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(548, 548, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As part of the government\'s target to ensure housing for the landless and homeless people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over 26,229 more houses to landless and homeless families under the third phase of Ashrayan-2 Project tomorrow.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over the houses virtually tomorrow under the third phase of the Asrayan-2 project, said Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus at a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier will be connected virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence with five places in five districts, he mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;The places are Charkalakopa Ashrayan Project under Ramgati Upazila in Lakshmipur District,&nbsp; Gaurambha Ashrayan Project under Rampal Upazila in Bagerhat district, Char Velamari Ashrayan Project under Nandail Upazila in Mymensingh District, Mahan Para Ashrayan Project under Panchagarh Sadar Upazila in Panchagarh District and Jangalia Ashrayan Project under Mohammadpur Upazila in Magura district.</div><div><br></div><div>Ahmad Kaikaus informed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will also announce 52 upazilas, including all upazilas of Panchagarh and Magura districts, as homeless and landless free upazilas.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a total of 67,800 more single houses are being handed over across the country under the third phase of Ashrayan-2 Project.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the 67,800 houses, he mentioned, 32, 904 single houses were handed over on April 26, 2022 while rest of 8,667 houses are being constructed.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>According to the project details, a total of 1,17,329 single houses were constructed under first and second phases of the project while 1,85,129 houses were allotted till 2021-2022.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;On January 23 in 2021, 63,999 homeless and landless families received houses under the first phase and 53,330 families got a roof over their heads under second phase of the Ashrayan-2 Project on June 20 last year.</div><div><br></div><div>At the third phase of Ashrayan-2, the government has raised the cost and brought changes in design to make the houses more sustainable and climate-resilient.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Now the landless and homeless people will get better quality tin-shed semi-pucca houses on two decimals of land.</div><div><br></div><div>The cost against each house has been increased to Taka 2,59,500 from Taka 1,91,000 to make the houses more sustainable.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;The government is constructing the houses having strong great-beam, lintel and Reinforced Concrete Column (RCC) pillar for making the houses more sustainable.</div><div><br></div><div>Ahmad Kaikaus informed that Taka 4,028.96 crore was allocated for construction of single houses till the fiscal year 2021-22.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Some 1,242 specially designed houses have been allotted for char region under the third phase, he mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Special design for portable houses has been made so that the houses can be shifted to other places in view of any natural disaster like cyclone or flood, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Apart from khas land, he said, the government has purchased 191.79 acres of land for rehabilitating homeless and landless people.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"Purchasing lands by government is a unique example in the world,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>According to project details, Taka 134.49 crore has been allocated for purchasing lands.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 8,462 landless and homeless families will be rehabilitated on the houses to be built on the purchased lands.</div><div><br></div><div>The government recovered 5,512.04 acres of khas land from illegal occupation across the country for constructing houses for the project on the occasion of Mujib Barsho. Approximate market price of the recovered khas land is Taka 2,967.09 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the Ashrayan project, a total of 5,09,370 families have been rehabilitated till fiscal year 2020-21 from 1997.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Under the project, rehabilitated families are brought under VGF programs for 3 months.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>According to the government policy, the benefits of freedom fighters, the elderly, widows and the disabled are considered with priority under the social benefits program.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Rehabilitated family members are provided with practical and technical training to engage in various productive and income-generating activities.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Micro-credit for their socio-economic development is disbursed from various government agencies (such as Bangladesh Rural Development Board, Cooperatives, Department of Women and Children, Department of Social Services).</div><div><br></div><div>Other social organizations and NGOs are also involved in these programs.</div><div>Free electricity connection is provided for the rehabilitated families and tube-wells are being installed for safe water at the project site.</div><div><br></div><div>Community centres, prayer houses and graveyards, ponds and roads for internal communication are also being facilitated.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Different types of fruits, forest and medicinal trees are being planted in the project area. Homeless people are also being encouraged to be involved in agricultural work.</div><div><br></div><div>The unique feature of the Ashrayan Project perceived by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is that there is a special connection of housing activities with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Building houses alone can have major footprints in the attainment of various sustainable development goals.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Housing is related to positive changes in the areas of education, health, security, empowerment and women\'s empowerment as well as inclusive development. -BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 10:02:48', '2022-07-21 10:02:48'),
(549, 549, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">England are through to the semi-finals of the European Women\'s Championship after coming from behind in dramatic fashion to beat pre-tournament favourites Spain in extra time.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Georgia Stanway sent the Amex Stadium into delirium when she thumped in the winner after Sarina Wiegman\'s side had trailed up until the 84th minute of normal time.</div><div><br></div><div>A rendition of Football\'s Coming Home broke out in the stands as Stanway sprinted over to the corner to celebrate, with England leading for the first time after 95 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>Substitute Ella Toone had volleyed in Manchester United team-mate Alessia Russo\'s flick-on to cancel out Esther Gonzalez\'s opener, setting up a nervous ending in stoppage time.</div><div><br></div><div>England had momentum on their side and capitalised as the crowd in Brighton were on their feet, while Spain continued to threaten until the final whistle.</div><div><br></div><div>Eventual victory for the hosts ensured they reached a fourth successive women\'s major tournament semi-finals and their impressive unbeaten run under Wiegman extends to 18 matches.</div><div><br></div><div>The Lionesses are now one of the leading favourites to lift the trophy for the first time at Wembley on 31 July, but they must overcome either Sweden or Belgium in the last four to get there.</div><div><br></div><div>Spain leave the tournament at the quarter-finals stage for the third successive time.</div><div><br></div><div>England\'s tournament had played to perfection leading into this match, with the Lionesses topping their group having not lost a game or conceded a single goal.</div><div><br></div><div>Their first real test came days before the quarter-final as manager Wiegman tested positive for Covid and only confirmed her return to the dugout three hours before kick-off.</div><div><br></div><div>The nerves were to be tested again though, as Spain showed their quality in the first half and dominated until deservedly opening the scoring nine minutes after the break.</div><div><br></div><div>Athenea del Castillo, on as a substitute, got the better of full-back Rachel Daly and set-up Gonzalez to fire into the bottom corner, silencing a stunned home crowd.</div><div><br></div><div>But Wiegman immediately responded with a triple change - introducing Manchester United duo Russo and Toone, as well as Manchester City winger Chloe Kelly - and it proved to be inspired.</div><div><br></div><div>They made a crucial impact as Kelly reignited energy, while Toone and Russo combined for the equaliser to take the game to extra time.</div><div><br></div><div>Stanway, who had been challenged by an impressive Spanish midfield for most of the match, saw space to exploit as she broke through the middle and did not hesitate before striking it powerfully into the top left corner for England\'s devastating winner.</div><div><br></div><div>A roar erupted inside the stadium - an apparent release of relief and adrenaline as supporters sensed this was the ultimate turning point in a game largely dominated by the visitors.</div><div><br></div><div>Spain continued to fight for an equaliser as Amaiur Sarriegi struck dangerously wide in extra time, but England held their nerve to keep their hopes of winning a first women\'s major tournament alive.</div><div><br></div><div>The significance of this victory was clear as England\'s bench ran on to the pitch at full-time to celebrate, while Wiegman turned to the TV camera with fists clenched and passionately shouted: \"Come on!\"</div><div><br></div><div>England are on a winning run and they are desperate for it to continue all the way to the final at Wembley.</div><div><br></div><div>The tournament has already delivered some memorable moments - one coming after England\'s 8-0 win over Norway on their last outing at the Amex Stadium - but this felt like a bigger outpouring of emotion.</div><div><br></div><div>England needed to show something they haven\'t had too many times before under Wiegman.</div><div><br></div><div>It was only the second time they had trailed in a match - the first coming against the Netherlands in June\'s warm-up friendly.</div><div><br></div><div>Spain\'s opener was the first goal England had conceded in this tournament and up until the 83rd minute it felt like they were about to lose for the first time under Wiegman.</div><div><br></div><div>But England\'s quality in depth off the bench was again invaluable as 22-year-old Toone crowned a stunning year for club and country by firing in the game-turning equaliser.</div><div><br></div><div>The players embraced arm-in-arm at full-time and danced to England\'s favourite tournament songs, before taking in a lap of honour.</div><div><br></div><div>The hosts once again demonstrated all the ingredients needed to win the tournament and they are two wins away from the ultimate prize. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"16\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 10:07:13', '2022-07-21 10:07:13'),
