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(2709, 2709, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But today the Tigris is dying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates -- it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iraq may be oil-rich but the country is plagued by poverty after decades of war and by droughts and desertification.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Battered by one natural disaster after another, it is one of the five countries most exposed to climate change, according to the UN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From April on, temperatures exceed 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) and intense sandstorms often turn the sky orange, covering the country in a film of dust.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hellish summers see the mercury top a blistering 50 degrees Celsius -- near the limit of human endurance -- with frequent power cuts shutting down air-conditioning for millions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tigris, the lifeline connecting the storied cities of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra, has been choked by dams, most of them upstream in Turkey, and decreasing rainfall.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AFP video journalist travelled along the river\'s 1,500-kilometre (900-mile) course through Iraq, from the rugged Kurdish north to the Gulf in the south, to document the ecological disaster that is forcing people to change their ancient way of life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Kurdish north: \'Less water every day\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tigris\' journey through Iraq begins in the mountains of autonomous Kurdistan, near the borders of Turkey and Syria, where local people raise sheep and grow potatoes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our life depends on the Tigris,\" said farmer Pibo Hassan Dolmassa, 41, wearing a dusty coat, in the town of Faysh Khabur. \"All our work, our agriculture, depends on it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Before, the water was pouring in torrents,\" he said, but over the last two or three years \"there is less water every day\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iraq\'s government and Kurdish farmers accuse Turkey, where the Tigris has its source, of withholding water in its dams, dramatically reducing the flow into Iraq.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Iraqi official statistics, the level of the Tigris entering Iraq has dropped to just 35 percent of its average over the past century.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baghdad regularly asks Ankara to release more water.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Turkey\'s ambassador to Iraq, Ali Riza Guney, urged Iraq to \"use the available water more efficiently\", tweeting in July that \"water is largely wasted in Iraq\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He may have a point, say experts. Iraqi farmers tend to flood their fields, as they have done since ancient Sumerian times, rather than irrigate them, resulting in huge water losses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Central plains: \'We sold everything\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">All that is left of the River Diyala, a tributary that meets the Tigris near the capital Baghdad in the central plains, are puddles of stagnant water dotting its parched bed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drought has dried up the watercourse that is crucial to the region\'s agriculture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year authorities have been forced to reduce Iraq\'s cultivated areas by half, meaning no crops will be grown in the badly-hit Diyala Governorate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will be forced to give up farming and sell our animals,\" said Abu Mehdi, 42, who wears a white djellaba robe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We were displaced by the war\" against Iran in the 1980s, he said, \"and now we are going to be displaced because of water. Without water, we can\'t live in these areas at all.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The farmer went into debt to dig a 30-metre (100-foot) well to try to get water. \"We sold everything,\" Abu Mehdi said, but \"it was a failure\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Bank warned last year that much of Iraq is likely to face a similar fate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"By 2050 a temperature increase of one degree Celsius and a precipitation decrease of 10 percent would cause a 20 percent reduction of available freshwater,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Under these circumstances, nearly one third of the irrigated land in Iraq will have no water.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Water scarcity hitting farming and food security are already among the \"main drivers of rural-to-urban migration\" in Iraq, the UN and several non-government groups said in June.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And the International Organization for Migration said last month that \"climate factors\" had displaced more than 3,300 families in Iraq\'s central and southern areas in the first three months of this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Climate migration is already a reality in Iraq,\" the IOM said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>- Baghdad: sandbanks and pollution -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This summer in Baghdad, the level of the Tigris dropped so low that people played volleyball in the middle of the river, splashing barely waist-deep through its waters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iraq\'s Ministry of Water Resources blames silt because of the river\'s reduced flow, with sand and soil once washed downstream now settling to form sandbanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until recently the Baghdad authorities used heavy machinery to dredge the silt, but with cash tight, work has slowed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Years of war have destroyed much of Iraq\'s water infrastructure, with many cities, factories, farms and even hospitals left to dump their waste straight into the river.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As sewage and rubbish from Greater Baghdad pour into the shrinking Tigris, the pollution creates a concentrated toxic soup that threatens marine life and human health.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environmental policies have not been a high priority for Iraqi governments struggling with political, security and economic crises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ecological awareness also remains low among the general public, said activist Hajer Hadi of the Green Climate group, even if \"every Iraqi feels climate change through rising temperatures, lower rainfall, falling water levels and dust storms\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- South: salt water, dead palms -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You see these palm trees? They are thirsty,\" said Molla al-Rached, a 65-year-old farmer, pointing to the brown skeletons of what was once a verdant palm grove.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They need water! Should I try to irrigate them with a glass of water?\" he asked bitterly. \"Or with a bottle?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is no fresh water, there is no more life,\" said the farmer, a beige keffiyeh scarf wrapped around his head.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lives at Ras al-Bisha where the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates river, the Shatt al-Arab, empties into the Gulf, near the borders with Iran and Kuwait.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In nearby Basra -- once dubbed the Venice of the Middle East -- many of the depleted waterways are choked with rubbish.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To the north, much of the once famed Mesopotamian Marshes -- the vast wetland home to the \"Marsh Arabs\" and their unique culture -- have been reduced to desert since Saddam Hussein drained them in the 1980s to punish its population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But another threat is impacting the Shatt al-Arab: salt water from the Gulf is pushing ever further upstream as the river flow declines.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN and local farmers say rising salination is already hitting farm yields, in a trend set to worsen as global warming raises sea levels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Rached said he has to buy water from tankers for his livestock, and wildlife is now encroaching into settled areas in search of water.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"My government doesn\'t provide me with water,\" he said. \"I want water, I want to live. I want to plant, like my ancestors.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- River delta: a fisherman\'s plight -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Standing barefoot in his boat like a Venetian gondolier, fisherman Naim Haddad steers it home as the sun sets on the waters of the Shatt al-Arab.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"From father to son, we have dedicated our lives to fishing,\" said the 40-year-old holding up the day\'s catch.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a country where grilled carp is the national dish, the father-of-eight is proud that he receives \"no government salary, no allowances\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But salination is taking its toll as it pushes out the most prized freshwater species, which are replaced by ocean fish.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In the summer, we have salt water,\" said Haddad. \"The sea water rises and comes here.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month local authorities reported that salt levels in the river north of Basra reached 6,800 parts per million -- nearly seven times that of fresh water.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haddad can\'t switch to fishing at sea because his small boat is unsuitable for the choppier Gulf waters, where he would also risk run-ins with the Iranian and Kuwaiti coastguards.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so the fisherman is left at the mercy of Iraq\'s shrinking rivers, his fate tied to theirs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If the water goes,\" he said, \"the fishing goes. And so does our livelihood. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 15:59:42', '2022-10-31 15:59:42'),
(2710, 2710, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bandarban district administration has extended the temporary ban on tourism at Ruma, Rowangchhari, Alikadam and Thanchi upazilas till November 4 as a security measure amid the ongoing operation against suspected militants and criminals.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A public notice regarding the tourism ban extension was issued from Bandarban Deputy Commissioner’s office on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The travel ban on domestic and foreign tourists has been extended as security measures in the district, said the notice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The administration imposed the temporary restriction on visitors in Ruma and Rowangchhari upazilas on October 18 morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 23, the local administration discouraged tourists from traveling to Thanchi and Alikadam upazilas&nbsp; due to the same reason.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From October 10, law enforcement agencies started a joint drive against the underground extremists and criminals in the district. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 16:25:53', '2022-10-31 16:25:53'),
(2711, 2711, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A 48-hour strike, enforced by goods transport owners and workers, is underway in Sylhet on Monday, demanding withdrawal of the ban on stone extraction as well as reopening of stone quarries.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The strike, enforced by Sylhet truck, pickup, covered van malik-sramik pikya parishad, started at 6 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabbir Ahmed Foyez, organising secretary of Sylhet truck, pickup, covered van malik-sramik oikya parishad, said, “Our strike is going on peacefully.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will go on indefinite strike in the district if their demand is not met, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A meeting of goods transport workers\' leaders was held at the Deputy Commissioner\'s office on Sunday afternoon but no solution came from the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the district administration said that the leaders have assured them of withdrawal of the strike the workers’ leaders said no such decision has been taken.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, the goods transport owners decided to go on the strike, demanding withdrawal of a ban on stone extraction and reopening of stone quarries in the district’s Jaflong, Bichanakandi and Bholaganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the transport workers and owners, a total of 15 lakh people are directly involved in the stone business in Sylhet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transport workers said stones from the quarries had long been transported across the country since the country\'s independence but a government ban for the last five years has had an adverse impact on the freight transport owners. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 17:44:18', '2022-10-31 17:44:18'),
(2712, 2712, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The government is keen to introduce a national social insurance scheme in Bangladesh in phases with an aim to enhance social safety of the factory workers and common people, according to an official document.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Officials with knowledge of the process say a study has already been conducted on this prospective scheme, initiated by the Cabinet Division, by laying emphasis on the gradual introduction of four types of social insurance services in the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It envisages unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, sickness insurance and employment injury Insurance, which is focused on the country’s factory workers, according to a document obtained by UNB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Labour and Employment has already taken steps to launch a pilot of the employment injury scheme to protect factory workers from injuries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials involved with the process say that ensuring workers’ safety in line with global standard is crucial as human rights organisations and workers’ rights groups are more vocal than ever about workplace safety and the workers’ rights at home and abroad. Global brands, especially in the garment sector, are concerned about compliance when it comes to workers’ welfare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a 2021 survey by Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS), an NGO, a total of 1,053 workers were killed and 594 others injured in workplace accidents across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BILS analyses that such casualties and injuries took place mainly because of road crash, electrocution, lighting, fires, toxic gases, waterway accidents, wall or roof collapse and explosion of gas cylinders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the document, various other steps have been taken and implemented to use such insurance services as “a disaster management tool.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It says steps have also been taken to introduce crop insurance, livestock insurance, and health insurance for both the government employees and the common people.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Particularly, the government is encouraging the introduction and widespread expansion of crop insurance,” reads the document.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It says there are initiatives to fully automate the insurance sector to ease the hassle of collecting the payouts of insurance claims.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steps will be taken to strengthen financial inclusion and promote national savings by increasing the coverage of insurance, it says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Streamlining workers’ welfare, such steps are vital as about 85 percent workforce of Bangladesh’s labour market is employed in the informal sector.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“As there is no institutional social security framework for the informal sector and expatriate workers, there are chances of uncertainty of livelihood at their old age,” it says.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2000, the number of the country’s total workers was 4.7 crore, which rose to 6.35 crore in 2018.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of expatriate workers in 2000 was 28.6 lakh, which crossed 90 lakh in 2018, the document says.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2020, the 60-plus population in Bangladesh was 1.20 crore, which will stand at 3.10 crore in 2041 and 5.57 crore in 2061.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, the expected average life expectancy is 73 years, which will be 79.9 years in 2050 and 84.3 years in 2075.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the next three decades, there will be a life expectancy of 20 years even after retirement.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presently, the dependency ratio is 7.7 percent which will rise to 24 percent in 2050 and 48 percent in 2075.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The aging population will continue to grow due to the expected increase in average life expectancy,” according to the document.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the country, the culture of societal safekeeping that prevailed in the villages for the elderly people through joint families is on the wane.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The increasing tendency to live in unit families is making the safety of the elderly people increasingly threatened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 2008 election manifesto, Awami League promised to introduce a universal pension scheme nationally to ensure old-age protection for the elderly citizens under a sustainable and well-organised social security framework.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accordingly, the government, in its 2015 ‘National Social Security Strategy’, proposed the creation of a comprehensive, integrated and participatory pension scheme.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the budget speech for 2019-20 fiscal year, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal outlined the establishment of the universal pension scheme. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 18:17:39', '2022-10-31 18:17:39'),
(2713, 2713, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>There was an unusual rush at Machchhu river in Gujarat’s Morbi district on Sunday evening on the occasion of Chhath Puja. As the banks got crowded, people started assembling over the 140-year-old bridge to watch the immersion of idols in the river.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">he entry to the 765-meter-long bridge, which was opened for public on October 26 by Jaysukh Patel, managing director of Oreva Group that got the bridge repaired, was from the Morbi town side and exit from the other.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“Normally, people walk through the bridge and exit from the other side. Whenever the security personnel see people standing on the bridge and there is a rush, ticket issuing is stopped,” said a person who identified himself as Suleman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That did not happen on Sunday, locals said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to officials, around 220 tickets were issued from the ticket counter but many more people entered as the lone security guard failed to stop the people from entering. “Many others entered without a ticket,” said a Morbi municipal authority official, quoting a preliminary inquiry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At about 6.15pm, there were close to 400 to 450 people on the bridge. “Some of them were standing and a few youngsters were jumping and making the bridge swing. The bridge was swinging and making a lot of noise,” said a construction worker, Ajay Kumar, 32, who is from Banaras.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another local, who did not give his name, said that at about 6.40pm, the iron cables, on which the bridge was suspended, caved in from the middle . “People fell over each other and some of them got thrown into the river. Some who were on the sides of the 4.5-meter-wide bridge saved themselves by holding the railings,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Locals said there was total chaos all around as the lighting system on the bridge also collapsed and nothing was visible. People were crying and loud screams for help could be heard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We were sitting near our houses and my friend was telling me that the bridge looks overcrowded. Suddenly we heard screams for help and we ran to the bridge,” said Pankaj Kumar, 24, who works as a carpenter at the local Swaminarayan temple. There were many people hanging, many struggling in the river, their screams piercing the night that seemed like forever, he recalled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We were able to rescue 30-35 persons hanging from the bridge,” he said. “The police and other rescue workers came about half an hour after the incident. Three children under eight years of age died despite our best efforts to save them,” he said. However, Kumar was able to save a child in an ambulance by giving him mouth to mouth respiration. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 18:30:58', '2022-10-31 18:30:58'),
(2714, 2714, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Actor Anushka Sharma is furious after a video of her husband Virat Kohli\'s hotel room was leaked online. Virat is in Australia for the T20 World Cup and a video from the hotel room shows someone in suit taking a tour of his room, showing his belongings to the camera. Anushka and Virat did not take this invasion of privacy lying down.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anushka shared a screenshot of the video on her Instagram Stories and wrote, “Have experienced a few incidents where some fans have shown no compassion or grace in the past but this really is the worst thing. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An absolute disgrace and violation of a human being and anyone who sees this and thinks celebrity ho toh deal Karna padega (If you are a celebrity then you will have to deal with this) should know that you are also part of the problem. Exercising some self control helps everyone. Also, if this is happening in your bedroom then where is the line?”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a paparazzo shared the same video on social media, many asked him to take it down as it was unfair to the celebrity couple. “This is so so cheap behaviour,” wrote one. Many asked the couple to sue the hotel. “Manager ki naukri pakki gayi (manager is losing their job). So cheap.” Another wrote, “This is really disgusting to instrude in one\'s privacy, whether they r celebs or a common person.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Virat also shared the video on Instagram and wrote, \"I understand that fans get very happy and excited seeing their favourite players and get excited to meet them and I’ve always appreciated that. But this video here is appalling and it’s made me feel very paranoid about my privacy. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If I cannot have privacy in my own hotel room, then where can I really expect any personal space at all?? I’m NOT okay with this kind of fanaticism and absolute invasion of privacy. Please respect people’s privacy and not treat them as a commodity for entertainment.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The couple has always been careful of maintaining their privacy, specially of their young daughter Vamika. They refuse to show her face to the public and have often made special requests to the media about not doing so. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 18:37:59', '2022-11-01 02:24:45'),
(2715, 2715, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Monday predicted that weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours commencing 9am.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country,\" said the bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Country\'s maximum temperature on Sunday was recorded 34.2 degrees Celsius at Srimangal and minimum temperature on Monday was 16.0 degrees Celsius at Tetulia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sun sets at 05:20 pm on Monday and rises at 06:05 am Tuesday in the capital. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 19:09:43', '2022-10-31 19:09:43'),
(2716, 2716, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sunday was a big day for Pakistan. Three matches from the Group 2 fixtures were said to define their chances for the semi-final round in the 2022 T20 World Cup. Losses to India and then to Zimbabwe have left much of Pakistan\'s chances on how other opponents in the group perform. </span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For majority of Sunday, Pakistan fans were delighted. Bangladesh claimed the thriller against Zimbabwe following a final-over drama while the Babar Azam-led side finally opened their account in the tournament with a win against Netherlands. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the one that was to largely decide chances for the knockout round, failed to go their way as India conceded their top spot after suffering their first defeat in the tournament, to South Africa, by 5 wickets in Perth. So where does Pakistan\'s semi-final chances now stand after India\'s defeat?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">n Group 2, India were in the driver\'s seat and stood only a win away from assuring themselves a semi-final spot. However, South Africa stunned the Men in Blue as they grabbed the top spot in the table with the win in Perth and now stand clear favourites to finish the group as toppers. India and Bangladesh stand next on the table, respectively, separated only by their net run rate. The NRR of +0.844 does give India the edge but also makes the impending Wednesday match between India and Bangladesh all the more crucial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can Pakistan still make the T20 World Cup semis after India\'s loss?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Needless to say, they do need to win their last two matches - against South Africa on 3 November and Bangladesh on 6 November - which will allow them to finish with a maximum of six points. However, with India game not going their way, six points won\'t be enough for Pakistan. Their hopes have now increasingly been dependent other factors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their win against Proteas won\'t allow them to take the top spot in the table and they also need to win their last two matches by big margins to stand a chance in terms of NRR if it comes down to battle between teams with six points. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Remaining Group 2 Fixtures</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>2 November: Zimbabwe v Netherlands, Adelaide Oval</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>2 November: India v Bangladesh, Adelaide Oval</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>3 November: Pakistan v South Africa, SCG, Sydney</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>6 November: South Africa v Netherlands, Adelaide Oval</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>6 November: Pakistan v Bangladesh, Adelaide Oval</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>6 November: Zimbabwe v India, MCG, Melbourne</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">HT</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 19:18:15', '2022-11-01 02:28:39'),
(2717, 2717, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The death toll from India\'s Gujarat cable bridge collapse rose to 141 this morning, media reports said.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 177 people were also rescued so far as the salvage teams are searching for missing others in the bridge collapse.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nearly half a century old suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat\'s Morbi city, 200 KM away from the state capital Ahmedabad, collapsed at about 6.30 pm on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Media reports said that around 500 people, including women and children, were on the bridge when the cables supporting it snapped, sending people crashing into the river.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many were performing Chhath puja rituals on the bridge, which was shut for seven months for repair. It was opened for the public on October 26, the Gujarat New Year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A five-member high-powered committee has been formed to probe into the bridge collapse incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A criminal case has been registered to this end, Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi told media today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five teams of National Disaster Response Force or NDRF worked through the night to find the missing. The Army, Navy and Air Force also joined the operation later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state government has announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the family members of each of those who died in the accident and 50,000 Rs for the injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister also announced a financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of the victims, reports said. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 19:30:07', '2022-10-31 19:30:07'),
(2718, 2718, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least three people were killed and four others injured as a bus hit a CNG-run auto rickshaw on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Dhamati under Chandina upazila in Cumilla on Monday noon.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The&nbsp; Chattogram-bound bus hit the auto-rickshaw on the highway in Dhamti area around 12:00 noon, leaving two female passengers dead on the spot and four people wounded,&nbsp; said Akul Chandra Biswas, officer-in-charge of Mainamati Highway Police Station.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured were later rushed to Cumilla Medical College and Hospital where another died.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Police couldn’t seize the bus as it fled immediately after the accident, said the OC. UNB</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 19:40:52', '2022-10-31 19:40:52'),
(2719, 2719, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will sit in a meeting with the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on November 7 to discuss issues including the current status of the capital market and the imposition of floor prices.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Bond market development, risk management and control, compliance infrastructure and enforcement measures in the market will also be discussed in the meeting, according to officials involved with the process.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">BSEC spokesperson Mohammad Rezaul Karim told UNB on Monday that the regulator is making all preparations for the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BSEC Chairman Shibli Rubaiyat-ul-Islam, Commissioners, and Executive Officers will be present in the meeting, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To prevent the ongoing fall in prices, the BSEC floor price system was imposed on the capital market on July 28 this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although its market is on the rise, two-thirds of the companies listed in the capital market are currently stuck at the floor price. Investors are not able to buy and sell shares of these companies despite their desire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result, the capital market transactions are continuously decreasing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A delegation of the global lender IMF from Washington arrived in Dhaka on October 26 to discuss a $4.5 billion loan sought by Bangladesh amid dwindling foreign currency reserves. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 20:09:17', '2022-10-31 20:09:17'),
(2720, 2720, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh can raise up to $12.5 billion in additional financing in the medium-term for climate action with the financing options include budget prioritization, carbon taxation, external financing and private investment.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to the World Bank Group\'s Country and Climate Development Report for Bangladesh released today, Bangladesh continues to face severe and increasing climate risks, despite significant gains in reducing the human toll from climate disasters.</div><div><br></div><div>The report said without urgent action, including further adaptation and resilience measures, the country\'s strong growth potential could be in risk.</div><div><br></div><div>The report outlines priority actions and financing needs to help Bangladesh address the climate crisis. It recognizes Bangladesh\'s successful experience with locally-led climate adaptation and recommends investments in infrastructure and services to strengthen climate resilience while supporting long-term growth.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Actions focused on improved agriculture productivity, energy and transport efficiency can lower future emissions while improving air, soil and water quality.</div><div><br></div><div>Climate change will hit poor and vulnerable people the hardest. Average tropical cyclones cost Bangladesh about $1 billion annually. By 2050, a third of agricultural GDP could be lost and 13 million people could become internal climate migrants. In case of a severe flooding, GDP could fall by as much as 9 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh has led the way in adaptation and disaster risk management. Over the past 50 years, it has reduced cyclone-related deaths 100-fold. Other countries can learn from this,\" said Martin Raiser, World Bank Vice President for South Asia.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"But with ever-increasing climate risks, further adaptation efforts are vital, and a low-carbon development path is critical to a resilient future for Bangladesh,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>At just 0.4 percent, Bangladesh\'s current contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is not significant. But, with its large population and fast economic growth, if the country follows a \'business-as-usual\' development pathway, GHG emissions will increase substantially.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh also faces a high level of air pollution, which costs about 9 percent of GDP annually.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Improved air quality standards across multiple sectors will improve health and increase climate resilience. The country\'s 2021 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) commit to reducing emissions by 21.8 percent by 2030. With strong implementation, technology development and uptake, and regional collaboration, Bangladesh can exceed these commitments.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"In the face of multiple severe risks from climate change, Bangladesh urgently needs to spur more private sector involvement not only to deliver the billions of dollars needed for climate action, but also to drive innovation and efficiency to benefit and protect the country\'s people,\" said John F. Gandolfo, IFC\'s Acting Regional Vice President for Asia and the Pacific.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The report highlights three priority areas for Bangladesh\'s climate-resilient growth and development:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>People-centric, climate-smart development: A development approach that considers regional variations in climate impacts and builds on Bangladesh\'s experience of locally-led adaptation and small-scale solutions is vital.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Delivering development benefits with decarbonization: Emissions from energy, transport, industry, and agriculture can be reduced at relatively low cost and yield significant co-benefits related to air pollution, health costs, and jobs.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Enabling environment and institutional realignment: With a stronger legislative and institutional capacity, Bangladesh can accelerate the implementation of existing policies and programs. Empowering local governments to plan and implement adaptation programs will be important.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Some parts of Bangladesh are more prone to climate change impacts. Hence, investments should be prioritized for climate hotspots such as in the Barind, Coastal zone, Haor area, and Hill Tracts, and the regions facing higher poverty rates and natural hazards: the western upazilas of Mymensingh, eastern upazilas of Rangpur, and southern parts of Khulna division.</div><div><br></div><div>The report identifies high-impact interventions that are ready for implementation. This includes prioritizing and allocating financing for most urgent projects under the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, transforming food systems, implementing energy-efficient and circular economy solutions in ready-made garments and textile factories, setting resilient and energy efficient building standards, and mitigating emissions through tariff reforms and loss reduction.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 and Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan recognize these priorities.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh has taken bold steps toward its goal to support global efforts for combating climate change,\" said MIGA Executive Vice President, Hiroshi Matano.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>At the report launch, the World Bank awarded the winners of the IdeaBuzz Championship, a youth competition seeking climate-smart solutions for inclusive growth in Bangladesh.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The competition had garnered huge interest, with participation from over 400 university students. The first, second, and third prizes were awarded to the students of the Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka respectively. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 21:15:28', '2022-10-31 21:15:28'),
(2721, 2721, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government has rearranged the daily office hours from 9 am to 4 pm for all the government and autonomous offices.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The decision came from the Cabinet meeting on Monday and it will come into effect from November 15.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 22, the government rescheduled the office timing from 8am to 3 pm for all the government and autonomous offices and from 9 am to 4 pm for all banks in a bid to save electricity amid the energy crisis. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 21:27:59', '2022-10-31 21:27:59');
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(2722, 2722, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan won another national assembly seat in a weekend by-election, officials said Monday, as he leads a so-called \"long march\" of thousands of supporters to Islamabad.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Khan, a retired international cricket star, has been demanding an early general election since being kicked out of office in April by a no-confidence vote, heaping pressure on the government.</div><div><br></div><div>His latest win in the northwest of the country was confirmed by the Electoral Commission of Pakistan (ECP).</div><div><br></div><div>Khan was voted into power in 2018 on an anti-corruption platform by an electorate weary of dynastic politics. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 21:47:16', '2022-10-31 21:47:16'),
(2723, 2723, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Aaron Finch stormed back to form with 63 as Australia made 179-5 against Ireland in their crucial Twenty20 World Cup Group 1 match at the Gabba in Brisbane on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Finch hit his runs off just 44 deliveries to answer a growing number of critics who have called for the Australian captain to be dropped after a poor run of form.</div><div><br></div><div>Finch stayed patient as Australia lost their first three wickets to some tight bowling.</div><div><br></div><div>He then took advantage as the Irish attack began to falter under the pressure of an onslaught from Finch and Marcus Stoinis, who blasted 35 off 25 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>After winning the toss and choosing to bowl, Ireland restricted the home side to eight runs off the first two overs.</div><div><br></div><div>On the first ball of the third over David Warner shovelled a Barry McCarthy ball round the corner to short fine leg, where Mark Adair took a comfortable catch.</div><div><br></div><div>Finch looked scratchy at the beginning of his innings but signalled his intent with a huge six over deep midwicket in the fifth over.</div><div><br></div><div>He was joined by Mitchell Marsh, who hit two sixes on his way to 28 from 22 balls before getting a thick edge off McCarthy to wicketkeeper Lorcan Tucker to leave Australia 60-2 in the ninth over.</div><div><br></div><div>Opening bowler Joshua Little then enticed the dangerous Glenn Maxwell to chase a wide ball, giving Tucker his second catch and Australia were 84-3 after 11 overs.</div><div><br></div><div>Finch kept scoring steadily, reaching his 50 with a six off Adair in an over that went for 26 runs before eventually falling, caught at deep midwicket by Adair off the bowling of McCarthy. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 21:56:41', '2022-10-31 21:56:41'),
(2724, 2724, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A stampede left nine spectators and two police officers dead during a packed concert by African music star Fally Ipupa at the biggest stadium in DR Congo\'s capital, the interior minister said Sunday, blaming the organisers.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Too many people had been allowed into Kinshasa\'s 80,000 capacity Martyrs\' stadium on Saturday night, Interior Minister Daniel Aselo Okito told the Actualite.cd news website.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Eleven people dead... including two police,\" the minister told reporters at the stadium, sending condolences to relatives of the casualties.</div><div><br></div><div>He deplored the frequent \"loss of human life and damage to equipment\" during events held at the stadium.</div><div><br></div><div>The organisers \"went beyond 100 percent capacity... they must be punished\", the minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It was a stampede,\" that caused the deaths, a policeman on the scene told the official Congolese Press Agency ACP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The music-lovers suffocated.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Kinshasa police chief General Sylvain Sasongo had earlier told ACP nine people had died, amid reports the venue had been absolutely jammed with people for the local favourite\'s performance, with one witness saying \"even the corridors\" of the stadium were overflowing.</div><div><br></div><div>ACP, which had reporters in the stadium covering the concert, said police had cordoned off three areas to secure the pitch, the VIP stand and the stage.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Under the pressure of the crowd, the police could not hold out long,\" ACP said.</div><div><br></div><div>On his Facebook page, Fally Ipupa said he was horrified to learn what had happened.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Despite all the measures taken for the strict respect of security requirements, unfortunate and dramatic events marred the end of the concert.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It appears from elements at our disposal that after jostling at the exit and around the stadium compatriots were dragged to their deaths.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am deeply shocked and offer my most heartfelt condolences to all the families concerned.</div><div><br></div><div>\"May God in his deep mercy comfort their broken hearts.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The singer-songwriter, \"like all Congolese singers\", had arrived several hours after the show had been scheduled to start, ACP reported.</div><div><br></div><div>The Kinshasa-born 44-year-old, who blends traditional African harmonies with urban musical genres, is one of Africa\'s leading musicians whose albums sell world-wide.</div><div><br></div><div>The disaster comes hours after the more than 150 people were killed in a stamped at a Halloween event in Seoul, South Korea. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 22:07:37', '2022-10-31 22:07:37'),
