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(7757, 7757, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The war crimes researcher becomes the 13th person to have died in the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The writers\' association PEN Ukraine said doctors \"did everything they could to save her life, but unfortunately the wound was fatal\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human rights activists have called the attack a war crime.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but is close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amelina, 37, was dining with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers in the city\'s popular Ria Lounge when the missile hit. Around 60 others were injured in the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries on Friday, PEN Ukraine said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is with great pain that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July,\" the group said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In the last days of Victoria\'s life, her family and friends were by her side.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amelina was one of Ukraine\'s most celebrated young writers who started documenting war crimes after Russia\'s full-scale invasion last year. She also started working with children near the frontline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year she unearthed the diary of children\'s writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted and killed by Russian troops in the city of Izyum soon after the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her first non-fiction book in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, is due to be published.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an earlier statement confirming that Amelina had been injured in the attack, PEN Ukraine and war crimes watchdog Truth Hounds said that members of both groups had travelled to the frontlines with Amelina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Now, Victoria has become a victim of a war crime herself,\" they said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A post pinned to her Twitter profile shows Amelina taking a photo of a bombed building in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s me in this picture,\" the post reads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia\'s war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why?\" BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-03 13:26:14', '2023-07-03 13:26:14'),
(7758, 7758, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to visit Beijing this week, the United States said Sunday, marking the second trip by a cabinet official to China since ties between the world\'s top two economies deteriorated earlier this year.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yellen is expected to discuss with her counterparts the importance for both countries \"to responsibly manage our relationship, communicate directly about areas of concern, and work together to address global challenges,\" said the Treasury Department in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yellen\'s planned July 6-9 trip comes just weeks after Secretary of State Antony Blinken met China\'s top leader President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing in June.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blinken was the highest-ranking US official to visit the Chinese capital in nearly five years, and Xi said on the rare trip that he saw headway in the strained relationship between Washington and Beijing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Beijing, Yellen will discuss how the United States views its economic relationship with China, a senior Treasury official said Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will meet with senior Chinese officials and leading US firms, the American spokesperson said without providing specifics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the US seeks to secure its national security interests and protect human rights, actions to this effect are \"not intended to gain economic advantage over China,\" the official added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington also looks towards \"healthy\" ties with Beijing and does not seek to decouple the economies, while pursuing cooperation on urgent challenges like climate change and debt distress, the American official said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States does not expect \"significant breakthrough\" from this initial trip, but it does aim to build longer-term channels of communication with China, the Treasury official added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Restarting engagement -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think the US government is clearly trying to put some floor under the deterioration of the economic relationship,\" Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) told AFP, speaking on the Treasury secretary\'s intentions to visit China.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Yellen trip could \"restart a steady pattern of engagement at lower levels,\" he said, adding that the US has shifted from being ambiguous about how far it was supporting decoupling to explicitly adopting a strategy of \"derisking\" instead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This means \"focusing on a narrower range of items that have strategic importance, trying to build fences around those items, but otherwise trying to continue to nurture a reasonably robust US-China economic relationship,\" Alden said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But observers do not expect a quick resolution to tensions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Joe Biden\'s administration is considering a program to restrict certain US outbound investments involving sensitive technology with key national security implications -- an issue that has riled Chinese officials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other possible sticking points include amendments to China\'s anti-espionage law which recently broadened the definition of spying while banning the transfer of information relating to national security -- a move that has spooked foreign and domestic businesses.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The senior Treasury official told reporters Sunday that Washington intends to communicate its concerns over the law.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While significant disagreements may not be resolved in a single trip, the US seeks to deepen and increase the frequency of communication with China and to \"stabilize the relationship,\" avoiding miscommunication and expanding collaboration where possible, the official said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Global growth, debt problems -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the US, discussions with officials from the world\'s second biggest economy \"are important to help spur stronger global economic growth and to tackle the mounting debt problem of the Global South,\" said Wendy Cutler, vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute, discussing a prospective Yellen visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Beijing\'s part, officials are \"looking for concrete steps taken by the US to show that \'decoupling\' and holding back China is not the ultimate goal of the United States,\" Cutler added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But despite US policies that have drawn ire from Beijing, officials likely have an awareness of China\'s continued export dependence and the importance of the US market, CFR\'s Alden said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I think that there\'s a growing awareness in Beijing that China also needs to play a role in nurturing this economic relationship with the United States, because it\'s simply too important to China as well,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington and Beijing recently have clashed over trade, human rights and other issues.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Relations came under further stress this year when the United States shot down a Chinese balloon it said was used for surveillance -- a claim China strongly denied.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Blinken\'s reception in Beijing has been seen as a symbolic sign of lowering temperatures. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-03 13:55:33', '2023-07-03 13:55:33'),
(7759, 7759, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Ukrainian writer and war crimes investigator wounded in a Russian missile strike on a restaurant last week has died, the freedom of expression group PEN said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Victoria Amelina, 37, was wounded when a Russian missile destroyed the Ria Pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including children, and wounding dozens.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"With our greatest pain, we inform you that Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina passed away on July 1st in Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro,\" PEN Ukraine said in a statement on its Facebook page.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amelina had been in the city with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers, PEN said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was hospitalised with \"multiple skull fractures\", according to a surgeon treating the wounded.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her novel \"Dom\'s Dream Kingdom\" was published in 2017 and shortlisted for the UNESCO City of Literature Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature, according to PEN.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her poems, prose and essays have been translated into English, German, Polish and other languages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2022 she had been working to document Russian war crimes since the invasion and advocate for accountability, PEN said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ria Pizza in Kramatorsk -- one of the largest cities still under Ukrainian control in the east -- was popular with soldiers, journalists and aid workers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amelina\'s death takes the toll of the strike to 13. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-03 14:23:36', '2023-07-03 14:23:36'),
(7760, 7760, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The government has undertaken a series of medium-term (2025-26) reforms aimed at bolstering macroeconomic stability and promoting long-term growth apart from immediate policy responses due to the global and national economic contexts.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The main objectives of these reforms include enhancing revenue generation, reducing the borrowing costs of the public sector, curbing subsidies, and improving spending efficiency through fiscal institutional reforms, according to an official budgetary document.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>These reform initiatives have been developed through consultations and negotiations with the stakeholders.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The overarching strategy is to strengthen the external balance and rebuild reserves while gradually easing the measures implemented for demand and import management on a temporary basis.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, the document mentioned, fiscal sustainability will be reinforced by maintaining the budget deficit and public debt within acceptable limits.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“This will be achieved through the introduction of more efficient expenditure management practices and increased investment in priority sectors such as social welfare and development spending,” it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The document said that Bangladesh will continue to pursue a prudent fiscal policy stance keeping a careful eye on the budget deficit (both primary and overall), financing mix, and public and publicly guaranteed debt level.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In the medium term, the policy will be anchored by the target to keep the primary fiscal deficit (including grants) within around 3.3 percent of GDP to contain public debt below 45 percent of GDP.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to raising expenditures on development and social safety net programs, there will be initiatives to rationalise subsidies and domestic debt financing costs.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The reform initiatives in the governance of social safety net programs, such as improvement in targeting, rationalisation of coverage, use of the government-to- person (G2P) systems, the introduction of a universal pension system, etc., will continue in the medium term.</div><div><br></div><div>The Universal Pension Management Bill, 2023 has already passed in parliament aimed at bringing the country’s growing elderly population under a universal pension scheme</div><div><br></div><div>Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech said that the government&nbsp; has planned to launch a universal pension system from FY2023-24. Under the proposed scheme, a beneficiary can enjoy pension benefits subject to the payment of subscription up to the age of 60 years if s/he enrolls at the age between 18 to 50 years, whereas those who enroll at their age of more than 50 years have to pay subscription for a minimum of 10 years.</div><div><br></div><div>The expatriate Bangladeshis will be able to participate in this scheme. If the pensioner dies before attaining the age of 75 years while on pension, the nominee of the pensioner will be entitled to the pension for the remaining period of the pensioner\'s completion of 75 years.</div><div><br></div><div>If the subscriber dies before paying the subscription for at least 10 years, the deposited money will be returned to the nominee along with the profit. Besides, the amount received as a monthly pension will be exempted from income tax.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh’s tax-GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“This is working as a strong constraint in expanding the budget allocation in critical sectors and exploiting the growth potential to the fullest,” the document said.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence, the government has initiated several policy and administrative reforms on the revenue side focusing on the modernisation of the system of income tax and VAT following the best practices.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Key areas for policy reforms include modernizing tax laws, rationalizing tax expenditures, simplifying the tax rate structure, and broadening the tax base as part of an overarching strategy of shifting the tax burden from trade-related taxes toward income and value-added taxes.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On the administrative side, key reforms include establishing compliance risk management units within the National Board of Revenue and implementing a compliance improvement plan, strengthening information sharing between the income tax, VAT, and customs wings of NBR, progressively expanding and integrating automation in tax administration, increasing at-source tax collection, etc.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The reforms are expected to generate additional revenue by 0.5 percent of GDP annually in FY 2023-24 and FY 2024-25 and 0.7 percent of GDP in FY 2025-26.</div><div><br></div><div>The document said that the government has taken steps to rationalise energy subsidies and allocate required funds for social and development expenditures.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The increase in petroleum prices in August 2022 was intended to match international prices, and to reduce the amount of subsidy.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>To ensure a systematic approach, the government is going to introduce a periodic formula-based automatic fuel price adjustment mechanism, which is expected to eliminate the need for subsidies on petroleum products. According to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-03 18:48:27', '2023-07-03 18:48:27'),
(7761, 7761, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked public representatives to serve the people and meet their needs when working in their respective areas.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“You will have to fulfil the needs and wants of the people who elected you with their votes,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newly elected Barishal, Khulna and Gazipur city mayors take oath</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this at the oath-taking ceremony for the newly elected mayors&nbsp; and councillors of Barishal, Khulna and Gazipur city corporations at Shapla Hall of her office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the newly elected public representatives, she said, “You, being elected with votes of the people, have the scope to serve people. I want you to work in your own areas as public servants.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister administered the oaths of newly elected mayors of three city corporations — Abul Khair Abdullah of Barishal, Talukder Abdul Khaleque of Khulna and Jayeda Khatun of Gazipur.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, 157 newly elected councillors of general wards and female councillors of the reserved seats of three city corporations were also sworn in at the same venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL not embarrassed by results of Gazipur city election: Agri Minister Razzaque</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam administered the oaths of the councillors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim conducted the oath-taking ceremony.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee was also present on the dais.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 12, Awami League mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah (Khokon Serniabat) won the Barishal City Corporation election with 87,807 votes.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL-backed mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah wins Barishal City Corporation election</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Awami League mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque won the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election with 1,54,825 votes on June 12.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On May 25, independent candidate Jayeda Khatun won the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) polls with 238,934 votes. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-03 18:58:42', '2023-07-03 18:58:42'),
(7762, 7762, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Newly elected mayors of three city corporations — Abul Khair Abdullah of Barishal, Talukder Abdul Khaleque of Khulna and Jayeda Khatun of Gazipur — took oath this morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath at a ceremony held in Shapla Hall of her office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, 157 newly elected councillors of general wards and female councillors of the reserved seats of the three city corporations also took oath at the same venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL-backed mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah wins Barishal City Corporation election</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam administered the councillors’ oaths.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim conducted the oath-taking ceremony.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee was present on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL-backed mayor candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque wins Khulna City polls</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 12, Awami League mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah (Khokon Serniabat) won the Barishal City Corporation election with 87,807 votes. His nearest rival Islami Andolon Bangladesh candidate Mufti Syed Mohammad Faizul Karim bagged 33,828 votes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Awami League mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque won the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election with 1,54,825 votes. His nearest rival Islami Andolan Bangladesh’s Md Abdul Awal got 60,064 votes in the polls held on June 12.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL not embarrassed by results of Gazipur city election: Agri Minister Razzaque</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On May 25, independent candidate Jayeda Khatun won the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) polls with 238,934 votes, defeating her nearest rival Awami League-nominated candidate Azmat Ullah Khan who bagged 222,737 votes. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-03 19:09:53', '2023-07-03 19:09:53'),
(7763, 7763, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said there is no other way for the government but to resign to end the political deadlock and hold a credible national election.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our statement is very clear…resign immediately and dissolve Parliament. If you buy time unnecessarily, the country and its people will be affected and the democracy will be damaged,” he told an anti-government rally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leader called upon the current regime to take steps for establishing a polls-time neutral government for holding the next election in a credible way by forming a new Election Commission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This’s the only way, there is no other way. So, do it as fast as you can. Otherwise, you won’t find a way to escape. Your time is up,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul also warned that their party will force the government to resign through the ongoing movement by involving the people in it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He slammed the government for what he said was continuing the arrest of BNP leaders and activists and repressing them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our 386 leaders and activists were arrested in the last one month…so we have no option, but to put up a resistance against this regime,” the BNP leader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged the opposition leaders and activists to get ready for making more sacrifices to defeat the current government on the streets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP’s Dhaka South city unit along with its different associate bodies organised the programme in front of the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office to protest against the arrest of the opposition leaders and activists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of leaders and workers of the party and its different front organisations joied the programme and brought out a procession that ended after parading through Kakrail and Shantinagar intersections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul said Awami League has been in power by holding stage-managed elections in 2014 and 2018, resorting to repressive acts and arresting BNP leaders and activists, including party chief Khaleda Zia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the country’s people want a free and fair election. “They (people) want to vote in that election. That election must be held under an impartial government. It has been proven that no election will be acceptable if Hasina is in power and her party is in government.\" UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 04:07:02', '2023-07-04 04:07:02'),
(7764, 7764, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UN Secretary General’s Special Representative (SRSG) on Disaster Risk Reduction Mami Mizutori on Monday urged Bangladesh to share some of the country’s best practices with other countries vulnerable to floods, cyclones and other natural disasters.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She suggested that Bangladesh has internationally championed in the areas of disaster-related legislations, inter-agency coordination for disaster preparedness while the nation is successfully practising inclusiveness, especially for persons with disabilities during disasters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mami Mizutori met Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister requested the UN to help raise public awareness about earthquake preparedness.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign minister reaffirmed the country’s commitment to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, while the SRSG commended the government’s contributions to the Framework’s mid-term stocktaking exercise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mizutori confirmed the UN’s readiness to work together with the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief on developing an earthquake modeling for the whole of Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen underscored the importance of early warning, particularly for flash floods in the northeastern region of Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN Special Representative offered support for conducting a gap analysis for the country with a view to mobilising international financing for further strengthening the multi-hazard early warning system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign minister offered to receive delegations from other interested countries to showcase the community engagement model for cyclone preparedness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mizutori suggested replicating Bangladesh’s community volunteers-based cyclone preparedness model in a complex context in other parts of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Both regretted the dearth of adequate international financing and technologies for developing disaster-resilient infrastructures in vulnerable settings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They agreed to work together to further sensitise the international financial institutions to this issue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mizutori is in Bangladesh on a four-day visit when she is expected to visit some field-level projects being implemented by the UN and its partners. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 04:12:24', '2023-07-04 04:12:24'),
(7765, 7765, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In the lead-up to the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit, Bangladesh has been elected as vice chair of the ministerial meeting during the NAM preparatory meetings being held in Baku – Azerbaijan’s capital.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meetings, which commenced on July 3 and will conclude on July 6, 2023, have attracted delegates from various countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen is leading the Bangladesh delegation.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NAM is attaining renewed prominence in the backdrop of the emerging polarisations and shifting balance of global power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next NAM Summit is scheduled to take place in Uganda from January 19 to 20, 2024. During this summit, South Sudan is expected to be officially welcomed as the newest member of the Non-Aligned Movement, further expanding the organization\'s reach and representation. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 04:20:18', '2023-07-04 04:20:18'),
(7766, 7766, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There have been intense exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and armed Palestinian militants in Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military began what appears to be one of its most extensive operations in the territory in years with drone strikes early on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nine Palestinians have been killed and 100 injured, health officials say.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel said it was putting a stop to Jenin being \"a refuge for terrorism\". Palestinians accused it of a war crime.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military said there was no specific timeline for ending the operation, but that it could be \"a matter of hours or a few days\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jenin has become a stronghold of a new generation of Palestinian militants who have become deeply frustrated by the Palestinian Authority\'s aging leadership and the restrictions of the Israeli occupation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city has seen repeated Israeli military raids in the past year as local Palestinians have carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. Other Palestinian attackers have hidden there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2002, during the second Palestinian intifada, Israeli forces launched a full-scale incursion in Jenin. At least 52 Palestinian militants and civilians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed during 10 days of intense fighting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as the hum of drones overhead, regular bursts of gunfire and the loud thuds of explosions came throughout the day from the densely populated refugee camp, which is home to some 18,000 people and is now declared a closed Israeli military zone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acrid smoke from burning tyres lit during protests also hung in the air above the city centre. A few young Palestinians were out on the streets, standing close to shuttered shops and staring nervously in the direction of the camp.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military has cut off telephone communications and the electricity supply to the camp, making it difficult to get an accurate picture of what is happening. Palestinian medics have also been struggling to reach the dozens of injured there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the Palestinian hospital by the main entrance to the camp the mood was grim.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One man told the BBC: \"I met my brother\'s friend. I went up to him and had barely said a few words when he dropped on the ground. I went to run away, then I got hit by two bullets.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another man said there was a \"massacre\" in the camp.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are children and civilians and they\'re not letting them out,\" he added. \"Our electricity is cut, they have dug up all our roads. The camp will be destroyed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jovana Arsenijevic of the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières told the BBC she was at a hospital that had seen more than 90 patients wounded by gunfire or shrapnel from explosive devices.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military said it was acting on precise intelligence and did not to seek to harm civilians, but many have been caught in the crossfire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The military allowed about 500 Palestinian families to leave the camp on Monday night. Some raised their hands or waved makeshift white flags in a gesture of surrender.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People told the BBC that some men and teenaged boys had been stopped by soldiers, and kept behind.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first drone strike overnight targeted an apartment that the military said was being used as a hideout for Palestinians who had attacked Israelis and as a \"joint operational command centre\" for the Jenin Brigades - a unit made up of different Palestinian militant groups including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drones were used for further air strikes and a brigade-size force of troops was deployed in what a military spokesman described as a \"counter-terrorism operation\" focused on seizing weapons and breaking \"the safe haven mindset of the camp, which has become a hornet\'s nest\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the past year and a half, Palestinians behind some 50 attacks targeting Israelis have come from Jenin, according to the military.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As armed Palestinians began fighting back from inside the camp, the Jenin Brigades said: \"We will fight the occupation [Israeli] forces until the last breath and bullet, and we work together and unified from all factions and military formations.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian health ministry said nine Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces, including three in the overnight drone strike. They all appeared to be young men or in their late teens - some confirmed as belonging to armed groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry warned that the death toll might rise because 20 of the injured were in a critical condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during a related protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli military said the Palestinians killed in Jenin were affiliated to militant groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Troops had also apprehended some 50 militants during the operation, and seized weapons and ammunition, it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday evening, Israel\'s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised its forces for entering what he called the \"nest of terrorists\" and asserted that they were doing so \"with minimal injury to civilians\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will continue this action as long as necessary in order to restore quiet and security,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a furious response to the operation from the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What\'s going on is an attempt to erase the refugee camp completely and displace the residents,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neighbouring Jordan said the operation was \"a clear violation of international humanitarian law\", but the US expressed its support for what it called \"Israel\'s security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said the plan was not to expand the military operation outside Jenin, but already Palestinian protests have reached the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip. And the longer this action goes on in Jenin, the greater the risk of another dangerous, wider escalation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jenin Brigade group has said its militants will fight back with their \"last breath and bullet\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There has been a surge of violence in the West Bank in recent months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 20 June, seven Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin which saw the military\'s first use of an attack helicopter in the West Bank in years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next day, two Hamas gunmen shot dead four Israelis near the settlement of Eli, 40km (25 miles) to the south.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Palestinian man was later shot dead during a rampage by hundreds of settlers in the nearby town of Turmusaya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That week also saw three Palestinian militants from Jenin killed in a rare Israeli drone strike.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the start of the year, more than 140 Palestinians - both militants and civilians - have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while another 36 have been killed in the Gaza Strip.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-four Israelis, two foreigners and a Palestinian worker have been killed in attacks or apparent attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. All were civilians except one off-duty serving soldier and a member of the Israeli security forces. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 13:58:40', '2023-07-04 13:58:40');
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(7767, 7767, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A pro-democracy campaigner who fled Hong Kong has told the BBC his life has become more dangerous because of a bounty offered for his arrest.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nathan Law, who lives in the UK, is among eight exiled activists wanted by the territory\'s police.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities are offering rewards of HK$1 million (£100,581; $127,637) for information leading to their capture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Law said he needed to be \"more careful\" about divulging his whereabouts as a result of the bounty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eight activists targeted are accused of colluding with foreign forces - a crime that can carry a sentence of life in prison. The offence comes under Hong Kong\'s draconian security law, which was imposed three years ago after widespread pro-democracy protests took place in 2019.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK\'s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the UK would \"not tolerate any attempts by China to intimidate and silence individuals in the UK and overseas.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We call on Beijing to remove the National Security Law and for the Hong Kong authorities to end their targeting of those who stand up for freedom and democracy,\" he said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the national security law, hundreds of pro-democracy campaigners have been arrested and convicted in Hong Kong.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing has said the law is needed to bring stability to the city, but critics say it is designed to squash dissent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eight named in this announcement are all based in the UK, the US and Australia - countries which do not have extradition treaties with China.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"They have committed very serious offences that endanger national security,\" Steven Li, chief superintendent of the national security department, said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that while Hong Kong police could not arrest them while they remained abroad, they would not stop chasing them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Law, one of the most prominent figures in the pro-democracy movement, said that while he felt his situation was \"relatively safe\" in the UK, he would have to be more vigilant as a result of the bounty\'s announcement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There could possibly be someone in the UK - or anywhere else - to provide informations of me to (the Hong Kong authorities). For example, my whereabouts, where they could possibly extradite me when I\'m transiting in certain countries,\" Mr Law said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All these things may put my life in to dangerous situations if I\'m not careful enough of who I meet or where I go. It makes me have to live in a more careful life.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nathan Law: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist reveals he\'s in London</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writing on Twitter, Mr Law urged others not to cooperate with the authorities on the matter and said: \"We should not limit ourselves, self-censor, be intimidated, or live in fear.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This sentiment was echoed by one of the other exiled activists - Anna Kwok, executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council - who said the bounty was aimed at intimidating her and her fellow activists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are united in our fight for freedom and democracy in our home, Hong Kong,\" she said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia\'s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said her government was \"deeply disappointed\" by the announcement and said Australia \"remains deeply concerned by the continuing erosion of Hong Kong\'s rights, freedoms and autonomy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other six activists named in the announcement are Ted Hui, Dennis Kwok, Mung Siu-tat, Elmer Yuen, Finn Law and Kevin Yam. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 14:04:39', '2023-07-04 14:04:39'),
(7768, 7768, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Facebook owner Meta is launching its new app to rival Twitter and says it will go live on Thursday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The app, which is called Threads and is available for pre-order on the Apple App Store, will be linked to Instagram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screengrabs show a dashboard that looks similar to Twitter. Meta describes Threads as a \"text based conversation app\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, the pair agreed to a physical fight, though it is unclear how serious the two men were about actually holding a bout.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Thank goodness they\'re so sanely run\", Mr Musk responded to a tweet about Threads, in an apparent fresh swipe at Mr Zuckerberg.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Twitter has said that the popular user dashboard, TweetDeck will go behind a paywall in 30 days time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move is the latest push by Mr Musk as he tries to get users to sign up to Twitter\'s subscription service, Twitter Blue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, the multi-billionaire restricted the number of tweets users could see, citing extreme \"data scraping\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It appears from Meta\'s Threads app that it will be a free service - and there will be no restrictions on how many posts a user can see.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what\'ll be trending tomorrow\" the description on the App Store says.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pictures show screengrabs from the app, that look almost identical to Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It being a Meta app, Threads will also hoover up data on your phone, including location data, purchases and browsing history.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several apps that bear a striking resemblance to Twitter have sprung up in recent years - such as Donald Trump\'s Truth Social and Mastodon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another similar app, Bluesky claimed to have seen \"record\" traffic after Mr Musk\'s move to restrict usage at the weekend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Threads could be the biggest threat faced by Twitter to date.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Zuckerberg has a history of borrowing other company\'s ideas - and making them work.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meta\'s Reels is widely seen as a TikTok copy, while Stories looks similar to Snapchat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meta has the resources to compete with Twitter. Threads will be part of the Instagram platform, so it will also be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts. It\'s not starting from zero, as other would-be rivals have had to do.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Mr Musk has been praised in some quarters for his commitment to free speech, he has also alienated some users.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Zuckerberg will hope he can pull enough disenchanted users away from Twitter to create a genuine alternative. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 14:13:28', '2023-07-04 14:13:28'),
