initiative agreement to make Bangladeshi pilgrims\' journey easier: Shahriar</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biman authorities discussed the decision at an inter-ministerial meeting on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are preparing in advance to ensure smooth operation of Hajj flights,” the Biman CEO said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision follows the airline’s experience from last year’s Hajj flights. It used four of its widebody planes for last year’s Hajj flights.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Md. Faridul Haq Khan, state minister for religious affairs, told UNB that Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudia Airlines will carry 50 percent of Hajj pilgrims each this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“According to the Saudi-Bangladesh Hajj Treaty of 2023, Bangladeshi pilgrims can perform Hajj this year as per full quota,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that Hajj packages will be announced by January 25–30.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to a question about package prices, he said prices will not be increased this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Passengers may have to spend a slightly higher amount for the increased dollar price, however,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 1,27,198 Bangladeshis can perform Hajj this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faridul Haq Khan also said the age limit has been withdrawn and Bangladeshis over the age of 65 can perform Hajj this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pre-arrival immigration for all Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims will be completed in Dhaka under the ‘Road to Makkah’ agreement. However, the Saudi authorities may decide to reduce the permitted number of pilgrims if the Covid-19 situation worsens, he concluded. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 08:57:20', '2023-01-19 08:57:20'),
(4591, 4591, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A polar bear killed a young woman and her baby son in a remote area of Alaska, police said, in a rare attack by an animal battling the worst effects of human-caused climate change.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Police said the bear roamed into the tiny community of Wales on the far western coast of America\'s wildest state, where it began chasing people.</div><div><br></div><div>It set upon 24-year-old Summer Myomick and her one-year-old son Clyde Ongtowasruk near the community\'s school, state troopers said.</div><div><br></div><div>A local resident shot and killed the animal during the attack, but the mauling was so severe that mother and baby perished, they said of Tuesday\'s tragedy.</div><div><br></div><div>Troopers and Fish and Game Department authorities were trying to reach the town \"as weather conditions allow,\" they added.</div><div><br></div><div>Wales, a village of about 150 people on the Bering Strait that separates the United States from Russia, is part of the Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council, a group of Indigenous communities that have traditionally hunted polar bears for subsistence.</div><div><br></div><div>Satellite images show a desolate environment with just a few dozen low-rise buildings, mostly huddled along the seashore.</div><div><br></div><div>As well as a small post office, there is an airstrip, and what appears to be a single road leading out of the village.</div><div><br></div><div>- Climate change -</div><div>Geoff York, senior director of conservation at Polar Bears International, an NGO specializing in the animal said a deadly episode like this was highly unusual.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s very rare for a polar bear to attack and kill a person historically, anywhere across the Arctic,\" he told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s even more rare for that to happen in the middle of January in the high Arctic, where there\'s plenty of sea ice and polar bears are typically out... hunting seals.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The NGO said only 20 people worldwide are known to have been killed by polar bears between 1870 and 2014, though the frequency of attacks is increasing.</div><div><br></div><div>The giant bears -- males can grow up to 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) -- face increasing threats from climate change, with their Arctic sea ice habitat disappearing as the planet\'s far north warms four times faster than the rest of the world.</div><div><br></div><div>This climate change, driven by humanity\'s voracious use of planet-warming fossil fuels, \"is causing an increase in human-polar bear interaction across the Arctic,\" York said.</div><div><br></div><div>Historically, most polar bear attacks on humans have happened between late July and early December, a time when there is less ice around.</div><div><br></div><div>Bears at either end of their lives are more likely to be aggressive to humans.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bears that are either young... and very ravenously hungry all the time because their body is requiring that energy for growth, or... bears that are maybe reaching the end of their life and are having trouble... competing with other bears for good areas to hunt,\" York said.</div><div><br></div><div>Some Arctic communities employ polar bear patrols to protect residents from the animals, though one was not currently in operation in Wales, according to the Anchorage Daily News. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 09:49:58', '2023-01-19 09:49:58'),
(4592, 4592, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Usain Bolt, Jamaica\'s Olympic sprinting legend, has lost millions of dollars he had in his account with Kingston-based investment firm Stocks and Securities Ltd.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lawyers for the track and field star have stated that the $12 million has vanished from his account with a Jamaican investment firm and that they are prepared to take the case to court if necessary. Only $12,000 is left in the account now.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The account was part of Bolt\'s retirement and lifetime savings,\" his lawyer, Linton P. Gordon, told Fortune magazine over the phone.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s distressing news for anyone, and certainly in the case of Mr. Bolt, who established this account as part of his private pension,\" Gordon said on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We will be going to court with the matter\" if the company does not return the funds, Gordon said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is a grave disappointment, and we are hoping that the matter will be resolved in a way that Mr. Bolt will recover his money and be able to live in peace.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Kingston-based Stocks and Securities Ltd (SSL) said in a January 12 statement that it had become aware of fraudulent activity by a former employee and has referred the matter to law enforcement, adding that it had taken steps to secure assets and strengthen protocols.</div><div><br></div><div>The Jamaica Constabulary Force said on Monday that its fraud and financial investigation teams were probing \"alleged fraudulent activities at (SSL) which are said to have affected the accounts of Mr. Usain Bolt among other individuals.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Finance Minister Nigel Clarke said on Tuesday night that SSL had allegedly committed \"alarming and evil fraud\" and that authorities would \"bring all perpetrators to justice.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Bolt\'s account was intended to serve as a pension for the eight-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter and for his parents, Gordon said.</div><div><br></div><div>Bolt retired in 2017 after dominating global sprinting for a decade, reviving a sport plagued by doping scandals and becoming a household name like Brazilian soccer legend Pele and American boxing champion Muhammad Ali. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 10:16:43', '2023-01-19 10:16:43'),
(4593, 4593, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday that Türkiye\'s request for F-16 fighter jets and Sweden and Finland\'s NATO bids are “not related.”</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking to reporters following a meeting with his US counterpart Antony Blinken, Cavusoglu said the US Congress should not portray these separate issues as related.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We say that these two different issues should not be related to each other,\" he stressed.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids were never raised as a “precondition” in the F-16 sales process.</div><div><br></div><div>If the (Biden) administration stands firm, this issue would be resolved,” Cavusoglu said.</div><div><br></div><div>Last October, Ankara made a request to Washington for 40 F-16 jets and modernization kits, while the State Department last week informally notified Congress of the potential sale.</div><div><br></div><div>Calling his meeting with Blinken “fruitful,” Cavusoglu said Türkiye proposed the US to hold “Türkiye-US Strategic Mechanism” meetings at least twice yearly.</div><div><br></div><div>He said he also invited Blinken to visit Türkiye and attend the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in March.​​​​​​​</div><div><br></div><div>Asked about the sale of F-35 jets to Greece, the Turkish foreign minister said the US policy of balance between Türkiye and Greece has “deteriorated.”</div><div><br></div><div>Recalling the decision by the US to lift an arms embargo on the Greek Cypriot administration, he said: “Greek Cypriots will be able to buy weapons from the US. Against whom will it buy? Against the Turkish Cypriots, against Türkiye.”</div><div><br></div><div>Cavusoglu met Wednesday in Washington, D.C. with Blinken to discuss bilateral relations, the sale of F-16 fighter jets and regional issues.</div><div><br></div><div>The two top diplomats sat down together in the US capital as part of Türkiye-US Strategic Mechanism meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>The mechanism was launched last April following a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Rome.</div><div><br></div><div>Erdogan and Biden agreed to establish a mechanism that promotes high-level dialogue and addresses issues on which Türkiye and the US do not fully agree, along with issues they are working on.</div><div><br></div><div>A day before Cavusoglu’s meeting, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal and US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland held consultations within the framework of the mechanism.</div><div><br></div><div>Cavusoglu and Blinken last year held bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York and NATO summit in Romania, but this is Cavusoglu’s first official visit to Washington.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish-US relations have been strained in recent years due to US support for the YPG/PKK terrorist group in northern Syria and disagreements over Türkiye’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defense system in 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2019, under then-President Donald Trump, the US removed Türkiye from the F-35 joint strike fighter program over Ankara\'s purchase of an S-400. Ankara has repeatedly underlined that the S-400 poses no risk to the F-35s.​​​​​​​</div><div><br></div><div>In recent months, top US officials have praised Türkiye’s mediation efforts between Russia and Ukraine and its role in brokering last summer’s landmark grain deal which allowed millions of tons of Ukrainian grain to be transported to many countries, easing the global food crisis. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​- Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 10:32:21', '2023-01-19 10:32:21'),
(4594, 4594, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon the public universities to raise their own funds through the alumni associations for their own development and welfare programmes&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Every university has an alumni association and through this they can create their own funds for the development of universities and the implementation of projects for the welfare of students,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier made this call while the members of the Standing Committee of Bangladesh University Parishad (Bangladesh University Council) comprising vice chancellors of various public universities,</div><div>called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div>After the meeting, Prime Minister\'s Deputy Press Secretary KM Sakhawat Moon briefed the reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>Placing importance on maintaining good relations with students&nbsp; the PM said, besides studies students should be made useful for the development of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>“Students of Bangladesh are very talented, if they are given a little chance, they can bring a higher degree from abroad after completing their university studies,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>To this end, she called upon the university teachers to be more responsible and attentive to make the students suitable.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that to fulfill the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to build a golden Bengal, golden boys and girls should be raised in the universities.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said that university students should be involved in sports, cultural activities and creative activities in addition to studies so that they stay away from terrorism and militancy.</div><div><br></div><div>For this purpose,&nbsp; Hasina urged to take the initiative to start the inter-university sports competition again.</div><div><br></div><div>She recalled that once upon a time there was rampant use of weapons in university shootings, but after Awami League came to power, there is no clanking of weapons and terrorism and militancy in the country have been suppressed with a firm hand.</div><div><br></div><div>Pointing out that the government has given importance to the development of the skills of the youth, she said that steps have been taken to ensure that the youth can become entrepreneurs and provide jobs to others instead of chasing jobs after studying.</div><div><br></div><div>PM Hasina said that whenever Awami League comes to power, the rate and quality of education in the country increases.</div><div><br></div><div>In this context, she mentioned that her government has given importance to development of education, research, production and excellence as well as skill development.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, the prime minister said that the government is gradually moving the country towards industrialization by maintaining the balance of the environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said that the government has developed Digital Bangladesh under the guidance of her information and communication technology advisor Sajib Wazed Joy.</div><div><br></div><div>She expressed her determination to build a developed, prosperous and smart Bangladesh in 2041 by maintaining this continuity of development.</div><div><br></div><div>In the event, the vice-chancellors of&nbsp; government universities raised various problems of their respective universities and the PM gave a patient hearing with assurance to solve those&nbsp; gradually. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 11:41:28', '2023-01-19 11:41:28'),
(4595, 4595, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price has said that Washington wants to see Pakistan in \"an economically sustainable position\" and Pakistan\'s macroeconomic stability is a matter of discussion within the US government.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The statement came during Wednesday\'s briefing in response to a question regarding the United States having suggestions for Pakistan to deal with the dearth of forex reserves and stabilise its economy.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Depleting foreign exchange reserves and worsening political crisis have put the Shehhbaz Sharif-led government in a difficult position as the International Monetary Fund\'s (IMF) conditions are proving a bitter pill for the administration but there’s no way out other than implementing the reforms demanded by the lender of the last resort.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Pakistan’s macroeconomic stability is a topic of conversation between the Department of State and our counterparts - the White House, the Treasury Department - among others,\" he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The spokesperson further added that the US is \"attuned\" to Pakistan\'s economic challenges and knows that the country is working with the IMF and other multilateral creditors.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that the US is supportive of Pakistan wherever possible, however, the authorities in Islamabad and the international financial institutions are the key players in the relief talks.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We want to see Pakistan in an economically sustainable position. Those conversations, as I understand [them], are ongoing. We are supportive where we can be of our Pakistani partners, but ultimately these are conversations between Pakistan and international financial institutions,\" Price maintained.</div><div><br></div><div>The spokesperson further stated that the conversations between Pakistani authorities and the US treasury department \"often do entail technical issues\".</div><div><br></div><div>It should be noted that the US government and other friendly nations have advised Pakistan to introduce reforms as sought by the international institutions to achieve economic growth and have tied monetary assistance with the revival of the IMF programme that has been stalled since September 2022. - International The News</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 12:22:30', '2023-01-19 12:22:30'),
(4596, 4596, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Eggs have become costlier by Tk 30-35 to Tk 140 per dozen compared with prices two weeks ago in yet another blow to the consumers, especially the lower income people.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Eggs, the most affordable source of protein for lower-income people, are getting pricier at a time when they are struggling with higher cost of living.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, this correspondent visited a number of kitchen markets in the capital city to find that depending on the size and quality, a dozen of farm chicken eggs are being sold at Tk 140 to Tk 150.&nbsp; In some places the asking price was even Tk 155 per dozen. The same eggs are sold at super shops at Tk 170-180 per dozen.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, duck eggs are being sold at Tk 80 per hali ( 4 pieces), and domestic chicken eggs are being sold at Tk60-65 per hali.</div><div><br></div><div>A week ago the farm eggs were sold at Tk105 per dozen in the first week of the current month, while domestic chicken eggs sold at Tk 55-60 per hali, and duck eggs at Tk60-65 per hali.</div><div><br></div><div>The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), responsible for consumer market monitoring, has acknowledged the price hike of all kinds of eggs.</div><div><br></div><div>The market monitoring cell of TCB reports that the egg price increased by Tk 8 to 10 per hali so far in January, compared with the price beginning of this month.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Egg Producers Association president Taher Ahmed Siddiqi told UNB that the demand for eggs usually increases in winter, while production has become stagnant.</div><div><br></div><div>Many farms were forced to shut their operations during the pandemic-induced lockdown, and are still closed due to the higher cost of production, and lower prices of eggs.</div><div><br></div><div>Production costs have risen by 70-80 percent in one and a half years amid a tectonic surge in feed prices, discouraging many to do trading amid the risk of losses.</div><div><br></div><div>Consumers Association of Bangladesh vice-president SM Nazer Hossain said consumers in Bangladesh are passing a hard time amid record price up of commodities for higher inflation, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Farm egg, broiler chicken, and cultured fish are key protein sources for millions of poor in the country, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Prices of all such products have increased forcing a vast population to cut their protein and other nutrition-rich food intake, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 13:58:55', '2023-01-19 13:58:55'),
(4597, 4597, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the talks of democracy do not match the leaders of BNP.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"How will those who do not have democracy in their own party bring democracy to the country?\" he told a press conference after attending the board meeting of Bangladesh Bridge Authority at Setu Bhaban, Banani, in the capital.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Quader said democracy was unchained a long ago under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and that is why BNP does not need to rescue it.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"They (BNP leaders) should remember how much importance they gave to democracy during their reign,\" he added.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>He said Aziz-mark Commission (election commission), Magura by-polls, the February 15 election and Dhaka-10 by-polls and creating one crore fake voters in 2006 reveal that the BNP does not believe in democracy and the party killed it. \"You know the record\".</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Noting that if there is a Nobel Prize in falsehood, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir would have won it, the AL general secretary said BNP lied over the statement of US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"No country has any provision to ban any particular state or party. The BNP, not Awami League, should be banned for making falsehood and hatching conspiracy,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question whether the AL is announcing counter-programmes with the BNP, Quader said there is no example that the AL resort to clash with BNP in holding its programmes and even Mirza Fakhrul would not be able to give such an example, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>Blaming that the BNP sets fire to buses, carries out arson terrorism and attacks on police and creates sabotages in holding its programmes, he addded as the AL is in power, it is the responsibility of the AL government to protect the lives and properties of the country\'s people.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 14:22:22', '2023-01-19 14:22:22'),
(4598, 4598, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A strange tale of love has come to the fore in Gujarat where a family got the statues of a couple married, six months after their death.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A man and his lover allegedly died by suicide after their family members did not approve of their marriage and they gave up hope. In August 2022, Ganesh and Ranjana were found hanging by a rope by their families in Tapi, Gujarat.</div><div><br></div><div>Following this incident, their families felt that it was because of them that they could not be together when they were alive, and in remorse, they got their statues made. The statues were married by following the rituals.</div><div><br></div><div>Bhimsingh Padvi, the girl\'s grandfather, said that the boy was related to our distant family, and due to that, they were not ready for their marriage. But we saw that both of them loved each other a lot and so both families came up with this idea.</div><div><br></div><div>The families said that they did it to fulfill their wish and so that their souls could rest in peace. Source: India Today</div><div><br></div><div><b>bnbd24/fas</b></div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 14:46:03', '2023-01-19 14:46:03'),
(4599, 4599, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has appointed David Moore as its Head of Programs.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Moore, 58, has agreed a two-year term with the BCB which starts next month. The Australian will be responsible for planning, devising strategies and implementation of the HP and Bangladesh Tigers programs to ensure that these programs directly benefit the National Team\'s interests, a press release of BCB said.</div><div><br></div><div>He will also oversee the development programs for coaches.</div><div><br></div><div>Moore brings in extensive experience as a high-performance general manager and coach developer with expertise in coaching, player and coach development and administration both internationally and in Australia. He has served Cricket NSW as its General Manager Cricket Performance and Head of Coach&nbsp;</div><div>Development and was a Senior Coach at Cricket Australia\'s Centre of Excellence. Moore has worked as an assistant coach of the West Indies Cricket Team and became the side\'s Head Coach for the tour of England in 2007. He has coached the Bermuda National Team also.</div><div><br></div><div>Moore said he was thrilled at the opportunity to contribute to the development of Bangladesh cricket: \"I\'m very excited to be commencing my role as Head of Programs at the BCB. I look forward to working with the Head Coach, his coaching and support staff and players to assist them to unleash their potential.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am delighted to have been appointed to oversee and develop some very important programs that will provide opportunities for elite cricketers to perform in the international arena.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 14:54:35', '2023-01-19 14:54:35'),
(4600, 4600, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least seven civilians were killed when Myanmar\'s armed forces launched air strikes at a village in the country\'s central Sagaing region, according to a witness and BBC Burmese.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Southeast Asian country has been in crisis since the army seized power nearly two years ago, ending a decade of tentative steps towards democracy, triggering global outrage and prompting domestic opponents to set up guerrilla forces.</div><div><br></div><div>According to a witness account and reports in BBC Burmese, which Reuters could not independently verify, military planes dropped bombs on a neighbourhood donation ceremony in Moe Tarr Lay village of Katha township late on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>A spokesperson for the junta could not immediately be reached for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Seven villagers were killed, with some bodies burned beyond recognition, while at least five others were injured, according to the witness and media.</div><div><br></div><div>Zin, a 44-year-old resident who witnessed the bombings, said dozens of houses were destroyed and communication and power lines severed in some districts.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Some bodies that got burned terribly were buried last night and others are going to be buried today,\" Zin, who declined to give his full name for security reasons, told Reuters by phone.</div><div><br></div><div>Villagers from Moe Tarr Lay had fled in fear of further air strikes, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Myanmar has been gripped by fighting since the army overthrew an elected government in February 2021. Resistance movements, some armed, have emerged across the country, which the military has countered with lethal force.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN Security Council has demanded an end to violence and urged the Myanmar military to release all political prisoners including ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 14:59:53', '2023-01-19 14:59:53'),
(4601, 4601, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, MP, today said the recent report provided by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Armed Police Battalion (APBn) is baseless.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The report, provided by the HRW on the Bangladesh Police\'s specialised unit APBn, is baseless. They should investigate properly before disseminating these types of information,\" he told newsmen after a function of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee on its founding anniversary at Bangla Academy auditorium here today.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the criminal activities of the sheltered Rohingya people in Bangladesh, the Minister said they generally fight among themselves (Rohingya people) with firearms dividing into several sub-groups.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Rohingya cut the barbed wire fence and go to Myanmar to bring Yaba. They have recently brutally killed a DGFI official in the Tambru camp. A shootout was also taken palace there yesterday. They set dwelling houses on fire,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Terming the Rohingya \'malignant tumour\' for Bangladesh, the Home Minister said, \"They came here (Bangladesh) leaving behind everything in Myanmar...Now they can do anything being allured.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Kamal said along with the regular police forces, the specialized unit APBn has been deployed in Rohingya camps as the Rohingyas were allegedly found involved in different criminal activities.</div><div><br></div><div>Over a million Rohingya nationals, who were forcibly displaced by Myanmar Army, are now living in various camps in Cox\'s Bazar district and APBn is entrusted with ensuring their security.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to questions from the media, the Home Minister said whenever any political party wants to hold a meeting or any rally, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) gives them permission, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>\"We can only say - you (political parties) can\'t block the roads as well as you can\'t vandalize properties and you can carry out peaceful political programmes so that people\'s suffering does not increase,\" he went on saying.</div><div><br></div><div>Asaduzzaman also said that a vested quarter is spreading propaganda, but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina does not stop any political party from promoting their ideology or holding meetings or gatherings.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 15:22:59', '2023-01-19 15:22:59'),
(4602, 4602, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed banks to set up at least 60 percent of their sub-branches outside city corporations and municipal areas.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"No sub-branch can be established below the distance of at least 1km from the controlling branch,\" as per a BB circular issued today.</div><div><br></div><div>The circular stated that the lease agreement for sub-branch premises must be for a minimum period of three years and the rent cannot be raised by more than 15 percent during the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The approval of the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee of the banks should be obtained for setting up the electronic booths and this should be reported to the central bank within 15 days of setting up booths.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from this, the banks were instructed to follow the rules applicable to the branch regarding the cost of setting up these booths and the rent.</div><div><br></div><div>The BB also made some changes in the definition of Palli (Rural) and urban branches of banks.</div><div><br></div><div>Discipline will be established in banking operation and operation cost will be minimised following the instructions, sector insiders said, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, directors and the influential people force banks to pay higher rent by setting up branches, sub-branches, or ATM booths on their own properties and buildings. This tendency will be reduced following the specific guideline of BB in this regard, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-19 15:40:51', '2023-01-19 15:40:51'),
(4603, 4603, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Biting cold gripped Sreemangal as the lowest temperature in the country this season was recorded at 5.6 degrees Celsius in the upazila in the 24 hours to Friday morning.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The lowest temperature in Sreemangal was recorded at 2.8 degrees Celsius on February 4 in 1968, Mujibur Rahman, an officer at the Srimangal weather monitoring station, said.</div><div><br></div><div>Temperature between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius is considered a mild cold wave, 6 to 8 degrees Celsius a moderate cold wave and less than 6 degrees Celsius a severe cold wave.</div><div><br></div><div>Severe cold with frosty winds and dense fog is disrupting daily life in Sreemangal. The low-income people who get by working every day are being hit hardest.</div><div><br></div><div>Many were seen making fires along the roadsides to keep warm. Most people are staying home unless there is an emergency.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, the number of diarrhoea and pneumonia patients – mostly children and elderly – is increasing in the hospitals of Moulvibazar, district Civil Surgeon Dr Chowdhury Jalal Uddin Murrshed said.</div><div><br></div><div>A mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping Rangpur division; Faridpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Naogaon, Sirajganj, Sreemangal, Rangamati, Cumilla, Feni, Brahmanbaria, Jashore, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Barishal, and Bhola districts and it may continue, the BMD said this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, moderate to thick fog may envelop the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere from midnight to morning, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The BMD also said, \"The weather may remain dry with a temporary partly cloudy sky over the country. Night and day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 08:22:27', '2023-01-20 08:22:27'),
(4604, 4604, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Science, said the increase in light pollution -- skyglow -- that they found was much larger than that measured by satellite observations of Earth at night.</div><div><br></div><div>For the study of the change in global sky brightness from artificial light, the researchers used stellar observations from 2011 to 2022 submitted by more than 51,000 \"citizen scientists\" around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Participants in the \"Globe at Night\" project run by the US National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory were given star maps and asked to compare them to the night sky at their location.</div><div><br></div><div>The change in the number of visible stars reported was equivalent to a 9.6 percent per year annual increase in sky brightness, averaged over the locations of the participants, the researchers said.</div><div><br></div><div>Over an 18-year period, given such star brightness change, a location with 250 visible stars would see that number reduced to 100.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the naked-eye star observations came from Europe and the United States said Christopher Kyba, one of the authors of the study, but there was also good participation in Uruguay, South Africa and Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The global trend in skyglow that we measure likely underestimates the trend in countries with the most rapid increases in economic development, because the rate of change in light emission is highest there,\" the researchers said.</div><div><br></div><div>The study coincided with the replacement of many outdoor lights with light-emitting diodes (LEDs), but the researchers said the impact on skyglow from the transition to LEDs is unclear.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Some researchers have predicted that it will be beneficial; others, that it could be harmful because of spectral changes or a rebound effect, in which the high luminous efficacy of LEDs leads to more or brighter lights being installed or longer hours of operation,\" they said.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the study, the global LED market share for new general lighting grew from under one percent in 2011 to 47 percent in 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The visibility of stars is deteriorating rapidly, despite (or perhaps because of) the introduction of LEDs in outdoor lighting applications,\" the researchers said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Existing lighting policies are not preventing increases in skyglow, at least on continental and global scales.\"</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Confronted with the cosmos\' -</div><div><br></div><div>Kyba, a physicist at the German Research Center for Geoscience, told AFP that while the team was able to evaluate erosion of star visibility due to skyglow, not a lot of research has been done on its ecological impact.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There\'s tons of research on light shining directly on animals and plants,\" he said. \"But it\'s really hard to do experiments on the impact of skyglow.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You\'re not going to do something like just turn off New York City and see what happens in the East River.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Science aside, light pollution has changed the character of the night sky.</div><div><br></div><div>\"For all of human history, when people went outside at nighttime, they were sort of confronted with the cosmos, at least on clear nights with no moon,\" Kyba said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You\'d walk outside and there\'s the stars, there\'s the Milky Way. It\'s there and it\'s shining down on you,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"And now that\'s like a really unusual experience,\" he said. \"It surely makes a difference to us as people that we don\'t have this experience that used to be a very universal experience.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The Globe at Night campaign hosts an interactive data map at globeatnight.org and is seeking volunteers to collect more observations in 2023. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 10:30:58', '2023-01-20 10:30:58');
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(4605, 4605, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>World Bank Managing Director of Operations Axel van Trotsenburg will arrive in Dhaka Saturday on his first official visit to Bangladesh.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During his three-day visit, Axel will join a public event in Dhaka on January 22 to mark 50 years of the partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank Group and celebrate the country\'s \"remarkable\" development achievements, said a media statement.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh has shown the world what can be done to dramatically reduce poverty through successful innovations in human development, women’s empowerment, and climate adaptation,\" Axel said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The World Bank is proud of its 50-year partnership with Bangladesh and being part of the country\'s remarkable development journey. I look forward to my visit and to seeing these achievements firsthand.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Axel will meet with the prime minister, finance minister, senior government officials, civil society representatives, and development partners, and visit the World Bank-supported projects.</div><div><br></div><div>He will be accompanied by Martin Raiser, World Bank vice-president for South Asia. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 10:44:02', '2023-01-20 10:44:02'),