(550, 550, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">When Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced that Italians had persuaded him not to resign, for much of Wednesday it looked as if his national unity government would survive.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He called for a new pact and a vote of confidence in the Senate.</div><div><br></div><div>But hours later three parties in the coalition said they would not take part in the vote.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, after a year and a half, his broad-based government encompassing right and left is set to collapse.</div><div><br></div><div>After what the leader of the centre left called a day of madness, Mr Draghi won the vote but, deprived of the support of three parties, he is now likely to tender his resignation for the second time in a week. However, he is first due to attend Thursday\'s debate in the lower house of parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>Italy\'s political drama began last Thursday, when the 74-year-old ex-head of the European Central Bank handed his resignation to the president, because the populist Five Star movement had pulled out of a confidence vote on a multi-billion euro aid package for families and businesses.</div><div><br></div><div>President Sergio Mattarella rejected his resignation and six days later Mr Draghi told the Senate it was impossible to ignore public calls to stay in the job. He praised the public, unions, universities and industry as well as health workers and the world of sport for their \"undeserved\" appeals to carry on.</div><div><br></div><div>A completely new agreement was \"the only way, if we want to stay together\", he said, appealing for a strong, cohesive government. \"Are the parties and you parliamentarians ready to rebuild this pact?\"</div><div><br></div><div>For several hours Italians held their breath, in the belief the political crisis that had engulfed the government of a titan technocrat would be over until elections, due next year.</div><div><br></div><div>The centre left gave Mr Draghi its support but all the parties have had one eye on the coming elections.</div><div><br></div><div>During a fractious debate in Senate it became clear that the hard-right League and centre-right Forza Italia parties were not prepared to remain in government with the populist Five Star movement that triggered the crisis in the first place. All three refused to take part in the vote.</div><div><br></div><div>Five Star\'s former leader, Luigi di Maio, said it was a \"black page\" for Italy and politics had failed. Regional Affairs Minister Mariastella Gelmini said she was quitting Forza Italia, accusing the centre-right party of turning its back on Italians and giving in to the far right.</div><div><br></div><div>The centre-left Democratic Party said as of now it would prepare for the election campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Draghi was brought in to guide Italy\'s government through the pandemic, the reforms needed to clinch almost €200bn in EU Covid recovery funds and he has since become a key figure in the international response to the Ukraine war.</div><div><br></div><div>After he tendered his resignation last Thursday, several protests took place calling for Mr Draghi to stay in office and polls showed most Italians agree. Some 2,000 mayors, as well as 250 business leaders backed him.</div><div><br></div><div>The EU\'s third-biggest economy now looks set for early elections, delaying much-needed reforms, as well as next year\'s budget. Italy is the biggest recipient of grants and loans from the EU\'s Covid recovery fund, but its next instalment is dependent on a list of changes.</div><div><br></div><div>Giorgia Meloni and other leaders on the right have an early election in their sights</div><div>Opinion polls suggest Italy\'s next prime minister would come from the far right. Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, has already called for an autumn election, highlighting a recent poll that gave her party 23.8% of the vote. \"This explains why the left is so scared of elections,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Unlike the rest of the right, Ms Meloni has not been part of the Draghi government, but the League and Forza Italia would be natural partners with her in any future coalition. -BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 10:12:48', '2022-07-21 10:12:48'),
(551, 551, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US President Joe Biden has announced a $2.3bn (£1.9bn) investment to help build infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather and natural disasters.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>But the announcement stopped short of formally declaring a climate emergency, which would grant him further powers.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Biden spoke in Massachusetts as a heatwave brings extreme weather to Europe and North America.</div><div><br></div><div>Tens of millions of people in the US, across more than two dozen states, are living under heat warnings this week.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world,\" the president said in Wednesday\'s speech, which was delivered outside a former coal-fired power plant in the town of Somerset. \"The health of our citizens and our communities is... at stake. So we have to act.\"</div><div><br></div><div>He said the new funding would go to expanding flood control, shoring up utilities, retrofitting buildings, and helping low-income families pay for heating and cooling costs.</div><div><br></div><div>It includes $385m to help states fund air conditioning units in homes and community cooling centres.</div><div><br></div><div>The administration also plans to provide additional support for offshore wind and energy development in the Gulf of Mexico, and enforce new workplace standards to help protect workers from extreme weather.</div><div><br></div><div>While Mr Biden said that he will treat extreme climate conditions as \"an emergency\", he stopped short of formally declaring a federal emergency.</div><div><br></div><div>The president has been under mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and environmental groups to do so after West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin - a conservative Democrat - last week said that he would not support legislation aimed at addressing climate change, dealing a significant blow to Mr Biden\'s agenda. Mr Manchin raised concerns about inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>The president said on Wednesday that since Congress \"is not acting as it should\", he plans to announce additional executive actions in the coming weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Our children and grandchildren are counting on us,\" he said. \"If we don\'t keep [climate change] below 1.5C, we lose it all. We don\'t get to turn it around.\"</div><div><br></div><div>President Biden entered office promising to restore US credibility on climate action and overturn the \"rollbacks\" of President Trump\'s environmental policy.</div><div><br></div><div>On his first day, he signed an executive order for the US to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords. In April last year he pledged to slash US greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030.</div><div><br></div><div>But the path to turn these promises into action has been anything but straightforward for Mr Biden. This latest round of executive orders demonstrates the troubles he has faced in getting climate policy through the normal routes.</div><div><br></div><div>Ahead of the Glasgow climate conference, Mr Biden promised the US would provide $11.4bn a year in climate finance by 2024 - to help developing countries tackle and prepare for climate change. But in March he managed to secure just $1bn of that from Congress - only a third more than the Trump-era spending.</div><div><br></div><div>Wednesday\'s executive orders do demonstrate Mr Biden is determined in his efforts. But he is perhaps also wary of pushing too far in using this type of presidential powers.</div><div><br></div><div>Just last month the Environmental Protection Agency lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court - following a case bought by 19 coal-producing states worried about job losses.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>It is clear the battle lines have been drawn in the US on climate action - and time will tell how far Biden will get in his presidency in delivering his ambitions. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 10:17:02', '2022-07-21 10:17:02'),
(552, 552, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Panchagarh and Magura on Thursday were officially published as the country’s first two districts having no landless and homeless people in a landmark achievement under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s home-to-everyone Ashrayan project.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The premier made the announcement while distributing of 26,229 houses among the landless families across the country joining virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>In northern Panchagarh, the government found 4,850 landless-and-homeless people and constructed abodes for all of them, said Md Jahirul Islam, the district’s deputy commissioner.</div><div><br></div><div>In western Magura district houses have been built for 678 families, official sources said.</div><div><br></div><div>Both the districts are agro-based. Bangladesh has a total of 64 districts.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 52 upazilas of different districts, including all the nine upazilas of Panchagarh and Magura, were also announced as having no landless and homeless families as part of the government’s commitment made on the occasion of the Mujib Year to ensure shelter for all the homeless in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 19,780 landless families were rehabilitated in these 52 upazilas, officials involved with the project said.</div><div><br></div><div>They said if anyone is found landless in the two districts and 52 upazilas, the person will immediately be given a house with land.</div><div><br></div><div>The local administration has already been given an order in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>The 52 upazilas are Nawabganj in Dhaka; Madaripur Sadar; Damudya in Shariatpur; Katiadi in Kishoreganj; Gopalpur in Tangail; Ghior and Saturia in Manikganj; Kalukhali in Rajbari; Nagarkanda in Faridpur; Madan in Netrokona; Bhaluka, Nandail, Phulpur and Fulbaria in Mymensingh; Bakshiganj in Jamalpur; Patiya, Karnaphuli, Satkania and Lohagara in Chattogram; Raipur and Ramganj in Laxmipur; Feni Sadar, Chhagalnaiya, Fulgazi and Parshuram in Feni; Gobindaganj in Gaibandha; Atwari, Panchagarh Sadar, Debiganj, Tetulia and Boda in Panchagarh; Nawabganj in Dinajpur; Baliadangi in Thakurgaon; Dimla in Nilphamari; Raninagar in Naogaon; Panchbibi in Joypurhat; Mohonpur, Charghat and Bagha in Rajshahi; Nandigram and Dupchanchia in Bogura; Bagatipara in Natore; Ishwardi in Pabna; Shibganj in Chapainawabganj; Harinakundu in Jhenaidah; Tala in Satkhira; Magura Sadar, Sreepur, Mohammadpur and Shalikha in Magura; Kathalia in Jhalakathi and Dashmina in Patuakhali.</div><div><br></div><div>Some 67,800 houses are being provided among landless and homeless families in the third phase of Ashrayan-2, a project of the PMO.</div><div><br></div><div>Of these, 32,904 houses were handed over on April 26 last, 26,229 ones handed over on July 21 and the construction of 8,667 other houses is still underway.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, 117,329 semi-pucca houses along with two decimal lands were distributed among the homeless people in the country in the first two phases on January 23, 2021 and June 20, 2021 on the occasion of the Mujib Year marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div><br></div><div>Some Tk4,029 crore was allocated for Ashrayan houses in 2021-2022 fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>The government recovered some 5,512 acres of khas lands to construct houses for homeless people throughout the country and approximate market value of these lands is Tk 2,967 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, the government procured 191.79 acres of lands at cost of Tk 134 crore for construction of houses under the Ashrayan-2 project. And 8,462 landless families have so far been rehabilitated on the procured lands.</div><div><br></div><div>The government will continue implementing the Ashraya-2 project despite the global economic crisis as the housing scheme is contributing to make the rural economy vibrant amid the crisis, said the officials. -UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 17:01:40', '2022-07-21 17:01:40'),