(2725, 2725, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Cabinet on Monday approved the proposed list of 22 holidays for the 2023 calendar year, but eight holidays would coincided with weekends (Fridays and Saturdays).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The approval came from the regular cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office.</div><div><br></div><div>There will be 14 general holidays and the remaining eight days by the executive order of the government, said Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam while briefing reporters at the Bangladesh Secretariat. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-10-31 23:25:58', '2022-10-31 23:25:58'),
(2726, 2726, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the country’s people to keep their houses and adjacent areas clean to prevent dengue.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She made the call at the regular Cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).</div><div><br></div><div>Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said this while briefing newsmen after the meeting at the Secretariat.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to the Premier, he said that in the wake of spreading dengue Sheikh Hasina urged all to keep everyone’s house clean, especially stop accumulation of the water in and outside of their houses.</div><div><br></div><div>He said Aedes mosquito lays its eggs on the walls of water-filled containers and others for its proliferation.</div><div><br></div><div>The Cabinet Secretary said the city corporations and others concerned, especially the civil aviation, have been directed to intensify their anti mosquito spray through fogging machines every day.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, the city corporations and health ministry have been asked to conduct awareness campaign about dengue and Aedes mosquito proliferation through a coordinated way, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that the country had recorded over one lakh dengue patients in 2019, Khandker Anwarul Islam said in this year so far the number of dengue patients reached nearly 30,000 across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the total, Dhaka recorded 23,000 dengue patients, while Chattogram 4,000, Khulna 1,600 and Sylhet 53, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>Till October 30, 136 people died of dengue, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 00:23:11', '2022-11-01 00:23:11'),
(2727, 2727, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Britain wants to grant ministers the power to overrule financial regulators including the Bank of England when they deem it in the public interest, the government confirmed Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who took office a week ago, had proposed the \"intervention power\" when he was finance minister in Boris Johnson\'s administration.</div><div><br></div><div>The UK government in July introduced legislation aimed at boosting the post-Brexit competitiveness of the powerful financial services industry.</div><div><br></div><div>That bill will now be amended by Sunak\'s finance minister Jeremy Hunt.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have confirmed our intention to bring forward an amendment to the Financial Services Bill, to include an \'Intervention Power\' that will enable the Treasury to direct a regulator to make, amend or revoke rules where there are matters of significant public interest,\" a Treasury spokesperson said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The government has always been clear that this is a safety valve that must be balanced with clear accountability, appropriate democratic input and transparent oversight.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The bill also repeals hundreds of pieces of retained EU law after the country left the bloc in full in 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>Critics denounced it as reckless deregulation, particularly after the 2008 global financial crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>Sector professionals have applauded it, however, for bringing standards up to date.</div><div><br></div><div>In its current state, the bill already puts the industry\'s regulators -- the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England -- under increased scrutiny by parliament and the finance ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>Sam Woods, head of the BoE\'s Prudential Regulation Authority which oversees commercial banks, warned last week that overruling regulatory decisions would \"undermine\" Britain\'s \"financial credibility\".</div><div><br></div><div>FCA head Nikhil Rathi added that it was \"vital\" that the watchdog\'s independence was \"not undermined by any proposed call-in power\".</div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, vocal Brexit backer Sunak has promised a \"big bang\" in the UK finance sector after the deregulation of the 1980s.</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak took power after the implosion of the government of Johnson\'s successor Liz Truss, who resigned after her debt-fuelled tax-slashing budget spiked government bond yields and tanked the pound. -&nbsp; AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 01:10:32', '2022-11-01 01:10:32'),
(2728, 2728, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque said on Monday the government has taken a 30-year programme for developing and expanding country-wide railway connectivity.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The government has taken 30-year extensive programme aiming to enhance railway connectivity to southern and coastal region for brining a revolutionary change in railway communication across the country”,he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said this responding to a supplementary query on behalf of Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujon made by treasury bench lawmaker Shahiduzzaman Sarker of Naogaon-2 in the Jatiya Sangsad during question-answer session.</div><div><br></div><div>The newly enhanced programme will cover the railway connectivity to Satkhira, Patuakhali, Barguna, Pirojpur, Meherpur and Manikganj and now the feasibility study is underway in this regard, said the minister.</div><div><br></div><div>To develop railway communication, Dr Razzaque said the government has procured 300 meter gauge, 50 broad gauge passenger coaches from Indonesia in last ten years.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Even the government also has procured 120 broad gauge passenger coaches from India during that time.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from this, procurement of more 150 meter gauge,200 broad gauge passenger coaches from South Korea and 100 broad gauge railway coaches from China is now underway.</div><div><br></div><div>Blaming the BNP government led by Begum Khaleda Zia, the agriculture minister said the then BNP government had destroyed different important sector including the railway during their regime while the British colonial government had established a developed railway communication across the Indian subcontinent, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the ruling Awami League government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after coming to power has taken and implemented various programmes to make the railway sector viable for the people, the minister added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 01:16:06', '2022-11-01 01:16:06'),
(2729, 2729, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Appellate Division said that the bail granted to Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed in an arms case by the High Court will remain stayed.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>An Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order today.</div><div><br></div><div>The Appellate Division will hear the state\'s leave to appeal against the High Court\'s bail in the meantime, stated the bench.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 28, 2020, Shahed was sentenced to life in an arms case. He was eventually granted bail by the High Court on June 7 this year.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 12, a chamber court stayed the bail order as the state appealed against the bail order.</div><div><br></div><div>Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on July 6 of 2020 raided two hospitals of Regent Group in Uttara and Mirpur and arrested the eight for issuing fake corona test results and certificates by using forged serial number and signatures of concerned authorities, realizing illegal fees from the patients, running hospital business without having any proper approval, among other charges.</div><div><br></div><div>RAB, on the subsequent next day, filed a case against 17 including Regent Group chairman Md Shahed under sections 406/417/465/468/471/ and 269 of the penal code with Uttara West Police Station.</div><div><br></div><div>Shahed was arrested on July 15, 2020 from Satkhira.</div><div><br></div><div>The arms case was lodged against him by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) after they conducted a raid in Shahed’s Uttara office and recovered illegal fire arms. - BSS</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 01:31:48', '2022-11-01 01:31:48'),
(2730, 2730, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hundreds of non-cadre candidates of the 40th BCS on Monday formed a human chain in front of the head office of the Public Service Commission (PSC) in the city to demand that authorities reinstate previous appointment policies of the commission and repeal new procedures of the non-cadre appointment.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>They demanded that the commission repeal the new appointment policy for the non-cadres of the 40th-44th BCS, provide all posts of the 40th BCS non-cadres which have been given to the 36th-38th BCS non-cadres.</div><div><br></div><div>Organisers say up to 800 candidates joined the protest on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>On October 16, the non-cadre candidates formed a human chain at Raju sculpture of Dhaka University and gave an ultimatum to the PSC. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 01:47:37', '2022-11-01 01:47:37'),
(2731, 2731, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP has finally been granted permission to hold its divisional rally in the city’s Bangabandhu Udyan on November 5.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jashim Uddin Hayder, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Barishal, confirmed the matter on Monday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking to UNB, the DC said they gave BNP permission to hold the rally at Bangabandhu Uddyan considering its letter in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the opposition party was asked to arrange the rally on the west side of Bangabandhu Udyan, leaving a portion of the venue as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to be virtually connected to a programme there on November 7.</div><div><br></div><div>Meer Jahidul Kabir Jahid, Member Secretary of BNP’s Barishal City unit, said that the DC verbally gave them permission over the phone around 3:00pm to organise the rally at Bell Park, which was renamed 26 years ago as Bangabandhu Udyan by the then Awami League government.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP Barishal City unit convener of Moniruzzaman Faruk submitted a letter to the DC on October 23, seeking permission to hold the rally at the same venue.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the party mentioned the venue as Bell Park instead of Bangabandhu Park, creating uncertainty over accepting the letter.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, three-wheeler drivers in Barishal have called a strike on November 4 and 5 demanding the authorities concerned allow three-wheelers to operate on the highway.</div><div><br></div><div>The strike has coincided with the upcoming rally of the BNP while bus owners in the district have announced a similar strike on the same dates.</div><div>The bus owners said they will enforce the strike on these days if the three-wheelers are not banned from the highways by November 3.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP leader Moniruzzaman Faruk said bus movement was stopped ahead of the party’s rallies in Khulna and Rangpur, but three-wheelers were available there.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Now, the three-wheeler drivers have also announced their strike before our November 5 rally. The ruling party is trying to create all types of barriers to prevent people from joining our rally.”</div><div><br></div><div>The rally in Barishal will be the 5th one by the BNP at the divisional level as four others were held in Chattogram, Mymensingh, Khulna, and Rangpur.</div><div><br></div><div>The organisers said the rallies are meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuels, the death of five party men in previous police action in Bhola, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, and Jashore, and to ensure the freedom of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP has long been demanding that the next general election be held under a caretaker government, not under any political government--a demand sharply rejected by the ruling Awami League as the constitution does not allow it to happen. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 02:19:37', '2022-11-01 02:19:37'),
(2732, 2732, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The visiting delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday discussed with Bangladesh Bank on banking supervision update, strategic planning for the financial sector, and risk management issues, said officials with knowledge of the meeting.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Deputy governors AKM Sajedur Rahman Khan, Abu Farah Md. Nasser and senior officials of the central bank joined the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>The IMF team has recommended that the definition of non-performing loans be brought to international standards. If not, there will be questions regarding Bangladesh’s banking sector in the international arena.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, IMF has also asked to publish the correct information on defaulted loans. As per IMF, the ratio of defaulted loans is much higher than the central bank data, said sources close to the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>According to international standards, the default loan ratio is considered tolerable up to a maximum of 3 percent. But in Bangladesh, this ratio is about 9 percent. This ratio is more than 20 percent in government banks.</div><div><br></div><div>IMF has raised several questions in this regard. The organization has also expressed concerns over suspicious transactions and money laundering.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Bank\'s spokesperson GM Abul Kalam Azad said the central bank’s discussion on Monday was fruitful and discussions will continue till November 9, 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>Under three schemes — Extended Credit Facility, Rapid Financing Instrument, and Rapid Credit Facility — a total of $4.5 billion has been sought from the IMF. Bangladesh Bank is optimistic about getting the loans.</div><div><br></div><div>The IMF delegation arrived in Bangladesh on October 26 to discuss conditions for releasing $4.5 billion loans for budget support to the country. Bangladesh’s mission chief and senior economist of Washington-based international lender Rahul Anand led the IMF team in the discussion with Bangladesh. ‍Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 02:47:37', '2022-11-01 02:47:37'),
(2733, 2733, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">All poultry and captive birds in England must be kept indoors from 7 November under new restrictions to fight avian flu, the government has announced.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The housing order comes after turkey farmers warned of a shortage this Christmas caused by the country\'s largest ever bird flu outbreak.</div><div><br></div><div>The British Poultry Council has said shoppers could be hit by price rises.</div><div><br></div><div> About 5.5m birds have now died or been culled since October 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>That includes 2.3m birds this October alone.</div><div><br></div><div>In total, more than 210 cases of bird flu have been confirmed since October 2021, including 80 confirmed cases in England this month.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are now facing this year, the largest ever outbreak of bird flu and are seeing rapid escalation in the number of cases on commercial farms and in backyard birds across England,\" said Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss.</div><div><br></div><div>The disease circulates naturally in wild birds that can spread the flu to poultry and captive birds when they migrate to the UK.</div><div><br></div><div>Farmer Tom Copas has already been housing his 60,000 free-range turkeys on his farm in Cookham, Berkshire, to protect them from bird flu.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s terrifying right now. Our entire business depends on the Christmas market. If we were to get bird flu we would lose everything,\" he told BBC News.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I know of two seasonal producers who had outbreaks who will never have turkeys again. One produces about a million turkeys for Christmas and they have lost about half of them.\"</div><div><br></div><div> Paul Kelly has 34,000 birds and fears for his business</div><div><br></div><div>He warned of a shortage of Christmas turkeys on the shelves and price rises: \"It\'s expected that the supermarkets will be at least 20% short, if not more, of their Christmas turkeys.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Richard Griffiths, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, the trade body for the poultry meat industry, said the price of free-range turkeys was likely to rise.</div><div><br></div><div>Record avian flu outbreak sees 48m birds culled</div><div><br></div><div>\"The free-range side of the sector has been heavily hit and, at the moment, we are seeing numbers of about 30-35% of free-range production either being directly affected by the disease or culled because of it,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the national housing order, free-range poultry producers will still be allowed to label their eggs and meat as free-range for up to 16 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Essex-based turkey supplier Paul Kelly, who has 34,000 birds across a number of farms, said he hoped buyers would still purchase from free-range farmers even if birds had to be kept indoors for longer.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Farmers can\'t be put out of business because of a few months when they have had to bring them inside. The consumer has to acknowledge the fact that these are extraordinary times,\" he told BBC News.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is the worst year I have ever known in my whole life and business, by a long way. It is the foot and mouth of the poultry industry at the moment. It is, in East Anglia, absolutely devastating.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Bird keepers have been forced to follow strict biosecurity measures since 17 October when an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) was introduced in the UK.</div><div><br></div><div>The last mandatory UK-wide housing order was only lifted in May after being put in place by the chief veterinary officers of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland last November.</div><div><br></div><div>Compensation rules have been changed so that farmers receive money at the start of any cull of birds, not at the end. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 03:29:23', '2022-11-02 02:15:12'),
(2734, 2734, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>People in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, had to queue for water after Russian missiles struck key facilities across the country on Monday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">An evening update from the city\'s mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said 40% of consumers in Kyiv remained without water and 270,000 homes had no power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirteen people were injured in the attacks nationwide, Ukraine said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia said the strikes were aimed at Ukraine\'s military control and energy systems and that all targets were hit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were partly in response to an attack on a Russian warship over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its evening update, the Ukrainian military said it had shot down 45 out of 55 missiles that were launched.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For security reasons, the outside world is rarely shown the destruction of Ukraine\'s critical infrastructure by Russian airstrikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian officials say this is to avoid sharing information that could be used in future attacks, including locations hit - or potentially missed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the consequences of Monday\'s strikes were everywhere to be seen. Rolling power cuts have been introduced in several regions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainians in general have been urged to reduce what is already an \"extremely frugal\" electricity consumption, in the words of President Volodymyr Zelensky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Kyiv, street lights were turned off and trolleybuses replaced with conventional buses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Long queues were seen across the city as residents lined up to collect water from pumps after their own supplies were cut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As many as 80% of Kyiv\'s consumers were said to have been left without running water in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, Mr Zelensky said in his evening address that work was continuing to reconnect households with their services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia did not have the missiles to destroy \"the Ukrainian will to live\", he added in a defiant message.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to the capital, other areas affected by the strikes included Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, 18 facilities - most of them energy-generating - were hit by missiles and drones in 10 regions, Ukrainian officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the missiles intercepted by Ukraine\'s air defences landed in a border town in Moldova, causing damage to houses but no casualties, according to authorities in the neighbouring country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moldova later said a Russian embassy employee in Chisinau had been told to leave its territory, without specifying who the individual was.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday\'s strikes came after Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet in the annexed Crimean peninsula over the weekend - a matter on which Kyiv has not commented.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Answering reporters\' questions on Monday evening, President Putin confirmed that the strikes were partly intended as a retaliation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said Russia had suspended, but not ended, its participation in a UN-brokered deal which allows safe passage to ships carrying grain from Ukrainian ports, although Ukraine said earlier on Monday that ships were continuing to depart, despite Russia\'s withdrawal from the deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fresh wave of attacks was the latest example of what has become Russia\'s strategy in Ukraine: the targeting of the important infrastructure before winter, when temperatures can drop to -20C.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine says this is Russia\'s response to its military defeats, as the Ukrainian army takes back territory in a successful counter-offensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov has linked the Russian campaign to Gen Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed by President Putin as his new commander in Ukraine earlier this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a rare news conference last week, the minister said Russian forces had \"changed their tactics\" after the arrival of Gen Surovikin - whose nickname is Gen Armageddon - and \"started openly fighting with the civilian population, not with the armed forces of Ukraine\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The goal, he said, was to inflict \"chaos and panic\" in the population, \"when it\'s very cold and dark\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Zelensky has described this tactic as \"terrorism\". Many Ukrainians say they are not afraid, though many are angry that civilians have again become the target.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western leaders, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, have recently pointed out that deliberate strikes on key civilian infrastructure would constitute war crimes under treaties that define the \"rules\" of war, known as the Geneva Conventions. Moscow, however, denies culpability for any war crimes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Instead of fighting on the battlefield, Russia fights civilians,\" Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said on Monday morning - echoing a view shared by many of his compatriots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine says it needs more air defence capabilities to defend its cities. Germany has already sent equipment, while the UK and the US have announced they will do so. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 12:35:21', '2022-11-01 12:35:21'),
(2735, 2735, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Police in the Indian state of Gujarat have arrested nine people in connection with the collapse of a pedestrian bridge that killed at least 141 people.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four of those detained are employees of a firm contracted to maintain the bridge in the town of Morbi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds were on the structure when it gave way, sending people screaming for help into the river below in the dark.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hopes of finding more survivors are fading. Many children, women and elderly people are among the dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The 140-year-old suspension bridge - a major local tourist attraction - had been reopened only last week after being repaired.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police investigating Sunday evening\'s disaster say the nine people arrested are all associated with Oreva group, the firm contracted to maintain and operate the bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are being investigated for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, senior police officer Ashok Kumar Yadav said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Of these nine, two work as managers, while two work as ticket booking clerks [all employed by Oreva] at the bridge site,\" he told a news conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other five accused include two people contracted to repair the structure, as well as security personnel at the bridge. There was no immediate response from Oreva to news of the arrests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, a company spokesman told the Indian Express newspaper: \"While we are waiting for more information, prima facie, the bridge collapsed as too many people in the mid-section... were trying to sway it from one way to the other.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Questions have been raised over why Oreva Group, a company which once described itself as the \"world\'s largest clock manufacturing company\" - before it also began making lighting products, battery-operated bikes, home appliances and TV sets - was given responsibility for maintaining a bridge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concerns have also been raised about whether safety checks were carried out before the bridge was reopened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 230m (754ft) bridge on the Machchhu river was built in 1880, during British rule in India.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In travel brochures, a visit to the Julto Pul (or the Hanging Bridge) is listed among \"the top 10 things to do in Morbi\" and it attracts a large number of sightseers and local people on holidays and at festivals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials have not yet said how many people were on the bridge when tragedy struck at around 18:40 (13:10 GMT) on Sunday, but estimates put it between 400 and 500.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 177 people have been rescued, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, a dozen boats with members of the national and state disaster response teams searched for survivors while divers from the Indian navy were on standby, reported BBC Gujarati\'s Roxy Gagdekar at the scene.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four cranes were deployed to pull out the bridge wreckage and rescuers looked for bodies trapped underneath.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Distressed relatives searched for their loved ones and as the hours passed, their desperation grew, our correspondent said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A young man told the BBC that he had been searching for his six-year-old sister since Sunday night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I was holding her hand when the bridge collapsed and we fell into the river. I survived and have been looking for her everywhere, I went to the government hospital also, but my sister is nowhere to be found,\" he said, sobbing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video shot before the collapse showed the overcrowded bridge swaying while people gripped the netting on its sides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the incident, dozens were seen clinging onto the wreckage as emergency teams attempted to rescue them. Some survivors clambered up the bridge\'s broken netting, and others managed to swim to the river banks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Early on Monday morning, rescuers made an opening in a small dam on the river, about 500 metres downstream, to reduce the water flow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bridge above the dam was packed with people, waiting to hear news of their loved ones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gujarat is the home state of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has announced compensation for the families of victims. He said he was \"deeply saddened by the tragedy\" and its cause would be investigated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leader of the opposition Congress party Mallikarjun Kharge demanded a judicial inquiry to find out how the bridge collapsed within just \"five-six days\" of being reopened, and who allowed so many people on it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prateek Vasava was on the bridge at the time. He told 24 Hours, a Gujarati-language news channel, how he had swum to the river bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several children fell into the river, he said, adding: \"I wanted to pull some of them along with me but they had drowned or got swept away.\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 12:41:38', '2022-11-01 12:41:38'),
(2736, 2736, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A billionaire Russian banker, Oleg Tinkov, has given up his Russian citizenship because of the war in Ukraine and condemned \"Putin fascism\".</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Tinkov founded the online Tinkoff Bank, one of Russia\'s largest lenders, with about 20 million customers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an Instagram post, he said: \"I can\'t and won\'t be associated with a fascist country that started a war with their peaceful neighbour.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Few Russian tycoons have criticised Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine in public.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An independent Russian news source, Sota Vision, tweeted a photo of Mr Tinkov\'s certificate showing his Russian citizenship terminated, as well as his tirade on Instagram against President Vladimir Putin\'s Russia. However, the post now appears to have been removed from his account.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The banker said: \"It is a shame for me to continue to hold this passport.\" He is reported to be living in London, but is subject to UK sanctions, like many other members of Russia\'s business elite.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I hope more prominent Russian businessmen will follow me, so it weakens Putin\'s regime and his economy, and put him eventually to defeat,\" Mr Tinkov said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He continued: \"I hate Putin\'s Russia, but love all Russians who are clearly against this crazy war!\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In April, Mr Tinkov castigated the Kremlin in even stronger terms, condemning what he called a regime based on nepotism and servility.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Kremlin bureaucrats are shocked that not just they, but also their children now won\'t travel to the Mediterranean in summer. Businessmen are trying to save the remains of their property,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Western sanctions on him and other top Russian business figures - known as \"oligarchs\" - include travel bans, asset freezes and impounding of planes and yachts. President Putin\'s political and military power relies heavily on the support of billionaires, who got rich through Kremlin connections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also in April, Mr Tinkov sold his family\'s 35% stake in the company he founded - TCS Group Holding, based in Cyprus. The buyer was one of Russia\'s richest men, Vladimir Potanin, head of the mining giant Norilsk Nickel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">TCS\'s businesses under the Tinkoff brand include banking, insurance and mobile phones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Media reports say another Russian banker, Nikolay Storonsky, has also given up his Russian citizenship. He has British citizenship and founded the British fintech start-up Revolut. He condemned the war in Ukraine in a blog post earlier this year, highlighting his Ukrainian family connections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, billionaire Israeli-Russian investor Yuri Milner announced he had renounced his Russian citizenship. He left Russia in 2014 and lives in the 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, '2022-11-01 12:46:20', '2022-11-01 12:46:20'),
(2737, 2737, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba will miss France\'s World Cup defence in Qatar as he needs more time to recover from a knee operation.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pogba, 29, has not played for the Serie A side this season since re-joining from Manchester United in the summer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suffered a knee injury in July and initially opted not to have surgery in a bid to be fit for the tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France\'s first World Cup match is against Australia on 22 November.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement on Monday, Pogba\'s agent Rafaela Pimenta said: \"Following yesterday\'s and today\'s medical review in Torino and Pittsburgh, it is extremely painful to inform Paul Pogba will still need recovery time from his surgery.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For this reason, Paul will not be able to join Juventus\' squad before the World Cup break nor the French national team in Qatar.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pogba, whose last appearance for France came in a 5-0 friendly win over South Africa in March, returned to training early last month before opting for surgery, which had kept him on the sidelines until two weeks ago when he recommenced partial training with Juve.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italian media reports on Monday also suggested that Pogba had sustained a thigh injury to further set back his recovery, while Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri recently said it was \"very unlikely\" that the midfielder would play for the club before the World Cup. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 12:51:25', '2022-11-01 12:51:25');
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(2738, 2738, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk said in a filing on Monday he will serve as chief executive of Twitter, the social media company he just bought for $44 billion, a move that Wall Street analysts have said could stretch the billionaire thin. </b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring Company, fired Twitter\'s previous chief, Parag Agrawal, and other top company officials last week. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tesla\'s stock has lost a third of its value since Musk made an offer to buy Twitter in April, compared with a 12% decline in the benchmark S&P 500 index in the same period. Musk had previously changed his Twitter bio to \"Chief Twit\" in an allusion to his planned move. Twitter on Monday declined comment on how long Musk might remain CEO or appoint someone else.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another filing on Monday, Musk revealed that he became the sole director of Twitter as a result of the takeover. \"The following persons, who were directors of Twitter prior to the effective time of the merger, are no longer directors of Twitter: </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bret Taylor, Parag Agrawal, Omid Kordestani, David Rosenblatt, Martha Lane Fox, Patrick Pichette, Egon Durban, Fei-Fei Li and Mimi Alemayehou,\" Musk said in the filing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly afterward, Musk tweeted that the move to dissolve the board \"is just temporary,\" without elaborating. Last week, Musk\'s takeover of the social media company for $44 billion concluded a months-long saga. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the takeover Musk has moved quickly to put his stamp on Twitter, which he had ridiculed for months for being slow to introduce product changes or take down spam accounts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His teams began meeting with some employees to investigate Twitter\'s software code and understand how aspects of the platform worked, according to two sources familiar with the matter. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some staff who spoke with Reuters said they had received little communication from Musk or other leaders and were using news reports to piece together what was happening at the company. HT/Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 13:01:55', '2022-11-02 02:19:22'),
(2739, 2739, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Babar Azam was supposed to lead Pakistan to Twenty20 World Cup glory but his side are on the brink of an early exit and the usually inspirational skipper is facing growing questions about his batting and leadership.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azam scored the most runs at last year\'s World Cup in taking his country to the semi-finals, where they lost to eventual champions Australia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the player ranked among the best batsmen in the world has scored just eight runs in three matches so far in Australia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He got out for a first-ball duck in Pakistan\'s agonising last-ball defeat to arch-rivals India in their first game of the tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 28-year-old Azam then made four as the team lost by one run against Zimbabwe in a shock defeat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan finally managed a win over the Netherlands in their third Super 12 match on Sunday, but they lost four wickets including Azam run out on four while chasing 91.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They play South Africa on Thursday in Sydney and must win their remaining two matches and hope other results go their way to stand any chance of making the semi-finals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azam\'s struggles have reflected a wider malaise among the Pakistani batsmen at the World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Even when they score runs, why we lose? Because of the way they score runs,\" said former captain Waqar Younis, also taking aim at Azam\'s opening partner Mohammad Rizwan, referring to their scoring rates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strike rates of Babar 129.19 and Rizwan (127.11) are below some other T20 openers including South Africa\'s Quinton de Kock (136.14) and Indian skipper Rohit Sharma (140.13).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azam was ranked the leading batsman in the world in T20 international cricket before being displaced by Rizwan during the Asia Cup in September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azam has since slipped to fourth but still holds the top position in the ODI chart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think Babar sometimes plays for himself,\" another former captain, Wasim Akram, said previously in suggesting the opening batsman drop down the order in the Pakistan Super League. The skipper wasn\'t comfortable with the idea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Waqar called Azam \"insecure\" and also took aim at his ability as a captain.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is a difference between a captain and a leader,\" Waqar told a chat show.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- \'He\'s human also\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When India\'s superstar batsman Virat Kohli was in a slump earlier this year, Azam backed him to climb out of it, tweeting: \"This too shall pass. Stay strong.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That tweet came back to haunt Azam when former India spinner Amit Mishra sarcastically aimed it back at the Pakistani batsman after another low score against the Dutch.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice-captain Shadab Khan jumped to the defence of his leader after the six-wicket victory over the Dutch in Perth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'s a world-class player, no doubt about that, but he\'s human also. Sometimes humans make mistakes, but he\'s our leader, he\'s our best captain,\" said Shadab.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He supports us, so we have to support him now. He\'s one shot away (from regaining form).\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former captain Shahid Afridi also expects Azam, who still averages over 42 in 95 T20 internationals since making his debut in 2016, to prove his doubters wrong.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Two to three bad games don\'t make you a bad player!\" Afridi said on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Babar Azam is our most consistent performer, he needs our support and backing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He will be back with a big match-winning innings soon.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 17:55:08', '2022-11-01 17:55:08'),
(2740, 2740, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh Bank has asked banks to provide Tk 107 against per US dollar inward remittance.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A remitter will now get Tk 107 per dollar, even if they send remittance directly through banks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, remitters are getting Tk 99.5 per dollar through the banking channel. Remittance flow through banks fell drastically in September and October.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from this, the banks will not charge any fee for remittance collection from now on. At the same time, in the current reality of foreign exchange reserves, banks have to open LCs with dollar resources from their own sources, Bangladesh Bank said to the commercial banks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These instructions were given on Monday in a meeting between the central bank and the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB), an association of banks\' chief executives and Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers’ Association (BAFEDA).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Governor Ahmed Jamal and Kazi Sayedur Rahman were present in the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ABB Chairman and BRAC Bank Managing Director (MD) Salim RF Hossain, on behalf of the banks, BAFEDA Chairman and Sonali Bank MD Afzal Karim, Mutual Trust Bank MD Syed Mahbubur Rahman, City Bank MD Masrur Arefin and others were present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, the central bank has asked to increase the number of exchange houses outside the country to encourage remittance collection directly through banks by reducing the dependence on foreign exchange houses. In this case, the central bank will provide necessary assistance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Banks have committed to implementing these decisions. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 18:02:38', '2022-11-01 18:02:38'),