(4606, 4606, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid on Thursday said Jatiya Pitha Utsab (National Rice Cake Festival) is an original and integral concept representing Bengali culture.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>And festivals like this should be spread all over the country, he added. \"We plan to hold this festival at the district level in the future, and the upazila level as well.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 10-day Sixteenth Jatiya Pitha Utsab organised by the National Pitha Utsab Udjapan Parishad and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) at the BSA premises in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>Liaquat Ali Lucky, director general of the BSA and convener of the 16th National Pitha Utsav Udjapan Parishad 1429, presided over the inauguration ceremony. Dance maestro Amanul Haque was also present.</div><div><br></div><div>M Hamid, cultural personality and president of the Jatiya Pitha Utsab Udjapan Parishad, joined the event as the main speaker.</div><div><br></div><div>Fifty stalls are showcasing more than 200 pithas (traditional cakes) at the 16th Jatiya Pitha Utsab, and the festival is open to all from 3pm to 9pm till January 28. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 11:11:27', '2023-01-20 11:11:27'),
(4607, 4607, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Two children have been burnt to death as a fire broke out at a Kalukhali upazila house in Rajbari.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Hujaifa, 8, son of Babu Biswas, and Hasan, 3, son of Ikram, of the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>The fire broke out Thursday afternoon and engulfed the house of Babu Biswas when the children were playing in the kitchen and accidentally exposed the gas cylinder to fire, Kalukhali Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Shah Md Shajeeb said.</div><div><br></div><div>All gas cylinders, whatever the gas content, are potentially dangerous when exposed to fire and may explode.</div><div><br></div><div>The children received serious burn injuries as the fire quickly ripped through the kitchen where dry fuel (dried branches of trees and jute sticks) was stored.</div><div><br></div><div>They were rushed to Faridpur\'s Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College and Hospital where Hasan succumbed to his injuries, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Hujaifa was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for better treatment where he died while undergoing treatment, the UNO added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 11:23:28', '2023-01-20 11:23:28'),
(4608, 4608, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>After Argentina\'s 2022 World Cup win, fans flocked to get tattoos of the South American football team\'s star, Lionel Messi.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to advanced agricultural technology, one Argentine corn farm has planted its own Messi \"tattoo\" and shared the software so that it can be replicated.</div><div><br></div><div>In rural Ballesteros, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, farmer Charly Faricelli tells AFP that he planned to design Messi\'s face into his corn field regardless of Argentina\'s result in Qatar last month.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The idea was a tribute from the agricultural world to Messi, whether he won the World Cup or not -- which thank God he did!\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The size of almost four football fields, the Messi face can only be seen from above, and becomes more visible as the corn grows.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s an agricultural \'tattoo\',\" said Faricelli.</div><div><br></div><div>Unlike other crop designs, where plants are chopped down to create an image, this \"tattoo\" is the result of different concentrations of planted seed.</div><div><br></div><div>Faricelli explains that \"with advances in technology, the tractor knows exactly, as it goes along, how many seeds to sow in which place.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He has invited other farmers on social media to imitate his homage and has shared the software for them to upload into their equipment.</div><div><br></div><div>There are 25 faces of Messi in corn fields across five different provinces, Faricelli says.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We identify with the national team, because it suffered before winning, and the agricultural world is also suffering,\" he says, alluding to a major drought impacting Argentina\'s fertile Pampas plains in the center of the country. According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 11:37:55', '2023-01-20 11:37:55'),
(4609, 4609, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Saudi Arabia will not normalise ties with Israel in the absence of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, the kingdom’s top diplomat has said, according to a tweet by the foreign ministry today.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The comments by Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos came as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed normalisation with Saudi Arabia in talks with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem yesterday.</div><div><br></div><div>“True normalisation and true stability will only come through … giving the Palestinians a state,” Prince Faisal told Bloomberg at the summit.</div><div><br></div><div>Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is a close partner of the US but it has repeatedly refused to normalise ties with US-ally Israel due to its occupation of Palestinian territories.</div><div><br></div><div>The US-brokered Abraham Accords in 2020 saw the kingdom’s neighbours – the UAE and Bahrain – establish full diplomatic ties with Israel.</div><div><br></div><div>Netanyahu has repeatedly expressed his desire to see Saudi Arabia join the list.</div><div><br></div><div>In their talks yesterday, Netanyahu and Sullivan discussed “measures to deepen the Abraham Accords, with an emphasis on a breakthrough with Saudi”, the Israeli leader’s office said.</div><div><br></div><div>The West Bank and the Gaza Strip plus Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem were long touted as the basis of a Palestinian state in a “two-state” solution to the long-running conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>But that goal has become ever more distant, with the occupied West Bank fragmented by Jewish settlements.</div><div><br></div><div>Netanyahu plans to pursue a policy of increased settlement expansion in the West Bank, with ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties in his coalition advocating the annexation of some of the territory. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 11:58:09', '2023-01-20 11:58:09'),
(4610, 4610, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Matarbari power plant will go for experimental electricity generation in December this year, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Initially one unit having 600 MW power generation capacity will go for experimental operation in December and commercial commissioning will be in January next year (2024),\" he said while visiting the power plant and Single Point Mooring (SPM) on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Nasrul Hamid said engineers and technicians from Japan were engaged to construct Matarbari ultra super critical coal-fired power plant having 1200 MW electricity generation capacity.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that another unit with 600 MW generation capacity will come into operation in June-July, 2024.</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister said the overall progress of the power plant rose to 75 percent, adding, \"We hope that 1200 MW power will come from the plant in 2024.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He inspected construction work of the plant, port and SPM and gave instructions for completing those projects in time maintaining quality.</div><div><br></div><div>Seema Hamid, a social worker and wife of Nasrul Hamid accompanied the state minister during the visit.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the project details, Matarbari power plant constructed a jetty for unloading coal and silos to store coal for 60 days. The plant will need 13,104 tons coal per day for generating electricity.</div><div><br></div><div>Mother vessel with 80,000 tons coal will be able to anchor at the jetty, while only 1-2 days will be needed for unloading the coal from the vessel.</div><div><br></div><div>A 14.3 km long (300 m wide) channel was prepared to ease movement of mother vessel at the power jetty, while measures were taken to ensure navigability of the channel through sedimentation mitigation dyke.</div><div><br></div><div>A study showed that there was a potential of 8 million tons of sediment deposition per year. Authorities constructed two separate ash ponds for ash management properly.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The power plant is being built adjacent to the sea, which will not be affected by cyclone or tide, as a-14 meter above sea level embankment was constructed and the power plant is located inside the dam keeping in mind the highest tide in Bangladesh at a height of 10 meters. The 1991 cyclone caused a 7-meter high tide.</div><div><br></div><div>Nasrul Hamid said that the overall physical progress of the project is 75 percent, financial progress is 57 percent. The physical progress of the Port and Power plant is 88 percent. Construction of 275 m high chimney was completed, while boiler, turbine generator and auxiliary works of pre-commissioning are in progress.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We expect the first unit of 600 MW to be commissioned in December next year, and the second unit (600 MW) to come into commercial production 6 months later,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister said that there will be a land based LNG terminal as well as a LNG based power plant instead of coal.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have decided to build LNG terminal here to ensure energy security. Expert team has visited the site and the work will start soon. It will take about four years from the start of work,\" he said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Earlier, a loan agreement was signed between the government and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on 16 June 2014. Under the deal, JICA will give Tk 43.921 crore as project support, while the remaining Tk 7.933 will be provided from the Bangladesh government and CPGCBL.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A consortium of Japan\'s Sumitomo Corporation, Toshiba Corporation and IHI Corporation has been working as the EPC contractor for the Matarbari 1200 MW ultra-super critical coal-based power plant project. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 12:49:05', '2023-01-20 12:49:05'),
(4611, 4611, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Google\'s parent company Alphabet announced about 12,000 job cuts globally on Friday, becoming the latest US tech giant to enact large-scale restructuring.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles,\" Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to employees, adding that the cuts were in response to a changing \"economic reality\".</div><div><br></div><div>The move comes a day after Microsoft said it would reduce staff numbers by 10,000 in the coming months, following similar layoffs by Facebook owner Meta, Amazon and Twitter as the previously unassailable tech sector faces a major economic downturn.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'ve undertaken a rigorous review across product areas and functions to ensure that our people and roles are aligned with our highest priorities as a company,\" Pichai wrote.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The roles we\'re eliminating reflect the outcome of that review.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.\" Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 13:00:28', '2023-01-20 13:00:28'),
(4612, 4612, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Finland announced Friday a 400-million-euro military aid package to Ukraine, its largest to date and including heavy artillery as well as munitions but no Leopard tanks.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“Ukraine continues to need support in defending its territory,” Defense Minister Mikko Savola said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry did not disclose more detailed information on the contents of the package but said the aid did not include Leopard battle tanks, special adviser Miikka Pynnonen told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the Nordic country’s 12th package of defense materiel to Ukraine. The previous 11 had a combined value of 190 million euros (about $205 million).</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry also said Finland would sign a so-called Statement of Intent with Sweden on support for Ukraine, to make sure the aid “would not endanger the national defense of the two countries.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Finland supplies defense materiel to Ukraine, and Sweden expresses its readiness to support Finland as necessary,” the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, Sweden pledged to send Ukraine its Archer artillery system, a modern mobile howitzer requested by Kyiv for months, along with armored vehicles and anti-tank missiles.</div><div><br></div><div>Pressure has also been mounting on Germany from European allies to authorize exports of its Leopard tank, which are used by several armed forces around the world, including Finland.</div><div><br></div><div>“We hope that this decision (to deliver Leopards) will be made real, and Finland is definitely ready to play its part in that support,” Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Tuesday. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 13:10:13', '2023-01-20 13:10:13'),
(4613, 4613, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>US streaming giant Netflix ended last year with more than 230 million global subscribers, it said Thursday, beating analysts\' expectations as hits such as \"Wednesday\" and \"Harry &amp; Meghan\" enticed new viewers.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"2022 was a tough year, with a bumpy start but a brighter finish,\" the company said in a letter announcing bumper fourth quarter earnings.</div><div><br></div><div>Netflix also announced that co-founder Reed Hastings was standing down as CEO, ending a 25-year leadership that saw the company grow from a rent-by-mail DVD service to an entertainment juggernaut.</div><div><br></div><div>Hastings ceded control of Netflix to his two longtime associates Chief Operating Officer Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos, who has been the face of Netflix in Hollywood and had already been named co-CEO.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It feels like yesterday was our IPO; we were covered in red envelopes,\" Hastings said during an earnings call.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Hopefully, some of you have held the stock for all 21 years.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Netflix became a publicly traded company in early 2002 at an opening price of $15 a share.</div><div><br></div><div>Shares in the streaming television service were up nearly 7 percent to $337.31 in after-market trades that followed release of the earnings figures.</div><div><br></div><div>The Netflix board has been discussing succession planning for many years, Hastings pointed out in a blog post, joking \"even founders need to evolve!\"</div><div><br></div><div>He said he would hold the new job of executive chairman, noting this was a role that tech giant founders often take, using Amazon\'s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft\'s Bill Gates as examples.</div><div><br></div><div>The changing of the guard was announced as Netflix posted added subscribers that blew past even the most optimistic expectations.</div><div><br></div><div>The streaming giant said it enticed 7.7 million new members in three months, bringing Netflix membership around the world to 230 million people.</div><div><br></div><div>Netflix praised a successful slate of new content that included horror-themed comedy \"Wednesday,\" saying the \"Addams Family\" spinoff was the company\'s third most popular series ever.</div><div><br></div><div>Royal tell-all documentary \"Harry &amp; Meghan\" also scored, Netflix said, as well as \"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\" starring Daniel Craig.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is in stark contrast to the first half of the year. Creating the next biggest blockbuster drives subscribers,\" said tech and media analyst Paolo Pescatore.</div><div><br></div><div>- New rivals -</div><div><br></div><div>The fresh titles helped attract users to a new lower-priced \"Basic with Ads\" subscription, as consumers cut back on their entertainment spending amid soaring inflation and an uncertain economy.</div><div><br></div><div>Revenue in the October to December period, at $7.85 billion, was in line with estimates.</div><div><br></div><div>Netflix insists that counting new users is no longer the most important criteria for assessing the company\'s health and that revenue should instead be the main metric.</div><div><br></div><div>\"What may be getting lost in the mix is that some number of new subscribers -- we don\'t know how many -- likely came in on Netflix\'s ad-supported tier,\" said Insider Intelligence principal analyst Paul Verna.</div><div><br></div><div>\"That means, most likely, lower average revenue per subscriber, which is a measure Wall Street will be paying more attention to as Netflix\'s ad businesses scales up,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Netflix goals this year include \"nudging\" viewers who use passwords shared by subscribers to pay their own way.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have high confidence in our ability to accelerate revenue throughout the course of the year as we scale ads and we launch paid sharing (of accounts),\" said Netflix chief financial officer Spencer Neumann.</div><div><br></div><div>Netflix faces strong competition from deep-pocketed rivals, including Disney+, which has also introduced an ad-based subscription.</div><div><br></div><div>But despite the challenges, Netflix is one of the rare tech giants to have garnered confidence from Wall Street with its share price up almost 50 percent in the past six months.</div><div><br></div><div>Other tech giants and Disney have been hammered on the markets as firms lay off employees and cut costs after a massive hiring and spending spree at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 14:50:34', '2023-01-20 14:50:34'),
(4614, 4614, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actress Rakhi Sawant was detained by the Mumbai police on Thursday after a complaint by model-actress Sherlyn Chopra. According to news agency ANI, Ms Chopra said in her complaint that Rakhi Sawant made inappropriate videos and photos of her go viral.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The police registered an FIR against Ms Sawant based on the complaint. She was brought to Amboli Police Station for further questioning, the ANI report further said. The police will present Sawant in the Andheri court later in the day, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>According to PTI, Ms Sawant has been booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 354A (sexual harassment of the nature of unwelcome physical contact and advances or a demand or request for sexual favours showing pornography), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 504 (insult intended to provoke breach of peace) and provisions of the Information Technology Act.</div><div><br></div><div>She had filed an anticipatory bail application before a sessions court in Mumbai on Wednesday, but it was rejected. The actor was finally detained on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>The feud between Ms Sawant and Ms Chopra has been going on for some time. In November last year, they filed FIRs against each other for using objectionable language, according to the police.</div><div><br></div><div>Ms Sawant had earlier appeared in a season of the popular reality TV show \'Bigg Boss\' and also featured in the movie \'Main Hoon Na\' directed by Farah Khan. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 14:52:51', '2023-01-20 14:52:51'),
(4615, 4615, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Dhaka Marathon-2023\' was held in memory of the father of the nation under supervision of Bangladesh Army in the capital on Friday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A total of 2,163 runners from home and abroad took part in several categories including full and half marathon that started from Bashundhara International Convention Centre at 5.30am and ended at the Kanchhan Bridge.</div><div><br></div><div>Of them, 832 local runners competed in the full marathon and 1,550 in the half marathon.</div><div><br></div><div>Kenyan Stanley Kiprotich Bet won in the full marathon of the male division while Ethiopian Basaking Imochi Bilo in the female division.</div><div><br></div><div>In the half marathon, Moroccan Abdul Aziz Baghazi secured the first position and Ugandan Rispa Cherop.</div><div><br></div><div>At the closing ceremony, Bangladesh Army Chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed hoped that the marathon will play a role in creating social and health awareness from all walks of people in society.</div><div><br></div><div>He expressed his determination to organise the marathon in January every year in the memory of Bangabandhu’s Homecoming.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the chief patron of the marathon while the army head was the chief advisor.</div><div><br></div><div>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal inaugurated the opening ceremony as the chief guest with State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell as the special guest.</div><div>After the race, Army Chief Shafiuddin handed over the prizes to the winners. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 15:10:01', '2023-01-20 15:10:01'),
(4616, 4616, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday met the country\'s Security Council, according to a Kremlin statement.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Opening the council\'s first meeting of the year, Putin said he would like to discuss the progress of the \"special military operation\" in Ukraine, which began last February.</div><div><br></div><div>He also informed the participants about the international contacts he had recently.</div><div><br></div><div>Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, meanwhile, presented a report on his recent visit to command headquarters of a group of forces deployed in Ukraine. - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 15:12:06', '2023-01-20 15:12:06'),
(4617, 4617, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>There is no alternative to removing the current government to restore democracy and overcome the country’s political and economic crisis, said BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mosharraf Hossain said this while speaking at a discussion. Bangladesh Smmalita Peshajibi Parishad, a platform of pro-BNP professionals, arranged the programme at the Jatiya Press Club, marking the 87th birth anniversary of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader also called upon the people to unite to oust the government through a fierce movement .&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh has now been facing various crises as there is no democracy and voting and other rights of people while the economy is on the brink of collapse. That’s why the nation is now on a movement to restore democracy. There’s no alternative to removing the current regime to do that,” he said</div><div><br></div><div>He said those who talked about the spirit of the liberation war have destroyed democracy, snatched people’s voting and all other rights, and ruined the economy and all the state institutions.</div><div><br></div><div>“People are now saying those who have destroyed democracy, won’t be able to restore it. Those who have destroyed the economy through plundering, corruption and siphoning off money abroad, can’t fix it. Those who destroyed the judiciary through politicisation can’t ensure the independence and neutrality of the judiciary,” he observed.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said where there is Awami League, there is no democracy as the party destroyed democracy whenever it came to power, and it has annihilated democracy. “But the history of BNP is the history of the restoration of democracy.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said their party has already placed a 10-point demand to ensure the fall of the Awami League and establish a democratic government through a credible election.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said their party also presented a 27-point to reform the state for ensuring a qualitative and building Bangladesh as per the spirit of the Liberation War after the removal of Sheikh Hasina’s government.</div><div><br></div><div>Khandaker Mosharraf called upon the professionals to play a role in the ongoing movement for establishing a democratic government and, restoring the country’s election system.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, he said the current ruling party fears him, his party, and his family.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-20 15:23:24', '2023-01-20 15:23:24'),
(4618, 4618, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">New Zealand\'s former Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins will replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after receiving the only nomination from fellow MPs, the ruling Labour Party said Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 44-year-old senior politician must be formally backed by Labour members of parliament on Sunday to take over as the country\'s 41st prime minister, following Ardern\'s shock resignation on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police and education minister will lead his party\'s uphill battle to win general elections on October 14 as the party lags in opinion polls, criticised by opponents over rising prices, poverty and crime rates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Labour Party caucus will meet at 1pm on Sunday to endorse the nomination and confirm Chris Hipkins as Party Leader,\" said a statement by senior Labour Party member Duncan Webb.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As leader of the governing party, Hipkins will also become prime minister when Ardern steps down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ardern, a global figurehead for progressive politics, stunned New Zealand when announcing her abrupt exit from office, less than three years after securing a second term in a landslide election win.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 42-year-old -- who steered the country through natural disasters, the Covid pandemic, and its worst-ever terror attack -- said she no longer had \"enough in the tank\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Tough and capable\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ardern said her decision to step down was \"tinged with sadness\" but after having made the announcement she had \"slept well for the first time in a long time\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Political commentators have lined up to condemn the social media abuse that was increasingly directed at Ardern before her resignation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark said Ardern had \"faced a level of hatred and vitriol\" that was \"unprecedented in our country\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her successor is widely seen as a safe pair of hands with more than 14 years in parliament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Political commentator Josie Pagani has described Hipkins as \"sensible, likeable, tough and capable\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was no immediate reaction to Hipkins\' win from the country\'s main opposition National Party.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The right-wing ACT Party urged him to \"deliver on substance instead of snowing New Zealand with spin\", criticising his party\'s record on the number of welfare recipients, rising food prices and a tight labour market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Green Party said it looked forward to working with him to \"end poverty, take bold climate action and protect our native wildlife\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hipkins\' appointment also quashed speculation that Justice Minister Kiri Allan, one of Labour\'s senior Maori MPs, might have become the country\'s first Maori prime minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Incredibly strong\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Allan praised Hipkins as decisive and said she believed he would be \"an incredibly strong prime minister\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hipkins won plaudits for his near two-year term as the Covid response minister in a country that shut down its borders to keep the coronavirus out, only fully reopening in August last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He conceded last year that people were fed up with the strict pandemic restrictions, describing the border closures as \"tough going\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a lighter note, Hipkins made an infamous slip of the tongue in 2021 when he remarked that virus restrictions made it tough for Kiwis to \"go out and spread their legs\", instead of stretching them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hipkins describes himself as an \"outdoor enthusiast\" keen on mountain biking, hiking and swimming. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 06:32:31', '2023-01-21 06:32:31'),
(4619, 4619, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Search and rescue operations after a devastating avalanche that engulfed travellers on a Tibetan highway have ended, Chinese state media reported, with the death toll now at 28.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The snowslide occurred Tuesday evening at the exit of a mountain tunnel in southeastern Tibet, trapping a number of people in their vehicles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China\'s Ministry of Emergency Management sent a disaster response team to the region the following day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death toll from the incident had risen to 28, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The search and rescue operation came to an end at 5:30 pm Friday,\" Xinhua said citing rescue authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The avalanche at the Duoxiongla Tunnel was \"triggered by powerful winds and rising temperatures on Tuesday,\" experts from the local emergency rescue headquarters told Xinhua.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Avalanches are common in the Himalayas, home to the world\'s highest mountains.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In October, at least 26 people died when a mountaineering expedition was caught in an avalanche on Mount Draupadi ka Danda-II in India\'s northern state of Uttarakhand. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 06:35:45', '2023-01-21 06:35:45'),
(4620, 4620, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">British police on Friday fined Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for failing to wear a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media video.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lancashire Police said in a Twitter statement not directly naming Sunak: \"We have today issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of fixed penalty.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fixed penalty means Sunak can pay a fine to avoid a court hearing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Downing Street said in a statement that Sunak \"fully accepts this was a mistake and has apologised\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He will, of course, comply with the fixed penalty,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC reported that the fine for not wearing a seat belt as a car passenger would be £100 ($124). If the case went to court, Sunak could pay £500.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Thursday\'s video, produced for distribution on Sunak\'s social media channels, the beltless Conservative leader speaks from the back seat of a moving car about his policies for boosting growth during a trip to Lancashire in England\'s north.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunak apologised for an \"error of judgement\" soon after the video came out on Thursday, according to Downing Street, and it has been removed from Instagram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunak\'s transportation habits were already a talking point in the United Kingdom.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His political rivals have taken aim at his use of a private jet to make multiple short flights in recent days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is not the first time Sunak has been slapped with a police fine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was fined while serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer for attending a Downing Street party in June 2020 that violated the government\'s rules on social distancing. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 06:39:19', '2023-01-21 06:39:19'),
(4621, 4621, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stand in a California fraud trial on Friday, accused of lying in tweets about taking the auto company private, punishing investors.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk was called to testify by lawyers for angry investors who accuse him of costing them millions of dollars in 2018 with untrue tweets about having funding secured to buy out shareholders at $420 a share.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The multi-billionaire\'s tweets sent the Tesla share price on a rollercoaster ride and Musk was sued by shareholders who say the tycoon acted recklessly in an effort to squeeze investors who had bet against the company.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk, who bought Twitter itself in October, downplayed the power of his tweets noting under questioning that he once posted that he thought Tesla share price was too high, and \"it went higher, which is counter-intuitive.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What I\'m trying to say is that the causal relationship is clearly not there simply because of a tweet,\" Musk said in a testimony that lasted only thirty minutes and was to be continued on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hearing on Friday began with Harvard law and business professor Guhan Subramanian, who was called as an expert witness by the plaintiffs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He called Musk\'s tweeted proposal to take Tesla private as \"illusory\" and \"just wrong\" in how it deviated wildly from the way such mega-deals usually take place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All I can say is this is just wrong; as a matter of deal process... this isn\'t correct,\" Subramanian said while being questioned by a defense lawyer about Musk\'s tweets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Reckless\' words -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Testimonies in the trial opened Wednesday with a lawyer for the upset investors telling jurors Musk lied about having funding in place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nicholas Porritt, who represents lead plaintiff Glen Littleton and other Tesla investors, said the tweets cost \"regular people\" to lose \"millions and millions of dollars.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Called as the first witness, 71-year-old Littleton told jurors he was heavily invested in Tesla in 2018 in a way that banked on the share price climbing to $500 or more.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Littleton testified that he was \"pretty shocked\" by Musk\'s tweet about taking the company private at $420 a share because it threatened almost all the money he had invested in Tesla.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was going to pretty much wipe me out,\" Littleton said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Littleton told jurors he scrambled to save what he could of his investments, getting out of most of his positions at a huge loss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk is expected to continue testifying at trial on Monday, when his lawyers will get a chance to refute the accusation that he was being deceitful.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case revolves around a pair of tweets in which Musk said \"funding secured\" for a project to buy out the publicly traded electric automaker, then in a second tweet added that \"investor support is confirmed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Porritt told jurors that Musk had selected the $420 share price in the tweet \"as a joke\" and that the funding to take Tesla private was never locked in, nor credibly pursued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his own opening remarks, Musk attorney Alex Spiro said that even though the tweets may have been a \"reckless choice of words\", they were \"not fraud, not even close.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fraud trial is expected to last three weeks. 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(4622, 4622, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>As done during the first phase of Bishwa Ijtema, Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) has issued some traffic directives to ease devotees commuting to and from the congregation ground.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Movements of vehicles from Tongi to Bhogra Bypass on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, Kamarpara Road, Abdullahpur to Bypile on Ashulia Road will remain suspended from 6 am Sunday till the end of Akheri Munajat, said GMP Commissioner Mollah Nazrul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GMP commissioner requested commuters to use the bypass road to avoid traffic gridlock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second phase of Bishwa Ijtema started on Friday morning and it will end through the Akheri Munajat on Sunday morning. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"7\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 07:05:16', '2023-01-21 07:05:16');