(554, 554, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka\'s new president on Thursday, a day after winning a vote in parliament and urging the island nation to come together to find a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The six-time prime minister succeeded Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled Sri Lanka and resigned from his post last week after mass protests over his handling of the economy. The swearing in ceremony was conducted in parliament, and presided over by the country\'s chief justice.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The country of 22 million people has been crippled by a severe financial crisis, with a lack of foreign currency leading to shortages of essentials including fuel, food and medicines.</div><div><br></div><div>Sri Lanka received fresh diesel supplies over the weekend, and the main state-run distributor, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, will restart sales under a new rationing system from Thursday onwards, the power and energy ministry said.</div><div><br></div><div>The protest movement that pushed out Rajapaksa - the first sitting Sri Lankan president to quit office - remained largely muted, despite Wickremesinghe\'s unpopularity among some sections of the population.</div><div><br></div><div>Only a handful of people were present outside the presidential secretariat on Thursday, a colonial-era building that was stormed by a sea of protesters earlier this month along with the president and prime minister\'s official residences.</div><div><br></div><div>But some have vowed to fight on against Wickremesinghe.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We won\'t give up because what the country needs is a total system change,\" said Pratibha Fernando, a protester at the secretariat. \"We want to get rid of these corrupted politicians, so that\'s what we are doing.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Hours after winning the parliamentary vote on Wednesday, Wickremesinghe appeared to distance himself from the powerful Rajapaksa family that has dominated politics in Sri Lanka for decades.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am not a friend of the Rajapaksas. I am a friend of the people,\" he told reporters after praying at a Buddhist temple in the commercial capital Colombo.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickremesinghe, who earlier served as prime minister and finance minister under Rajapaksa, has been involved in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bail out package worth up to $3 billion.</div><div><br></div><div>Sri Lanka is also looking for assistance from neighbouring India, China and other international partners. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 17:14:42', '2022-07-21 17:14:42'),
(555, 555, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India’s film industry is one of the most vast and varied in the world — it’s really not one but many separate industries, including Bollywood, Tollywood and others — yet few of the country’s roughly 2,000 annually produced movies ever make much of a dent with Western audiences.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We have a long tradition of storytelling in India. We have probably the oldest and most colorful stories,” says director S.S. Rajamouli. “Not being able to travel across borders has been a disappointment.”</div><div><br></div><div>That has changed emphatically with Rajamouli’s “RRR,” a three-hour Telugu-language action epic that has not only become one of India’s biggest hits ever but climbed U.S. box-office charts before finding an even wider audience on Netflix. For nine straight weeks, “RRR” has ranked among the top 10 non-English language films on the streaming service. Dubbed in Hindi and subtitled in 15 different languages, “RRR” is the most popular film from India ever on Netflix, charting among the top 10 films in 62 different countries.</div><div><br></div><div>For many, “RRR,” based on Hindu mythology and the freedom fighters that fought British colonialism, is their first encounter with Tollywood, the Telugu movie industry, or Indian films, at all. What many have seen is a movie filled to the brim with over-the-top action sequences and sprawling dance numbers, and an energy that today’s Hollywood blockbusters seldom match. Motorbikes are juggled. Tigers are thrown. Suspenders prove a surprisingly pliable dancing prop.</div><div><br></div><div>“There is never enough for me,” Rajamouli said in a recent interview from Hyderabad in India. “The only thing too much is my producer coming in and saying, ‘We’re crossing our budget. You need to stop somewhere.’ That is the only thing that will stop me. If given a chance, I will go even bigger and wilder, no doubt about it.</div><div><br></div><div>“To the brink, and nothing less.”</div><div><br></div><div>That go-for-broke style has earned the endorsements of some of Hollywood’s blockbuster filmmakers. James Gunn and Scott Derrickson, who have each helmed Marvel movies, have heaped their praise on “RRR” since it began streaming.</div><div><br></div><div>The “RRR” success has come while Netflix is reeling from subscriber loss and a stock decline, a downturn that has thrown its movie model into debate. But one less disputable aspect of Netflix’s platform is its ability to foster non-English global hits. “RRR” comes in the wake of global series hits like the Korean “Squid Game” and France’s “Lupin.” Theatrical-first movies like the South Korean best-picture-winning “Parasite” have already toppled what director Bong Joon Ho has called “the one-inch barrier” of subtitles.</div><div><br></div><div>“Frankly, I didn’t expect this kind of reception from the West,” says Rajamouli. “In the country and across the Indian diaspora all over the world is what we expected. But the reception from the West was a complete surprise for me. I always thought that Western sensibilities are different from my kind of films. I mostly cater to Eastern or Indian sensibilities.”</div><div><br></div><div>But while “RRR” has certain effects-heavy Hollywood characteristics that make it not so dissimilar from a superhero movie, it’s deeply engrained in Indian myth and present-day circumstance. “RRR” stands for “Rise Roar Revolt” but it also refers to Rajamouli and his two stars, N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan. They’re each from movie-star dynasties that have previously been more like rivals. This is Charan and Rao’s first film together, which is a little like a meeting of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, if they were also the sons of Marlon Brando and James Dean.</div><div><br></div><div>They play real-life Indian revolutionaries Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Rao) who team up in 1920s British-controlled India. In returning to the origins of modern-day India, “RRR” inevitably relates to today’s India, where, like in many other countries in recent years, nationalism has been on the rise. Since being elected in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emboldened India’s Hindu majority, sometimes at the expense of its Muslim minority.</div><div><br></div><div>Rajamouli, 48, has risen as one of the country’s biggest name directors over the same time period. He launched his two-part “Baahubali” epic in 2015. Its 2017 sequel ranks as the country’s biggest box-office smash. (Both are also streaming on Netflix.) But the political subtext of those films some have found troubling.</div><div><br></div><div>“In ‘Baahubali,’ even though it seems to have no connection with the political present, what it foregrounds is a muscular form of Hinduism, which is the worst manifestation of the right-wing nationalism,” says Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, a University of Illinois professor who has written several books on Indian cinema. “Jingoist, nationalistic Hindu machismo. In the story, it’s projected into the mythological past.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Baahubali” was a Telugu triumph that signaled that Tollywood in India’s South had perhaps surpassed Bollywood as the country’s top movie factory. In “RRR,” the most expensive Telugu film ever made with a budget of $72 million, Rajamouli is juggling both Telugu traditions and Bollywood song-and-dance aesthetics in what Mehta considers a Pan-Indian movie. Muslim characters appear, although not in primary roles.</div><div><br></div><div>“RRR” in this way may not be so different from American blockbusters. This summer’s top film in the U.S., “Top Gun: Maverick,” also doesn’t skimp on muscular jingoism. Rajamouli has heard the critics but disagrees with their interpretations.</div><div><br></div><div>“I understand that point of view. Sometimes, I feel they’re just being blind,” he says. “Personally, I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in god. I don’t believe in any religion. But I understand the power of spiritualism. For me, spiritualism is an emotion. And I write stories filled with emotions.”</div><div><br></div><div>Surely, many of the cultural references and connections in “RRR” will sail right over the heads of most Western viewers. But the sheer verve of its filmmaking isn’t getting lost in translation — and that may mean more cultural-crossovers for Tollywood and India to come.</div><div><br></div><div>“India cinema has had a different life and cycle of its own. If we keep an open mind, we can see this as the arrival of something,” says Mehta. “Only time can tell. We’ll have to see if this is actually a new trend and there will be more films like this made. Indian or Telugu cinema might keep it up, or this might be a one-shot thing.”</div><div><br></div><div>Rajamouli, meanwhile, is prepping his next highly anticipated film. He’s now often asked about whether he’d ever want to make a Hollywood movie or a Marvel one. “RRR,” though, hints more at Western audiences coming to Indian films, than vice versa. And Rajamouli’s focus is in making Indian films for India and beyond.</div><div><br></div><div>“Because of the success of ‘RRR’ with Western audiences, I am trying to make a film for the entire world, not just India,” says Rajamouli. “But I wouldn’t try to locate Western sensibilities and try to match up and change my story according to that. I think that would never work.”-AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 17:25:47', '2022-07-21 17:25:47'),