(2741, 2741, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">On Tuesday, Australia takes another step towards reshaping its throw-away society.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A range of single-use plastic, including straws, cutlery and micro beads in shampoo, will be banned in its most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), in a bid to reduce waste.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Australia has been very active over the last few years in moving to ban single-use plastics. We now have bans in place in over half of Australia\'s states and territories,\" says Shane Cucow, the plastics campaign manager at the Australian Marine Conservation Society.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s been incredible progress considering just two years ago not a single state and territory had banned single-use plastics.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia has complex record with plastic waste. Though it has long been accused of inaction, the country has also seen celebrated examples of leadership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the forefathers of the anti-waste movement was Ian Kiernan, a Sydney-born property developer who became a professional yachtsman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 1980s, he had an environmental epiphany in the waters of the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean during a solo race around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He was horrified by the amount of pollution, particularly plastic,\" explains one of his daughters, Pip. \"So, that was the impetus to come back and do something about it.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1989, Ian Kiernan launched Clean Up Sydney Harbour, a community effort to tackle litter in one of the world\'s most famous waterways.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He was worrying that no-one would turn up, but 40,000 Sydneysiders turned up,\" Ms Kiernan tells the BBC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A year later it became a national event, and Clean Up Australia Day was born.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is absolutely quintessentially Australian in that we are great volunteers but we don\'t like being told what to do. Clean Up Australia is about empowering you. You chose where you clean up. We\'ll give you the tools,\" adds Ms Kiernan, who\'s the chair of the organisation her father set up, which attracts a million volunteer waste warriors each year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He\'d be encouraged to see that we are phasing out problematic single-use plastic items. But he would equally be frustrated that we are still producing and wasting so much plastic across the world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June, NSW banned lightweight plastic bags. Other items included in Tuesday\'s ban include single-use plastic drink stirrers and cotton buds, as well as expanded polystyrene containers for take-away food.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Queensland will disallow many of these products in September 2023, along with heavyweight plastic shopping bags under a proposed \"five-year roadmap\". Victoria will act sooner, and will ban \"problematic single-use plastics from sale or supply\" from 1 February 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pace of legislative reform might be impressive, but Australia\'s mission to tame its plastic waste problem has a long way to go.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re just at the start of our journey. Across the board Australia\'s plastic packaging recycling rate is still just 16%. Our national target is 70%,\" Mr Cucow says. \"So, we are a very long way from actually recovering and recycling all of our plastic in Australia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Australia is so far behind in terms of recycling our plastic packaging and one of the big barriers is soft plastics, which are very difficult to recycle. That\'s a legacy of decades of neglect.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A global comparison of plastics waste management placed Australia 7th among 25 nations for its overall efforts to control plastic pollution, behind European countries, Japan, the UK and the US. Australia was rated 1st for \"promoting safe and informed plastic usage\" but 16th for \"efficient collection and sorting channels\", said the report released in October last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About a third of Australians live in NSW. The state\'s environment minister, James Griffin, has acknowledged the challenges that lie ahead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The amount of plastic in our oceans is predicted to outweigh the amount of fish by 2050. That is a horrifying prediction and a call to action to ensure our wildlife… can have a brighter future,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Griffin asserted the state\'s bans would \"prevent 2.7 billion items of plastic litter from entering the environment over the next 20 years\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June, Australia\'s national science agency, CSIRO, reported some good news that plastic pollution littering the coast had fallen by 29% compared to 2013.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Britta Denise Hardesty, a senior principal research scientist in its Oceans and Atmosphere unit, it was a \"heartening\" discovery and a sign that government policies were working.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are starting to see a real change in our relationship with plastic,\" she told the BBC, noting a \"really big shift\" in state government practices, including buy-back or cash-for-containers schemes reward individuals for recycling bottles and other items.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are starting to put a price on plastic where we actually treat plastic as a valuable item, as a commodity rather than just as waste. Think about aluminium. It has intrinsic value and we don\'t tend to find it lost to the environment,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t foresee that we are going to have a plastic-free future. I\'d like to see us designing with a legacy mindset, designing products for longer-term and thinking about what is the next life of that product going to be.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Pip Kiernan, her late father\'s mission goes on more than 30 years after it began.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He predicted all those years ago that plastics would be the scourge for our generation and he was right,\" she says. 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(2742, 2742, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Salman Khan has been given a Y+ security cover by the Maharashtra government as per a report. The actor has faced threats to life from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, purportedly behind the murder of rapper Sidhu Moosewala. </span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In light of these security concerns, the Maharashtra government has decided to upgrade the actor’s security. Similarly, actors Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher have also been given category security cover. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salman Khan and his father, writer Salim Khan, were sent a threat letter in June this year, which was spotted by the veteran writer’s guards. The letter threatened to do a ‘Moosewala’ to Salman and Salim, a reference to the singer, who was murdered in Punjab earlier this year. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following this, the Mumbai Police arrested multiple gangsters from Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang, many of whom confessed to targeting Salman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salman was given regular police protection from the Mumbai Police up till now. However, now as per a Mid-Day report, the actor will be given a Y+ security cover. This means he will have four armed security personnel on his person at all times. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, Akshay Kumar will now be given X-category security, which means he will have three security officers in shifts protecting him. Anupam Kher has also been given the same level of security. The report states that the cost of the protection will be borne by the celebs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigations in Mumbai, Punjab, and Delhi have uncovered in the last few months that gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar had planned to kill Salman Khan in Mumbai. Reports have suggested that gangsters attempted twice, once outside his Bandra home during his birthday celebration in 2017 and once at his Panvel farmhouse in 2018. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report states that Anupam was given upgraded security cover after he received threats following the release of his film The Kashmir Files while Akshay was granted security based on social media threats over his nationality. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 18:20:07', '2022-11-02 02:16:09'),
(2743, 2743, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Researchers have discovered that one-third of people with various degrees of chronic renal disease who were not receiving dialysis who responded to annual questionnaires about their symptoms may be labelled as having a \"Worse symptom score and deteriorating trajectory\" of symptoms. These patients had particularly significant risks of subsequently needing dialysis and of passing away before starting treatment, as reported in CJASN.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kidney Disease Quality of Life-36 questionnaire was completed by 2,787 persons in France who had CKD but weren\'t receiving dialysis for the study by Moustapha Faye, MD (CHRU Nancy, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar), and his colleagues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">98 per cent of participants reported experiencing at least one symptom, with the prevalence of each symptom ranging from 24 per cent (chest discomfort) to 83 per cent (fatigue). 690 people began kidney replacement therapy (KRT), such as dialysis, after a median follow-up of 5.3 years, while 490 participants passed away before KRT. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team found two types of symptom trajectory profiles: a \"worse symptom score and worsening trajectory\" in 31 per cent of participants, which was defined by a low initial symptom score that got worse by more than 10 points (on a scale of 0-100) over time, and a \"better symptom score and stable trajectory\" in 69 per cent of participants, which was defined by a high initial score that stayed stable over time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participants in the \"Worse symptom score and worsening trajectory\" category had more risk factors for CKD progression at baseline, worse quality of life, and a higher risk of KRT and death before KRT than other participants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In addition to the existing classifications of CKD, it is possible to monitor symptoms actively and classify patients according to their progression. This monitoring should involve practitioners and patients,\" said Dr Faye. \"This active symptom tracking will allow early therapeutic interventions to be planned to help manage different symptoms.\" HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 18:41:44', '2022-11-01 19:06:35'),
(2744, 2744, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the youths to engage in producing and processing food to tackle impending global famine and food crisis forecast by international organisations due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I call upon the youth folk to concentrate on producing more food by cultivating each inch of our land and processing those so that we can save Bangladesh from the looming global famine and food crisis,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said this while distributing the National Youth Award among 21 winners in various categories for their outstanding contribution to youth development and inaugurating the National Youth Day-2022 being observed across the country in a befitting manner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister joined virtually the programme organised by the Youth and Sports Ministry at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium here, from her official Ganabhaban residence in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said they have to ensure maximum use of the fertile land and manpower they have to ward off the global crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The entire world has been suffering from economic meltdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The situation is worsening further due to the Russia-Ukraine war for which many developed countries are facing economic crisis,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The youths can work in their own localities in growing more food and processing those to effectively fight the situation, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"We can meet our growing local demand alongside helping other countries affected by possible famine through growing more food and ensuring their processing,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Describing the youths as the main driving force for Bangladesh\'s development, she said, \"You (youths) have to make your country a developed and prosperous one by 2041 utilising your own strength and merit.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said her government is working tirelessly to build the youths with the up-to-date knowledge of science and technology to make them worthy to compete with the ever-changing world and capable for the fourth industrial revolution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She praised the initiative of the Youth and Sports Ministry to give firm based training to 64,000 youths both male and female in 64 districts and provide them with loans to set up biogas plants.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"I consider the initiative is timely one and very important considering the present global state while the energy price is increasing globally due to the war. We can save our country, if we can establish biogas plants and solar energy,\" she added.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Youth and Sports Md Zahid Ahsan Russel, its Secretary Mesbah Uddin and Director General of the Department of Youth Development Md Azharul Islam Khan, spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On behalf of the prime minister, the state minister distributed the awards among the winners of the National Youth Award.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the National Day and its theme song was also played at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Youth Day is observed every year on November 1. This year\'s theme of the day is \"Proshikhito Jubok Unnat Desh: Bangabandhur Bangladesh (Trained youths developed country, Bangabandhu\'s Bangladesh)”. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 18:57:36', '2022-11-01 18:57:36'),
(2745, 2745, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhananjaya de Silva has guided Sri Lanka to a comprehensive victory over their Asian counterparts, Afghanistan! This has been a comfortable win for Sri Lanka and they keep their chances of making it to the semi-finals alive with a 6-wicket win.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">They negotiated a tricky run chase with ease with the top order finally putting up a steady performance. Afghanistan will exit the tournament with this loss and will find themselves looking back at the two washed-out games. They have a chance to dent Australia’s hope and pick up a consolation win in their last fixture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan did not get much swing at the start of the inning but Mujeeb Ur Rahman took an early wicket once again. After losing Pathum Nissanka quite early, Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis steadied the inning thereafter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan bowlers however failed to take wickets in quick succession which allowed their opponents to accumulate runs at a steady pace. They once again depended on their lead spinner Rashid Khan to help them out but his two wickets were not enough to win Afghanistan this game. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Mendis’ dismissal, Charith Asalanka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa came out to play handy supporting roles for Dhananjaya de Silva who reached an outstanding half-century. His 66 of just 42 balls guided Sri Lanka to an easy win with 9 balls to spare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While, on the other side Afghanistan have not yet performed at the best of their abilities and find themselves out of the competition. News18</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 19:05:54', '2022-11-02 02:18:46'),
(2746, 2746, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Wind turbines could offer a double whammy in the fight against climate change.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Besides harnessing wind to generate clean energy, turbines may help to funnel carbon dioxide to systems that pull the greenhouse gas out of the air (SN: 8/10/21). Researchers say their simulations show that wind turbines can drag dirty air from above a city or a smokestack into the turbines’ wakes.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That boosts the amount of CO2 that makes it to machines that can remove it from the atmosphere. The researchers plan to describe their simulations and a wind tunnel test of a scaled-down system at a meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics in Indianapolis on November 21.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing climate change will require dramatic reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide that humans put into the air — but that alone won’t be enough. One part of the solution could be direct air capture systems that remove some CO2 from the atmosphere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the large amounts of CO2 produced by factories, power plants and cities are often concentrated at heights that put it out of reach of machinery on the ground that can remove it. “We’re looking into the fluid dynamics benefits of utilizing the wake of the wind turbine to redirect higher concentrations” down to carbon capture systems, says mechanical engineer Clarice Nelson of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As large, power-generating wind turbines rotate, they cause turbulence that pulls air down into the wakes behind them, says mechanical engineer Luciano Castillo, also of Purdue. It’s an effect that can concentrate carbon dioxide enough to make capture feasible, particularly near large cities like Chicago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The beauty is that [around Chicago], you have one of the best wind resources in the region, so you can use the wind turbine to take some of the dirty air in the city and capture it,” Castillo says. Wind turbines don’t require the cooling that nuclear and fossil fuel plants need. “So not only are you producing clean energy,” he says, “you are not using water.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Running the capture systems from energy produced by the wind turbines can also address the financial burden that often goes along with removing CO2 from the air. “Even with tax credits and potentially selling the CO2, there’s a huge gap between the value that you can get from capturing it and the actual cost” that comes with powering capture with energy that comes from other sources, Nelson says. “Our method would be a no-cost added benefit” to wind turbine farms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are probably lots of factors that will impact CO2 transport by real-world turbines, including the interactions the turbine wakes have with water, plants and the ground, says Nicholas Hamilton, a mechanical engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., who was not involved with the new studies. “I’m interested to see how this group scaled their experiment for wind tunnel investigation.” SN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 19:29:13', '2022-11-01 19:29:13'),
(2747, 2747, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The High Court on Tuesday granted Bangladesh national cricket team pacer Al-Amin Hossain permanent bail in a domestic violence case filed by his wife.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judge Begum Mafroza Parvin of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 of Dhaka passed the order after he surrendered before the court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Al-Amin surrendered before the court in the morning and sought bail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 6, a HC bench granted the cricketer an eight-week anticipatory bail and ordered him to surrender after expiry of the bail period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 1, cricketer Al-Amin\'s wife Israt Jahan lodged a complaint with Mirpur Model police station against him over torturing her for dowry. Later, police registered a case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the case statement, Al-Amin married Israt on December 26, 2012, and his wife gave birth to two sons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israt also claimed that Al-Amin did not provide her maintenance and educational expenses for the two sons for many days, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Amin demanded Tk 20 lakh as dowry from his wife and used to beat her as she had refused to pay the amount. He also drove her out of the house with their two children on August 25, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 3, Al Amin sent a message to Israt that he will not provide her maintenance and divorced her. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 19:38:38', '2022-11-01 19:38:38'),
(2748, 2748, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh has requested Canada to find an alternative way to deport Nur Chowdhury, the self-confessed and convicted killer of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Law Minister Anisul Huq made the request when Lilly Nicholls, Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, paid a call on him at the secretariat on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Huq told reporters that the Canadian High Commissioner has informed him that according to Canada’s law they cannot return a death row convict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I have a requested her to find an alternative way to return Nur as sheltering a killer is violation of human rights,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the visit they discussed 50 years of friendship between the two nations, areas of mutual cooperation, importance of freedom of expression in democratic societies. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 20:04:34', '2022-11-01 20:04:34'),
(2749, 2749, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A goods transport strike is underway in Sylhet district for the second consecutive day demanding resumption of stone extraction from quarries.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Goods transportation to wholesale and retail markets have been adversely affected following the strike.</div><div><br></div><div>The 48- hour strike, enforced by Sylhet truck, pickup, covered van malik-sramik pikya parishad, began at 6 am on Monday and will continue until 6 am on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Sabbir Ahmed Foyez, organising secretary of Sylhet truck, pickup, covered van malik-sramik oikya parishad, said, “Our workers are observing the strike peacefully.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said, \"We had a meeting with the district administration and they said that a committee has been formed by the Ministry of Mineral Resources to examine the demand for stone extraction\".</div><div><br></div><div>A delegation of the ministry will visit the site on November 3 and will take the next decision based on the report of the committee, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>So, the strike might be called off at midnight instead of 6 am on Wednesday, he further said.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Sunday (October 30) afternoon, a meeting of goods transport workers’ leaders was held at the deputy commissioner’s office but no solution came from the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, the goods transport owners decided to go on strike, demanding withdrawal of a ban on stone extraction and reopening of stone quarries in the district’s Jaflong, Bichanakandi and Bholaganj.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the transport workers and owners, a total of 15 lakh people are directly involved in the stone business in Sylhet.</div><div><br></div><div>Transport workers said stones from the quarries had long been transported across the country since the country\'s independence but a government ban for the last five years has had an adverse impact on the freight transport owners. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 20:54:24', '2022-11-01 20:54:24'),
(2750, 2750, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia have agreed to form a joint task force to enhance energy cooperation between the two countries.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The two sides also decided to strengthen further their bilateral cooperation in a number of fields of shared interests in order to achieve the directives of the two leaderships and the goals of their two brotherly peoples.</div><div><br></div><div>The two countries also signed two Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) on the establishment of a joint business council between the Federation of Saudi Chambers and the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and a MoU on the mutual recognition of seafarers\' certificates.</div><div><br></div><div>The developments came from the two-day 14th Joint Commission meeting between the two countries held on October 30-31 at Crown Plaza Hotel in Riyadh, said a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Sharifa Khan led the Bangladesh delegation while Saudi Vice Minister for Human Resources and Social Development Dr Abdullah Abuthnain led the Saudi delegation. Sharifa led an eight-member delegation at the Joint Commission comprising representatives from different ministries and divisions.</div><div><br></div><div>The release said that the two countries would hold the meeting of the task force on regular basis on energy cooperation in their convenient time.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, following request from Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia assured for investing on commercial supply of LNG on urgent basis and in the Eastern Refinery Unit 2 project.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting also discussed about the establishment of 1,000 MW solar power plant by Saudi Akwa Power and another 730 MW gas fired power plant.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr Mohammed Javed Patwary and Deputy of Saudi Maritime Transport Abdul Rahman M Al-Thunayan signed the two MoUs.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from these, another MoU was signed between the FBCCI and the Federation of Saudi Chamber of Commerce to form a joint business council to boost trade nand commerce between the two countries. FBCCI Vice President Habib Ullah Dawn and vice chairman of Saudi Chamber Engineer Tariq bin Muhammad Al-Haidari signed the MoU on behalf of their respective sides.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the two sides agreed to sign an \'executive programme\' in a speedy manner between the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division of Bangladesh and the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia to allow Bangladeshi health professionals in Saudi health sector.</div><div><br></div><div>The two sides also came into consensus to sign another MoU for boosting bilateral effective cooperation in the fields of science and education.</div><div><br></div><div>The two-day Joint Commission emphasized on boosting mutual cooperation in the fields of trade, investment, education, health, ICT, agriculture, environment and religious values. A joint statement was signed after the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>During the Joint Commission, ERD Secretary Sharifa Khan termed Saudi Arabia as a brotherly country of Bangladesh and said, \"Joint Commission is an important stage for reviewing our bilateral relations in a gradual manner. It also paves the way for us to come into consensus to search for our areas of cooperation, identify the potential areas of cooperation and thus attaining our joint goals,\"</div><div><br></div><div>She also hoped that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman would visit Bangladesh at the beginning of next year which is expected to boost the bilateral relations.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the ERD Secretary also held a meeting with the chief executive of Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Sultan Abdulrahman Al-Marshad and requested to increase Saudi support in various sectors of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>The next joint commission meeting would be held in Dhaka. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 21:30:32', '2022-11-01 21:30:32'),
(2751, 2751, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Dhaka court convicted and sentenced eight people to life imprisonment in a case lodged over the murder of Pallabi schoolboy Mehedi Hasan, 15, in 2014.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The convicts are- Foysal, Ashik, Russel, Oli, Saddam, Rabbi alias Chotu, Imran and Rashid.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka 7th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Tehsin Iftekher pronounced the judgment in presence of all the convicts and sent them to jail with conviction warrant. The court also fined them Taka 50 thousand each.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case documents, Oli and his friends took Mehedi to a building on September 30, 2014, and beat him indiscriminately as he opposed their drug trading in the locality.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Mehedi\'s family rushed him to Mirpur Islami Bank Hospital in critical condition, from where he was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The attending doctors there declared Mehedi dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Mehedi\'s father filed the case with Pallabi Police Station on October 1, 2014. Police on June 12, 2017, filed charge-sheet against 10. The court on April 1, 2019, framed charges in the case and came up with its judgment today after examining 12 out of 25 witnesses in the case. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 21:41:27', '2022-11-01 21:41:27');
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(2752, 2752, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Divers searched for more bodies on&nbsp; Tuesday after the collapse of a recently renovated suspension bridge killed&nbsp; 134 people in western India, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi preparing to&nbsp; visit the disaster site.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Questions also grew about the possible cause of the catastrophe at Morbi, in&nbsp; Modi\'s home state of Gujarat, on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Nine people have been arrested on homicide charges over the collapse of the&nbsp; 150-year-old structure.</div><div><br></div><div>The pedestrian bridge was packed with people celebrating the final day of the&nbsp; Diwali holidays. Forty-seven children were among those killed, with a&nbsp; previous overall toll of 137 revised downwards.</div><div><br></div><div>Horrific CCTV footage showed the rickety structure, a popular tourist spot,&nbsp; packed with people and then suddenly giving way as cables snapped.</div><div><br></div><div>Several hundred fell into the river, while others clung desperately to the&nbsp; twisted remains of the bridge screaming in the dark for help.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I heard screams and a loud thud and then there was silence. Then slowly&nbsp; cries and screams,\" survivor Madhvi Ben, 30, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>Ben said one of her legs was tangled in \"a steel rope\", leaving her almost&nbsp; entirely submerged and struggling to break free.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I somehow blocked my nose and pulled myself up and released my leg from the&nbsp; wire. I grabbed another wire and climbed the remains of the bridge,\" she&nbsp; said.</div><div><br></div><div>Morbi businessman Rafiq Gaffar, whose two nephews aged 12 and 21 died,&nbsp; described the scene as \"mayhem\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"People were crying and wailing. It was a scene from doomsday,\" Gaffar, 45,&nbsp; said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"There were bodies floating on the water everywhere and people trapped on the&nbsp; bridge who were frantically calling for help.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\'Apprehension\'&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>There were no further reports of missing people on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Rescuers in inflatable boats drove in circles in an attempt to bring up any&nbsp; objects from the bottom of the river.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have not called off the search operation yet as there is always this&nbsp; apprehension there could be victims from outside whose kin are not aware of&nbsp; their whereabouts and haven\'t contacted us yet,\" said Rahul Tripathi of the&nbsp; Morbi police force.</div><div><br></div><div>Workers also picked up plastic rubbish from the river banks and were&nbsp; reportedly painting a hospital that Modi was due to visit.</div><div><br></div><div>The bridge renovations were reportedly carried out by local firm Oreva, whose&nbsp; experience was limited to clocks, e-bikes and other products.</div><div><br></div><div>The company could not be reached immediately for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Jaysukh Patel, chairman of Ajanta Manufacturing, part of Oreva, had cut a&nbsp; ribbon to reopen the bridge on October 26 and said then the span would last&nbsp; 15 more years.</div><div><br></div><div>But Sandeepsinh Jhala, Morbi municipality\'s chief officer, said on Monday the&nbsp; bridge had not been issued a safety certificate.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrested nine people on charges of culpable homicide on Monday, just&nbsp; as authorities announced an inquiry.</div><div><br></div><div>They included two Oreva managers, two sub-contractors and two ticket&nbsp; collectors accused of selling too many passes, which caused the bridge to be&nbsp; overloaded.</div><div><br></div><div>Three security guards were also arrested for failing to manage the crowd at&nbsp; the bridge, senior police official Ashok Yadav told reporters on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As and when the investigation progresses, names of others associated with&nbsp; the Oreva Group will also be booked,\" Yadav said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a team had been formed to investigate aspects of the maintenance and&nbsp; structural safety of the bridge.</div><div><br></div><div>Textile trader Puneet Pitroda, 35, told AFP at Morbi\'s crematorium on Monday&nbsp; that the bodies of his brother and sister-in-law had been recovered from the&nbsp; river.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"The authorities are fully responsible for the tragedy. They allowed hundreds&nbsp; to gather on the bridge when it had a capacity to hold just a small number,\"&nbsp; he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We will never forget this night.\" - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 23:00:24', '2022-11-01 23:00:24'),
(2753, 2753, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A British cabinet minister on Tuesday vowed \"more radical\" policies to counter illegal migration as record numbers make the treacherous crossing of the Channel in small boats.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We... now need to look at some more radical options to ensure that our laws are appropriate, that economic migrants are returned swiftly and that we deter people from coming to the UK,\" immigration minister Robert Jenrick told BBC radio.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The United Kingdom cannot continue to be a magnet for economic migrants,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 40,000 people have made the dangerous crossing across the Channel from mainland Europe so far this year, according to UK government figures.</div><div><br></div><div>Under-fire Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been heavily criticised for describing as an \"invasion\" the numbers of asylum seekers arriving on England\'s south coast.</div><div><br></div><div>But Jenrick defended her on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"\'Invasion\' is a way of describing the sheer scale of the challenge,\" he told Sky News.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is leading to the infrastructure that we have in terms of reception centres, like Manston, in terms of hotel accommodation, and asylum and social housing, essentially being overwhelmed.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Jenrick accepted that conditions at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent, southeast England, were \"poor\", and that people had been sleeping on the floor on mats.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The problem is that thousands of people are crossing the Channel illegally every day,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Braverman said on Monday that the government was spending £6.8 million ($7.8 million) per day on housing migrants.</div><div><br></div><div>She denied claims in parliament that she \"ignored legal advice\" on using hotels to relieve pressure on the overcrowded processing centre.</div><div><br></div><div>\"What I have refused to do is to prematurely release thousands of people into local communities without having anywhere for them to stay,\" she told MPs.</div><div><br></div><div>Another migrant centre was fire-bombed on Sunday by a 66-year-old man said to be suffering mental ill-health, who then killed himself.</div><div><br></div><div>The incident caused minor injuries to staff and was not being treated as terrorism related, Braverman said.</div><div><br></div><div>Braverman is also under pressure after admitting she used her personal phone to consult official documents six times.</div><div><br></div><div>The right-winger, whose brief includes policing and domestic intelligence, has been under mounting pressure since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak controversially reinstated her to the cabinet on taking office last week.</div><div><br></div><div>Braverman defended her record in parliament for the first time since being forced out by Sunak\'s short-lived predecessor Liz Truss. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk \\', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 23:08:34', '2022-11-01 23:08:34'),
(2754, 2754, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government has fixed purchasing price of Aman paddy at Tk 28 per kg and rice at Tk 42 per kg, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In addition, the government will collect five lakh tons of rice and three lakh tons of paddy in this season. The collection of paddy-rice will begin from November 10.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Food Planning Monitoring Committee (FPMC) took the decision in a meeting today (Tuesday).</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 23:55:48', '2022-11-01 23:55:48'),
(2755, 2755, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">England held their nerve to see off a strong New Zealand challenge and win their Twenty20 World Cup clash by 20 runs at the Gabba in Brisbane on Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A Glenn Phillips-inspired New Zealand looked to be heading for victory until England fought back to claim a nail-biting win and rescue their title challenge. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-01 23:58:03', '2022-11-01 23:58:03'),
(2756, 2756, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rajshahi University (RU) authority has imposed a ban on ragging until further order aimed at upholding a congenial and peaceful academic atmosphere in its campus.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A RU press release said many untoward and unpleasant situations happened due to ragging that also hinders academic activities.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, some of the students suffer mental problems due to ragging.</div><div><br></div><div>The RU administration has urged all concerned not to arrange any ragging programme in the campus. It has also warned that stern action will be taken against those who will be found involved in ragging.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from this, the varsity authority has said no other batch can arrange fresher\'s reception function or any other view-sharing meeting with the newcomers without prior permission of their respective department chairman. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 00:25:53', '2022-11-02 00:25:53'),
(2757, 2757, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State minister for power Nasrul Hamid on Tuesday said the power department will get Tk 1893 crore as unpaid electricity bill from various ministries and departments of the government till September this year.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He also said that considering the average daily production of 2300 million cubic feet of gas, it will be possible to use the remaining gas for nearly 11 years (10.8 years).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hamid said that the power division will get maximum amount Tk 905.21 crore from local government department and Tk 395.68 crore from the ministry of disaster management.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to a query from ruling Awami League MP Md. Mozaffar Hossain, he said by strengthening supervision and implementing various activities at the field level, it has been possible to reduce the amount of electricity bill in arrears in the past few years.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that the government has taken various initiatives including setting an annual target for reducing in the Annual Performance Agreement (APA), holding inter-ministerial meetings for collection of dues from different government organisations, preparing list of bill defaulters and taking steps to recover them and disconnecting electricity, if necessary, to collect the unpaid electricity bills.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that all the customers are being brought under prepaid/smart meter to reduce the arrears in electricity bills.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to a query from AL MP Shahiduzzaman Sarker, the state minister said according to the latest (July 1, 2022) estimate, the amount of proven and potential recoverable gas reserves in the country is 28.59 trillion cubic feet.</div><div><br></div><div>From the beginning of gas production to till June 30, 2022, the cumulative amount of gas in the country is 19.53 trillion cubic feet.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently the remaining recoverable reserves are 9.06 trillion cubic feet. Considering the current average daily production of 2300 million cubic feet of gas from the gas field, it will be possible to use the remaining gas for 10.8 years (nearly 11 years).</div><div><br></div><div>The mentioned time may be increased or decreased if daily rate gas production is decreased and if gas production is increased following invention of new gas field, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to another question, the state minister said that since Bangladesh needs to import LPG, if the price does not decrease in the international market, there is no opportunity to reduce the price of LPG in the domestic market without government subsidy.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to Nizam Uddin Hazari\'s question, the state minister said that from the financial year 2009-10 to 2021-22, $28.3 billion have been invested in the electricity sector.</div><div><br></div><div>Of this, $9.73 billion have been invested in the private sector for electricity.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to Jatiya Party\'s Rustam Ali Farazi\'s question, Hamid said BPC is making a loss of Tk 21 per liter in selling diesel.</div><div><br></div><div>In response to AL MP M. Abdul Latif’s query on countrywide ongoing load shedding, Hamid said that due to the global energy crisis following the Russia-Ukraine war, Bangladesh is trying to overcome the energy crisis through economical use of electricity and planned load shedding.</div><div><br></div><div>He said, as per the plan, the new coal-based power plants will be connected to the grid and by ensuring the cost-effective use of electricity, it will be possible to overcome the crisis soon.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP MP Harunur Rashid came down heavily on the government for what&nbsp; he said widespread looting, corruption and mismanagement in power and energy sector.</div><div><br></div><div>Harun proposed that the Speaker arranges a discussion on this issue in Parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>In reply, Hamid blasted Harun for the past BNP-Jamaat government’s alleged involvement in corruption in the power sector. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 01:56:45', '2022-11-02 01:56:45'),