(7769, 7769, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Moon has left people gazing up at the sky after appearing brighter and larger than usual on Monday evening.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">July\'s supermoon is appearing full for up to three days, according to Nasa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Known as a Buck Moon, it is closer than normal in its orbit around the Earth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is because the Moon\'s orbit is not a perfect circle due to the Earth\'s gravitational pull; instead it is elliptical, like an elongated circle or oval.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because of this, there are times in the Moon\'s 27.32-day orbit when it is closer to the Earth and other times when it is further away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A supermoon happens when the Moon is at the closest point to Earth in its orbit and also in its full Moon phase.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full Moon in July was given the Native American name of Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer are in full growth mode in July, according to the Royal Observatory. Bucks shed and regrow their antlers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Moon reached peak illumination at 12:39 BST (07:39 Eastern Time) on Monday, according to the Old Farmer\'s Almanac.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Almanac, which has published astronomical data for centuries, said the Buck Moon would orbit closer to the Earth than full Moons we have already had this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">August\'s full Moon will be the only supermoon closer to the Earth this year, the publication said. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 14:19:07', '2023-07-04 14:19:07'),
(7770, 7770, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for international support for Haitian police to deal with the country\'s \"unprecedented\" wave of violence in recent months.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I have come here from Haiti, where the security situation is rapidly deteriorating, and humanitarian needs are soaring,\" Guterres said in Trinidad and Tobago, where the Caricom summit for Caribbean countries was opening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I reiterate my call on all partners to increase support for Haiti\'s national police -- in the form of financing, training, or equipment,\" the UN chief said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guterres traveled to Haiti at the weekend to spotlight violence and chaos in the country, where he has been calling for a robust international effort to help the beleaguered police in fighting rampant criminal gangs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For months he has raised the alarm about the situation in the Western Hemisphere\'s poorest country, which has been wracked by spiralling violence, worsening public health conditions and political instability.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We must collectively do more to help the Haitian people chart a path towards elections and a political solution,\" Guterres said, calling for \"a drastic improvement in the security situation.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said support for the police was needed to \"dismantle the gangs that have created this unprecedented violence.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN officials have offered increasingly grim assessments of the impact of gang shootings, kidnappings and rapes on the Haitian population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said after a trip to Port-au-Prince that the world was \"failing the Haitian people.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been seeking international intervention for nearly a year, but no country has yet stepped up although Brazil and Canada are the most involved in the discussions. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 14:42:09', '2023-07-04 14:42:09'),
(7771, 7771, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Around 3,000 Palestinians residing in the Jenin refugee camp have fled since the Israeli army launched a major operation in the area in the occupied West Bank Monday, a Palestinian official said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are about 3,000 people who have left the camp so far,\" Jenin deputy governor Kamal Abu al-Roub told AFP, adding that arrangements were being made to house them in schools and other shelters in the city of Jenin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said about 18,000 Palestinians reside in the camp.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, confirmed to AFP that residents of the camp were leaving.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the early hours of Monday, Israeli forces launched a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank that involved air strikes and hundreds of troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Palestinian health ministry said eight people were killed in the operation and at least 80 others were injured. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 14:51:01', '2023-07-04 14:51:01'),
(7772, 7772, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the ‘moderate’ zone this morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 70 at 8:45 am, Dhaka ranked 21st in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India’s Delhi, Chile’s Santiago, and Indonesia’s Jakarta occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 154, 144 and 143, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 50 and 100 is considered ‘moderate’ with an acceptable air quality. However, there may be a health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, an AQI between 150 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants — Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 14:58:20', '2023-07-04 14:58:20'),
(7773, 7773, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Japan on Tuesday to present a review of Tokyo\'s plans to release treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head will meet Japan\'s prime minister and foreign minister in Tokyo on Tuesday before heading to Fukushima on Wednesday to visit the devastated plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several of the nuclear facility\'s reactors went into meltdown after cooling systems were overwhelmed by a massive 2011 tsunami.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resulting nuclear accident was the worst since Chernobyl, and the clean-up has lasted more than a decade, with most areas declared off-limits due to radiation now reopened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Decommissioning the plant itself will take decades, but the facility\'s operator TEPCO faces the immediate problem of more than 1.33 million cubic metres of water accumulated on the site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The water is a mixture of groundwater, rain that seeps into the area, and water used for cooling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is processed through a facility that TEPCO says removes almost all radionuclides but tritium, which commonly remains in waste water discharged into the sea by nuclear plants globally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan plans to dilute the treated water and release it over decades via a pipe extending around a kilometre from the eastern coast where the plant is located.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposal has already been endorsed by the IAEA, but the government has said the release will only begin after a \"comprehensive review\" that Grossi will present Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A review by IAEA, given how authoritative it is in the management and application of nuclear safety standards, is critical to our efforts to foster international understanding,\" top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, the release remains controversial, with Beijing vocally criticising the plans, and some in South Korea panic-buying salt over fears of contamination after the discharge begins.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fishing communities in Fukushima are also worried customers will shun their catches, despite strict testing protocols for food from the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan has said the release will start this summer, without giving further details, and Matsuno said that was still the plan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will thoroughly explain and communicate, both domestically and internationally, details of the IAEA report, our effort to ensure safety and measures against reputational damage,\" he added. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 15:02:12', '2023-07-04 15:02:12'),
(7774, 7774, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A prosecutor in Brazil fined soccer star Neymar 16 million reais ($3.3 million) for building a lake at his mansion on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro without an environmental license, authorities said Monday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The town council in Mangaratiba issued four fines for \"environmental violations in the construction of an artificial lake at the player\'s mansion,\" the council secretariat said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The sanctions add up to more than 16 million reais,\" the statement said, a sum set out by the prosecutor\'s office in Mangaratiba, a tourist area around 130 kilometers (80 miles) from Rio where the Paris Saint-Germain star has his mansion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among \"dozens of infractions\" detected, the authorities listed \"carrying out work subject to environmental control without authorization,\" capture and diversion of river water without authorization, and \"removal of land and suppression of vegetation without authorization.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Neymar has 20 days to appeal the penalty, the amount of which had initially been set at five million reais, close to one million dollars.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 22, after complaints based on social media posts, authorities found several environmental violations at the luxury property, where workers were building an artificial lake and beach.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities cordoned off the site and ordered all activity to cease, but Brazilian media reported that Neymar threw a party there and bathed in the lake.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neymar\'s press office in Brazil did not respond to an AFP request for comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neymar, 31, is currently recovering from surgery on his right ankle, which he underwent in Doha in March.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The striker has not played since February and doubts have arisen about his staying at PSG.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neymar bought the Mangaratiba mansion in 2016. According to Brazilian media, it sits on 10,000 square meters (107,000 square feet) of land and features a heliport, spa and gym. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 15:07:38', '2023-07-04 15:07:38'),
(7775, 7775, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four people were killed, and four others wounded in a mass shooting Monday night in Philadelphia in the latest chapter of America\'s gun violence crisis, news reports said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Philadelphia police spokesman Miguel Torres confirmed to AFP there were multiple gunshot victims but gave no numbers or details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Philadelphia Enquirer, CNN and other news outlets reported that a suspect in the shooting in the eastern city\'s Kingsessing neighborhood had been detained.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Enquirer said at least two juveniles were among those shot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said police detained a man wearing a bullet-proof vest and recovered a rifle and a handgun and additional magazines of ammunition in an alleyway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper described the crime scene as sprawling, with people shot at different locations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the weekend two people were killed and 28 were wounded in a shooting at a block party in Baltimore.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">America has now endured 339 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines these as shootings in which four people are killed or wounded. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 15:11:08', '2023-07-04 15:11:08'),
(7776, 7776, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Asian markets struggled for direction on Tuesday as investors weighed signs of a slowing US economy against hopes the Federal Reserve\'s interest rate hiking cycle could be nearing its end.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Data showing a sharp drop in the central bank\'s preferred gauge of inflation for May fuelled a rally across equities in New York last week and Asia on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The readings followed a series of indicators suggesting the economy remained in rude health, putting pressure on the Fed to keep tightening monetary policy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bank boss Jerome Powell has warned more hikes are in the pipeline owing to still-elevated inflation and the strong labour market, though analysts question whether it will follow through with that.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, while traders take the view that \"bad news is good news\" as it gives the bank room to hold rates, the possibility of a contraction was keeping the optimism in check.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, a closely watched survey of US factory activity showed the sector shrank again in June and hit its lowest level since May 2020.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reading from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) also indicates the ongoing contraction in the sector is picking up pace.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wall Street limped to a positive close -- with business thinned by traders winding down for the July 4 holiday -- but Asia was unable to maintain Monday\'s momentum</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hong Kong and Shanghai edged up, along with Wellington, Taipei and Jakarta, though Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Seoul and Manila dipped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Jim Bianco, president and founder of Bianco Research, warned that while inflation was still falling, the Fed should be on alert as it could begin to climb again after getting to as low as three percent -- still above the bank\'s two percent target.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If the inflation rate bottoms at three and starts drifting higher, the Fed\'s going to find this unacceptable, and that two rate hikes that we have priced in for the rest of the year will happen, if not three,\" he told Bloomberg Television.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oil prices edged up on Tuesday, a day after dropping more than one percent as an initial rally sparked by Saudi Arabia and Russia\'s announcement of further output cuts faded away.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the cuts will mean tighter supplies, rising interest rates and the lingering threat of recession are weighing on demand expectations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was not too surprising that Saudi Arabia decided to roll over its additional, voluntary cuts,\" Warren Patterson, at ING Groep NV, said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Fundamentals are not having as much influence on price direction as one would expect. Instead, the uncertain macro outlook is what the market is focused on.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investors are keeping tabs on China-US relations after Beijing on Monday imposed export controls on two rare metals essential for the manufacture of semiconductors, citing security concerns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move comes as the two tussle over the global market for chips and follows US moves to blacklist some Chinese companies in recent years aimed at cutting them off from access to American technologies, including the most advanced chips. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 15:42:29', '2023-07-04 15:42:29'),
(7777, 7777, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Kangana Ranaut seemingly took a dig at the reality show Bigg Boss OTT 2. She, however, didn\'t name the Salman Khan-hosted show. Taking to Instagram Stories on Monday, Kangana also praised her film, Tiku Weds Sheru.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kangana shared a screenshot of an article, which had Tiku Weds Sheru at the number 3 position with 3.8 million views on a list of \'five most-viewed streaming shows and movies of the week\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharing it Kangana wrote, \"We will cross one crore views mark soon, which is equivalent to ₹100 crore theatrical film\'s footfall, even though one TV has many viewers watching content in one house... it\'s an estimated comparison (smiling face emoji).\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Bigg Boss OTT 2</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bigg Boss OTT 2, hosted by Salman Khan, started streaming on Jio Cinema on June 17. Falaq Naaz, Akanksha Puri, Anjali Arora, Avinash Sachdev, Palak Pursvani, Pooja Bhatt, Jiya Shankar, Puneet Superstar, Aaliya Siddiqui, Bebika Dhurve, Jad Hadid, Cyrus Broacha, Manisha Rani, and Abhishek Malhan entered the house as contestants. Several of them including Puneet Superstar, Akanksha and Aaliya have been evicted so far.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first season of Bigg Boss OTT was streamed on Voot and it was hosted by Karan Johar. Divya Agarwal was announced as the winner of the last season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Tiku Weds Sheru</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Kangana\'s recent production venture Tiku Weds Sheru has been helmed by Sai Kabir Srivastav. The film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Avneet Kaur in the lead roles. It released on Prime Video on June 23. At the trailer launch of Tiku Weds Sheru, Kangana revealed that the project was earlier titled Divine Lovers and she was supposed to do it with Irrfan Khan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Kangana\'s upcoming films</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kangana also has her period drama film Emergency in the pipeline. The movie, which revolves around the life of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and features Kangana in the titular role of the late politician, will be out in theatres on November 24. Emergency also marks Kangana\'s directorial debut. Apart from Kangana, the film stars Anupam Kher, Mahima Chaudhry, Vishak Nair and Shreyas Talpade in prominent roles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will also headline Chandramukhi 2, helmed by P Vasu. The film is the sequel to the blockbuster hit Tamil horror comedy Chandramukhi which starred Rajinikanth and Jyothika in the lead roles. In the upcoming months, the audience will also see Kangana in Manikarnika Returns: The Legend of Didda, Tejas and The Incarnation: Sita. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 16:17:12', '2023-07-04 16:17:12'),
(7778, 7778, '<p>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the need for flourishing the Bengali culture upholding its uniqueness in the age of technology.</p><p>“The attitude of our children is changing in the age of technology. So, we’ll have to flourish our culture keeping consistency with their thoughts and spirit so that they won’t forget our Bengali culture,” she said.</p><p>Fazilatunnesa Mujib Auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum in the city’s Shahbagh area through a virtual platform from her official residence Ganabhaban.</p><p>In the event, she unveiled the foundation stones of six development projects of the Cultural Affairs Ministry, including the multi-storied building for the Department of Public Libraries.</p><p>Besides, she opened the newly constructed 12-storey Copyright Bhaban in the city for the Copyright Office of Bangladesh.</p><p>&nbsp;Hasina said her government will continue working towards building the cultural-minded, creative and talented nation through promotion of the heritage of Bengali nation, local culture and history, the spirit of the Liberation War and preservation of arts and literature, research and development.</p><p>“Now it is the world of technology. So, we want to impart technological knowledge and skills to our generation as well as use technology in our cultural practices in a bid to build a modern nation equipped with the latest knowledge. Our government has been working to this end,” she said adding that some projects are being implemented in this regard.</p><p>The PM said the government has taken initiatives to promote the Bengali language by enriching and expanding its every branch including literature, music, film, arts, creativity and publication.</p><p>She said the Cultural Affairs Ministry arranges cultural fairs in every district, which paves the way to get grassroots hidden talents flourished.</p><p>She said now Bangladesh doesn’t lag behind. There are wifi connections throughout Bangladesh. Her government provided electricity connection to every house. Now the condition of the people even at union-level has radically changed, she added.</p><p>Putting emphasis on reaching cultural practices up to the grassroots people, she said, “We’ve many hidden talents at the grassroots. We’ll have to promote them and evaluate them on the national stage. So, we’ll have to take our cultural practices even to the grassroots level, not keeping it only at the district-level.</p><p>The premier said the people of Bangladesh are liberal-minded and embodied with non-communal spirit. So, it needs to take measures to flourish these mentality and spirit further, she said.</p><p>She said her government has already taken many necessary steps to flourish and enrich the cultural practices of Bangladesh and will continue to take further steps in this regard.</p><p>My aim is to change fate of the people of Bangladesh: PM Hasina says at Tungipara</p><p>“We are improving the socio-economic condition of Bangladesh. So, we will go forward in case of cultural practice and protection of intellectuality in the same way,” said the PM.</p><p>The five other projects are Rose Garden in old Dhaka city, Kabi Nazrul Institute Bhaban in Dhaka, President Md Abdul Hamid Shilpakala Academy and Regional Cultural Centre at Mithamain in Kishoreganj, Muktagacha Cultural Centre in Mymensingh, and Children Library in the National Museum.</p><p>State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid chaired the function, while Cultural Affairs Secretary Khalil Ahmed delivered the welcome speech. UNB</p><p>bnbd24/kh</p>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 18:48:54', '2023-07-04 18:48:54'),
(7779, 7779, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Monday for the extension of a landmark deal that allows grain from Ukraine to reach the global market, which is set to expire soon.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a phone call, the two leaders \"called for the grain agreement under the aegis of the United Nations to be extended beyond July 17\", the chancellor\'s spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deal, brokered by the UN a year ago and renewed on several occasions since then, \"is helping to improve the global food situation\", he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concern about the deal has grown after Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that he was \"thinking about\" exiting the agreement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow has repeatedly threatened to pull out of the accord that grants safe passage for Ukrainian grain to be exported via the Black Sea, demanding guarantees for Russian fertiliser exports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A parallel agreement between Moscow and the UN aims to facilitate exports of Russian food and fertilisers, which are exempt from Western sanctions imposed on Moscow, but Russia claims this deal is not being upheld.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s envoy to the UN in Geneva said earlier Monday that there were currently no grounds to maintain the \"status quo\" of the deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western capitals were blocking progress on reconnecting the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT banking system, Gennady Gatilov told the state-backed Izvestia newspaper.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What we are seeing now does not give us grounds to agree to maintaining the status quo\" on the deal, he said in the interview.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 saw Ukraine\'s Black Sea ports blocked by warships until the deal, signed in July 2022, allowed for the passage of critical grain exports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine was one of the world\'s top grain producers, and the deal has helped soothe the global food crunch triggered by the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some 32.4 million tonnes have been exported so far under the agreement, according to the UN. Just over half of the exports have been corn, while more than a quarter was wheat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initial 120-day agreement struck with the UN and Turkey last July has been extended three times: in November, March and in May. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-04 18:54:08', '2023-07-04 18:54:08'),
(7780, 7780, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">After winning the one-off Test by a record 546-run margin, Bangladesh vowed to dominate the three-match ODI series against Afghanistan, who are bolstered by the return of star spinner Rashid Khan.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The series opening game will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium with Bangladesh looking to take the early lead. The match starts at 2 PM. All of the matches of the ODI series will be taken place at the same venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan was a force in the ICC ODI Super League, winning 11 out of 15 matches but their ODI record against Bangladesh was not dominating one. The Tiger won the seven and lost four matches in 11 encounters between the two teams.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two teams met last year in Bangladesh with the hosts taking the series by 2-1, despite facing a stern challenge from the Afghans. Bangladesh in fact have been such a dominating force in ODI format at own backyard that they only lost two series at home since 2015 and all of those two defeats came against World Champions England who beat them in 2016 and this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though this series is not the part of ICC ODI Super League, for Bangladesh it will be hugely significant. A 3-0 victory over the Afghans, which is an extremely tough task, would help Bangladesh move to fifth place in ICC ODI rankings for the first time in their history. Also their rating points will go past 100 for the first time in case of a clean sweep.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While it is important to get a ranking boost, it similarly crucial for the team management to rotate players as much as they can to find out their best combination for the upcoming World Cup.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh will get Asia Cup and a three-match ODI series against New Zealand apart from this Afghanistan series before the cricket\'s biggest extravaganza.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We are trying to give some players game time. That doesn\'t mean they know and we know the supporting role, what we want to do, what areas we need to look forward to the players,\" Hathurusingha said in Chattogram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"That means sometimes we won\'t have depth in case of an emergency close to the Asia Cup and World Cup. So keep the reason in mind we want to give players a chance.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh however has been monitoring captain Tamim Iqbal\'s progress closely after he complained of waist pain, a problem that ruled him out of the one-off Test. Hathurusingha said they have opener and captain ready in case Tamim is unable to take the field. Tamim was seen doing his training in the last two days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan meanwhile are elated to have Rashid Khan in the team. Their skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi expressed his delight at the star man\'s presence, saying that he can make the difference single-handely.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\"Of course, he (Rashid) is a big man for us. When he is with us, as a captain, I feel very confident,\" Shahidi said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a positive sign for us. He didn\'t play the Test for us but now he is available in the ODI series. And I know he will do good for us,\" he said adding that they have learnt their lesson in the Test series.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Test game gave us a lot of lessons. So we are well prepared now. We had a camp in Abu Dhabi for the last 14 days. So we are prepared for everything that was missing in the Test. Still, some of the ODI players were not part of the Test team. We don\'t know what is going to happen. We have prepared for everything.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh squad: Tamim Iqbal (capt), Liton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Towhid Hridoy, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Shoriful Islam, Afif Hossain and Naim Sheikh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Rashid Khan, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Rahman, Shahidullah, Zia-ur-Rehman, Wafadar Momand, Mohammad Saleem, Sayed Shirzad</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan Back-up players: Karim Janat, Zubaid Akbari, Qais Ahmad, Ihsanullah Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Naveen-ul-Haq, Farid Malik, Darwish Rasooli, Ishaq Rahimi. 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(7781, 7781, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Bank (BB) has introduced a \'market-based\' US dollar exchange rate, setting a cap on the maximum rate for H1 of the new fiscal year 2023-24.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The central bank is selling dollars to commercial banks at Tk108.85 per dollar, increasing Tk2.85 from the previous rate.</div><div><br></div><div>Through the regulator selling dollars at a market-based rate, the price of dollars in interbank transactions has also been fixed at a maximum of Tk 109.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the foreign exchange market is still volatile and banks are selling US dollars at different rates to clients on Tuesday (July 4), importers paid Tk112 per dollar for LCs, which is against the competitive exchange rate formula.</div><div><br></div><div>Banks are taking higher rates for import LCs and the traders raised questions regarding whether the exchange rate is market-based or setting the willingness of banks.</div><div><br></div><div>A businessman, Rubayet Hossain, who went to open LCs at a private bank in Motijheel on Tuesday to import raw materials for an export-based industry, had to pay Tk112 per dollar for LCs.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite the higher rate, Rubayet got half the amount of dollars that he required, and described to UNB the situation as annoying for business.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Governor Abdur Rauf Talukder said that Bangladesh Bank will not sell any more dollars to the banks at a discount rate from FY 24. So, the dollars will be sold at market-based rates, at the highest price in the interbank transaction.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers Association (BAFEDA) has fixed the maximum dollar rate of Tk 109 under the interbank exchange rate.</div><div><br></div><div>According to BAFEDA, from now on dealer banks will add one taka to the rate at which they buy dollars and will give the BC (bills for collection) selling rate.</div><div><br></div><div>However, this rate cannot be more than Tk109. Banks now buy export bills at Tk 107.50 and remittances at Tk108.50.</div><div><br></div><div>BAFEDA and the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh, or ABB, fixed the import price by adding a maximum of one taka to the average dollar buying price. According to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 02:48:21', '2023-07-05 02:48:21'),
(7782, 7782, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 40-year-old killed one man in a house before fatally shooting four others on the streets of a Philadelphia neighborhood, then surrendering to police officers after being cornered in an alley with an assault rifle, a pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner and a bulletproof vest, police said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 2-year-old boy and a 13-year-old were also wounded in the Monday night violence that made the working-class area of Kingsessing the site of the nation\'s worst violence around the July Fourth holiday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police called to the scene found gunshot victims and started to help them before hearing more shots. Some officers rushed victims to hospitals while others ran toward the gunfire and chased the firing suspect. Officers ultimately arrested the assailant in an alley, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference. The shooter had no connection to the victims before the shooting, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“On what was supposed to be a beautiful summer evening, this armed and armored individual wreaked havoc, firing with a rifle at their victims seemingly at random,” she said Tuesday afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Staff Inspector Ernest Ransom, the homicide unit commander, said witness interviews and video indicated that the suspect went to several locations in a ski mask and body armor, carrying an AR-15-style rifle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The suspect then began shooting aimlessly at occupied vehicles and individuals on the street as they walked,” he said. The vehicles included a mother driving her 2-year-old twins home, and one was wounded in the legs and the other hit in the eyes by shattered glass.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Philadelphia police on Tuesday afternoon identified the victims as 20-year-old Lashyd Merritt, 29—year-old Dymir Stanton, 59-year-old Ralph Moralis and 15-year-old Daujan Brown, all pronounced dead shortly after the Monday night gunfire; and 31-year-old Joseph Wamah Jr., who was found in a home early Tuesday, also with multiple bullet wounds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigators believe Wamah was the first victim killed, but he wasn\'t found by family members until hours later, Ransom said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 2-year-old boy shot four times in the legs and a 13-year-old shot twice in the legs were in stable condition, as were a 2-year-old boy and a 33-year-old woman injured by shattered glass.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said the suspect is believed to have acted alone and there was no reason to believe anyone else was involved. Police and prosecutors said no charges were planned at this point against a second person taken into custody who is believed to have obtained a gun somewhere and fired back at the shooter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“When you are under fire in a mass shooting, there are rights to protect others and rights to protect yourself,” District Attorney Larry Krasner said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities asked for patience as they investigate every aspect of the shooting. That investigation, Outlaw said, \"includes the ‘why.’”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Krasner said the suspect would face multiple counts of murder, as well as aggravated assault and weapons charges, and was expected to be denied bail.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outlaw praised the bravery of officers who tended to victims and rushed them to hospitals as others “fearlessly ran toward the sounds of gunfire,” and captured the suspect.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Their swift actions undoubtedly saved additional lives,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a holiday weekend block party in Baltimore, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) to the southwest of Philadelphia, two people were killed and 28 others were wounded in a shooting. More than half of the victims were 18 or younger, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About four hours after the Philadelphia shooting, gunfire at a neighborhood festival in Fort Worth, Texas, killed three people and wounded eight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney renewed his oft-repeated call to “do something about America’s gun problem.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“A person walking down the city street with an AR-style rifle and shooting randomly at people while wearing a bulletproof vest with multiple magazines is a disgraceful but all-too-common situation in America,” Kenney said. “I was today at Independence Hall where they wrote that Constitution, and the 2nd Amendment was never intended to protect this.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Krasner said that the morning after the shooting, he saw “completely empty streets” in the traumatized neighborhood on an otherwise beautiful morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I saw every porch empty. I saw every door closed. I saw every curtain where there was a curtain pulled. I saw no kids playing,” he said, describing a bicycle left on a corner, apparently untouched for 12 or more hours, “as if everybody understood what happened here was so horrible that for right now this is a desert, and for right now everything that we associate with celebrating Fourth of July is off.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Eads said that on Monday night he heard fireworks, then gunshots, and saw police cars “flying by.” His wife was on the second floor “looking out the bay window and saw the shooter actually coming down this street here behind me.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eads saw the other man with a pistol who, he said, may have been firing at the shooter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“He was using my car as a shield shooting out into the street,” Eads said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A resident named Roger who declined to give his last name said he and his family were eating in the living room at about 8:30 p.m. when they heard eight to 10 gunshots.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Everybody thought it was fireworks but ... been around here about three years so I heard it enough,” he said. “I looked out the window and seen a bunch of people running.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he heard about four more shots and “thought it was the end of it.” Ten minutes later, he said, police came “flying down here,” and about five minutes later he heard rapid gunfire open up right outside the house.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Philadelphia violence was the country’s 29th mass killing in 2023, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University, the highest on record by this time in the year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of people killed in such events is also the highest by this time in the year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There have been more than 550 mass killings since 2006, according to the database, in which at least 2,900 people have died and at least 2,000 people have been hurt. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 15:08:54', '2023-07-05 15:08:54'),
(7783, 7783, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality is ‘good’ this morning as monsoon is fairly active in Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 41, the capital of Bangladesh ranked 68th in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality at 9 am today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa’s Johannesburg, the United Arab Emirates’ Dubai and Indonesia’s Jakarta occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 175, 154, and 151, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered ‘good’ while an AQI between 50 and 100 is considered ‘moderate’ with an acceptable air quality. Meanwhile, an AQI between 101 and 200 is considered ‘unhealthy’, particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘poor’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered ‘hazardous’, posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants – Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person\'s chances of developing heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With less traffic as Eid holidays begin, Dhaka\'s air quality \'moderate\' this morning</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 16:13:01', '2023-07-05 16:13:01'),