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(4623, 4623, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Spanish court on Friday ordered Brazil defender Dani Alves to be held in custody without bail after he was arrested in Barcelona on allegations he sexually assaulted a woman.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Barcelona judge took the step after questioning the 39-year-old player regarding \"events that allegedly took place at a nightclub,\" the court said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A source close to the dossier said the judge had taken the step -- which was requested by public prosecutors -- because the court considered there was a risk Alves would try to flee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His club, Mexico\'s Pumas, announced hours later that it had sacked the player because of what it called \"just cause.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alves, one of football\'s most successful players, was taken into custody earlier on Friday after being summoned to a Barcelona police station and was then sent before the judge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Catalonian police said they received a complaint on January 2 from a woman who accused Alves of sexual assault.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The charge of sexual assault in Spain can mean anything from unsolicited and unwanted sexual groping to rape.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While police declined to give details on the case, a source close to the investigation told AFP that Alves is accused of rape.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The woman reiterated her accusation before the judge on Friday, the source added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The alleged sexual assault took place at a popular Barcelona nightclub overnight December 30-31, according to Spanish media reports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daily newspaper ABC said Alves allegedly put his hands inside the underwear of a woman without her consent while she was dancing with friends and then followed her into a toilet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is said to have informed security staff in the club, who activated Barcelona city council\'s protocol against assaults and sexual harassment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Nothing wrong happened\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Barcelona court said earlier this month it had opened a probe \"into an alleged crime of sexual assault as a result of a complaint filed by a woman against a footballer\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alves has confirmed he was at the nightclub at the time but has denied any wrongdoing, telling private Spanish channel Antena 3 earlier this month that he has \"never seen\" the woman before.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I was there, at that place, with more people having fun. Everybody knows I love to dance. Having a good time but without invading the space of others,\" the former Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain player added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His wife, Spanish model Joana Sanz, told Antena 3 in an interview on January 9 that her husband had gone \"out to dinner with friends, to disconnect a bit\" on December 30.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He went out to dance and try to enjoy music as he likes, period. Nothing wrong happened...I know how respectful he is,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alves was in Barcelona on holiday following his participation at the World Cup with Brazil in Qatar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was the oldest player to represent Brazil at the men\'s World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a phenomenally successful career, Alves made 408 appearances for Barcelona, with 391 of those coming in his first spell from 2008-2016.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During that initial stint, he won six La Liga titles, three Champions League crowns and four Copa del Rey trophies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alves joined PSG in July 2017 on a free transfer after leaving Juventus and spent two years at the Qatari-owned French giants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was signed by the Pumas last July after leaving Barcelona for a second time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pumas, who are linked to the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said Friday that they had terminated Alves\' contract.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The club reiterates its commitment not to tolerate acts by any member of our institution, whoever they may be, that go against the university spirit and its values,\" Pumas boss Leopoldo Silva told reporters. 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(4624, 4624, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Mild to moderate cold wave that is sweeping over parts of the country may continue for two to three days more, Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said today.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Temperature may rise after Tuesday, said Monwar Hossain, a meteorologist of BMD.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the regular bulletin of Met office, \"Mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over Rangpur division and the districts of Faridpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Naogaon, Sirajganj, Moulvibazar, Rangamati, Feni, Chuadanga, Jashore, Kushtia, Barishal and Bhola, and it may abate in some places.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moderate to thick fog may occur at places over the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur at places elsewhere over the country during midnight to morning, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 6.5 degrees Celsius in Tetulia of Panchagarh district in 24 hours till 6am today (January 21, 2023). The highest temperature was recorded at 29.0 degrees Celsius in Teknaf during this time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy skies over the country. Night temperature may rise by 1-2 degree Celsius and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 07:27:34', '2023-01-21 07:27:34'),
(4625, 4625, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>As done during the first phase of Bishwa Ijtema, Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) has issued some traffic directives to ease devotees commuting to and from the congregation ground.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Movements of vehicles from Tongi to Bhogra Bypass on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, Kamarpara Road, Abdullahpur to Bypile on Ashulia Road will remain suspended from 6 am Sunday (January 22, 2023) till the end of Akheri Munajat, said GMP Commissioner Mollah Nazrul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GMP commissioner requested commuters to use the bypass road to avoid traffic gridlock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The second phase of Bishwa Ijtema started on Friday (January 20, 2023) morning and it will end through the Akheri Munajat on Sunday morning. UNB<br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 08:25:49', '2023-01-21 08:25:49'),
(4626, 4626, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Saturday said it is one of the most challenging task for the law enforcement agencies to deal with the safety and security issues of the Rohingyas and host community in Cox’s Bazar and their role should not be undermined.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State Minister referred to various criminal activities in the camps and assured of taking appropriate steps to maintain law and order situation there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking as the chief guest at a senior level dialogue on “Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific Collaboration: Priority Issues and Concerns” at a city hotel, he said the government has taken a combination of bilateral, regional and multilateral efforts to find a solution to the Rohingya crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State Minister said the sustained diplomatic efforts by the government helped the Rohingya issue keep alive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh Center for Indo Pacific Affairs and Department of International Relations, Jahangirnagar University hosted the dialogue moderated by Bangladesh Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs Executive Director Professor Shahab Enam Khan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secretary, Maritime Affairs Unit (MAU) Rear Admiral (Retd.) Md. Khurshed Alam, Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain and UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Gwyn Lewis, among others, spoke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about the Indo-Pacific issues, the State Minister said it is not about joining, it is more about having some principles and any misperception needs to be removed. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 08:57:48', '2023-01-21 08:57:48'),
(4627, 4627, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) will start conducting mobile courts for drivers dope test at bus stations across the country soon as drug addiction is thought to be one of the major factors for road accidents, an official said.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We already made dope test mandatory to get or renew professional driving license. We are now working on two issues, one is to make it compulsory for non-professional drivers and another is to drive mobile courts for drivers\' dope test,\" BRTA Director (Safety) Sheikh Mohammad Mahbub-e-Rabbani said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said BRTA will conduct mobile courts with its own allocation and it will start soon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leaders of transport owners\' association and transport workers, however, admitted that some bus and truck drivers take drugs which are responsible for reckless driving.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Road safety experts said proper and regular drug tests on drivers were essential as the possibilities of accidents increase when a driver taking drugs runs a vehicle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahbub-e-Rabbani informed that BRTA, now, is giving licenses for professional drivers after getting dope test reports from all district-level government hospitals, six hospitals in Dhaka city and all laboratories approved by the Department of Narcotics Control.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A person with a positive dope test report or negative comments would not be allowed to get a professional driving license from BRTA,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, however, said the government is taking necessary measures to increase the capacity of government hospitals or laboratories to make dope test must for non-professional drivers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BRTA has introduced the system as per directive of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to bring public transport workers under a dope testing system, he mentioned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to experts, a driver can feel drowsy after taking drugs and they may lose control over the steering, causing accidents. In many cases, a driver may feel overconfident and try to dangerously overtake other vehicles after taking drugs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 20, 2019, the High Court ruled that the drivers must be tested for drugs and eyesight before they were given driving licenses to check accidents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also asked the government, the BRTA and the police to introduce a system in six months for carrying out the tests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the directive, Dhaka Road Transport Owners Association leaders on September 18, 2019 announced that they would arrange drug tests for the bus drivers in Dhaka city from December 1 of that year with the help of the authorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on October 22, 2020 also asked the authorities concerned to bring the drivers under a drug-testing system to know if they had drugs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delivering her speech on October 22, 2020, to mark National Road Safety Day, the premier directed the authorities to bring drivers under a dope testing system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We need to know whether those who are driving (vehicles) use drugs. They need to undergo dope testing. This test is essential for each driver. You must do it,\" she had said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, BRTA formed a committee that gave several other recommendations including carrying out an on-spot test to check possible drug addiction of drivers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bangladesh government has already constituted a high powered committee in 2019 for reducing road mishaps focusing on multi-sectoral implementation and road safety management.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new Road Transport Act, with a substantial focus on road safety, came into effect in November 2019 to replace the Motor Vehicle Ordinance of 1983.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new Act mandates stricter punishment for traffic offenses, greater accountability from the operators and designers for safety performance, and increased enforcement of road safety behavior through the deployment of mobile courts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To enforce these provisions on the ground, significant improvements in management, coordination, governance systems, procedures, processes, tools, and facilities are necessary at every level of operation and every government tier, specifically to ensure safer infrastructure, certification of the roadworthiness of vehicles and improvements in licensing drivers, and prompt post-crash recovery and rescue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According World Bank\'s appraisal document on its Bangladesh Road Safety Project, over half of all road death victims are the poor and vulnerable, with pedestrians accounting for almost half of these deaths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Road crashes also affect the poor rural families disproportionately, with a greater percentage falling into economic distress than others.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A long-term commitment and sustained vision from the highest level of the government along with commensurate investments in effective road crash fatality and injury prevention, will contribute to sustainable and inclusive economic growth and overall well-being, the document suggested. 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(4628, 4628, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Germany has become one of Ukraine\'s leading weapons suppliers in the 11 months since Russia\'s invasion, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz also has gained a reputation for hesitating to take each new step — generating impatience among allies.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Berlin’s perceived foot-dragging, most recently on the Leopard 2 battle tanks that Kyiv has long sought, is rooted at least partly in a post-World War II political culture of military caution, along with present-day worries about a possible escalation in the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, Germany inched closer to a decision to deliver the tanks, ordering a review of its Leopard stocks in preparation for a possible green light.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was still no commitment, however. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius rejected the suggestion that Germany was standing in the way but said, “we have to balance all the pros and contras before we decide things like that, just like that.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s a pattern that has been repeated over the months as Scholz first held off pledging new, heavier equipment, then eventually agreed to do so.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most recently, Germany said in early January that it would send 40 Marder armored personnel carriers to Ukraine — doing so in a joint announcement with the U.S., which pledged 50 Bradley armored vehicles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That decision followed months of calls for Berlin to send the Marder and stoked pressure for it to move up another step to the Leopard tank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There is a discrepancy between the actual size of the commitment and weapons deliveries — it’s the second-largest European supplier — and the hesitancy with which it is done,” said Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, a Berlin-based senior analyst with the German Marshall Fund of the United States think tank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scholz, an unshakably self-confident politician with a stubborn streak and little taste for bowing to public calls for action, has stuck resolutely to his approach. He has said that Germany won’t go it alone on weapons decisions and pointed to the need to avoid NATO becoming a direct party to the war with Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As pressure mounted last week, he declared that he wouldn\'t be rushed into important security decisions by “excited comments.” And he insisted that a majority in Germany supports his government’s “calm, well-considered and careful” decision-making.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Scholz listed some of the equipment Germany has sent to Ukraine, declaring that it marks “a profound turning point in German foreign and security policy.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That is, at least to some extent, true. Germany refused to provide lethal weapons before the invasion started, reflecting a political culture rooted in part in the memory of Germany\'s own history of aggression during the 20th century — including the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“No German chancellor, of no party, wants to be seen out front in pushing a military agenda — you want to try all other options before you resort to that,” Kleine-Brockhoff said. “And therefore for domestic consumption, it is seen as a positive thing for a German chancellor not to lead on this, to be cautious, to be resistant, to have tried all other options.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scholz does face calls from Germany\'s center-right opposition and some in his three-party governing coalition to be more proactive on military aid; less so from his own center-left Social Democratic Party, which for decades was steeped in the legacy of Cold War rapprochement pursued by predecessor Willy Brandt in the early 1970s.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scholz “decided early on that he does not want to lead militarily on Ukraine assistance,” Kleine-Brockhoff said, though “he wants to be a good ally and part of the alliance and in the middle of the pack.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the cautious approach “drives allies crazy” and raises questions over whether they can count on the Germans, Kleine-Brockhoff acknowledged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berlin kept up its caution on the Leopard tank even after Britain announced last week that it would provide Ukraine its own Challenger 2 tanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hesitancy isn\'t just an issue between Berlin and Kyiv, since other countries would need Germany\'s permission to send their own stocks of German-made Leopards to Ukraine. On Wednesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Warsaw would consider giving its tanks even without Berlin\'s permission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Consent is of secondary importance here. We will either obtain it quickly, or we will do the right thing ourselves,” Morawiecki said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">British historian Timothy Garton Ash wrote in The Guardian and other newspapers this week that “to its credit, the German government’s position on military support for Ukraine has moved a very long way since the eve of the Russian invasion.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he argued that the tank issue has become “a litmus test of Germany’s courage to resist (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s nuclear blackmail, overcome its own domestic cocktail of fears and doubts, and defend a free and sovereign Ukraine,” and that Scholz should lead a “European Leopard plan.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether that will eventually happen remains to be seen. Scholz\'s government has insisted on close coordination with the United States, a possible reflection in part of the fact that Germany — unlike Britain and France — relies on the U.S. nuclear deterrent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, Scholz\'s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, denied reports that Germany had insisted it would only deliver Leopard tanks if the U.S. sends its own Abrams tanks. He rejected the notion that Berlin is trailing others and insisted it is taking the right approach.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“These are not easy decisions, and they need to be well-weighed,\" he said. \"And this is about them being sustainable, that all can go along with them and stand behind them — and part of a leadership performance is keeping an alliance together.” AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 09:35:48', '2023-01-21 09:35:48'),
(4629, 4629, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;Five devotees died due to their physical illness at the second phase Bishwa Ijtema venue in Tongi of Gazipur between early Thursday and this morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as Abdul Hannan, 58, son of Abdul Jabbar of city\'s east Jurain under Kadamtali Thana, Hazi Md Borhan Uddin, 45, son of late Hazi Waizullah of city\'s Gulistan Bongobazar area, Mofizul Islam, 75, son o Abdul Ali of Borguna, Md Abdul Hamid Mondal, 55, son of late Md Shukkur Mondal of Gaibandha, and Mofizul Islam, 54, son of Abdul Alim of Savar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tongi Bishwa Ijtema Organizing Committee Member and Media organizer Md Sayem told BSS that they died at Ijtema ground during the second phase of the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health officials at the Ijtema control room said that the devotees have died due to sudden illness, heart attack and old-age complications.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bodies were handed over to their family members after the namaz-e-janazas were held at Tongi Ijtema Maidan, Tongi Zone ASI Md Monir Uddin told journalists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three-day Biswa Ijtema will end tomorrow (Jan 22) with Akheri Munajat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the first phase of the three-day Bishwa Ijtema was held from January 13-15. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"7\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 10:10:44', '2023-01-21 10:10:44'),
(4630, 4630, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first against New Zealand in their bid to clinch the series in the second one-day international on Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hosts, who lead the three-match series 1-0, remain unchanged in Raipur from their opening win.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rohit took a while to announce his decision to field and told the presenter he \"forgot\" about the team call.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand kept the same team from their 12-run loss on Wednesday and skipper Tom Latham said he would have also elected to bowl had he won the toss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Teams</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>India:</b> Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubhman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>New Zealand:</b> Finn Allen, Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (captain), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner, Henry Shipley, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Umpires:</b> KN Ananthapadmanabhan (IND), Nitin Menon (IND)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>TV Umpire:</b> Jayaraman Madanagopal (IND)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Match Referee:</b> Javagal Srinath (IND) .AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 10:26:49', '2023-01-21 10:26:49'),
(4631, 4631, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a new national contract for the year 2023, comprising of 21 players.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Four new players- Khaled Ahmed, Zakir Hasan, Musaddek Hossain Saikot, and Hasan Mahmud- have been included in the contract. The contract will be valid until December 31, 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>However, four players- Shadman Islam, Yasir Ali, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, and Mohammad Naim- have been omitted from the previous contract announced in 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>BCB National Contract 2023:</div><div><br></div><div>All format: Liton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, Taksin Ahmed, Mehidy Hasan Miraz; For Test and ODI: Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim; For Test and T20Is: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Nurul Hasan Shohan; Only Test: Mominul Haque, Taijul Islam, Ebadot Hossian, Khaled Ahmed, Zakir Hasan; Only ODI: Mahmudullah Riyad; ODI and T20Is: Mustafizur Rahman, Afif Hossain, Shoriful Islam; Only T20Is: Nasum Ahmed, Mahedi Hasan, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Hasan Mahmud. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 11:20:26', '2023-01-21 11:20:26'),
(4632, 4632, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In a 2019 interview, Katrina Kaif spoke about \'not having a father figure\' while growing up, and how it created a certain \'vacuum\' in her life. The actor said it can make \'any girl feel vulnerable\', and added that when she has kids of her own, she wants them to \'have the experience of being with both parents\'. In the same interview, Katrina spoke about her mother Suzanne Turquotte, who single-handedly raised seven daughters and a son. She admitted she realised much later that it ‘must have been tough’ for her mother.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Katrina spoke about asking her mom Suzanne about having \'so many children\', and also how she raised them on her own. Katrina added that her mother had spoken to her about her life in the last few years, which the actor described \'has been much more helpful\' to her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked if she ever asked her mother what she was thinking when she gave birth to seven girls, Katrina told Filmfare in a 2019 interview, \"Ya, I did. I asked her what were you thinking when you had so many children and how did you do it on your own. But in the last few years, what my mom had to say about life, has been much more helpful to me. It bears more weight. Now that you can see things from a distance, you realise it must have been tough for her.\" HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 11:36:48', '2023-01-21 11:36:48'),
(4633, 4633, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said BNP has become desperate to go to power unconstitutionally through killing-coup and conspiracies after being rejected time and again by the people in elections.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"BNP is conspiring to go to power by unconstitutional means. Its leaders are giving provocative and misleading speeches to misguide the people,\" he said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader issued the statement condemning and protesting BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul\'s remarks that the government would not get scope to flee to save itself.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Such remarks do not suit in the mouth of the leader of a political party, whose top leadership quit politics and the country through giving undertaking and maintains fugitive life abroad being convicted by court,\" he added.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said BNP is spreading negative propaganda to its foreign masters by hiring lobbyist firm for millions of dollars. It is continuously hatching conspiracies for imposing \'sanctions\' against the country as well as the people through giving its foreign masters false and fabricated information, he alleged.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The corrupt leader of BNP is now running the party activities by remote-control staying abroad and provoking party leaders-activists for sabotage activities, he said, adding that but now they (BNP leaders) are directionless because the countrymen as well as the world community is aware about the conspiracies of those rumor-mongers.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said BNP-Jamaat which patronises the Bangabandhu\'s killers and war criminals does not want welfare of the people. So, they do not see the development and progress of the country although IMF\'s deputy managing director Antoinette Monsio Sayeh highly acclaimed the poverty alleviation, socio-economic progress and improvement of living standard Bangladesh has achieved in the last one decade under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said fuel oil and gas prices go up globally as the supply chain has collapsed due to Russia-Ukraine conflicts. Power price in the USA has increased three times and in the United Kingdom it has gone up by six times, he said, adding that Bangladesh government has increased the power price without getting any option as the Power Development Board is providing Tk 40,000 crore subsidy annually for electricity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The countrymen expect responsible behavior from BNP, he said and urged BNP to take preparation for the upcoming elections without spreading false and misleading information against the government to gain cheap political interest.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"State power can only be changed through elections as prescribed in the constitution,\" he added. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 12:10:55', '2023-01-21 12:10:55'),
(4634, 4634, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Bank\'s Managing Director of Operations Axel van Trotsenburg arrived in Dhaka today on his first official visit to Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">During his three-day visit, van Trotsenburg will join a public event in Dhaka tomorrow to mark 50 years of the partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank Group and celebrate the country\'s remarkable development achievements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bangladesh has shown the world what can be done to dramatically reduce poverty through successful innovations in human development, women\'s empowerment, and climate adaptation,\" said Axel van Trotsenburg, according to a press release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The World Bank is proud of its 50-year partnership with Bangladesh and being part of the country\'s remarkable development journey. I look forward to my visit and to seeing these achievements firsthand.\" added Trotsenburg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Axel van Trotsenburg will meet with the Prime Minister, the Finance Minister, and other senior government officials, civil society representatives, and development partners, and visit World Bank-supported projects. He will be accompanied by Martin Raiser, World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Bank was among the first development partners to support Bangladesh after its independence. Since then, the Bank has committed about $39 billion, mostly in grants or concessional credits to Bangladesh.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh currently has the largest ongoing program supported by the World Bank Group\'s International Development Association (IDA). BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 12:25:14', '2023-01-21 12:25:14'),
(4635, 4635, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) said that the cost of living in the capital Dhaka increased by 11.08 percent in 2022.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The report released on Saturday said that around 17 products have directly contributed to the rise in inflation as well as the cost of living last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The urban lower-income group of people has compromised their diet chart and lifestyle due to the increase in the prices of essential commodities, fish and meat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report was presented on behalf of CAB by Mahfuz Kabir, research director of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the report, the cost of living in the capital increased by 6.88 percent in 2020 and 6.5 percent in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Kabir has prepared the result, which was collected from 11 markets across Dhaka (Dhaka North and South City Corporation). It has covered 141 food items, 49 non-food items and 25 services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rice, flour, pulses, bakery products, sugar, fish, eggs, domestic poultry, edible oil, imported fruits, tea and coffee, local and imported milk, washing and personal hygiene items, and transport costs are included in the CAB price monitoring.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CAB has proposed policy recommendations in the analysis of inflation trends. In the recommendations, the association said the government has increased support under subsidised food aid and social protection to reduce inflationary pressure on the poor and disadvantaged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the government should extend social protection schemes in urban areas to protect low and middle-income consumers from rising inflationary pressures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has significantly increased OMS activities during Covid-19, which has been extended further in 2022 to protect this consumer groups from the economic slowdown and inflationary woes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But there is an inadequacy of food supply through OMS against extremely high demand and a lack of proper monitoring to ensure equitable distribution of OMS food products among low-income people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CAB recommendation has also opposed the decision to increase gas and fuel oil prices at the retail level as the bulk price hike of gas and oil would affect the lower-income people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">CAB President Golam Rahman. Vice President SM Najer Hossain, General Secretary Advocate Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, joint secretary Dr. Md. Shahnewaz Chowdhury and Md. Qazi Abdul Hannan were also present at the press conference held virtually. UNB&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 12:36:29', '2023-01-21 12:36:29'),
(4636, 4636, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Several reports on climate change and its growing effects were released in December along with encouraging initiatives and pledges for environmental protection.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Below is a list of environmental developments, reports and events compiled by Anadolu Agency.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 1:</div><div><br></div><div>- Brazil\'s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) announces deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon fell 11%.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 2:</div><div><br></div><div>- The World Bank approves $250 million in financing to assist Bangladesh in strengthening its environmental management and encourage private sector participation in green investment.</div><div><br></div><div>- Nearly 14,000 birds are killed by the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus in Peru.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 4:</div><div><br></div><div>- The toxic breathing environment developed due to unabated air pollution in Bangladesh claimed 78,145-88,229 lives in 2019, according to a World Bank report.</div><div><br></div><div>- Recent super floods and torrential rains combined with drought and wildfires across Pakistan pose a \"serious\" threat to already under-pressure wildlife in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 5:</div><div><br></div><div>- Around 2,500 dead seals wash ashore in Russia’s Dagestan Republic.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 6:</div><div><br></div><div>- More than 3.5 million Kenyan children will not be able to enroll in schools when classes resume in January due to an ongoing drought, according to Save the Children.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 7:</div><div><br></div><div>- The UK gives approval for the country\'s first new coal mine in 30 years at Whitehaven in Cumbria.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'\'Humanity seems hellbent on destruction\'\' by \'\'treating nature like a toilet\'\' UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says at COP15, a two-week summit that kicked off in Montreal</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 10:</div><div><br></div><div>- About 20 million jobs worldwide could be created by harnessing the power of nature to address significant challenges facing society, such as climate change, disaster risk and food and water insecurity, according to a UN report.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 12:</div><div><br></div><div>- The G-7 decided to establish an international Climate Club to tackle global warming, says German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 13:</div><div><br></div><div>- A 120-kilometer (75-mile) \"clandestine road\" built by illegal miners in Brazil\'s indigenous Yanomami territory is set to increase illegal mining activity close to a community living in voluntary isolation in the Amazon region, Greenpeace warns in a report.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 14:</div><div><br></div><div>- A “zero-waste” initiative presented by Türkiye is unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly.</div><div><br></div><div>- To combat rising smog, a Pakistani court bans all late-night business activities in the northeastern city of Lahore which has long been ranked high on the pollution index.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 15:</div><div><br></div><div>- Nearly 42,000 people died in Iran from air pollution in 2021, according to a member of the environmental committee in the country\'s parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 16:</div><div><br></div><div>- Climate change drives an “unprecedented” number of larger and more deadly cholera outbreaks reported in around 30 countries in 2022, says the World Health Organization.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 19:</div><div><br></div><div>- A historical deal to protect 30% of the world\'s land and water by 2030 is reached, officials announce at the UN biodiversity conference in Canada.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 20:</div><div><br></div><div>- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces it finalized new and tougher standards for heavy-duty vehicles to lower pollution and achieve zero emissions in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>- Canada begins a ban on the manufacture and import of many plastic items.</div><div><br></div><div>- Guterres announces he will convene a “Climate Ambition Summit” in September 2023. “It will be a no-nonsense summit. No exceptions. No compromises,” he says.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 23:</div><div><br></div><div>- More than 200 million people, roughly 60% of the US population, are under some form of winter weather warnings or advisories, says the National Weather Service.</div><div><br></div><div>- The number of children facing dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five months, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 27:</div><div><br></div><div>- The 10 most financially destructive climate disasters in 2022 cost at least $200 billion while causing extreme human suffering from food insecurity, drought, mass displacements and the loss of life.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 28:</div><div><br></div><div>- 2022 will be the warmest year on record for the UK, says the country’s meteorological service.</div><div><br></div><div>Dec. 30:</div><div><br></div><div>- Marina Silva, an Amazon rainforest defender, is set to again become Brazil\'s environmental minister.​​​​​​​ - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Environment Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 12:42:29', '2023-01-21 12:42:29');