(2758, 2758, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A huge grinning Totoro and other whimsical exhibits welcomed visitors to Japan\'s new Ghibli theme park as three of its five sections opened to the public on Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The attraction in central Japan has been long awaited by fans of Studio Ghibli\'s beloved animations, from \"Howl\'s Moving Castle\" to the Oscar-winning \"Spirited Away\".</div><div><br></div><div>Now a fluffy Cat Bus, a life-sized No-Face and recreations of buildings from the films are ready for visitors less than a month after the country fully reopened its borders to foreign tourists.</div><div>Tickets are reservation only, and are already sold out until the end of the year.</div><div><br></div><div>One middle-aged visitor, who described himself as \"a huge fan\", told broadcaster TV Asahi he had been queuing to enter the park since the previous day.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Congratulations!\" said a hand-drawn note posted on Twitter by Studio Ghibli, illustrated with a row of figures resembling the spirit creature Totoro and signed by the company\'s co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.</div><div><br></div><div>Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki also spoke of his excitement at a ceremony on Monday ahead of the opening.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I didn\'t sleep very well last night. It\'s a bit different from a film release,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Spread over 7.1 hectares (17.5 acres) of a 194-hectare (480-acre) park in Aichi region where the 2005 International Expo was held, the site features large open-air areas in keeping with the importance of nature in Ghibli films.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the three sections now open is the \"Hill of Youth\", the gateway to the park that features an elevator tower inspired by Ghibli films including \"Castle in the Sky\".</div><div><br></div><div>Elsewhere, \"Dondoko Forest\" evokes the retro peace of the 1988 classic \"My Neighbour Totoro\", with bucolic walking paths and an enormous Totoro figure.</div><div><br></div><div>A major draw will be Ghibli\'s Grand Warehouse, a hangar-like indoor portion of the park with various attractions, including 14 sets from 13 of the studio\'s film classics.</div><div><br></div><div>Visitors can stroll along an alley designed to look like the opening scene of \"Spirited Away,\" or perch on the red velvet-covered train seat in a carriage next to the movie\'s instantly recognisable \"No-Face\" character.</div><div><br></div><div>Aichi region is predicting an influx of 1.8 million visitors a year once all five areas of the park are open from next year, with an estimated annual economic impact of 48 billion yen ($324 million).</div><div><br></div><div>Studio Ghibli, founded in 1985 by Miyazaki and fellow animator Isao Takahata, has captivated fans around the world with works blending nostalgia, courage, greed and interaction with the natural world.</div><div><br></div><div>The studio already operates the hugely popular Ghibli Museum on the outskirts of Tokyo, which offers tickets only at the beginning of each month and regularly sells out within hours.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 02:02:07', '2022-11-02 02:02:07'),
(2759, 2759, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Application of organic and compost fertilizers can increase crop productions, reducing use of chemical fertilizers side by side with substantially improving soil health.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Use of organic fertilizers also help to maintain ecology, bio-diversity and environment and reduces the risks of pest attacks in the crop field.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Director, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Mohammed Saidur Rahman said application of organic and compost fertilizers could increase crop production by up to 15 percent along with improving environment.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said use and production of organic fertilizers has been increasing in all the six upazilas of the district where farmers have now set up huge faith on heaps of compost, vermin compost and farmyard compost fertilizer.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Cultivators of the district are well aware of using the soil components. They do not use chemical fertilizer haphazardly or unnecessarily as it destroys the production capacity of their land. Now they are using organic fertilizers including cow-dung and water hyacinth which help to retain the production capacity of cultivable land\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The cultivators also know that repeated use of chemical fertilizer lessens the fertility of soil to a great extent.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Director said that chemical fertilizers usually have one or two ingredients but a plant requires at least 13 ingredients for its survival and proper growth. He said enriched compost fertilizer which is a mixture of bio and chemical components has almost all the ingredients that a plant needs. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 02:38:55', '2022-11-02 02:38:55'),
(2760, 2760, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Health Organization said Tuesday that its emergency committee had determined that monkeypox should continue to be classified as a global health emergency, reports BSS</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Following a meeting on October 20 about the virus that suddenly began spreading across the world in May, the experts \"held the consensus view that the event continues to meet the... criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)\" -- the highest alarm WHO can sound, the UN health agency said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 02:53:02', '2022-11-02 02:53:02'),
(2761, 2761, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Fifty countries have called on China to “uphold its international human rights obligations” in a joint statement read out during a United Nations debate that condemned violations against Uighurs and other predominately Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The statement, read out by Canada during a debate of the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee on Monday, expressed concern that China had refused to discuss a UN human rights office report which found that the treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang may constitute “crimes against humanity”.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report had made “an important contribution to the existing evidence of serious and systematic human rights violations in China”, according to the joint statement.</div><div><br></div><div>“In view of the gravity of the OHCHR assessment, we are concerned that China has so far refused to discuss its findings,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Violations in Xinjiang noted in the joint statement included mass detentions, surveillance based on ethnicity and religion, restrictions on cultural identity and religious practice, destruction of mosques and shrines, enforced disappearance, forced labour, family separations, and forced abortions and sterilisation.</div><div><br></div><div>“Such severe and systematic violations of human rights cannot be justified on the basis of counterterrorism,” the countries said in their statement.</div><div><br></div><div>China should fully implement the recommendations in the OHCHR report, the statement adds, including the release of those arbitrarily detained in Xinjiang and also clarify the locations of those still missing, and facilitate contact with their families and reunions.</div><div><br></div><div>Dai Bing, charge d’affaires of China’s permanent mission to the UN, described the concerns expressed over the human rights situation in Xinjiang as Western “hype” designed to “contain” China.</div><div><br></div><div>“Xinjiang is just a façade, behind which lies their true intent, namely, to use Xinjiang to contain China and maintain their hegemony,” Dai said, according to state media organisation China Central Television (CCTV).</div><div><br></div><div>“Today, it’s China that’s in the crosshairs of their punitive flak. Tomorrow, it would be another developing country targeted by them,” he said. - Al Jazeera</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 03:01:51', '2022-11-02 03:01:51'),
(2762, 2762, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An international team of astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a large asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth, creating a small chance far in the future of a catastrophic collision.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 1.5 kilometer wide asteroid, named 2022 AP7, was discovered in area notoriously difficult to spot objects due to the glare from the Sun.</div><div><br></div><div>It was found along with two other near-Earth asteroids using a high-tech instrument on the Victor M. Blanco telescope in Chile that was originally developed to study dark matter.</div><div><br></div><div>\"2022 AP7 crosses Earth\'s orbit, which makes it a potentially hazardous asteroid, but it currently does not now or anytime in the future have a trajectory that will have it collide with the Earth,\" said lead author of the findings, astronomer Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science.</div><div><br></div><div>The potential threat comes from the fact that like any orbiting object, its trajectory will be slowly modified due to myriad gravitational forces, notably by planets. Forecasts are therefore difficult on the very long term.</div><div><br></div><div>The newly-discovered asteroid is \"the largest object that is potentially hazardous to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years,\" said NOIRLab, a US-funded research group that operates multiple observatories.</div><div><br></div><div>2022 AP7 takes five years to circle the Sun under its current orbit, which at its closest point to Earth remain several million kilometers away.</div><div><br></div><div>The risk is therefore very small, but in case of a collision, an asteroid of that size \"would have a devastating impact on life as we know it,\" said Sheppard. He explained that dust launched into the air would have a major cooling effect, provoking an \"extinction event like hasn\'t been seen on Earth in millions of years.\"</div><div><br></div><div>His team\'s results were published in the scientific journal The Astronomical Journal. The two other asteroids pose no risk to Earth, but one is the closest asteroid to the Sun ever found.</div><div><br></div><div>Some 30,000 asteroids of all sizes -- including more than 850 larger than a kilometer wide -- have been catalogued in the vicinity of the Earth, earning them the label \"Near Earth Objects\" (NEOs). None of them threaten Earth for the next 100 years.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Sheppard, there are \"likely 20 to 50 large NEOs left to find,\" but most are on orbits that put them in the Sun\'s glare.</div><div><br></div><div>In preparation for a future discovery of a more threatening object, Nasa conducted a test mission in late September in which it collided a spacecraft with an asteroid, proving that it was possible to change its trajectory. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 03:19:54', '2022-11-02 03:19:54'),
(2763, 2763, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>North Korea has fired a missile towards the South, which crossed the two countries\' maritime border for the first since the Korean War.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The short-range ballistic missile landed near the South Korean island of Ulleungdo, triggering the island\'s air-raid alarm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Residents on the tiny island were told to evacuate and seek shelter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pyongyang fired a total of three short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast around 09:00 (00:00 GMT).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korean authorities immediately condemned the launches. President Yoon Suk-yeol has called a National Security Cabinet meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missiles come a day after Pyongyang warned the US and South Korea to stop conducting joint military drills around the peninsula this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had threatened to follow up with \"powerful\" measures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both South Korean and Japanese authorities recorded the missiles on Wednesday morning, including the one which had breached the Northern Limit Line.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That missile had fallen in international waters, about 26km south of the maritime demarcation border, 57km east of the South Korean city of Sokcho and 168km north-west of Ulleungdo island. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 13:22:58', '2022-11-02 13:22:58'),
(2764, 2764, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>The authorities in Kyiv say water and power supplies have been restored, a day after a wave of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital\'s infrastructure.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Announcing the resumption of services, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko on Tuesday said scheduled partial blackouts would continue, to manage electricity demand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest strikes followed an attack on Russia\'s Black Sea fleet in Crimea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">They appear to be part of a strategy to damage Ukraine\'s infrastructure in the run-up to winter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Power and water supplies across Ukraine were badly affected after Russia launched dozens of missiles targeting critical facilities on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Klitschko said at one point, 80% of the capital city had been without water, and hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Queues were seen across the city, with residents desperate to collect water from pumps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strikes were also recorded in the second city Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia in the south-east, central Vinnytsia and in the western Lviv region. However, Ukraine\'s military said it had shot down 44 cruise missiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in a post on social media on Tuesday, Mr Klitschko said water supply in Kyiv had been \"fully restored\" by emergency teams.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Electricity was also restored, he said, adding that planned blackouts would take place \"because of the shortage in the energy system\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as the power cuts, people have been urged to use as little power as possible, especially between 06:00 and 11:00 and 17:00 and 23:00. Restaurants, shops and other businesses face restrictions on external lighting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his post, Mr Klitschko said that from Wednesday, conventional buses would operate on all trolleybus routes, which run on electricity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city would set up 1,000 heating points to help keep residents warm during the winter, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirteen people were injured in Monday\'s attacks nationwide, Ukraine said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strikes had been partly in response to a drone attack on its Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kyiv government says Russia\'s strikes on its infrastructure are a response to its military defeats as the Ukrainian army takes back territory in a successful counter-offensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In other developments on Tuesday:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><></b>The UN says three more vessels left Ukrainian ports despite a Russian decision to suspend its backing of the Black Sea grain export deal. On Monday, 12 ships sailed from Ukraine</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><></b>The Russian-backed administration in the southern region of Kherson says up to 70,000 people are to be \"evacuated\" from the eastern bank of the River Dnipro, as Ukraine continue its counter-offensive</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><></b>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the phone to France\'s Emmanuel Macron and thanked him for helping \"restore the destroyed energy infrastructure\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 13:37:52', '2022-11-02 18:43:31'),
(2765, 2765, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Brazilian police have fired tear gas at supporters of President Bolsonaro who were taking part in a roadblock.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Followers of Jair Bolsonaro have been protesting after he lost the election to his left-wing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula received 50.9% of votes, while Bolsonaro got 49.1%.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said they have already cleared more than 300 roadblocks taking place across of a number of states. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 13:46:22', '2022-11-02 13:46:22'),
(2766, 2766, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Shah Rukh Khan gave his fans a glimpse of himself as he made a rare midnight appearance outside his Mumbai home on his 57th birthday. On the occasion, Shah Rukh on Wednesday came to the balcony at Mannat and greeted his fans. He was joined by his youngest child, AbRam Khan.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several pictures and videos of Shah Rukh on his balcony emerged online. In a video shared by a fan account, Shah Rukh waved at the huge crowd gathered outside his home. He also blew kisses, saluted, clapped, flashed the thumbs-up sign, and greeted his fans with folded hands. The actor also bowed his head as he kept his hand on his chest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah Rukh also did his signature pose by spreading his arms. He took a selfie with his fans from the balcony. Shah Rukh wore a black t-shirt with a pair of blue jeans. AbRam sported a white t-shirt and shorts. The actor spent time with his fans for over two minutes. Fans queued outside Mannat to wish the actor with many even carrying sweets, T-shirts, and huge posters of Shah Rukh along with them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his birthday, filmmaker Farah Khan penned a special birthday wish for Shah Rukh. Taking to Instagram, Farah dropped a video featuring some special moments with Shah Rukh--from the sets, dance rehearsals, to award shows.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She wrote, \"Mine!! my Shah, my friend, megastar, the man who made me a filmmaker, who is a King but so humble, who has the guts to laugh the loudest at himself, larger than cinema itself.. happy birthday @iamsrk am so proud to be ur friend.. thank you for all that you are.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shah Rukh will be next seen in director Siddharth Anand\'s upcoming action thriller film Pathaan alongside Deepika Padukone and John Abraham. The film is all set to hit the theatres on January 25, 2023, in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from that, he also has Rajkumar Hirani\'s upcoming film Dunki alongside Taapsee Pannu. Shah Rukh will also be seen in director Atlee\'s upcoming action thriller film Jawan opposite Nayanthara, which is all set to hit the theatres on June 2, 2023. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 14:18:37', '2022-11-02 14:18:37'),
(2767, 2767, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan did not hesitate in admitting that they aren\'t title favourites at the T20 World Cup in Australia. And given their record against India, and the team they are, he added that if Bangladesh manage to beat the Men in Blue on Wednesday in Adelaide, it would be an \"upset\".&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, head coach of the Indian team, Rahul Dravid, has quashed all the talk surrounding India as favourites in the contest and Shakib\'s remark on it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Bangladesh have never beaten India in T20 World Cup. And in 11 T20I meetings overall, Bangladesh have managed to beat India only once, in 2019, in Delhi. Hence, when Shakib was asked about the World Cup match on Wednesday in the pre-game presser, he said, \"We haven’t come here to win the World Cup, but India have. If we win tomorrow, it will be an upset victory. India are favourites tomorrow.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later on Tuesday, when Dravid was asked about Shakib\'s remark, he denied that India will head into the contest as “favourites”, citing Ireland\'s win over England earlier in this tournament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think we respect them a lot. I think they\'re a very good team. I think this format and this World Cup has really shown us that honestly you can\'t take any team lightly. Ireland showed that against England. We\'ve seen enough games in this competition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think the fact that it is already such a short format. 20 overs is such a short format of the game. The margins of victory and defeat sometimes even if they\'re 12 runs, 15 runs, it\'s actually just two hits. It\'s two hits one way or the other, and actually that\'s the game. So it is already a shortened sort of rushed, noisy format, but it\'s very difficult to sometimes say who\'s a clear favourite in some of these games,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"On top of that, I think these conditions. I think these conditions have actually leveled the playing field to a large extent because the boundaries are certainly bigger, and some of those big hits which you sometimes expect in the subcontinent to just go for six and you just know that I\'ll be able to make up those runs later on, it\'s not happening that easily. People are getting out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think it\'s really been a fantastic tournament from that perspective. Apart from the weather, I think it\'s been a terrific tournament in terms of just the nature of the games. No, we certainly don\'t take Bangladesh lightly. Our preparation, our planning will be as meticulous as it was against South Africa at Perth. No different,\" he added. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 14:32:39', '2022-11-02 14:32:39'),
(2768, 2768, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israel\'s Benjamin Netanyahu inched towards reclaiming power Wednesday after projected election results showed a majority government was within reach for the veteran right-winger, though the outlook could shift as ballots are counted.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">If the exit polls hold, it would mark a dramatic comeback for Netanyahu, Israel\'s longest-serving premier, whose Likud party could be poised to form a coalition with its ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies and a rising extreme-right.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are close to a big victory,\" Netanyahu told supporters at a rally in Jerusalem early Wednesday. \"We don\'t know the final results yet, but if the results are like the exit polls, I will form a national (right-wing) government.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But his main rival, caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid, told his own supporters in Tel Aviv that \"nothing is decided\", and that his centrist Yesh Atid party \"will wait patiently... for the final results\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The margins appeared wafer-thin, as was expected in the bitterly divided nation holding its fifth election in less than four years. Previous elections have shown that slight adjustments during the official count can turn an apparently decisive result into yet another deadlock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the early signs were positive for the 73-year-old Netanyahu, who is on trial over corruption charges that he denies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Projections from three Israeli networks put Netanyahu\'s Likud on track for a first-place finish, with between 30 and 32 seats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That number, combined with projected tallies for the extreme-right Religious Zionism alliance and the two ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties, would give the bloc backing Netanyahu between 61 and 62 seats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An outright victory for the bloc would end the short reign of an alliance of eight parties under Lapid that managed to oust Netanyahu last year before collapsing itself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- High turnout -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lapid\'s Yesh Atid was on track for an expected second-place finish, with projections giving it between 22 and 24 seats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But exit polls put the premier\'s ideologically-divided alliance of Netanyahu rivals short of a majority.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of the Israel Democracy Institute, Yohanan Plesner, warned of past \"discrepancies\" between exit polls and the actual results.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a climate of grinding political deadlock, concerns about voter fatigue were widespread, but in the end 71.3 percent of voters turned out, the highest rate since 2015, according to official figures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Coalition of extremists\' –</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Extreme-right leader Itamar Ben-Gvir would be key to helping Netanyahu return to power, with his Religious Zionism bloc on track for an estimated 14 seats, according to exit polls, double its current presence in parliament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben-Gvir, who wants Israel to annex the entire West Bank, said his rise was fuelled by Israelis\' security concerns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s time we go back to being masters of our country,\" he said, reiterating his call for security services to use more force against Palestinians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Minister Gideon Saar, a former Likud heavyweight who broke with Netanyahu and now leads his own party, warned early Tuesday that Israel risked electing a \"coalition of extremists\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arab-Israeli lawmaker Aida Touma-Suleiman said Netanyahu might be on track to form a government \"with fascists by his side\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- \'Growing extremism\' -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vote was held against a backdrop of soaring violence across Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 29 Palestinians and three Israelis were killed across the two territories in October, according to an AFP tally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While many candidates have cited security as a concern, none have pledged to revive moribund peace talks with the Palestinians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian prime minister, Mohammed Shttayeh, said the projected outcome highlighted \"growing extremism and racism in Israeli society\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lapid was the architect of the last coalition, which for the first time brought an independent Arab party into the fold.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unlikely alliance was made possible after Mansour Abbas pulled his Raam party from a united slate with other Arab-led parties, paving the way for him to join the coalition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Raam\'s pioneering support for a coalition was not viewed positively across Arab society, which makes up around 20 percent of Israel\'s population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raam was projected to re-enter parliament, according to exit polls, but Abbas charged that Arabs voters being \"passive\" could deliver a \"gift\" to Netanyahu, possibly ushering in a government with politicians known for virulent, anti-Arab rhetoric.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A focus of the overnight count was the Arab-led Balad party, which rejects any cooperation with Israeli governance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The early count put Balad just short of 3.25 percent of the vote needed to secure the minimum four seats in parliament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If they cross the line when all the ballots are counted, that would reshuffle the tally, potentially dealing a blow to Netanyahu\'s chances. 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(2769, 2769, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Jail Killing Day will be observed tomorrow as it is the second disgraceful incident in the country after the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15 in 1975.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 3 in 1975, four national leaders and heroes of the country\'s Liberation War -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman-- were assassinated inside the Dhaka Central Jail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four leaders played a key role in forming the Mujibnagar government in exile, that led the Liberation War in 1971, with Syed Nazrul Islam as the acting president, Tajuddin Ahmad as the prime minister, Mansur Ali as the finance minister and AHM Qamruzzaman as the home, relief and rehabilitation</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nation will remember the four national leaders, who were also the great heroes of the Liberation War in 1971, tomorrow with due respect.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Different political parties including the ruling Awami League (AL) will observe the mournful day across the country with maintaining health</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">guidelines.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AL has chalked out elaborate programme including keeping the national and party flags at half-mast at party\'s Bangabandhu Avenue Central Office and Bangabandhu Bhaban as well as unit offices across the country at the down tomorrow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wearing of black badges and hoisting of black flag are also included in the programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL leaders will place wreaths at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangabandhu Bhaban in Dhanmondi at</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">7am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wreaths will be placed at the graves of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Mansur Ali at Banani graveyard around 7.30am while fateha, milad-mahfil and munajat will also be offered there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Floral wreaths, offering fateha, milad-mahfil and munajat will be arranged at the grave of national leader Shaheed AHM Qamruzzaman in Rajshahi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL will arrange a discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the city at 3pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khondoker Mustaque Ahmad and other two killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-- Colonel (retd) Syed Faruque Rahman and Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Khondoker Abdur Rashid-- had designed the heinous killing spree of the four national leaders inside the jail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A five-member killing squad was also formed led by Resalder Musleh Uddin who was very much close to Colonel (retd) Faruque Rahman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Khondoker Mustaque Ahmad had designed the heinous killing plot exclusively with Farque Rahman and Abdur Rashid,\" said Golam Murshid in his book \'Muktijuddo o Tarpar\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A probe commission was formed on September 18 in 1980 in London over the killings of August 15 in 1975 and subsequently the jail killing on November 3 in the same year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The probe commission was formed following an appeal lodged by Bangabandhu\'s two daughters Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, Mohammad Selim, son of slain leader Monsur Ali and Syed Ashraful Islam, son of slain leader Syed Nazrul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In that time, the probe commission became ineffective due to non-cooperation by the then Bangladesh government led by Ziaur Rahman and refused to provide visa by the government to a probe commission member. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 15:47:14', '2022-11-02 15:47:14'),
(2770, 2770, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud yesterday attached importance on the role of media for further strengthening Bangladesh-India ties as media can promote friendship, people to people exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Our respective media can contribute to forging the partnership further between our two countries by enhancing appreciation and understanding of each other\'s standpoints and core interests,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister made the remarks while making a statement at a function styled \"Media Interaction with Dr Hasan Mahmud\" at the Press Club of India (PCI) here yesterday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Press Club Secretary General Vinoy Kumar and its President Umakant Lakhera also spoke on the occasion while former president of PCI Gautam Lahiri moderated the session.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi Nural Islam and Minister (Press) Shaban Mahmud also present on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his initial statement, Hasan Mahmud also touched upon many aspects including the present India-Bangladesh ties, which reached a newer height during the Hasina-Modi tenure, India\'s support during the Corona pandemic and Indian support during Bangladesh\'s 1971 War of Liberation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to Bangladesh progress, he said Bangladesh\'s progress could not be possible at such level without political stability and support from India.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister after arriving the club premises, straight went to the \"Bangabandhu Media Centre\" set up in the first floor of the club and placed floral wreaths at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a mark of respect to the greatest son of the soil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the minister answered a volume of media queries on different bilateral and multi-lateral issues and on Hindu Community in Bangladesh as well.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to a query, the minister objected the word of \"minority\" saying, \"We in Bangladesh don\'t believe in Hindus as minority as they have the equal rights in Bangladesh as per its constitution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our prime minister says don\'t use the word of minority as people belonging to any other religion are the sons of the soil and they have equal rights in our constitution,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister, who is one of the senior leaders of ruling Awami League, said of course there in Bangladesh and India have some fanatic groups, but the Bangladesh government during the last few years had been taking toughest actions against the groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this connection, he referred to the recently celebration of Durga Puja, the greatest festival of Hindu Community, saying the Hindus have celebrated the puja in more mandaps across the country as the government has ensured safety and security of the Hindu community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This year, puja was celebrated in 700 more mandaps than that of previous year across the country. But there was no any such report of untoward incident from any places,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning Bangladesh as an example of communal harmony, he said that media can play a crucial role to maintain communal harmony. In this regard, he referred to the irresponsible role of some social media platforms to carry out exaggerated reports on this issue to destabilize communal harmony.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to another query, Hasan Mahmud stressed on ensuring regional stability for progress and prosperity of the region. \"Regional stability is important for the progress of the region as a whole...political stability is also pre-requisite for progress of any country,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this connection, he said India has a crucial role to play in ensuring regional stability that is essential for progress and prosperity of the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the much-talked about cross-border Teesta river Water Sharing Agreement, he said bilateral relationship does not resolve only around this issue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The relationship between Bangladesh and India is very diverse and it does not depend only on the Teesta Water Sharing as we are sharing many things,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said Bangladesh and India are engaged in resolving the issue (Teesta) and there has been progress although there are some obligations and procedures in Indian constitution. \"After following all procedures, the issue would be resolved in future,\" he hoped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to another question, he described India\'s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as an India\'s internal matter. \"Since an appeal has been submitted in India\'s Supreme Court that has also become a legal Issue. So, we should not comment on this,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About the trade gap between Bangladesh and India, the minister underlined the need for working together to take efforts for minimizing the gap for the betterment of the two countries. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 15:53:10', '2022-11-02 15:53:10'),
(2771, 2771, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Hong Kong and Shanghai stocks started</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wednesday morning slightly lower after a surge a day earlier that was fuelled&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">by an unverified statement saying China was forming a committee to discuss&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">rolling back some of its painful zero-Covid measures.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Hang Seng Index slipped 0.43 percent, or 65.72 points, to 15,389.55.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Shanghai Composite Index edged down 0.29 percent, or 8.55 points, to&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">2,960.65, while the Shenzhen Composite Index on China\'s second exchange eased&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">0.21 percent, or 4.17 points, to 1,938.19. AFP/BSS</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 16:59:37', '2022-11-02 16:59:37'),
(2772, 2772, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The United States on Tuesday accused Russia of deciding to let the developing world \"starve\" after pulling out of a UN-brokered deal with Ukraine to export grain.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body overseeing the July deal, also negotiated by Turkey, said that grain exports will halt as of Wednesday after Russia over the weekend announced a pullout.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Any decision by the Kremlin to disrupt this initiative is essentially a statement that Moscow doesn\'t care,\" State Department spokesman Ned Price said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Moscow doesn\'t care if the world goes hungry. Moscow doesn\'t care if people starve. Moscow doesn\'t care if the world\'s food insecurity crisis is compounded,\" he told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Price said that the United States backed efforts by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to revive the pact and will do whatever \"he deems useful for us\" to do.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded security guarantees from Ukraine, which he invaded in February, after he accused Kyiv of using the grain corridor to attack Russian ships in Crimea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Price a day earlier accused Russia of \"extortion\" with the demand. Asked Tuesday if the United States would support changes in the arrangement, Price said, \"The initiative was working.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He pointed to UN figures that nearly 10 million metric tonnes have been shipped, helping ease global food prices that had soared after the invasion of Ukraine, a global breadbasket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Price said that \"every single ounce\" of food benefited the world\'s hungry. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 18:13:31', '2022-11-02 18:13:31'),
(2773, 2773, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>More than 200,000 Nigerians displaced by a long-running Islamist insurgency are struggling for food and shelter after authorities in the northeast shut some of the camps they were living in and stopped aid, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Borno state, the epicentre of the insurgency, announced in October 2021 that it was shutting all camps holding thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returning some of them to their communities, citing improved security and a need to wean them from humanitarian aid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But Human Rights Watch said IDPs who were removed from the camps were struggling to meet their most basic needs, including food and shelter in the places to which they had returned or where they had resettled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rights group said as of August this year, more than 140,000 people had been removed from eight IDP camps in Borno while food aid to two more camps had been stopped. The camps hold more than 74,000 people and will close this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Borno state government is harming hundreds of thousands of displaced people already living in precarious conditions to advance a dubious government development agenda to wean people off humanitarian aid,\" Anietie Ewang, Nigeria researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in the report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"By forcing people from camps without creating viable alternatives for support, the government is worsening their suffering and deepening their vulnerability.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Borno state commissioner for information Babakura Abba Jato said he could not immediately comment on the report.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Borno state government says some areas formerly occupied by insurgents were now safe for citizens to return to and has rebuilt some communities although aid groups say they remain vulnerable to attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the camps and settlements for IDPs have been hit by a cholera outbreak, which has strained sanitation facilities and drinking water sources, with children the worst hit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, about 2,000 people started moving into a new residential complex in Ngarannam, 50km outside Borno capital Maiduguri, which was rebuilt by the United Nations and Borno state government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ngarannam was overrun by insurgents in 2015. Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 18:31:13', '2022-11-02 18:31:13'),