(7784, 7784, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The European Union will be sending an Election Exploratory Mission (ExM) to Bangladesh next week, to assess the situation on the ground ahead of the country\'s next national election.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation is likely to begin its visit on July 9.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main objective of the ExM is to assess the \"advisability, usefulness and feasibility\" of a possible EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to the EU Mission in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This includes an assessment of the political environment and electoral framework, in close partnership and consultation with all relevant stakeholders - government authorities, political parties, civil society organisations and academics.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">European Union Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley had a series of meetings in the last couple of months including with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his meeting with Momen, they discussed the proposed deployment of an EU Election Observation Mission in Bangladesh ahead of the next election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen welcomed observers from the EU and other countries during the elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign minister reiterated that the government wants \"free, fair and credible\" general elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He informed the ambassador of the steps taken to empower the Election Commission to enable it to conduct a \"free and fair\" election. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 16:30:51', '2023-07-05 16:30:51'),
(7785, 7785, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Water in the Teesta river may cross the danger level at Dalia point over 24 hours, causing a short-term flood in the low-lying areas of Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari districts.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), in its regular bulletin, said the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Ganges-Padma rivers are in a rising trend, which may continue over 48 hours and water in the Dhalai river may cross danger level at Kamalganj point for a short period over 24 hours, starting from 9 am on today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, major rivers in the northeastern region of the country are in a falling trend except Khowai, Someswari and Dhalai, which may continue over 48 hours, the bulletin said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ongoing flood situation in Sunamganj and Netrokona districts may remain unchanged in 24 hours, it said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 17:40:22', '2023-07-05 17:40:22'),
(7786, 7786, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Russia was planning \"dangerous provocations\" at the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His statement came after Kyiv and Moscow traded accusations of preparing an incident at the plant, which is Europe\'s largest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fears over the safety risks for the nuclear plant have persisted throughout Russia\'s invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I warned Emmanuel Macron that the occupation troops are preparing dangerous provocations at the Zaporizhzhia plant,\" Zelensky said in a statement after a phone call with his French counterpart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We agreed to keep the situation under maximum control together with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency),\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his evening address, Zelensky said Russia had \"installed objects similar to explosives\" on the plant, according to Ukrainian intelligence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Perhaps to simulate the hit on the plant. Maybe they have some other scenario. But in any case, the world sees it,\" the Ukrainian leader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Radiation is a threat to everyone in the world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The claim about the explosives was earlier made by the Ukrainian army, which warned of the \"possible preparation of a provocation on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia power plant in the near future\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It claimed that \"external objects similar to explosive devices were placed on the outer roof of the third and fourth reactors\" at the site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Their detonation should not damage power units, but may create a picture of shelling from the Ukrainian side,\" it said, alleging that Moscow would \"misinform on this\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Moscow, an advisor to Russia\'s Rosatom nuclear agency, Renat Karchaa, accused Kyiv of planning an attack on the plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today, we got information that I am authorised to announce... On July 5, literally at night, in the dark, the Ukrainian army will try to attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,\" Karchaa told Russian state television.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He claimed that Ukraine planned to use \"high-precision, long-range weapons\" as well as drones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia and Ukraine have regularly accused each other of putting the plant\'s safety at risk since the outbreak of the war in February 2022. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 17:49:24', '2023-07-05 17:49:24'),
(7787, 7787, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Michael Leask helped Scotland to a stunning 31-run victory over Zimbabwe on Tuesday to set up a winner-takes-all clash with the Netherlands for a place at the World Cup.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka became the first of the top two teams in the Super Six table to have qualified for the October-November World Cup in India when they beat Zimbabwe on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hosts could have clinched the second spot with victory over Scotland in Bulawayo, but it was not to be after Scottish quick Chris Sole (3-33) ripped through their top order, eventually bowled out for 203 chasing down 234.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our boys have been fantastic. Credit to the way the lads played today,\" said Scotland captain Richie Berrington.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The way we came out and showed faith in the second innings and get those early wickets was fantastic.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berrington added: \"It\'s a quick turnaround to the game against the Netherlands. We\'ll take a lot of confidence but it\'s going to be a tough game.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s a very difficult pill to swallow,\" Berrington\'s Zimbabwe counterpart Craig Ervine acknowledged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I thought we did well to restrict them to 230. Unfortunately that first initial spell from Sole really put us on the back foot and just made it hard for us to recover from that position.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leask top scored with a 34-ball 48 as Scotland racked up 234 runs for eight wickets off their allotted 50 overs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coming in at number eight, he combined with Mark Watt (21 not out) for an invaluable eighth-wicket partnership of 46 after the Scots had been left reeling at 170-7.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three other batsmen -- Matthew Cross (38), Brandon McMullen (34) and George Munsey (31) -- all got into the 30s, but failed to build on their time at the crease.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sean Williams grabbed 3-41 off his 10 overs, but failed to shine with the bat as Zimbabwe were quickly reduced to 37/4 in the run chase, under intense pressure from Sole.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wessly Madhevere hit 40 and the dangerous Sikandar Raza 34 as Zimbabwe fought back.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ryan Burl gave the host nation most hope, however, hitting 83 off 84 balls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Burl crucially fell to the offbreak of Leask, who also had a smart catch off his own bowling to dismiss Richard Ngarava.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Scotsman ended with 2-33 off six overs and his team left the field knowing that a victory over the Dutch on Thursday would see them headed for India in the Autumn.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Zimbabwe it was a case of deja vu after a similar failure in 2018 qualifiers when they also needed to win only one of their last two matches to qualify for the World Cup. They lost in both games in both 2018 and 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s always nice to put those demons from 2018 behind us and had we gotten over the line today, nobody would have been asking about that but unfortunately, we didn\'t,\" said Ervine. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 18:06:29', '2023-07-05 18:06:29'),
(7788, 7788, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Arabia has said it enjoys \"full rights\" along with Kuwait to a disputed gas field in the resource-rich Gulf, pushing back against claims by Iran, state media reported late Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The field, known as Arash in Iran and Dorra in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, falls under \"joint ownership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the State of Kuwait, and they alone have full rights\", the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing a foreign ministry source.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi statement appeared one day after Kuwait reinvited Iran to participate in talks on their sea borders.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dispute over the field -- whose recoverable reserves are estimated at some 220 billion cubic metres (seven trillion cubic feet) -- dates back to the 1960s, when Iran and Kuwait awarded overlapping offshore concessions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to develop the field, despite objections from Iran which branded the deal as \"illegal\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohsen Khojsteh Mehr, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company, said last week that \"there is full preparation to start drilling in the joint Arash oil field\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Considerable resources have been allocated to the board of directors of the National Iranian Oil Company for the implementation of the development plan for this field,\" he said in remarks carried by Iranian state media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran and Kuwait have held unsuccessful talks for many years over their disputed maritime border area, which is rich in natural gas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia is also a part of the dispute since it shares with Kuwait maritime gas and oil resources in the area.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian drilling of the field in 2001 spurred Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to agree on a maritime border deal which stipulated that they jointly develop the offshore zone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced a surprise Chinese-brokered rapprochement deal, agreeing to restore ties after a seven-year rift, raising hopes for reduced tensions between the Middle East heavyweights. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 18:52:59', '2023-07-05 18:52:59'),
(7789, 7789, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Representatives of a number of foreign states will take part in the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) that will be held in Russia\'s Vladivostok on September 10-13, 2023, Deputy Prime Minister, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev told reporters.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"The work is already underway on arrival confirmation. A whole number of countries, I would even say dozens of countries have confirmed their participation in the EEF,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Eastern Economic Forum is a key international platform for establishing and strengthening ties within the Russian and global investment communities, and for comprehensive expert evaluation of the economic potential of the Russian Far East, the investment opportunities it offers, and business conditions within advanced special economic zones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Eastern Economic Forum was established by decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in 2015 to support the economic development of Russia\'s Far East and to expand international cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. TASS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 18:55:18', '2023-07-05 18:55:18'),
(7790, 7790, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi sent Bangladesh into bat first after winning the toss in the three-match ODI series opening game today at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh got a Shakib Al Hasan boost after the ace allrounder missed the last ODI against Ireland due to injury.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hosts also included Afif Hossain, a middle order batter who played his last ODI against England in March. Pacer Taskin Ahmed who missed out away series against Ireland due to injury is back in the side as it was expected.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rony Talukdar, Mrittunjoy Chowdhury and Ebadot Hossain were the three players out of the last match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afghanistan also had a thing to cherish as the star spinner Rashid Khan returned to the squad after being rested in the one-off test, which Bangladesh won by a record 546-run margin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visitors handed debut to pacer Saleem Safi for the only change from their last ODI against Sri Lanka. Gulbadin Naib who was the part of that series that Afghanistan lost by 2-1 was out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Line Ups:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Bangladesh:</b> Tamim Iqbal(c), Liton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Afif Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Afghanistan: </b>Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Saleem Safi. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 19:48:01', '2023-07-05 19:48:01'),
(7791, 7791, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Moscow said Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory would \"not be possible\" without US and NATO help, escalating its rhetoric after reporting it had downed five drones near the capital on Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine meanwhile accused Russia of planning \"dangerous provocations\" at the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, while Russia in turn claimed Kyiv was planning to attack the facility, Europe\'s largest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow said the West had enabled Ukraine to carry out the drone attacks, after earlier condemning what it called a \"terrorist act\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"These attacks would not be possible without the help provided to the Kyiv regime by the US and its NATO allies,\" the Russian foreign ministry said, claiming the West was \"training drone operators and providing the necessary intelligence to commit such crimes.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It marks the latest in a series of recent drone attacks -- including on the Kremlin and Russian towns near the border with Ukraine -- that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian military said it had downed all five drones and that there was no damage or casualties from the early-morning attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emergency services cited by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said one of the drones was \"neutralised\" at Kubinka, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Vnukovo international airport, where air traffic was briefly disrupted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In early May, two drones were shot down above the Kremlin, and later the same month drones hit Moscow high-rises.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Zaporizhzhia accusations -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday warned his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Russia was planning \"dangerous provocations\" at the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We agreed to keep the situation under maximum control together with the IAEA\" UN nuclear watchdog, he added after his phone call with the French leader.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ukrainian health ministry urged residents to be ready for a \"possible evacuation\" if there is an explosion at the site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia and Ukraine have regularly accused each other of putting the plant\'s safety at risk since the start of the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv claimed \"objects similar to explosive devices were placed on the outer roof of the third and fourth reactors\" at the site.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his evening address, Zelensky said the idea was \"perhaps to simulate the hit on the plant.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Maybe they have some other scenario. But in any case, the world sees it,\" the Ukrainian leader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Radiation is a threat to everyone in the world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Moscow, an advisor to Russia\'s Rosatom nuclear agency, Renat Karchaa, told state television: \"On July 5, literally at night, in the dark, the Ukrainian army will try to attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He claimed Ukraine planned to use \"high-precision, long-range weapons\" as well as drones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Burning, overturned cars -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine said 43 people, including 12 children, were injured in a Russian strike on the town of Pervomaisky in the eastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strike hit a parking lot outside a residential building in the town of around 28,000 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The head of Kyiv\'s presidential office Andriy Yermak distributed images of burned and destroyed cars.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Synegubov, posted a video from the scene, showing smoke rising from burnt cars near a Soviet-era housing block.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities also announced that Russian shelling on a residential area in the southern frontline city of Kherson had killed two people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Early Tuesday Ukraine said Russia had launched 22 Iranian \"Shahed\" attack drones and three missiles at the Sumy, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its forces had \"destroyed\" 16 of the drones, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Journalist attacked -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Chechnya, an award-winning Russian investigative journalist was beaten by armed assailants and taken to hospital, her newspaper and a rights group said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack happened early on Tuesday as well-known journalist Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov, a lawyer, were travelling from the airport.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, published a video of Milashina in hospital with her head shaven and covered in a green-coloured dye -- used to target Kremlin critics -- and her hands bandaged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the attack, which included having a gun held to her head, was linked to her \"professional activity in Chechnya.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milashina has for years covered rights abuses in the Caucasus republic ruled by former warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Kyiv, around 200 people attended a ceremony on Tuesday in St Michael\'s cathedral for the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who died of her wounds in a Russian strike on a restaurant in eastern Ukraine. 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(7792, 7792, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the armed forces to maintain the dignity they have earned by standing beside the people.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our every force always stands beside the people alongside safeguarding the country\'s independence and sovereignty…. So, they get respect from everyone. We\'ll have to go forward keeping up this dignity,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said this while addressing a programme marking the 48th founding anniversary of President Guard Regiment (PGR) at its headquarters in Dhaka Cantonment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the armed forces serve the local people simultaneously with discharging the responsibility bestowed on them even in the peacekeeping mission in other countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM appreciated the members of the PGR for professionalism, dedication, dutifulness and sincerely in performing their duties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked the PGR members to perform their duty with patriotism and honesty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the premier went around different tables and exchanged pleasantries with the PGR members after arriving at the venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AL govt has proved it holds free, fair elections: PM Hasina at oath-taking of five city mayors</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She handed over gifts to the family members of the PGR members who lost their lives and sustained severe injuries while on duty.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM\'s Security Affairs Adviser Major General (rtd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed and President\'s Military Secretary Major General S M Salahuddin Islam were on the dais.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">My aim is to change fate of the people of Bangladesh: PM Hasina says at Tungipara</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PGR Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Khaled Kamal delivered the welcome speech. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 21:19:56', '2023-07-05 21:19:56');
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(7793, 7793, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman on Wednesday said there would be no dialogue with BNP on the caretaker government system which has been abolished by the court.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The election will be held as per the constitution. Dialogue will be held if BNP takes part in the next election accepting the demand (accepting constitutional provision). There will be no dialogue with the BNP on caretaker government issue,” he said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The adviser made the remarks after his meeting with visiting British Minister for International Trade Nigel Huddleston at Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) office in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the UK wants a free, fair and neutral election and the government has strengthened the Election Commission to that end.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The government is committed to a free and fair election. Our Election Commission is independent. The proof is that many city corporation elections are being held neutrally. National elections will be held as per the constitution,” said the adviser.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the opposition should understand that there is no alternative other than participating in the election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salman said they also discussed the Rohingya issue and sought continued focus and pressure on Myanmar to resolve the crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They discussed the Aviation Trade and Investment Partnership, signed by the UK and Bangladesh in May 2023, to strengthen Bangladesh\'s aviation sector and create jobs in both countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK minister is here to discuss relevant issues with Bangladesh to help grow green growth.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wants to use his first official visit here to demonstrate the UK’s eagerness to work with Bangladesh on shared challenges like climate change, using their collective expertise to deepen trading relationships, spark economic growth, and create jobs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I look forward to working with the Government of Bangladesh on increasing mutual prosperity by addressing barriers to market access and trade,” said the UK minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are huge opportunities for British companies to take advantage of the growing trade relationship between the UK and Bangladesh, according to the UK government. With Bangladesh, UK’s trade has reached nearly £5 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Huddleston arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday evening on a two-day official visit. His visit is focused on unlocking more opportunities for British companies to grow trade.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Dhaka, the minister will visit Intertek, a UK company supporting supply chains in Bangladesh by providing bespoke testing services, for example ensuring manufacturers meet product safety standards.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This visit comes a month after the UK’s world-leading Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) came into force making it easier for Bangladesh and other developing countries to trade with the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladeshi exporters now benefit from simpler and more generous Rules of Origin, which means that they will be able to produce goods using components from many more countries and still export these with zero tariffs to the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Huddleston will also meet Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi to discuss the UK’s world-leading Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS), which came into force last month, and makes it easier for Bangladesh to trade with the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the joint communique on Aviation Trade and Investment Partnership, Minister Huddleston will meet Mahbub Ali, state minister for civil aviation and tourism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Discussions will focus on the UK’s offer to help Bangladesh realise its ambition of becoming the next aviation hub in South Asia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our trade with Bangladesh has grown significantly over the past year, which shows our partnerships are reaching new heights,\" he said. 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(7794, 7794, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The High Court (HC) on Wednesday&nbsp; issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why they should not be directed to pay Tk 5 crore compensation to five-year-old Agraraj Sikder, who lost his leg after a bus ran over it in Chattogram\'s Banshkhali.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The HC bench of Justice SM Quddus Zaman and Justice AKM Rabiul Hassan issued the rule after preliminary hearing on a writ petition seeking compensation for Agraraj.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Home secretary, Chattogram divisional commissioner, S Alam Transport Authority and others have been asked to respond to the rule within four weeks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advocate Tushar Roy, who appeared for the writ petitioner&nbsp; in the court, confirmed reporters about&nbsp; the issuance of the rule.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On February 16, when Agraraj Sikder was standing at the gate of his&nbsp; school in Napora Bazar area of Banshkhali the&nbsp; bus of S Alam Paribahan going to Chattogram ran over the boy’s leg while overtaking an auto-rickshaw.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bus also dragged the child some distance. The child was later rescued by locals and taken to a hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His left leg had to be amputated and his right leg was plastered at the hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a press conference at Chattogram Press Club on April 12, Agraraj\'s mother Purnima Dey said her son had to lose one of his legs after being hit by the bus.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her husband is a carpenter and they have already spent Tk 7 lakh for the child’s treatment and now they are unable to pay the rest cost, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, a writ petition was filed with the High Court seeking compensation. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 21:52:04', '2023-07-05 21:52:04'),
(7795, 7795, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two people were killed and four others injured&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Dhanbari upazila of the district today.</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as CNG driver Wazed Mia, 42, and Halim, 32. Both were the residents of Jamalpur district.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Dhanbari Thana Edris Ali said the accident occurred this morning in Chattarkandi area on Tangail-Jamalpur Highway here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wazed and Halim succumbed to their injuries at Dhanbari Upazila Health Complex, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the injured, three were sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bodies were handed over to their respective family members,\" the OC said, adding that police seized both the vehicles. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 21:57:16', '2023-07-05 21:57:16'),
(7796, 7796, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the BNP and like-minded parties are spreading rumours as part of plot to intensify conflicts centering the upcoming national election.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made the remarks during a joint meeting with the leaders of AL’s associate bodies at the party’s central office here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said that the opposition parties are not going to the voters, but rather appealing to their foreign lords.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“They are indulged in their dreams of lodging complaints and imposition of restrictions on Bangladesh,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Foreigners are our friends. But they have no authority here. On the other hand the BNP has masters in foreign countries,” he added.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the recent amendment of the Representation of the People’s Order (RPO), Quader said it was necessary.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, “In any event of irregularities, only the polling of the specific center should be cancelled, rather than an entire election. This provision is explicitly mentioned in the Act and similar practices exist in other democratic nations. Why does Bangladesh need to adopt a different approach?”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said BNP is obsessively pursuing power, “The election will be fair to them only if Awami League loses.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The recent local government elections did not reflect the alleged chaos, fake votes, and capturing of polling stations that the opposition propagates. This positive outcome happened because of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\'s efforts in modernizing and democratizing the electoral system through the establishment of the independent Election Commission,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader also said the upcoming national election would be conducted peacefully, fairly, and independently- similar to the city corporation elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government will not interfere, and PM Hasina\'s administration would perform its routine duties, he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The joint meeting was attended by Awami League Joint General Secretary Hasan Mahmud, Mahbubul Alam Hanif, and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, among others. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-05 23:01:12', '2023-07-05 23:01:12'),
(7797, 7797, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has praised the recent Chinese diplomatic efforts that bore positive outcomes in the Middle East.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He hoped China would continue to play important roles in mitigating many other crises in different parts of the world, \"including ours.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador of China to Bangladesh Yao Wen met FM Momen on Wednesday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, Momen reiterated Bangladesh’s commitments for further enhancing the ‘South-South Cooperation’ for greater collective benefit of the global South, according to the foreign ministry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He referred to innovative approaches including that of the Community Clinics introduced in Bangladesh by the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which is now internationally appreciated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen observed that a developing country like Bangladesh could apply a lot of practical, simple and viable Chinese innovations for the benefit of the common people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He referred to Bangladesh’s success in management of the Covid-19 pandemic and appreciated the significant Chinese support in this regard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen also pointed out the inflationary pressure and other economic woes inflicted by the undesired Russia-Ukraine war on the lives of the common people, particularly those in the developing world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also expressed hope that the war would be brought to an immediate end through dialogue and peaceful diplomatic engagements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese envoy updated about different development projects in Bangladesh that are being carried out with support from China.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen thanked China as a trusted development partner and hoped that the ongoing bilateral engagements would be further enhanced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He encouraged greater Chinese investment in Bangladesh to facilitate more job-creation and transfer of technology and skills.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While exchanging views on climate change, the issue of the prevailing monsoon and its impacts on possible flood situation in the country, particularly the occurrence of flash-floods, came up.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese envoy offered to extend assistance for dredging the relevant rivers in Bangladesh for improving the capacity of the rivers to better manage the flood situations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen acknowledged and appreciated the efforts of China under the trilateral framework for facilitating the desired repatriation of the Rohingyas, temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh on humanitarian grounds, to their homeland in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also reviewed the ongoing bilateral cooperation in various multilateral and international forums. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 00:11:41', '2023-07-06 00:11:41'),
(7798, 7798, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Slow weapons deliveries to Ukraine delayed Kyiv\'s planned counteroffensive, allowing Russia to bolster its defenses in occupied areas including with mines, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to CNN\'s Erin Burnett in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa days earlier, Zelensky revealed that he had sought to begin the counteroffensive against Russia \"much earlier\" than its actual start early June.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our slowed-down counteroffensive is happening due to certain difficulties in the battlefield. Everything is heavily mined there,\" Zelensky said via a translator in the pre-taped interview.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I wanted our counteroffensive happening much earlier, because everyone understood that if the counteroffensive will be unfolding later, then much bigger part of our territory will be mined.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he had told US and European leaders ahead of the counteroffensive that a lack of supplies would result in more casualties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I\'m grateful to the US as the leaders of our support, but I told them as well as European leaders that we would like to start our counteroffensive earlier, and we will need all the weapons and material for that.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Why? Simply because if we start later, it will go slower, and we will have losses of lives, because everything is heavily mined -- we will have to go through it all.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another interview with US media last week, Ukraine\'s military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny also expressed frustration at the slow deliveries of promised weaponry from the West.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It \"pisses me off\" that some in the West complain about the slow start and progress of the long-awaited push against Russian forces in Ukraine\'s south, Zaluzhny told The Washington Post.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaluzhny said his Western supporters would not themselves launch an offensive without air superiority, but Ukraine is still waiting for F-16 fighters promised by its allies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky told CNN that he had \"emphasized\" the need for F-16s many times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s not even about the Ukrainian advantage of the sky over the Russians. This is only about being equal,\" he said, noting the difficulty of moving forward on the battlefield without air support and more long-range weaponry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also argued the F-16s could be viewed as \"humanitarian\" support, as they could be used by Ukraine to keep open a shipping corridor if Russia decides to not extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, which is set to expire July 17.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"F-16s give us a possibility to build a defense of this corridor,\" Zelensky said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 17:46:35', '2023-07-06 17:46:35'),
(7799, 7799, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US defense chief Lloyd Austin has ordered measures aimed at improving security after a trove of top secret documents leaked online earlier this year, the Pentagon said Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move follows a 45-day review of Defense Department policies and procedures that Austin ordered after a junior airman allegedly orchestrated the most damaging leak of US classified documents in a decade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The review identified areas where we can and must improve accountability measures to prevent the compromise of CNSI (classified national security information), to include addressing insider threats,\" Austin wrote in a memo released by the Pentagon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steps assigned by Austin include developing a plan for a so-called Joint Management Office for Insider Threat and Cyber Capabilities to \"improve threat monitoring across all (Pentagon) networks.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also called for guidance to be issued to \"immediately enhance accountability and control of top secret information,\" and for the implementation of a \"phased approach to increase accountability, manage access, and increase security to classified data.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard IT specialist, was arrested in April after allegedly posting a series of highly sensitive documents to a private chat group on social media platform Discord.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The documents, which soon spread across the internet, pointed to US concern over Ukraine\'s military capacity against invading Russian forces and showed Washington had apparently spied on allies Israel and South Korea, among other sensitive details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the biggest such breach since the 2013 dump of National Security Agency documents by Edward Snowden and raised tough questions about access by Teixeira, a junior staffer, to high-level secrets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teixeira -- who pleaded not guilty last month -- is facing six counts of retaining and transmitting national defense information, which each carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 17:49:01', '2023-07-06 17:49:01'),