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(4637, 4637, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Leading a sedentary lifestyle or adopting a daily routine that involves too much sitting or lying down with very little or no exercise can land you in serious health trouble and put you at risk of several chronic diseases and even severe complications in case of Covid-19. A recent study published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine aimed to determine the association between physical activity and outcomes of Covid-19 infection.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study used data from Kaiser Permanente Southern California adult patients who had a positive COVID-19 diagnosis between January 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021. The study found that there were protective associations of physical activity for adverse Covid-19 outcomes across demographic and clinical characteristics. The study suggests that public health leaders should add physical activity to pandemic control strategies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>What is sedentary lifestyle</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A sedentary lifestyle is basically a kind of lifestyle where a person does not do regular amounts of physical activity in daily life. Extended periods of inactivity may retard metabolism and weaken the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar and blood pressure levels, and break down fat,\" says Dr. Santosh Kumar Agrawal, Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine, Marengo QRG Hospital Faridabad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Dangers of sedentary lifestyle</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sedentary lifestyle can affect lung function and may lead to severe symptoms in case of Covid-19. Dr Agarwal says sedentary lifestyle not only raises your risk of landing in ICU but also adversely affects your survival rate if compared to those leading active lifestyles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Obesity impacts the outcome in patients and may be lethal in case of covid-19. People who have a sedentary lifestyle are usually overweight or obese. Obesity/sedentary lifestyle leads to poor lung capacity which may lead to severe symptoms in covid-19. Also, people with sedentary lifestyle have multiple comorbid conditions like diabetes, hypertension which are other risk factors for severe covid-19 infection. Inactivity and sedentary lifestyles may also slow recovery,\" says Dr Agarwal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A sedentary lifestyle is associated with many conditions like obesity, diabetes and lowered immunity. These disorders predispose an individual to severe Covid symptoms. Both obesity and diabetes are known high risk factors in Covid, and are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Other habits like smoking, alcohol intake which are often past of a sedentary lifestyle also result in weaker lungs and decreased immune function with more symptoms of COVID,\" says Dr. R V S Bhalla, Director &amp; HOD of Internal Medicine Department, Fortis Hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The many health condition that are attributed to a sedentary lifestyle are obesity, sleep apnea syndrome, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, various musculoskeletal disorders, coronary artery disease, and polycystic ovarian disease.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Tips to stay active</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To stay active, it is very important to develop healthy habits, suggested by Dr Bhalla and Dr Agarwal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>1.</b> Regular exercise: Exercising for 45 minutes per day for at least 5 days a week is beneficial for overall health. This can be moderate intensity aerobic exercise like brisk walking, running, jogging, cycling or swimming. Adding resistance training twice a week is also recommended. Setting up a schedule of daily activity and following it religiously would help in maintaining a regular exercise pattern.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>2. </b>Taking stairs instead of lifts or parking your vehicle one or two blocks before your office and walking rest of the way can also help you move more on a regular basis. Climbing stairs may get your heart pumping and boost your muscle, bone, joint, and lung health. Walking is associated with several health benefits like lowered risk of heart disease, enhanced immune function and reduced stress and blood pressure levels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>3. </b>Avoid sitting at desk for more than one hour at a stretch. Get up and move around then sit down. This will ensure your muscles do not turn stiff and also increase your daily step count.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>4. </b>Various exercises can be done while sitting on your chair or during a two-minute break in the office. Short spurts of activity help to increase our metabolism and the effect lasts for many hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>5.</b> Avoid overeating especially sugar-laden treats and sweetened beverages. One must add healthy vegetables and fruits to their diet. Have a well-balanced diet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>6.</b> Avoid alcohol and smoking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>7.</b> Exercise can be done at any time, morning or evening, but should be avoided 1/2 hours past meal</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>8.</b> Standing when you can as it may help strengthen your muscles and burn extra calories. You can try to stand while you are on calls, watching TV, or just folding the laundry. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 13:09:06', '2023-01-21 13:09:06'),
(4638, 4638, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A rare cloud formation, that creates an optical illusion tricking viewers into thinking it looks like a UFO, has been seen in Turkey.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><iframe frameborder=\"0\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/C3QiwAuTnCg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"note-video-clip\"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>The wave-like pattern is known as a lenticular cloud.</div><div><br></div><div>Bursa lies at the base of a mountain range, which makes the phenomenon more likely. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 13:28:44', '2023-01-21 13:28:44'),
(4639, 4639, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">‘Shonibar Bikel’ (Saturday Afternoon), one of the most talked-about films for the past four years in Dhallywood for not getting clearance by Bangladesh Film Censor Board, finally got its clearance, coincidentally on a Saturday afternoon.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Popular storyteller and director of the film Mostofa Sarwar Farooki confirmed UNB over the clearance.</div><div><br></div><div>The film, based on the 2016 Holey Artisan attack, now has no obligations to release theatrically, according to the appeal board consisting of actress and lawmaker Suborna Mustafa, Jatiya Press Club general Secretary and former censor board vice chairman Shyamal Dutta, eminent silver screen actress Sucharita and former Additional Secretary Nurul Karim. The members of the appeal board saw the film today (Saturday).</div><div><br></div><div>With this clearance, the film has no more restrictions to have its theatrical release countrywide, Shyamal Dutta told media.</div><div><br></div><div>Previously, Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud said that the Bangladesh Film Censor Board froze the film as the then-board members gave their opinion on the absence of several aspects including the internal security and global reputation of the country, crime and lawlessness, hurt to religious sentiments and obscene dialogues in the related incidents in the movie, which was the Holey Artisan attack in the capital’s Gulshan in 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>Although ‘Shonibar Bikel’ fought for its clearance, Bollywood proceeded with the incident first as Indian filmmaker Hansal Mehta announced that his film ‘Faraaz’, based on the same incident, will hit the theatres on February 3.</div><div><br></div><div>Farooki and many other prominent artistes then took the media for the demand of ‘Shonibar Bikel’s clearance before ‘Faraaz’.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are very happy and also thankful to the honourable members of the Censor Board. We are now awaiting the board\'s letter and as soon as we receive the letter, we will start the work of release. Our target is the release of the film before ‘Faraaz’,” Jaaz Multimedia, the distributor of the film posted on its official Facebook page.</div><div><br></div><div>With an ensemble cast of Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Zahid Hasan, Mamunur Rashid, Iresh Zaker, Nader Chowdhury, Gousul Alam Shaon, Indian-Bengali film actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee and Palestinian actor Eyad Hourani - Farooki\'s \'Shonibar Bikel’ received multiple awards at different festivals across the world. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 13:34:36', '2023-01-21 13:34:36'),
(4640, 4640, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A total of 37,574 candidates, who have received the appointment letter for the post of Assistant Teacher in Government Primary Schools countrywide, were asked to join tomorrow at their respective district\'s primary education office.  </b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The candidates must bring three documents while joining. The documents include: two copies of joining letter as per sample given on the website of Primary Education Office, an undertaking in non-judicial stamp worth Taka 300 and an attested photocopy of the appointment letter, said a press release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Earlier, the result of the recruitment examination-2020 of the assistant teachers for the government primary schools was published on December 14 last year with the name of 37 thousand 574 selected candidates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, the candidates were selected primarily for the assistant teachers\' post based on the results of the written and viva-voce exams. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the biggest recruitment circular so far in the history of government primary school teacher recruitment programme of the country. The online application started on October 25, 2020, where as many as 13 lakh 9 thousand 461 candidates applied.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The selected individuals will be paid as per Grade 13th of the National Pay Scale for two years from the date of joining, considering the above mentioned timeframe as \'Apprenticeship period\', the release added. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, if the authorities concerned find any misconduct during apprenticeship of the teachers, they are eligible to dismiss any individual without showing any reason. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'Newsdesk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 14:03:47', '2023-01-21 14:04:47'),
(4641, 4641, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States and its allies failed to agree on supplying coveted German battle tanks to Ukraine as Russia issued veiled threats the war could escalate in Europe.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>NATO and defence leaders from about 50 countries met at the American Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday, the latest in a series of arms-pledging conferences since Russia invaded Ukraine 11 months ago.</div><div><br></div><div>European leaders at the meeting again pressed Germany to give the green light for the delivery of German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine to drive back Moscow’s forces – although no decision was made.</div><div><br></div><div>The failure to agree to provide the tanks may signal growing divisions within NATO over supplying such weapons.</div><div><br></div><div>Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius denied Berlin was unilaterally blocking the delivery of the Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, but said his government was ready to move quickly on the issue if there were consensus among allies.</div><div><br></div><div>“There are good reasons for the deliveries and there are good reasons against, and in view of the entire situation of a war that has been ongoing for almost one year, all pros and cons must be weighed very carefully,” he said, without elaborating on the reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>Pressure has been building on Berlin to provide tanks to Kyiv that Ukraine sees as key in the war against Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>The impression “there is a united coalition and that Germany is standing in the way is wrong”, Pistorius said, adding “there are many allies who say we share the view that I have put forward here.”</div><div><br></div><div>Pistorius said while there was no decision yet on whether to send the Leopard tanks, “We will make our decisions as soon as possible.”</div><div><br></div><div>“I am very sure that there will be a decision in the short term but … I don’t know how the decision will look,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Leopard tanks are seen as especially suitable as they are widely in use, meaning several countries could each chip in some of their tanks to support Ukraine. - Al Jazeera&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 14:06:22', '2023-01-21 14:06:22'),
(4642, 4642, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A leader’s ability to communicate clearly and effectively with employees, within teams, and across the organization is one of the foundations of a successful business.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thus, the ability to communicate might be a manager’s most critical skill.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The good news is that these skills can be learned and even mastered.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>These eight tips can help you maximize your communication skills for the success of your organization and your career.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Be clear and concise</div><div>Communication is primarily about word choice. And when it comes to word choice, less is more.</div><div><br></div><div>The key to powerful and persuasive communication whether written or spoken is clarity and, when possible, brevity.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Before engaging in any form of communication, define your goals and your audience.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Outlining carefully and explicitly what you want to convey and why will help ensure that you include all necessary information. It will also help you eliminate irrelevant details.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Avoid unnecessary words and overly flowery language, which can distract from your message.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Prepare ahead of time</div><div>Know what you are going to say and how you are going to say before you begin any type of communication.</div><div><br></div><div>However, being prepared means more than just practicing a presentation.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Preparation also involves thinking about the entirety of the communication, from start to finish. Research the information you may need to support your message. Consider how you will respond to questions and criticisms. Try to anticipate the unexpected.</div><div><br></div><div>Before a performance review, for instance, prepare a list of concrete examples of your employee’s behavior to support your evaluation.</div><div><br></div><div>Before engaging in a salary or promotion negotiation, know exactly what you want. Be ready to discuss ranges and potential compromises; know what you are willing to accept and what you aren’t.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Before entering into any conversation, brainstorm potential questions, requests for additional information or clarification, and disagreements so you are ready to address them calmly and clearly.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Be mindful of nonverbal communication</div><div>Our facial expressions, gestures, and body language can, and often do, say more than our words.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Nonverbal cues can have between 65 and 93 percent more impact than the spoken word. And we are more likely to believe the nonverbal signals over spoken words if the two are in disagreement.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Leaders must be especially adept at reading nonverbal cues.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Employees who may be unwilling to voice disagreements or concerns, for instance, may show their discomfort through crossed arms or an unwillingness to make eye contact. If you are aware of others’ body language, you may be able to adjust your communication tactics appropriately.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, leaders must also be able to control their own nonverbal communications.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Your nonverbal cues must, at all times, support your message. At best, conflicting verbal and nonverbal communication can cause confusion. At worst, it can undermine your message and your team’s confidence in you, your organization, and even in themselves.&nbsp; According to media reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 14:54:21', '2023-01-21 14:54:21'),
(4643, 4643, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Shah Rukh Khan’s much-awaited film Pathaan is already exceeding expectations at the Indian box office as the film’s advance ticket sales surge. By the looks of the ticket sales, it seems as if SRK fans are unfazed by the controversies surrounding the film and are making sure they get to catch a glimpse of their favourite superstar as Pathaan, an Indian spy, on the big screen.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to The Indian Express, the Hindi and Telugu versions of Pathaan have sold the maximum tickets in the country. It has already amassed a gross collection of INR140 million, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. Out of the INR140 million, INR17.9 million comes from the NCR region and same amount from Mumbai. Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Kolkata are also major contributors to the advance sales figures. According to Bollywood Hungama, Pathaan is expected to open with around INR400 million on day one.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year, we saw Aayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra collect INR196.6 million in advance sales, becoming the third biggest Bollywood blockbuster of 2022. Then came Kartik Aaryan’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 that managed to make INR65.5 million from advance bookings and Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha with INR55.2 million. SRK’s Pathaan has six days to beat Brahmastra’s record at the Indian box office.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Indian Express, Ashish Saksena, COO of Cinemas, BookMyShow, shared that SRK’s action-thriller has sold 400,000 advance tickets via online ticketing in less than 36 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>“The response across India has been phenomenal with Hyderabad, Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Lucknow and Chennai leading the charge on ticket sales. South India has been particularly impressive showcasing an upward trajectory with Hyderabad, Chennai and Bengaluru contributing 26 per cent of the overall advance sales so far. With more screens set to open for advance sales over the weekend, we are confident that Pathaan is set to take the box office by storm,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Pathaan marks SRK’s comeback to a lead role after four years. Helmed by Siddharth Anand, Pathaan is a spy thriller that also stars Deepika Padukone and John Abraham in pivotal roles.</div><div><br></div><div>The film is scheduled to hit the theatres on January 25. - Dawn</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 15:35:30', '2023-01-21 15:35:30'),
(4644, 4644, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said their party will no longer allow any mockery with people in the name of election under the current government.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“People could cast their votes freely as per their wish without any chaos when the elections were held under the caretaker government. But they (AL govt) now don\'t allow anyone to vote. Their slogan is I will give my vote and I will also give your vote. We won’t allow such mockery with people in the name of election anymore,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul came up with the remarks while distributing winter clothes among the helpless and destitute people in front of the Thakurgaon district unit BNP office on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>He urged the government to quit power with dignity and hand over power to a non-party caretaker government for holding a fair and acceptable election.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said their party wants a fair and credible election to be held in the country. “But before that election, the current Awami League government has to step down. The election won’t be credible if you (AL) remain in power. You’ll surely indulge in vote rigging.”</div><div><br></div><div>Opposing the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the polls, he said if anyone casts a vote for the shape of a paddy it will be counted as a vote for the boat through manipulation.</div><div><br></div><div>He said Vote Verifier Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system is there in the democratic country where the EVMs are used for voting, but this system is not introduced in Bangladesh. “So, we won’t allow holding the election using EVMs.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said they have initiated a simultaneous movement together with people and the political parties to ensure a credible election in the country under a caretaker government.</div><div><br></div><div>He said if they can win the election then a national government will be formed with the representatives of the parties that are now carrying out the simultaneous movement.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said they have already placed a 27-point proposal to reform the state and ensure the welfare of people.</div><div><br></div><div>He said their party, if comes to power, will form an independent commission to identify those who are indulging in looting, corruption, and siphoning off huge money abroad during the rule of the Awami League.</div><div><br></div><div>“This government wants to turn Bangladesh into a country of Awami League. They (AL) have a slogan of \'one leader’s one country\'…we won’t let it happen. We liberated the country through a war 50 years back to establish people’s rights and establish a happy and prosperous Bangladesh. We have started the movement to this end.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul claimed that their party’s 17 leaders and activists have so far sacrificed their lives in the current movement for the restoration of democracy and voting and other rights, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, He said that Awami League has been deceiving the country’s people for over 14 years.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Our farmers don’t get fair prices of their produce while the fertilizer and insecticides are costly and not available. The prices of all commodities have gone up unusually. This usurper government is inflicting suffering on people,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader told people have no value to the current government since it is not an elected one. “This regime has got completely isolated from people and they have no relation with people.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-21 15:43:16', '2023-01-21 15:43:16'),
(4645, 4645, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \">US Department of Justice (DoJ) investigators have found six more classified documents during a 13-hour search of President Joe Biden\'s home in Delaware, a lawyer for Mr Biden says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some documents seized at the Wilmington property on Friday were from his time as a senator and others from his tenure as vice-president under Barack Obama.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lawyer Bob Bauer said \"personally handwritten notes\" and \"surrounding materials\" were also taken away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Biden and his wife were not present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The president offered access \"to his home to allow DoJ to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material\", Mr Bauer said in a statement on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month Mr Biden\'s lawyers said a first batch of classified documents had been found on 2 November at the Penn Biden Center, a think-tank the president founded in Washington DC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A second batch of records was found on 20 December at his Wilmington home, while another document was found there on 12 January, his lawyers said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After finding the documents, the president said his team immediately turned them over to the National Archives and the Justice Department.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A special counsel, Robert Hur, has been appointed to lead the investigation into how the documents were handled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The discovery comes as former US President Donald Trump also faces a probe over his alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents at his Florida Mar-a-Lago residence and his alleged failure to comply with a subpoena. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 01:47:51', '2023-01-22 01:47:51'),
(4646, 4646, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Peru has closed its famous tourist site Machu Picchu indefinitely over the ongoing protests against the country\'s president.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The government said it closed the site, and the Inca trail hike leading up to it, to protect tourists and citizens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of people, mostly foreigners, are currently stranded at the foot of the 15th Century Inca citadel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dozens of people have been killed in weeks of violent protests, which began when Peru\'s previous leader was ousted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rail services to Machu Picchu were suspended on Thursday, and some train tracks have been damaged, allegedly by protesters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are 417 tourists currently stuck at the site, tourism minister Luis Fernando Helguero said at a news conference on Saturday. More than 300 of them are foreigners, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are not the first visitors to be stranded at Machu Picchu because of civil unrest - last month, hundreds of tourists were airlifted out after being stuck there for several days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitting high on a mountain in the Andes, Machu Picchu is considered one of the new seven wonders of the world. It is hugely popular with tourists, with around a million people visiting every year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some visitors arrive at Machu Picchu via the Inca Trail, which is a famous multi-day hike.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, Peru\'s culture ministry said that those who had already bought tickets for the site would be able to use them for one month after the end of the demonstrations, or get a refund.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Demonstrators in Peru are demanding fresh elections and calling for the new President, Dina Boluarte, to stand down, which she has so far refused to do.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They want her left-wing predecessor, Pedro Castillo, who is in jail and facing charges of rebellion and conspiracy, to be released. Mr Castillo denies the accusations and insists that he is still Peru\'s legitimate leader.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities announced on Saturday that another protester had died following demonstrations in the southern region of Puno, where police stations were set on fire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 58 Peruvians have been injured in the protests, according to a report from Peru\'s ombudsman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the latest clashes, roads were blocked and police fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators in the capital, Lima.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Union has condemned the widespread violence and what it called the \"disproportionate\" use of force by the police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peru has been through years of political turmoil, which came to a head when Mr Castillo was arrested last month for trying to dissolve Congress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Boluarte has resisted calls to step down, including from some regional governors, and earlier this week urged Peruvians to ensure their protests were peaceful. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 01:59:54', '2023-01-22 01:59:54'),
(4647, 4647, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Turkey has condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran during a protest in Sweden, describing it as a \"vile act\".</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the Swedish government\'s decision to allow the protest to go ahead was \"completely unacceptable\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes amid growing diplomatic tension between the two countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey, which had appealed to Sweden to stop the protest, earlier called off a visit by Sweden\'s Defence Minister, Pal Jonson, saying the trip had \"lost its significance and meaning\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was hoped the trip could dispel Ankara\'s objections to the Scandinavian country joining the Nato military alliance. Turkey has so far held up both Sweden and Finland\'s Nato applications.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey wants political concessions, including the deportation of critics of its President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Kurds that it claims are terrorists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey is already a Nato member, which means it can block another country from joining. Sweden and Finland both applied to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rasmus Paludan, a politician from the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, burnt a copy of the Quran during the protest on Saturday afternoon outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muslims consider the Quran the sacred word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey is a majority Muslim country. Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement denouncing the act, which it said happened despite \"repeated warnings\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Permitting this anti-Islam act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of \'freedom of expression\' is completely unacceptable,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It added that the burning of the Quran was another example of the \"alarming\" extent to which Islamophobia, racism and discrimination had reached Europe, and it called on the Swedish government to take \"necessary measures\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sweden\'s Foreign Minister, Tobias Billstrom, called the act \"appalling\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Sweden has a far-reaching freedom of expression, but it does not imply that the Swedish government, or myself, support the opinions expressed,\" he wrote on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Separate protests both in support of and against Turkey were also held in Stockholm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Turkey cancelled the Swedish defence minister\'s trip, Mr Jonson tweeted: \"Our relations with Turkey are very important to Sweden, and we look forward to continuing the dialogue on common security and defence issues at a later date.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Demonstrators in Stockholm last week hung an effigy of President Erdogan from a lamppost in what Sweden\'s Prime Minister said was an effort to sabotage Sweden\'s Nato application.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Paludan held rallies last year at which he threatened to burn the Quran, sparking riots. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 02:18:24', '2023-01-22 02:18:24'),
(4648, 4648, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">When Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of Russian men in September last year, it took Adam Kalinin - not his real name - a week to decide that the best thing he could do was move to the forest.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IT specialist was against the war from the start, receiving a fine and spending two weeks in detention for sticking a poster saying \"No to war\" on the wall of his apartment building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So when Russia said it was calling up 300,000 men to help turn things around in a war it was losing, Kalinin did not want to risk being sent to the front line to kill Ukrainians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, unlike hundreds of thousands of others, he did not want to leave the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three things kept him in Russia: friends, financial constraints and an unease about abandoning what he knows.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Leaving would have been a difficult step out of my comfort zone,\" Kalinin, who is in his thirties, told the BBC. \"It isn\'t exactly comfortable here either but nevertheless, psychologically, it would be really hard to leave.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so he took the unusual step of saying goodbye to his wife and heading for the forest, where he has lived in a tent for nearly four months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He uses an antenna tied to a tree for internet access and solar panels for energy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has endured temperatures as low as -11C (12F) and exists on food supplies brought to him regularly by his wife.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Living off-grid, he says, is the best way he can think of to avoid being called up. If the authorities can\'t hand him a summons in person, he can\'t be forced to go to war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If they are physically unable to take me by the hands and lead me to the enlistment office, that is a 99% defence against mobilisation or other harassment.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In some ways, Kalinin continues his life as before. He still works eight hours a day in the same job, although throughout winter - with its limited daylight - he doesn\'t have enough solar power to work full days and so makes up his hours on the weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of his colleagues are now in Kazakhstan, having also left Russia after mobilisation began, but his internet connection via a long-range antenna strapped to a pine tree is reliable enough that communication is not a problem.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is also a lover of the outdoors, spending many of his past holidays camping in southern Russia with his wife. When he made the decision to move permanently to the wilderness, he already had much of the equipment he needed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His wife, who visited Kalinin\'s camp for a couple of days over the new year, plays a big role in his survival. She brings supplies every three weeks to a drop-off point where they are briefly able to see each other in person. He then takes the supplies away to a safe place which he visits every few days to stock up. He cooks using a makeshift wood-burning stove.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have oats, buckwheat, tea, coffee, sugar. Not enough fresh fruit and vegetables of course, but it\'s not too bad,\" he says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kalinin\'s new home is a large tent of the type used for ice-fishing. When he first arrived in the forest, he set up two camps five minutes apart; one with internet access where he worked, the other in a more sheltered spot where he slept.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As winter approached and the weather got colder, he brought the two areas together to live and work under one canvas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently, the temperature dropped to -11C, colder than he had expected. But now the days are getting longer again and the snow is beginning to melt, he plans to stay where he is.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Kalinin hasn\'t received a call-up himself, he says the situation is constantly changing and he fears he could receive a summons in the future despite an exemption in place for IT workers. He points out that although the draft is said to be over for now, no decree was ever signed to officially end it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilisation on 21 September, shortly after Ukraine\'s lightning counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region during which it reclaimed thousands of square kilometres of territory from Russian troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the mobilisation was necessary to defend Russia against the West. But many in the country protested, and there were chaotic scenes on Russia\'s borders as hundreds of thousands of people fled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The call-up had a profound effect on Russia. Until then, many Russians were able to continue their lives much as they had before the war. True, some Western brands disappeared and sanctions made financial transactions more difficult, but the direct impact on society was mostly limited.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mobilisation brought the war crashing on to the doorsteps of many Russian families. Suddenly, sons, fathers and brothers were deployed to the front line at short notice, often with poor equipment and minimal training. If the conflict seemed distant before, now it was all but impossible to ignore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet, public acts of protests are rare inside Russia - something that has been criticised in Ukraine and in the West. But Kalinin says people are rightly scared of what might happen to them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have a totalitarian state that has become so powerful. In the last six months, laws have been brought in at an incredible pace. If a person speaks out now against the war, the state will pursue them.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kalinin\'s life in the forest has brought him a certain level of popularity online, with 17,000 people following his near-daily updates on Telegram. He posts videos and photos of his surroundings, his daily routine, and of how his camp is organised. Wood-chopping features heavily.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although he admits that his wife, especially, is keen for the ordeal to end, he claims not to miss much about his previous life. He calls himself an introvert who doesn\'t mind being alone, and points out that his current situation is still preferable to being sent to the front line or to prison.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'ve changed so much, that the kind of things I might have missed have faded into the background,\" he says. \"The things that seemed important before don\'t have their power any more. There are people in a much worse situation than us.\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 02:26:26', '2023-01-22 02:26:26');