(2774, 2774, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the new Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) officers to work for changing the lot of the countrymen being inspired with patriotism.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I urge the new officers to work to change people\'s lot with patriotism,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The prime minister was addressing a function at BCS Administration Academy here on the certificate-giving and closing ceremony of the 124th, 125th and 126th Law and Administration training course.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She reminded all that there was no Bangalee in the posts of secretary, general and major general, rather only a colonel during the Pakistan period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You (government officers) have to remember that now we can make everything after the country has become independent,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She urged the fresh officers to devote to the welfare of the country and its people citing that her government\'s only target is to give the people a decent and improved life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said the new officers can play a great role in ensuring the overall development of those particular areas in where they are working by taking well-thought out plans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She reminded the fresher that a country needs to concentrate on developing the communication, health, agriculture, education, power systems to build it as a developed and prosperous one alongside taking welfare programmes for the betterment of its people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I believe our new officers will take measures in line with that,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister later distributed certificates among 103 BCS officers upon completion of their five-month long law and administration training courses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trainees of each bath also separately joined photo sessions with the prime minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina earlier unveiled the plaque of Bangabandhu Study Centre at the BCS Administration Academy and went round it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also unveiled the cover of an edition of her speeches at the Law and Administration training courses at different times, titled \"Bhashon Sangkolon\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, it\'s Senior Secretary K M Ali Azam and Rector (Secretary) of the BCS Administration Academy Mominur Rashid Amin spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the trainees, Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, Tania Tabassum and Farhana Nasrin expressed their feelings at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video documentary on the BCS Administration Academy was also screened at the function. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 18:37:32', '2022-11-02 18:37:32'),
(2775, 2775, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh will be fielding first against India in their penultimate Group 2 Super 12 match of ICC T20 World Cup at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Both teams are currently in a similar position having won two out of their three matches in the tournament so far -- to qualify for the semi-finals but India are ahead of Bangladesh in terms of net run rate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa are leading the ladder with five points from three games while Zimbabwe and Pakistan still have some chances to finish in the top two in this group. Netherlands have already been knocked out of the race for the last four.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Bangladesh are in a very good position to progress to the semi-finals for the first time in a T20 World Cup, they remain realistic ahead of the crucial India encounter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tigers have already achieved their best T20 World Cup results from the ongoing tournament as they have beaten both Netherlands and Zimbabwe in the main stage but in order to reach the last four, they still require two more wins from their last two matches against India and Pakistan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh: 1 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 2 Litton Das, 4 Shakib Al Hasan, 4 Afif Hossain, 5 Nurul Hasan (wk), 6 Mosaddek Hossain, 7 Yasir Ali, 8 Taskin Ahmed, 9 Mustafizur Rahman, 10 Hasan Mahmud, 11 Shoriful Islam</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India: 1 KL Rahul, 2 Rohit Sharma (capt), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Axar Patel, 7 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 Arshdeep Singh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 18:56:10', '2022-11-02 18:56:10'),
(2776, 2776, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The key to a healthy diet is to eat the right amount of calories for how active you are so you balance the energy you consume with the energy you use.</b></span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">If you eat or drink more than your body needs, you\'ll put on weight because the energy you do not use is stored as fat. If you eat and drink too little, you\'ll lose weight.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">You should also eat a wide range of foods to make sure you\'re getting a balanced diet and your body is receiving all the nutrients it needs.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It\'s recommended that men have around 2,500 calories a day (10,500 kilojoules). Women should have around 2,000 calories a day (8,400 kilojoules).</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Most adults in the UK are eating more calories than they need and should eat fewer calories.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">1. Base your meals on higher fibre starchy carbohydrates</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">2. Eat lots of fruit and veg</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">3. Eat more fish, including a portion of oily fish</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">4. Cut down on saturated fat and sugar</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">5. Eat less salt: no more than 6g a day for adults</span></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">6. Get active and be a healthy weight</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">7. Do not get thirsty</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">8. Do not skip breakfast. NHS</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">bnbd24/kh</span><br></p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 19:22:20', '2022-11-02 19:22:20'),
(2777, 2777, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Election Commission is conducting election on Wednesday in local government bodies to elect representatives in upazilas, municipalities and union parishads across the country.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The polling started at 8 am and will continue till 4:00 pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">EC Joint Secretary and spokesman SM Asaduzzaman said police and other security people have been deployed to conduct the elections peacefully.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unauthorised vehicular movement has been closed in the respective areas, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elections are taking place in four municipalities of the country while CCTV cameras are being used only in these municipalities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are- Fatikcchari Municipality of Fatikcchari Upazila of Chattogram, Hazrabari Municipality of Hazrabari Upazila of Jamalpur, Parvatipur Municipality of Parvatipur Upazila of Dinajpur and Vishwanath Municipality of Vishwanath Upazila of Sylhet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">EC is also conducting voting in three upazilas - Karnaphuli of Chattogram, Jagannathpur of Sunamganj and Osmaninagar of Sylhet. Besides, by-election polling is being held for the post of Chairman of Netrakona Sadar, Roumari and Chilmari of Kurigram and Khoksa Upazila of Kushtia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The by-election to Khoksa Upazila Parishad of Kushtia started amid clashes between supporters of the rival candidates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As soon as the voting started at 8:00 am, the fight broke out at Kadirpur Government Primary School voting centre between supporters of the Awami League-backed candidate Babul Akhter and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader Motahar Hossain Khokon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EC is taking votes in many Union Parishads (UP). The UPs are Baratara and Tulsi Ganga in Khototal Upazila of Joypurhat; Ziarthi and Kanchanpur of Kushtia Sadar, Chithlia and Dhubail of Mirpur; Adra and Phulmocha of Melandah in Jamalpur Upazila; Raipara, Mahmudpur and Sutarpara of Dohar Upazila of Dhaka; Perli and Panchgram of Kalia Upazila of Narail; West Jaflong, Goainghat, East Jaflong and Madhya Jaflong of Goainghat Upazila of Sylhet; Kharera of Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria and Durlabpur of Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other unions are - Borobari of Lalmonirhat Sadar, Ashikpur of Shajahanpur in Bogra, Arabpur of Jessore Sadar,Rakhalgachi of Bagherhat Sadar and Udaipur of Mollarhat, Barakpur of Dighaliya Upazila of Khulna, Amragachia of Mirzaganj in Patuakhali, Nagda Shimla of Gopalpur in Tangail, Naikpur in Madan of Netrakona, Sutalri in Harirampur in Manikganj, Mohichail in Chandina upazila of Comilla and Hossaindi of Ghazaria Upazilla in Munshiganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EC is conducting by-elections for a total of 60 member posts under 58 Union Parishads in 52 upazilas of 36 districts. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 19:30:49', '2022-11-02 19:30:49'),
(2778, 2778, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that government has no interference in issuing the arrest warrants for BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman as it is a legal process.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"Finding the faults of the government and blaming it for everything is the regular practice and culture of BNP. The court issued arrest warrants for Tarique and his wife Zubaida in a graft case filed by the ACC.&nbsp; This is a legal process, there is no interference of the government here,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He came up with the remarks at a press briefing at Setu Bhaban in the capital on Wednesday, a day after BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s allegation that the arrest warrants were issued as part of the government’s political vengeance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Speaking at a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, he also said the government has been using ‘false’ cases as a political weapon to suppress the opposition and create a ground for depoliticisation in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said that the ACC is also filing cases against many from the ruling party and investigation is ongoing against some of them as the ACC is playing an independent role in this regard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to the BNP Secretary General\'s statement that the government is worried about the Zia family,&nbsp; Quader said that everyone knows the history of misrule and corruption of Zia family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A BNP leader is now in exile for corruption, looting and misdeeds, he has even no courage to come back to the country, said Quader.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Awami League does not believe in political revenge but BNP is the father of the politics of vengeance, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that August, 75 killings, the grenade attack on August 21 prove who does the politics of revenge. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 19:52:16', '2022-11-02 19:52:16'),
(2779, 2779, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested two people for illegally hoarding 14,000kg rice meant for poor people under the government’s Open Market Sale (OMS) programme in Khulna on Tuesday morning.</span><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The arrestees are Nadim Ahmed, son of Hashem Sheikh from the district’s Sonadanga area and Rabiul Islam, son of Abul Khaleque from West Baniakhamar area.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Among the arrestees, Nadim is the owner of the warehouse where the rice was kept.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>According to Rab, the elite force had kept some rice warehouses in the city’s Barmashil road area under their watch after receiving the information that some unscrupulous traders were selling the government’s OMS rice in the black market at high rates instead of selling to the poor at low rates.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“Nadim and Robiul were unloading the rice from government-sealed sacks and putting it inside some unmarked sacks when Rab caught them red-handed. During the drive, we recovered 100 sacks of 50kg rice and 390 sacks of 25kg rice from them. We’ve also lodged a complaint against them in this regard,” said Tahan Chakma, Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (Senior ASP) of Rab-6 (Khulna).</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Lt. Colonel Mohammad Moshtaque Ahmed, Director of Rab-6, said an investigation has started to find out how some rice traders are getting OMS rice and who are assisting them in this practice. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 20:47:45', '2022-11-02 20:47:45'),
(2780, 2780, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A total of 230 landless families of small ethnic communities in the district will get environment-friendly Machang Ghar--houses built on wooden or bamboo platforms—from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to Bandarban district administration, houses are being built under the Ashrayan project initiated by the Prime Minister’s Office for a total of 4,133 families. The government has allocated Tk 70 crore for building a total of 3,560 houses, and each Machang Ghar is being built at a cost of Tk 2.5 lakh.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>As of now, a total of 2,968 semi pucca houses have been handed over to their recipients and construction of another 592 houses, including 230 Machang Ghars, are currently underway.</div><div><br></div><div>Visiting the construction works in Jamchari union under Bandarban Sadar upazila on Monday, Chattogram’s Divisional Commissioner Md Ashraf Uddin expressed satisfaction at the progress of the project.</div><div><br></div><div>“Instead of building semi pucca houses as in other areas of the country, we’re building Machang Ghars for the homeless ethnic people keeping in line with their culture and traditions,” said Ashraf.</div><div><br></div><div>Yasmin Parvin Tibriji, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Bandarban, said that the Machang Ghars are being built based on people’s demands.</div><div><br></div><div>“After consulting the local public representatives, we sent a proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) regarding the construction of Machang Ghars. A team from the PMO approved our proposal after visiting the area,” Yasmin said.</div><div><br></div><div>Yasmin added that the district administration received the allocation under the fourth phase of the Ashrayan project.</div><div><br></div><div>“Currently, nine Machang Ghars are being built in the district’s Sadar upazila, while Alikadam, Naikhongchhari, Rowangchhari, Lama, Ruma and Thanchi upazilas are getting 1, 15, 45, 15, 100 and 45 Machang Ghars, respectively,” Yasmin added.</div><div><br></div><div>Kwashingshoi, Chairman of Jamchari union, lauded the government’s initiative to build Machang Ghars instead of semi pucca houses.</div><div><br></div><div>“The hilly people like Machang Ghars more than semi pucca houses as they can use the elevated portions of the houses to rear domestic animals and store necessary goods throughout the year. Besides, air flows through Machang Ghars more than brick-built houses, which is also important for people living in the hills,” Kwashingshoi said.</div><div><br></div><div>However, Kwashingshoi added that the government needs to allocate at least Tk 4 lakh to build a proper Machang Ghar. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 21:30:48', '2022-11-02 21:30:48'),
(2781, 2781, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A bank official was killed as a lorry ran over him in the capital\'s Jatrabari area on Tuesday night.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased was identified as Aftab-e -Alam,45, of Shimulhati village of Kishoreganj district. He was a principal officer of Pubali Bank\'s Islampur branch, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>The lorry hit Alam on his way home in Shanirakhra area of Jatrabari around 9:30 pm, leaving him dead on the spot, said Mostafizur Rahman, sub-inspector of Jatrabari police station.</div><div><br></div><div>Police recovered the body and took it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy, added the SI.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 21:55:34', '2022-11-02 21:55:34'),
(2782, 2782, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The pollution in and around Delhi in India has reached an alarming level as the air quality index (AQI) has been recorded as very poor on Wednesday, ANI reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to the Meteorological Department, the AQI in Delhi today was recorded at 354 which falls under the category of very poor.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>As per the parameters set by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the AQI category from 301 to 400 is considered very poor and from 401 to 500 severe.</div><div><br></div><div>Further, as per the information provided by the air quality data agency ‘SAFAR’, the AQI in Anand Vihar was recorded in the severe category at 406 today, followed by ITO 382 and Akshardham 363.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 22:58:11', '2022-11-02 22:58:11'),
(2783, 2783, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has predicted that there is possibility of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal this month, according to reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Expert committee of the BMD made the prediction in issuing a long-term forecasting at a regular meeting on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting was presided over by BMD director and chairman of the expert committee Md. Azizur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>The expert committee chairman said there may be one to two depressions in the Bay this month, of which one may turn into a cyclone.</div><div><br></div><div>If any new cyclone is created in the Bay, its name will be ‘Mandous’.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, cyclone ‘Sitrang’ crossed into Bangladesh coastal areas in the last week of October.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-02 23:06:09', '2022-11-02 23:06:09'),
(2784, 2784, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two books of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were featured on KBS, a public broadcasting station of the Republic of Korea.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On October 21, the KBS 1Telivisiuon (TV) introduced Bangabandhu\'s autobiography \'The Unfinished Memoirs\' and official biography- \'Bangabandhu, The People\'s Hero\', which were published in Korean translated version through a special documentary titled \'Reading Culture in Young Koreans\', said a press release here today.</div><div><br></div><div>At this time, a scene from the Book Launching Ceremony of \'The Unfinished Memoirs\', which was held at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bangabandhu\'s birth, was also broadcast.</div><div><br></div><div>The documentary explained that these books served as an introduction to Bangladesh\'s Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the Republic of Korea.</div><div><br></div><div>Morae-al LLC, a startup that succeeded in publishing Bangabandhu\'s books in Korea, said that it will continue to make efforts to introduce Bangladesh to Korea through various media.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>It also said, in particular, the coming 2023 will be a meaningful year for both countries as it will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Korea and Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>The members of Morae-al LLC announced that they plan to focus on the history of Bangladesh\'s struggle for \'freedom\' and \'sovereignty\' and the remarkable achievements of its economic development. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 00:15:46', '2022-11-03 00:15:46'),
(2785, 2785, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The number dengue patients and casualty from the deadly disease has continued to rise across the country including in Dhaka city even at the end of the dengue monsoon, according to reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said that 1,094 dengue patients were hospitalised in the country in last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. And four deaths were reported during the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the 1,094 dengue patients, 600 were reported in hospitals of Dhaka city and 494 patients hospitalized outside.</div><div><br></div><div>The DGHS report said 2077 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals and 11 died in only two days of the current month November.</div><div><br></div><div>It said at least 21,932 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country, including in Dhaka city, while 86 patients died here in October this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The prevalence of dengue disease is rising across the country, especially in Dhaka, which is considered a hotspot for the mosquito-borne viral disease.</div><div><br></div><div>The DGHS said a total of 40,101 dengue patients have been admitted to hospitals and at least 152 patients have died across the country, including in Dhaka this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The DGHS data further said a total of 3,750 dengue patients are now undergoing treatment across the country. Of them, 2,332 patients were admitted to 53 hospitals in Dhaka city.</div><div><br></div><div>However, sources said the unofficial figure of the number of dengue patients and casualty from the deadly disease is higher than the official records.</div><div><br></div><div>DGHS report said 9911 dengue patients were hospitalized and 34 died in September, 3521 patients were admitted to hospitals and 11 died in August, 1521 hospitalised and 9 died in July, 737 hospitalised and one died in June, 163 hospitalised in May, 23 hospitalised in April, 20 hospitalised in March, 20 hospitalised in February and 126 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals in January this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The health experts feared that if the dengue cases continue to rise then the number of fatality may also increase in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 00:31:58', '2022-11-03 00:31:58');
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(2786, 2786, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid rich tributes to four national leaders on the occasion of the Jail Killing Day, recalling their immense contributions to the War of Liberation and the nation.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On the eve of the day, in separate messages, they also prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the four national leaders.</div><div><br></div><div>In his message, President Abdul Hamid said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman\'s close aides four national leaders - Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Captain M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman -- were brutally killed by anti-liberation forces inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I pay deep respect to their memories,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that the country\'s independence was achieved under the leadership of Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the Bangalee Nation and the architect of Independent Bangladesh, he said Bangabandhu proclaimed independence of Bangladesh on March 26, 1971 and eventually the Liberation War started at his call.</div><div><br></div><div>When Bangabandhu was imprisoned in Pakistan jail during the Liberation War, the president said in absence of Bangabandhu the four national leaders made an outstanding contribution in forming the Mujibnagar Government, devising war strategy and tactics, carrying out administrative activities, conducting the Liberation War, carrying on diplomatic efforts and keeping an eye on refugees to turn the Liberation War into a people\'s war in 1971.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The nation will always remember the contributions of the four national leaders with due respect,\" the President added.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The head of the state said the anti-liberation clique brutally killed the four national leaders inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3 in 1975 in continuation to the assassination of Bangabandhu and most of his family members on August 15 in 1975 to make the nation leaderless alongside jeopardizing the independence and sovereignty of the country.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Hamid said the aim of the perpetrators of the killings was to give rise to undemocratic autocracy in the country as well as to erase the spirit of Liberation War from the minds of young generation.</div><div><br></div><div>\"But design of the killers did not come out successful,\" he said, adding Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his ideology will remain alive as long as Bangladesh exists.</div><div><br></div><div>The President said Bangabandhu had a dream to build a happy and prosperous \"Sonar Bangla\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"Everybody would make contribution from their respective positions to materialize the unfinished dream of Bangabandhu and this would be our pledge on the Jail Killing Day,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, termed the November 3 (Jail Killing Day) a stigmatized day in the history of independent Bangladesh, saying such killing in the jail (a secured place) is unprecedented in the world\'s history.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She said the killing of the four national leaders were the sequel to the assassination of the Father of the Nation and most of his family members.</div><div><br></div><div>Through the hateful killings of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and four national leaders, the defeated forces of Liberation War and anti-state cliques wanted to erase the name of Bangladesh Awami League forever from the soil of Bangladesh, destroy the spirit of Liberation War and make the nation leaderless, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The purpose of the killers was to break the state structure of the non-communal democratic Bangladesh and undermine our independence achieved at a huge cost,\" the premier said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The anti liberation forces started the politics of killing, coup and conspiracy after August 15 in 1975 and proclaimed indemnity ordinance to save the self-confessed killers, Sheikh Hasina said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She said Ziaur Rahman, after grabbing the state power illegally, had killed the democracy by imposing martial law, dissecting the constitution, awarding the killers through rehabilitating them with jobs in Bangladesh missions abroad instead of bringing them under trial and giving citizenship to the anti-liberation elements and war criminals.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The direct and indirect patrons of the 1975\'s conspirators and killers grabbed the state power for the next 21 years, the head of the government said, adding that the illegal rulers distorted the history of the great Liberation War and pushed the country backwards.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh Awami League won the elections in 1996 and formed the government after long 21 years and started the trial of Bangabandhu murder. But the BNP-Jamaat coalition government stopped the trial proceedings of case after assuming power in 2001,\" Sheikh Hasina said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The countrymen again voted the AL to win the elections of December 29, 2008 by a huge margin, she said, adding the AL government after ascending the state power has achieved significant success in establishing justice in the country by eliminating the politics of revenge.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have freed the nation from stigma by executing the verdict of the killings of Father of the Nation with his most of the family members. The trial of the killings of the four national leaders has also been completed,\" she said, adding that efforts are on to track the locations of the fugitive killers and bring them back to the country.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the commitment given to the people, many verdicts, came from the two tribunals of the crimes against humanity cases of 1971, have been executed and many trials are undergoing, Sheikh Hasina said, adding the way of seizing power illegally has been blocked by amending the constitution.</div><div><br></div><div>Peace and democracy have been re-established in the country following the principle of zero tolerance against terrorism and militancy, the Prime Minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Today, we stand as a self-respecting country with our head high before the world due to our various adopted-steps in last 13.5 years,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>During this time, Bangladesh has achieved the status of a developing country,\" she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The government has been able to keep the wheel of the country\'s economy running even amid the Coronavirus epidemic situation, Sheikh Hasina said, adding, \"Our government is working relentlessly to build a prosperous \'Sonar Bangladesh\' as dreamt by father of the nation by 2041\".</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that anti-liberation communal clique and anti-development and anti-democratic forces are still hatching conspiracies against the country in various ways, she urged all to deal with any conspiracy or ill attempt of the evil forces with concerted efforts, reports BSS</div><div><br></div><div>\"Let\'s uphold the democracy and the rule of law resisting all conspiracies, being imbued with the spirit of the great Liberation War and build a hunger-and poverty-free Sonar Bangladesh as dreamt by the Father of the Nation with the collective efforts- this would be our pledge on the Jail Killing Day,\" Sheikh Hasina said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 01:48:04', '2022-11-03 01:48:04'),
(2787, 2787, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Britain\'s Rishi Sunak will attend COP27 in Egypt next week, he said on Wednesday, after his office previously said the new prime minister was expected to skip the annual climate summit, Hindusatn Times reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change. There is no energy security without investing in renewables,\" Sunak wrote on Twitter.</div><div><br></div><div>He added he was attending the summit to \"deliver on Glasgow\'s legacy of building a secure and sustainable future,\" in reference to the British city hosting the last edition of the conference in 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak\'s office had said last week he was not expected to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference as he focused on \"pressing domestic commitments\", inviting both criticism and support for the decision.</div><div><br></div><div>Sunak, who became Britain\'s third prime minister in two months last week, has been working with finance minister Jeremy Hunt on a package of tax rises and spending cuts to repair the country\'s public finances, with a plan due November 17.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 02:03:35', '2022-11-03 02:03:35'),
(2788, 2788, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia said Wednesday the world\'s \"top priority\" should be to avoid a clash of nuclear powers, stressing it could lead to \"catastrophic consequences\".</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We are firmly convinced that in the current difficult and turbulent situation -- a consequence of irresponsible and shameless actions aimed at undermining our national security -- the top priority is to prevent any military clash of nuclear powers,\" said the foreign ministry.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Moscow called on other nuclear powers to \"abandon dangerous attempts to infringe on each other\'s vital interests\".</div><div>The foreign ministry\'s statement came amid rising fears of nuclear use in the Ukraine conflict, which has dragged on into its ninth month.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Russia is strictly and consistently guided by the tenet that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,\" the statement read.</div><div><br></div><div>It said Moscow\'s nuclear doctrine is \"purely defensive in nature\", only allowing the Kremlin to use such weapons in the event of nuclear aggression or \"when the very existence of our state is threatened.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Russia has repeatedly suggested that Ukrainian territories it claims to have annexed are protected by its nuclear doctrine.</div><div><br></div><div>The statement called on the world\'s other nuclear powers -- the United States, Britain, France and China -- to \"work together to solve this priority task\". - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 03:09:10', '2022-11-03 03:09:10'),
(2789, 2789, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told the Parliament that the opposition parties are trying to create political instability in the country, taking advantage of the ongoing economic crisis.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“When the country is in a transition period (crisis), I’ve not seen such worry among those who are in our opposition. Rather I’ve seen that they are trying how to create a political instability, taking its advantage. Is it fair to do that?” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said this while replying to a supplementary question from Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque (Kishoreganj-3) if the government would take any initiative for a unity among all political parties to face the existing economic crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the opposition parties should demonstrate patriotism when the country faces difficulties. Why are they not doing it?, she asked.</div><div><br></div><div>“When there is a crisis throughout the world, we should avoid the tendency to unstable the political situation and catch fish in the troubled water,” said Hasina, the leader of the house.</div><div><br></div><div>She said her government has been developing the entire Bangladesh and the mass people, without considering which area voted for AL or not.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said her government didn’t sit idle in facing disasters. Many people continue criticizing the government, but they didn’t stand beside the people even giving a fist of rice, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>She said unity is not a matter of just words. Everyone will have to come forward spontaneously. “We always believe in unity. We’ll work together with whoever comes forward,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>In reply to another supplementary question from BNP MP Rumeen Farhana, the prime minister advised the MPs to stand beside the people instead of finding faults amid the global crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said the price of every commodity soared following the Russia-Ukraine war and the sanctions and the people of the entire world are now victims. “The MPs should think what they can do for the people of Bangladesh as lawmakers, instead of finding faults in Bangladesh,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Rumeen referred to the think tank CPD and a newspaper questioning what steps are being planned by the government to control the inflation as the food prices are the highest in Bangladesh in South Asia and Bangladesh is among the 42 countries that may face famine.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said everyone should consider the price-hike of essentials in Bangladesh, comparing that in the world markets.</div><div><br></div><div>“I am not denying that the prices have not increased in Bangladesh. Since the prices have soared, we are providing subsidies and the goods at low prices to those who cannot afford,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a supplementary question from Gonoforum MP Sultan Muhammed Mansur Ahmed (Maulvibazar-2), the PM said Bangladesh still remains in a better position than even many developed countries amid the economic recession.</div><div><br></div><div>She said there are also some unscrupulous businessmen who consider only their profits - not the sufferings of the people - and they sometimes hoard goods and create artificial price-hikes.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said she has already taken steps against those who try to hoard goods and create artificial hike in prices and these will continue. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 03:25:38', '2022-11-03 03:25:38'),
(2790, 2790, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Iran\'s police force has said it is investigating a video that shows officers severely beating and shooting an anti-government protester in Tehran.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the clip posted on social media on Tuesday, a dozen police kick and hit with batons a man lying on a street.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man is also run over by an officer driving a motorbike before another fires a shot-gun at him at close range.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A rights group said it was \"horrific reminder that the cruelty of Iran\'s security forces knows no bounds\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Amid a crisis of impunity, they\'re given free rein to brutally beat and shoot protesters. The UN Human Rights Council must urgently investigate these crimes,\" Amnesty International tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A police statement published by the hard-line Tasnim news agency on Wednesday said an order had been issued to \"investigate the exact time and place of the incident and identify the offenders\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The police does not approve of harsh and unconventional treatment, the offending police officers will certainly be dealt with according to the law,\" the statement added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not clear what happened to the man who was attacked in the incident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protests erupted six weeks ago in response to the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was accused by morality police of wearing her hijab \"improperly\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were reports that officers beat her head with a baton and banged it against the side of a vehicle. The police denied mistreating her and said she suffered a heart attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first demonstrations took place after Ms Amini\'s funeral, when women ripped off their headscarves in solidarity. They have since spread to more than 130 cities and towns and evolved into one of the most serious challenges to the clerical establishment since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Norway-based Iran Human Rights said on Wednesday that at least 277 protesters, including 40 children, had been killed by security forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities have denied involvement in the killings of protesters, instead blaming foreign-backed \"infiltrators\" and \"terrorists\". A state-run newspaper said on Monday that 35 security personnel had died during the unrest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 14,000 protesters have also reportedly been detained.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among them is the anti-establishment rapper Toomaj Salehi, who a prosecutor in the city of Isfahan says has been charged with \"propagandising against the political establishment\", \"co-operation with hostile countries\" and \"assembling illegal groups with the intention of undermining national security\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, state media published footage purportedly showing his arrest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man who identifies himself as Salehi is seen blindfolded and sitting on the ground. In a shaking voice, he says he \"made a mistake\" when in one of his own videos - apparently recorded at a protest - he told security forces to run away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Freedom of expression advocacy group Article 19 tweeted that it was \"extremely disturbed Iran state media are sharing forced confessions of rapper Toomaj Salehi under clear duress\". \"Salehi has done nothing but practice his freedom of expression. He must be freed,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another prominent detainee is the freedom of speech activist, blogger and Wall Street Journal contributor Hossein Ronaghi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has told family and friends that both of his legs have been broken in prison and that he has been on a hunger strike for the last 37 days. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 12:27:27', '2022-11-03 12:27:27'),
(2791, 2791, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A surprise deal has been reached in the Ethiopian civil war with both sides agreeing to halt their two-year conflict which led to thousands of deaths and warnings of a famine.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The African Union (AU) has called it a new \"dawn\", AFP news agency says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agreement between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces should allow aid deliveries to resume.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Almost 90% of people in the northern Tigray region need food aid, the World Health Organization says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About a third of the region\'s children are suffering from malnutrition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although it\'s a major breakthrough, it\'ll be received with some degree of caution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is not the first ceasefire in the conflict - a previous one was breached in August, just months after both sides committed to it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This time though, the agreements have gone further. The Ethiopian government officials and representatives of the Tigray People\'s Liberation Front (TPLF) have signed up to a disarmament plan and the restoration of crucial services, including aid supplies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Ethiopia has only one national defence force,\" reads the joint statement. The TPLF has made a major concession - to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate fighters into the federal army.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has described the agreement as \"monumental\" and committed to implementing it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who mediated the deal agreed after a week of talks in South Africa, said it was just the beginning of the peace process.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was \"a welcome first step, which we hope can start to bring some solace to the millions of Ethiopian civilians that have really suffered during this conflict\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tigray has been cut off from the outside world for most of the past two years - hospitals have been running out of drugs, while electricity, phone and banking services have been cut, along with the internet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides have been accused of atrocities, include ethnic cleansing and sexual violence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the worst abuses have been blamed on Eritrean troops fighting alongside government forces and some have noted with caution that Eritrea was not represented at the talks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The war began almost two years ago to the day - 4 November 2020 - when forces loyal to the party in power in Tigray, the Tigray People\'s Liberation Front (TPLF), seized a military barracks, prompting the Ethiopian army to seize the region, before later being pushed out of most of it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This followed a breakdown in relations between the government and the TPLF, which had dominated the whole of Ethiopia for two decades until Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 12:31:38', '2022-11-03 12:31:38'),