(7800, 7800, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A missile attack on an apartment block in western Ukraine\'s Lviv killed four people on Thursday, in what its mayor said was the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in the city since Russia\'s invasion of the country began.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Russia regularly pounds Ukraine with missiles, artillery and drones, the Lviv region, hundreds of kilometres from the frontlines and near the Polish border, has largely been spared the aerial onslaughts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"An apartment building was damaged as a result of the Russian missile attack,\" Ukraine\'s Interior Minister Igor Klymenko wrote on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The 3rd and 4th floors in two sections of the house were destroyed... As of 7:00 am (0400 GMT), 4 people were killed, 9 were injured.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescuers were working to reach those still trapped under rubble, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 50 apartments had been \"ruined\" and a dormitory at Lviv Polytechnic University had been damaged, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi posted on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is the biggest attack on Lviv\'s civilian infrastructure since the beginning\" of Russia\'s invasion, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Consequences of the night attack by Russian terrorists,\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote alongside a Telegram video post showing a damaged building.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There will definitely be a response to the enemy. A tangible one.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was unclear how many missiles had been launched.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Sorting through debris\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, regional governor Maksym Kozytski said \"several\" missiles were \"moving in the direction of the western regions\", citing Ukraine\'s Air Force Command.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A separate video posted by Kozytski showed a multi-storey building with part of its top floor destroyed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emergency services were on the scene and rescuers were \"sorting through the debris\", he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"As of now, the rubble is being dismantled,\" he said. \"We are doing everything possible to... save people.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unverified videos posted to Telegram purporting to show the aftermath of a strike showed shattered glass littering the floor of what appeared to be a dormitory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was not clear if the videos showed the same strike.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 20, Lviv was hit by a major Russian drone assault on Kyiv and other cities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has recently bolstered its air defence systems with Western-supplied weapons and the number of Russian missiles and drones breaking through has diminished.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the spokesman for Ukraine\'s air force, Yuriy Ignat, recently said that newly supplied systems were still insufficient to cover the whole country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Slow weapons deliveries to Ukraine delayed Kyiv\'s planned counteroffensive, allowing Russia to bolster its defences in occupied areas, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our slowed-down counteroffensive is happening due to certain difficulties in the battlefield. Everything is heavily mined there,\" he told CNN via a translator in the pre-taped interview. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 19:20:57', '2023-07-06 19:20:57'),
(7801, 7801, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tamim Iqbal, the ODI captain of Bangladesh, has announced his retirement from international cricket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In a surprise move, last night, Tamim called for a personal press conference today and bid farewell to international cricket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“The match I played against Afghanistan is the final match of my career,\" Tamim declared at a hotel in Chattogram, his hometown.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I have been contemplating this decision for a long time and have discussed it with my family,” the star cricketer said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The 34-year-old broke down in tears while addressing the media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\"I want to thank all my team-mates from the youth team to national team, coaches, BCB officials, my family members, and those who have been with me through my long journey. They kept faith in me,” the ODI skipper said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“I have nothing much to say. I have always tried my best. I’ve always given my 100 percent,” Tamim said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">“I have started playing cricket only to fulfill my father’s dream. Not sure how much I’ve achieved.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">He also thanked fans for their support throughout his long journey in international cricket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In his 16 years of international cricket, Tamim Iqbal scored the most ODI runs (8313) and hundreds (14) for Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In the test, Tamim scored 5134 runs — the second highest for Bangladesh — at an average of 38.89, with ten centuries in 70 matches, according to the International Cricket Council (ICC).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Tamim had previously retired from T20Is last year, but he had continued to play ODIs and Tests.<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;UNB</span></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 19:23:08', '2023-07-06 20:26:49'),
(7802, 7802, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit Rome, Italy later this month to discuss bilateral issues and attend the UN Food Systems Summit.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2023 UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment will be held in Rome, Italy on July 24-26 at the premises of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will be hosted by Italy in collaboration with the Rome-based UN Agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP), the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, and the wider UN system.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister is scheduled to be in Rome from July 23, said a diplomatic source.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is likely to have a bilateral meeting with her Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during the visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina will speak at the Food System Summit in Rome while her Italy visit is likely to see the signing of half a dozen bilateral documents in the areas of energy, migration, ICT and cyber security.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh and Italy have been discussing a possible memorandum of understanding (MoU ) on mobility and migration — to encourage regular migration and prevent irregular ones.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We want to go further in our cooperation on migration issues. In particular, creating and enlarging the existing legal channels or legal pathways for migration while stemming the irregular one,”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italian Ambassador to Bangladesh Enrico Nunziata told UNB in an interview recently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The envoy said the two countries have to deepen cooperation for preventing irregular migration, trafficking and so on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Nunziata recalled one of the deliverables during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Italy in 2020 — reinsertion of Bangladesh in the list of countries whose nationals can benefit from a quota for work.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about collaboration in the defence sector, he said there is possibility of collaboration and transfer of know-how as well on a win-win basis. “So this is another important sector.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ambassador said a memorandum of understanding in the cultural sphere for programmes of cultural exchanges is also in the pipeline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Italian ambassador also said they want to collaborate in the shipbuilding industry for the Navy or Coast Guard by sharing know-how and technologies with Bangladesh. “I mean that level of know-how that Bangladesh has not reached in shipbuilding yet. Together we can do more on that in shipbuilding as well as in other sectors.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2023 UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment will build on the momentum of the 2021 Food Systems Summit and will create a conducive space for countries to review commitments to action that were made during the Summit, share stories of success and early signs of transformation, maintain the momentum for bold acceleration and bold action to further the resilience of food systems, advocate for their adaptation to climate change, ensure they contribute to communities’ resilience to further shocks and crises, and boost the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 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, '2023-07-06 19:26:14', '2023-07-06 19:26:14'),
(7803, 7803, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) predicted that the flood situation in low-lying areas of Netrokona districts may improve in 24 hours.</span><br></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">FFWC, in its regular bulletin, said Brahmaputra River remains unchanged but Jamuna river water is in a rising trend, which may continue in 24 hours starting from 9 am on Thursday (July 06, 2023).</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Water in the Ganga-Padma Rivers is in a rising trend, which may continue in 72hours, it reads.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Besides, major rivers in the northeastern region of the country are in a falling trend except Khowai, Monu and Dhalai, which may continue in 48 hours, the bulletin said. UNB</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</p>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 19:29:26', '2023-07-06 19:29:26'),
(7804, 7804, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">More than 10 million people have signed up to Threads, Meta\'s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the company\'s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday, and will run with no ads for now, but its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of the world\'s biggest social media platforms, despite its struggles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"10 million sign ups in seven hours,\" Zuckerberg wrote on his official Threads account Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accounts were already active for celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and Hugh Jackman, as well as media outlets including The Washington Post and The Economist.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuckerberg also offered a shot across the bow at Musk -- the pair are known to be bitter rivals, and have offered to wrestle it out in a cage fight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his first tweet in over a decade, Zuckerberg posted a Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme in an apparent reference to the similarities between Threads</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Threads, he wrote: \"It\'ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn\'t nailed it. Hopefully we will.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter has said it has more than 200 million daily users.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Be kind\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Threads was introduced as a clear spin-off of Instagram, which offers a built-in audience of more than two billion users, sparing the new platform the challenge of starting from scratch.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told users that Threads was intended to build \"an open and friendly platform for conversations.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The best thing you can do if you want that too is be kind,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuckerberg is widely understood to be taking advantage of Musk\'s chaotic ownership of Twitter to push out the new product, which Meta hopes will become the go-to platform for celebrities, companies and politicians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It\'s as simple as that: if an Instagram user with a large number of followers such as Kardashian or a Bieber or a Messi begins posting on Threads regularly, a new platform could quickly thrive,\" strategic financial analyst Brian Wieser said on Substack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analyst Jasmine Engberg from Insider Intelligence said Threads only needs one out of four Instagram monthly users \"to make it as big as Twitter.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Twitter users are desperate for an alternative, and Musk has given Zuckerberg an opening,\" she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under Musk, Twitter has seen content moderation reduced to a minimum with glitches and rash decisions scaring away celebrities and major advertisers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has angered Twitter\'s most devoted aficionados by declaring that access to its TweetDeck product -- which allows users to view a fast flow of tweets at once -- would be for paying customers only.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- EU \'many months\' away -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meta has its legion of critics too, especially in Europe, which could slow the growth of Threads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company has been criticized for its handling of personal data, the essential ingredient for targeted ads that help it rake in billions of dollars in profits.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mosseri said he regretted that the launch was delayed in the European Union, but had Meta waited for regulatory clarity from Brussels, Threads would have been \"many, many, many, months away.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I was worried that our window would close, because timing is important,\" he told the tech news site Platformer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a source close to the matter, Meta was wary of a new law called the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets strict rules for the world\'s \"gatekeeper\" internet companies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One rule restricts platforms from moving user data between products, as would potentially be the case between Threads and Instagram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meta was caught doing just that after it bought WhatsApp, and European regulators will be on high alert to ensure it does not do so illegally with Threads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Globally, the Threads hashtag on Twitter has garnered over a million tweets, with many users jokingly suggesting people will return to Musk\'s platform.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"10 mins into threads app. Me coming back to Twitter,\" one user wrote, sharing a video of a man sprinting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others expressed privacy concerns.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Meta loves to collect private information and I don\'t trust the way it treats private information,\" a Japanese user tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I also have the impression that this is a company hated by EU, so I\'m reluctant.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But some said they would permanently move to Threads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One Threads user wrote: \"Now I truly can say goodbye to Twitter forever.\" 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, '2023-07-06 20:30:16', '2023-07-06 20:30:16'),
(7805, 7805, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between an ambulance and an excavator carrying truck on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Arambagh area under Sadar upazila of the district today.</b><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;\">Officer-in-charge (OC) of Gopalganj Sadar Police Station Jabed Masud said the accident occurred in Arambagh area around 7:30am when an ambulance collided head-on with an excavator carrying truck, leaving one person dead on the spot and seven others injured seriously.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police and fire service personnel rushed to the spot and rescued the injured and brought them to Gopalganj 250-bed General Hospital and three others died after being brought to the hospital, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rests of the injured are receiving treatment at the hospital, the OC added. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 20:32:52', '2023-07-06 20:32:52'),
(7806, 7806, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the next BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand later this year.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Before the BIMSTEC Summit, foreign ministers retreat will be held.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen confirmed it after his meeting with Secretary (East) at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India Saurabh Kumar.0.</div><div><br></div><div>The foreign secretary said Bangladesh will be the next chair of the BIMSTEC while the next secretary general of the BIMSTEC will be from India.</div><div><br></div><div>India has an interest in knowing the priorities of the next chair,  Masud said.</div><div><br></div><div>Kumar arrived in Dhaka on Thursday to discuss BIMSTEC issues with FS Momen.</div><div><br></div><div>Secretary Director General (South Asia) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs A.T.M. Rokebul Haque received  Kumar upon his arrival in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma was also present.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 21:58:08', '2023-07-06 23:55:40'),
(7807, 7807, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two motorcycle riders were killed and one other was injured as a train hit their motorcycle in Santhia upazila of the district this morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased were identified as Jamirul Islam, 32, and Md Babu, 25. They were the residents in Kabarikola area in the upazila. They were heading towards Biramhinpur riding on the motorcycle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sub-Inspector of Ishwardi GRP Thana Islam Alimulla said the accident occurred at around 6 am in Chandipur rail level crossing. Jamirul and Babu died on the spot.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured person was admitted to a local hospital. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 22:04:39', '2023-07-06 22:04:39');
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(7808, 7808, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and chief patron of Jatiya Party Begum Raushan Ershad has urged the government to take quick steps to tackle the flood situation in the country.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The government will have to take quick steps to tackle the flood situation,\" she said in a statement today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Due to the severe erosion of the Jamuna River caused by the upstream flow of water, many lands and houses in Tangail and Sirajganj are going under water,\" said Raushan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the rise in water level of different rivers, including the Dudhkumar, Dharla, Teesta and Brahmaputra, Surma and Kushiara, and nonstop rains, flood has occurred in many places of Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Kurigram, Bogura, Sirajganj, Sylhet, Sunamganj and Netrokona districts, she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Especially the situation in Sylhet and Netrokona is getting worse as many people have been marooned there,\" she said. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 22:10:00', '2023-07-06 22:10:00'),
(7809, 7809, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Thursday said Bangladesh’s uocoming natiinal election might come up for discussion apart from other issues of mutual interest during the visit of a high-level US delegation next week.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Many issues will be discussed. Election issues may come up for discussion as one of the issues. We are not ruling out this,” he told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign secretary said human rights, Rohingya repatriation, trade, labour and other issues of mutual interest will come up for discussion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Uzra Zeya will lead the US delegation during the July 11-14 visit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu and Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia, USAID Änjali Kaur will be part of the delegation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign secretary said&nbsp; Zeya is a relatively senior US official and her mandated area is quite wide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen said he does not have any information that the US delegation is coming to discuss only the election issue but it is the continuation of various bilateral mechanisms that the two countries have.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka witnessed a series of visits from Washington in the recent past, including a visit by Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, in March 19-23, 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Donald Lu also visited Bangladesh earlier this year. Lu has been heavily involved in setting Washington\'s Bangladesh policy in the recent past.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the new visa policy was officially announced by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on May 25, Lu appeared as the public face of the move, making appearances in Bangladeshi media to explain how it would be implemented.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, in a weekly media briefing at the Ministry, Director General (Additional Charge) of Public Diplomacy Wing Mohammad Rafiqul Alam said the visit of the US delegation led by Uzra Zeya is basically an effort to advance the friendly relations between the two countries and strengthen the communication further.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US delegation will also visit the Rohingya camp apart from their engagements at various levels.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zeya leads global diplomatic efforts to strengthen democracy, advance universal human rights, support refugees and humanitarian relief, promote rule of law and counternarcotics cooperation, fight corruption and intolerance, prevent armed conflict, and eliminate human trafficking. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 23:14:34', '2023-07-06 23:14:34'),
(7810, 7810, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her Awami League government wants the continuation of the democratic process to maintain the country’s development spree.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We want the democratic process to continue in the country. As the democratic process is going on we have been able to develop the country and we have attained the status of a developing nation,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister said this while inaugurating a new office for officers of the Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat at the Parliament Bhaban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said that the country’s democratic trend is the result of long struggle and all have to keep in mind that It did not happen overnight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“But for this stable condition it would not have been possible (to achieve these),” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina said the country had to repeatedly encounter problems on its way to progress.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“After forming the government in 2009 we have been in the government till now. We have been able to strengthen our democratic process. As a result the whole country has changed,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina said Bangladesh witnessed massive development as a stable democracy has been prevailing since 2009.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury also spoke on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She told the prime minister that the activities of the office of Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat would be fully shifted to new office compound.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, an archive on life, works and struggles of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the War of Liberation will also be built there by next October, the speaker added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the afternoon, the PM inaugurated the newly constructed office of the Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat by cutting a ribbon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speaker, deputy leader of the House Matia Chowdhury, Cabinet members, deputy speaker, chief whip and whips, Members of Parliament and officials concerned were present on the occasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the premier went around different sections of the newly built office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On arrival at the new office compound, the prime minister was received by the speaker. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-06 23:54:28', '2023-07-06 23:54:28'),
(7811, 7811, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 64 this year.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the period, 661 more 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;\">Of the new patients, 433 were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and the rest outside it, according to DGHS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 2, 129 dengue patients, including 1, 490 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;\">So far, the DGHS has recorded 11, 116 dengue cases, 8, 923 recoveries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read: This year’s dengue death toll rises to 62 with another death in 24 hours</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country logged 281 dengue deaths in 2022 – the highest on record after 179 deaths recorded in 2019. Also, it recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries last year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 00:32:09', '2023-07-07 00:32:09'),
(7812, 7812, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said BNP is involved in conspiracies and ill efforts to make the next general election voter-less.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The spontaneous participation of the people in recent elections, including the city corporation polls, proves that they have great interests in elections,\" he said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said even though BNP and its allies did not participate in those elections, the voter turnout was over 50 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country\'s people have turned away from BNP and the party has lost public support, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP is isolated from the people and is afraid of facing them, and that is why the BNP leaders are involved in multifaceted conspiracies and evil efforts to make the general election voter-less, the AL general secretary said, adding that BNP is carrying out propaganda about the election in fear of their poor public support.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said as the country\'s people do not trust BNP, none of their plans will succeed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assuring that the upcoming parliamentary polls will be held in a free, fair and peaceful manner with spontaneous participation of voters, Quader said the government could be changed through people\'s mandate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said BNP is the founder of voter-less election in this country, while military dictator Ziaur Rahman tried to get constitutional legitimacy by holding a so-called \"Yes-No\" vote and following his footprints, his wife Begum Khaleda Zia organised an election of farce without voters on February 15, 1996.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the BNP regimes, the Election Commission (EC) had no ability to work independently and impartially as the EC was under the control of the Prime Minister\'s Office, the road transport and bridges minister said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the successful statesman and Bangabandhu\'s daughter, Sheikh Hasina, has turned the EC into an independent entity as per the constitutional provisions and also increased the financial capacity of the commission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"In particular, to strengthen the constitutional process, a specific law has been enacted on the formation of the EC,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Claiming that no institution was run independently during the BNP regime, the AL general secretary said the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) was a toothless tiger during its periods and the judiciary functioned following the ideology of BNP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By appointing partisan and controversial people, he said, the BNP stigmatised the then caretaker government and the country\'s democratic institutions, including the EC.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said no democratic institutions were established during the BNP regimes rather the party destroyed the democratic and constitutional institutions aiming to usurp the state power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP destroyed all institutions and made the state system ineffective after seizing the state power, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP will resume destructive politics if it comes to power again as the party traditionally has no faith in democratic system and constitutional process, the AL general secretary said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"On the other hand, the Awami League government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has increased the capacity of all institutions apart from establishing democratic institutions,\" he added. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 00:35:06', '2023-07-07 00:35:06'),
(7813, 7813, '<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"><b>US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Uzra Zeya has said the US looks forward to deepening their partnership with Bangladesh.</b></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">She met Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Muhammad Imran in Washington on Thursday and they had a \"productive\" discussion.</p><div data-position=\"desktop-details-article-right\" class=\"m-0 p-0\" style=\"font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"></div><span style=\"font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Thank you, Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Muhammad Imran for a productive discussion on democracy, human rights, fair labor practices and humanitarian cooperation. I look forward to deepening our strong partnership,\" she tweeted.</div></span><p style=\"font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Zeya will lead the US delegation during the July 11-14 visit.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu and Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia, USAID Änjali Kaur will be part of the delegation.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said on Thursday Zeya is a relatively senior US official and her mandated area is quite wide.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">He said Bangladesh’s uocoming natiinal election might come up for discussion apart from other issues of mutual interest during the visit of a high-level US delegation next week.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">“Many issues will be discussed. Election issues may come up for discussion as one of the issues. We are not ruling out this,” he told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</p><div data-position=\"desktop-details-article-left\" class=\"m-0 p-0\" style=\"font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"></div><span style=\"font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign secretary said human rights, Rohingya repatriation, trade, labour and other issues of mutual interest will come up for discussion.</div></span><p style=\"font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Momen said he does not have any information that the US delegation is coming to discuss only the election issue but it is the continuation of various bilateral mechanisms that the two countries have.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Dhaka witnessed a series of visits from Washington in the recent past, including a visit by Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, in March 19-23, 2022.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Lu also visited Bangladesh earlier this year. He has been heavily involved in setting Washington\'s Bangladesh policy in the recent past.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">After the new visa policy was officially announced by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on May 25, Lu appeared as the public face of the move, making appearances in Bangladeshi media to explain how it would be implemented.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Meanwhile, in a weekly media briefing at the Ministry, Director General (Additional Charge) of Public Diplomacy Wing Mohammad Rafiqul Alam said the visit of the US delegation led by Uzra Zeya is basically an effort to advance the friendly relations between the two countries and strengthen the communication further.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">The US delegation will also visit the Rohingya camp apart from their engagements at various levels.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Zeya leads global diplomatic efforts to strengthen democracy, advance universal human rights, support refugees and humanitarian relief, promote rule of law and counternarcotics cooperation, fight corruption and intolerance, prevent armed conflict, and eliminate human trafficking.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Uzra Zeya also had a separate meeting with Indian Ambassador to USA Taranjit Singh Sandhu.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">\"Deepening US-India ties to benefit the Indo-Pacific region!\" she tweeted.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\">Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi\'s June visit, they discussed their mutual efforts to advance a \"more open, free, prosperous, and secure Indo-Pacific.\"- UNB</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"><span style=\"font-family: \"Noto Serif Bengali\", serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">bnbd24/kha</span><br></p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 20:01:49', '2023-07-08 04:19:38'),
(7814, 7814, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials said today.</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The summer monsoon brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall between June and September every year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For all latest news, follow The Daily Star\'s Google News channel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is vital for the livelihoods of millions of farmers and food security in a region of around two billion people -- but it also brings landslides and floods.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Fifty deaths have been reported in different rain-related incidents all over Pakistan since the start of the monsoon on June 25,\" a national disaster management official told AFP, adding that 87 people were injured during this period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The majority of the deaths were in eastern Punjab province, and were mainly due to electrocution and building collapses, official data showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the bodies of eight children were recovered from a landslide in the Shangla district on Thursday, according to the emergency service Rescue 1122\'s spokesman Bilal Ahmed Faizi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said rescuers were still searching for other children trapped in the debris.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials in Lahore, Pakistan\'s second-largest city, said it had received record-breaking rainfall on Wednesday, turning roads into rivers and leaving almost 35 percent without electricity and water this week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Meteorological Department has predicted more heavy rainfall nationwide in the days ahead and warned of potential flooding in the catchment areas of Punjab\'s major rivers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The province\'s disaster management authority said Friday it is working to relocate people living along the waterways.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists have said climate change is making seasonal rains heavier and more unpredictable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last summer, unprecedented monsoon rains put a third of Pakistan under water, damaging two million homes and killing more than 1,700 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Storms killed at least 27 people, including eight children, in the country\'s northwest early last month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan, which has the world\'s fifth largest population, is responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to officials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, it is one of the most vulnerable nations to the extreme weather caused by global warming.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kha</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 20:05:29', '2023-07-07 20:05:29'),
(7815, 7815, '<div><b>Five Rohingyas were&nbsp; killed early Friday in a gunfight between two criminal groups over establishing dominance in a Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya of Cox\'s Bazar, police said.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Four of the deceased were identified as Anwar Hossain, 24, Md Hamim, 16, Nojibullah, and Nur Amin.</div><div><br></div><div>The clash took place at Balukhali Camp-8 around 6 am on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>Quoting locals, Ukhia Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sheikh Mohammad Ali said, \"There was a gunfight between two armed factions, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO).\"</div><div><br></div><div>Also read: Man killed in gunfight between ARSA, RSO groups in Ukhiya Rohingya camp, police say</div><div><br></div><div>On information, a joint team of the Armed Police Battalion and police reached the spot.</div><div><br></div><div>“However, the criminals fled the scene before our arrival and five people were found shot at the scene. The injured were taken to an International Organisation for Migration (IOM)-run hospital where doctors declared them dead,” OC Mohammad Ali said.</div><div><br></div><div>Also read: Rohingya man shot dead at Ukhiya camp</div><div><br></div><div>Police surveillance has been increased in the camp area. Efforts are on to nab those involved in the incident, the police official said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kha</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 20:08:38', '2023-07-07 20:08:38'),
(7816, 7816, '<h1 style=\"line-height: 34px; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: conv_abhayalibre-regular, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 240);\"><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\"><b>The test run of the metro rail from Agargaon to Motijheel section will commence today.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">The test run will be inaugurated by Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader at 4:00 pm, as confirmed by the Metro Rail authorities on Thursday.</p><div data-position=\"desktop-details-article-right\" class=\"m-0 p-0\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"></div><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The test run follows an experimental train journey that took place on Wednesday night along the same route. The trial marks a significant step in assessing the functionality of the metro rail before it becomes operational for commuters.</div></span><p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">The performance test, part of the trial run, will commence from Agargaon on the MRT-6 line. The train will traverse through Bijoy Saroni, Farmgate, Kawran Bazar, Shahbagh, Dhaka University, and conclude at Secretariat Station in Motijheel.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">According to Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) Deputy General Manager Nazmul Islam Bhuiyan, the performance test will be succeeded by integration and functional testing, then a full-scale trial run, before finally launching passenger service.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">This development is a progression of the metro rail project that began with the opening of the Uttara-Agargaon section on December 28 of last year by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">The performance test for this section began on May 11 last year and took eighteen months to complete. However, the Agargaon to Motijheel section is expected to conclude in just three months.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">DMTCL officials shared that the performance test will involve running empty trains at slow speeds. This section\'s construction, which includes the rail and electric lines, has been completed. The functional test will evaluate the newly built viaduct and stations, while the integrated test will assess the cohesiveness of the trains, lines, and electrical systems.</p><div data-position=\"desktop-details-article-left\" class=\"m-0 p-0\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"></div><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister Obaidul Quader announced earlier that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Agargaon-Motijheel section in October, while the Motijheel-Kamalapur section is slated to open in June 2025.</div></span><p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"></p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">The Agargaon to Motijheel section encompasses stations at Bijoy Sarani, Farmgate, Karwan Bazar, Shahbagh, TSC, Secretariat, and Motijheel.</p><p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 18px;\">bnbd24/kha</p></h1>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 20:16:20', '2023-07-07 20:16:20'),