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(4649, 4649, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil’s army chief Saturday just days after the leftist leader openly said that some military members allowed the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The official website of the Brazilian armed forces said Gen. Julio Cesar de Arruda had been removed as head of the army. He was replaced by Gen. Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva, who was head of the Southeast Military Command.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula, who did not comment publicly on the firing, met with Defense Minister Jose Mucio, chief of staff Rui Costa and the new army commander in Brasilia at the end of the day. Speaking to journalists afterward, Mucio said the Jan. 8 riots had caused “a fracture in the level of trust” in the army’s top levels and the government decided a change was needed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent weeks, Lula targeted the military with criticism after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed through government buildings and destroyed public property in an attempt to keep Bolsonaro in office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The uprising underlined the polarization in Brazil between the left and the right.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula said several times in public that there were definitely people in the army who allowed the rioting to occur, though he never cited Arruda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a breakfast with the press, Lula said earlier this week that “a lot of people from the military police and the armed forces were complicit” and had allowed protesters to enter the buildings with open doors. In another interview, the president said that “all the military involved in the coup attempt will be punished, no matter the rank.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The comments were followed by Lula scheduling several meetings with the defense minister and the armed forces’ commanders. Mucio denied they had mentioned the Jan. 8 rioting, but he said relations between the military and the government needed adjustment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the eve of Arruda’s firing, a video of a Paiva speech earlier in the week was released in which he said the election results should be respected in order to guarantee democracy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rioters who stormed through the Brazilian Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in Brasilia sought to have the military intervene and overturn Bolsonaro’s loss to Lula in the presidential election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video posted on social media from inside the presidential palace on the day of the attack, a colonel is seen trying to stop police from arresting Bolsonaro’s supporters who had invaded the building. He asks for patience from the military police, which report to the federal district’s government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than a thousand people were arrested on the day of the riot and the morning after the disturbance, which bore strong similarities to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Congress by mobs who wanted to overturn former President Donald Trump’s election loss.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Brazilian Supreme Court justice earlier this month authorized adding Bolsonaro in its investigation into who incited the rioting in Brasilia as part of a broader crackdown to hold responsible parties to account.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the text of his ruling, Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted the request from the prosecutor-general’s office, which cited a video that Bolsonaro posted on Facebook two days after the riot. The video claimed Lula wasn’t voted into office, but rather was chosen by the Supreme Court and Brazil’s electoral authority.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula has been trying to reduce the high number of military officers in the government administration left by Bolsonaro. At least 140 military officers have been dismissed since Lula took office Jan. 1. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 03:45:55', '2023-01-22 03:45:55'),
(4650, 4650, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The second phase of the three-day Bishwa Ijtema – the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj – ends today (January 22, 2023) with ‘Akheri Munajat’ (final prayer).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalvi, son of Maulana Muhammad Saad Al Kandhalvi, will conduct the ‘Akheri Munajat’ at 12 pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As part of the rationalized traffic system, movement of vehicles remain suspended from 6 am this morning till the Akheri Munajat – from Bhogra Bypass to Addullahpur on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, Khamarpara Road, and Abdullahpur to Bypile on Ashulia Road.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The metro rail will run from 8 am to 5 pm today for smooth movement of the devotees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second phase of 56th Bishwa Ijtema began on Friday with \"aam bayaan\" (general sermons) after Fajr prayers with the participation of the followers of Indian Islamic preacher Maulana Muhammad Saad Al Kandhalvi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of devotees raised their hands, seeking divine forgiveness and blessings for peace and prosperity of the Muslim ummah. They also prayed for the country’s welfare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first phase of the three-day Bishwa Ijtema ended on January 15.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tabligh Jamaat has been organising the congregation in Tongi since 1967. In 2011, it divided Ijtema into two phases to accommodate a large number of attendees. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"7\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 05:24:02', '2023-01-22 05:24:02'),
(4651, 4651, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka once again topped the list of cities around the world with the worst air quality this morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 315 at 8 am today (January 22, 2023), Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with the worst air.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s Delhi and China’s Shenyang occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 313 and 245, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</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, '2023-01-22 05:32:52', '2023-01-22 05:32:52'),
(4652, 4652, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chris Hipkins was confirmed Sunday as New Zealand\'s next prime minister and he chose Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, marking the first time a person with Pacific Island heritage has risen to that rank.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hipkins got the unanimous support of lawmakers from his Labour Party after he was the only candidate to enter the contest to replace Jacinda Ardern, who shocked the nation Thursday when she announced she was resigning after more than five years as leader.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hipkins will be officially sworn in to his new role on Wednesday. He will have less than nine months before contesting a tough general election, with opinion polls indicating his party is trailing its conservative opposition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lack of other candidates for leader indicated that party lawmakers had rallied behind Hipkins to avoid a drawn-out contest and any sign of disunity following Ardern’s departure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In setting out his priorities, Hipkins said he knew many families were struggling due to the “pandemic of inflation” and that the economy would be central to his government\'s thinking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked if he would take on the same transformational approach to government that Ardern had promised after first winning the top job, Hipkins indicated he wanted to get back to basics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We will deliver a very solid government that is focused on the bread-and-butter issues that matter to New Zealanders, and that are relevant to the times that we are in now,\" Hipkins said. \"2017 was five-and-a-half years ago, and quite a lot has happened since then.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like Hipkins, Sepuloni first became a lawmaker 15 years ago and has most recently taken on the social development and employment portfolios as one of the government\'s top ministers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said it was “very hard to fathom that a working-class girl” from a small New Zealand town could end up as deputy prime minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I want to acknowledge the significance of this for our Pacific community,” Sepuloni said. “I am proudly Samoan, Tongan, and New Zealand European, and represent generations of New Zealanders with mixed heritage.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sepuloni said she’d already been receiving lots of humbling messages about another glass ceiling being smashed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opposition leader Christopher Luxon told reporters he’d congratulated Hipkins by text. But Luxon said Hipkins and Sepuloni had been part of a government that had “failed spectacularly” to get things done and that after the leadership change, it would be more of the same. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 05:38:00', '2023-01-22 05:38:00'),
(4653, 4653, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After getting the clearance for his much-anticipated film ‘Shonibar Bikel’ (Saturday Afternoon) from Bangladesh Film Censor Board on Saturday afternoon, acclaimed filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki said that he is thankful but does not want any filmmaker to experience what he had to endure film for the last four years.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I feel relieved to get this news finally after all these years. At the same time, I just want to say that whatever I have gone through for this film - I don’t want any filmmaker to go through those,” Farooki told UNB on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the last four years, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s 8th directorial film Shonibar Bikel - a Bangladeshi-German-Russian co-production, a political thriller inspired by the 2016 Holey Artisan massacre in Gulshan shot almost entirely in a single take, was stuck and denied the censor certificate from Bangladesh Film Censor Board. It features an ensemble cast of Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Zahid Hasan, Mamunur Rashid, Iresh Zaker, Nader Chowdhury, Gousul Alam Shaon, Indian-Bengali film actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee and Palestinian actor Eyad Hourani in the lead characters, and received multiple awards at different festivals across the world since being ready for its theatrical release in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the filmmaker claiming several times that the film was fictionalised based on the incident and not direct documentation of the event, Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud previously stated that the Bangladesh Film Censor Board did not grant the film its censorship as the board\'s members at the time considered a number of factors, including the internal security and external reputation of the nation. He also stated that the film did not properly highlight the contribution of members of the police, RAB and army during the 2016 Holy Artisan attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Unfortunately, it has been banned in Bangladesh on the grounds it could “damage the country’s reputation” and incite religious hatred. The only thing this Bangladesh-Germany co-prod could do to the country’s reputation is improving it, and its plea for religious tolerance is nothing short of touching. While the body of the film is shot in a single, excited take, it opens with a series of shots emphasizing the deceptive stillness of Dhaka on a lazy Saturday morning,” The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film in May 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Farooki and Shonibar Bikel continued fighting for its approval and censor certificate, Bollywood, in the meantime, moved forward with the movie ‘Faraaz’. The Hansal Mehta directorial is based on the same incident and is scheduled to have its theatres release in India on February 3, and the film narrates a more direct reflection of the actual event than ‘Shonibar Bikel’, many audiences and film observers opined after the release of its theatrical trailer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Shonibar Bikel\'s clearance was not granted before ‘Faraaz’, Farooki and numerous other acclaimed and renowned artists, cultural personalities and filmmakers expressed dissatisfaction with the media and demanded justice for the film.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The filmmaker and associates raised their united voice in two major events in the past year against the ‘unnecessary censorship’ and injustice against the film - first at a unique press conference on August titled “Golpo Bolar Swadhinata Chai” at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital, and also at the maiden edition of the daylong summit on December 30 titled ‘FAB Fest 2022’, organised by Film Alliance Bangladesh, a think-tank comprising stakeholders in the film industry and media professionals of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, when the release date of ‘Faraaz’ was announced and the trailer of the film got released on the T-Series YouTube channel last week, a united outrage cast over the social media platforms and many urged the censor board to rewatch and review the decision.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The members of the appeal board - consisting of actress and lawmaker Suborna Mustafa, Jatiya Press Club general secretary and former censor board vice chairman Shyamal Dutta, eminent silver screen actress Sucharita and former Additional Secretary Nurul Karim, saw the film on Saturday, before announcing that there are now no obligations to theatrically release the film.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Shyamal Dutta, since the film is not an exact adaptation of the events of Holey Artisan, there is no obstacle to its release. There is no need to add or modify any scenes; the events of this film have nothing to do with the events that took place in Holey Artisan. This is not a direct depiction of the events of Holy Artisan, and the appeal board suggested the director make such a declaration before realising the film.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“How does it feel to watch everyone else sprint while you remain still? I felt so useless for a very long time! Although I have no idea how it appears from the outside - but I can tell from the inside, there are no lonely people like artists. The feeling that engulfed me, along with my own worthlessness on ‘Shonibar Bikel’ for the past four years, was loneliness,” Farooki said, as his last theatrical work was the late Indian actor Irrfan Khan starrer 2017 film ‘Doob’ (No Bed of Roses), which was the Bangladeshi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally relieved with the clearance, Farooki told UNB: “I want to convey my gratitude to the Film Alliance of Bangladesh (FAB) alongside my colleagues and friends from the filmmaking community and most importantly, our audiences. Many people from different sectors of our society raised their voices for the film, and I am immensely grateful to all of them.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“To receive the film censor board\'s approval for ‘Shonibar Bikel’ - I had to wait four long years. I sincerely hope that no other filmmaker goes through something similar. The appeal board has yet to send us a formal letter regarding the censorship. We will complete all necessary procedures, include a disclaimer, and submit the letter after receiving it. We want the movie to be out on February 3 or sooner,\" Farooki said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 05:56:30', '2023-01-22 05:56:30'),
(4654, 4654, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque has urged developed countries to keep food and agricultural products out of the purview of war and sanctions.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Developed countries should be more responsible and proactive in ensuring global food security, the minister said at the 15th Berlin Agriculture Ministers Conference in Germany on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is a victim of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, he said, adding that as a result of this war, price of fertilisers has quadrupled, and price of food grains has increased significantly -- impacting food security.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I call upon the developed world to take flexible, unbureaucratic, and fast steps to mitigate this negative impact,” he told the conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlighting state measures to ensure food security in the future, Razzaque said the current government under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working to build a developed, sustainable, and climate-tolerant agricultural system, through which food security will be sustainable, nutritious food will be ensured, and farmers will have a better life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Land depletion, population growth, climate change, Covid-19 and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war have become obstacles, he added. “In this situation, I request the developed countries to promptly implement the commitments made in COP26, COP27 and other global forums.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference was held on the last day of the four-day (January 18-21) 15th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), organised by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Agriculture ministers of more than 70 countries and representatives of 10 international organisations participated in this conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the conference, it was mentioned that according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global hunger is to be eradicated (Zero Hunger) by 2030. But the reality is that the number of people suffering from hunger is increasing day by day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 70.2 to 82.8 crore people were affected by hunger in 2021, which is 4.6 crore more than in 2020 and 1.5 crore more than in 2019. Species extinction, Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war have added new dimensions to the food crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of this situation, increasing cooperation to build a crisis-proof, climate-resilient food system, to protect biodiversity, and to build a sustainable global food system were emphasized in the conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A \'Joint Manifesto\' (Communique) titled \'Food System Transformation: A Worldwide Response to Multiple Crises\' was also announced by high-level representatives and agriculture ministers of the countries participating in the conference.  UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 07:13:48', '2023-01-22 15:06:02'),
(4655, 4655, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Turkey on Saturday canceled a planned visit by Sweden’s defense minister in response to anti-Turkish protests that increased tension between the two countries as Sweden seeks Turkey\'s approval to join NATO.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A far-right activist from Denmark received permission from police to stage a protest outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Quran, Islam’s holy book. A separate pro-Kurdish demonstration was held later Saturday in the Swedish capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the scheduled Jan. 27 visit by his Swedish counterpart Pål Jonson no longer held “any importance or point,” because Sweden continued to allow “disgusting” demonstrations against Turkey.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jonson tweeted that he had met Akar on Friday in Ramstein, Germany, where they “agreed to postpone” the meeting in Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Relations with Turkey are very important for Sweden and we look forward to continuing the dialogue on common security and defense issues at a later date,” he wrote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bid by historically nonaligned Sweden and Finland to join NATO in the wake of Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine has been held up by Ankara, which has accused Sweden in particular of being soft on Kurdish militants and other groups that Turkey considers security threats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Swedish government\'s efforts to improve relations with Turkey have been complicated by demonstrations by pro-Kurdish activists, which have infuriated Turkey\'s government. On Saturday, anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan added to the tensions by staging a Quran-burning protest outside the Turkish Embassy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surrounded by police, Paludan carried out his protest while making disparaging remarks about immigrants and Islam. About 100 people gathered nearby for a peaceful counterdemonstration.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a separate protest later Saturday, a few hundred pro-Kurdish and anti-NATO activists marched through downtown Stockholm. Demonstrators waved flags of various Kurdish groups, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against Turkey. The PKK is considered a terrorist group in Turkey, the European Union and the United States, but its symbols aren\'t banned in Sweden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protesters also held up flags with the face of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan and walked over a photo of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swedish officials have stressed that freedom of expression is guaranteed by the Swedish Constitution and gives people extensive rights to express their views publicly, though incitement to violence or hate speech isn\'t allowed. Demonstrators must apply to police for a permit for a public gathering. Police can deny such permits only on exceptional grounds, such as risks to public safety.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish officials condemned the Quran-burning protest and Swedish authorities for allowing it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Permitting this anti-Islam act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of ‘freedom of expression’ is completely unacceptable. This is an outright hate crime,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. In another statement, following the pro-Kurdish protest, Ankara said that Sweden was in “clear violation” of the joint memorandum signed between Turkey, Sweden and Finland in June by not preventing “terror organization propaganda.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ibrahim Kalin, Erdogan’s spokesman, called the Quran-burning a hateful crime against humanity, while Erdogan’s nationalist ally, Devlet Bahceli, said parliament wouldn’t ratify Sweden’s NATO membership “under these conditions.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Sweden has a far-reaching freedom of expression, but it does not imply that the Swedish Government, or myself, support the opinions expressed,” Foreign Minister Tobias Billström tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 100 people gathered outside the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul on Saturday night, where demonstrators burned a Swedish flag and shouted slogans like “hands raised against the Quran will be broken.” A small group also gathered outside the Swedish Embassy in Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in January, an effigy of Erdogan was hung from a lamppost during a protest by Kurds. Turkey denounced a decision by a Swedish prosecutor not to investigate and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called the protest an act of “sabotage” against Sweden’s bid to join NATO. Turkey summoned the Swedish ambassador earlier this week and canceled a visit by the speaker of the Swedish parliament in reaction to the incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All NATO members need to ratify in their parliaments the accession requests by Sweden and Finland, which were made after Russia\'s war on Ukraine prompted the Nordic countries to drop their longstanding policies of military nonalignment. While Turkey says it has no objection to NATO\'s growth, it won\'t ratify the bids until its demands, which include extraditions of alleged terror suspects, are met. 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(4656, 4656, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Amazon Web Services plans to invest $35 billion in new data centers in Virginia under a deal with the state, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Millions of dollars in incentives to close the deal still require legislative approval, but General Assembly leaders in both parties expressed support in a news release issued by Youngkin’s office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, data centers have become a politically volatile topic, particularly in northern Virginia, where the structures are increasingly common and where neighbors are voicing noise and environmental concerns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Data centers house the computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, and demand continues to increase. But the data centers require high-powered fans and extensive cooling capacity that can generate noise. They also consume huge amounts of electricity that can require construction of high-voltage transmission lines to support them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bills proposed in the legislature this year would increase regulate where centers could be located.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor’s office said the locations of the data centers, to be built by 2040, will be determined at a later date. But tech companies prefer northern Virginia because it is close to the historical backbone of the internet, and proximity to those connection points provides nanoseconds of advantage that are of importance to tech companies that rely on the servers to support financial transactions, gaming technology and other time-sensitive applications.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill Wright, a Prince William County resident who opposed a massive data center expansion recently approved by the county’s Board of Supervisors over considerable community opposition, said Friday’s announcement shows that “the influence of big tech money has become intoxicating to our politicians.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that he does not object to data centers in and of themselves and hopes that the state will place them in areas that don\'t harm the environment, and in rural areas where jobs are needed. But he expressed skepticism that the state is willing to stand up to tech companies that want the centers in northern Virginia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Northern Virginia is being overwhelmed by these things,” Wright said. “We may as well start calling ourselves the Commonwealth of Amazon.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suzanne Clark, a spokeswoman the the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, said Amazon Web Services is exploring several site locations “in collaboration with the Commonwealth” but did not specify any sites.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Northern Virginia has been a tech hub since the formation of the internet, and now hosts more data centers than the next five largest U.S. markets combined, according to the Northern Virginia Technology Council. They have also proven to be a cash cow for local governments that embrace them — data centers now provide for more than 30 percent of the general fund budget of Loudoun County, a suburb of the nation’s capital with more than 400,000 residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another data center opponent, Elena Schlossberg with the Coalition to Protect Prince William County, expressed dismay that Youngkin felt emboldened to announce a data center deal in a year when state and local officials are all on the election ballot in Virginia — and as community concern over data centers is growing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“That is just mind-boggling that he does not see that communities are uniting” in opposition to data centers, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tweet, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said $35 billion represents the largest capital investment in Virginia history. In terms of jobs, the governor\'s office said it is expected to generate more than 1,000 jobs across the state. That pales in comparison to the 25,000 jobs associated with Amazon\'s decision in 2018 to build a second headquarters in Arlington County.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deal calls for Amazon to receive incentives from a new Mega Data Center Incentive Program, as well as a grant of up to $140 million for workforce development site improvements and other costs. Both will require legislative approval.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exact amount of the grant under the incentive program will depend on how many jobs are created, according to the enabling legislation under consideration by the General Assembly. It will also include temporary exemptions from a sales and use tax levied on data centers in Virginia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax, is sponsoring legislation that would restrict the placement of data centers near natural or historic resources. Petersen said Virginia risks being overwhelmed by data centers if protections aren\'t put in place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“In my opinion, the data centers are short-term financial gains with long-term environmental consequences. Industrial buildings with no actual workers are not the economy of the future,” he said. “In fact, they may well be obsolete in a decade. Meanwhile, we are losing valuable farmland and historic sites.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Amazon Web Services spokesman declined to comment on the record over how many data centers are planned and Amazon\'s preferences for where to locate them. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 07:34:36', '2023-01-22 07:34:36'),
(4657, 4657, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Paris on Sunday to celebrate 60 years of postwar Franco-German cooperation, with the historic partnership under strain from Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine and broader tectonic shifts.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Scholz\'s personal relationship is less than warm with President Emmanuel Macron, as the two leaders meet in the morning at the Sorbonne University before a joint cabinet meeting from 1:30 pm (1230 GMT).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But \"there are structural problems that go further than the personal relationship\", said Jacob Ross, a researcher at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The frictions are even felt by the public, with 36 percent of French respondents and 39 percent of Germans telling pollster Ipsos this week that relations were suffering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1963 Elysee Treaty signed between post-World War II leaders Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle provided for everything from military cooperation to youth exchanges.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then, France and Germany have often built the foundation for joint crisis response in Europe, and other nations are looking to them again now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Top issues to address include the Ukraine conflict, climate and energy, and European competitiveness faced with a new wave of buy-American subsidies in the US.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In both countries we are aware that we are the motor of Europe,\" Baerbel Bas, president of the Bundestag, Germany\'s lower house of parliament, told AFP in an interview.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m very hopeful that French-German relations will find new momentum thanks to the celebrations on Sunday,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Ukraine war -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Germany is still undecided on whether to deliver -- or allow allies to deliver -- its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Kyiv almost a year into the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impression that \"there is a united coalition, and that Germany is standing in the way is wrong\", newly installed Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France has been pressing Germany to move faster, dashing ahead on mobile artillery in April and light tanks this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elsewhere, moves to jointly develop next-generation fighter jets and tanks are dragging, while France is absent from a 14-nation Sky Shield anti-missile initiative led by Germany.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ross suggested that part of the problem lies in France\'s clinging to a historic self-image as a sovereign, nuclear-armed power with a seat on the UN Security Council -- in contrast to a Germany happy to leave defence questions primarily to the US in recent decades.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are early signs of change on both sides, with France re-energising its NATO role since the Ukraine invasion and Germany\'s 100-billion-euro ($108 billion) revamp of its armed forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Put to the test\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Away from defence, interlinked trade and energy conundrums are hitting both France and Germany.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Berlin, \"things have got very complicated because Germany\'s economic and political model is being put to the test,\" said Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, a former French ambassador to Berlin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without cheap Russian gas or nuclear power, Berlin has been forced to turn back in part to coal as renewables still can\'t make up the difference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France, by contrast, is scrambling to repair and replace its ageing nuclear reactor fleet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some in Berlin now fear China will follow Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine by making a grab for Taiwan -- which it sees as a breakaway province -- potentially severing Germany from a vital market.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And leaders across Europe fear distortions in transatlantic trade from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will pour billions of dollars into American-made climate-friendly technologies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Macron is expected to push Scholz Sunday to join a joint response, after securing backing from Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For France and Germany in particular, there are also fundamentals that must be tended to preserve the relationship into the future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The relationship has become less real\" for ordinary French and Germans, said Gourdault-Montagne, and \"lost some of its emotion\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 08:19:29', '2023-01-22 08:19:29'),
(4658, 4658, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A complaint was filed with a Dhaka court today against the chief of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Harun Or Rashid, and nine others over “vandalising” BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on December 7, 2022.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nazim Uddin, a member of BNP’s executive committee, lodged the complaint with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury (CMM).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also recorded the statement of the plaintiff, said Nazim’s lawyer Masud Ahmed Talukdar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the court has not given any order yet over accepting the case, said Arman Hossain, bench assistant of that court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 7 last year, a Swechchasebak Dal leader was killed and around 50 others were injured in a clash between BNP activists and police in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office, ahead of its December 10 rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police arrested 470 BNP activists and leaders in connection with the clash and they were sued in two cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations. 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, '2023-01-22 08:24:45', '2023-01-22 08:24:45'),