(2792, 2792, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With some young religious voters literally jumping for joy, the stand-out story of Israel\'s latest election was the big surge in popularity of the far-right.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Things will be better now. When he\'s the public security minister, they\'ll be better still,\" Julian, an enthusiastic backer of firebrand politician Itamar Ben-Gvir told me at his campaign headquarters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He wants the best for Israel. He wants the terrorists out,\" said Noam from a settlement in the occupied West Bank. \"We don\'t want the Arabs, they throw rocks at us and take our spots in Israel,\" he went on, before being hushed by a party activist.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Mr Ben-Gvir - previously convicted as a racist in Israel - is now attempting to rebrand himself as a more conventional politician, he has not changed all his anti-Arab rhetoric.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s time to be the landlords of this country again,\" he said after exit polls were published on Tuesday night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His cheering crowd in Jerusalem mostly kept to their new chant of \"death to terrorists\", adjusted from the one we often previously heard from his supporters - \"death to Arabs\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other journalists and I are used to covering Mr Ben-Gvir\'s provocative actions in bitterly contested occupied East Jerusalem. More than once I have seen him jubilantly leading ultra-nationalist marchers through a sensitive site for Palestinians in the Old City on Israel\'s Jerusalem Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, he inflamed tensions in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood by pointing a gun at Palestinians during clashes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, as co-leader of the third biggest party, Religious Zionism, he hopes for a prominent cabinet position, overseeing the police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One young female supporter of Mr Ben-Gvir\'s Oztma Yehudit (Jewish Power) faction, Tzori Elmakiyes, 17, from Jerusalem, said the results were \"very gratifying\", playing down critics\' fears.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t think the opponents of Oztma Yehudit should be worried because at the end of the day the party\'s best interest are the people and the country of Israel.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Stalemate ends</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Speaking to his Likud party faithful, Benjamin Netanyahu smiled widely as he foresaw his comeback a year after he was dramatically ousted as prime minister by a broad coalition of his opponents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The people want a government which projects \"power, not weakness\", he said, his voice hoarse from days of campaigning. He was answered with shouts of \"King Bibi\" - his fans using his nickname.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If, as expected, final election results confirm that the veteran leader can now build a stable majority government with his ultra-nationalist and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies, this will also end nearly four years of an unprecedented political stalemate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country has been deeply split over the corruption charges for which Mr Netanyahu remains on trial. He has consistently denied any wrongdoing, accusing his opponents of a political witch-hunt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is a guy who doesn\'t give up, no matter how bad it looks and however much he was disgraced by leaving the prime minister\'s office,\" says pollster Mitchell Barak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suggests Mr Netanyahu benefitted from the passage of time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Those who wanted to punish him, punished him,\" he says, adding that they may have come to miss the \"stability\" that Mr Netanyahu believes he represented.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Left-wing decline</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are still many Israelis with a different vision of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Tel Aviv, there was a subdued mood overnight as the current caretaker Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, addressed his Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, insisting that Israelis wanted politics \"free of incitement and hatred\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, his experiment building an ideologically diverse coalition - made up of right-wing, centrist, left-wing and Arab parties - was ultimately short-lived.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His tenure also saw the deadliest year for Israelis and Palestinians since 2015, amid an upsurge in violence. Yet his government continued to pay little attention to ways of solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was disappointing for Haggai Mattar, editor of the progressive +972 Magazine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These election results have also seen a further drop in support for Israel\'s left-wing parties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Israelis on the left now need to take a moment to pause and think of how we\'ve gotten to this state,\" Mr Mattar says despondently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The left needs a reshuffle or rethink - new attitudes,\" he goes on. \"But it might also be a terrible crash that we\'ll take a very long time to recover from.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Anshel Pfeffer, a journalist for Haaretz newspaper, says the latest election only exposed what was already a clear trend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There\'s an internal identity or culture war in Israel between what some people would see as the more liberal and open sides of Israeli society versus the more religious and extreme sides of Israeli and Jewish society,\" he observes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"That\'s not really new but [Mr Netanyahu] has now really ramped that up for his own political purposes.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Netanyahu was able to harness a shift to the right that I have observed covering politics here for the last 10 years. And that seems to have accomplished his goal to get back in office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But now that the ultra-nationalists have been empowered they may prove difficult to control. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 12:39:01', '2022-11-03 12:39:01'),
(2793, 2793, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Senior Russian military leaders discussed last month how and when they might use nuclear weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, two US officials have told CBS News.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vladimir Putin was not involved in the talks, they told the BBC\'s US partner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The White House said it had grown \"increasingly concerned\" about the potential use of nuclear weapons over the last few months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it stressed the US saw no sign of Russia preparing for such use.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That chimes with earlier Western intelligence assessments that Moscow has not been moving its nuclear weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the West of \"deliberately pumping up the topic\", although the timing of the high-level Russian military discussions in mid-October is significant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By late September President Putin had escalated his nuclear and anti-Western rhetoric, talking about using all means at his disposal to protect Russia and the occupied Ukrainian lands he had annexed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is not a bluff,\" he said, accusing the West of unleashing nuclear blackmail and boasting of Russian weapons that were more modern than any in Nato\'s armoury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding to US media reports that Russia had discussed using nuclear weapons, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said: \"We have grown increasingly concerned about the potential as these months have gone on.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Russia\'s fortunes on the battlefield have waned, its nuclear threats appear to have increased.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow has accused Ukraine of preparing a \"dirty bomb\", laced with radioactive material, although Ukraine and the West say Russia is merely trying to create a pretext to blame Kyiv if such a device is used.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, made a point of contacting his counterparts in the US, Turkey and France to talk about the alleged Ukrainian plot. However, when Russia\'s defence ministry produced photos to illustrate its findings, the government of Slovenia quickly pointed out that the images had been borrowed from its Radioactive Waste Management Agency and showed smoke detectors dating back to 2010.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent weeks, Russia\'s nuclear doctrine has come under close scrutiny on the circumstances in which it could use nuclear arms, in particular a \"tactical\" weapon that might be unleashed on the battlefield in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A tactical nuclear weapon is for use in combat, as opposed to the larger \"strategic\" weapons which are designed to cause massive destruction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Russia held routine nuclear exercises last week, it was under the scenario that it was retaliating to an enemy\'s nuclear attack with a larger-scale strategic weapon. Mr Putin was adamant that Russia\'s nuclear doctrine only allowed the defensive use of nuclear arms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But on Tuesday the deputy head of Russia\'s security council, Dmitry Medvedev, highlighted another element of Russia\'s doctrine - nuclear use in the event of an existential threat to the state. He pointed out that Ukraine\'s war aims were to recover all the territories that previously belonged to it, and that in itself was an existential threat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Medvedev may not necessarily have the president\'s ear, but his comments do reflect Mr Putin\'s belief that formally annexing large areas of southern and eastern Ukraine has made them Russian territory, even if they are not recognised as part of Russia by the international community.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And in a statement on Wednesday, the Russian foreign ministry reiterated that Moscow was entitled to use nuclear weapons in response to \"an aggression with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is in jeopardy\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said there would be \"severe consequences\" if Russia used a tactical nuclear weapon on the battlefield in Ukraine. He told MPs he would not speculate on what those might be.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked last week by the BBC to deny categorically that Russia would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the head of the SVR foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, said it was very concerned about Western rhetoric and accused Ukraine\'s leadership of trying to acquire nuclear arms. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 12:44:00', '2022-11-03 12:44:00'),
(2794, 2794, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">North Korea has fired at least one long-range and two short-range ballistic missiles, said South Korea\'s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Japan\'s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says one may have been an intercontinental ballistic missile.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes after Pyongyang on Wednesday launched its most missiles in a single day - including one that landed near South Korea\'s territorial waters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seoul responded by firing three missiles of its own.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea\'s multiple launches comes as the US and South Korea are staging their largest-ever joint air drills, which Pyongyang has strongly criticised as \"aggressive and provocative\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest launch on Thursday morning led the Japanese government to issue a rare emergency alert to residents in some of its northern regions, telling them to stay indoors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tokyo initially said the missile had flown over Japan, but Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada later said it did \"not cross the Japanese archipelago, but disappeared over the Sea of Japan\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Kishida later condemned North Korea\'s \"repeated missile launches\", calling them an \"outrage\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile South Korea\'s Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong and US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the launches were \"deplorable, immoral\" during a phone call on Thursday, according to South Korea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It comes just a month after North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan - the first time it had done so in five years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The North has tested a record number of missiles this year as tensions have risen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite crippling sanctions, Pyongyang has conducted six nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017, and is believed to be planning a seventh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has continued to advance its military capability - in breach of United Nations Security Council resolutions - to threaten its neighbours and potentially even bring the US mainland within striking range.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wednesday\'s launch saw one of Pyongyang\'s ballistic missiles cross the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a disputed maritime border between the Koreas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It landed outside South Korea\'s territorial waters but was the closest a North Korean missile got to the border.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seoul responded with warplanes firing three air-to-ground missiles that also crossed the disputed maritime demarcation line. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 13:19:59', '2022-11-03 13:19:59'),
(2795, 2795, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The nation will observe Jail Killing Day today by paying rich tributes to four national leaders and Liberation War heroes who were brutally murdered inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The nation observes Jail Killing Day today, commemorating the brutal killing of four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail and paying homage to the great sons of the soil.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The killing of the four leaders is the second most disgraceful incident in the country’s history after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15 in 1975.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The barbaric killing took place just 79 days after the August 15 massacre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four national leaders played a crucial role in forming the first government of Bangladesh (Mujibnagar government) which led the country’s War of Independence in 1971.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syed Nazrul Islam was the acting President while Tajuddin Ahmad was the Prime Minister of Mujibnagar government, Mansur Ali the finance minister and AHM Qamaruzzaman the home, relief and rehabilitation affairs minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka Central Jail has been shifted to Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital. The cells of the old central jail on Nazimuddin road have been turned into museums. Belongings of the four leaders have been preserved there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Murals of the four national leaders were also set up on the premises of the jail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tribute to the four national leaders on the occasion, recalling their contributions to the country’s War of Independence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In separate messages, they also prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the four national leaders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Bangabandhu was imprisoned in Pakistan jail during the Liberation War, the four national leaders in absence of Bangabandhu made an outstanding contribution in forming the Mujibnagar government, devising war strategy and tactics, carrying out administrative activities, conducting the Liberation War, carrying on diplomatic efforts and keeping an eye on refugees to turn the Liberation War into a people\'s war in 1971, President Abdul Hamid said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The nation will always remember the contributions of the four national leaders with due respect,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, termed November 3 (Jail Killing Day) a stigmatised event in independent Bangladesh, saying such killing is unprecedented in the world\'s history.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the killing of the four national leaders were the sequel to the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through the killings of Bangabandhu and four national leaders, the defeated forces of Liberation War and anti-state cliques wanted to erase the name of Bangladesh Awami League forever from the soil of Bangladesh, destroy the spirit of Liberation War and make the nation leaderless, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The purpose of the killers was to break the state structure of the non-communal democratic Bangladesh and undermine our independence achieved at a huge cost,\" the premier said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Different political parties, including the ruling Awami League, will observe the day across the country following health guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling Bangladesh Awami League has began the day by hoisting the national flag and party flag at half-mast at its central and district offices across the country at the dawn.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party leaders placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in the capital at 7:00am to mark the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wreaths were placed at the graves of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Mansur Ali at Banani graveyard around 7:30am while fateha, milad-mahfil and munajat were offered there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Floral wreaths were placed at the grave of Shaheed AHM Qamruzzaman in Rajshahi. Prayer sessions, offering fateha and milad mahfil will also be held there, marking the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling Awami League will hold a discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital at 3:00pm with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 15:01:46', '2022-11-03 15:01:46');
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(2796, 2796, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders marking the Jail Killing Day.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In showing respect to the memory of the Father of the Nation and the four national leaders, the premier placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi Road No 32 here this morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sheikh Hasina first laid a wreath as the prime minister at the portrait of Bangabandhu around 7 am.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After placing the wreath, she stood in solemn silence there for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of Bangabandhu and the four national leaders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flanked by central leaders of the party, Sheikh Hasina also placed another wreath as the president of Awami League (AL) at the portrait of Bangabandhu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the leaders and workers of AL\'s associate bodies, including Awami Jubo League, Chhatra League, Mohila Awami League, Sramik League, Krishak League, Jubo Mohila League and Swechchasebok League, as well as other socio-cultural organizations also paid homage to Bangabandhu and four national leaders by placing wreaths at the portrait of the Father of the Nation on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier later went to the Banani Graveyard and paid rich tributes to martyrs of the August 15 and November 3 of 1975 massacres.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this day in 1975, the killers of Bangabandhu stormed into the Dhaka Central Jail in the early hours and assassinated the four national leaders - Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, Captain Monsur Ali and AHM Kamaruzzaman - who led the Liberation War in the absence of Bangabandhu in 1971 and snatched the victory for the nation. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 15:15:15', '2022-11-03 15:15:15'),
(2797, 2797, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Pakistan on Thursday called up batting all-rounder Mohammad Haris to replace the injured Fakhar Zaman just hours before they face South Africa in Sydney with their T20 World Cup hopes on the line.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Haris, who can also bowl off spin and keep wicket, was approved as a replacement by the event\'s technical committee after Zaman was ruled out of the tournament with posterior cruciate ligament damage in his right knee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 21-year-old Haris has only played one previous T20 international, against England in Lahore in September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made seven runs opening the batting alongside captain Babar Azam and kept wicket as England cruised to an eight-wicket victory inside 15 overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Middle-order batsman Zaman was not originally part of Pakistan\'s 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup because of his knee problems and came in as a risky late replacement for legspinner Usman Qadir.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhar missed the defeats against India and Zimbabwe before returning against the Netherlands in Perth on Sunday where he made 20 off 16 balls but aggravated his knee injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haris has made four one-day international appearances for Pakistan, with a top score of six against the West Indies in Multan in June this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan face South Africa at the Sydney Cricket ground later Thursday needing to win to keep their faint hopes of reaching the semi-finals alive. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 15:44:46', '2022-11-03 15:44:46'),
(2798, 2798, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said on Thursday that declaring ‘Jail killing Day’ as a national day of mourning is a matter of a decision from the government’s high-ups.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The ruling party is commemorating the Jail Killing Day on Thursday (November 3) to pay tribute to four national leaders and close aides of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who were killed inside Dhaka Central Jail in the old part of the city on the day in 1975.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, M Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman were murdered on the day while in state custody.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the military coup on August 15 in 1975, when Bangbandhu along with most of his family members were killed, a series of politically motivated killings took place amid a tumultuous political scenario.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, Quader paid tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahmam at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in the capital as part of the commemoration of the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About the demand from the assassinated leaders’ families to declare the day as a national mourning day, Quader said such a decision is a matter to handle from the government’s high-ups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling Bangladesh Awami League began the day by hoisting the national flag and party flag at half-mast at its central and district offices across the country at dawn.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party leaders placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in the capital at 7:00am to mark the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Wreaths were also placed at the graves of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Mansur Ali at Banani graveyard around 7:30am while fateha, milad-mahfil and munajat were offered there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Floral wreaths were also placed at the grave of AHM Qamruzzaman in Rajshahi where prayer sessions, offering fateha and milad mahfil were held, marking the day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling Awami League will hold a discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital at 3:00pm when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will speak. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 16:04:57', '2022-11-03 16:04:57'),
(2799, 2799, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Speedboat Owners Association has suspended operation of speedboats on Bhola-Barishal route for three days till November 5, ahead of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) divisional rally slated for November 5.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The movement of speedboats was suspended on Wednesday evening, causing suffering to the commuters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manjurul Alam, a speedboat owner of Bhola district, said that they have enforced a three-day strike but didn\'t say the reason of the strike.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UNB correspondent found a number of passengers waiting at Bheduria ghat in Bhola for speedboat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tatek Shah,in-charge of Barishal speedboat ghat, said speedboat movement was suspended from Bhola, not from Barishal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, three-wheeler drivers in Barishal have called a strike on November 4 and 5 demanding the authorities concerned allow three-wheelers to operate on the highway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strike has coincided with the upcoming rally of the BNP while bus owners in the district have announced a similar strike on the same dates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rally in Barishal will be the 5th one by the BNP at the divisional level as four others were held in Chattogram, Mymensingh, Khulna, and Rangpur. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 16:35:46', '2022-11-03 16:35:46'),
(2800, 2800, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>People with monkeypox can spread the virus up to four days before symptoms appear, with more than half of transmissions potentially taking place during this period, a UK study estimated Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the findings have yet to be confirmed, they suggest that many monkeypox infections cannot be prevented by asking patients to isolate once they realise they have the virus, the study said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Since May, when the virus suddenly started spreading beyond the West African countries where it has long been endemic, monkeypox has killed 36 people out of more than 77,000 cases, according to the World Health Organization.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However case numbers have steadily fallen since peaking in July, particularly in Europe and North America, the hardest hit areas in the early stages of the global outbreak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new study published in the journal BMJ was carried out in Britain, the first nation to detect a cluster of cases outside of Africa in May.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers from the UK Health Security Agency looked at contract tracing data and questionnaires for 2,746 people who tested positive for monkeypox in the country between May and August.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 95 percent of the participants were men who have sex with men, a community that has been overwhelmingly affected by the global outbreak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysing the data using two different statistical models, the researchers found that it took an average of nearly eight days for symptoms to appear after a patient was exposed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That period was more commonly longer than the time between when the first patient and their contact case showed symptoms, which is called the serial interval.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The median serial interval was estimated to be shorter than the incubation period, which indicates considerably greater pre-symptomatic transmission than previously thought,\" the study said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifty-three percent of the cases were transmitted before the person had any monkeypox symptoms, the study estimated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transmission was detected a maximum of four days before symptoms set in, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monkeypox symptoms include fever, muscular aches and large boil-like skin lesions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, a virus expert at Emory University in the United States who was not involved in the study, said the \"robust analysis\" was \"interesting and convincing\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This needs confirmation by more studies but has implications for vaccination-based disease elimination strategies which should be seriously considered,\" she said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 16:41:40', '2022-11-03 16:41:40'),
(2801, 2801, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>An India vs Bangladesh World Cup match is rarely short of drama. Since the 2007 ODI World Cup, whenever these two Asian giants have crossed roads in the ICC event, it has resulted in nail-biting contests filled with tension, emotion and of course some exhilarating cricket from both sides.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">To state Wednesday\'s India vs Bangladesh T20 World Cup match at the Adelaide Oval lived up to the expectations, would be an understatement. From Taskin Ahmed\'s quality seam-bowling to Virat Kohli and KL Rahul\'s classy strokeplay.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Litton Das\' clean ball-striking to rain interruptions, from the debate over multiple umpiring decisions to pulsating fielding and finally, a heart-racing finish that went India\'s way... the match had everything.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And like most other India-Bangladesh World Cup clashes in the last decade, the aftershock was felt even after the match ended.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan stood firm and maintained the match was played in good spirits and that there was no malice from their side despite being grilled in the press conference for his animated gestures during the rain break, perhaps expressing his unhappiness with the swift resumption of proceedings after a pretty heavy downpour - the match was reduced to 16 overs per side and Bangladesh were given a revised target of 151.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same, however, was not maintained by Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan. The right-hander had no intentions of hiding his disappointment about the \'wet outfield\' but more significantly, he accused India\'s Virat Kohli of \'fake fielding\' during the Bangladesh chase and added that the five penalty runs could have made the difference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Certainly the field was wet and it had an impact and everyone saw that and eventually what I felt is that when we were talking there was a fake throw and it could have been a five-run penalty and that could have gone our way but unfortunately even that didn\'t come,\" Nurul told reporters after India won the match by five runs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interestingly, the rain resumption and \'fake fielding\' were not the only umpiring decisions that were debatable on Wednesday. Dinesh Karthik was given run-out by the third umpire despite replays showing the ball hadn\'t dislodged the bails.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was in fact, the Bangladesh bowler\'s hands. That was not the end of it. Karthik was once again in the thick of things. India pacer Arshdeep Singh found the outside edge of Litton Das\' bat and the India keeper dived in front to take the catch, which was ruled not out by the third umpire after seeing just a couple of replays. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 16:59:21', '2022-11-03 16:59:21'),
(2802, 2802, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Musician-actor Saba Azad has shared a glimpse of her birthday celebrations along with a note on how Hrithik Roshan made it special in exactly the way she wanted it to be.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video shows several pictures of her standing with a bouquet of flowers in her hands, working out in the gym, doing dance practice with Hrithik Roshan, lying on the grass and enjoying food on a picnic with him. There is also a picture of them from their date night where she seems to have taken part in a cake-cutting ceremony.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Sharing the montage of pictures, Saba wrote, “I like my birthdays to be quiet. More often than not you’ll find me doing seemingly mundane things on the day, I don’t quite remember when I began doing this but now it seems like the norm. Don’t get me wrong, I love me a good party, so long as I can get a day to do this first.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For me my birthday is a microcosm of what I would want my days on earth to be like - a good day is one in which I spend some time learning something new, in which I move my body, take time to nourish my mind, good food always features heavily on such a day and of course spend time with those I love.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing Hrithik for making her day, she added, \"Thank you Ro (heart emoticon) for beautifully putting together my strange fruit of a plan. And thank you all of you who reached out with love, kind words and flowers - my house looks like a garden in spring and my heart is full.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fan wrote for the two of them in the comments section, “I am so jealous of you! but at the same time, seeing you two together, and imagining the happiness you bring into Hrithik\'s life, it brings tears of happiness in my eyes. Love!” Another commented, “Seeing you two together makes my old heart so happy, god bless always.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hrithik Roshan has been in relationship with Saba Azad since a year. The two are now spotted together at parties and events. He was earlier married to Sussanne Khan and the two have two sons together. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 17:32:07', '2022-11-03 17:32:07'),
(2803, 2803, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A new power couple has taken the stage.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Miss Argentina and former Miss Puerto Rico shocked and delighted fans by announcing their surprise marriage on Instagram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mariana Varela and Fabiola Valentín met at the 2020 Miss Grand International competition in Thailand, where they represented Argentina and Puerto Rico, respectively. After making it to the pageant top 10, the two beauty queens appeared to remain close friends on social media. What fans didn’t know is they were secretly dating the whole time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pair posted matching Instagram Reels showing moments from their relationship, including romantic walks on the beach, candid cuddles, champagne toasts and a proposal with gold and silver balloons spelling out, “Marry me?”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main image of the post shows the pair outside of the city courthouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they married on October 28.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“After deciding to keep our relationship private, we opened the doors on a special day,” the caption reads in Spanish.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fans, celebrities and fellow pageant figures congratulated Varela and Valentín on their picture-perfect love.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Congratulations,” wrote Ghanaian singer and beauty queen Abena Akuaba, who won Miss Grand International 2020. “MGI brought together a beautiful union.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Thanks for all the love!” Varela wrote in reply to the well-wishes. “We are very happy and blessed.” 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, '2022-11-03 18:19:46', '2022-11-03 18:19:46'),
(2804, 2804, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Babar Azam has won the toss and Pakistan will bat first. South Africa maybe fighting history - they have never beaten Pakistan in the T20 World Cup - but Pakistan are fighting to keep their challenge for a semi-final spot alive. Pakistan are fifth in Group 2 of the Super 12 phase of the competition, with two points from their opening three matches.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They trail group leaders India by four points and it means that they must beat South Africa and Bangladesh to have any chance of reaching the semi-finals. Even wins in these two matches won\'t guarantee them a spot in the final four but a loss will make it impossible for them to make it.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa, on the other hand, could become the first team to mathematically confirm a spot for themselves in the semi-finals.&nbsp;</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>South Africa (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Temba Bavuma(c), Rilee Rossouw, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Tristan Stubbs, Wayne Parnell, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Pakistan (Playing XI): Mohammad Rizwan(w), Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Haris, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 19:00:13', '2022-11-03 19:00:13'),
(2805, 2805, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles on Thursday, including a possible failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that triggered an alert for residents in parts of central and northern Japan to seek shelter.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite an initial government warning that a missile had overflown Japan, Tokyo later said that was incorrect.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Officials in South Korea and Japan said the missile may have been an ICBM, which are North Korea\'s longest-range weapons, and are designed to carry a nuclear warhead to the other side of the planet.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korean officials believe the ICBM failed in flight, Yonhap news agency reported, without elaborating. Spokespeople for the South Korean and Japanese ministries of defence declined to confirm the possible failure.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada said the government lost track of the missile over the Sea of Japan, prompting it to correct its announcement that it had flown over Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Retired Vice Admiral and former Japan Maritime Self Defense Force fleet commander Yoji Koda said the loss of radar tracking on the projectile pointed to a failed launch.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It means at some point in the flight path there was some problem for the missile and it actually came apart,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the warhead came down in the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan, debris, which would have been travelling at high speed, may still have passed over Japan, Koda added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea has had several failed ICBM tests this year, according to South Korean and U.S. officials. CNN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 19:20:58', '2022-11-03 19:20:58'),
(2806, 2806, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The election to Rangpur City Corporation will be held on December 27.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The election schedule was finalised at a meeting of the Election Commission (EC) with Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal in the chair at the Election Commission Secretariat on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">EC Secretary Md Jahangir Alam announced the schedule after the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the Commission has also decided to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) and CCTV cameras&nbsp; in the election.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The balloting will start at 8.30 am and continue till 4.30 pm without any break.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The election to the city corporation was held on December 21, 2017. The first meeting was held on February 19, 2017. The tenure will end after five years of the first meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting also held an elaborate discussion on different local government elections and by-elections in vacant posts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also decided to hold elections to five municipalities and a number of union parishads on December 29.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five municipalities are—Bagha, Rajshahi, Birol, Dinajpur, Boda, Panchagarh, Alfadanga, Faridpur and Banpara, Natore. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 19:35:57', '2022-11-03 19:35:57'),
(2807, 2807, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said BNP\'s ill politics should be stopped to get rid of confronting politics forever from Bangladesh, otherwise it won\'t be possible to eliminate the politics of collision.&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He said Ziaur Rahman was involved in Bangabandhu killing on August 15 and jail killing on November 3 in 1975.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zia and his wife Begum Khaleda Zia had chosen the path of killings and conflicts to keep intact their power, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister told the newsmen after paying rich tributes to the graves of August 15 martyrs and the national four leaders at Banani in the capital this morning marking the Jail Killing Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A milad mahfil and special munazat were also offered there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasan said the worst killing in history was orchestrated on this day in 1975. The four national leaders were brutally killed in the Dhaka Central Jail, he said, adding they (the four leaders) didn\'t betray with Bangabandhu.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said it is regrettably true that the killing literally took place in the hand of Ziaur Rahman as Zia was then in fact in power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zia was not only involved in the killing of Bangabandhu, he was also involved in the November 3 killing, said Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Zia had started the politics of killings and he killed armed forces officials without any trial. Zia had extremely violated the human rights in the country, he added.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasan also said Begum Zia followed Zia through the politics of arson attacks and carrying out grenade attacks. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 19:59:22', '2022-11-03 19:59:22'),
(2808, 2808, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The High Court has upheld the death sentences of three of five suspects convicted in the 2012 murder of Chattogram student Himadri Majumder Himu, according to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Khandaker Diliruzzaman delivered the verdict on Thursday after hearing the death references and appeals from the defendants.</div><div><br></div><div>The death row convicts are Zahidur Rahman Shaon, Junaid Ahmed Riad and Mahbub Ali Danny.</div><div><br></div><div>Riad has been absconding since the start of the trial, while Shaon became a fugitive after he was released on bail.</div><div><br></div><div>Two other suspects in the case, Shah Selim Tipu and Shahadat Hossain Shaju were acquitted.</div><div><br></div><div>On Aug 14, 2016, Chattogram Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Nurul Islam sentenced all five to death in the murder case.</div><div><br></div><div>The death reference and other documents in the case came to the High Court this year. The suspects also filed an appeal of their convictions.</div><div><br></div><div>On Apr 27, 2012, Shaon, Riad, Shaju and Danny allegedly kidnapped Himu from in front of Summerfield School and College in the Panchlaish area of the port city after he hindered their drug dealing efforts, the case dossier says.</div><div><br></div><div>Himu, who had passed his ‘A’ Levels from the school, was 18 at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 20:50:52', '2022-11-03 20:50:52'),