(7817, 7817, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Myanmar\'s military-controlled government is accusing pro-democracy fighters of killing 15 civilians in a nighttime mortar attack in a restive central area of the country, charges denied by the guerrilla group.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A report Thursday in the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper said so-called People\'s Defense Forces attacked the village of Ngwe Twin in the southern part of the Sagaing region at 4 a.m. Wednesday with handmade mortars, killing 15 people and injuring seven others, including three monks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Loosely organized armed PDF groups have sprung up around the country since the military seized power from democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1, 2021. The groups support the pro-democracy National Unity Government, a shadow civilian administration opposed to military rule, though they operate autonomously from it.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NUG did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on the attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the military\'s seizure of power, widespread peaceful opposition to the takeover has shifted to armed resistance in many parts of the country and the PDF groups have allied themselves with several armed ethnic minority groups that have been fighting for greater autonomy in Myanmar for decades.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response, the army has launched brutal counter-insurgency operations in the countryside, including burning villages and driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sagaing, Myanmar’s historic heartland, is a stronghold of armed resistance to the ruling military but the village of Ngwe Twin is one of the few seen as sympathetic to the government, where residents reportedly were assisting in the army\'s counter-insurgency operations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The military government’s tight restrictions on travel make it virtually impossible to verify details of such incidents firsthand, but a member of a regional PDF contacted by The Associated Press confirmed the attack, saying the village was targeted because a pro-military militia operating from it had been aiding the army and also harassing pro-democracy villagers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fighter, speaking on condition of anonymity over fear of reprisals from the military, said all 15 people killed were members of the pro-military militia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that resistance forces had evacuated children and elderly people from the village during the fighting, and that he had no immediate reports of any civilian casualties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another PDF group involved in the attack, known as the People\'s Servant Revolution-Wetlet, said on its Facebook page that 19 members of the military and its affiliated militia were killed and 20 others were injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A family member who lost his 14-year-old brother in the attack, however, told AP that 11 villagers who had been sheltering in the compound of a Buddhist monastery had been killed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man, who asked that his name not be used for fear of reprisals from both the military and the PDF militias, lives in another village but said he had been told the other four people killed were members of the pro-military militia and their family members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, 3,750 civilians have been killed by the security forces and nearly 24,000 attested since the army seized power. The group keeps detailed tallies of arrests and casualties linked to the nation’s political conflicts. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 22:25:46', '2023-07-07 22:25:46'),
(7818, 7818, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality is ‘moderate’ on Friday morning&nbsp; as monsoon is fairly active in Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 53, the capital of Bangladesh ranked 51st in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality at 9:00 am today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa’s Johannesburg, UAE’s Dubai, and Indonesia’s Jakarta occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 184, 168, and 161, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered ‘good’ while an AQI between 50 and 100 is considered ‘moderate’ with an acceptable air quality. Meanwhile, an AQI between 101 and 200 is considered ‘unhealthy’, particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘poor’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered ‘hazardous’, posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants – Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person\'s chances of developing heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 22:31:42', '2023-07-07 22:31:42'),
(7819, 7819, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">International Criminal Court’s Chief prosecutor Karim Khan has laid emphasis on accelerating efforts to bring justice for the Rohingyas.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a media briefing in Dhaka on Friday afternoon, he said there is a gap between promises and delivery of justice.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief prosecutor Karim Khan visited Cox’s Bazar to hear testimony from survivors of alleged genocide by Myanmar’s military against its Rohingya population.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I gave a commitment to the Rohingyas,\" he said, adding that he would come again next year as they seek to find out who are responsible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ICC prosecutor said he has done his best to increase resources for the case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On visit to Kutupalong Camp, Karim Khan met with Rohingya youth groups to discuss ICC activities and consider how young people can contribute to justice efforts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said it is essential to empower children and young adults as valued partners in the process of accountability.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In first meeting at Kutupalong Camp,&nbsp; Khan spoke with Rohingya womens groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He highlighted the common vision that needed to increase access to reporting mechanisms, deepen understanding of ICC work, and deliver results through independent investigations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp is a home of over 1.1 million Rohingyas that fled violence in Myanmar.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutor Khan explained the objectives of his visit and their ongoing work with the survivors and the families of victims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Bangladesh is holding the flag of justice and thanked its generosity of sheltering the Rohingyas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Foreign Minster AK Abdul Momen sought efforts from the&nbsp; ICC to resolve the case related to the Rohingyas as soon as possible — to ensure that genocide never happens again anywhere in the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You should put in efforts to finish the case as fast as possible. Justice delayed, justice denied,\" he said to ICC prosecutor on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November 2019, the International Criminal Court judges granted a request to open a full investigation into alleged atrocities committed against the Rohingyas within the jurisdiction of the court.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This authorisation to open an investigation is seen as a “significant development” for the pursuit of justice and the establishment of the truth, in particular for the victims of alleged crimes in this situation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigators from the Office of the Prosecutor are now carefully and thoroughly seeking to uncover the truth regarding what happened to the Rohingya people in Myanmar which forced them to flee to Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen said those involved in Rohingya genocide should be held accountable. \"We say genocide never again.\" UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 22:35:19', '2023-07-07 22:35:19'),
(7820, 7820, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Six people died and 81 people were admitted to hospital with smoke poisoning after a fire broke out at a residential care home for the elderly in Italy\'s Milan in the early hours of Friday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victims, five women and one man, were aged between 69 and 87 Two women are said to have burned to death in the room where the fire reportedly started from a bed, while the other victims reportedly died from smoke inhalation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In total, the structure hosted 167 people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Six deaths are a very heavy toll,\" said Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala, who visited the building with city councillor for security Marco Granelli.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The public prosecutor\'s office has opened an investigation for multiple manslaughter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and said the regional authorities had \"immediately made themselves available\" to help find alternative accommodation for the displaced elderly residents. ANSA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 22:39:50', '2023-07-07 22:39:50'),
(7821, 7821, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 65 this year.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the period, 182 more 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;\">Of the new patients, 72 were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and the rest outside it, according to DGHS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 2,165 dengue patients, including 1,528 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;\">So far, the DGHS has recorded 11,298 dengue cases, 9,068 recoveries this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country logged 281 dengue deaths in 2022 – the highest on record after 179 deaths recorded in 2019. Also, it recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries last year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 22:43:28', '2023-07-07 22:43:28'),
(7822, 7822, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today said BNP was not called for holding any dialogue.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A recent statement of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir gives the impression that we have called them for a dialogue. But they were not called for dialogues,\" he said, replying to a query of reporters at his official residence in the city\'s Minto Road.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister reaffirmed that there is no scope of holding any dialogue on caretaker government issue.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Hasan said the next general elections will be held as per the constitution of Bangladesh and the incumbent government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will act as the polls-time government. BNP must accept the reality, he added.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said BNP\'s demand for a caretaker government didn\'t get any support from home and international arena. The demand \"died in the field\" and it was rejected by the global community, he said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP will have to come in the polls by accepting the reality, the information minister continued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to another query over the upcoming visit of a delegation of European Union (EU) at the invitation of the Election Commission (EC), Dr Hasan said this visit is very important and it proves that the EC is working independently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the independent EC invites the delegation to hold a free, fair, neutral and participatory election. The delegation will assess the situation for sending observers and preparations for the polls. They will also hold meetings with different political parties, Dr Hasan said. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-07 23:58:45', '2023-07-07 23:58:45');
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(7823, 7823, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh\'s star batter, Tamim Iqbal, has reversed his decision to retire, roughly 30 hours after announcing it. Tamim met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday and said he had changed his mind.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, Tamim had declared his retirement from all forms of international cricket after a controversy surrounding his fitness and some harsh comments from Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hasan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have decided to change my retirement decision,\" Tamim said after the meeting with the Prime Minister. \"I cannot say no to the head of the country.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the Prime Minister had ordered him to revoke his retirement and take a leave.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During Tamim\'s meeting with the Prime Minister on Friday afternoon, former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and the BCB President were with him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For now, Tamim will be on leave from cricket for one and a half months. He is expected to make a return in the Asia Cup, scheduled to be played in August-September this year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More to follow...</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 00:08:30', '2023-07-08 00:08:30'),
(7824, 7824, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Army Chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed left Dhaka for Thailand on Friday morning on an official visit to attend the 42nd General Meeting of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to be held in the country’s Bangkok tomorrow.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will join the meeting as president of Bangladesh Olympics Association and cast vote in the executive committee election of the OCA for 2023-2027 session.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Representatives of 45 National Olympic Committees of different countries will take part in the meeting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will hold bilateral meetings with the representatives of the participating countries on different issues including sports.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army chief is scheduled to return to the country on July 11 wrapping up the tour.&nbsp; UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 01:05:37', '2023-07-08 01:05:37'),
(7825, 7825, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday expressed optimism that their planned one-point movement will lead the fall of the government.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’re very hopeful that we’ll be able to defeat this government and force it to resign, dissolve parliament and arrange the next polls under a non-party neutral government through our one-point movement as the people are now united,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leader made the remarks while talking to reporters after a meeting with the liaison committee of a faction of Gonoforum and People\'s Party at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said their party is also confident that a pro-people government will be formed through a credible election under a neutral administration to give democracy an institutional shape and restore democracy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the meeting, Fakhrul said they discussed the next course of action of the ongoing simultaneous movement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said they also talked about how and when they can initiate the one-point movement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gonoforum general Secretary Advocate Subrata Chowdhury said there will be no election without a non-partisan neutral government and people will not participate in any polls under the current regime.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“That’s why we’re going to launch the one-point movement soon,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chowdury said they reached a consensus with BNP to present a joint statement of their movement within a short possible time and then intensify their anti-government movement involving people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“A public opinion has been created in favour of holding a fair election under a neutral government. “We’re also getting cooperation from the international community in this regard,” he observed. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 04:13:30', '2023-07-08 04:13:30'),
(7826, 7826, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Criticising the United States and European Union, Russia has said the manner in which elections are conducted and organised in Bangladesh is quite clearly defined by national law.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"For our part, we support Dhaka in its desire to pursue an independent domestic and foreign policy that meets the interests of Bangladesh itself,\" Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing in Moscow on July 6.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said they have taken note of the letters published in mid-June by six MEPs to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell as well as a number of US congressmen to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, calling for assistance in conducting \"free and fair\" election in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I have never heard that Bangladesh is a member of the European Parliament before. I haven\'t heard that because it isn\'t. I didn\'t know that elections in Bangladesh were connected with the US State Department,\" said the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By the logic of the West, she said, it is the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the US Secretary of State who should issue some kind of recommendation on the need to form a “neutral transitional government” in Bangladesh for the pre-election period.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What is this but neocolonialism? What is this but a manifestation of the nature of metropolises and their attitude towards their colonies?\" — Zakharova said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said this is an attempt at blatant interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state whose authorities, as they understand it, have not asked for advice on how to conduct elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All those who are criticised by the United States or the European Union, as a rule, in the vast majority do not approach them, and ask them not to interfere in their internal affairs but to deal with their own problems at home,\" she mentioned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Union (EU) has urged all political parties to participate in the election process stressing that violence should be avoided at all costs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The EU encourages all parties and all citizens in Bangladesh to exercise their political rights and participate in the parliamentary elections,\" said High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a letter addressed to Ivan Stefanek, a representative from Slovakia in the European Parliament, Josep Borrell said violence, on the other hand, has no place in these processes and \"should be avoided at all costs.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the EU and its Member States will continue to engage closely with the government and all stakeholders in Bangladesh on human rights, democracy and the rule of law.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US is also seeking free and fair elections in Bangladesh and recently announced a new visa policy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Under this policy, the United States will be able to restrict the issuance of visas for any Bangladeshi individual, believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic election process in Bangladesh. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bndb24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 04:16:35', '2023-07-08 04:16:35'),
(7827, 7827, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>In a bid to stay alive in the three-match ODI series against Afghanistan, Bangladesh captain Liton Das decided to bowl first after winning the toss of the second game today at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh made two changes from the first game which they lost by 17 runs through DLS method with batter Naim Sheikh and fast bowler Ebadot Hossain making their way.</div><div><br></div><div>A change was expected following Tamim Iqbal\'s absence. Naim who played his last ODI in 2021, replaced the original captain for the series who was given six-week break following his reversal of the retirement decision after meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>Ebadot came in the place of Taskin Ahmed who was given rest as part of the team\'s rotation policy. Ebadot himself indeed was rested in the first game.</div><div><br></div><div>Afghanistan, eying a historical series victory over Bangladesh, with a game to spare remained unchanged as it was expected.</div><div><br></div><div>Line Ups:</div><div>Bangladesh: Liton Das (c ), Naim Sheikh, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Afif Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Ebadot Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud</div><div><br></div><div>Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Saleem Safi. According to BSS reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 19:40:49', '2023-07-08 19:40:49'),
(7828, 7828, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh\'s Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today (July 08, 2023) said he is not aware that dialogue between political parties over election brought any results in the past.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>He said the government will not talk to “any terrorists.”</div><div><br></div><div>The foreign minister said such dialogues are not held in other countries, including in the US, and referred to those as \"useless\" discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen was responding to questions on political dialogue at ‘DCAB Talk’ at the Foreign Service Academy.</div><div><br></div><div>He said foreigners can come and observe the elections. \"We remain transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said the next election will be held as per the constitution. \"We have a good track record of holding good elections. We are doing our best.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question on recent remarks by China and Russia, he said those are their remarks. \"You may ask them.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said democracy is a dynamic process and it becomes mature through practice.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the next election will be a model election in the world. \"We want all parties, who are willing, to join the elections.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The foreign minister also said there is no problem if any “terrorist party” does not join the election.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreign Minister Momen has said that he fears there are efforts of hindering the national elections.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have indication some are trying to hinder the election process,” he said, without elaborating further whether they are from Bangladesh or outside the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked who are those making such efforts to hinder elections, he sad, “You know it better. You are journalists.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) hosted the event. DCAB President Rezaul Karim Lotus and General Secretary Emrul Kayesh also spoke on the occasion. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 20:22:57', '2023-07-08 20:22:57'),
(7829, 7829, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least 10 people have died in the heavy rains and landslides pummeling Abidjan, Ivory Coast officials told AFP.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The count was a provisional toll as of Friday, according to the military\'s firefighting brigade GSPM.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We recorded 10 deaths, nine in Yopougon and one in Cocody-Angre,\" two districts of Abidjan, the country\'s largest city and economic hub, Anicet Bah, GSPM captain and deputy head of operations, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>In the industrial zone Yopougon, the first landslide struck around 3:00 am on Thursday, causing four deaths and one injury, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In the same area, a second landslide left seven people injured and another four dead, including a child, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Not far from there, in Attecoube-Mossikro, another body was pulled from the landslide at dawn.</div><div><br></div><div>Closer to the city centre, in Cocody, \"one person was swept away by the waters\" and the body was later found by residents.</div><div><br></div><div>The firefighters were told another three victims had been washed away, but Bah said the operation to find them had been called off after a search that was \"in vain\".</div><div><br></div><div>June and July bring heavy rain to Ivory Coast every year, but precarious construction has led to more flood-prone areas, particularly in poorer neighbourhoods of the swelling West African metropolis, which is home to an estimated 5.6 million people.</div><div><br></div><div>In mid-June, a family of five -- a couple and their three children -- died in a landslide in Yopougon.</div><div><br></div><div>The populous district was hit by tragedy during last year\'s rainy season as well, when six people were buried in a landslide after a night of heavy rain. According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 21:34:30', '2023-07-08 21:34:30'),
(7830, 7830, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Mumbai police have arrested four persons for allegedly stealing a 6,000-kg iron bridge placed over a drain in a western suburb, an official said on Saturday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The 90-foot-long metal structure in Malad (west) had been constructed to move huge power cables, said the official from Bangur Nagar police station.</div><div><br></div><div>After a permanent bridge was built over the drain, the temporary structure was moved to another place in the area a few months ago, he said. However, the makeshift bridge was found missing on June 26 following which the construction company filed a police complaint, the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>During their probe, the police found that the bridge was last seen at its place on June 6.</div><div><br></div><div>As there are no CCTV cameras at the spot, police scanned the footage of surveillance cameras installed in nearby areas and found a large vehicle moving in the direction of the bridge on June 11, the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>The police then tracked down the vehicle from its registration number. \"The vehicle had gas-cutting machines which were used to dismantle the bridge and steal iron weighing 6,000 kg,\" the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>Further investigation led the police to an employee of the firm that had been given the contract to build the bridge. The police arrested the staffer and three of his accomplices last week, the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>The material stolen from the site has been recovered, he added. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', '<p><br></p>', 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 21:38:26', '2023-07-08 21:38:26'),
(7831, 7831, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>As many as 299 lives were lost and 544 people were injured in 277 road accidents across the country in 15 days during Eid-ul-Azha travels, according to a report of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passenger welfare platform.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During this period 25 people were killed in 25 railway accidents and 16 people in 10 waterways accidents across the country, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The report was published on Saturday after analysing accident reports published in the country\'s national and regional dailies and online media from June 22 to July 6.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the findings of Jatri Kalyan Samity, road accidents came down by 15.16 percent while the number of deaths also decreased by 33.11 percent compared to the last year during Eid holidays, due to the good condition of roads.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the deaths, 93 people were killed in 88 road accidents involving truck, pickup and covered van, 94 killed in 91 motorbike accidents, which is 31.76 and 32.85 percent of the total accidents, the report said.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the vehicles involved in the accidents were 22.37 percent motorbikes, 23.05 percent truck-pick-up-covered van-lorry, 17.57 percent battery-run easy bikes or human haulers, 15.75 percent buses, 10.27 percent car, microbuses and jeeps, 5.57 percent three-wheelers and 4.56 percent CNG-run auto-rickshaws.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the accidents, 36.46 percent occurred on national highways, 29.24 on regional roads and 29.60 percent on roads. Besides, 1.8 percent of accidents occurred in Dhaka city.</div><div><br></div><div>The association blamed reckless driving, dangerous overtaking and movement of unfit vehicles, unskilled drivers and helpers, plying of slow-moving three-wheelers and human-haulers on highways and violation of traffic rules for the accidents and deaths. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 22:55:19', '2023-07-08 22:55:19'),
(7832, 7832, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>At least nine people were killed in election-related violence in West Bengal as voting was underway on Saturday for the three-tier panchayat polls in the state, officials said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Among those killed were five TMC members, and one worker each of the BJP, CPI(M) and Congress, and the supporter of an Independent candidate, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides violent clashes that injured several people, ballot boxes were destroyed in at least two polling booths, they added.</div><div><br></div><div>The polling began at 7 am in 73,887 seats in the rural areas of the state with 5.67 crore people deciding the fate of around 2.06 lakh candidates. Till 9 am, 10.26 per cent voter turnout was recorded.</div><div><br></div><div>Governor CV Ananda Bose visited different areas in North 24 Parganas district, and met people injured in the violence and interacted with voters.</div><div><br></div><div>BJP polling agent Madhab Biswas was allegedly killed in Falimari gram panchayat in Coochbehar district, they said. Source: PTI</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-08 23:51:11', '2023-07-08 23:51:11'),
(7833, 7833, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said he hoped the Black Sea grain deal will be extended beyond July 17.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We held an important meeting in Istanbul last year. Jointly with the UN, the Black Sea Grain Initiative was agreed upon. As part of it, 33 million tons of food has been sent to countries in need. We want the grain initiative to be extended,\" he said at a televised news conference in Istanbul following talks with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.</div><div><br></div><div>Erdogan said he hopes the Black Sea grain deal will be extended by at least three months, but said a better option would be to have it run for two more years, reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"I hope that the grain corridor agreement will be extended again, beyond July 17. We expect that it will be prolonged at least for three months, but we favor extending it by two years,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 00:00:35', '2023-07-09 00:00:35'),
(7834, 7834, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The BNP is preparing for the upcoming parliamentary elections in secret, according to Prime Minister\'s Private Industries and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He said this while addressing a meeting at Gani Sikder School ground in Bilaspur of Dohar upazila of his constituency Dhaka-1 on Saturday afternoon, according to a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The present government has made the country digital under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP is taking advantage of that digital Bangladesh to spread propaganda at home and abroad on social media. Everyone has to be aware of this,” said Salman.</div><div><br></div><div>He said, \"There is no use in holding dharnas with foreigners, foreigners want to see free and fair elections in Bangladesh, which the government is also committed to implement, therefore, the next parliamentary elections will be held through the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as per the constitution,” reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“BNP leaders and activists have engaged in propaganda fearing separation from the people,” he told.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 02:04:52', '2023-07-09 02:04:52'),
(7835, 7835, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Bank (BB) is moving forward cautiously with optimism to reduce the stress on the economy, which was created by the US dollar crisis and higher inflation.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The central bank underscored such observations in a quarterly report on the economy. It said the economy remained under stress from external effects, including rising commodity prices and supply disruptions due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, global economic slowdown, and volatility in the financial sector.</div><div><br></div><div>The issue is related to geopolitical conflicts and the situation would not be resolved overnight. So, banks and other financial institutes should be careful in future financial plans, as stated in the report.</div><div><br></div><div>The central bank publishes such reports every three months with updated data on the overall economy of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the report, Bangladesh is under pressure of geopolitical conflict for the first time. Its negative impact has not yet hit the economy. But the economy is under pressure. In this case, steps should be taken with caution.</div><div><br></div><div>A large part of the economy is dependent on the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Most of the foreign investment in Bangladesh comes from these regions. About 82 percent of exports go to these countries.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, 72 percent of imports are coming from India and China. Most of the remittances are now coming from America. There is a danger that Bangladesh\'s export earnings and remittances will be damaged due to the geopolitical conflict that has arisen at present.</div><div><br></div><div>Geopolitically, China\'s disagreement with the United States has come to the fore. Bangladesh is very careful in making decisions based on these two countries.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the United States is criticizing Bangladesh quite harshly on issues of democracy and human rights. Bangladesh is not willing to accept its criticism, although it is said that Bangladesh is focused on maintaining good relations with all countries.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the import policy of the United States has been arranged in such a way that the export income of Bangladesh to the United States has decreased by about 12 percent in the last year.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, due to some restrictions given by the US and the recent visa policy, the money of Bangladeshis is coming to the country in the form of remittances from the US and the remittance flow increased suddenly from the US.</div><div><br></div><div>The report said Bangladesh is already dealing with the negative impact of price-hiked goods in the global market and the disruption of the supply system due to the effect of the Russia-Ukraine war. Its effects are still there.</div><div><br></div><div>The global economic slowdown caused by the war\'s impact is still hitting Bangladesh\'s economy. There was instability in the financial sector. Now it has started to ease. The supply of liquidity in banks is increasing.</div><div><br></div><div>The Central Bank has expressed optimism that this situation will improve in the coming days. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 02:22:25', '2023-07-09 02:22:25'),
(7836, 7836, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said Bangladesh is not subservient to any country while it never tilted towards China as Dhaka maintains a “balanced and independent” foreign policy.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We are not anyone’s tail . . . We are not China’s tail,” he said speaking at an interaction with members of Diplomatic Reporters Association of Bangladesh (DCAB) at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen added: “Some people think we are rushing towards China, but (actually) we are not heading towards anyone.”</div><div><br></div><div>He called Beijing a development partner but ruled out any possibility of being exposed to “Chinese debt trap”, an idea which, he said, was propagated by some groups or ‘pundits’.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is a wrong perception. Some pundits say this and many believe it, especially some foreign institutions. Under no circumstance, will we fall into Chinese debt trap”, Momen said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are very prudent, careful in taking foreign loans. We do not take unnecessary loans”.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said Bangladesh steadily continued to follow Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic foreign policy - Friendship to All, Malice towards None – to pursue its aim to ensure the country’s development through public welfare.</div><div><br></div><div>The foreign minister termed Dhaka’s ties with next door neighbour India “rock-solid” and “we are in a golden chapter in our relations with India”.</div><div><br></div><div>He said Dhaka-Washington relation was good as well and according to US President Joe Biden himself Washington wants to improve relations with Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka, Momen said, was maintaining close ties with Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have good relations with all countries. That is why when we contest any election in the UN, we win,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>According to IMF, a country could be exposed to risks of being debt-trapped if over 55 percent of its overseas loan comes from a single source or country.</div><div><br></div><div>But, Momen said, foreign loans stake in Bangladesh’s GDP was 13.78 percent, of which 61 percent was provided by international agencies like ADB, IMF and the World Bank while Japan became Bangladesh’s highest single country loan provider with 17 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>From China, the foreign minister said, Bangladesh took US$ 3.5 billion, which is 0.75 percent of the total GDP.</div><div><br></div><div>DCAB organised the event as its flagship programme while the interaction was moderated by the forum’s President Rezaul Karim Lotus. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 02:33:04', '2023-07-09 02:33:04'),
(7837, 7837, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>In a month-long special mosquito eradication drive that began on Saturday, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) collected a total of Tk 14.85 lakh in fines from 17 cases for finding larvae.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"No one knows where I will go in the mosquito eradication drive. Everything is cleaned up when notified in advance. So, I will go for a surprise visit to different wards without informing anyone to see the actual situation. I don\'t trust anyone in this case. I will go wherever I want and take action,” said DNCC Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Saturday, according to a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>The mayor said this while conducting a surprise visit to Mohammadpur area of the capital on Saturday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>During this time, he visited the basement of some high-rise buildings in Japan Garden City. After going to the basement of the three buildings, the mayor found numerous Aedes mosquitoes in the stagnant water.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The city corporation will not clean the stagnant water inside the building. Our staff cannot enter these buildings. Not only this area, but many buildings and houses in Dhaka have been blocked from entering for our staff,” said the mayor.</div><div><br></div><div>“Aedes larvae grows more in stagnant water inside the house than in other places. Studies have shown that about 48 percent of Aedes larvae grow in basements where cars are kept and washed. Therefore, the building owner has to take the responsibility of keeping the environment inside the building clean,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question from a journalist, the mayor said, \"We have been working in the field to eliminate mosquitoes since before the monsoon season. We have added members of BNCC and Bangladesh Scouts to the campaign.”</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am in the field; all my councillors will be in the field. I appeal to the leaders of various residential areas, representatives of the society to keep your area clean. If everyone cooperates, it will be possible to control dengue,” the mayor also said. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 02:37:53', '2023-07-09 02:37:53'),