(4659, 4659, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Team India scripted a stunning series win against 2019 World Cup runners-up New Zealand with an emphatic eight-wicket win in Raipur on Saturday. The bowlers folded New Zealand for just 108 before India wrapped up the chase in just 20.1 overs. Shubman Gill, who was part of the 72-run opening stand with captain Rohit Sharma, remained unbeaten on 40 in India\'s chase.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the match, former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja made a stunning Rohit Sharma comparison statement on Gill, recalling his record double century in the opening game of the series against New Zealand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On Wednesday, in the series opener in Hyderabad, Gill had scored a record-scripting 208 runs. He became the fifth India batter to score a double century in ODIs and the youngest ever to the feat as the hosts beat New Zealand by 12 runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on his YouTube channel, Raja recalled the double ton as he hailed Gill as \"mini Rohit Sharma\", comparing his batting techniques to the India legend. He further added that Gill needs to change nothing his his game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Shubman Gill looks like a mini-Rohit Sharma. He has extra time and looks good. He has enough potential. Aggression will also develop with time. He doesn’t need to change anything. He scored a double hundred recently,” said Raja.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Pakistan cricketer was also full of praise for the Indian skipper as well, who scored a half-century in the chase, off 50 deliveries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Batting was easy for India because they have an outstanding batter like Rohit Sharma. He plays exceedingly well. He is an amazing striker of hook-and-pull shots, so a 108-run chase becomes easy,” Raja added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India and New Zealand will now face each other for the third ODI match on January 24 in Indore. 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, '2023-01-22 08:36:33', '2023-01-22 08:36:33');
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(4660, 4660, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh will not accept those Russian ships which are under sanctions.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said there are 69 Russian ships which are under sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We don\'t want to accept those ships which are under sanctions. We have developed good relations with the US,\" Momen said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said it came to them as surprise that Russia sent a sanctioned vessel. \"We didn\'t expect that.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Momen hoped that Russia will now send non-sanctioned ships carrying required materials.</div><div><br></div><div>Sanctioned Russian ship Sparta III was scheduled to dock at Mongla port in the southwestern part of the country at the end of December,2022 and unload cargo destined for the Rooppur NPP in Pabna.</div><div><br></div><div>But the authorities denied the ship permission to dock at the port after officials got a letter from the US Embassy in Dhaka saying that the ship was on a list of Russian ships sanctioned by the US. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 09:42:43', '2023-01-22 09:42:43'),
(4661, 4661, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a convicted member of the banned militant group Hizb ut-Tahrir from Dhaka\'s Jatrabari area.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The arrestee was identified as Tauhidur Rahman Tauhid, 32, an active member of the ‘Dawah’ and finance department of the militant group. He was sentenced to two years\' rigorous imprisonment by an Anti-Terrorism Tribunal.</div><div><br></div><div>Tipped off, a special team of Rab-2 conducted a drive in Dhaka\'s Jatrabari on Saturday and arrested Tauhid, Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Fazlul Haque, senior additional director (Media) of Rab-2, said.</div><div><br></div><div>Tauhid was indicted in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at the capital\'s Hazaribagh Police Station. He has been absconding for the past 11 years and continued his involvement with the militant group, said the Rab official.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the Rab official, Tauhid was actively involved in anti-state activities, holding meetings to conspire against the government and distributing leaflets and posters of Hizb ut-Tahrir to encourage madrasa and school students to be engaged in militancy, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Efforts are on to nab his associates based on his information. Legal processes are underway against the arrestee, said the Rab officer.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 10:08:41', '2023-01-22 10:08:41'),
(4662, 4662, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi\'s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country\'s information technology rules, said Kanchan Gupta, an adviser to the government, on his Twitter handle on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>While the BBC has not aired the documentary in India, the video was uploaded on some YouTube channels, Gupta said.</div><div><br></div><div>The government has issued orders to Twitter to block over 50 tweets linking to the video of the documentary and YouTube has been instructed to block any uploads of the video, Gupta said. Both YouTube and Twitter have complied with the directions, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat when it was gripped by communal riots that left more than 1,000 people dead, by government count - most of them Muslims. The violence erupted after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire, killing 59.</div><div><br></div><div>Human rights activists estimate at least double that number died in the rioting.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi denied accusations that he failed to stop the rioting. A special investigation team appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the role of Modi and others in the violence said in a 541-page report in 2012 it could find no evidence to prosecute the then-chief minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Modi was later named the head of his party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which he led to power in general elections in 2014 and then in 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, a spokesperson for India\'s foreign ministry termed the BBC documentary a \"propaganda piece\" meant to push a \"discredited narrative\". Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 10:29:00', '2023-01-22 10:29:00'),
(4663, 4663, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Seven years ago the mobile game \"Pokemon Go\" took the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same \"real-world\" appeal into their new basketball game.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>While players of \"Pokemon Go\" were guided by their mobile phones to real-world locations to collect magical creatures, \"NBA All-World\" allows players to challenge each other to games in the street.</div><div><br></div><div>John Hanke, the boss of Niantic, which produces both games, stresses that just as with Pokemon, players of the NBA game will also require only a mobile phone -- no expensive VR headsets or goggles.</div><div><br></div><div>He is pushing this hybrid-style game as a \"real-world metaverse\", distinguishing it from the experience promoted by Microsoft and others of users sitting at home with masks strapped to their faces.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think it\'s important to support what we do in the real world as human beings, like going out to the restaurant, meeting our friends and not staying at home,\" he told AFP in an interview.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Putting on a VR headset by yourself, to me it\'s a very lonely and scary future. I hope that humanity doesn\'t go in that direction.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In \"NBA All-World\", released this week in France and next Tuesday globally, players choose their favourite NBA star as an avatar and get to meet and play others in the street.</div><div><br></div><div>The social aspect of the game, Hanke said, made mobile phones the perfect device to play on.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is mobile, low cost and almost everybody has one,\" he said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>- Brand buy-in -</div><div><br></div><div>Niantic is hoping to cash in with microtransactions -- players can spend small amounts on virtual items that allow them to move through the game faster or customise their avatars with sneakers from brands such as Adidas or Puma.</div><div><br></div><div>Hanke concedes that the success of \"Pokemon Go\" has helped Niantic get high-level corporate partners onboard.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The success of \'Pokemon Go\' certainly helps us,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Now a cultural phenomenon with more than one billion downloads, \"Pokemon Go\" has generated roughly one billion dollars a year since its launch in July 2016, according to estimates from analytics firm Sensor Tower.</div><div><br></div><div>But Niantic has been unable to produce another hit even approaching that level.</div><div><br></div><div>And it has had notable flops.</div><div><br></div><div>It launched \"Harry Potter: Wizards Unite\" in 2019, only to shut it down in January last year because of a lack of interest.</div><div><br></div><div>Like many other firms in the tech sector, Niantic also made swingeing cuts to its workforce last year, slashing eight percent of its staff and halting four video game projects.</div><div><br></div><div>With this in mind, Hanke is playing down any suggestion that his latest game could reach Pokemon levels of success.</div><div><br></div><div>\"\'Pokemon Go\', as the very first game of its kind, I think took the world by surprise,\" the Niantic boss said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Maybe another game we create for the future will have the same kind of instant viral success, but that\'s probably not a realistic expectation because it\'s kind of an unusual case.\" - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 10:46:04', '2023-01-22 10:46:04'),
(4664, 4664, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least eleven people were killed on Sunday when a residential building collapsed in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The five-storey building housing about 30 people collapsed due to a water leakage affecting its basis. Rescuers are still working on finding survivors, according to SANA</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 11:33:29', '2023-01-22 11:33:29'),
(4665, 4665, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sgt. Bob Boese of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting was reported at 10:22 p.m. and occurred at a business on Garvey Ave. in Monterey Park. The shooter is a male, Boese said early Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials provided no information for several hours after dozens of police officers had responded to reports of the shooting.</div><div><br></div><div>Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people with a large Asian population that’s about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles.</div><div><br></div><div>Seung Won Choi, who owns the Clam House seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from where the shooting happened, told the Los Angles Times that three people rushed into his business and told him to lock the door.</div><div><br></div><div>The people also told Choi that there was a shooter with a machine gun who had multiple rounds of ammunition on him so he could reload. Choi said he believes the shooting took place at a dance club.</div><div><br></div><div>Saturday was the start of the two-day festival, which is one of the largest Lunar New Year events in Southern California. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 12:04:20', '2023-01-22 12:04:20'),
(4666, 4666, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population has already been infected by the virus.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>China a week earlier said nearly 60,000 people had died with Covid in hospitals as of January 12, but there has been widespread skepticism over official data since Beijing abruptly axed anti-virus controls last month.</div><div><br></div><div>China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement on Saturday that 681 hospitalized patients had died of respiratory failure caused by coronavirus infection, and 11,977 had died of other diseases combined with an infection over the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The figures do not include those who died from the virus at home.</div><div>Airfinity, an independent forecasting firm, has estimated daily Covid deaths in China will peak at around 36,000 over the Lunar New Year holiday.</div><div><br></div><div>The firm also estimated that more than 600,000 people have died from the disease since China abandoned the zero-Covid policy in December.</div><div><br></div><div>Tens of millions of people have traveled across the country in recent days for long-awaited reunions with families to mark the biggest holiday in the lunar calendar that fell on Sunday, raising fears of fresh outbreaks.</div><div><br></div><div>But a top health official said China will not experience a second wave of covid infections in the next two to three months after millions return to villages to mark the Lunar New Year because nearly 80 percent of the population has already been infected by the virus.</div><div><br></div><div>“Although a large number of people traveling during the Spring Festival may promote the spread of the epidemic to a certain extent... the current wave of epidemic has already infected about 80 percent of the people in the country,” Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>“In the short term, for example, in the next two to three months, the possibility of... a second wave of the epidemic across the country is very small.”</div><div><br></div><div>China’s transport authorities have predicted that more than two billion trips will be made this month into February in one of the world’s largest mass movements of people. Source: AP </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 13:17:38', '2023-01-22 13:18:12'),
(4667, 4667, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Condemnations continued to pour in from across the Arab and Islamic worlds over the burning of a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, by a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party, under the protection of police and with permission from the government, burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Saudi Arabia condemned the Swedish authorities for allowing the far-right politician to burn the Quran.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry affirmed “the kingdom’s firm position calling for the importance of spreading the values of dialogue, tolerance and coexistence, and rejecting hatred and extremism.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Egyptian Foreign Ministry decried the Quran burning as a “disgraceful act.”</div><div><br></div><div>A ministry statement warned that this “disgraceful act provokes the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world.”</div><div><br></div><div>“These extremist practices are inconsistent with the values of respect of others, freedom of belief, human rights and human fundamental freedoms,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Vile attack</div><div>Qatar also denounced in the strongest terms Sweden’s permission to burn the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm.</div><div><br></div><div>“This heinous incident is an act of incitement and a serious provocation to the feelings of more than two billion Muslims in the world,” the Qatari Foreign Ministry said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Arab Emirates (UAE) also condemned the incident and reiterated “its rejection of all practices aimed at destabilizing security and stability in contravention of human and moral values and principles.”</div><div><br></div><div>The UAE renewed its call to renounce hate speech and violence and underscored the need to respect religious symbols and avoid inciting hatred by insulting religions.</div><div><br></div><div>Oman termed the Quran burning as an “act of provocation to the feelings of Muslims and incitement to violence and hatred, by extremists in Sweden.” It underlined the need for international efforts to consolidate the values of tolerance and coexistence and criminalize all acts that promote the ideology of hatred.</div><div><br></div><div>Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah also condemned the Quran burning, saying the incident \"hurts Muslims\' sentiments across the world and marks serious provocation.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the burning of Islam’s holy book in Stockholm as a \"vile attack.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack on our holy book, the Quran, in Sweden today (21 January), despite our repeated warnings earlier,\" a ministry statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to Sweden\'s permission of the incident, Ankara canceled Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson\'s upcoming visit to Türkiye.</div><div><br></div><div>Senseless act</div><div><br></div><div>Iran also termed the Quran burning as an attempt to stoke hatred and violence against Muslims. Tehran said some European countries under the false pretext of advocating freedom of speech \"allow extremist and radical elements to spread hatred against Islamic sanctities and values.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Jordan joined the chorus of condemnations, stressing “the kingdom’s rejection of this act that fuels hatred.\" Amman underlined the necessity to spread the culture of peace and acceptance of the other, adding that \"condemning extremism is a collective responsibility.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Morocco said it was “shocked” by the Swedish permission of the burning of Islam’s holy book.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This hateful act, which offends the sensibilities of more than a billion Muslims, can fuel anger and hatred between religions and peoples,\" the Moroccan Foreign Ministry warned in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan termed the incident as a “senseless and provocative Islamophobic act that hurts the religious sensitivities of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world.”</div><div><br></div><div>Such actions are \"not covered under any legitimate expression of the right to freedom of expression or opinion, which carries responsibilities under international human rights law, such as the obligation not to carry out hate speech and incite people to violence,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The Foreign Ministry of the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan also \"strongly\" condemned the burning and desecration of the Holy Quran and urged the Swedish government to punish the perpetrators of this act.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement, the ministry also urged Stockholm not to allow such people to take provocative actions against the Islamic religion and Muslims in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) also condemned the Quran burning as a provocative action that “targets Muslims, insults their sacred values, and serves as a further example of the alarming level reached by Islamophobia\" and asked Sweden to punish those behind a \"hate crime.\" Writing by Ahmed Asmar - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 13:58:07', '2023-01-22 13:58:07'),
(4668, 4668, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>State Minister for Religious Affairs Faridul Haque Khan on Sunday told Parliament that a total of 1981 people were sent to Saudi Arabia to perform the holy hajj at the government\'s cost since 2014.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said this replying to a tabled question from Awami League lawmaker Didarul Alam after the day\'s sitting of the House started with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair in the afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister however said none was sent to hajj in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2014, the government started a programme to send a certain number of Muslims to Saudi Arabia for performing hajj at lowest package price, he said</div><div><br></div><div>Among 1918 who performed hajj at government cost, 125 people were sent in 2014, 268 in 2015, 283 in 2016, 334 in 2017, 340 in 2018, 314 in 2019 and 254 in 2022. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 14:53:19', '2023-01-22 14:53:19'),
(4669, 4669, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A truck driver was injured when a train hits a truck at Amtoli near Shibganj rail station in Thakurgaon sadar upazila on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Akhtarul Islam, Thakurgaon Road Rail Station Master, said the ‘Panchagarh Express’ inter-city train hit the truck when it tried to cross the rail tracks around 1:40 pm, leaving truck driver&nbsp; Sohel Rana, 45, son of Solaiman Ali of Sadar upazila, injured.</div><div><br></div><div>The train dragged the truck several kilometers after it got smashed.</div><div>Rail communication between Dhaka and Thakurgaon remained suspended following the accident, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Police are trying to remove the truck from the rail track, told officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Kamal Hossain.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 15:30:26', '2023-01-22 15:30:26'),
(4670, 4670, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday said the government will march Bangladesh towards the developed nation taking the women folks with it.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"In 2026, Bangladesh will complete the final graduation of developing nation, we will advance further, we are planning all our developing programmes keeping that in our mind, we will advance more taking women folks with us,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said this while a delegation of council of patrons of the Asian University of Women (AUW) called on her at her Sangsad Bhaban office in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>Chancellor of the University Cherie Blair led the team.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister\'s Speech Writer Md. Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after the call on.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister mentioned that the prime task of her government is to ensure overall development of the country including food, education and healthcare for all.</div><div><br></div><div>In this regard, she asked the AUW representatives to provide that educational curriculum which will make them entrepreneurs and skilled to build them as human resources to face the challenges that are coming in future.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Not only the general education, but provide the education which will make them skilled, not create unemployed,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina mentioned that she donated the land for the university.</div><div>\"Women education is essential for development for any country,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She briefly described various programmes of her government during her tenures.</div><div><br></div><div>While the issue of Afghanistan came during the meeting, the Prime Minister said that there is no scope to stop the education for the women in the name of Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>She also mentioned that Islam always patronises the equal rights of man and women.</div><div><br></div><div>In this regard, she said that she also faced serious opposition regarding the women leadership while she joined the politics.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the Afghanistan issue, she said that the present Afghanistan government forcibly stop the education for the women.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The whole world is witnessing this, no one is taking any step against it,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that she devoted her life for the development of the country and its people, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, Talking about Rohingya issue, the Prime Minister said that the government is imparting education Rohingya children with their own language.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 16:21:35', '2023-01-22 16:21:35'),
(4671, 4671, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday praised the World Bank for its continued support towards Bangladesh’s development.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said Bangladesh\'s growth has increased by 74 times since 1972, and the World Bank had a role to play behind it.</div><div><br></div><div>“After independence, the country\'s GDP growth was only $6.3 billion, which has now increased to $465 billion,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Kamal said this while speaking as the chief guest as the World Bank and Bangladesh celebrated its 50 years of partnership at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Finance Minister also said that Bangladesh is currently the 35th largest economy, and the poverty rate has come down to 20 percent, per capita income increased to $2,824 and average life expectancy increased to 73 years.</div><div><br></div><div>Highlighting the future plans, the Finance Minister said, “Our next target will be to turn Bangladesh into an upper-middle income country by 2031, and a Smart Developed Bangladesh in 2041.”</div><div><br></div><div>World Bank Managing Director (Operation) Axel van Trotsenbur, World Bank South Asian Region Vice President Martin Riser, Economic Relations Division Secretary Sharifa Khan, and World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan Abdoulaye Seck, among others, spoke at the function. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-22 16:31:38', '2023-01-22 16:31:38'),
(4672, 4672, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Mr Johnson visited the outskirts of the city on Sunday before being received by Ukraine\'s President Volodymyr Zelensky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Conservative MP said it was a \"privilege\" to visit the country at the invitation of Mr Zelensky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unannounced visit came as fresh questions over the former prime minister\'s personal finances emerged in the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They stem from claims the BBC\'s chairman Richard Sharp helped Mr Johnson secure a loan guarantee while he was prime minister. Mr Sharp went on to be appointed to his BBC role by the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During Mr Johnson\'s visit to Ukraine, in which he made no mention of the claims, he was received by Mr Zelensky and other Ukrainian ministers in Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I welcome Boris Johnson, a true friend of Ukraine, to Kyiv. Boris thanks for your support!\" wrote Mr Zelensky on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also visited the towns of Bucha and Borodyanka, to the north-west of Kyiv, which were occupied by Russian forces in March last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Russian troops were repelled, scenes of mass destruction were discovered in the two towns, including the bodies of civilians strewn along a street in Bucha.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Johnson said \"the suffering of the people of Ukraine has gone on for too long\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The only way to end this war is for Ukraine to win - and to win as fast as possible,\" Mr Johnson said. \"This is the moment to double down, and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Current UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was said to be \"supportive\" of Mr Johnson\'s visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Sunak is \"always supportive of all colleagues showing that the UK is behind Ukraine and will continue to support them,\" his press secretary said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Johnson\'s visit comes as increased pressure is being put on allies of Ukraine, including Germany, to supply more tanks to the war-torn country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week, the UK confirmed it would send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to bolster the country\'s war effort, a decision Mr Johnson\'s spokesman said he supported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Johnson has made several visits to Ukraine, both as prime minister and since he left Downing Street.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just a few days ago, he took part in a panel discussion on Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which Mr Zelensky attended via video link. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 02:46:24', '2023-01-23 02:46:24'),
(4673, 4673, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In many parts of the Christian world, female church leaders are no longer unusual. But until now, the Holy Land - where events in the Bible are set - had not seen a local woman ordained.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, a Palestinian from Jerusalem, Sally Azar, became its first woman pastor at an event at the Lutheran church in the heart of the Old City, attended by hundreds of international well-wishers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I got more excited seeing the excitement of other people,\" Reverend Azar told me. \"It\'s an indescribable feeling to take this step with the support of the church.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I hope that many girls and women will know this is possible and that other women in other churches will join us. I know it will take a long time, but I think it could be exciting if this changes in Palestine.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christians make up a minority in the Palestinian Territories, Israel and Jordan. Most Christians here belong to the Greek Orthodox and Latin Catholic Churches, which do not allow women priests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the ordination of women has been taking place in a growing number of Protestant Churches in the past few decades. These have small local congregations and run schools and hospitals in the Holy Land.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Everywhere where you have a patriarchal society and culture this is a major step,\" says the recently retired Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Antje Jackelen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Since I\'ve been ordained for over 40 years, I\'ve met many people who didn\'t think it was possible. But now they\'ve seen women actually serving as pastors, as bishops, as archbishops, we know it works and we know that it\'s actually in accord with the Bible.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Middle East, churches in Lebanon and Syria have already conferred holy orders on women, while at least one Palestinian woman is known to serve in the US.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Azar was ordained by her father Bishop Sani Azar. She insists that while his example inspired her, she never felt pressured into studying theology.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s what I wanted, what I was called to do,\" she says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a pastor she will take on different duties including leading services and bible studies in Jerusalem and in Beit Sahour, in the occupied West Bank, for English speaking congregations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a big, big day for the life of our Church, it\'s an important step forward and it\'s overdue,\" comments Reverend Dr Munther Isaac, Lutheran Pastor of Bethlehem and Beit Sahour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says he looks forward to introducing Reverend Azar as a role model at local Lutheran schools - which teach children who are Christians of all traditions and Muslims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rev Dr Isaac has written a book in Arabic about women\'s leadership in the Bible and in support of women\'s ordination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We accept women ministers, we accept women professors, we accept to go in surgery performed by women and it\'s strange that we still have to argue that women can teach the Bible or perform the sacraments,\" he says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This tells me that despite the progress we\'ve made as Palestinians, when it comes to empowering women and women rights, that there is still work to be done.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Supporters of Rev Azar believe she is the right person to challenge stereotypes and break the mould. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 02:50:33', '2023-01-23 02:50:33'),
(4674, 4674, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">New Zealand\'s incoming prime minister has vowed to protect his family from what he called the \"abhorrent\" abuse that his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, received while in office.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Ardern announced that she was quitting as the country\'s leader on Thursday, citing burnout.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Threats against her became more frequent in recent years and included a man claiming he had the right to \"shoot the prime minister\" for treason and treachery in a YouTube video.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris Hipkins, who was speaking on Sunday after MPs from his ruling Labour Party voted unanimously to endorse him, said a \"small minority\" of Kiwis were responsible for abusing Ms Ardern.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that \"it does not represent who we are as a country\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Men had a responsibility to call out misogyny, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he realised that putting himself forward as leader meant that he was \"public property\" - but that his family were not, and he wanted his children to have a \"typical Kiwi kid life\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Data released in June showed that threats against Ms Ardern had almost tripled over three years, and local media reported that at least eight threats against her had entered the legal system - including the man who filmed the threatening YouTube video.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police also had to investigate after handwritten fliers vowing to \"eradicate\" Ms Ardern were delivered to several homes in January 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Radio New Zealand spoke to a former intelligence worker, Paul Buchanan, who said he believed Ms Ardern would need more ongoing security and protection than any former New Zealand prime minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Hipkins, 44, was New Zealand\'s Covid response minister and has extensive political experience.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is set to be sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday after Ms Ardern formally steps down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He received a standing ovation from his colleagues after they gave him their backing on Sunday, and shared a hug with Ms Ardern, whom he described as \"my very good friend\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Hipkins has named Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, making her the first person of Pasifika descent to hold the role.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am proudly Samoan, Tongan and New Zealand European, and represent generations of New Zealanders with mixed heritage,\" she said. \"I want to acknowledge the significance of this for our Pacific community.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around eight percent of New Zealand\'s population identify themselves as being Kiwis with Pacific island descent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Hipkins will announce his full Cabinet later but has said he plans to keep the former deputy prime minister, Grant Robertson, on as finance minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outlining his priorities as prime minister, he promised to help Kiwi families and businesses through the country\'s cost of living crisis - which will be a key issue in the general election later this year. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 02:55:41', '2023-01-23 02:55:41'),
(4675, 4675, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As has frequently been the case throughout his unparalleled career, James Cameron made film history again this weekend.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">His long-awaited sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” has now made over $2 billion in worldwide grosses, as reported by Deadline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That grand total is after the film’s box office take from this weekend, the sixth consecutive weekend the film has occupied the No. 1 spot since its release in December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">CNN has reached out to “Avatar: The Way of Water” producing studio Disney for comment on the film’s latest financial achievement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Avatar: The Way of Water” is the sequel to Cameron’s 2009 extraterrestrial epic “Avatar,” which remains at the top of the list of biggest-selling films of all time, according to Box Office Mojo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another of Cameron’s films is also in the $2 billion club – 1997’s “Titanic.” Only three other films are part of that club – 2015’s “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens,” “Avengers: Infinity War” from 2018, and “Avengers: Endgame” from one year later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cameron is therefore the only director who can boast that three of his films are among the six to have made over $2 billion, as well as in top 6 bestselling movies of all time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The director is planning to release at least three other “Avatar” sequels going forward. CNN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 03:00:06', '2023-01-23 03:00:06'),
(4676, 4676, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The air quality of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka is deemed ‘very unhealthy’ this morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 283 at 9:05 am today (January 23, 2023), Dhaka ranked second in the list of world cities with worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and India’s Delhi occupied the first and third places with AQI of 317 and 227 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 04:09:38', '2023-01-23 04:09:38');