(2809, 2809, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Smog in New Delhi hit \"hazardous\" levels on Thursday as smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other pollutants to create a noxious grey cocktail enveloping the&nbsp; megacity.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Levels of the most dangerous particles -- PM2.5, so tiny they can enter the&nbsp; bloodstream -- were 588 per cubic metre early on Thursday morning, according&nbsp; to monitoring firm IQAir.</div><div><br></div><div>That is almost 40 times the daily maximum recommended by the World Health&nbsp; Organization. IQAir rated overall pollution levels as \"hazardous\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is really the worst time to be out in Delhi. One never wakes up fresh&nbsp; with this pollution,\" policeman Hem Raj, 42, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The body feels tired and lethargic in the mornings... The eyes are always&nbsp; watery and throat scratchy after spending hours on the Delhi roads,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Every winter, cooler air, smoke from farmers burning stubble, and emissions&nbsp; from vehicles and other sources combine to create a deadly smog reducing visibility in the city of 20 million people.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2020 a Lancet study attributed 1.67 million deaths to air pollution in&nbsp; India in 2019, including almost 17,500 in the capital. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 22:22:52', '2022-11-03 22:22:52'),
(2810, 2810, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dollar crisis has come to the fore again as 20 banks are unable to make payment of import LCs, </span>according<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to data of Bangladesh Bank of October 25, dollar crunch has intensified to such an extent that the banks are unable to pay debts and LC.</div><div><br></div><div>The banks are struggling to make the payments with allegedly ‘poor remittance’ and import earnings.</div><div><br></div><div>In the wake of dollar crisis, the banks are refraining from opening new LCs, even those for import of essential items.</div><div><br></div><div>The forex interbank market has become dysfunctional.</div><div><br></div><div>As many banks are failing to make LC payments, those are suffering from reputation crisis abroad. Therefore, foreign banks have started to limit credit line for Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Dollar crunch may be intensified due to remittance fall in the days to come and foreign banks may stop taking Bangladesh LCs totally.</div><div><br></div><div>According to media reports, some Bangladeshi banks have failed to pay Standard Chartered Bank, Mashreq Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Commerz Bank, and Axis Bank.</div><div><br></div><div>About 30 percent of the remittance comes through Islami Bank which is also at the top of foreign earning.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 22:38:11', '2022-11-03 22:38:11'),
(2811, 2811, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said traders have started importing wheat from Canada and other countries after closure of Ukraine-Russia market due to the ongoing war.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>While briefing reporters, he said the wheat issue was raised at the fourth meeting of the task force on reviewing commodity prices and market conditions at the Secretariat on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>“One of the major traders said one of his shipments of 55,000 tons of wheat was stuck at Turkey port but it has now started for Bangladesh. As Ukraine was our main supplier of wheat, the price might be higher for importing from Canada to meet demands for now,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Tipu Munshi said there is little shortfall in the amount of wheat to be imported and supply will normalize if Ukraine and Russia lift the ban on export.</div><div><br></div><div>The wheat being imported from Canada is also of good quality, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the price hike of pulses by Tk 10 per kg in the last few days, the minister said, impacted by global price hike the pulse supply has declined a bit.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The Tariff Commission will look into this and see if the price increase is reasonable,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The commerce also minister said due to rising dollar prices Bangladesh is not getting the benefit of falling global prices of rod, cement at the moment, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>“People\'s main focus is on food. If the food production is right, compromises can be made in other sectors,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 22:48:19', '2022-11-03 22:48:19'),
(2812, 2812, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chaotic scenes broke out after shots were fired near the convoy of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in the country’s east on Thursday, multiple local news channels reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Farrukh Habib, a senior member of Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said that the former PM was also injured in the incident. “The cowards have shown their times Imran Khan is injured, may Allah protect him, the whole nation should pray for the life of Imran Khan,” he tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Geo TV, the shots were fired at Imran Khan’s reception camp at Allahwala Chowk in Gujranwala. The former Pakistan Prime Minister is leading an anti-government long march towards Islamabad. - Express Web Desk</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 22:55:33', '2022-11-03 22:55:33'),
(2813, 2813, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported another Covid-linked death and&nbsp; 140 more cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With this, the total fatalities in the country rose to 29,425 while the caseload rose to 2,035,657, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The daily case test positivity rate dropped to 3.10 per cent from Wednesday’s 4.81 per cent as 4,511 samples were tested during the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 per cent and the recovery rate rose to 97.35 per cent.</div><div><br></div><div>In September, the country reported 40 Covid-linked deaths and 13,251 cases.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and its highest number of fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-03 23:41:51', '2022-11-03 23:41:51'),
(2814, 2814, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Vietnamese Ambassador to Bangladesh Pham Viet Chien has expressed optimism that the bilateral trade between the two countries will reach $2 billion mark in 2023 when the two countries will celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the first nine months of 2022 calendar year, the bilateral trade turnover between the two countries has reached $1.1 billion and it is expected to reach $1.5 billion by end of December.</div><div><br></div><div>“If this trend keeps continuing, I hope that trade between the two countries will reach $2 billion in 2023,” Ambassador Chien told UNB in an interview, terming the economic relations between the two countries “robust”.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question, the Vietnamese envoy said he has always encouraged Bangladeshi businesses to promote more Bangladeshi goods and services to the Vietnamese people so that Bangladesh can export more products to the Vietnam market.</div><div><br></div><div>“I think there is a lot of potential to further boost the economic relations between the two countries - from manufacturing industry to agriculture,” he said seeking more cooperation with each other as economic cooperation is one of the most significant features of the bilateral relations between the two countries.</div><div><br></div><div>The two countries want to maintain a high economic growth and keep moving towards realising the targets to be upper middle-income countries in 2030 and then developed and high-income countries in the early 2040s, living up to the dreams of the two founding fathers: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh.</div><div><br></div><div>“One of the significant pieces of evidence is that complementary cooperation between the two countries can help each other to realise and implement the development strategy of each country,” said the Vietnamese envoy.</div><div><br></div><div>The bilateral trade between the two countries now is in favour of Vietnam, said the Ambassador.</div><div><br></div><div>“I have been working and discussing with Bangladeshi enterprises… I urge the Bangladeshi businesses to be more proactive in promoting goods and services to the Vietnam market towards balancing the trade turnover between the two countries,” he mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>Pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh have the potential to make a stronger presence in the Vietnam market, said the envoy, adding that every year Vietnam imports large quantities of pharmaceutical products.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, the Ambassador said, he encouraged the Vietnamese businesses to more proactively explore Bangladeshi goods and services.</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador Chien said the overall activities to promote relations between the two countries were a bit limited due to Covid-19 pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>But, he said, the relations between the two countries have “developed strongly”, not only in terms of bilateral relations, but also in the multilateral forum, especially in the areas of shared interest like climate change, which is impacting both Vietnam and Bangladesh very seriously.</div><div><br></div><div>“It has been developed very deeply and strongly,” said the Ambassador, mentioning the challenges like disruption of the supply chains, global transportation and energy crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question on high-level exchanges of visits, the Ambassador said they have been in communication with the Bangladesh side to make the plan and the activities to celebrate the “milestone” year-2023 appropriately. “It can include activities like delegation exchanges.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Ambassador said Vietnam always attaches high importance to the high-level exchanges between the two countries, especially in the last 10 years.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2012, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Vietnam while in 2015, President Abdul Hamid paid a state visit to Vietnam, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2018, Former Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse paid a three-day state visit to Bangladesh from March 4-6 at the invitation of President Abdul Hamid.</div><div><br></div><div>However, in the last few years due to Covid-19 pandemic there have been no such activities between the two countries.</div><div><br></div><div>“But in the coming times when the Covid-19 is under control, the delegation exchange between the two countries will be continued, especially marking the 50 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries,” said the envoy.</div><div><br></div><div>Rohingya Crisis</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the issue of “forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals” he said that Vietnam, as a member of ASEAN, shares the general viewpoint of a “five-point consensus.”&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>ASEAN leaders underscored the importance of Myanmar’s continued efforts in addressing the situation in the Rakhine State, including commencing the repatriation process, in a voluntary, safe and dignified manner in accordance with its bilateral agreements with Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>“Vietnam also wishes for stability in Myanmar to create the favourable conditions for Bangladesh and Myanmar to cooperate with each other for the repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals back to their homeland,” said the envoy.</div><div><br></div><div>He said with the excellent relations with Bangladesh, Vietnam encourages Bangladesh and Myanmar to work together, negotiate and hold talks.</div><div><br></div><div>He said both the countries can find the long-term “plan and strategy” appropriate for the aimed repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland in line with the previous agreement signed between the two countries.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char and not a single Myanmar national has been repatriated since 2017 when the latest influx took place. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 01:00:00', '2022-11-04 01:00:00');
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(2815, 2815, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The government approved on Thursday separate proposals for procuring fertilizer, 55 lakh litres of soybean oil and 8,000 metric tons of lentil to meet the growing demand of the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The approvals came from the 32nd meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) in this year held today virtually with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>Briefing reporters after the meeting virtually, Cabinet Division Additional Secretary Sayeed Mahbub Khan said that the day\'s meeting approved a total of 17 proposals.</div><div><br></div><div>He informed that following a proposal from the Ministry of Industries, the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) would procure some 25,000 metric tons of rock phosphate from M/s Desh Trading Corporation (main supplier: M/s Zentrade, FZE, the UAE) with Taka 88.76 crore. The price of per ton phosphate would be $334.77 from the previous rate of $380.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahbub said that the BCIC would procure some 30,000 metric tons of bulk granular fertilizer from Muntajat, Qatar under the 9th lot under state-level agreement with around Taka 198.62 crore with the price of per ton fertilizer costing $626.67 down from the previous price of $632.</div><div><br></div><div>The BCIC would purchase another 30,000 metric tons of bulk granular fertilizer under the 3rd lot from Fertiglobe Distribution Limited, UAE with around Taka 198.62 crore and another consignment of 30,000 metric tons of bulk granular fertilizer under the 4th lot from Fertiglobe Distribution Limited, UAE with around Taka 198.62 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, Mahbub informed that the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) under the Ministry of Agriculture would procure some 25,000 metric tons of TSP form a Tunisian company with around Taka 148.65 crore. Per ton fertilizer would cost $562.5 against the previous price of $704.25.</div><div><br></div><div>The Cabinet Division Additional Secretary said that the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) would procure some 8,000 metric tons of lentil with around Taka 68.78 crore where per ton lentil would cost $859. The price of per KG lentil would be Taka 85.99.</div><div><br></div><div>The TCB would also procure some 55 lakh litres of soybean oil with around Taka 89.61 crore with per litre soybean oil costing Taka 162.94 from the previous price of Taka 171.85.</div><div><br></div><div>Following a proposal from the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, the works under the package number WD-1, WD-2 and WD-4 under the project for establishing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheatre, Rangpur has been awarded to the M.g. Jamal and Company Ltd with around Taka 121.18 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the meeting approved a proposal from the Road Transport and Highways Division under which the package number WP-01 under the project for upgrading Kumargaon-Badaghat-Airport road into four-lane would be implemented by Spectra Engineers Ltd with around Taka 439.64 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from this, the meeting gave nod to a proposal for appointing Egis India Consulting Engineers Pvt Ltd as consultant with around Taka 111.44 crore for the Upgradation of Mongla Port project to be implemented by the Mongla Port Authority. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 01:35:06', '2022-11-04 01:35:06'),
(2816, 2816, '<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The accused, who fired shots at former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, confessed to his guilt. The accused reportedly said that he wanted to kill Imran Khan because he was misleading the public.</span><br></p><p>In a video, the attacker said, \"I wanted to kill Imran Khan. Only he had to be killed because he is misleading the public. I tried to kill Imran Khan, I did not mean to harm others. I suddenly thought of attacking him. I was planning to kill him since his rally began in Lahore. No one is behind me and I came to the rally with a bike. \"</p><p>Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was injured in a gun attack near Wazirabad on Thursday. As per ARY news, Imran Khan was hit in the leg, but he is now safe and stable.</p><p>According to Pak media reports, four people have been injured in the shooting that took place during the rally of the former Pakistani Prime Minister.</p><p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has been rallying for the past several days by taking out long marches. It is believed that the firing allegedly took place near the container in which Imran Khan was travelling.</p><p>Several visuals from the spot were put on social media by Pakistani journalists. In the videos, people can be seen running away and escaping the rally for saving their lives. Source: TIMES NOW</p><p>bnbd24/fas</p><p></p>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 01:46:59', '2022-11-04 01:46:59'),
(2817, 2817, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Barsha Oli slammed a brilliant hat-trick as Nepal U-15 women\'s football team made a winning start in the SAFF U-15 Women\'s Championship crushing Bhutan by 7-0 goals drubbing held today (Thursday) at Birshreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in the city\'s Kamalapur in Dhaka.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Barsha Oli put the major contribution of Nepal\'s victory. All her four goals came in the first half in the 1st, 17th, 33rd and 34th minutes of the match.</div><div><br></div><div>She was well supported by Sukriya Miya who scored twice in the 65th and 72nd minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>Senu Pariyar sealed the victory scoring the second goal for Himalaya Kingdom in the 85th minute of the match.</div><div><br></div><div>This is Bhutan\'s second successive loss in the tournament. Earlier, Bangladesh had defeated Bhutan 8-0 in the opening match of the tournament. Bangladesh are at the top of the table on goal difference for the time being.</div><div><br></div><div>Nepal will play their next match of the tournament against Bangladesh scheduled to be held on Saturday (November 5) at the same venue. Nepal will again face Bhutan and Bangladesh on November 7 and November 9 respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>Three countries of South Asian nation are participating in the tournament being held in a double round-robin format. The top of the table at the end will be the winners of the tournament. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 02:03:33', '2022-11-04 02:03:33'),
(2818, 2818, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on the movement of anyone except Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) students and exam officials, within 200 yards of test centres in the capital.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The DMP announced the new step in a statement Thursday. The HSC and equivalent exams are scheduled to begin on November 6.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 12.03 lakh students are expected to sit for the exams at 2,649 centres, from 9,181 institutions under 11 educational boards.</div><div><br></div><div>The public will be completely barred from travelling within 200 yards of test centres to ensure \"proper and lawful\" exams, according to DMP commissioner Khandker Gulam Faruq.</div><div><br></div><div>The order will remain in force until the end of the exam.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 02:30:27', '2022-11-04 02:30:27'),
(2819, 2819, '<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that 20 million cubic feet gas is being extracted every day from Tobgi-1 well of Shahbajpur in Bhola.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br></p><p>The state minister revealed this information at a press conference at the Secretariat in the capital on Thursday.</p><p>Nasrul Hamid said it would be possible to extract 20million cubic feet gas from Tobgi-1 per day. The estimated value will be Tk 8,000 crore if it is counted at Tk 11 at consumer level.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The price would be higher if it is counted as LNG, he said.&nbsp;</p><p>Nasrul Hamid also said the drilling of two wells--Elisha-1 and Bhola North-2--will be completed by June next year, he said.&nbsp; &nbsp;Some 55 million cubic feet gas will be extracted from these two wells, he hoped.&nbsp;</p><p>bnbd24/fas</p>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 02:47:41', '2022-11-04 02:47:41'),
(2820, 2820, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Climate change impacts battering vulnerable countries threaten to outstrip efforts to adapt to global warming, the UN warned Thursday, with a \"significant\" amount of international funding help recycled from other purposes.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Many emerging economies, which are least to blame for the fossil-fuel gases that stoke global warming, are among the most exposed to climate impacts, such as worsening drought, floods and cyclones.</div><div><br></div><div>Funding to help them adapt to accelerating impacts and curb emissions is one of the thorniest issues at UN climate negotiations, which begin their latest round in Egypt on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>Wealthy nations have failed to provide a pledged $100 billion a year to developing nations, reaching just $83 billion in 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>Only a part of that -- $29 billion -- was for adaptation.</div><div><br></div><div>That leaves a \"yawning gap to be filled\" said United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) chief Inger Andersen, adding that the actual needs were around five to 10 times greater than finance provided in 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>While countries have committed to providing new funding for climate-vulnerable nations, richer nations have been accused of relabelling other types of funding, like humanitarian aid, as climate funding.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Some of that money -- and we don\'t know how much, but certainly a significant proportion -- is not actually adaptation or mitigation, it\'s repurposed,\" Henry Neufeldt, author of the UNEP report, told a press conference on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>But as the world warms, climate change impacts increase and so too do the costs of preparing for them.</div><div><br></div><div>UNEP revised up its adaptation estimates from a year earlier, saying countries will now need $160 billion to $340 billion annually by 2030 to strengthen their resilience, rising to $315 billion and $565 billion by 2050.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week the UN warned the world was nowhere near the Paris Agreement target of capping warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We must quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strive for net-zero. But people, ecosystems and economies are already suffering,\" said Anderson, calling for the international community to \"urgently increase efforts to adapt to climate change\".</div><div><br></div><div>In February, in a report dubbed an \"atlas of human suffering\", the UN\'s climate experts warned that global warming is outpacing our preparations for a climate-addled world.</div><div><br></div><div>The poorest are often the hardest hit and the least able to protect themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is unacceptable,\" said UN chief Antonio Guterres.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We need a global surge in adaptation investment to save millions of lives from climate carnage,\" he added, announcing a new tool to try to help fill this gap.</div><div><br></div><div>At the last UN climate talks in Glasgow, countries agreed to double their adaptation finance from 2019 levels by 2025, reaching $40 billion.</div><div><br></div><div>But even that target is under question after the increase from 2019 to 2020 was just four percent, the UN said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The current model for delivering adaptation support, quite frankly, is broken,\" a senior UN official told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>While financing has always been a key sticking point in the UN climate negotiations, the issue is taking on greater urgency at this year\'s meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>A series of weather extremes across the planet have further intensified calls for funding to help with climate impacts already being felt, known as \"loss and damage\".</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan, for example, is reeling from a crop-withering heatwave, followed within weeks by catastrophic inundations -- both intensified by climate change -- that killed over 1,700 people and swamped a third of its territory.</div><div><br></div><div>The floods caused over $30 billion in damages and economic losses, said Anderson.</div><div><br></div><div>But currently, the aftermath of this type of disaster is not covered by climate funds.</div><div><br></div><div>Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at the Climate Action Network, said that wealthy countries\' willingness to put loss and damage funding on the agenda would be a \"real test\" of the UN climate meeting, reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>It will \"either send a message of hope or despair to people already facing the climate crisis,\" he said, but added that as temperatures rise, finance for adaptation, loss and damage and curbing emissions are no longer in the billions: \"We need trillions.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 03:19:25', '2022-11-04 03:19:25'),
(2821, 2821, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Months after he was ousted from power, Imran Khan - Pakistan’s former prime minister - was reported to have faced an attempt on his life. He suffered an injury on leg following a gunfire targeting his vehicle.</b></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The attack took place during a protest march in the city of Wazirabad in Pakistan on Thursday evening. A person - accused in the assassination attempt - has been arrested. One person died and at least five others were injured amid the gunfire.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are top points on the attack on Imran Khan:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">1) The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of Khan - the 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician who has been calling for fresh elections in the country ever since his government collapsed - has blamed Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and two others for the attack. His protesters also held widespread protests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">2) \"Sirf Imran Khan ko maarna tha (I came only to kill Imran Khan)... I did this because he is misleading people. I couldn\'t accept it...\" the accused was heard saying in a leaked clip.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">3) \"Violence has no place in politics, and we call on all parties to refrain from violence, harassment, and intimidation,\" U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, was quoted as saying in an official statement amid the outpouring of reactions. The United States, he further added, \"is deeply committed to a democratic and peaceful Pakistan, and we stand with the Pakistani people\" as Blinken wished a speedy recovery to Khan and others injured; he also condoled the death during the rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">4) Earlier, in his statement, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had also made similar remarks on use of violence. “I condemn the incident of firing on PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the strongest words. I have directed Interior Minister for an immediate report on the incident.,” he tweeted, stressing that his government would offer all the support for a thorough probe.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">5) The country\'s media watchdog - the Pakistan Electronic and Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) - is reported to have stopped news channels from broadcasting remarks by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar following the attack on Khan. Umar had reportedly blamed Shehbaz Sharif, the country\'s Interior Minister and a top ISI General</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">6) “Broadcasting of such content is likely to create hatred among the people or is prejudicial to maintenance of law and order or is likely to disturb public peace and tranquility or endangers national security,\" the watchdog stated, citing Article 19 of the Constitution and Section 27 of PEMRA Ordinance 2002, Pak daily - the Dawn - reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">7) Ensuring that the accused would be brought to justice, Punjab’s Chief Minister Chaudhary Parvez Elahi said on Thursday night: “The police personnel who leaked the statement to the media (of the accused) have been suspended and the mobile phone has been seized.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">8) Elahi also said in a video statement that Khan was stable and there was suspicion that not one but two people were involved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">9) Not just the US, but other countries have also responded. Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry - in a statement - said that it stands with “people of Pakistan against all threats to its security and development process.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">10) India’s ministry of external affairs had earlier said: “We\'re closely keeping an eye on and we\'ll continue to monitor ongoing developments.” HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 17:42:23', '2022-11-04 17:42:23'),
(2822, 2822, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>British researchers announced Friday they have cured a man who was continually infected with Covid for 411 days by analysing the genetic code of his particular virus to find the right treatment.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Persistent Covid infection -- which is different to long Covid or repeated bouts of the disease -- occurs in a small number of patients with already weakened immune systems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">These patients can test positive for months or even years with the infection \"rumbling along the whole time,\" said Luke Snell, a physician specialising in infectious diseases at Guy\'s and St Thomas\' NHS Foundation Trust.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The infections can pose a serious threat because around half of patients also have persistent symptoms such as lung inflammation, Snell told AFP, adding that much remains unknown about the condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a new study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers at Guy\'s & St Thomas\' NHS Foundation Trust and King\'s College London describe how a 59-year-old man finally overcame his infection after more than 13 months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man, who has a weakened immune system due to a kidney transplant, caught Covid in December 2020 and continued to test positive until January this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To discover whether he had contracted Covid numerous times or if it was one persistent infection, the researchers used a rapid genetic analysis with nanopore sequencing technology.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The test, which can deliver results in as little as 24 hours, showed the man had an early B.1 variant which was dominant in late 2020 but has since been replaced by newer strains.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Because he had this early variant, the researchers gave him a combination of the basiliximab and imdevimab monoclonal antibodies from Regeneron.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Like most other antibody treatments, the treatment is no longer widely used because it is ineffective against newer variants such as Omicron.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it successfully cured the man because he was battling a variant from an earlier phase of the pandemic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>- Resistant to treatment -</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The very new variants that are increasing in prevalence now are resistant to all the antibodies available in the UK, the EU and now even the US,\" Snell said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers used several such treatments to try to save a seriously ill 60-year-old man in August this year who had been infected since April.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However none worked.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We really thought he was going to die,\" Snell said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So the team crushed up two antiviral treatments not previously used together -- Paxlovid and remdesivir -- and administered them to the unconscious patient via a nasal tube, according to a non-peer-reviewed preprint study on the website ResearchSquare.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Miraculously he cleared and perhaps this is now the avenue for how we treat these very difficult persistent infections,\" Snell said, emphasising that this treatment may not translate for normal Covid cases.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the ECCMID conference in April, the team announced the longest-known persistent infection in a man who tested positive for 505 days before his death.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That \"very sad case\" came earlier in the pandemic, Snell said, adding that he was grateful there were now so many more treatment options available. 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(2823, 2823, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Twitter said it will start laying off employees on Friday, as the new billionaire owner Elon Musk moves quickly after his big takeover to make the messaging platform financially sound.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A company-wide email seen by AFP says Twitter employees will receive word via email at the start of business Friday, California time, as to what their fate is.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It does not give a number but the Washington Post and New York Times reported that about half of Twitter\'s 7,500 employees will be let go.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global work force,\" the email said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter employees have been bracing for this kind of bad news since Musk completed his mammoth $44 billion acquisition late last week and quickly set about dissolving its board and firing its chief executive and top managers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A workplace and employee review and other projects ordered by Musk were reportedly so exhaustive and grueling that some engineers slept at Twitter headquarters over the weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The email sent Thursday told workers to go home and not report for work on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended,\" the email said. Those on the way to the office should turn around and return home.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The email acknowledged that Twitter is going through \"an incredibly challenging experience.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company\'s success moving forward,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saddled with the purchase of Twitter, for which Musk has said he overpaid, the tycoon is looking for ways for Twitter to make money -- and fast.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His most recent idea was to charge $8 a month to anyone on Twitter who would receive a blue \"verified\" badge assuring the public that the account is authentic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A news report this week said Musk wanted to charge $20 a month but faced a backlash, including from bestselling novelist Stephen King, who tweeted: \"$20 a month to keep my blue check?\" It was followed by an expletive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk responded on Twitter, seemingly bargaining with King: \"we need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk has said he wants to increase Twitter\'s revenue from $5 billion last year to more than $26 billion in 2028.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Top global companies, including General Mills and Volkswagen, suspended their advertising on Twitter on Thursday as pressure builds on Musk to turn his platform into a succesful business.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US auto giant General Motors last week was the first major advertiser to suspend advertising following the takeover.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials and civil rights groups have expressed worry that Musk will open the site to uncontrolled hate speech and misinformation as well as reinstate banned accounts, including that of former US president Donald Trump.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advertisers are Twitter\'s main source of revenue and Musk has tried to calm the nerves by reassuring that the site would not become a \"free-for-all hellscape\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 17:53:57', '2022-11-04 17:53:57'),
(2824, 2824, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Commuters were hit hard after all modes of transportation went off the streets in Barisal on Friday, just a day before a divisional rally called by opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Barisal city has virtually been cut off from rest of the country after the two-day transport strike got underway on Friday. Buses, launches, speedboats, microbuses and even the three-wheeler auto-rickshaws are unavailable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the bus owners called the strike to demand a ban on the movement of auto-rickshaws on the highways, the three-wheelers want the authorities to allow them free movement there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A transport strike before BNP\'s anti-government divisional rallies has recently been common. Such strikes were called ahead of opposition party\'s rallies in Khulna, Mymensingh and Rangpur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP\'s Barisal divisional rally has been called to protest against hike in fuel and essential commodities and to press home the party\'s other demands including restoration of the constitutional provision of holding general election under a neutral caretaker government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has denied any link with the transport strikes coinciding BNP\'s rallies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Friday 12am, microbus movement from and to the district had also been shut till November 5 for indefinite reasons, confirmed Md Farid, a member of district microbus owners\' association.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speedboat movement was halted on Wednesday evening while launch on Thursday morning amid BNP\'s allegation that launch owners went on the sudden strike as per the government\'s directive ahead of the rally slated for November 5.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even the rental private cars refused to move on the road, according to passengers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many people were seen waiting at the launch terminals and bus terminal without being able to reach their destination.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, BNP leaders and activists started gathering at Barisal city\'s Bangabandhu Park to attend the party\'s divisional rally from Thursday morning, to defy all the transport bans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barisal\'s central bus terminal in Nathullabad, was overcrowded on Saturday night as hundreds of commuters arrived to leave for their destinations one day in advance, fearing the transport strike, which is set to begin from Friday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I had a plan to go to Dhaka on Friday, but I came here a day early keeping Friday\'s transport strike in mind,” said Subarna Pal, a commuter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I\'ve come here two days earlier due to the transport strike. Finding no other place, I\'m staying at my relative\'s house,” said Sadikur Rahman, a Jubo Dal activist from Patuakhali.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rally in Barisal will be the 5th one by the BNP at the divisional level as four others were held in Chittagong, Mymensingh, Khulna, and Rangpur. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 17:58:01', '2022-11-04 17:58:01'),
(2825, 2825, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on his election win as final results confirmed the former premier\'s triumphant comeback at the head of a solidly right-wing alliance.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Netanyahu\'s victory is set to end an unprecedented stalemate in Israel after five elections in less than four years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This time Netanyahu, the dominant Israeli politician of his generation, won a clear parliamentary majority, boosted by ultranationalist and religious parties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tuesday\'s ballot saw out the centrist Lapid, and his rare alliance of conservatives, liberals and Arab politicians which, over 18 months in power, made diplomatic inroads with Turkey and Lebanon and kept the economy humming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the conflict with the Palestinians surging anew and touching off Jewish-Arab tensions within Israel, Netanyahu\'s rightist Likud and kindred parties took 64 of the Knesset\'s 120 seats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netanyahu still has to be officially tasked by the president with forming a government, a process that could take weeks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The time has come to impose order here. The time has come for there to be a landlord,\" tweeted Itamar Ben-Gvir of the far-right Religious Zionism party, Likud\'s likely senior partner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was responding to a stabbing reported by Jerusalem police. In the West Bank, troops killed an Islamic Jihad militant and a 45-year-old man in a separate incident, medics said. Queried on the latter death, the army said it opened fire when Palestinians attacked them with rocks and petrol bombs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in the day, air attack sirens went off in south Israel after Gaza militants fired a rocket that was intercepted by missile defences, the military said. It responded with strikes against militant targets in Gaza. No injuries were reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben-Gvir - a West Bank settler and former member of Kach, a Jewish militant group on Israeli and US terrorist watchlists - wants to become police minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli media, citing political sources, said the new government may be clinched by mid-month. Previous coalitions in recent years have had narrower parliamentary majorities that made them vulnerable to no-confidence motions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With coalition building talks yet to officially begin, it was still unclear what position Ben-Gvir might hold in a future government. Since the election, both he and Netanyahu have pledged to serve all citizens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Ben-Gvir\'s ascendancy has stirred alarm among the 21% Arab minority and centre-left Jews - and especially among Palestinians whose US-sponsored statehood talks with Israel broke down in 2014.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Washington has publicly reserved judgment pending the new Israeli coalition\'s formation, a US State Department spokesman on Wednesday emphasised the countries\' \"shared values\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We hope that all Israeli government officials will continue to share the values of an open, democratic society, including tolerance and respect for all in civil society, particularly for minority groups,\" the spokesperson said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides said he spoke with Netanyahu and told him he looked forward to \"working together to maintain the unbreakable bond.\" Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 18:13:58', '2022-11-04 18:13:58'),