(7838, 7838, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Do you remember Anil Kapoor\'s Mr Brij Nath in Tom Cruise-starrer Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol? Kapoor\'s special appearance was the talk of the town, and Tom extensively promoted the fourth instalment of his franchise in India. As a result, Ghost Protocol was among the highest-grossing Hollywood films of 2011 in India.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tom continues to keep the Indian connection with his franchise intact, as the upcoming movie, Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part 1 will feature another Indian-origin actor in a special role. The upcoming movie will release in a few days, and fans will be surprised, as actress Indira Varma will be seen making her debut in Tom Cruise\'s blockbuster action franchise.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Indira is popularly known for playing Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones. Apart from GOT, Indira has been part of several other television dramas including, The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, and Human Target. Indira\'s major debut in films was Mira Nair\'s Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. In the erotic drama, Indira played a courtesan. Varma was even part of Jinnah and was seen in Aishwarya Rai-starrer, Bride and Prejudice (2004).</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Cruise\'s upcoming actioner, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One is a few days away from its grand release. The film is one of the most anticipated flicks in India, and Bollywood producers are racing to attach their trailer with the prints of the Hollywood film. As per the source, the teaser of Shah Rukh Khan\'s Jawan has claimed it\'s lion share attaching the teaser to M: I 7.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, as per the latest update, not only Shah Rukh Khan but Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar, Prabhas, and Akshay Kumar among others seem to have their eyes on Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One. Sources claim that Karan Johar\'s Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani, Prabhas\' Salaar, and Akshay Kumar-starrer OMG 2 are among a few other big Indian films that are now in the race to have their film trailers attached to the Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One as well.</div><div><br></div><div>A trade source added, \"Being one of the biggest international releases for 2023, having actors and films from India set their eyes on it in such a big way is certainly not unusual. Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible as a franchise are of course also viewed as extremely lucrative associations to bet on as per Indian makers and major Indian stars. Jawan\'s makers and SRK took the plunge early on and ensured their top spot with their trailer. And now with the unparalleled buzz around the film all over the country, stars like Akshay Kumar, Prabhas and Ranveer Singh are also pushing to ensure their space in the Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One trailer lineup\", says the trade insider signing off.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One is the seventh instalment in Tom Crusie\'s celebrated spy-thriller franchise. The movie will release in cinemas on July 12. Source: DNA</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 02:42:11', '2023-07-09 02:42:11'),
(7839, 7839, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hundreds of German police have used batons and pepper spray to quell crowds targeting an Eritrean cultural festival in the central town of Giessen.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protesters were angry that the festival went ahead in Giessen, calling it a propaganda exercise by the authoritarian Eritrean regime.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A police statement said clashes took place for hours on Saturday, and that 26 police officers were injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police arrested nearly 100 people and had to stop traffic in the town centre.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police statement said protesters threw bottles and stones at police, damaged some vehicles and ripped down fencing around the festival venue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also threw stones at buses carrying participants to the festival, the statement said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Video on Twitter appears to show crowds of protesters engaged in running battles with police in the town.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The town authorities had tried to stop the festival going ahead after similar unrest erupted last year, but a local court overturned the ban.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giessen has about 84,000 residents and lies roughly 50km (30 miles) north of Frankfurt am Main.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival is organised by the Central Council for Eritreans in Germany, which is considered close to the Eritrean embassy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years Germany has granted asylum to many Eritreans - they form one of the largest groups of African migrants seeking to settle in the EU.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human rights organisations have documented large-scale abuses by the authorities in Eritrea, including strict censorship, forced labour and military conscription that is likened to slavery. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 12:45:15', '2023-07-09 12:45:15'),
(7840, 7840, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The first spell of heavy monsoon rain created mayhem in residential and commercial areas of Delhi on Saturday, with inundated roads and overflowing drains leading to massive waterlogging and paralysed traffic for hours.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Safdarjung observatory, the city\'s primary weather station, recorded 126.1 mm rainfall between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Delhi government officials, the city received more than 100 mm rain in a single day, which is 15 per cent of the total rainfall it gets every monsoon. This much water cannot be drained while the rain is still on, they said, adding that once the rain stopped, the water was cleared rapidly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The morning rain that continued for several hours led to water gushing into the storerooms of the city\'s most popular shopping destination, Connaught Place, and a closure of the Minto Bridge underpass for traffic due to waterlogging.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mess caused by the rain also exposed the preparations of various civic bodies ahead of September, when six G20 Summit events, including the summit meeting, are scheduled to take place in the national capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Motorists and pedestrians had a hard time navigating waterlogged roads, flyovers and footpaths, while traders faced trouble stopping the rain water entering their shops in several areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the season\'s first heavy spell of rain. An \"orange\" alert was sounded for Saturday and a \"yellow\" alert has been sounded for Sunday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The traffic department received 56 calls related to waterlogging, six regarding fallen trees and five related to potholes, it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minto Bridge underpass has been closed for vehicular traffic due to the incessant rains that have led to waterlogging. Heavy waterlogging was also reported from the Tilak Bridge underpass.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Waterlogging was reported from the Pandav Nagar underpass, Purana Quila Road, Dwarka Link Road, NH-48 near Shiv Murti, Rohtak Road, Vikas Marg, under the AIIMS flyover, under the Moolchand flyover, Mother Teresa Crescent-Sardar Patel Marg and under Tilak Bridge among other places, the traffic police said. 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, '2023-07-09 12:50:46', '2023-07-09 12:50:46'),
(7841, 7841, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Fourteen people have died in the partial collapse of an illegally occupied building in northeastern Brazil, the authorities said Saturday, as they concluded a search for survivors.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, a toll of 11 dead was announced, but firefighters searching through the debris later found the bodies of a woman and two children following the collapse Friday in Paulista, a city in the state of Pernambuco.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dead included men, women and children, aged five to 45, according to a statement Saturday from the Pernambuco civil defense services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three people -- a 65-year-old woman and two adolescents -- were rescued. The authorities provided no information on their condition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three-story structure, which was attached to a larger housing complex, had been closed in 2010 due to a risk of collapse but had been illegally occupied since then, the authorities said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In April, a building in similar condition collapsed in the city of Olinda, also in Pernambuco, leaving six people dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Building collapses in Brazil generally happen in poorer neighborhoods where illegal construction is rampant.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2020, two irregularly constructed buildings in a poor neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro collapsed after days of intense rainfall. Twenty-four people died. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 14:16:13', '2023-07-09 14:16:13'),
(7842, 7842, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With the effects of climate change mounting, Amazon basin countries met in Colombia for a summit Saturday to strategize on how to save the world\'s biggest rainforest.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"To sustain the Amazon, according to science, we need to keep 80 percent of its forests standing and not manage to go beyond 20 percent deforestation, and unfortunately we are already at 17,\" said Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Losing the Amazon, reaching the point of no return, has irreversible consequences for global climate change,\" she warned at the meeting attended by representatives from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rainforests are often called the \"lungs of the Earth,\" soaking up planet-warming carbon dioxide and expelling life-giving oxygen. Their protection is crucial in the battle to combat climate change.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a bit of rare good news, deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon fell by one-third in the first six months of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\'s administration compared to the same period last year, the government said last week.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula\'s leftist government also has pledged to seize half of all land deforested illegally in areas designated as having special environmental protection, set aside three million hectares (7.4 million acres) of protected land by 2027, and strengthen Brazil\'s network for environmental monitoring. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 14:20:44', '2023-07-09 14:20:44'),
(7843, 7843, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the ‘moderate’ zone this morning (July 9, 2023).</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 71 at 8:45am, Dhaka ranked 18th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Arab Emirates\' Dubai, Pakistan’s Karachi, India’s Delhi and Qatar’s Doha occupied the first four spots on the list, with AQI scores of 172, 153, 153 and 151, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 50 and 100 is considered ‘moderate’ with acceptable air quality. However, there may be a health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 150 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', and a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 15:19:13', '2023-07-09 15:19:13');
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(7844, 7844, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Six people were killed when a small plane crashed in a field and burst into flames during the second of two landing attempts in fog just before dawn Saturday at a Southern California airport, authorities said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crash of the Cessna C550 business jet occurred around 4:15 a.m. in Murrieta, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish the flames, which charred about an acre of vegetation at the edge of French Valley Airport, said the Riverside County Fire Department.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The jet, which can seat up to 13 people, crashed about 500 feet (150 meters) short of the intended runway, said Elliott Simpson, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read: How 4 children survived 40 days after plane crash in Colombia’s jungle</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Most of the airplane, with the exception of the tail, was consumed by fire,” Simpson told reporters at an afternoon briefing. Investigators were combing through a debris field about 200 feet (60 meters) long, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All six people on board died at the scene, the Riverside County Sheriff\'s Office said in a statement. The victims, all adults, were not immediately identified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plane, which had departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for the 45-minute flight to Murietta, crashed during its second approach, the NTSB said. The pilot was cleared for a landing using only instruments because of limited visibility from the low cloud ceiling, Simpson said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The visibility and ceilings allowed for a landing, but it was right on the minimums\" of the regulations set for that airport, he said. Investigators will review recordings between the pilot and air traffic control.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A preliminary report was expected in about two weeks, the NTSB said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FAA’s aircraft tracking database lists the jet as owned by Prestige Worldwide Flights LLC of Imperial, California. Officials with the company could not be reached for comment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the second fatal crash this week at the small county-owned airport in Murrieta, a city with about 112,000 residents. A man was killed and three people were injured on July Fourth when a single-engine Cessna 172 crashed in a parking lot shortly after takeoff from French Valley. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 15:22:13', '2023-07-09 15:22:13'),
(7845, 7845, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The world for people of remote areas in the northern district, Panchagarh, has changed in just 15 years.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are now enjoying cashless services, which makes life much easier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">People living in remote areas of Panchagarh are utilising the opportunities of ‘Digital Bangladesh’, a campaign initiated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2009.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The success of transforming Bangladesh into ‘Digital Bangladesh’ has created the solid ground to move towards a ‘Smart Bangladesh’, which was announced by the Prime Minister recently.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has set four bases — smart citizens, smart economy, smart government and smart society — to make the country \'Smart Bangladesh\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aim: every citizen will be skilled in using technology, economic activities will run through using technology, and the government will be technologically smart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What was unthinkable before 2009 is now the reality for people in remote Panchagarh, as they are getting over 20 important services at home without any hassle from union parishads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While visiting the Panchagarh Sadar Union Parishad complex, local businessman Abdullah Al Faruque, who is a beneficiary, said that he has received his required trade license by just providing his NID number.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This cashless system is facilitating any person to get his/her desired document by just providing the NID number to the system as the officials can easily verify all relevant information,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The concerned official provided him the trade license within 2-3 minutes after matching the required information from his NID.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’ve eliminated waste of time and money which was unavoidable in the past,” Faruque said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This transformation began more than 14 years back when the Prime Minister envisioned advancing the country into a developed one by 2041.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taking advantage of the Digital Bangladesh initiative, Panchagarh district administration tookthe measures to make their services technology dependent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Digital transactions are now being used to provide services, which have reduced time, cost and travel difficulties alongside offering better services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to initiatives of the Awami League government, these necessary services are being availed quickly and MFS (mobile financial service) has also made it easier. As a result, revenues of the government have increased, the hassles have been reduced, and the desired service has become available.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Latifa Banu, another beneficiary, said that she has been receiving maternity allowance over last two years and collecting the allowance from the UP for one-and-a-half years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Earlier, I had to go to different shops, but now, I am just providing my fingerprint and receiving my allowance easily from the UP centre,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Halima Begum, who came to Panchagarh Sadar Union Parishad to collect the citizenship certificate, said that it was not so easy before.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She mentioned that after obtaining a certificate from the Union Parishad, there was the trouble of getting signatures on it. A person had to come to collect his/her certificate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Now, if you apply with the number of the NID card, the signed certificate will be issued. I like this system,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Panchagarh entered the cashless era when this service was first introduced in the Tirnoihat union of Tetulia. With this, the union parishad of the upazila was on its way to become ‘Smart Bangladesh’.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cashless services were later introduced to other UPs. The beneficiaries can avail 20 services easily from there. People are now getting the services by visiting the uniontax.gov.bd website from the comfort of their homes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Commissioner Md. Jahurul Islam said that over 70,000 people of 43 union parishads and three municipalities in the district have received services from uniontax.gov.bd and pouroseba.gov.bd platforms.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An entrepreneur of Union Digital Center said that online service was launched experimentally in Tetulia upazila in the fiscal year 2019-20, but on January 6 this year, the service started in Tirnoihat UP of Tetulia upazila through the inauguration of cashless service.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before introducing the platform, any service seeker had to visit the union parishad three times, requiring 7-15 days, on average. But, in the digital and cashless system, he/she doesn’t even need to visit UP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deputy commissioner said that after the introduction of the Digital Union Cashless Service, revenue is being deposited directly into the UP’s bank account.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the local government system is strengthened through cashless services and this is another step towards the making of ‘Smart Bangladesh’. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 16:16:54', '2023-07-09 16:16:54'),
(7846, 7846, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Five people have been rescued while nine others are still missing after a landslide hit a highway construction site in central China\'s Hubei Province on Saturday, local authorities said Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The landslide of more than 500,000 cubic meters struck the construction site in Yueshan Village, Tujia Autonomous County of Wufeng, at around 4 p.m. Saturday. As of 8 a.m. Sunday, a total of five people had been rescued, according to the county\'s latest statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The Ministry of Emergency Management has activated a level-four emergency response to geological disasters and sent a working group to the site to guide emergency handling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;It urged guiding and supporting local search and rescue operations, making every effort to treat the injured and reduce casualties, preventing secondary disasters, and ensuring the safety of rescuers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Efforts should also be made to identify the causes, strengthen risk monitoring and investigation, and ensure the safety and protection of people\'s lives and property, said the ministry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The ministry has dispatched 139 people and 32 vehicles of the national comprehensive fire rescue force, as well as the national safety production emergency rescue team, with professional equipment to the site to carry out rescue operations. Xinhua</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 16:21:53', '2023-07-09 16:21:53'),
(7848, 7848, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 12 people were injured when a passenger bus collided with a truck on Leningradskoye highway in the north of Moscow, an emergencies source told TASS early on Sunday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A bus and a truck collided on Leningradskoye highway,\" the source said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a law enforcement source, \"six people were hospitalized, and six were treated on site.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, according to the press service of the Moscow Police Department, four people sought medical assistance in connection with the accident.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, the bus carried 20 people at the time of the crash. TASS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 17:19:12', '2023-07-09 17:19:12'),
(7849, 7849, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Five Chinese universities in Yunnan province have been teaching Bangla language and cultures to students that play a big role in promoting trade and business ties between China and Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to teachers at the Chinese universities, interest in learning Bangla language is growing day-by-day among students, and Chinese people in general.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our students are really enjoying the Bangla language learning. We want more cooperation between Bangladesh and China in this academic field” said Prof Hu Jinming, vice president of Yunnan University, while meeting a group of Bangladeshi journalists who recently visited the university.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Hu, who has visited Bangladesh a number of times to enhance cooperation between the University of Dhaka and Yunnan University, informed that he is now working to establish cooperation with other public and private universities in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He believes learning Bangla by Chinese students will enhance communications between the two nations and understand each other’s\' culture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides Yunnan University, the remaining other four universities in the province are Communication University, Peking University, Minzu University and Kunming University.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, the teachers said, there are three universities in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, that also teach Bangla language and culture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subarna Aktar, a Bangladeshi citizen who teaches Bangla in the School of Foreign Languages of Yunnan University,&nbsp; said many Chinese students are getting interested to learn Bangla because of the expanding trade relations between the two countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Echoing Subarna, Mishkat Sharif, another Bangladeshi teacher at the Bangla Department in Minzu University, said those who learn the language have better job opportunities with different companies who have been doing businesses in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Some Chinese students after passing out of university are even setting up their own businesses and doing business with Bangladesh. It gives them an extra advantage to understand their customers\' needs,\" Sharif added.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China has emerged as Bangladesh\'s biggest trade partner in recent years, with bilateral trade topping $27 billion in 2022, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Of that total, China\'s exports exceeded $26 billion, while Bangladesh\'s exports to China amount to less than $1 billion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the teachers, Bangla Departments at the Chinese universities allow an intake of 20-25 students every other year to learn Bangla language and culture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the other hand, many Bangladeshi students are increasingly attending Chinese universities, especially in Yunnan, to study different subjects.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, there are 121 Bangladeshi students studying at Yunnan University, Ahmed Moin Uddin, a graduate of the School of International Chinese Language Education, told UNB. In the last 10 years, more than 1000 Bangladesh students graduated from Yunnan University, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Learning Bangla in China\'s Yunnan: Enhanced commercial ties drive growing interest&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every Bangladesh student has to learn the Chinese language besides knowing English to study at Yunnan University.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yang Meifeng, a student of Faculty of South Asian Languages (Bangla), said she is very happy to study in the Bangla department as it helps her to know about South Asian language and culture.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the visit of the Bangladeshi journalists, Yunnan University hosted an impressive cultural programme for them where the Chinese students of the Bangla Language and Culture Department sang Bangla songs and the visitors found their performances \'amazing\'.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources said the universities in Yunnan province are introducing Bangla as a new subject for study as part of the Chinese government\'s long term vision to build Kunming, the capital of the province, as a commercial hub for the South and South East Asian regions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The universities opened multilingual courses to create opportunities for the students so that they can work at different organisations in the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese government established an institute to teach Chinese language to foreign professionals and academics as part of their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) programme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yunnan University (YNU) runs an institute named “Belt and Road Initiative Chinese Language Promotion Centre for South and South East Asia” for teaching the Chinese language and traditions to foreigners. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 17:58:00', '2023-07-09 17:58:00'),
(7850, 7850, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over the country.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over the country”, said a met office weather forecast for the next 24 hours begins&nbsp; from 9am today.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The axis of monsoon trough runs through Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,West Bengal to Assam across northern part of Bangladesh. One of its associated troughs extends to North Bay.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate over North Bay.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Country’s maximum temperature on Saturday was recorded by 35.0 degree Celsius jointly at Tangail and Srimangal and minimum temperature today was recorded by 25.0 degree Celsius at Kutubdia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Country’s maximum rainfall for the last twenty-four hours till 6am today was recorded by 24 millimeters (mm) at Dimla.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sun sets at 06.50pm today&nbsp; and rises at&nbsp; 05.18am tomorrow. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 18:02:49', '2023-07-09 18:02:49'),
(7851, 7851, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed \"brave\" Ukraine on the 500th day of Russia\'s invasion on Saturday, as the war\'s toll mounted with eight deaths reported in Russian rocket fire.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky published on social media an undated video clip of a visit to Snake Island in the Black Sea -- a symbol of Ukraine\'s defiance against Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today we are on Snake Island, which will never be conquered by the occupiers, like the whole of Ukraine, because we are the country of the brave,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want to thank from here, from this place of victory, each of our soldiers for these 500 days,\" he said in the video, which showed him arriving on the island by boat and leaving flowers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN has documented 9,000 civilian deaths since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, including 500 children, although it estimates the real toll could be significantly higher.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That toll rose again on Saturday as Ukraine\'s interior ministry said eight people were killed and 13 injured by Russian rocket fire in the eastern town of Lyman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian news agencies reported that two civilians were killed by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-held town of Oleshky in the south.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noel Calhoun, deputy head of the UN\'s Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said the 500th day of the conflict marked \"another grim milestone in the war that continues to exact a horrific toll on Ukraine\'s civilians\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Act of desperation\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky on Saturday completed a visit to Turkey in which he secured backing for his country\'s NATO aspirations after winning a US pledge for cluster munitions that could inflict significant damage to Russian forces on the battlefield.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his return to Ukraine, Zelensky also brought back five Ukrainian commanders who were supposed to have remained in Turkey until the end of the conflict under a prisoner exchange deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia denounced the release of the men, members of the crack Azov regiment celebrated in Ukraine for their stiff resistance at the Azovstal factory during the months-long siege of the port city of Mariupol.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The return of Azov commanders from Turkey to Ukraine is nothing but a direct violation of the terms of existing agreements,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Ukraine and Turkey had violated the terms of the agreement and claimed their return was linked to the \"failure of the counter-offensive\" launched by Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington\'s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs -- banned across a large part of the world -- dramatically ups the stakes in the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Joe Biden admitted that supplying Ukraine with weapons that are capable of covering several football fields with hundreds of multiple small explosives was \"a difficult decision\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Humanitarian groups strongly condemned the decision to supply cluster munitions, which can go undetonated and potentially endanger civilians for years to come.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia, which itself uses cluster munitions in Ukraine, also criticised the decision, saying it was an \"act of desperation\" that would have \"no effect\" on the conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also said Ukraine\'s assurances it would use the ammunition responsibly \"are not worth anything\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Contact is possible\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various international efforts to mediate in the conflict have so far failed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tried to portray himself as a neutral mediator, substantially boosting wartime trade with Russia while supplying Ukraine with drones and other weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But while reaffirming his longstanding call for both sides to enter peace talks, Erdogan risked drawing Russia\'s ire by delivering unequivocal support for Ukraine\'s NATO aspiration.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is no doubt that Ukraine deserves membership of NATO,\" Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan also said he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next month on what would be the Kremlin chief\'s first visit to Turkey since the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about a possible meeting with Erdogan, Kremlin spokesman Peskov was quoted on Saturday as saying: \"Contact is possible. There are no fixed dates yet.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Symbol of defiance -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky meanwhile vowed defiance in the video of him visiting Snake Island, which was captured by Russian forces shortly after the start of the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A radio exchange went viral in which Ukrainian soldiers told the crew of Russia\'s attacking warship demanding their surrender to \"go fuck yourself\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ukrainian soldiers were taken prisoner but later exchanged for Russian captives.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian ship involved, the Moskva, sank in the Black Sea in April 2022 following what Moscow said was an explosion on board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine said it had hit the warship with missiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian forces recaptured the island in June last year. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'news desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 18:46:26', '2023-07-09 18:46:26'),
(7852, 7852, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A total of 48 scholars from different sectors today received Prime Minister\'s Fellowship (PMF) for 2023-24 sessions.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina conferred 38 masters and 10 Ph.D PMF on the scholars at the Shapla Hall of her office this morning for pursuing the degrees at globally top-ranking universities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, 277 masters\' fellows and 108 Ph.D fellows have been awarded the scholarship to study at world-class universities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To claim the scholarship, each applicant at first must secure, by their own capacity, admission to one of the 100 highest-ranking universities around the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the admission is confirmed, only then one can apply for the scholarship under the Governance Innovation Unit (GIU) of the prime Minister\'s office.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PMF was introduced in 2018 by the premier to facilitate the capacity development of resources across all sectors.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GIU is entrusted with the responsibility of the management of PMF.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fellowship is being given in three categories ---government officers (BCS), government officers (Non-BCS) and others (private candidates).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister fellows study in many reputed universities in different countries including the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Minister for Public Administration Ministry Farhad Hossain, MP, and Prime Minister\'s Principal Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah spoke at the function.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">GIU Director General Dr Abdul Latif gave the address of welcome.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One behalf of the masters and Ph.D fellows, Associate Professor of Rajshahi University Md Shibli Islam and Research Assistant at the Public Health Foundation Afifa Anju expressed their feelings on behalf of the fellows.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Secretary of the Internal Resources Division Ph.D fellow Dr KM Alamgir Kabir also shared his feeling. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 19:22:47', '2023-07-09 19:22:47'),
(7853, 7853, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a \"full-scale civil war\" that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Health reported \"22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians\" from the strike on Khartoum\'s sister city Omdurman, in the district of Dar al-Salam, which means \"House of Peace\" in Arabic.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After nearly three months of war between Sudan\'s rival generals, the air strike is the latest incident to provoke outrage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 3,000 people have been killed in the conflict, survivors have reported a wave of sexual violence and witnesses have spoken of ethnically targeted killings. There has been widespread looting, and the UN warned of possible crimes against humanity in the Darfur region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video posted by the health ministry on Facebook showed apparently lifeless bodies after the airstrike, including several women. The narrator says that residents \"counted 22 dead\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fighting the regular army, claimed that the strike killed 31.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the war began, paramilitaries have established bases in residential areas, and they have been accused of forcing civilians from their homes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday condemned the air strike in Omdurman, which he said \"reportedly killed at least 22 people\" and wounded dozens, his deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guterres \"remains deeply concerned that the ongoing war between the armed forces has pushed Sudan to the brink of a full-scale civil war, potentially destabilising the entire region\", Haq said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added: \"There is an utter disregard for humanitarian and human rights law that is dangerous and disturbing.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly three million people have been uprooted by Sudan\'s fighting, among them almost 700,000 who have fled to neighbouring countries according to the International Organization for Migration.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN and African blocs have warned of an \"ethnic dimension\" to the conflict in the western region of Darfur, where the United States, Norway and Britain have blamed the RSF and allied militia for most of the widespread violations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haq expressed support for efforts by the African Union and East African bloc IGAD to end Sudan\'s crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday leaders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan -- IGAD members handling the Sudan file -- are to meet in Addis Ababa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sudan\'s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo have been invited but neither side has confirmed they will attend.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Numerous ceasefires in the war have been announced and ignored. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 19:59:01', '2023-07-09 19:59:01'),
(7854, 7854, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Akshay Kumar announced that the teaser of his long-awaited satirical comedy OMG 2 will be unveiled on Tuesday, July 11, a month before the film is slated to release in cinemas on August 11. OMG 2 is the sequel to his 2012 hit OMG - Oh My God!, that also starred Paresh Rawal.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Akshay announces teaser release date</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, Akshay dropped the posters of OMG 2, featuring him as Lord Shiva, Yami Gautam as a lawyer and Pankaj Tripathi. He also said that the teaser would be out soon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, Akshay announced on Sunday that the teaser of OMG 2 will be launched on Tuesday, July 11. He revealed the date along with a short video of him walking towards the camera intensely in his Lord Shiva avatar. Chants of ‘Har Har Mahadev’ serenade the background.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film is co-produced by Akshay\'s Cape of Good Films and Viacom18 Studios. It also stars Govind Namdev, who played an agitated sadhu in the first part. While that part also starred Paresh Rawal and Mithun Chakraborty, the sequel is based on a new storyline with new characters essayed by Yami Gautam and Pankaj Tripathi. Arun Govil, who played Rama in Ramanand Sagar\'s TV series Ramayan, is also a part of OMG 2 and will be seen reprising the iconic role of Lord Rama.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Clash with Gadar 2</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">OMG 2 will clash in cinemas on August 11 with yet another popular, long-awaited sequel. Gadar 2, the sequel to Anil Sharma\'s 2001 historical blockbuster, will release on the same day. Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel will reprise their memorable roles of Tara Singh and Sakina, respectively. The sequel, co-produced by Zee Studios, is also directed by Anil and also stars his son Utkarsh Sharma in a supporting role.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously, the action romance wasn\'t the only contender for OMG 2 on the extended Independence Day weekend. Sandeep Reddy Vanga\'s Animal, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor and Bobby Deol, was also scheduled to release on August 11, but was pushed to December 1 owing to delayed VFX work. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 20:02:13', '2023-07-09 20:02:13'),