(556, 556, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Scientists have answered a longstanding question about mammalian evolution, examining ear anatomy of living and extinct mammals and their close relatives to determine when warm-bloodedness - a trait integral to the lineage\'s success - first emerged.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Researchers said on Wednesday that the reduced size of inner ear structures called semicircular canals - small, fluid-filled tubes that help in keeping balance - in fossils of mammal forerunners showed that warm-bloodedness, called endothermy, arose roughly 233 million years ago during the Triassic Period.</div><div><br></div><div>These first creatures that attained this milestone, called mammaliamorph synapsids, are not formally classified as mammals, as the first true mammals appeared roughly 30 million years later. But they had begun to acquire traits associated with mammals.</div><div><br></div><div>Endothermy evolved at a time when important features of the mammal body plan were falling into place, including whiskers and fur, changes to the backbone related to gait, the presence of a diaphragm, and a more mammal-like jaw joint and hearing system.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Endothermy is a defining feature of mammals, including us humans. Having a quasi-constant high body temperature regulates all our actions and behaviors, from food intake to cognition, from locomotion to the places where we live,\" said paleontologist Ricardo Araújo of the University of Lisbon\'s Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion, co-lead author of the study published in the journal Nature.</div><div><br></div><div>The high metabolisms of mammal bodies maintain internal temperature independent of their surroundings. Cold-blooded animals like lizards adopt strategies like basking in the sun to warm up.</div><div><br></div><div>Mammalian endothermy arrived at an eventful evolutionary moment, with dinosaurs and flying reptiles called pterosaurs - creatures that long would dominate ecosystems - first appearing at about that time. Endothermy offered advantages.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Run faster, run longer, be more active, be active through longer periods of the circadian cycle, be active through longer periods of the year, increase foraging area. The possibilities are endless. All this at a great cost, though. More energy requires more food, more foraging, and so on. It is a fine balance between the energy you spend and the energy you intake,\" Araújo said.</div><div><br></div><div>The mammalian lineage evolved from cold-blooded creatures, some boasting exotic body plans like the sail-backed Dimetrodon, mixing reptile-like traits like splayed legs and mammal-like traits like the arrangement of certain jaw muscles.</div><div><br></div><div>Endothermy emerged relatively quickly, in perhaps less than a million years, rather than a longer, gradual process, said paleontologist and study co-lead author Romain David of the Natural History Museum in London.</div><div><br></div><div>An early example was a vaguely weasel-like species, Pseudotherium argentinus, in Argentina about 231 million years ago. The later true mammals were the ancestors of today\'s three mammalian groups: placentals, marsupials and monotremes.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Given how central endothermy is to so many aspects of the body plan, physiology and lifestyle of modern mammals, when it evolved in our ancient ancestors has been a really important unsolved question in paleontology,\" said paleontologist and study co-author Ken Angielczyk of the Field Museum in Chicago.</div><div><br></div><div>Determining when endothermy originated through fossils has been tough. As Araújo noted: \"We cannot stick thermometers in the armpit of your pet Dimetrodon, right?\"</div><div><br></div><div>The inner ear provided a solution. The viscosity, or runniness, of inner ear fluid - and all fluid - changes with temperature. This fluid in cold-blooded animals is cooler and thicker, necessitating wider canals. Warm-blooded animals have less viscous ear fluid and smaller semicircular canals.</div><div><br></div><div>The researchers compared semicircular canals in 341 animals, 243 extant and 64 extinct. This showed endothermy arriving millions of years later than some prior estimates.</div><div><br></div><div>Mammals played secondary roles in ecosystems dominated by dinosaurs before taking over after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago. Among today\'s animals, mammals and birds are warm-blooded.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is maybe too far-fetched, but interesting, to think that the onset of endothermy in our ancestors may have ultimately led to the construction of the Giza pyramids or the development of the smartphone,\" Araújo said. \"If our ancestors would have not become independent of environmental temperatures, these human achievements would probably not be possible.\" -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Science Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 18:07:21', '2022-07-21 18:07:21'),
(557, 557, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A policewoman has been found dead in her grandparents\' home in Magura\'s Sreepur.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The woman was identified as 36-year-old Laboni Akhter. She had been serving as an additional deputy commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan Police.</div><div><br></div><div>Laboni had gone to visit her grandparents in Sreepur\'s Sarangdia village, according to Magura Additional Superintendent of Police Kamrul Hasan.</div><div><br></div><div>Her body was found hanging from the ceiling with a scarf tied around the neck on Thursday, Kamrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Mahamudul Hasan, a 23-year-old constable, was found dead on the rooftop of the Magura Sadar Police Barracks. He is believed to have shot himself in the head with a rifle.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahmudul was a native of Kushtia\'s Daulatpur Upazila. He had joined the Magura Police Lines about a month ago, according to Kamrul.</div><div><br></div><div>The bodies of both police personnel have been sent to Magura Hospital for autopsy.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 18:12:36', '2022-07-21 18:12:36'),
(558, 558, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">There is no intelligence that Vladimir Putin is unstable or in bad health, the director of the CIA has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>There has been increasing unconfirmed media speculation that Mr Putin, who turns 70 this year, may be suffering from ill health, possibly cancer.</div><div><br></div><div>But William Burns said there was no evidence to suggest this, joking that he appeared \"too healthy\".</div><div><br></div><div>His comments came as the US announced it would provide Ukraine with more long-range weapons.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia\'s military focus in Ukraine was no longer \"only\" the east and implied Moscow\'s strategy had changed after the West supplied Ukraine with such weapons.</div><div><br></div><div>\'Believer in control\'</div><div><br></div><div>\"There are lots of rumours about President Putin\'s health and as far as we can tell he\'s entirely too healthy,\" Mr Burns said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to laughter, he added that this was not a formal intelligence judgement.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Burns, who served as ambassador to Moscow, said he had been observing and dealing with the Russian leader for more than two decades.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Putin is \"a big believer in control, intimidation and getting even\" and these traits have hardened over the last decade as his circle of advisers has contracted, the CIA chief said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"He is convinced that his destiny as Russia\'s leader is to restore Russia as a great power. He believes the key to doing that is to recreate a sphere of influence in Russia\'s neighbourhood and he cannot do that without controlling Ukraine.\"</div><div><br></div><div>William Burns, seen here in 2014, served as ambassador to Moscow</div><div>Mr Burns travelled to Moscow in November to warn about the serious consequences for invading Ukraine following intelligence the US had collected about Russia\'s plans. But the CIA director said he left \"more troubled than when I arrived\".</div><div><br></div><div>The Russian president\'s plans were based on \"profoundly flawed assumptions and some real illusions especially about Ukraine and the will to resist\", Mr Burns said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Putin really does believe his rhetoric. I\'ve heard him say this privately over the years that Ukraine is not a real country.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Well, real countries fight back. And that\'s what the Ukrainians have done.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The US estimates that Russian casualties in Ukraine so far have reached around 15,000 killed and perhaps 45,000 wounded, Mr Burns said. He estimated that Ukrainian losses were a little less.</div><div><br></div><div>He added Russia\'s current concentration of forces in the Donbas suggested the military had learned hard lessons.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia invaded Ukraine in February, claiming falsely that Russian-speakers in Ukraine\'s eastern Donbas region had suffered a genocide and needed to be liberated.</div><div><br></div><div>Five months on, Russia has occupied parts of the east and south of the country, but it failed in its original aim of capturing Kyiv and has since claimed its main objective was the liberation of Donbas.</div><div><br></div><div>The US has accused Russia of preparing to annex parts of Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>But earlier on Wednesday the Russian foreign minister implied the US supplying long-range weapons could broaden Moscow\'s military focus in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite Mr Lavrov\'s apparent warnings, the US on Wednesday announced it would provide Ukraine with more long-range weapons.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine will receive another four Himars advanced rocket systems to hold the advance of Russian troops, bringing the total number to 16, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska addressed US Congress, asking for more air-defence systems to \"help us to stop this terror against Ukrainians\".</div><div><br></div><div>She said the weapons could help assure a \"joint great victory\". -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 18:18:54', '2022-07-21 18:18:54'),
(559, 559, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The world\'s oldest male panda in captivity has died in an amusement park zoo in Hong Kong on Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The panda, called An An, was euthanized at the age of 35 - the equivalent of a human living till 105.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials at Ocean Park say the decision was reached after he showed \"steady signs of deterioration\" over the past few weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>An An, together with its mate Jia Jia, was gifted to Hong Kong from China\'s central government in 1999.</div><div><br></div><div>Ocean Park\'s authorities said the panda\'s food intake had declined progressively, until it stopped taking solid food altogether and subsisting only on water and electrolyte beverages</div><div><br></div><div>The panda\'s caretakers also observed his activity levels had declined and its rest periods were getting increasingly longer.</div><div><br></div><div>Park officials eventually decided to euthanise the bear \"to alleviate the geriatric panda\'s discomfort,\" they said in a statement on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"An An has brought us fond memories with numerous heart-warming moments. His cleverness and playfulness will be dearly missed,\" said Paolo Pong, Chairman of Ocean Park Corporation.</div><div><br></div><div>Ocean Park has in the past come under criticism, with activists especially calling out its live dolphin performances - which were eventually stopped, though some say this was not enough.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Ocean Park\'s decision to end its dolphin shows but to keep the animals as a tourist gimmick is a missed ethical and financial opportunity,\" Jason Baker, vice president of PETA had then said.</div><div><br></div><div>The park continues to keep a large range of creatures, from dolphins to penguins - in captivity.</div><div><br></div><div>An An lived to 35, or the human equivalent of 105 years</div><div>Born in the wild in Sichuan, An An arrived with his mate in Hong Kong in 1999.</div><div><br></div><div>But his female mate, Jia Jia, died in 2016 at the age of 38, becoming the oldest female panda in captivity.</div><div><br></div><div>Two more pandas - Ying Ying and Le Le - remain at the Ocean Park zoo.</div><div><br></div><div>The average life expectancy of the species is below 20 years in the wild, but they can live longer in captivity.</div><div><br></div><div>China considers pandas a national treasure, but have loaned them to other countries as a way to forge political friendships across the globe. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 18:27:08', '2022-07-21 18:27:08');