(2826, 2826, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy skies over Bangladesh.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Night and day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged across the country, according to the weather department\'s forecast for the twenty-four hours from 9am on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trough of low lies over Northeast Bay.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The highest temperature on Thursday was recorded at 33.3 degrees Celsius in Sitakunda and the lowest temperature on Friday was recorded at 15.6 degrees Celsius in Tetulia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sun will set at 05:18pm on Friday and rise at 06:07am on Saturday in Dhaka. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 18:22:43', '2022-11-04 18:22:43'),
(2827, 2827, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on the movement of anyone except Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) students and exam officials, within 200 yards of test centres in the capital.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DMP announced the new step in a statement Thursday. The HSC and equivalent exams are scheduled to begin on November 6.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 12.03 lakh students are expected to sit for the exams at 2,649 centres, from 9,181 institutions under 11 education boards.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The public will be completely barred from travelling within 200 yards of test centres to ensure \"proper and lawful\" exams, according to DMP Commissioner Khandker Gulam Faruq.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The order will remain in force until the end of the exams. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 18:27:00', '2022-11-04 18:27:00'),
(2828, 2828, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Despite being one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, Bangladesh has been taking various effective and innovative measures to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 3 in 2022, Prestigious \"Newsweek\" news magazine carried an article, written by Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, focusing on Bangladesh\'s success in deal with climate change impacts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The following article titled \"A Focus on Climate Challenges in Bangladesh\" is given below:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is ranked seventh among the most climate vulnerable countries in the world, but its contribution to global warming is negligible. It contributes less than half of 1 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The average sea level rise along the coast of Bangladesh has been 3.8-to-5.8 millimeters a year over the last 30 years, according to a recent study. And that continues. In fact, without changes to global behavior, Bangladesh would see annual economic costs due to global warming equal to 2 percent of its Gross Domestic Product by 2050, widening to 9.4 percent by 2100. The people most impacted would be the poorest Bangladeshis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To be precise, a one degree rise in average world temperature would increase sea levels by about a meter, which would flood a fifth of Bangladesh. If that happens, 30 million people in Bangladesh would be forced to flee their homes. Bangladesh is likely to have more than half of South Asia\'s \"climate migrants\" by 2050 if warming trends continue, according to the World Bank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But the Bangladesh government is steadily improving its climate resilience. It has added to its constitution a requirement to protect the environment and natural resources. To that end, it will soon adopt a series of climate mitigation programs including the 20-year Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan and the Delta Plan 2100. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, which already is underway, is focused on adaptation and on mitigation. An updated plan will add natural-resource management and urban development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the meantime, Bangladesh has made astounding economic progress. Its Gross Domestic Product per capita has increased eightfold since 1990. It recently surpassed India in GDP per capita. And for most of the last decade, it eclipsed Pakistan\'s economy, too. Bangladesh\'s exports rose to a record of $52.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. HSBC Bank has predicted that Bangladesh would be the world\'s 26th largest economy by 2030 due in large part to its average annual GDP growth of 6 percent during the last twenty years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strong economic growth has provided the government with the wherewithal to combat climate change. The Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund, established more than a decade ago, has spent $480 million on 800 research, mitigation, and adaption projects. Over the last seven years, the government\'s climate related spending has doubled from $1.44 billion to $2.96 billion in fiscal 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is committed to developing a low-carbon economy. It has renewable energy projects underway that will produce 911.8 megawatts of electricity and combined-cycle gas-based power plants that will produce 3,208 megawatts of power. It has helped install 6 million solar home systems and more than 4.5 million environmentally friendly stoves. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina canceled 10 coal-based power plants worth $12 billion of foreign investment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To guard against rising sea levels, Bangladeshi islanders are planting oysters and curating oyster-encrusted reefs. This reduces coastal erosion by calming ocean waves before they reach shore. To increase oxygen creation and prevent damage caused by severe weather, mangroves have been replanted in large numbers. The mangroves\' roots, trunks, and leaves obstruct the flow of water, reducing water flow speeds by 29 percent to 92 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To accelerate reforestation, the government introduced the Social Afforestation Program, which encourages people to plant and raise trees. As a result, Bangladesh has tripled its forest coverage, from 7 percent in 2005 to 22.5 percent in 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh also has worked closely with scientists to increase the diversity and resilience of crops to hinder flooding. Floating gardens built out of paddy straw and aquatic plants create organic islands capable of producing squash, okra, and gourds while withstanding increased flood waters. Salt-tolerant seeds allow Bangladeshi farmers to plant potatoes, carrots, grounds, red beets, cabbages, and Indian spinach in salty soil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, Bangladesh has turned to nuclear power. It started construction of its first nuclear power reactor in November 2017. The unit is scheduled to be commissioned next year. Construction on a second reactor began in July 2018.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other countries have noticed Bangladesh\'s initiatives. Aditya Pillai of the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research said, \"Bangladesh has incrementally improved its capacity to adapt to climate change over the last fifteen years. Along the way, it\'s developed a model that holds lessons for South Asian peers.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Climate change has not spared Bangladesh, but the government has taken the lead in pushing back against its worst impacts. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 18:33:25', '2022-11-04 18:33:25');
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(2829, 2829, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>With the arrest of four more members of \'Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya\' from Laksham upazila in Cumilla,&nbsp; 26 members of the new militant outfit have been arrested so far, said Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rab’s legal and Media Wing, revealed the information while briefing the media on Friday in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar over the arrest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently they arrested four militants -Md Abdul Kader, 24, Md Ismail Hossain,22, Muntasir Ahmmed alias Bacchu,23, and Helal Ahmed Zakaria, 33, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tipped-off, they were arrested during a drive conducted by Rab-11 and Detective Branch in Laksham on Thursday night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The elite force also seized some leaflets, books on radical views from the arrestees, Commander Khandaker Al Moin said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During&nbsp; interrogation they confessed to planning sabotages in different places across the country, said Moin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They gave concrete information about six council or Shura members of the militant group including its amir (head) Mahmud, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The arrestees also disclosed that the militant group had an agreement with&nbsp; separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) to provide them shelter and training in exchange of money, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“The militant group has provided Tk 17 lakh to KNF to buy arms to train up their members. They gets fund to serve their purposes from different sources,” said the Rab official.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2019, ‘Jamatul Ansar fil Hindal Sharqiya’ (Jamatul Ansar of Eastern Hind) was formed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some leaders and activists of different levels of banned militant groups of Bangladesh including&nbsp; Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Ansar Al Islam and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B), joined together to start the activities of this radical militant group, said the Rab official.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Oct 21, the elite force said they arrested 10 people including seven members of the newly launched militant outfit and three members of&nbsp; KNF from Bandarban and Rangamati.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2021, the Amir of Jamatul Ansar fil Hindal Sharqiya had an agreement with the CHT-based armed group KNF regarding militant training in the area till next year, sad Rab.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;As per the agreement, Tk 3 lakh per month and food expenses of all KNF members were to be borne, according to Rab.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, on October 10, five men, including three youths, who apparently left home to join militant groups have been arrested by the Rab members from the capital\'s Jatrabari and Keraniganj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On August 23, eight youths from Cumilla sadar upazila went missing and a general diary was lodged with police in this regard after two days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident sparked a huge sensation across media and social media and Rab started an investigation to rescue the victims and arrest the accused.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 1, one of the missing youths, Shartaz Islam Niloy, 22, returned home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 6, Rab arrested seven people including four missing youths for involvement with a militant group from a drive conducted in Munshiganj, Naryanganj and Mymensingh following the information collected from questioning Niloy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On interrogation, the arrestees revealed that initially the members of the organization used to target youths from different parts of the country, including Cumilla. 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(2830, 2830, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Skipper Kane Williamson hit a quickfire half-century to all but take New Zealand into the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals as they hammered Ireland by 35 runs on Friday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Williamson\'s 35-ball 61 guided New Zealand to 185-6 and their bowlers kept Ireland down to 150-9 to top Group 1 with seven points after their final Super 12 match in Adelaide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Australia, who next play Afghanistan at the same venue, and England can go level on points with New Zealand if they win, but the Black Caps have a far superior net run rate. Only a mathematical miracle can push them out now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Williamson rocked back to form after he failed to convert starts in the earlier matches as New Zealand dominated on a sunny afternoon, despite a hat-trick by Ireland fast bowler Joshua Little.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">New Zealand were cruising at 174-3 in the 19th over when the left-arm quick removed Williamson, James Neesham and Mitchell Santner on successive balls in Adelaide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">It was the second hat-trick of this edition of the World Cup after Karthik Meiyappan of the Williamson helps New Zealand all but reach T20 World Cup semi-finals</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">United Arab Emirates against Sri Lanka in round one.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Little\'s strikes checked New Zealand\'s surge, but Williamson, with his first fifty of this tournament, had already put his team on course for a challenging total.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Daryl Mitchell hit an unbeaten 21-ball 31 and put on a key partnership of 60 with Williamson, who was under scrutiny for his slow batting but smashed five fours and three sixes in his 35-ball knock.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Finn Allen and Devon Conway started cautiously against a disciplined Irish bowling attack after being invited to bat first.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Allen broke the shackles in the fourth over as he smashed leg-spinner Gareth Delany for three fours including two on consecutive deliveries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He kept up the charge and hit a six and four off fast bowler Mark Adair before the bowler got him caught at mid-off on the next ball as the Kiwis reached 52-1 at the end of six overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The left-handed Conway found it tough to accelerate despite a couple of boundaries but stood in a 44-run stand with Williamson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">New Zealand lost their way in the middle with Delany taking two wickets including Glenn Phillips for 17, but Williamson soon took charge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Paul Stirling (37) and Andrew Balbirnie (30) got the Irish off to a flier in their opening partnership of 68 off 49 balls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The giant-killing Irish team had taken down two-time champions the West Indies in round one and then shocked England in a rain-hit Super 12 clash.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">But Balbirnie chopped one on to his stumps off Santner and fellow spinner Ish Sodhi bowled Stirling in the next over to douse Ireland\'s hopes as their chase fell apart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson returned figures of 3-22 after a double strike in his fourth over. Santner, Sodhi and fast bowler Tim Southee took two wickets each. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">&nbsp;bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 19:36:57', '2022-11-04 19:36:57'),
(2831, 2831, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Today is the Bangladesh Constitution Day as the Constitution of the People\'s Republic of Bangladesh was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh on November 4, 1972 and came into effect on December 16 in the same year.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the country achieved independence following a nine month-long bloody war, a 34-member Constitution Drafting Committee was formed with Dr Kamal Hossain as its chairman on April 11 in 1972.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The draft constitution was placed as the Constitution Bill in the second session of the Assembly on October 12, 1972. Its first reading began on October 19 and continued till October 30. The second reading took place from October 31 to November 3 in the same year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The third reading of the Constitution Bill took place in the Assembly on November 4, approving 65 amendments to the Constitution Bill and finally the Assembly adopted and enacted the Constitution on the same day with the four fundamental principles -- nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taking part in the discussion on Constitution Bill, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had said, \"This Constitution has been written with the blood of the martyrs, this Constitution will remain alive as the symbol of the people\'s hopes and desires\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though the original copy of the Constitution was written in English, it was simultaneously translated into Bangla. If any ambiguity is found in the meaning of Bangla and English versions, the Bangla version will be accepted in this regard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A committee led by Dr Anisuzzaman was tasked with reviewing the Bangla version of the Constitution. Syed Ali Ahsan and Mazharul Islam were members of the committee as the language experts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A five-member committee led by Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin was formed for decorating the Constitution. Artiste Hashem Khan, Janabul Islam, Sanjit Ray Chowdhury and Abul Barak Alvi were members of the committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday issued separate messages on the occasion of the Bangladesh Constitution Day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also greeted all citizens of the country on the occasion of the Bangladesh Constitution Day and called upon the people of the country to uphold the dignity of the Constitution in establishing democratic values and the rule of law. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 19:57:36', '2022-11-04 19:57:36'),
(2832, 2832, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Owners called for a two-day strike in Barguna from Friday, demanding that three-wheelers be banned from the highways.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Barguna Bus Owners Association General Secretary Md Sagir Hossain confirmed the matter to UNB on Thursday night.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“If the administration does not ban the illegal plying of three wheelers on the highways even after this two-day strike, we will go for an indefinite strike,” Sagir Hossain said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Barguna Deputy Commissioner (DC) Habibur Rahman said it was decided to ban the movement of three-wheelers and auto-rickshaws on the highway in the district law and order meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“However, the number of police force required to stop three-wheelers on such a big highway is not available to the district police. So it cannot be stopped,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Meanwhile, Barguna District BNP Member Secretary Advocate Tarikuzzaman Titu said the government is adopting various tactics to obstruct people from joining the rally in Barishal. “They will not succeed and Barishal will turn into a human sea on Saturday.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In Barishal, microbus, launch, speedboats, bus owners and three-wheeler owners will keep their transports off streets till Saturday evening, the day of BNP rally in the district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A similar strike was also enforced ahead of BNP’s divisional rallies in Rangpur and Khulna, but thousands of party leaders, activists and supporters participated in the rallies overcoming the obstacles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">As part of the move to continue the pace of its ongoing movement, the BNP on September 27 announced a series of public rallies in 10 divisional cities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The organisers said the rallies are meant to denounce the price hike of daily essentials and fuels, the death of five party men in previous police action in Bhola, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, and Jashore, and to ensure the freedom of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The BNP has long been demanding that the next general election be held under a caretaker government, not under any political government--a demand sharply rejected by the ruling Awami League as the constitution does not allow it to happen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The rally in Barishal will be the 5th one by the BNP at the divisional level as four others were held in Chattogram, Mymensingh, Khulna and Rangpur. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 20:03:48', '2022-11-04 20:03:48'),
(2833, 2833, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni said on Friday that age barrier and time limit should be removed for admission to public universities of Bangladesh.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People of any age have the right to study in the university if he can pass the admission test. No obstacle can be placed in education, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister made these remarks while speaking as chief guest at the golden jubilee celebration programme of Jahangirnagar University\'s Physics Department.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">She called upon all public universities to come under the cluster admission test system.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The admission test process in the cluster system has reduced the sufferings of everyone including students and parents. Five to six universities of the country are not covered by it.&nbsp; Hope they would join the cluster admission test system soon,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The education minister said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave autonomy to universities to promote free thinking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Bangabandhu knew that in order to retain the freedom we achieved, there must be development in the education and research sectors.&nbsp; So, after independence, he focused on the development of educational institutions and universities,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is now in the rank of developing countries and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the mastermind behind this, Dipu Moni said, adding: “By 2041, we will become a developed country.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have to place our universities in the world ranking.&nbsp; So we have to work on the criteria of ranking so that we can stay ahead in the ranking,” said the education minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">‘We need to make more progress in science education. Honorable Prime Minister is working to focus on science education. After coming to power in 1996, she approved 12 science and technology universities,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the programme, JU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Nurul Alam said, after he took charge, the first demand of the students of the university was to organize the convocation. “I will organize the convocation very soon,” he declared.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;During the Corona period, there was temporary lull in the education system. “We have started online education programs in the university. It reduced the session jam a lot. So, I thank the Prime Minister and the Education Minister for taking necessary steps to conduct online activities,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He mentioned that the Prime Minister has given Tk 1445 crore for the development of Jahangirnagar University and many works have been implemented under this project.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“By the end of this month, we will inaugurate two newly constructed halls.&nbsp; This will reduce the seat crisis at dormitories. We have sent a letter to the Prime Minister for naming and inaugurating the newly constructed halls.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The VC said the university accounts office, library and examination control office will come under automation by the end of this year.&nbsp; “Besides, we have taken the initiative to launch a scholarship in the name of Bangabandhu to encourage research,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">JU Pro-VC (Administration) Prof Sheikh Md Manzurul Huq, dean of JU Mathematical and Physical Sciences faculty Prof Dr Farid Ahmed and Director of Wazed Miah science research center and prominent scientist Prof Dr A A Mamun were present as special guests, among others. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 21:05:16', '2022-11-04 21:05:16'),
(2834, 2834, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Another death from dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning raised this year’s fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 162.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the period, 498 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest death was reported from Khulna division, taking its death toll to seven.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The death toll remained unchanged at 100 in Dhaka division, at 41 in Chattogram, six in Barishal and at four each in Rajshahi and Mymensingh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the new patients, 325 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 173 outside it, according to the DGHS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A total of 3,660 dengue patients, including 2,232 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The directorate has recorded 41,481 dengue cases and 37,659 recoveries so far this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, the country reported nine dengue deaths, the highest death toll from dengue in a day this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even before the country\'s healthcare system has been able to fully recover from the blow of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is being hit hard by a recurrence of an outbreak of dengue, the disease that is endemic to Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doctors and health experts say that measures taken by the city corporations and other authorities are not proving to be effective. The publicity and drives carried out by the authorities to destroy larvae of Aedes mosquito are proving to be inadequate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dengue outbreaks in Bangladesh exceeded all previous records in 2019, mostly in the capital city of Dhaka. A total of 101,354 dengue cases with 179 dengue-related deaths were officially recorded. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 21:39:25', '2022-11-04 21:39:25'),
(2835, 2835, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh reported 88 more Covid cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,425 as no death was reported during the period.</div><div><br></div><div>With the new infections, the caseload rose to 2,035,745, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div>The daily case test positivity rate rose to 3.25 per cent from Thursday\'s 3.10 per cent as 2,706 samples were tested during the period.</div><div><br></div><div>The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 per cent and the recovery rate rose to 97.37 per cent.</div><div><br></div><div>In September, the country reported 40 Covid-linked deaths and 13,251 cases.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and its highest number of fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year. UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 22:21:39', '2022-11-04 22:21:39'),
(2836, 2836, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Glenn Maxwell\'s unbeaten 54 helped Australia beat Afghanistan by four runs to stay in the hunt for the semi-finals at the Twenty20 World Cup on Friday in Adelaide.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The result ensured New Zealand book their final-four spot from Group 1. The hosts and defending champions Australia need England to lose their final Super 12 match on Saturday against Sri Lanka to make the last four.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">38TH MATCH</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia 168/8 (Maxwell 54*, Naveen 3/21) beat Afghanistan 164/7 (Rashid 48*, Zampa 2/22) by four runs. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 23:03:02', '2022-11-04 23:03:02'),
(2837, 2837, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bandarban district administration has further extended the temporary ban on tourism at Ruma, Rowangchhari, Alikadam and Thanchi upazilas till November 8 as part of high security measure.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">A public notice regarding the extension was issued from Bandarban Deputy Commissioner’s office on Friday following a letter from Bandarban Cantonment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The travel ban on domestic and foreign tourists has been extended as the law enforcement agencies will conduct patrol and continue intelligence activities in the district against suspected militants, said the notice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the fourth such restricttion imposed for safety of tourists amid anti-militancy drive in the district\'s remote forested areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 29, the tourism ban in the upazilas was extended till today (Friday).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The administration imposed the temporary restriction on visitors in Ruma and Rowangchhari upazilas on October 18 morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 23, the local administration discouraged tourists from traveling to Thanchi and Alikadam upazilas due to the same reason.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From October 10, law enforcement agencies started a joint drive against the underground extremists and criminals in the district. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 23:16:39', '2022-11-04 23:16:39'),
(2838, 2838, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>North Korea has dramatically ramped up missile tests this year and tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) on Thursday, as part of efforts to develop a nuclear-tipped missile that can strike the U.S. mainland.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Here are some characteristics of ICBMs, and North Korea\'s ICBM arsenal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>What are ICBMs?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ICBMs are ballistic missiles with a minimum range of about 5,500 kilometres, chiefly designed for nuclear weapons delivery. Some are capable of travelling 10,000 km or farther.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some missiles carry only one warhead, but modern ICBMs can carry multiple warheads, each able to it a separate aimpoint, on independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ICBMs can be launched from multiple platforms. Fixed launch sites such as missile silos offer more protection but are vulnerable to preemptive strikes. Mobile launchers, including submarines, heavy trucks and rails, are more difficult to detect and provide greater mobility but are vulnerable if caught in the open.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Who has them?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia, the United States, China, Britain, France, and India have deployed ICBMs, either on land or at sea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea conducted the first successful test of its Hwasong-14 ICBM in July 2017.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>How many ICBMs does North Korea have?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly after two successful tests of the Hwasong-14, North Korea launched a new ICBM, the Hwasong-15, in November 2017.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The continental United States is about 9,000 km from North Korea, and some US and South Korean experts believe both missiles can fly more than 10,000 km, putting many parts of the United States in range.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared after the Hwasong-15 test that the country had achieved the \"great historic cause of completing the state nuclear force.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March 2022, North Korea launched its massive Hwasong-17 ICBM for the first time after unveiling it at a pre-dawn military parade in October 2020. The missile is large enough to potentially deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere in the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Unlike any of North Korea\'s previous ICBM tests, the Hwasong-17 was launched directly from a transporter-erector-launcher vehicle with 11 axles, which experts said is the largest road-mobile, liquid-fuelled ICBM in the world.&nbsp; Reuters</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 23:22:07', '2022-11-04 23:22:07'),
(2839, 2839, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that the way BNP is exaggerating in the name of movement, it seems that the sound of their movement\'s downfall is being heard.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He made the remark while addressing as the chief guest the ongoing two-day international conference on Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) titled \'4IR for Emerging Future\' at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) auditorium in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Awami League (AL) Science and Technology Affairs Sub-Committee arranged the conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Awami League leaders and activists do not follow the policies of fleeing as they do not run away from the country like BNP leaders, said Quader.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lauding the loyalty of AL men, he further said that Awami League has no history of fleeing from the country and the leaders and activists of party will die or go behind bar for the country if needed.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Criticizing the BNP men, he mentioned that the leader of BNP fled to London by making a bond (Muchleka) of not doing politics.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mentioning that the current government has transformed the country into a digital Bangladesh, the ruling AL leader assured of building a smart Bangladesh in the future.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said BNP did not free Khaleda Zia rather the worthy daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suspended her jail-sentence and kept her at home on humanitarian grounds.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader added that Sheikh Hasina does not do politics of revenge whereas BNP does it.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talk about revenge does not fit to those who committed August 15 carnage, August 21 grenade attack and November 3 incident (the Jail Killing Day), he said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About the 50th Constitution Day which is being observed today, he said this day has been approved by the cabinet nationally and the day will be celebrated nationally from now on.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the global crisis, the minister said: \"Now, we have to \'Talk less-Do more\'.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged everyone to work hard for bringing a positive revolution to tackle the ongoing crisis.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL Science and Technology Affairs Sub-Committee Chairman Professor Dr Md Hossain Mansur presided over the conference.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak and AL Science and Technology Affairs Sub-committee Secretary Engineer Abdus Sabur also spoke, among others, on the occasion. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-04 23:26:50', '2022-11-04 23:26:50'),
(2840, 2840, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pakistan\'s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has made his first public address since he was shot during a protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitting in a wheelchair at a hospital in Lahore, Mr Khan said he wouldn\'t have survived the shooting if the two shooters he saw had \"synchronised\" their attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Because I fell, one of the shooters thought I had died, and left,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Last month, Pakistan\'s election commission disqualified Mr Khan from holding public office, in a case described by the former star cricketer as politically motivated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video confession released by police, one man accused of shooting him said the former cricketer was \"misguiding\" the people, and that he \"wanted to kill him\" for doing so. The conditions under which the confession was carried out are unclear. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 12:39:13', '2022-11-05 12:39:13'),
(2841, 2841, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has blamed \"activist groups pressuring advertisers\" for a \"massive drop in revenue\" as the company makes sweeping job cuts in an effort to save money.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The billionaire owner of Tesla tweeted that \"activists\" raising concerns about how Twitter is moderated are \"trying to destroy free speech in America\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It came as Twitter made widespread job cuts around the world on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports suggested that thousands of staff lost their jobs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yoel Roth, the company\'s head of safety and integrity, appeared to confirm in a tweet thread that \"approximately 50%\" of Twitter\'s workforce had been cut company-wide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that most of the 2,000+ content moderators \"working on front-line review were not impacted\" by the cuts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk posted his own comments, saying he was presented \"no choice\" over what he called Twitter\'s \"reduction in force\", as the company was losing $4m (£3.51m) a day.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He insisted that all those losing their jobs were offered three months of severance pay, \"which is 50% more than legally required\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the topic of content moderation, he said Twitter\'s \"strong commitment\" remained \"absolutely unchanged\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Online safety groups and campaigners have expressed concerns about Mr Musk\'s plans to relax content moderation and reverse permanent Twitter bans given to controversial figures, including former US president Donald Trump.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An internal email sent to staff earlier on Friday said the mass job cuts were \"unfortunately necessary to ensure the company\'s success moving forward\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Staff confirmed on Twitter they had been logged out of work laptops and Slack, a messaging system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many staff revealed that they had been axed in posts on the platform, painting a picture of cuts that spanned the globe and hit departments that ranged from marketing to engineering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They included communications, content curation, and product development employees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A team that focused on research into how Twitter uses algorithms - an issue that was a priority for Mr Musk - was also sacked, according to a tweet from a former senior manager at the company. But that was later denied.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Almost all of Twitter\'s revenue currently comes from advertising and Volkswagen is among the brands that has stopped spending with it since Mr Musk bought the social media company.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are closely monitoring the situation and will decide about next steps depending on its evolvement,\" Europe\'s biggest carmaker said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, food manufacturer General Mills, which owns brands including Cheerios and Lucky Charms, did the same.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said it was continuing to monitor the social media company\'s \"new direction\" and wanted to \"evaluate [its] marketing spend\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other brands to have paused paid activity on the platform include car firms General Motors and Audi, and drugs giant Pfizer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Musk has been looking for ways to cut costs and make money in different ways from the platform, including plans to charge a monthly subscription fee for users to be verified on the platform.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also proposed that those paying the $8 per month fee would get their Tweets boosted in replies, mentions, and searches, prompting criticism from some people on Twitter that he was creating a two-tier system that would benefit those willing to pay.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter employees filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday which argued the company was making big job cuts without giving 60 days\' notice, in violation of federal and Californian law.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lawsuit also asked the San Francisco federal court to order Twitter not to ask sacked employees to sign documents waiving their rights without telling them about the court case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shannon Liss-Riordan, the lawyer co-ordinating the case, said: \"We filed this federal complaint to ensure that Twitter be held accountable to our laws and to aid Twitter employees by helping them understand their rights.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter was approached for comment. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 12:44:15', '2022-11-05 12:44:15'),
(2842, 2842, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea\'s missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. South Korea scrambled dozens of military aircraft, including advanced F35 fighter jets, after spotting North Korean warplanes Friday, flying in North Korean territory in what appeared to be a defiant show of strength. AP/PTI</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India on Saturday - at the United Nations - reiterated its continued support for denuclearisation towards peace and security in the Korean peninsula, asserting that it’s in the “collective interest” . New Delhi has called for “dialogue and diplomacy” amid criticism of the latest ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) launch by North Korea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We have in the past expressed our concern at the recent ballistic missile launches by the DPRK (Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea) and we have now noted reports of another ICBM launch on November 2. These follow launches last month following which the (UN) Security Council had met,\" Ruchira Kamboj, India\'s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said in her address.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These launches constitute violations of the resolutions of the Security Council, relating to the DPRK. They affect the peace and security of the region and beyond. India calls for the full implementation of the UNSC resolution, relating to the DPRK. At the same, we would like to reiterate the proliferation of nuclear and missile technology relating to our region. Proliferation of nuclear and missile technologies is a matter of concern, and they have an adverse impact on peace and security in the region, including on India,\" she further stressed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has also strongly criticised North Korea for the launch “as well as the barrage of various missiles over the past two days.” Urging the North \"to immediately desist from taking any further provocative action and to fully comply with its international obligations under all relevant Security Council resolutions,\" he called for urgent steps to ensure \"sustainable peace and the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, South Korea was reported to have scrambled stealth jets after detecting the mobilisation of 180 North Korean warplanes and a record-breaking blitz of missile tests by Pyongyang this week, news agency AFP reported. The tensions come as the Ukraine war - which started in February - continues with no end in sight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the US, and its allies have also been clashing with China, Russia over the North\'s missile launches. The US supports the South while China and Russia blame the country for the tensions.&nbsp; HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-11-05 13:07:09', '2022-11-05 13:07:09');