(7855, 7855, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Turkiye has taken a \"fair and balanced stance\" in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and strengthened ties with both countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"While strengthening our relations with Ukraine, we did not allow our relations with the Russian Federation to deteriorate,\" Erdogan said at a rally in the eastern province of Bayburt, after his meeting with visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Hopefully, we will meet with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin in August as well,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking of the negative effects of the conflict on the Turkish economy, the Turkish leader said \"every event happening around us has reflections on the economy,\" adding energy and food prices have reached record levels all over the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Zelensky\'s first visit to Turkiye since the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out in February 2022, but the Ukrainian president has often spoken by phone with Erdogan as Ankara has been pushing for peace talks between Moscow and Kiev.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In July 2022, the United Nations and Turkiye brokered the Black Sea Grain Initiative with Russia and Ukraine to provide a humanitarian maritime corridor for ships carrying food and fertilizer exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports. XINHUA</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 20:13:48', '2023-07-09 20:13:48'),
(7856, 7856, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said stern action will be taken against those who have leaked personal data of the citizens by hacking the National Identity (NID) database.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The law enforcement agencies are investigating the matter to get \'very specific\' information...Strict action is waiting for the wrongdoers for sure,\" the minister said at a meeting of the Law and Order Committee, held at the Secretariat in the capital this afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>The special meeting was held to discuss the overall preparations and security measures taken ahead of 15th August, the National Mourning Day.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our cyber unit is already working to increase security measures to protect the personal information of the citizens as Home Affairs Ministry will take over the NID server soon after completing some legal procedures,\" Kaman said.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked about the security measures taken ahead of the National Mourning Day, Kamal said, \"Militant, anti-liberation forces and or groups of plotters always try to create chaos in the month of August. So, we have taken special precautions.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"I have only been hearing about BNP\'s movement. No movement succeeds unless the people are involved, and as you can see people have already rejected them... If they again start destructive politics of killings, then the law and order forces will take necessary action,\" the home minister said when asked about BNP\'s movement against the government. According to BSS reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 22:35:11', '2023-07-09 22:35:11'),
(7857, 7857, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Bangladesh organised a high-level event in collaboration with the Partners of the Food and Nutrition Security Programme for Bangladesh.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The event, titled \"The European Union and the Government of Bangladesh in Partnership for Good Nutrition through Good Governance,\" was held at a Dhaka hotel on Sunday with the participation of government and non-governmental organisations.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Agriculture Minister, was the chief guest for the morning session.</div><div><br></div><div>He highlighted that the Ministry of Agriculture has made it a priority to develop a self-sufficient and sustainable agricultural system and aims to achieve this through increased agricultural productivity, modernization of agriculture marketing, and the adoption of new technologies.</div><div><br></div><div>M. Tofazzel Hossain Miah, Principal Secretary of PMO, was the chief guest for the afternoon session.</div><div><br></div><div>“It is essential for nutrition security to be driven by the Government of Bangladesh with a strong political will and explicit commitments by leaders to end malnutrition in all its forms. This cannot be achieved without sustainable, resilient, and nutrition-sensitive food systems,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The welcome remarks were delivered by Jurate Smalskyte Merville, Counsellor, Team Leader at the Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh, and the closing remarks by Charles Whiteley, EU Ambassador to Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Both EU Delegates highlighted the importance of food and nutrition security across Bangladesh based on achievements shared during the event.</div><div><br></div><div>They emphasized the importance of continuing the support and investments to the FNS interventions through GO-NGO, Private Sector, UN agencies and CSOs.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, the Director General of Food Planning and Monitoring Unit, Momtaz Uddin and the Director General of Bangladesh National Nutrition Council, Dr Shahriar Kabir highlighted the importance of multisector partnership and also building capacity of subnational governance structure.</div><div><br></div><div>Special guests at the event included Sarah Cooke, British High Commissioner and Md Mahmudul Hossain Khan, Secretary, Coordination and Reforms, Cabinet Division.</div><div><br></div><div>The event consisted of three panel sessions.</div><div><br></div><div>The first panel session was on production to consumption of nutritious food. Panellists included Secretaries from Ministry of Agriculture (Wahida Akter), Ministry of Food (Md. Ismiel Hossain ndc), and Additional Secretary of Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs (Md. Aminul Islam).</div><div><br></div><div>It was moderated by Prof. Dr Sattar Mandal, former Member Planning Commission and former VC, Bangladesh Agriculture University.</div><div><br></div><div>The second panel session was on how social protection and education interventions can maximize nutrition outcomes.</div><div><br></div><div>Panel members included Secretaries from Ministry of Social Welfare (Md. Jahangir Alam), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (Ms. Nazma Mobarek), and Additional Secretaries from Ministry of Education (Md. Belayet Hossain Talukdar) and Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives ( Mustakim Billah Faruqui).</div><div><br></div><div>The second session was moderated by Professor Kazi Maruful Islam, Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>The topic for the third panel session was mainstreaming nutrition throughout planning, budgeting and implementation. Panellists include Secretaries from Planning Commission (Abdul Baki), Health Service Division (Dr. Md. Anwar Hossain Howlader) and Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (Dr. Nahid Rashid) and Additional Secretaries from Ministry of Finance (Ms Dilruba Shaheena) and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Dr. Asrafi Ahmed ndc).</div><div><br></div><div>The session was moderated by Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed, Executive Director at icddr,b.</div><div><br></div><div>The current Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) Programme is part of the longstanding collaboration between the European Union (EU) and the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) in the FNS sector. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 23:41:34', '2023-07-09 23:41:34');
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(7858, 7858, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The situation of dengue across the country is worsening day by day, so the government and private hospitals should ensure free dengue testing and treatment with government assistance, Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of Opposition Ghulam Muhammad Quader has said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Besides, action should be taken against those who cannot control the dengue situation due to failure and incoordination. If there is evidence of corruption, action should be taken against them, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement, Jatiya Party Chairman quoted the media as saying that 820 patients were admitted to the hospital with dengue in one day on Saturday (July 8).</div><div><br></div><div>This is the highest in terms of numbers this year.</div><div><br></div><div>Official data showed that 67 people died of dengue since July 8. But, people think this number is quite high.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the data, 2, 502 dengue patients, including 1, 773 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, the DGHS has recorded 12, 118 dengue cases, 9, 549 recoveries. Last year 281 patients died due to dengue.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader, who became the party chairman after the death of his brother HM Ershad also said that 2019 had the highest dengue outbreak in history. That year, 21 out of 98 wards of the capital were at high risk of dengue. But this year, 55 out of 98 wards of the capital are at high risk of dengue, according to the government survey. This actually proves the dire situation of dengue.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that there is no effective action from the government to tackle the dengue outbreak.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, doubts have arisen among the common people about the efficacy of the medicine which is spreading to eradicate dengue.</div><div><br></div><div>If the dengue situation is not controlled now, its consequences will become more dire in the future, he mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>The people of the country are already in dire straits due to rising commodity prices. Therefore free dengue disease testing and treatment should be ensured, GM Quader emphasized. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-09 23:48:29', '2023-07-09 23:48:29'),
(7859, 7859, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The batting great had a word of caution for England as the hosts chase their first win in the 2023 Ashes series, reports Hindustan Times.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>England are poised to open their account in the Ashes series as the side requires 226 more runs to win the Headingley Test, with two days remaining in the match. The English bowlers produced an impressive outing on Saturday to bowl Australia out on 224 after rain washed away the opening two sessions on Day 3. Travis Head (77) played a key role as Australia faced a batting collapse, helping the visitors set a competitive 251-run target for England.</div><div><br></div><div>The hosts, though, had a positive start despite opener Ben Duckett facing significant issues with extra bounce on multiple occasions, as they ended at 27/0 at the end of the day. England, thus, must count themselves favourites to take the Test and stay alive in the Ashes series, and batting legend Sachin Tendulkar had a word of advice for Ben Stokes and co. as they chase a win in Leeds.</div><div><br></div><div>Taking to his official Twitter account, Tendulkar warned England to play sensibly and not give away their wickets cheaply in hunt for quick runs.</div><div><br></div><div>“The first hour at Headingley is going to be critical tomorrow,” Tendulkar wrote.</div><div><br></div><div>“I feel the wicket is playing absolutely fine and if England bat sensibly and are positive in their approach they will get there. They require discipline in their shot selection with a positive approach and the total will be chased.”</div><div><br></div><div>England endured a poor performance with the bat in the first innings as they were bowled out on 237; the final total could\'ve been much lesser had Ben Stokes not shown some composure at the crease, as he scored a valiant 80.</div><div><br></div><div>Throughout the Ashes series so far, England have been heavily criticised for being overly-aggressive with the bat, with some of the side\'s greats including Geoffrey Boycott slamming ‘Bazball’. Both, Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum, however, have defended the style of play that has reaped rewards for the English team over the past year.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 00:46:32', '2023-07-10 00:46:32'),
(7860, 7860, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A student of the Applied Nutrition and Food Technology department of Islamic University was allegedly assaulted by&nbsp; activists of the university unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling party student front, on the campus in Kushtia on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The victim, Shorifuzzaman Shovon, is a second year student of the university.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Shovon, however, filed a written complaint with the university proctor Professor Shahadat Hossain Azad and student advisor Professor Shelina Nasrin against those involved in the incident seeking their punishment.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the complaint, a group of IU BCL unit activists including Touhid of Bangla department and Sajib of Human Resource Management department under 2020-21 academic session and led by English department student M Masudur Rahman attacked Shovon while he was going to IU Daina Chattar after finishing his class at around 10:30am.</div><div><br></div><div>They all are the supporters of IU BCL unit vice-president Mridul Rabby.</div><div><br></div><div>The BCL men, at one stage, assaulted Shovon and2 left him injured on the spot. Later, other students rescued Shovon from the spot and took him to IU medical center for treatment.</div><div><br></div><div>They also threatened to kill the victim. Stern action for the accused involved in assaulting the victim was demanded, the complaint said.</div><div><br></div><div>Contacted, the victim Shovon said that Masud and others assaulted him on the basis of their previous enmity. \"I demand punitive action for the accused involved in attacking me,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Admitting the incident, Masud said that they assaulted Shovon as he uttered abusive words towards him.</div><div><br></div><div>IU BCL unit vice-president Mridul Rabby said that there was no involvement of BCL in assaulting Shovon. Rather, it happened following their internal conflict, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Many general students said that ragging and assaulting incidents happened repeatedly at the university as the university administration failed to take stern action against the accused involved in the incidents.</div><div><br></div><div>The administration should take stern actions against the accused, and those proven guilty, so that they could not dare to do such a heinous act in the future, they added.</div><div><br></div><div>IU proctor professor M Shahadat Hossain said that he received a written complaint from the victim, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>They were looking into the matter, he said, adding that action would be taken after proper investigation, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 00:50:13', '2023-07-10 00:50:13'),
(7861, 7861, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Six more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 73 this year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>During the period, 836 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, 516 were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and the rest outside it, according to DGHS.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 2,750 dengue patients, including 1,968 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, the DGHS has recorded 12,954 dengue cases, 10,131 recoveries this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The country logged 281 dengue deaths in 2022 – the highest on record after 179 deaths recorded in 2019. Also, it recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries last year. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 02:09:00', '2023-07-10 02:09:00'),
(7862, 7862, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said their party is going to start a new journey for the restoration of democracy by holding a public rally in Dhaka next Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a ‘Youth Rally’, he also said the next national election must be arranged under a non-party neutral caretaker government as the last two polls have proved no credible voting can be held under the Awami League regime.</div><div><br></div><div>“There’ll be a rally in Dhaka on the 12th of July next from where a new declaration will come. Through that declaration, a new journey to restore democracy will begin,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>In recent weeks, BNP in general and Fakhrul in particular have been sounding out a new, final phase of their movement to topple the government, that will be centred on a single, overriding demand: the government\'s immediate oustre.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the youth must play a significant role in the fresh journey to get back democracy by waking up the people from all walks of life.</div><div><br></div><div>“We all have to jump into this new movement to save democracy and free Khaleda Zia and establish a government, parliament and state for the people by defeating this demon regime,” the BNP leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP’s associate bodies-Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal and Swechchhasebak Dal organised the \'Youth Rally\' at the Alia Madrasa field in Chowhatta area of Sylhet city.</div><div><br></div><div>The rally was held to motivate the youth to become involved in the opposition’s ongoing anti-government movement.</div><div><br></div><div>It was the fourth such rally arranged by the three associate bodies of the BNP since they began the programme in Chattogram on June 10, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said that people expect the young generation to come forward to free them from the misrule of the current government and bring a change in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>“The youth have to encourage the country’s people to take to the streets to get back their rights and force the government to quit by handing over power to a caretaker government,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said around four crores youth in the country remained unemployed as the government has no focus on creating jobs and employment opportunities.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said even the youth belonging to the ruling party have to pay a huge amount of bribe to get jobs. “So, this situation of the country must be changed.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 03:38:37', '2023-07-10 03:38:37'),
(7863, 7863, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been invited to attend the next BRICS Summit in South Africa.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh received the formal invitation from the host but it could not be known immediately whether the Prime Minister will attend it or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Parliamentary Standing Committee Chairman on Foreign Affairs Faruk Khan confirmed UNB about the formal invitation.</div><div><br></div><div>BRICS leaders are expected to attend the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa from 22 – 24 August 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>The Summit will be hosted at the Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) in Johannesburg, Gauteng.</div><div><br></div><div>BRICS leaders will engage with businesses during the BRICS Business Forum and engage with the New Development Bank, BRICS Business Council and other mechanisms during the Summit.</div><div><br></div><div>South Africa will also continue its outreach to leaders from Africa and the global South and hold a BRICS Outreach and BRICS Plus Dialogue during the 15th Summit.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh will welcome a formal BRICS invitation to join the group of five member states — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>South Africa will also continue its Outreach to Leaders from Africa and the global South and hold a BRICS Outreach and BRICS Plus Dialogue during the 15th BRICS Summit.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh will welcome if BRICS invites Bangladesh formally to join the group of five member states - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We will surely join once they invite us. We are yet to receive any formal letter (inviting us to join). BRICS leaders are thinking of taking some emerging economies – around eight new countries including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Bangladesh,\" he told reporters.\"We will surely join once they invite us. We are yet to receive any formal letter (inviting us to join). BRICS leaders are thinking of taking some emerging economies — around eight new countries including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Bangladesh,\" he told reporters. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 04:12:00', '2023-07-10 04:12:00'),
(7864, 7864, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Syria\'s Information Ministry has canceled the BBC\'s media accreditation, accusing the British public broadcaster of biased and fake news in its coverage of the war-torn country.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement came days after BBC Arabic released an investigative documentary about the illicit drug trade in Syria, where they highlighted links between the estimated multibillion-dollar industry and the Syrian army as well as members of President Bashar Assad\'s family.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Syrian Information Ministry in a statement late Saturday said the decision was made after“ warning the channel more than once that it has broadcasted its misleading reports relying on statements and testimonies from terrorist entities and those hostile to Syria.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus revoked the licenses of both the British broadcaster\'s radio and television correspondents in Syria, as well as their videographer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We speak to people across the political spectrum to establish the facts,” the BBC said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press, adding that the broadcaster provides “impartial independent journalism. ”We will continue to provide impartial news and information to our audiences across the Arabic-speaking world”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The illicit drug industry, most notably the addictive Captagon amphetamine pills, has blossomed in war-torn Syria in recent years. While experts say it has been a way to generate revenue for the country\'s crippled economy and sanctioned leadership, it has scourged neighboring Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as other Gulf countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captagon has been used both recreationally and by people with physically demanding jobs to keep them alert as well as fighters on the battlefield.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The United Kingdom, United States, and European Union have sanctioned a handful of drug kingpins and close associates of Assad for their involvement in the trade.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Syrian government denies any involvement in the production of Captagon. A Syrian parliamentarian told the AP last month that Syria has been used as a transit state for Captagon and other drugs, and accused opposition groups of running the industry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Syria restored relations with many of its neighboring countries and returned to the Arab fold, cracking down on drug smuggling has been a key issue in regional talks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syria’s uprising which turned into a full-blown civil war, now in its 13th year, has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of its prewar population of 23 million. Syrians in both government-held territory and an opposition-held enclave in the country’s northwest suffer from rampant poverty and crippled infrastructure. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 14:22:57', '2023-07-10 14:22:57'),
(7865, 7865, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Members of the Election Exploratory Mission (ExM) from the European Union (EU) spent a busy day Sunday as they began their activities in Bangladesh to assess the situation on the ground ahead of the country\'s upcoming national election.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delegation leader Chelleri Riccardo and his team members held a number of meetings with diplomats stationed in Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diplomats from the United States, UK, Japan, South Korea and European countries took part in discussions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visiting delegation also had a meeting with UN Resident Coordinator Gwyn Lewis, said a diplomatic source.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meetings took place in a number of places including the residence of the EU Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, there were no comments from diplomats regarding the meetings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riccardo has vast professional experience in the electoral field, covering observation, supervision and technical assistance to electoral processes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation will be visiting Bangladesh till July 23 to assess the situation on the ground ahead of the country\'s upcoming national election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The task of this mission will be to assess the scope, planning, budget, logistics and security of the main election observation mission, Mohammad Rafiqul Alam, Director General (Additional Charge) of Public Diplomacy Wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told reporters at the weekly briefing on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EU delegation in Dhaka said it is willing to meet with government representatives, election-related authorities, representatives of the international community, officials of various law enforcement agencies, political leaders, civil society and media representatives during the investigation mission\'s stay in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on the information received from the fact-finding mission, the European Union will take a final decision on sending a full-fledged Election Observation Mission (EOM) before the next national elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main objective of the ExM is to assess the \"advisability, usefulness and feasibility\" of a possible EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to the EU Mission in Dhaka. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 14:26:04', '2023-07-10 14:26:04'),
(7866, 7866, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US President Joe Biden has landed in the UK ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania later this week - which comes after several allies questioned his call to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UK and Canada are among those who voiced concern about supplying the bombs, which are widely banned because of the danger they pose to civilians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US says they are needed because Ukraine\'s weapon stocks are dwindling.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, Mr Biden will meet UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two men are expected to discuss various issues, including the war in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Sunak has not directly criticised his US counterpart following Friday\'s cluster bomb announcement - but on Saturday he said that the UK was one of 123 countries signed up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty which bans the production or use of the weapons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other US allies have gone further, however. Nato partner nation New Zealand said on Sunday the munitions could cause \"huge damage to innocent people\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cluster bombs typically release lots of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area. Unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years before they detonate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US says it has received written reassurances from Kyiv that Ukrainian troops will not use the weapons in Russia or in urban areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why is the US giving Ukraine \'indiscriminate\' weapons?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While in the UK, Mr Biden will also meet King Charles for the first time since the King was crowned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of Nato - a military alliance of 31 Western nations - will then meet in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday. Boosting ammunition stockpiles and reviewing defence plans will be on the agenda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finland will attend its first summit since joining in April, and plans from Sweden to follow suit have been blocked by Turkey, which accuses it of harbouring terrorists. Mr Biden is expected to seek support from Mr Sunak to help broker a deal with Turkey.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine harbours its own ambitions of joining Nato. But speaking to CNN before his trip, Mr Biden said this could not happen until the war was over - in line with the alliance\'s long-standing policy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing Nato\'s mutual defence pact, Mr Biden pointed out that members undertake to protect \"every inch\" of each other\'s territory - meaning that \"if the war is going on, then we\'re all in war\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously accepted this position, while requesting a \"signal\" that his country will be able to join the alliance when the war is over. He is expected to attend this week\'s summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US decision to fulfil a Ukrainian request for cluster bombs came on Friday. Officials said this was part of a military aid package worth $800m (£626m).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Biden told CNN it had been a \"very difficult decision\" but that he had eventually acted because \"the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But a number of Nato allies quickly distanced themselves from the decision.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canada and Spain - both member states - added their own opposition to that of New Zealand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"No to cluster bombs and yes to the legitimate defence of Ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs,\" Spain\'s Defence Minister Margarita Robles said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Germany, another signatory of the treaty and Nato member, said that while it would not provide such weapons to Ukraine, it understood the American position.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the concerns surrounding their supply is their failure - or dud - rate. Unexploded bomblets can indiscriminately detonate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the US has said its cluster bombs fail less frequently than those Russia is already using in the Ukraine war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine has promised the weapons will not be used in civilian areas and will monitor and report on their use, but Russia dismissed these assurances as \"not worth anything\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is, potentially, an awkward visit coming at a critical time for the US-led Nato alliance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Biden may not have intended to cause offence by skipping King Charles\' coronation in May, but his absence was noted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then there is the business over who should be the next secretary general of Nato. The UK and the Baltic states favoured the British Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, who has been instrumental in galvanising Western support for Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But without US backing, that\'s a non-starter - and Mr Biden instead appears to favour the former German defence minister and European Commission head, Ursula von der Leyen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And there is also the row over cluster bombs. The UK is among 123 nations to ban these weapons which can cause indiscriminate harm to civilians.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the US is going ahead, in the heat of international criticism, in supplying them to Ukraine as its forces struggle to break through Russia\'s defences in the south of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mr Biden\'s stopover in Britain is so brief that any cracks in the transatlantic alliance are likely to be smoothed over by warm handshakes and ample protocol. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 14:30:33', '2023-07-10 14:30:33'),
(7868, 7868, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nato is just hours away from its high-profile annual summit - a stress test for the alliance, with Russian President Vladimir Putin watching intently from the sidelines.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz and so many more world leaders attending, ambassadors of the alliance\'s 31 member states have been huddled together, arguing about what they can, should or will announce publicly on Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So what is all the hoo-ha about?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This weekend marked 500 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, grabbing land, attacking civilians and abducting children.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To Vladimir Putin\'s dismay, Europe and its close ally the US have rushed to Ukraine\'s aid (some speedier than others - here\'s looking at you, Berlin), to the tune of $165bn (£129bn) spent in humanitarian, financial and military assistance by May this year, according to the respected Kiel Institute for the Global Economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s been a delicate, at times uncomfortable, balancing act - for individual European countries, for the European Union, and arguably most of all for the Nato military alliance, which includes Russia\'s old enemy, the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conundrum: How do you send Moscow a clear message that the West won\'t stand by and allow the Kremlin to grab sovereign territory in Ukraine or anywhere else in Europe, while at the same time avoiding coming into direct conflict with nuclear power Russia and risking all-out war?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to US President Joe Biden: \"I don\'t think there is unanimity in Nato about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the Nato family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He pointed out that Ukraine joining would mean that \"if the war is going on, then we\'re all in war. We\'re at war with Russia, if that were the case.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And 500 days into Russia\'s invasion, Nato\'s balancing act isn\'t getting any easier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine is clear. It wants an equal seat at the Nato table - with all the security guarantees that go with that - and it wants it now.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or, because it recognises Nato can\'t admit a new member while that state is at war, it wants at least \"a clear signal that Ukraine will be in the alliance... not that the door is open for us, which is not enough, but that Ukraine will be in it\", says its media-savvy President Volodymyr Zelensky.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anything short of that and he has threatened not to turn up at the summit at all, to the irritation of not a few Nato members, including Germany and the US.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If Mr Zelensky is a no-show, the optics of Western unity with Ukraine - aimed as a clear message to Moscow at the summit - will be disastrous.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main problem is Nato already told Ukraine it belonged in the alliance back in 2008, well before Russia\'s invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expectations are high that Nato must now offer Kyiv something else of significance. But what?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">High-level diplomats from a number of key Nato nations spoke to me for this article on condition of anonymity, so as to be able to voice their observations freely.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They say Nato members are united over Ukraine belonging inside their \"family\". But they remain divided over the details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The summit is being held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It is one of the three tiny Baltic nations in Russia\'s backyard that were swallowed up and occupied by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians emote with Ukraine\'s pain. They, along with fellow eastern European nation Poland, which also sees itself as a former victim of Russian aggression, demand Ukraine be given fast-track Nato membership after an eventual ceasefire with Moscow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Nato decisions require unanimous agreement amongst member countries. Germany, the US and the UK are among the more cautious.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Firstly, because of formal conditions the alliance would normally want an accession country to fulfil before becoming a member.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Much as Ukraine deserves to be part of Nato, we have the same concerns now as we did back in 2008,\" one influential diplomat told me.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We need to see reforms, a fight against corruption and proper control over armed forces,\" he said. But he added that he thought the Ukrainian authorities had learned a clear lesson from the corruption in Russia\'s military that swallowed up billions and left the Russians weakened and ill-prepared for battle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some Nato countries also fret that if there is a cast-iron promise to admit Kyiv as a member immediately after a ceasefire with Russia, that could encourage Moscow to prolong its assault on Ukraine even further.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, strategic patience - as Camille Grand, ex-Nato and now defence expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, puts it. A clear pledge from the West that they\'re in it for the long haul. And that Russia shouldn\'t believe it can out-wait the West over Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was struck during my conversations with diplomats how relaxed their countries seem about the slower pace of Ukraine\'s counter-offensive against Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They seemed of the same school of thought as Britain\'s foreign secretary, who points out that \"this isn\'t a Hollywood movie\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Moscow had a long, long time to prepare for this invasion,\" one ambassador told me. \"And we now expect Ukraine to have dramatic success in three or four weeks? That\'s just unrealistic.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Ukraine is trying to make progress while respecting human life,\" commented another, comparing that to what he called Russia\'s meat-grinder attitude, pushing its soldiers \"over the top\" to get mown down in droves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Do we have questions in private about how fast Ukraine gets through munitions? Absolutely!\" a more plain-speaking diplomat observed. \"But it\'s important the Ukrainians don\'t feel we\'re breathing down their neck.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We\'re giving them important military support, increasingly more sophisticated and they - and Moscow - need to know it\'s going to keep on coming.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the important conversations at the Vilnius summit will focus on Europe\'s defence industry: The investment needed to ensure supplies can keep flowing to Ukraine, while still leaving EU and Nato members with enough defence capabilities to look after themselves.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also the question of harmonisation possibilities - right now, it\'s a bit of a mess. Each Nato country sends its own military aid to Ukraine, leaving Kyiv grappling with different models of armoured vehicles, tanks, etc. Not exactly the most efficient way forward. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 14:35:15', '2023-07-10 14:35:15'),