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(560, 560, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Frenkie de Jong is living through his most difficult moments at Barcelona, conscious that the club wants him to depart. In these circumstances the Dutch midfielder, who is not interested in signing for Manchester United, may not mind choosing Chelsea as an alternative.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Frenkie de Jong’s minutes as a centre back in the clash against Inter Miami can be interpreted in different ways. Of course one way will be as a sign that it will be hard for him to get minutes in the centre of the pitch when Xavi has plenty of other options there. Or simply that Barcelona are sharing out pre-season minutes and that when the squad is complete, Frenkie will get his time in midfield.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case he knows that he\'s on the market and he does not want to go to Old Trafford.</div><div><br></div><div>The Dutch midfielder is not interested in the city of Manchester nor the way that United work; a club that he believes has had erratic behaviour over the last few months and above all will not be in the Champions League next season. That is of course his main issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Frenkie’s first choice would be to stay at Barcelona because he loves the city and the club.</div><div><br></div><div>However given the circumstances he wouldn\'t mind signing for another big side in Europe like Bayern Munich; a club which hopes to win it all in a city which has its attractions.</div><div><br></div><div>Although the Premier League is not a competition which he loves he also wouldn\'t shut himself off to a move to Chelsea.</div><div><br></div><div>The Blues have an interesting sporting project and will be in the Champions League next season. Under Thomas Tuchel De Jong believes he will be in with a chance of winning big trophies. And of course London is a city which is very attractive to live in.</div><div><br></div><div>Chelsea know that Manchester United and Barcelona reached an agreement over a fee for Frenkie de Jong and for now that is on hold because the player does not want to move.</div><div><br></div><div>There is also the economic aspect. Frenkie de Jong is owed a huge amount of money from his contract which he deferred some of his earnings in to help the club.-Eurosport</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"10\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 18:50:17', '2022-07-21 18:50:17'),
(561, 561, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">This year’s Cannes Film Festival set the bar high with a combination of flashy Hollywood blockbusters — Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis — and buzzy art house and independent films, including Ruben Östlund’s socially satiric Palme d’Or Winner Triangle of Sadness, David Cronenberg’s freaky sci-fi dystopia Crimes of the Future, and Park Chan-wook’s mystery masterpiece Decision to Leave.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>If Venice is to retain its crown as the go-to festival for awards-season contenders — last year’s Lido lineup included Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, which went on to win this year’s Oscar for best director, as well as Denis Villeneuve’s six-fold Oscar winner Dune — it will have to match Cannes with just the right mix of prestige auteur titles and red carpet glamour.</div><div><br></div><div>Wall Street Debates Netflix: Is the Worst Over Or Has Its Growth Stalled?</div><div>Venice will formally unveil its 2022 lineup on July 26. Here are the hottest contenders that could make the cut.</div><div><br></div><div>Bones and All</div><div><br></div><div>Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is all but guaranteed to premiere in Venice. It re-teams the Italian director with his Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet, whose appearance on the Dune red carpet last year drove Venice crowds wild. David Kajganich, who penned Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash and Suspiria, both of which premiered in Venice, adapted the script for Bones and All from the novel by Camille DeAngelis. Waves breakout Taylor Russell stars as Maren, a young woman living on the margins of society who falls in love with Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter. Together they set out on a thousand-mile odyssey through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. Jessica Harper, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg and Mark Rylance co-star. MGM has worldwide rights, with United Artists releasing in the U.S. and Vision Distribution handling Bones and All‘s Italian bow.</div><div><br></div><div>Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths</div><div><br></div><div>Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths COURTESY OF NETFLIX</div><div>Alejandro González Iñárritu, who used the 2014 Venice Film Festival as a launchpad for his eventual Oscar best picture winner Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, could return to the Lido with another ambitious, and long-titled, drama. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths marks the director’s return to Mexico, 22 years after his 2000 feature debut Amores Perros. The film is billed as a nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey of a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker (Daniel Giménez Cacho) who returns home to work through an existential crisis. The director’s first feature since The Revenant, Bardo is set in Iñárritu’s hometown of Mexico City and was shot on 65mm. Netflix, which has snatched up worldwide rights to the film, could follow the same promotional playbook it used for Roma, from Iñárritu’s amigo Alfonso Cuarón, which premiered (and won) in Venice in 2018, kicking off an awards campaign that ended with three Oscars.</div><div><br></div><div>White Noise</div><div><br></div><div>Three years after Marriage Story landed on the Lido on its way to becoming a major presence in the 2020 awards season (it won one of its six Oscar nominations), Noah Baumbach looks almost certain to return with his next feature with Netflix. Based on Don DeLillo’s breakout 1985 novel — the first time Baumbach hasn’t worked from his own original idea — the film, following a dramatic year in the life of a professor in the mid-West, packs a Venice-worthy ensemble, including Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Andre Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle.</div><div><br></div><div>The Eternal Daughter</div><div><br></div><div>While she was on the main jury in 2020, British auteur Joanna Hogg is yet to bring one of her films to Venice (her last, The Souvenir Part 2, bowed at Cannes 2021). But The Eternal Daughter could change all that. Once again reuniting Hogg with Tilda Swinton and A24, the ghost story — shot in secret during lockdown — adds some further prestige punch thanks to producers including one Martin Scorsese and Irish banner Element Pictures, which was behind The Favourite and Normal People. Following a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother who must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their once-grand former family home, the film also stars Carly-Sophia Davies, Joseph Mydell and Alfie Sankey-Green also star.</div><div><br></div><div>The Son</div><div><br></div><div>Given the very recent awards pedigree behind it, this feature seems tailor-made to bow on the Lido and is well expected to make the trip. The follow-up to Florian Zeller’s mind-twisting debut feature The Father, which in 2021 won the Oscar for best-adapted screenplay and saw Anthony Hopkins claim best actor, The Son — also adapted from Zeller’s own stage play — packs an A-list cast in Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby. Hopkins also returns for a second shot with the fast-rising French filmmaker. And linking it to last year’s festival, The Son is being produced by See-Saw, the Brit/Australian banner behind 2021 Venice Festival and 2022 awards season darling The Power of the Dog. Sony Pictures Classic has rights.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Whale</div><div><br></div><div>Darren Aronofsky’s last Venice visit — for 2017’s Mother! — was a bit of a disaster. Critics hated his mystery horror mash-up, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, and the film quickly sunk after its Lido debut. But Venice still has a soft spot for Aronofsky: 2008’s The Wrestler won the Golden Lion, and both The Fountain (2006) and Black Swan (2010) debuted in Venice, making the festival an ideal spot for the director’s return. Aronofsky’s latest stars Sadie Sink, Brendan Fraser and Samantha Morton in the story of a reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity who attempts, one last time, to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. A24 has worldwide rights.</div><div><br></div><div>Rheingold</div><div><br></div><div>German-Turkish auteur Fatih Akin (Head-On, In The Fade) has brought two features to Venice to date: 2009’s audience favorite Soul Kitchen and the 2014 period drama The Cut. Rheingold, a hotly anticipated biopic of German ex-convict turned hip-hop entrepreneur Giwar Hajabi, could make it three. Starring Emilio Sakraya, Rheingold is being released in Germany by Warner Bros. and sold worldwide by MUBI’s The Match Factory.</div><div><br></div><div>Blonde</div><div><br></div><div>Blonde, a&nbsp; fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe from New Zealand director Andrew Dominik, featuring Knives Out and No Time to Die star Ana de Armas as Monroe, would fit nicely into the star-driven auteur slot filled last year by Pablo Larraín’s Kristen Stewart-as-Lady-Di drama Spencer. Based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel, Blonde co-stars include Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody and Caspar Phillipson. Dominik so far has just one Venice appearance to his name: the 2007 Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Netflix, who has worldwide rights, would love for Blonde to be his second, setting up the film, and de Armas, for an awards run next year.</div><div><br></div><div>She Said</div><div><br></div><div>The investigative drama, which follows New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor as they break the sexual assault stories that helped launch the #MeToo movement, was rumored to be in the mix for Cannes. But the latest feature from German multi-hyphenate Maria Schrader, coming hot off her Emmy win for Netflix’s Unorthodox and critical and commercial acclaim for her sci-fi rom-com I’m Your Man, would be a nice fit for Venice. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as Twohey and Kantor, the reporters who exposed disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in a cast that also includes Jennifer Ehle, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher and Samantha Morton. Universal Pictures has worldwide rights.</div><div><br></div><div>Chiara</div><div><br></div><div>Susanna Nicchiarelli’s follow-up to her 2020 Venice competition entry Miss Marx looks set for a Lido bow. The period drama is a biography of St. Clare of Assisi, who, after hearing St. Francis preach, left her wealthy family to become a nun. My Brilliant Friend star Margherita Mazzucco plays the protagonist. Rai Cinema has rights.</div><div><br></div><div>Other People’s Children</div><div><br></div><div>French director Rebecca Zlotowski has to date been a Cannes favorite: Her 2019 feature An Easy Girl screened in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, 2010’s Dear Prudence was a Critics’ Week title, and 2013’s Grand Central also premiered on the Croisette. But after her latest, Other People’s Children, didn’t show up on the Cannes 2022 lineup, speculation began to swirl that the film could be heading to Venice instead. The drama stars Belgium’s Virginie Efira (Elle, Benedetta) as a childless woman who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend’s young daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>Monica</div><div><br></div><div>Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, whose 2017 drama Hannah, starring Charlotte Rampling, was part of the Venice competition in 2017 and whose 2013 debut Medeas screened in the festival’s Horizons sidebar, is set to return to the Lido with his English-language debut. The family drama stars Trace Lysette as a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza and Emily Browning co-star. The Exchange and UTA Independent Film Group are handling world sales. -hollywoodreporter</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 19:05:55', '2022-07-21 19:05:55'),