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(4693, 4693, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said, “The 27-point outline is BNP’s dream and we’ll explain it before people. One can never succeed without a dream. We’ll move forward with the dream.”</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mirza Fakhrul alleged that the government has turned the Jatiya Sangsad into a \'one-party club\' by destroying the country’s electoral system.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul Islam said this while speaking at a discussion meeting. The BNP Secretary General also said the government has ruined the electoral system to cling to power by force.</div><div><br></div><div>“They (govt) have destroyed all the democratic institutions. Is it a Parliament that they have formed? They’ve created a one-party club.&nbsp; It’s a club of Awami League,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that the electoral system is the gateway of democracy, he said the Parliament and cabinet are supposed to be formed to run the country through a credible election.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“But they\'ve destroyed the electoral system. People now do not go to cast their votes.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul alleged that Awami League has also destroyed the state structure by hanging onto power through a ‘unilateral’ election with 154 uncontested MPs and through vote robbery and taking votes the night before the polling date. “They have taken all steps to take all the state machinery to their favour.”</div><div><br></div><div>Under the current circumstances of the country, he said their party placed a 27-point proposal to reform the state and fix the state institutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Sammalita Peshajibi Parishad arranged the programme titled “The 27-Point Framework for State Reform:&nbsp; Explanation and Analysis” at the Jatiya Press Club. On December 19, BNP announced the 27-point framework for state reform.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said their party has been able to create a mass wave of people against the government through their recent 10 divisional rallies and other programmes. \"The stormy wave that has begun will wash away the current regime since people are not with them.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said the first demand of their 10-point proposal is the resignation of the Awami League government by dissolving the Parliament for constituting a caretaker government, which will oversee next election.</div><div><br></div><div>After that election, the BNP leader said they will form a national government with the partners of their simultaneous movement to implement the 27-point outline.</div><div><br></div><div>He urged the BNP leaders and activists not to be frustrated as they are fighting to restore democracy and people’s lost rights, and to protect the country from misrule and fascism.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Why would we be disappointed? We are being successful, and we are moving forward. Hundreds of our leaders and workers went to jail. I have never seen any type of despair on their faces.”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said they have been in an imbalanced fight since their opponents are very powerful having the entire state apparatus, guns, and pistols in their hands. “Indiscriminately they attack us using those and then file cases against us.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said a Swechchasebak Dal leader activist Mokbul was killed in police action on December 7 last in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“On the contrary, a case was filed against our 450 leaders and workers. So, the bottom line is, we have to protect our existence and save our people.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader also alleged that the government has politicized the entire judicial system, depriving people of justice.</div><div><br></div><div>The media also now cannot enjoy the freedom as they are being forced to exercise self-censorship, he said. “One detective has been attached to every media house. They dictate what to write, create headlines and what to prioritise and what not to prioritise.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 12:49:52', '2023-01-23 12:49:52'),
(4694, 4694, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The historic \'Mass Upsurge Day\', commemorating the 1969\'s movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, will be observed tomorrow in a befitting manner.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>On January 24, 1969 Matiur Rahman Mallik, a standard IX student of the Nabakumar Institution, and Rustam Ali, a rickshaw-puller, were killed in a police firing on demonstrators in Dhaka as Pakistani rulers desperately tried to suppress the popular uprising.</div><div><br></div><div>The killings spread intense protests across the country that eventually saw the fall of the autocrat Ayub regime.</div><div><br></div><div>It is said that the day teaches Bangladeshis the values of democracy and protest against oppression.</div><div><br></div><div>Different political and socio-cultural organisations have taken separate programmes in observance of the day. Bangladesh Awami League will place wreaths at Shaheed Matiur Rahman Smiriti Saudha atNabakumar Institute in Bakshibazar at 10am tomorrow. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader has urged party leaders-workers to join the programme maintaining health protocol. </div><div><br></div><div>On the eve of the day, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued separate messages, expressing profound respect for those who had embraced martyrdom in the historic movement in 1969.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The January 24 of 1969 is a historic day in the progress of independence and democracy of Bangladesh,\" the President said in his message.</div><div><br></div><div>Paying profound homage to the memory of those who were martyred in the independence freedom, he said the day has been remembered in the history of the country\'s struggle of independence and freedom movement as the day of mass uprising.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the historic Six-Point Demand in 1966 to make the Bangalee nation free from Pakistani rule, exploitation and deprivation.</div><div>The six-point was the charter of Bengalees\' freedom, he added. </div><div><br></div><div>He said after the six-point declaration, the speed of the freedom movement intensified and it spread all over the East Bengal.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The joint movement of Awami League as well as various political parties and student organisations accelerated the mass movement,\" the President said, adding that the then dictator filed the Agartala conspiracy case to foil the movement.</div><div><br></div><div>He said breaking curfew, politicians-students-teachers-mass people brought out a procession on January 24 in 1969 and demanded the release of Bangabandhu and other accused, and overthrow the military rule.</div><div><br></div><div>Class-IX student Matiur Rahman was killed in the procession by police firing, he said, adding: \"The blood of Matiur and other martyrs did not go in vain.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The withdrawal of Agartala conspiracy case, the release of political prisoners and President Ayub Khan\'s power handover due to the mass uprising was a milestone in the Bangalees\' liberation movement, Abdul Hamid said.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the path of this mass upsurge, the independence and democratic rights of the people were achieved, he said, stressing the need for working together to uphold the independence and democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid urged all to work together for building a prosperous Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the 1969 mass uprising.</div><div><br></div><div>In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon all, irrespective of party affiliations, to work together for building a modern, developed and prosperous nation dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the 1969 mass upsurge is a significant chapter in the history of the country\'s independence.</div><div><br></div><div>The nation achieved independence following the 1952 Language Movement, Six-Point Demand, 11-Point Demand, the Mass Upsurge of 1969 and the armed War of Liberation, the premier said. \"We got an independent-sovereign Bangladesh,\" she added. </div><div><br></div><div>She said the greatest Bangalee of all time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, declared the six-point demand in 1966 to liberate the nation from the exploitation of the Pakistani rulers.</div><div><br></div><div>To foil the mass movement of Bangalees, she said the Pakistani ruling clique had filed the Agartala conspiracy case in 1968 and arrested 35 leaders, including Bangabandhu.</div><div> </div><div>Recalling all the Bangalees\' movements en route to their independence, Sheikh Hasina said on January 20 in 1969, police opened fire on a procession of students on the street in front of Dhaka Medical College where Asaduzzaman was killed and many others were injured.</div><div><br></div><div>To make Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib free and oust the Pakistani military rule, the struggling mass people brought out a procession on January 24 in 1969, avoiding the ruling party\'s repression and violating evening law, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Matiur Rahman Mallik and Makbul of Nabakumar Institute, Anwar, Rustam, Milon, Alamgir and many others were killed in police firing, said the premier. </div><div><br></div><div>In the emergence of mass upsurge, the government of dictator Ayub was forced to release Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and other accused in the so-called Agartala conspiracy case, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As a result of this, Ayub Khan\'s government fell. The mass uprising of 1969 against mal-governance and exploitation still inspires us today. The martyrs, who sacrificed their lives in the mass 1969 mass upsurge will be remembered among the people who love democracy,\" she added. </div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said the Awami League government has continued the country\'s development and progress being imbued with the spirit of the Liberation War. </div><div><br></div><div>During the last 14 years, the government worked relentlessly and achieved tremendous success in all areas including socio-economic sector, she said, adding: \"Now the people even at the grassroots level are enjoying the benefits of the development.\" </div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh is now acclaimed as a role model of development globally,\" she said, adding that after implementing MDGs, Bangladesh is on the way of implementing SDGs and the country achieved SDG Progress Award, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said that Bangladesh achieved developing country status. The government is working to turn the country into a developed one by 2041 and it is also working to implement the Delta Plan by 2100, she continued. </div><div><br></div><div>\"With our united efforts, we will build a hunger-poverty free Bangladesh,\" she added. </div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 13:40:40', '2023-01-23 13:40:53'),
(4695, 4695, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The price of Brent crude oil with March delivery surpassed $88 per barrel for the first time since December 5 on London\'s ICE.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>As of 12:31 Moscow time, the price of Brent rose by 0.42% to $88 per barrel.</div><div><br></div><div>By 12:43 Moscow time, the price of Brent accelerated growth and reached $88.12 per barrel (+0.56%). Meanwhile, WTI futures with March 2023 delivery increased by 0.48% to $82.03 per barrel. - Tass</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 13:49:30', '2023-01-23 13:49:30'),
(4696, 4696, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A toddler died of the deadly Nipah virus at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital on Monday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The 7-year-old boy, Md. Swad, was the son of Sanowar Ali of Ishwardi upazila in Pabna.</div><div><br></div><div>Swad died while receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, the ICU in-charge at the hospital, said that the boy had consumed raw date juice - practically the only mode of transmission of the virus.</div><div><br></div><div>According to icddr,b in Bangladesh, Nipah virus is usually acquired through consumption of date palm sap contaminated with bat saliva or urine.</div><div><br></div><div>With Swad, two Nipah virus-infected patients have died at the same hospital already this year. The IEDCR recorded the other death on January 3.</div><div><br></div><div>A 35-year-old woman died in the district hospital after she drank date juice. The country recorded three deaths from the virus in 2022. Souce: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 14:41:02', '2023-01-23 14:41:02'),
(4697, 4697, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the ruling party will accept the decision of Election Commission (EC) over the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the next general elections.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We want the use of EVM in 300 seats in the next elections. But, we will accept what the Commission can do according to its capacity,\" he told a warm cloth distribution ceremony, organised by Dhaka North City unit of Awami League, on Kachukhet road adjacent to Mirpur-10 Square in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>The warm clothes were distributed among the cold-hit people on behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, said the BNP\'s politics is being destroyed after following invisible directives coming over the banks of the Thames River.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>BNP will never succeed in the movement and elections if it cannot come out of this, he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Terming the BNP a \"killer of democracy and the values of Liberation War\", the AL general secretary said how they (BNP), which create one crore fake voters, will repair the state. \"The Sheikh Hasina government will repair the state\".&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Claiming that the BNP destroyed the country\'s electoral system too, he said they destroyed the election system and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina repaired it.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>At the time when many big countries are struggling amid the ongoing global crisis, many people are praising the progress of Bangladesh, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina provided 30 lakh warm clothes for cold-hit people across the country, Quader said people have been suffering from cold during the ongoing winter and the AL government has remained beside them.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP cannot tolerate the development of the incumbent government, he said, adding that the AL always works for the people and that is why they are with it.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"People are not in favour of the BNP and it can be understood from the BNP\'s movement. People have turned away their faces from the BNP\'s fake movement,\" the minister said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>About US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu\'s visit to Dhaka, he questioned \"Why did the BNP leaders go to the hospital after Donald Lu\'s arrival?\"</div><div><br></div><div>Following the invisible directives, the BNP is conducting propaganda to tarnish the image of Bangladesh in the international arena, he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Industries Kamal Ahmed Majumdar and Dhaka North City councilor Abdur Rauf Nannu, among others, spoke at the meeting with Dhaka North City AL president Sheikh Bazlur Rahman in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka North City AL general secretary SM Mannan Kochi moderated the function. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 16:27:23', '2023-01-23 16:27:23'),
(4698, 4698, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka– More reserves of gas have been found in the Bhola North-2 gas field of the country.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources in a press release said that new gas was found from an appraisal well.</div><div><br></div><div>It mentioned that the drilling works started at the Bhola North -2 Gas Filed on December 5 last year and ended on January 17 this year after reaching 3,428 metre depth to the underground ground.</div><div><br></div><div>“Today (Monday) the discovery was made after completion of the Drill-Stem Testing (DST).”</div><div><br></div><div>The DST in exploration wells is the last step of oil and gas exploration.</div><div><br></div><div>“The actual amount of gas production will be determined after completion of the final production testing. But Bapex is hopeful that the field would produce 20 MMCF per day,” said the release.</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Power State Minister for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid thanked Bapex for the new gas find and said the gas exploration has to continue as per planning.</div><div><br></div><div>The state-owned Petrobangla has plans to drill a total of 46 exploration, development and work-over wells from 2022 to 2025.</div><div><br></div><div>Nasrul Hamid directed the officials of his ministry and subordinate bodies to further intensify the ongoing gas exploration and production activities, saying that the government has been working to ensure the energy security of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>He said efforts have been continuing to sign short and long term contracts with oil and gas producing countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Brunei alongside activities to increase the local gas exploration.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry also in a Facebook post announced the new find saying that the field would produce 20 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMCFD).</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;“This state-owned Bangladesh Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) brought good news at this moment of global energy crisis,” it said congratulating all its staffs involved in the drilling works.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on November 3 last year the ministry made a similar announcement about the discovery of new gas in the Bhola gas field.</div><div><br></div><div>At that time, State Minister for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid announced a new structure of 239 billion cubic feet (BCF) of natural gas from the exploration well No-Togbi-1 under the Bhola gas field.</div><div><br></div><div>“But this will take one-and-a-half to two years to start producing gas from the well and supply it to the national gas network”, he had told reporters while sharing the “good news” at a press briefing at his ministry conference room at that time. According to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-23 16:31:19', '2023-01-23 16:31:19'),
(4699, 4699, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine says four people were killed at the farm and three at the trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of San Francisco.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn’t immediately clear how the locations were connected.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">California state Sen. Josh Becker, who represents the area, said people were killed in separate shootings. San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa tweeted that one shooting happened at a mushroom farm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted just before 5 p.m. that a suspect was in custody.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There is no ongoing threat to the community at this time,” the sheriff’s office said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Television footage from the area showed officers taking a man into custody without incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aerial television images also showed police officers collecting evidence from a farm with dozens of greenhouses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shooting followed the killing of 11 people late Saturday at a ballroom dance hall in Southern California.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are sickened by today’s tragedy in Half Moon Bay,” Dave Pine, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement. “We have not even had time to grieve for those lost in the terrible shooting in Monterey Park. Gun violence must stop.” AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:14:58', '2023-01-24 03:14:58'),
(4700, 4700, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This means Americans would no longer have to keep track of how many shots they’ve received or how many months it’s been since their last booster.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposal comes as boosters have become a hard sell. While more than 80% of the U.S. population has had at least one vaccine dose, only 16% of those eligible have received the latest boosters authorized in August.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FDA will ask its panel of outside vaccine experts to weigh in at a meeting Thursday. The agency is expected to take their advice into consideration while deciding future vaccine requirements for manufacturers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In documents posted online, FDA scientists say many Americans now have “sufficient preexisting immunity” against the coronavirus because of vaccination, infection or a combination of the two. That baseline of protection should be enough to move to an annual booster against the latest strains in circulation and make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the yearly flu shot, according to the agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For adults with weakened immune systems and very small children, a two-dose combination may be needed for protection. FDA scientists and vaccine companies would study vaccination, infection rates and other data to decide who should receive a single shot versus a two-dose series.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">FDA will also ask its panel to vote on whether all vaccines should target the same strains. That step would be needed to make the shots interchangeable, doing away with the current complicated system of primary vaccinations and boosters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initial shots from Pfizer and Moderna — called the primary series — target the strain of the virus that first emerged in 2020 and quickly swept across the world. The updated boosters launched last fall were also tweaked to target omicron relatives that had been dominant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under FDA\'s proposal, the agency, independent experts and manufacturers would decide annually on which strains to target by the early summer, allowing several months to produce and launch updated shots before the fall. That’s roughly the same approach long used to select the strains for the annual flu shot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ultimately, FDA officials say moving to an annual schedule would make it easier to promote future vaccination campaigns, which could ultimately boost vaccination rates nationwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The original two-dose COVID shots have offered strong protection against severe disease and death no matter the variant, but protection against mild infection wanes. Experts continue to debate whether the latest round of boosters significantly enhanced protection, particularly for younger, healthy Americans. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:18:18', '2023-01-24 03:18:18'),
(4701, 4701, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Elon Musk returned to federal court Monday in San Francisco, testifying that he believed he had locked up financial backing to take Tesla private during 2018 meetings with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — although no specific funding amount or price was discussed.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 51-year-old billionaire Tesla CEO and Twitter owner is facing a class action lawsuit filed by Tesla investors alleging he misled them with a tweet saying funding was secured to take his electric car company private — for $420 per share.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the deal never came close to happening, and the tweet resulted in a $40 million settlement with securities regulators.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trial hinges on the question of whether a pair of tweets that Musk posted on Aug. 7, 2018, damaged Tesla shareholders during a 10-day period leading up to Musk\'s admission that the buyout he had envisioned wasn’t going to happen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in a soft halting tone, Musk said Monday he “had trouble sleeping last night and unfortunately I am not at my best.” He added that it was important for jurors to know that he “felt that funding was secured” due to his ownership of “SpaceX stock alone.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Just as I sold stock in Tesla to buy Twitter. ... I didn\'t want to sell Tesla stock but I did sell Tesla stock,” he said of the sale to make up for lack of funding from other sources for his $44 billion deal to take Twitter private. Musk sold nearly $23 billion worth of his car company’s shares between last April, when he started building a position in Twitter, and December.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“My SpaceX shares alone would have meant that funding was secured,” Musk said of the 2018 tweets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even before Musk first took the stand on Friday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen had declared that jurors can consider those two tweets to be false, leaving them to decide whether Musk deliberately deceived investors and whether his statements saddled them with losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk has previously contended he entered into the Securities and Exchange Commission settlement under duress and maintained he believed he had locked up financial backing for a Tesla buyout during meetings with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a July 31, 2018 meeting, the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan “confirmed unequivocally that they would support Tesla going private. That was part of what ‘funding secure’ meant,” Musk said Monday. “But in addition there was SpaceX stock, which could also be used.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first of the 2018 tweets, Musk stated “funding secured” for what would have been a $72 billion — or $420 per share — buyout of Tesla at a time when the electric automaker was still grappling with production problems and was worth far less than it is now. Musk followed up a few hours later with another tweet suggesting a deal was imminent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer representing Tesla shareholders, asked Musk if he “went with 420 because it was a joke your girlfriend enjoys.” Musk replied he thinks there is “some karma” around the number 420 — which is also a slang reference to marijuana — although he added he doesn\'t know “if it\'s good karma or bad karma at this point.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He then said the number was a \"coincidence\" and it represented a 20% premium of Tesla\'s share price at the time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After it became apparent that the money wasn’t in place to take Tesla private, Musk stepped down as Tesla’s chairman while remaining CEO as part of the SEC settlement, without acknowledging wrongdoing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, Musk had testified he thinks it is possible to be “absolutely truthful” on Twitter. \"But can you be comprehensive? Of course not.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, he again emphasized: “My tweet was truthful, absolutely truthful.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked by his lawyer, Alex Spiro, if he understood the charges against him, Musk said he\'s being \"accused of fraud. It’s outrageous.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shares of Tesla climbed $8.76. or 6.6%, to $142.18 on Monday. He said he never deceived investors. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:21:38', '2023-01-24 03:21:38'),
(4702, 4702, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Evidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number of uprooted people, the UN said Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for increased human trafficking, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Climate change is increasing vulnerability to trafficking,\" the UNODC report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While a systematic global analysis of the impact of climate change in trafficking in persons is missing, community level studies in different parts of the world point at weather induced disasters as root causes for trafficking in persons,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report is based on data from 141 countries collected from 2017 to 2020, and the analysis of 800 court cases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impact of climate change \"disproportionally\" affected poor farming, fishing and other communities mainly relying on the extraction of natural resources for their livelihoods, the report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once \"deprived of their means of subsistence and forced to flee their community,\" people were becoming easy prey for traffickers, Fabrizio Sarrica, the report\'s main author told a press briefing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2021 alone, climate-related disasters internally displaced more than 23.7 million people, while many others fled their countries altogether.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As entire regions of the world are at risk of becoming \"increasingly uninhabitable,\" millions will face \"high risk of exploitation along migration routes,\" the UN report said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN drugs agency noted that an increase in cases of human trafficking had been observed in Bangladesh and the Philippines after devastating cyclones and typhoons displaced millions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Droughts and floods in Ghana, and the Caribbean region -- subject to hurricanes and rising sea levels -- were also forcing many to migrate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Fewer victims detected -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While most of the victims of trafficking resulting from conflicts originated from Africa and the Middle East, a potentially \"dangerous\" situation is simultaneously building up in Ukraine as millions flee the war-torn country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The challenge is how to deal with human trafficking arising from war and instability,\" Ilias Chatzis, the head of the human trafficking and migrant smuggling section at UNODC, told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With regard to Ukraine, helping neighbouring countries and increasing support to the Ukrainian authorities is equally important, Chatzis added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Covid-19 pandemic limited the ability to detect cases, especially in low-income countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa, the report added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faced with the closure of public venues such as bars and clubs due to health restrictions, certain forms of trafficking, in particular sexual exploitation, have been pushed into \"less visible and less safe locations\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first time since data collection began in 2003, the number of victims detected worldwide fell in 2020, dropping by eleven percent compared to 2019, the Vienna-based UNODC said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:26:25', '2023-01-24 03:26:25'),
(4703, 4703, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Riot police tossed tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in new unrest in Peru\'s capital on Monday, and the nation\'s interior minister said there was no end in sight to the tumult gripping the nation.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several hundred protesters marched in colonial central Lima to demand the ouster of President Dina Boluarte -- some shouting \"Dina murderer!\" -- until police moved in with tear gas volleys.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This crisis triggered by the ouster of leftist and Indigenous president Pedro Castillo early last month stems largely from a gaping inequity between Peru\'s urban elite and poor rural Indigenous people in the southern Andean region who saw him as one of their own and working to make their lives better.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unrest has left 46 dead in the South American nation, and Interior Minister Vicente Romero forecast no relief.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The social protests will continue. We are working intensively with the defense ministry to resolve them,\" Romero told the state TV Peru channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a mass rally last week in Lima, another is planned for Tuesday by protesters demanding the resignation of Boluarte, despite authorities calling a state of emergency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We urgently need for Dina to resign,\" said Edmunda Canaguira, 60, who came to Lima from Sicuani in the southeastern Andes of Peru to take part in the mass mobilization.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"She doesn\'t listen to the people. It\'s her fault that we are in the streets this week -- without food, without being able to sleep,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Protesters, many from poor Andean regions, are also demanding a new constitution, fresh elections and the dissolution of congress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Civil groups have denounced repression by the security forces, but the minister defended police and praised their \"spectacular\" abilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Right now we\'re experiencing one of the highest levels of violence in recent times, since the 1980s\" when authorities were battling left-wing Shining Path guerrillas, said Romero.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He once again blamed a \"faceless\" group for financing protests in which he said 540 police officers have been injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities have long claimed drug-traffickers and illegal miners were \"manipulating\" protesters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trouble first broke out on December 7 after then-president Castillo was arrested and charged with rebellion after attempting to dissolve congress and rule by decree.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His supporters have kept up regular protests and roadblocks throughout the country, even at times attempting to storm airports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, there were still more than 80 blocked roads in eight of Peru\'s 25 regions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu has been closed since Saturday as train services to the popular tourist site -- the only way to reach it other than on foot -- have been suspended for several days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 400 stranded tourists had to be evacuated from Machu Picchu over the weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airports in the southern cities of Arequipa and Juliaca remain closed. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:29:24', '2023-01-24 03:29:24'),
(4704, 4704, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden on Monday that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Koran outside Ankara\'s embassy in Stockholm.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Erdogan\'s furious comments further distanced the prospects of Sweden and Finland joining the Western defence alliance before Turkey\'s presidential and parliamentary polls in May.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO members not to have ratified the Nordic neighbours\' historic decision to break their tradition of military non-alignment in response to Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised that his parliament would approve the two bids next month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Erdogan has dug in his heels heading into a close election in which he is trying to energise his nationalist electoral base.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Sweden should not expect support from us for NATO,\" Erdogan said in his first official response to the act by an anti-Islam politician during a protest on Saturday that was approved by the Swedish police despite Turkey\'s objections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is clear that those who caused such a disgrace in front of our country\'s embassy can no longer expect any benevolence from us regarding their application for NATO membership,\" Erdogan said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sweden reacted with extreme caution to Erdogan\'s remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I cannot comment on the statement tonight. First, I want to understand exactly what was said,\" Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Sweden\'s TT news agency.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Cancelled visits -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swedish leaders roundly condemned far-right politician Rasmus Paludan\'s actions but defended their country\'s broad definition of free speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want to express my sympathy for all Muslims who are offended by what has happened in Stockholm today,\" Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson tweeted on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan has already set out a series of tough conditions that include a demand for Sweden to extradite dozens of mostly Kurdish suspects that Ankara either accuses of \"terrorism\" or of involvement in a failed 2016 coup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sweden\'s courtship of Turkey appeared to be making headway with a flurry of visits by top ministers to Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stockholm has also enacted a constitutional amendment that will make it possible to pass tougher anti-terror laws demanded by Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But things turned sour when a small Kurdish group hung an effigy of Erdogan outside Stockholm\'s city hall earlier this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey summoned the Swedish ambassador and revoked an invitation for its parliament speaker to visit Ankara.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Swedish police decision to approve Paludan\'s protests drew a similar response.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey summoned Stockholm\'s ambassador for another dressing down and cancelled a planned visit by Sweden\'s defence minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan said the burning of the Muslim holy book was a hate crime that could not be defended by free speech.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"No one has the right to humiliate the saints,\" he said in nationally televised remarks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"When we say something, we say it honestly, and when someone dishonours us, we put them in their place.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, condemned Erdogan\'s position on Sweden.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with German title Die Welt, he said that \"freedom of expression, freedom of opinion is a precious commodity, in Sweden and in all other NATO countries. And that is why these inappropriate acts are not automatically illegal.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stoltenberg, who last spring was talking of a fast-track membership process of just a few weeks, added in the interview that the Swedish government had condemned the demonstration \"in very clear terms\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 03:37:45', '2023-01-24 03:37:45'),