(7869, 7869, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Car bombs killed at least eight people including three children in two separate incidents Sunday in northern Syria, a war monitor said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One blast hit a car repair shop in Shawa, a village near the Turkish border held by pro-Ankara fighters, residents told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five civilians including three children were killed and 10 others injured, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Areas held by Turkey and its Syrian proxies in northern Syria are the scene of regular targeted killings, bombings and clashes between armed groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the second incident, an explosive device planted in a vehicle killed three fighters affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the city of Manbij, according to the Observatory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manbij is a former stronghold of the Islamic State group that is now held by a military council affiliated with the US-backed SDF.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syria\'s war broke out in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has since evolved into a complex conflict involving jihadists and foreign powers, and has killed more than half a million people and displaced millions. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 14:38:32', '2023-07-10 14:38:32'),
(7870, 7870, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sporting a pair of sunglasses, Asisat Oshoala celebrated Barcelona\'s UEFA Champions League triumph with her team-mates in early June, but Nigeria was already on her mind.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Standing on the balcony of the historic palace in Placa de Sant Jaume in the city\'s Gothic neighbourhood before several thousand jubilant fans, Oshoala was handed the microphone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Visca Barca and Visca Nigeria,\" the 28-year-old forward said, swapping in her homeland for \"Catalunya\", as the refrain usually goes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruled out with a hamstring injury, Oshoala could not play any part in Barcelona\'s rollercoaster 3-2 win over Wolfsburg that saw them clinch their second Champions League trophy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, she will be back to compete later this month at the Women\'s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria are the only African team to feature in every edition of the tournament since it began in 1991, but the Super Falcons have never made it beyond the quarter-finals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If that is to change, a lot will depend on five-time African women\'s player of the year Oshoala.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"When you have Oshoala, you have a chance against any team,\" said Nigeria\'s American coach Randy Waldrum, whose side must first negotiate a difficult group featuring Australia, Olympic gold medallists Canada and the Republic of Ireland.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"She puts a lot of pressure on herself because she loves Nigeria and she wants Nigeria to be successful on the world stage.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- One of the best -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oshoala defied her parents as a youngster, choosing to drop out of school and focus on playing football full-time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It paid off spectacularly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2014 she was made a Member of the Order of the Niger by the country\'s then-president Goodluck Jonathan, a title which she proudly carries in her name on her social media accounts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barely out of her teenage years, Liverpool signed her in 2015 and she became the first African to play in the English Women\'s Super League.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We beat a number of top American and European clubs to Asisat\'s signature,\" said Liverpool coach Matt Beard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Asisat is one of the best young players in the world.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2016 Oshoala signed for Arsenal after they paid her release clause of an undisclosed amount.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oshoala won the FA Cup at Wembley with the Gunners that year but then moved to Chinese team Dalian Quanjian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She admitted she was paid more than 10 times as much as she earned at Arsenal, but also said she felt she could rebuild her confidence there, describing the move to China as a \"blessing\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona loaned her from Dalian in 2019 and after eight goals in 11 games a permanent switch quickly materialised.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oshoala became the first African woman to win the Spanish top flight\'s leading goalscorer trophy and in August 2022 also became the first to be nominated for the Ballon d\'Or.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Barcelona she has won three league titles and two women\'s Champions Leagues. Now she is aiming to follow that up with World Cup glory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oshoala has a foundation back home in Nigeria which helps young girls to play football, after the trouble she had starting out and getting her parents to support her dream.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Success in Australia and New Zealand would be another way for Oshoala to lead by example. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 16:10:37', '2023-07-10 16:10:37');
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(7871, 7871, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday voiced hope for the \"best possible result\" from an upcoming NATO summit where Kyiv is hoping for a clear signal that it could one day join the alliance.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After meeting his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, Zelensky said the two discussed the summit, which opens on Tuesday in Vilnius, and agreed to \"work together to get the best possible result for Ukraine\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poland is one of Ukraine\'s biggest supporters within NATO and has said it wants \"security guarantees\" for the country from other NATO members.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky has said he does not expect Ukraine to actually join NATO until after the war but he hopes the summit will give a \"clear signal\" on the intention to bring Ukraine into the alliance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Joe Biden, who arrived on Sunday in Britain on his way to the NATO summit, said he hoped the military alliance leaders would \"lay out a rational path for Ukraine to be able to qualify to be able to get into NATO\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to CNN, he said there were also \"other qualifications that need to be met, including democratisation\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I don\'t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war,\" he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bringing Ukraine in now, Biden said, would mean \"war with Russia\" because of the NATO commitment to collective defence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Destructive course\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky returned from Turkey on Saturday -- the 500th day of Russia\'s full-scale invasion -- after a regional tour to drum up support ahead of the summit with Western allies, who have pledged billions in military aid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was accompanied by five top commanders from the Azov regiment who were supposed to have remained in Turkey until the end of the conflict under a prisoner exchange deal with Moscow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their return to Ukraine angered the Kremlin, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov quoted by Russian news agencies on Saturday as saying that it was \"a direct violation\" of the agreement with Turkey.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Sunday and the two discussed the issue of the Azov commanders, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Sweden\'s NATO bid -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden hopes to use the summit to pressure Turkey to drop its opposition to Sweden\'s all-but-cleared NATO membership bid.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, Biden \"conveyed his desire to welcome Sweden into NATO as soon as possible,\" the White House said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erdogan\'s office said separately that he would meet with Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talks will focus on \"Ukraine\'s position in NATO, Sweden\'s NATO membership, and the delivery of F-16\" fighter jets, which Turkey hopes to secure from the United States, the Turkish presidency said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to reporters aboard the US presidential plane, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed Biden and Erdogan \"will have the opportunity to sit down in Vilnius,\" but said the scheduling was still being worked out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sullivan said Sweden\'s accession into NATO was only \"a matter of timing.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If we get it done by Vilnius, great. That may or may not happen,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Turkish presidency however said Erdogan had reaffirmed to Biden his longstanding position that Sweden still needed to crack down harder on suspected Kurdish militants to win Turkey\'s support.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Danger \'for many years\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky last week won a US pledge for cluster munitions that could inflict significant damage to Russian forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington\'s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs -- banned across a large part of the world -- has proved highly controversial.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden admitted that it had been \"a difficult decision\", one that humanitarian groups strongly condemned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sullivan said Sunday that Kyiv had pledged to only use the munitions on Ukrainian territory \"where they have the highest incentive to limit impact to civilians, because it is Ukrainian citizens who would be at risk.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also spoke on Sunday with his Ukrainian counterpart, who \"gave further assurances\" on how the cluster munitions will be used, Sullivan said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose country still grapples with deadly war remnants, on Sunday urged Ukraine not to use cluster bombs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It would be the greatest danger for Ukrainians for many years or up to a hundred years if cluster bombs are used in Russian-occupied areas in the territory of Ukraine,\" Hun Sen tweeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia, which itself uses cluster munitions in Ukraine, said the decision was an \"act of desperation\" that would have \"no effect\" on the conflict. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 16:14:00', '2023-07-10 16:14:00'),
(7872, 7872, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality continued to be in the ‘moderate’ zone this morning (July 10, 2023).</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 73 at 9:10 am, Dhaka ranked 20th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Arab Emirates\' Dubai, Qatar\'s Doha and Pakistan’s Karachi occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 171, 160 and 154, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 50 and 100 is considered ‘moderate’ with acceptable air quality. However, there may be a health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 150 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\', AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', and a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants: particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long grappled with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in the winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 16:17:39', '2023-07-10 16:17:39'),
(7873, 7873, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The overall number of Covid-19 cases around the world has now surpassed 691 million.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count is 691,235,025, while the death toll reached 6,898,483 this morning (July 10, 2023).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US has reported 107,356,628 Covid-19 cases so far, while 1,168,502 people have died from the virus in the country — both highest counts globally.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India has lodged 32 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, the union health ministry data stated on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of active cases stood at 1,454, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases to 4.49 crore (4,49,94,575). Meanwhile, the death toll has increased to 5,31,913 with one death being reported from Mizoram, the data showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">France and Germany have registered 40,138,560 and 38,428,685 Covid-19 cases so far, occupying the third and fourth positions in the world number-wise, and 167,642 and 174,352 people have died in the European countries, as per Worldometer.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh reported 76 more Covid-19 cases in 24 hours till Sunday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new numbers, the country\'s total caseload rose to 2,043,161, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,462 as no new fatalities were reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The daily case test positivity rose to 4.42 percent from Saturday’s 3.23 percent as 1,720 samples were tested.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recovery and death rates remained unchanged at 98.37 percent and 1.44 percent, respectively. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 16:21:09', '2023-07-10 16:21:09'),
(7874, 7874, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Torrential rain has been pounding southwestern Japan, triggering floods and mudslides and leaving two people dead and at least six others missing Monday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rains falling on the regions of Kyushu and Chugoku since the weekend caused flooding along a number of rivers as well as mudslides, closing roads, disrupting trains and cutting the water supply in some areas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Japan Meteorological Agency issued an emergency heavy rain warning for Fukuoka and Oita prefectures on the southern main island of Kyushu, urging residents in riverside and hillside areas to take maximum caution. More than 1.7 million residents in vulnerable areas were urged to take shelter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters the government has set up a task force and is doing its utmost for the search and rescue operation \"as we put the people\'s lives first.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two people have died and at least six others were missing, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency and prefectural officials. A man was found dead in a vehicle that had fallen into a swollen river in Yamaguchi prefecture.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the town of Soeda in Fukuoka prefecture, two people were buried underneath a mudslide. One was rescued alive, but the other was found without vital signs and later pronounced dead, according to prefectural officials.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the city of Karatsu in Saga prefecture, rescue workers were searching for three people whose houses were hit by a mudslide, the agency said. Footage on NHK television showed one of the destroyed houses reduced to just a roof sitting on the muddy ground amid floodwater flowing down.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least three others were missing elsewhere in the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Footage on NHK television showed muddy water from the swollen Yamakuni River gushing over a bridge in the town of Yabakei in Oita prefecture. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 16:30:15', '2023-07-10 16:30:15'),
(7875, 7875, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 15 people were killed in floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that battered northern India, with New Delhi receiving the most rainfall in decades, reports and officials said Sunday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roads in several parts of the capital were submerged in knee-deep water as it was inundated with 153 millimetres of rain, the highest precipitation in a single day in July in 40 years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With at least another day of heavy rain forecast, authorities have ordered schools shut in New Delhi on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Press Trust of India news agency reported Sunday that 15 people had been killed in the past 24 hours in six northern Indian states.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hill states were the worst affected, leaving six dead in Himachal Pradesh alone where landslides blocked about 700 roads, Omkar Sharma, a disaster management official told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\'s meteorological department has forecast more rain across large parts of northern India in coming days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Official data shows monsoon rains across the country in the first week of July have already produced about two percent more rainfall than normal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The summer monsoon brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall, as well as death and destruction due to flooding and landslides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rainfall is hard to forecast and varies considerably, but scientists say climate change is making the monsoon stronger and more erratic. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 17:08:45', '2023-07-10 17:08:45'),
(7876, 7876, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the media to do constructive criticism for the welfare of the country,  not for damaging it.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The criticism should be for the welfare of the country and not for damaging it,\"  she said while addressing a function at her office here in the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the function, the premier distributed cheques of financial assistance to the families of dead, sick, insolvent and injured journalists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year some Tk 3.41 crore were given against 438 journalists as financial assistance from Bangladesh Journalists Welfare Trust (BJWT) Fund.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina said the Awami League government has ensured freedom of media  in the last 14 years. \"None had ever enjoyed so much freedom in the past,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM asked the media to do criticism as much as required to correct the government but not to hamper the ongoing progress of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t want that the progress of Bangladesh ti be hampered,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the media will have to have the sense of responsibility and dutifulness towards the country and the nation while they enjoy freedom.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJWT fund was formed in 2014 with the seed money of Tk 25 crore provided by the prime minister on two occasions l.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far some Tk 40 crore was distributed among 13,510 journalists from the fund.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud presided over the function, while Information Secretary Humayun Kabir Khandaker spoke on the occasion. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 17:43:44', '2023-07-10 19:26:50'),
(7877, 7877, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A suspected Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) commander was killed during a reported gunfight between members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) and the group at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox\'s Bazar.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased was identified as Hussein Majhi, an \"ARSA commander,\" said Syed Harun-ur-Rashid, Additional Deputy Inspector General (ADIG) of APBn-14.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened at 5 am today at Camp-17 in Ukhiya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An APBn team surrounded the nearby area of Camp-17 this morning. \"At the time, ARSA men opened fire on the APBn team, and the latter fired back,\" Harun-ur-Rashid said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the “gunfight,” Hussein Majhi was found lying on the ground.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased was accused in several murder cases, and police will continue their drive, he added. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 18:20:02', '2023-07-10 18:20:02'),
(7878, 7878, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Shah Rukh Khan has finally unveiled the Jawan Prevue, which has quite a few high points to talk about. These include Shah Rukh\'s bald avatar, Nayanthara, Deepika Padukone (who has a special appearance in the film), Vijay Sethupathi, Sanya Malhotra, and Priyamani\'s power-packed scenes. Internet loved the Jawan Prevue (which is assumed by many to be the Jawan trailer). Filmmakers Karan Johar and Sujoy Ghosh also hailed it on social media.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after the release of Jawan Prevue, Sujoy Ghosh tweeted, “man that last few seconds of the jawan trailer.… gotey gripping stuff! I bow to you @iamsrk.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another tweet, he shared the Jawan Prevue and wrote, “tooooo good!! jhoomey jo jawan…”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karan Johar took to his Instagram Stories to praise Jawan. He wrote, “BHAI!!!!! This is going to be a juggernaut of a blockbuster! And @atlee47 you have done it again! Wowww, can\'t wait!!! @imsrk.” He also tagged co-producers Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma, and actors, Deepika Padukone, Vijay Sethupathi along with music director Anirudh Ravichander.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Self-proclaimed critic Kamaal R Khan wrote on Twitter, “Watched trailer of #Jawan! This trailer is proof that film Jawan is going to be huge and 100% full of south style. 80% film will be VFX. Therefore #SRK is looking like a 30 years old Launda. Director #Atlee has made a masala film like he does in south. Film will get 50Cr opening.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharing a still of Shah Rukh Khan\'s cop look from Jawan Prevue, a fan also wrote on Twitter, “Desire to see #ShahRukhKhan as Police Officer is finally going to be fulfilled. All the mass elements in one movie #Jawan. Just Wow! Thank You Anna @Atlee_dir.” HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 18:41:38', '2023-07-10 18:41:38'),
(7879, 7879, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government will turn Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) into a modern one having 4,000 beds as the hospital is facing problems in treating growing number of patients.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It is very difficult to give healthcare services to the growing number of the patients by Dhaka Medical College Hospital. So, we have devised a plan to turn the DMCH into a beautiful, modern and bigger hospital as 4,000 patients can take treatment from the hospital at a time,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier was addressing a function marking 78th founding anniversary of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital virtually from her office here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We hope, we can start the work (of turning the Dhaka Medical College Hospital into a 4,000 beds Hospital) very soon,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The science and health services are being flourished as the days to come, so Bangladesh needs to march ahead maintaining the similar pace, Sheikh Hasina said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier said the number of research on medical science is fewer in numbers, adding, \"A small number of persons have been engaging in research in medical science.\"&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So, you should give more focus on researches on medical science as the research to this end is very essential at the current age,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister said her government would give every possible support to conduct extensive research on the medical science to ensure overall development of the health sector. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 19:25:37', '2023-07-10 19:25:37'),
(7880, 7880, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chinese leader Xi Jinping called his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev to congratulate him on winning a third term as the head of the Central Asian country on Monday, Beijing\'s state media reported.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Xi Jinping pointed out, in recent years, under our joint leadership, China-Uzbekistan relations have achieved breakthrough development, and cooperation in various fields has been comprehensively strengthened,\" state broadcaster CCTV said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xi told Mirziyoyev he \"very much cherishes the good working relationship and personal friendship with you\", CCTV added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I am willing to work with you to promote the continuous development of the China-Uzbekistan comprehensive strategic partnership and inject new impetus into the construction of a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future,\" Xi said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preliminary results Monday showed Mirziyoyev will stay in charge of the tightly controlled, gas-rich state until 2030.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 65-year-old has promised to open up Uzbekistan to foreign investment and tourism, and implement key domestic reforms in Central Asia\'s most populous country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mirziyoyev, who was running against three largely unknown candidates, won Sunday\'s election with 87 percent of the vote, the preliminary results showed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China has renewed its push for massive infrastructure projects in Central Asia as Beijing aims to fill a vacuum left in former Soviet states by Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May, Xi hosted Mirziyoyev and other Central Asian leaders for a summit in the northern Chinese city of Xi\'an.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to regional leaders, the Chinese leader said the countries must \"fully unleash the potential of traditional cooperation in economy, trade, industrial capacity, energy and transport\", according to a state media readout at the time. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 19:51:15', '2023-07-10 19:51:15'),
(7881, 7881, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Schools in New Delhi were closed on Monday after heavy monsoon rains battered the Indian capital and caused landslides and flash floods in the country\'s north, killing at least 15 people over the last three days.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The torrential rain over the weekend left parts of New Delhi overflowing with water that submerged roads and stranded residents. The northern hill states were the worst affected, with 10 people killed in flash floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand states, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.</div><div><br></div><div>One person died in New Delhi and four were killed in the Indian-controlled section of Kashmir.</div><div><br></div><div>Landslides triggered by the rains disrupted traffic on key highways in Uttarakhand, a tourist hill state in the Himalayas, prompting warnings for residents not to venture out of their homes unless necessary. Authorities used helicopters to rescue people while bridges and houses were swept away in neighboring Himachal Pradesh.</div><div><br></div><div>India’s weather agency has forecast more heavy rains in the north in the coming days. It said monsoon rains across the country have already brought about 2% more rainfall than normal.</div><div><br></div><div>India regularly witnesses severe floods during the monsoon season, which runs between June and September and brings most of South Asia’s annual rainfall. The rains are crucial for rain-fed crops planted during the season but often cause extensive damage.</div><div><br></div><div>Scientists say monsoons are becoming more erratic due to climate change and global warming, leading to frequent landslides and flash floods in India’s Himalayan north.</div><div><br></div><div>In neighboring Pakistan, which has also been pelted by monsoon rains, authorities were on alert for the season\'s first flooding after India diverted waters from dams into the Ravi River, which flows from India into Pakistan.</div><div><br></div><div>Evacuations were underway from the lowlands in eastern Punjab province, according to Pakistan\'s disaster management agency. More than 150 people were moved overnight from the villages in Narowal and Sialkot, officials said.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 76 people have died in Pakistan in weather-related incidents since June 25 as heavy rains impacted tens of thousands of people in this Islamic nation.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan said New Delhi had informed Islamabad about the release of water into the Ravi, as it is required to do under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty brokered by the World Bank.</div><div><br></div><div>Cash-strapped Pakistan is still struggling to recover from last summer\'s flooding that killed 1,739 people and caused $30 billion in damage. According to AP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 22:12:40', '2023-07-10 22:12:40'),
(7882, 7882, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The National Board of Revenue (NBR) ended the fiscal year 2022-23 with a revenue shortfall of Tk 44000 crore, despite revenue generation growth by 8.12 percent compared to the previous financial year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>However, the final calculation of value added tax (VAT) is yet to come. July 15 is the last day to submit VAT returns. At the end of that time, a large amount of money will accumulate, and NBR officials believe that the deficit will decrease somewhat.</div><div><br></div><div>In FY 2022-23, the revenue collection target was Tk 3.70 lakh crore. According to NBR\'s provisional account, Tk 3.25 lakh crore revenue has been collected. There is a shortfall in revenue collection target of around Tk 44000 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the NBR, around Tk 91717 crore revenue has been collected against the target of Tk 1.11 lakh crore from the import-export, i.e. customs, sector. At the lowest growth of 2.56 percent, the deficit is about Tk 19283 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, despite the maximum growth of 11.5 percent in the VAT sector, against the target of Tk 1.37 lakh crore, Tk 1.20 lakh crore have been collected.</div><div><br></div><div>The target of revenue collection from the income tax sector was Tk 1.22 lakh crore. Tk 1.12 lakh crore has been collected. The income tax sector saw a growth of 9.62 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>In the last financial year FY22, the revenue deficit was Tk 28000 crore. A revenue of Tk 3.852 lakh crore was collected in that year.</div><div><br></div><div>A senior NBR official told UNB that 87.91 percent of the revenue collection target has been achieved against the targets in three categories of NBR in FY23.</div><div><br></div><div>In the current fiscal year 2023-24, the revenue collection target has been set at Tk 4.30 lakh crore. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 23:09:03', '2023-07-10 23:09:03'),
(7883, 7883, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The Appellate Division on Monday suspended bail of Jagannath University student Khadijatul Kubra for another four months in two cases under the Digital Security Act(DSA).</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>An Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate BM Elias Kachee and Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua stood for Khadija, while Assistant Attorney General Saiful Alam represented the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Khadija was granted bail by the High Court on February 16 in two Digital Security Act cases. The state filed petition challenging the bail.</div><div><br></div><div>During the hearing, Khadija\'s lawyer Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua argued that she was not accountable for the opinions expressed by guests in videos on her YouTube channel.</div><div><br></div><div>The Appellate Division responded that Khadija, “as a first-year honours student, should be able to accept responsibility for the opinions aired on her talk show program.”</div><div><br></div><div>In October 2020, police filed two cases against Khadija and retired Maj Delowar Hossain at the Kalabagan and New Market Police Stations for \'spreading anti-government propaganda and harming Bangladesh\'s reputation.\'</div><div><br></div><div>The allegations in the two cases filed a week apart, were similar.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrested Khadija on September 17, 2022. She has been imprisoned since then, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case details, Khadija and Delowar conspired to broadcast false, fabricated, and defamatory propaganda about the Prime Minister, various government agencies, and senior state officials in order to oust the country\'s legitimate administration. They were aiming to destroy communal harmony through their conspiracy by promoting enmity, hatred, and division among various communities, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>Khadija was 17 when the cases were filed under the Digital Security Act in 2020, but the case was filed showing her as an adult, according to her lawyer. Despite having kidney disease, Khadija\'s bail petitions were repeatedly denied by a Dhaka court, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 23:48:44', '2023-07-10 23:48:44'),
(7884, 7884, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government has taken the elections as a weapon to establish fascism.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Their only target is to establish one-party fascism by destroying democracy and the opposition parties. They tried to do this in the past, but could not succeed due to political changeover at that time...they’re pursuing this goal in a different style this time by taking elections as their weapon,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul made the remarks while addressing a millad mahfil arranged by BNP at the party’s Nayapaltan central office seeking&nbsp; the speedy recovery of its ailing standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Rafiqul Islam Miah.</div><div><br></div><div>He said they are being forced to carry out the movement as the government is not allowing holding free and fair elections in the country. “We want a change through the election. But you (govt) are holding the elections in your own style taking the results in your favour. That system can\'t continue.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said they still want a peaceful solution to the political crisis and hope that good sense will prevail upon the government to save the country by accepting the people’s demand for holding the next election under a non-partisan neutral government. “We think and the country’s people believe that the crisis will be resolved through the election.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said their party and its alliance partners are going to announce the final action programmes of their current anti-government movement. \"We all the parties involved in the simultaneous movement have decided to announce a new journey for the restoration of democracy and holding a fair and impartial election from our respective places on July 12 (Wednesday).”</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul alleged that the current ‘illegal’ regime has destroyed democracy very consciously by resorting to repressive acts.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government has killed and oppressed many opposition leaders who were carrying out the movement for bringing back democracy. “The biggest damage they have done by sickening the entire nation. They have turned this state into a sick one.\"</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;The BNP leader said many of their party senior leaders including Mosharrf, Rafiqul Islam Miah, Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar Nazrul Islam Khan and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi are now sick. “But we’re working, carrying out a movement, and reaching out to people. Our goal is to heal this sick state and free the nation from sickness.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said many of their party leaders have become after being subjected to repressive acts by the government.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Madam (BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia) herself told me how she was kept in the old Central Jail. The great leader was kept in a shabby old building with water leaking through its walls and rats running around,” Fakhrul in an emotion-choked voice.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said when Khaleda fell sick in jail the government did not take any steps for her treatment. “The doctors held a press conference and said that she needs urgent treatment. But she’s not treated. Amid the coronavirus, she was sent home. But she (Prime Minister) said she showed pity….we didn\'t ask for mercy. We wanted justice,” reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader also said people do not live in a kingdom under the rule of any queen or king in Bangladesh. “We fought in 1971 for an independent democratic state and for the establishment of the rights of people.”</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-10 23:57:02', '2023-07-10 23:57:02'),
(7885, 7885, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Heavy rain sparked extreme flooding in New York\'s Hudson Valley that killed at least one person, swamped roadways and forced road closures on Sunday night.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings across parts of southeastern New York, describing it as “life threatening.”</div><div><br></div><div>One person died due to the flooding, Steven M. Neuhaus, the Orange County executive, told The New York Times.</div><div><br></div><div>State Route 9W was flooded, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway became so drenched that parts of it was closed, the New York State Police said in a statement. The police asked the public to avoid the parkway.</div><div><br></div><div>Cedar Pond Brook in Stony Point was flowing over the road and into private properties, according to WABC.</div><div><br></div><div>Rockland County Executive Ed Day instructed residents to “remain indoors in a safe location” until the heavy rainfall ended. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-11 02:48:52', '2023-07-11 02:48:52'),
(7886, 7886, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh will start trade with India in Rupees in order to reduce stress on the US dollar requirements from Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Experts and businesses opined that it will save $2 billion dollars at least annually, which Bangladesh may use for other purposes.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, a significant portion of the dollar will be saved from the informal sector, which was spent by travelers to India for different purposes, following another initiative of dual currency cards, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>Former governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) Dr Atiur Rahman told UNB that Bangladesh\'s trade in Indian Rupees will start in regional trade with an alternate currency which will also incorporate Bangladesh Taka subsequently.</div><div><br></div><div>This will help take some pressure off the ACU payment settlement which takes place every two months, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>However, this will be only a small step as there is a huge imbalance in Indo-Bangladesh trade, Dr Atiur said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh exports about $2 billion to India against India exporting nearly eight times of that amount. So, our designated banks can open accounts in Indian designated banks and put export proceeds in Rupees,” he opined.</div><div><br></div><div>Similarly, Indian banks can open Taka accounts in Bangladesh banks to put their export proceeds in Taka to a limited extent. The rest of the payments will continue conventionally in dollars, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The dollar being the dominant currency, the trading in Indian Rupee will be only partial and experimental.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will learn by doing. One should not be complacent about it, although this can be a new way of transactions in regional alternate currencies,” Dr Atiur added.</div><div><br></div><div>President of India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI) Abdul Matlub Ahmad told UNB that Bangladeshi traders incur an additional cost of 4-6 percent that will be saved if taka-rupee transactions are started.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, the businessmen are uncertain to open LCs in dollars. This is because the value of the rupee against the dollar has fallen frequently over the past year, Ahmad said.</div><div><br></div><div>But there is no such uncertainty in taka-rupee transactions. Because the value of taka has not decreased much against the rupee, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>At first Sonali Bank and Eastern Bank of Bangladesh and two banks of India will open LCs in Rupees.</div><div><br></div><div>The number of banks will increase in the coming days. As a result, traders will not have much problem. Anyone can take this opportunity. But the small businessmen will benefit more from money to rupees transactions, the business leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>Because many small businessmen are unable to open LCs due to the dollar crisis, the Rupees trade will give priority to small traders, Ahmad said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-07-11 02:53:28', '2023-07-11 02:53:28');