(562, 562, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia has restarted gas supplies to Europe through its biggest pipeline, Nord Stream 1, following a 10-day maintenance break.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>There had been fears Moscow may not have resumed the flow in response to EU sanctions over the war in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>On Wednesday, the European Commission urged countries to cut gas use by 15% over the next seven months in case Russia switched off Europe\'s supply.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia supplied Europe with 40% of its natural gas last year.</div><div><br></div><div>Germany was the continent\'s largest importer in 2020, but has reduced its dependence on Russian gas from 55% to 35%. Eventually, it wants to stop using gas from Russia altogether.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia\'s President Vladimir Putin has sought to play down fears, telling reporters that state gas firm Gazprom would fulfil all its contractual obligations.</div><div><br></div><div>The pipeline resumed operations early on Thursday morning, but a spokesman said it was only delivering 40% of its capacity.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the same level it was operating at in mid-June, when Gazprom cut gas flows blaming a delay in the return of equipment being serviced by Germany\'s Siemens Energy.</div><div><br></div><div>Few in Berlin, or any other European capital, trust Vladimir Putin to supply the energy upon which Germany, in particular, depends so heavily.</div><div><br></div><div>Even as Europe swelters through a heatwave, ministers here are painfully aware that the country doesn\'t currently have enough stored gas to see it through the winter.</div><div><br></div><div>They\'re urging people to save energy, scrambling to secure supplies of liquified natural gas from other countries and even firing up old coal power stations - despite a pledge to phase out the fossil fuel.</div><div><br></div><div>Industry leaders have warned that a shortfall in gas, which may yet lead to rationing, could trigger a recession.</div><div><br></div><div>That would delight Vladimir Putin, who wants to provoke political and economic chaos in the West. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 19:46:32', '2022-07-21 19:46:32'),
(563, 563, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">What is an anal personality?</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also known as being anal retentive, an anal personality is thought of as someone with an extreme need to control their environment. The person with an anal personality will also have an obsessive attention to detail (even non-essential details) to the point that it might annoy others.</div><div><br></div><div>The anal personality is generally perceived as anxious and unable to manage the impulse to control situations. Their behavior goes beyond being helpful. For example, a person with an anal personality might research a product endlessly before buying it.</div><div><br></div><div>Freud\'s theory of the anal personality</div><div><br></div><div>Are you curious about the origins of the term anal personality? It dates back to the time of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who was the first to propose the existence of this personality type as part of psychoanalytic theory.</div><div><br></div><div>Freud wrote about the anal-retentive personality in his early works on psycho-sexual development. Freud argued that there were three psycho-sexual stages during early child development:</div><div><br></div><div>Oral: From birth to one year</div><div>Anal: From Age 1 to Age 3</div><div>Phallic: From Age 3 to Age 6</div><div><br></div><div>It was during the anal stage and toilet training that Freud argued the anal-retentive personality would develop.</div><div><br></div><div>Freud believed that when a child grew to realize that they could manage and restrict their bowel movements that the stage would be set for them to potentially develop either an anal-retentive personality or anal expulsive personality.</div><div><br></div><div>Freud felt that a child would decide whether to comply with their parent or not. If a parent was too strict or tried to toilet train a child too early, this would then lead to the child developing an anal-retentive personality. In addition, a child who was punished for toilet training accidents would also develop this personality.</div><div><br></div><div>Certain historians believe that some of Freud\'s theories were influenced by the state of indoor plumbing in addition to the Victorian social mores at the time that he lived. Since there was no indoor plumbing, no diapers, and no washing machine, restricting one\'s bowel movements would have been a much larger concern for children who lived when Freud was a young boy.</div><div><br></div><div>Freud\'s depiction of the anal personality included being overly orderly, meticulous, suspicious, and reserved. Further traits that were later described included being stubborn, rigid, stingy with money and/or time, and having an obsession with being neat or clean. Other adjectives used to describe this personality were perfectionistic, detail-oriented, overly self-reliant, and having a passion for organizing, classifying, or collecting objects.</div><div><br></div><div>A student of Freud\'s, Karl Abraham, took the concept a step further and described the opposite of anal-retentive as being anal-expulsive (a person with a tendency to make a mess).</div><div><br></div><div>Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder</div><div><br></div><div>While Freud described the anal personality, the closest mental disorder that is currently described today in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD).</div><div><br></div><div>This psychiatric diagnosis refers to a person with a compulsive and inflexible need for mental and interpersonal control.</div><div><br></div><div>Similar to the anal personality, a person with OCPD will also show strong attention to detail, a need for orderliness in their environment, problems with perfectionism, and a tendency to make lists and rules to follow.</div><div><br></div><div>This person may also have trouble delegating tasks and will be obstinate and rigid in their interpersonal dealings.</div><div><br></div><div>They may have trouble getting rid of old things or spending money.</div><div><br></div><div>Differences between anal personality and OCPD</div><div><br></div><div>What are the differences between having an anal personality and having OCPD?</div><div><br></div><div>In common usage, a person who is said to have an anal personality would generally be considered to have a personality quirk. On the other hand, a person with OCPD would be considered to have a mental disorder that interferes with their daily life.</div><div><br></div><div>Research on anal personality</div><div><br></div><div>In a classic 1966 study, researchers showed that those with an anal personality performed worse on a task that required them to place their hand into water that had an odor suggestive of fecal matter than people without an anal personality. The researchers speculated that this reflected ineffective defenses against \"anal impulses.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In general, research has revealed that the anal personality appears as a cluster of traits rather than a defined type that would be defined as a disorder. In general, the term is rarely used in current psychological research and has much more been adopted colloquially to describe a certain personality \"style.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Signs you have an anal personality</div><div><br></div><div>What are some signs you might have an anal personality yourself? Here are the signs to look for.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you buy 10 of everything at the grocery store so that you won\'t run out?</div><div>Do you organize the bills in your wallet by color or by how worn they are so that you can spend the dirty ones first?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you look up words before you type them on social media to see whether you need to add a hyphen for proper grammar?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you categorize your grocery list so that it is in the exact order of the items that you will be buying at the store?</div><div><br></div><div>When you set clocks in your house, do you need to make sure that they are all set to the same minute and second?</div><div><br></div><div>Does it bother you greatly if you see small errors or details?</div><div><br></div><div>Have other people referred to you as overly neurotic about having things perfect around you?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you find it hard to relax on the weekend or on vacation when you know that it should be a time to unwind and recharge?</div><div><br></div><div>Are you stingy in how you consume things such as using only one square of toilet paper or not spending any of your money?</div><div><br></div><div>While these are just some examples of what it might be like if you have an anal personality, they show a common theme of needing to control your environment or behave in a way that involves withholding or being very careful about what you do.</div><div><br></div><div>What to Do About an Anal Personality</div><div><br></div><div>What should you do if you think you have an anal personality? That all depends on whether it bothers you or the people around you.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have trouble making decisions or feel anxious if you don\'t control your environment, it might be worthwhile speaking to a mental health professional to determine whether you might be living with something more than just a personality quirk.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you feel as though your behavior is excessive or out of your control? Those are other signs that you might need to seek help. If you have trouble delegating tasks or can\'t handle when things don\'t work out perfectly, this could interfere with your daily life or your ability to function at work.</div><div><br></div><div>All of these are signs that it may be helpful to speak to a professional.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, if you are functioning well, aren\'t bothered by your quirks, and the people around you are accepting of your personality, then it may simply be something that you learn to live with. -verywellmind</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Lifestyle Desk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 19:58:19', '2022-07-21 19:58:19'),