(4705, 4705, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality remains in the ‘very unhealthy\' zone this morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 234 at 9:05 am today (January 24, 2023), the capital of Bangladesh ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is said to be ‘unhealthy’ while 201 and 300 is considered ‘very unhealthy’, and 301 to 400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and Bosnia Herzegovina’s Sarajevo occupied the first and third places with AQI of 247 and 223 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 04:30:45', '2023-01-24 04:30:45');
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(4706, 4706, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The overall number of Covid-19 cases around the world has now surpassed 673 million, with a sudden surge of cases in Asia and some other parts of the world.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count mounted to 673,506,825 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,748,110 this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US has recorded 103,888,296 Covid-19 cases so far, while 1,129,145 people have died from the virus in the North American country, both highest counts around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India reported 94 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths in 24 hours, the union health ministry data on Monday showed. While active cases have declined to 1,934, the South Asian country’s total coronavirus cases have reached 4.47 crore so far. The overall death toll stood at 5,30,735 since the onset of the pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population had already been infected.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh reported 12 more Covid-19 cases in 24 hours till Monday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new cases, the country\'s total caseload rose to 2,037,456, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,441 as no new fatalities were reported. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 04:52:54', '2023-01-24 04:52:54'),
(4707, 4707, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Poor visibility caused by dense fogs disrupted ferry movements for 5.30 hours on Aricha-Kazirhat route early today, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Paturia Ghat officials said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Dense fog blanketed the Aricha-Kazirhat river route on the river Jamuna, forcing us to suspend the ferry movements at 2 am on Tuesday. The services were resumed 5.30 hours later at 7.30 am today (Tuesday),\" BIWTC\'s Deputy General Manager (DGM) Shah Mohammad Khaled Newaz said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said at midnight after the fog density was increased and the route appeared \"almost invisible\" when all of the ferries, which were to operate during the subsequent hours, were asked to remain stationed at terminals or on the midstream.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official said two ferries Kostory and Begum Rokeya were stranded at Kazirhat Ghat, three ferries Shah Enayetpuri, Shah Ali and Kunjolota at Aricha Ghat and one ferry Begum Sufia Kamal in the midstream of the Jamuna river in Aricha-Kazirhat route with vehicles and passengers during the period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Officials said the fog simultaneously forced suspension of movement of other vessels like engine-run country boats and launches in the river route.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They said the visibility largely returned at about 7.30 am on the Aricha-Kazirhat route. BIWTC, DGM Newaz said the ferry movement is now normal. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 05:29:10', '2023-01-24 14:52:40'),
(4708, 4708, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the three-day annual conference of deputy commissioners (DCs) in the city.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She opened the DC Conference-2023 at the Shapla Hall of the Prime Minister\'s Office (PMO) this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain gave the address of welcome as PM\'s Principal Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi GSM Zafarullah addressed the function on behalf of the divisional commissioners while Narsingdi DC Abu Nayeem Mohammad Maruf Khan and Bandarban DC Yasmin Parvin Tibriji also spoke on behalf of the deputy commissioners.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the overall development of the local administration was screened at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the inaugural function at the PMO, the DC conference will take place at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his welcome address, Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain said a total of 245 proposals placed by the DCs will be discussed in 26 working sessions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Head of the government as well as ministers and secretaries of different ministries and divisions will join the discussion and give necessary directives to the DCs, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposals related to improving law and order situation, health, land, management and education would get priority in the three-day conference, which is scheduled to end on January 26, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cabinet secretary said that the DCs placed 242 proposals in the last year\'s conference, of which 177 were implemented while implementation of the remaining 66 proposals is underway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the conference schedule, the DCs will pay call on Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique on January 25 on the second day of the conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will also pay call on President M Abdul Hamid on the third day of the conference. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 05:40:27', '2023-01-24 05:40:57'),
(4709, 4709, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">If I had to put my finger on a specific moment in the early portions of Siddharth Anand’s War that announces the film’s swag and style, and signals that we’re in for something more triumphant than forgettable Bollywood action fair --it would be the end of the first scene. After Kabir (an endlessly watchable, ultra-smooth Hrithik Roshan with a remarkable command over his presence) has just shot and killed his own handler, we see him walking off a rooftop.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Behind him, a glitching red neon sign that should read “Hotel Lotus” instead flashes the word “Hell”. It’s that cheeky moment, I think, that tells us that we’re in for something more than the overly processed, blurry guns-and-glory action movie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The rare Hindi movie that beautifully blends the scale and slick execution of a Hollywood action flick with Bollywood masala tropes and an unabashed celebration of stardom, War is the definitive Bollywood action movie of the modern age. And on this, the eve of Pathaan, it’s worth revisiting its achievement. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">For one, War is full of memorable set pieces – the thrilling Portugal bike chase for starters. But, for me, none capture the film’s polished execution and finesse quite like the airplane set piece, in which Kabir takes down a flight full of bad guys while it’s in the air. In another film, you can imagine this same, sleek sequence without the same craft, shine or rhythm, instead resorting to gaudy CGI and excessive showboating.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Then, of course, there’s the little matter of Hrithik Roshan. War marked the onset of Hrithik of 2.0, a transition we first saw signs of in Kaabil, which then came to fruition in 2019 with both War and Super 30. War marked the rise of a far more subtle actor. A star coming into his own, opting for the understated, embracing economy, and realising that less is, in fact, more. In War, Hrithik tears up the screen with effortless style like no one’s business. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">More than any impressive set piece or fight sequence, it’s Kabir’s attitude and presence that stay with you. Hrithik not only brings a brooding, arrogant swag to Kabir but also awards a sense of humanity to the agent who puts the mission above all else. Not to mention granting us perhaps the greatest Bollywood hero entry sequence moment in recent memory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">War equally benefits from the winning Hrithik-Tiger chemistry, whose real-life disciple-mentor dynamic bleeds into the film beautifully. It’s why War remains Tiger Shroff’s best movie. For once he was willing to be a part of a film rather than be the film. As Khalid, Tiger plays an actual character rather than a desperate-to-impress muscle machine forever in search of an excuse to backflip and break bones for two hours. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Khalid works not just because of the honesty in his eyes when he looks up to Kabir (homoerotic undertones aside) but because he felt fallible and human. It’s why you feel for the real Khalid when you realise he’s been dead for years. It\'s also just plain admirable that Tiger was willing to not only (partly) play the bad guy, but also play second fiddle to Hrithik.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Then there’s also the fact that War remains the rare film from Tiger’s testosterone-fuelled filmography to do actual justice to his impressive physical ability without feeling the need to rely on hyper-processed slow-motion shots and excessive cutting. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Take his entry scene, for example - arguably the most memorable sequence in a film full of them. The 3-minute-long unbroken shot sees Khalid burst into a roomful of drug lords in a villa in Malta, and systematically slice through them one at a time using only his fists and scattered furniture as weapons. It\'s an impressively executed single-shot sequence of pure hand-to-hand rampage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">At a time when the action genre within Hindi cinema is dominated by disorienting assault on the senses excess, like its hero Kabir, War was drenched in attitude, nailed what it set out to do, and most crucially, did no more than it needed to. A delicate balance of sleek and swag, Siddharth Anand\'s War is not only the grand Bollywood action film done right, he also gave us an ode to Hrithik Roshan. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Anand leaned into the star\'s Greek God-ness like few filmmakers before him while the star himself was at the peak of his craft. It\'s no surprise then, that King Khan chose the filmmaker for his own comeback project. But with Pathaan, Anand has his work cutout for him. The superstar he must do justice to and celebrate this time around, is the one we hold most dear. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The one who\'s in desperate need of a win. The one for whom action and testosterone doesn\'t necessarily come naturally. As to whether the director is able to work wonders again and both reimagine and revisit the Shah Rukh Khan mythology, we\'ll know soon enough. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 06:14:53', '2023-01-24 06:14:53'),
(4710, 4710, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kylian Mbappe became the first Paris Saint-Germain player to score five times in one match as the Ligue 1 giants crushed sixth-tier amateur minnows Pays de Cassel 7-0 in the French Cup on Monday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe, who scored a hat-trick in France\'s defeat by Argentina in the World Cup final just over a month ago, netted a hat-trick in the first half here as PSG led 4-0 at the break against their regional league opponents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He struck twice more after the restart, with Neymar and Carlos Soler scoring PSG\'s other goals in the last-32 tie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Qatar-owned club, who have won the French Cup 14 times, more than any other team, will now play away to bitter rivals Marseille in the last 16 early next month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That match is scheduled for the week beginning February 6, just a week before PSG host Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Once we scored the first goal it became harder for our opponents,\" PSG boss Christophe Galtier told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The opponents we\'ll face over the next weeks are of a different quality,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe was given the captain\'s armband while Neymar also started, but Lionel Messi was rested, allowed to sit out this tie played before a full house at the 38,000-seat Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pays de Cassel are a tiny club representing a handful of villages inland from the port town of Dunkirk in France\'s far north, but their remarkable run to this stage of the tournament stoked the interest of the whole region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They performed admirably in the early stages against the Ligue 1 leaders, but their resistance was broken just before the half-hour mark when Mbappe turned in a Nuno Mendes cutback, the ball taking a crucial deflection on its way in.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe then set up Neymar for the Brazilian to score his first goal since the World Cup, before the France star lobbed in his team\'s third and then completed a 12-minute hat-trick from a Vitinha pass.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbappe\'s fourth, and PSG\'s fifth, followed a goalkeeping mistake in the 56th minute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neymar set up Soler to backheel in for 6-0 before Mbappe completed the rout, his fifth of the game allowing him to equal the all-time record for most French Cup goals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has now scored 29 times in the competition, as many as former Marseille great Jean-Pierre Papin. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 06:37:44', '2023-01-24 06:37:44'),
(4711, 4711, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Oscar nominations for a year in which the big-screen box office finally bounced back from the pandemic will be unveiled Tuesday, with Academy voters expected to reward blockbusters such as \"Top Gun: Maverick\" for helping to save movie theaters.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom Cruise\'s long-awaited sequel to his huge 1986 hit is the most likely crowd-pleaser to make the cut for best picture -- Hollywood\'s most coveted prize -- but other popular follow-ups including \"Avatar: The Way of Water\" and \"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\" could also get a nod.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will compete with a wide range of movies, from word-of-mouth sci-fi smash \"Everything Everywhere All At Once\" to Steven Spielberg\'s quasi-memoir \"The Fabelmans,\" which wowed many critics but didn\'t persuade theatergoers to pay up.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other films firmly on the radar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters are Irish black comedy \"The Banshees of Inisherin,\" Baz Luhrmann\'s rock-and-roll biopic \"Elvis,\" and Cate Blanchett\'s latest tour-de-force \"Tar.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This year is one of the more unknown years,\" said Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I probably have put more effort into talking to Academy members to try to gauge their interest and see where the race is headed than in any other year in my life,\" he told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"And I probably know the least I\'ve ever known in my career.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A major complicating factor for Oscars prognosticators is the recent massive growth in the number of international Academy voters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those members have been credited with surprises such as South Korea\'s \"Parasite\" winning best picture in 2020, and Japan\'s \"Drive My Car\" being nominated last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'ve had international features get in the past few years, and I think that streak could continue,\" said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Germany\'s World War I drama \"All Quiet on the Western Front\" has built major momentum, scooping a massive 14 nods last week for Britain\'s BAFTAs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another best picture contender could be \"RRR,\" an unapologetically over-the-top Indian action film that has built grassroots support to become a hugely popular favorite in Hollywood.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"RRR\" cannot be nominated for best international feature, however, as India opted instead to submit \"Last Film Show\" as the country\'s official pick for that category.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"No shade to the movie they did choose, which is actually very good, but \'RRR\' was a slam dunk,\" said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Acting races -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the individual categories, Brendan Fraser (\"The Whale\"), Colin Farrell (\"The Banshees of Inisherin\") and Austin Butler (\"Elvis\") are clear favorites to score best actor nominations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Double Oscar-winner Blanchett appears to be locked in a two-way battle atop the best actress section with Michelle Yeoh, who could make history with \"Everything Everywhere.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"She\'s going be the second Asian woman ever nominated for lead actress in 95 years\" of the Oscars, said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her co-star Ke Huy Quan -- who appeared as a child in \"Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom\" almost four decades ago -- is likely to cement a remarkable comeback with a nod for best supporting actor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The best supporting actress category is expected to feature Angela Bassett, who would become the first star in a Marvel superhero movie to ever earn an Oscar acting nomination with \"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spielberg is among those predicted to make the best director shortlist.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Saved movies\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actors Riz Ahmed (\"Sound of Metal\") and Allison Williams (\"Girls\") will unveil the nominations Tuesday from Los Angeles starting at 5:30 am (1330 GMT).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Television ratings for award shows including the Oscars have trended downwards, as Academy voters in recent years have veered toward honoring lesser-known indie hits like \"Nomadland\" and \"CODA.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many in the industry will be hoping for a healthy spread of nominations among 2022\'s crowd-pleasing sequels, which were sorely needed as giants such as Cineworld, the world\'s second biggest cinema chain, filed for bankruptcy protection.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">James Cameron\'s sci-fi epic \"Avatar: The Way of Water\" sailed past the $2 billion mark globally last weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Top Gun: Maverick,\" which came out in May during highly uncertain times for movie theaters, earned around $1.5 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"That\'s the one that feels like it could actually win best picture,\" said Davis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What better story the day after the Oscars air, than that the movie that saved movies was named the best movie? That\'s a good story to tell.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 06:46:12', '2023-01-24 06:46:12'),
(4712, 4712, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Elon Musk on Monday told jurors that his 2018 tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 a share was no joke and that Saudi Arabia\'s sovereign wealth fund was serious about helping him do it.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tesla chief returned to the witness stand to answer questions from lawyers for angry investors who accuse him of costing them millions of dollars with a pair of allegedly false tweets about having the funding secured to buy them out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lawyer for the plaintiffs focused on Musk\'s buyout figure of 420, a number that is also a popular rallying code for marijuana, which Musk uses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"420 was not chosen because of a joke; it was chosen because there was a 20 percent premium over the stock price,\" Musk said when asked if he was having a laugh when he made the tweet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk added, however, that there was \"some karma around 420\", though \"I should question whether that is good or bad karma at this point.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case revolves around a pair of tweets in which Musk said \"funding secured\" for a project to buy out the publicly-traded electric automaker, then in a second tweet added that \"investor support is confirmed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tweets sent the Tesla share price on a rollercoaster ride and Musk was sued by shareholders who say the tycoon acted recklessly in an effort to squeeze investors who had bet, or \"gone short,\" against the company.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk referred to short sellers as \"evil\" at the trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s difficult to appreciate just now just how much attack Tesla was under by short sellers who wanted Tesla to die,\" Musk told jurors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Done deal\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Musk said he fired off the tweets at issue after learning of a Financial Times story about a Saudi Arabian investment fund wanting to acquire a stake in Tesla.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My concern was that if they knew all of this information, then they could also potentially know about the take-private,\" Musk said of the news report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk testified that Saudi Arabia\'s sovereign wealth fund was \"unequivocally, without question\" supportive of his project, adding that the head of the fund told him that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was also on board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So essentially I took that to mean it was a done deal,\" Musk said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When confronted with exchanges with the Saudi fund that showed they wanted more details before committing to his buyout plan, Musk said the fund was \"backpedalling\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk testified that he understood the fund would do whatever it took to take Tesla private and had plenty of money to do it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The billionaire added that even without the Saudi fund, he had the personal wealth to take Tesla private at the time, including by using his shares in SpaceX, the company he also runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk said he had shared some details of his plan with tech billionaire and Tesla investor Larry Ellison, who is among witnesses slated to testify at the fraud trial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During testimony last week, a Harvard professor called as a witness by the plaintiffs said that Musk\'s plans were \"illusory\" and deviated wildly from the way such mega-deals usually take place.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his own opening remarks, Musk attorney Alex Spiro said that even though the tweets may have been a \"reckless choice of words\", they were \"not fraud, not even close.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m being accused of fraud; it\'s outrageous,\" Musk said as his lawyer took over the questioning on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tycoon\'s testimony is set to conclude on Tuesday. 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(4713, 4713, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the deputy commissioners (DCs) to take only necessary projects alongside implementing 25 directives including putting emphasis on increasing food production and taking measures for saving electricity and energy.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The projects which are necessary at this moment, we only want to take those instead of going for wholesale manner keeping in mind the global economic recession due to Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said this while opening the three-day annual DC Conference-2023 at the Shapla Hall of her office here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked the DCs to consider “how many projects are effective and beneficial for the particular areas and their people whenever taking those”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier also asked them to take into consideration saving money from the projects by avoiding unnecessary expenses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling upon the DCs to work with priority in implementing her 25 directives for making a developed, prosperous and Smart Bangladesh by 2041, she said, \"I am asking you to give attention to take some measures (25 directives)\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister however expressed her satisfaction to the field level administration for their sincerity and cooperation to implement the government plans, policies and programmes properly at the grassroots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bangladesh has marched ahead and we have got global acclamation as you are working for the country and its people with professional duty and sincerity,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said that she witnessed sincerity among the local administration since her government assumed office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to a speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she asked local administration officials to be public servants as their salaries and other benefits are being given from the taxes of the people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Work for serving the people by devoting yourselves and then you will get satisfaction,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain gave the address of welcome as PM\'s Principal Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah also spoke.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner GSM Zafarullah addressed the function on behalf of the divisional commissioners while Narsingdi DC Abu Nayeem Mohammad Maruf Khan and Bandarban DC Yasmin Parvin Tibriji, as well, spoke on behalf of the deputy commissioners.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the overall development of the local administration was screened at the function. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 07:26:30', '2023-01-24 07:26:30'),
(4714, 4714, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least four people were injured in an explosion in Dhaka\'s Moghbazar area earlier today.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blast occurred at around 9:45 am in front of a medicine store in the Moghbazar Wireless area and the injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Abul Hasan, officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured are Saiful Islam, 36; Tareq, 20; Abul Kalam, 25; and Md Shaheen, 30.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason behind the explosion could not be known yet, added the OC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"However, we are looking into whether it was a crude bomb or anything else,\" said Abul Hasan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured are now receiving treatment at the hospital, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police outpost.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“All are out of danger,” he added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 08:24:28', '2023-01-24 08:24:28'),
(4715, 4715, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">New Zealand skipper Tom Latham won the toss and elected to bowl against India as the tourists look to avoid a series sweep in Tuesday\'s third one-day international at Indore.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kiwis made one change after their eight-wicket hammering in the second match, with fast bowler Jacob Duffy coming in for Henry Shipley.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India made two changes with Umran Malik and Yuzvendra Chahal replacing Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">With an unassailable 2-0 series lead and preparations for this year\'s ODI World Cup underway, India skipper Rohit Sharma said he would have chosen to bat first to test his bowlers under lights and dew.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Teams</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>India: </b>Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubhman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>New Zealand:</b> Finn Allen, Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (capt), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner, Jacob Duffy, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (IND), Nitin Menon (IND)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">TV Umpire: Anil Chaudhary (IND)</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Match Referee: Javagal Srinath (IND). AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 08:39:07', '2023-01-24 08:39:07'),
(4716, 4716, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>In a historic judgment on Tuesday, the High Court said that from now mothers too will be recognised as the legal guardians of children in different official documents.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil pronounced the judgment.</div><div><br></div><div>After hearing on January 16, the court fixed January 24 for delivering the verdict on whether mothers will be recognised as the children’s legal guardian or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Ainun Nahar Siddiqua, Advocate SM Rezaul Karim and Advocate Ayesha Akhter stood for the petitioner at the court while Deputy Attorney General Amit Das Gupta represented the state.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the lawyers, a female SSC examinee from Thakurgaon was denied the admit card in 2007 as she could not mention her father\'s name in the information form which is required to be filled up before participating in the Secondary School Certificate Examination.</div><div><br></div><div>The girl grew up with her mother after her father left them without giving them recognition.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, on August 2, 2009, three human rights organisations - Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad and Nari Paksha jointly filed a writ petition citing public interest.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 3 of the same year, the High Court bench of Justice Syed Refat Ahmed and Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury issued a rule asking why this discriminatory provision, which is an obstacle to access to human rights, equality and especially the right to education, should not be declared as contrary to law and unconstitutional.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also ordered submitting a report on the Education Boards where mentioning both father and mother’s names is compulsory in getting the registration cards for the SSC examinations and what kind of measures are taken to ensure participation of those eligible examines in the examination who are unable to mention the identity of their fathers.</div><div><br></div><div>Later on June 6, 2021, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) filed a supplementary affidavit in court on behalf of the petitioners. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 10:19:58', '2023-01-24 10:19:58'),
(4717, 4717, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hit Nepal on Tuesday with strong tremors being felt across Delhi and surrounding areas.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter Scale hit Nepal at 2:28 pm today,\" National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The quake\'s epicentre was in Nepal at a place 148 km east of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Residents of Delhi-NCR took to social media to share videos of ceiling fans and household objects shaking during the tremors that lasted less than a minute.</div><div><br></div><div>There have been no reports of damage caused by the earthquake so far. - PTI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 10:32:11', '2023-01-24 10:32:11'),
(4718, 4718, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Education Minister Dipu Moni on Tuesday said that Two high-level probe committees will be formed to identify those responsible for mistakes and distortions in the textbooks distributed this year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“I see identifying errors in the textbooks very positively,” she told the reporters at a press briefing on the corrections of mistakes in the textbooks of the new academic year at the International Mother Language Institute of the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>The outline of these two committees will be presented by next Sunday (January 29, 2023), she said, adding that officials from the Prime Minister\'s Office, Education, Primary and Mass Education ministries and related ministries will be involved in the committee.</div><div><br></div><div>A committee will consist of experts for each subject and the ministry will provide an online form for revision of textbooks, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In this form, people from the country and abroad will have an opportunity to inform the ministry about errors or inconsistencies in textbooks, said Dipu Moni.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts will review all the textbooks again and will take note of the mistakes identified in the textbooks and fix them and those corrections will be sent to the educational institutions, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The other committee will be formed with the&nbsp; representatives from the Prime Minister\'s Office, representatives from two ministries, representatives from National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) and officials of the ministries concerned, the education minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>“It will be investigated whether the mistakes and controversial topics in the textbook were intentionally added or not.”</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, NCTB provided corrections for nine mistakes they found in three textbooks of classes 9 and 10 this year.</div><div><br></div><div>NCTB issued a notification in this regard on January 15, 2023 and posted the corrections on their website.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, eminent writer and academician Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and Professor Hasina Khan expressed regret over the plagiarised content found in the class 7 science textbook that they had edited. They also took responsibility in a statement. According to UNB reports.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 11:23:03', '2023-01-24 11:23:03'),
(4719, 4719, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Dhaka court set April 6 for submitting probe report in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar (SK) Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha for allegedly owning a three-storied house in the US bought through laundered money.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Asaduzaman passed the order as investigation agency Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) failed to submit the report today.</div><div><br></div><div>The ACC on March 31, 2022, filed the case under sections 4 (2) and 4 (3) of the money laundering prevention act and section 5 (2) of the anti-corruption act.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case documents, Ananta bought the house for his brother at a cost of around Taka 2.40 crore. As the ACC couldn\'t identify any legal source of the money paid for the home, it believes that the money was earned illegally or laundered from Bangladesh. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 13:17:41', '2023-01-24 13:17:41'),
(4720, 4720, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal today said the schedule for the presidential election will be announced tomorrow.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"A meeting of the election commission will be held at 11 am tomorrow where the schedule of the presidential election will be disclosed,\" he said while talking to the journalists at Nirbachan Bhaban in the city\'s Agargaon area after a meeting with Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at JS Bhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Parliament Secretariat Senior Secretary KM Abdus Salam and Election Commission (EC) Secretary Md Jahangir Alam were present during the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The CEC said, \"We have met the Speaker of the Parliament and discussed about the presidential election.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>According to the Constitution, a new president has to be elected within 90 to 60 days prior to the end of the incumbent president\'s tenure.</div><div><br></div><div>In line with the presidential election act, there is also a provision for the CEC to meet with the Speaker prior to the presidential election.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The previous presidential election schedule was announced on 25 January, 2018.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Hamid was elected president unopposed for the second term on 6 February though the election slated for 18 February.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>President Abdul Hamid is set to complete his tenure on 23 April this year.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-01-24 14:15:53', '2023-01-24 14:15:53');