(564, 564, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Spanish government will not order consumers to limit their gas consumption, energy minister Teresa Ribera said today, after Spain said it would oppose a European Union proposal to cut gas usage.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We will not introduce in a law an obligation to set the temperature of homes’ thermostats,” she said in an interview on local radio Cadena SER. The government would recommend people save energy, though, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She added the government would protect industries’ gas consumption too.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said yesterday her government would oppose a European Union proposal to cut gas usage as the country does not depend on Russian gas after it has made efforts to invest in gas storage and gas liquefaction infrastructure in the past.</div><div><br></div><div>“The logic says that if our role in terms of solidarity is to be the reference in gas storage and re-exporting it is absurd to think we have capacity to reduce in absolute terms our gas imports,” Ribera said.</div><div><br></div><div>The European Commission proposed a voluntary target for all EU countries to cut gas use by 15% from August to March, compared with their average consumption in the same period during 2016-2021.</div><div><br></div><div>The proposal would enable Brussels to make the target mandatory in a supply emergency, if the EU declares a substantial risk of severe gas shortages due to Moscow further restricting supplies to Europe.</div><div><br></div><div>Several countries such as Austria, Germany and Denmark have said they are considering emergency plans that would ultimately entail gas rationing.</div><div><br></div><div>The EU plan has faced resistance from other member countries including Poland and Hungary. Source: Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 20:43:52', '2022-07-21 20:43:52'),
(565, 565, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police on Thursday recovered the bodies of an additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Khulna Metropolitan Police and a constable from separate places in Magura.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of KMP Laboni Akhter, 30, and Constable Mahmudul Hasan, 23.</div><div><br></div><div>KMP’s Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) SM Fazlul Haque said Laboni Akhter was found hanging&nbsp; from the ceiling with a scarf at her grandparent\'s house in Sarangodia village in Sreepur upazila in the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Fazlul Haque said Laboni was on leave. “It cannot be said right now whether it is suicide or not.”</div><div><br></div><div>Mahmudul Hasan’s body was recovered from the roof of Magura Police Lines Barrack in the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>He shot himself in the head with a firearm issued in his name around 7:30 am, said Magura Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kamrul Hasan.</div><div><br></div><div>Hailing from Kushtia, Mahmudul was posted in Magura one and a half months ago, said ASP Kamrul Hasan, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The bodies were sent to Magura Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 21:11:42', '2022-07-21 21:11:42'),
(566, 566, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday expressed her firm conviction that the present government will ensure home for everyone irrespective of their political affiliation and views, saying it\'s her responsibility as premier to provide decent life to countrymen.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"If anyone has information about landless or homeless, please let us know. Irrespective of their political affiliation and views, we will provide house to them who are homeless. We will also arrange the address and livelihood for them,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said there may be differences in views and opinion, but, it does not matter as \"the country is ours. And I am the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, that means, I am responsible for every citizen of Bangladesh\".</div><div><br></div><div>She made the remarks at the handing over ceremony of 26,229 more houses to homeless people of five places in five districts under the third phase of Ashrayan-2 Project, connecting virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said even if there are differences in ideals, opinion and believes, the main identity of a human being is human and that is how she considers people.</div><div><br></div><div>She continued: \"I see human being as a human and I want every person to spend a decent life. That is my father\'s lesson. That\'s why I want to provide a good livelihood to every people of this country.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister also declared Magura and Panchagarh as landless-and-homeless free districts at the function.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from the nine upazilas of Magura and Panchagarh districts, she simultaneously announced another 43 upazilas of different districts across the country as landless-and-homeless free.</div><div><br></div><div>On this auspicious moment, Sheikh Hasina said, \"We are very much happy that due to our initiative we\'ve attained a primary success that all nine upazilas of two districts became fully free from landless and homeless people.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The 43 other upazilas of various districts across the country also got the same status, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is the big achievement. I hope that, all districts and upazilas of Bangladesh will be free from landless and homeless people this way,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that every people of the country will have a house and an address, she said, \"Insha Allah we will be able to do that and I believe it.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister also urged Awami League and its all affiliated organizations, all political parties, administration, law enforcement agencies and public representatives to find out landless or homeless people, if any, in their respective areas to manage house for them.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am asking all . . . to provide information about any landless and homeless people so that we could give them a house and an address,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier today distributed 26,229 more houses to homeless families as part of her government\'s effort to ensure housing for the landless people.</div><div><br></div><div>From her official residence Ganabhaban, she connected virtually with the venue located in Charkalakopa Ashrayan Project under Ramgati Upazila in Lakshmipur District, Gaurambha Ashrayan Project under Rampal Upazila in Bagerhat district, Char Velamari Ashrayan Project under Nandail Upazila in Mymensingh District, Mahan Para Ashrayan Project under Panchagarh Sadar Upazila in Panchagarh District and Jangalia Ashrayan Project under Mohammadpur Upazila in Magura district.</div><div><br></div><div>At the outset of the ceremony, Asrayan Project Director Abu Saleh Mohammad Ferdous Khan made a presentation on the activities of the project.</div><div><br></div><div>A video documentary on Asrayan Project and homeless-and-landless people was screened.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister\'s Principal Secretary Dr. Ahmad Kaikaus moderated the function from Ganabhaban end.</div><div><br></div><div>The 52 upazilas, which are declared as homeless-free, are - Magura Sadar, Sreepur, Mohammadpur and Shalikha in Magura; Atwari, Panchagarh Sadar, Debiganj, Tetulia and Boda in Panchagarh; Nawabganj in Dhaka; Madaripur Sadar; Damudya in Shariatpur; Katiadi in Kishoreganj; Gopalpur in Tangail; Ghior and Saturia in Manikganj; Kalukhali in Rajbari; Nagarkanda in Faridpur; Madan in Netrokona; Bhaluka, Nandail, Phulpur and Fulbaria in Mymensingh; Bakshiganj in Jamalpur; Patiya, Karnaphuli, Satkania and Lohagara in Chattogram; Raipur and Ramganj in Laxmipur; Feni Sadar, Chhagalnaiya, Fulgazi and Parshuram in Feni; Gobindaganj in Gaibandha; Nawabganj in Dinajpur; Baliadangi in Thakurgaon; Dimla in Nilphamari; Raninagar in Naogaon; Panchbibi in Joypurhat; Mohonpur, Charghat and Bagha in Rajshahi; Nandigram and Dupchanchia in Bogura; Bagatipara in Natore; Ishwardi in Pabna; Shibganj in Chapainawabganj; Harinakundu in Jhenaidah; Tala in Satkhira; Kathalia in Jhalakathi and Dashmina in Patuakhali. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 21:43:57', '2022-07-21 21:43:57'),
(567, 567, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Iran has issued indictments against 20 people after the deadly collapse of a building that triggered widespread anti-corruption protests, the judiciary said today.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 10-storey Metropol building that was under construction in the city of Abadan in southwestern Khuzestan province collapsed on May 23, leading to death of 43 people.</div><div><br></div><div>It took emergency services almost two weeks to recover the bodies of those killed in the disaster, one of Iran’s deadliest in years.</div><div><br></div><div>The tragedy sparked a series of demonstrations across the country against authorities accused of corruption and incompetence.</div><div><br></div><div>At the time, the provincial judiciary said it had arrested 13 people, including Abadan’s mayor and two former mayors in connection with the case.</div><div><br></div><div>“Considering the importance of the matter … the case has been carefully evaluated and indictments have been issued against 20 people,” said the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.</div><div><br></div><div>“All the defendants in this case are currently in custody with applicable warrants,” it said, without identifying them or specifying what charges they faced.</div><div>Iranian media outlets had earlier reported that he was among those who died in the disaster. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 22:05:06', '2022-07-21 22:05:06'),
(568, 568, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Justin Bieber is back, “Baby.”</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 28-year-old heartthrob will resume his “Justice” world tour after he postponed a month’s worth of shows to recover from facial paralysis, both AEG and the verified Twitter account Bieber Fever announced Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Starting with the Lucca Festival in Italy on July 31, the Biebs will complete a run of European festivals, then play shows “All Around The World” in South America, South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He’ll then return to Europe in 2023.</div><div>His postponed US concerts have yet to be rescheduled.</div><div><br></div><div>Life was anything but “Peaches” for Bieber when he was forced to cancel several North America stops - including in New York City - amid his battle with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that is reflected in facial palsy or paralysis, often accompanied by a rash affecting the ear or mouth.</div><div><br></div><div>The virus is caused by an infection of the varicella-zoster virus — which also causes chickenpox and shingles.</div><div><br></div><div>“As you can see, this eye is not blinking,” he demonstrated in a 2½-minute Instagram video that was posted on June 10.</div><div><br></div><div>“I can’t smile on this side of my face. This nostril will not move, so there’s full paralysis on this side of my face,” Bieber continued, gesturing to the right side of his face.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“So for those who are frustrated by my cancellations of the next shows, I’m just physically obviously not capable of doing them. This is pretty serious as you can see. I wish this wasn’t the case but, obviously, my body’s telling me I gotta slow down,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Five days later, his wife, supermodel Hailey Bieber, told the hosts of “Good Morning America” that her hubby was “going to be totally okay.”</div><div><br></div><div>“He’s doing really well … he’s feeling a lot better and obviously it was just a very scary and random situation to happen,” she shared.</div><div><br></div><div>“Every single person has sent well wishes, advice, recommendations,” she said of his fans. “It’s been really amazing.”</div><div><br></div><div>The couple was spotted having some summer fun on a boat in Idaho just last week. They showed lots of PDA in between cuddles and cannonballs into the water.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday, Bieber’s mentor Usher told “Extra” that his mentee was “doing great.”</div><div><br></div><div>“As an artist, I think we are all going to experience some things that people may not necessarily understand,” the “Love in This Club” singer, 43, said.</div><div><br></div><div>Bieber released his album “Justice” on March 19, 2021. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart — his eighth album to do so. Source: New York Post</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 22:30:43', '2022-07-21 22:30:43'),
(569, 569, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A regional envoy tasked with kickstarting dialogue between Myanmar’s junta and anti-coup fighters warned today there was no “magic wand” to end the country’s bloody crisis.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Myanmar has been embroiled in turmoil since the military seized power last year and ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, prompting fierce resistance and informal militias.</div><div><br></div><div>A local monitoring group says more than 2,000 people have been killed and almost 15,000 arrested as the junta seeks to crush dissent.</div><div><br></div><div>Prak Sokhonn, a special envoy of Asean, warned there was no quick solution to the crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>“For those who want to see quick solutions, I am afraid there are none,” he said in an online speech to a forum organised by Singapore-based think-tank ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.</div><div><br></div><div>“Patience is the operative word here. There are no shortcuts. There is no magic wand, no special elixir.”</div><div><br></div><div>Prak Sokhonn, who is also the foreign minister of Asean chair Cambodia, said it took his own country 20 years to achieve peace following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979.</div><div><br></div><div>“Peace talk needs time, patience and concessions from all parties concerned. Due to the inherent divergence of interests, a peace talk is a lengthy bargaining process,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He said his second visit to Myanmar from June 29-July 3 had shown “encouraging results” as it had paved the way for some humanitarian assistance, including Covid-19 vaccines.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said he was able “to open a new space for political dialogue” even with groups the junta designated as “terrorists”, under certain conditions, including that they must say they have no intention of replacing the government.</div><div><br></div><div>And while he was not allowed to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently in jail, the envoy said he was promised he could in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>On calls for him to engage with leaders of the shadow “National Unity Government”, which is seeking to overturn the coup, Prak Sokhonn said “we don’t need to shout from the rooftop on whom, how, when or where we engage with those actors deemed important to the political dialogue”.</div><div><br></div><div>Negotiations are mostly done discreetly or in secret, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>In an interview with Singapore news outlet CNA yesterday, Prak Sokhonn said he hoped to make his third visit to Myanmar in September. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 22:58:06', '2022-07-21 22:58:06'),
(570, 570, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pakistan pace bowling legend Wasim Akram feels ODI cricket has become \"run-of-the-mill\" stuff now and wants the administrators of the game to scrap the format for good. Akram\'s comments came close on the heels of England all-rounder Ben Stokes\' sudden retirement from ODIs, which has triggered a serious debate over the existence of 50-over cricket.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"I think so (ODIs should scrapped). In England you have full houses. In India, Pakistan especially, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, one-day cricket you are not going to fill the stadiums,\" he said in Vaughany and Tuffers Cricket Club podcast.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They are doing it just for the sake of doing it. After the first 10 overs, it\'s just \'OK, just go a run a ball, get a boundary, four fielders in and you get to 200, 220 in 40 overs\' and then have a go last 10 overs. Another 100. It\'s kind of run-of-the-mill.\" Akram supported Stokes\' decision to quit from ODIs, citing \"unsustainable\" workload.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Him (Stokes) deciding that he is retiring from one-day cricket is quite sad but I agree with him,\" said the left-arm pacer, who scalped 502 wickets in 356 ODIs during his career, besides bowling Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup final.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Even as a commentator … one-day cricket is just a drag now, especially after T20. I can imagine as a player. 50 overs, 50 overs, then you have to pre-game, post-game, the lunch game,\" added the cricketer-turned-commentator.</div><div><br></div><div>Akram said the 50-over game has no future in front of the ever-growing T20 format.</div><div><br></div><div>\"T20 is kind of easier, four hours the game is over. The leagues all around the world, there is a lot more money - I suppose this is part and parcel of the modern cricket. T20 or Test cricket. One-day cricket is kind of dying.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is quite tiring for a player to play one-day cricket. After T20, one-day cricket seems it is going for days. So players are focussing on more shorter format. And longer format obviously (with) Test cricket,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>For Akram, Test cricket remains the pinnacle of the game for a player.</div><div>\"There\'s a battle within the battle in Test cricket. I always preferred Test matches. One-day used to be fun but Test matches were where you were recognised as a player … where people still pick you for the world XIs,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"OK money matters - I understand where they are coming from - but they should also remember if they want to be recognised as one of the greats of the game.\" Akram also called on the administrators of the game to consider a complete overhaul of the overall schedule. Source : NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 23:33:53', '2022-07-21 23:33:53'),
(571, 571, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The High Court (HC) directed authorities concerned not to allow any passengers on roofs of the trains and asked to inform it the measures taken to stop black-marketing of the tickets, by July 31.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A High Court division bench comprising Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order after holding suo moto hearing in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Why passengers are allowed on roofs of the trains? Is it a way of income? Trains are national resource. Are you guys trying to gulp down this?\" the court said during the hearing.</div><div><br></div><div>AM Salauddin, joint director general (operations) of Bangladesh Railway, who was present at the courtroom during the hearing, in reply said, \"My lord, we are not being able to stop passengers to get on train roof. We have some limitations, but this is our failure.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik took part in the hearing for the state, while senior advocate Md Khurshid Alam Khan stood for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Railways joint director general (operations) AM Salauddin, director (traffic) Nahid Hasan Khan and Sohoj.com vice president Md Jubayer Hossain were present during the hearing. BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-21 23:51:49', '2022-07-21 23:51:49'),
(572, 572, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two rounds of flood have caused extensive damages to roads and bridges in Sylhet division, disrupting road communication and causing sufferings to people.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Some areas in Sylhet division are still under floodwater. Vehicles are plying on these roads with risk as flooding has created potholes on almost every road, said locals.</div><div><br></div><div>According to a joint estimate by the Roads and Highways department (RHD), the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and Sylhet City Corporation (SCC), a total of 1,600 kilometers of roads and&nbsp; have been damaged in this year’s flooding in the Sylhet region, which is worth Tk 2,100 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>The two rounds of flooding battered the region in May and June. Almost all the roads of Sylhet were submerged which severed Sylhet’s road link with the rest of the country. Although floodwater has receded from most of the areas, road communication is yet to return to its usual state.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the LGED, SCC and RHD, around 1600 km roads and 2.5km bridges in the four districts of Sylhet division need repairing, which will cost approximately Tk 2,100 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the SCC, 186.53km roads in Sylhet metropolitan area have been damaged. Besides, 96.72km drains, one km retaining wall, 60km footpaths and 82km water lines have been affected by floodwater.</div><div><br></div><div>“Tk 328 crore is needed to repair these. We’ve already requested the ministry concerned for allocation,” said Nur Azizur Rahman, Chief Engineer of SCC.</div><div><br></div><div>Mostafizur Rahman, Executive Engineer of Sylhet RHD, said roads under RHD worth Tk 550 crore were destroyed by the flood.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’ve conducted departmental repairing works as temporary solution. Permanent repairs won’t be possible if we don’t get the required funds,” Mostafizur said.</div><div><br></div><div>Flooding has ruined rural roads built by LGED the most. The length of these roads is at least 1,200km and the amount of losses is around Tk 1,000 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’ve been able to mitigate the losses to some extent by using sandbags during the flooding. We’ve kept the roads useable through using bricks and sandbags in places where holes have emerged,” said Enamul Kabir, Executive Engineer of Sylhet LGED.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 00:09:22', '2022-07-22 00:09:22'),
(573, 573, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Dhaka court set August 17 for holding hearing on charge framing in two cases, one for observing fake birthday on National Mourning Day and another for stigmatizing the War of Liberation, lodged against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Today was fixed for holding the indictment hearings in the two cases, but Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor reset the date, allowing a time plea of the defence.</div><div><br></div><div>Khaleda Zia\'s counsel Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukder filed the time plea, saying his client could not appear before the court due to her illness.</div><div><br></div><div>Journalist Gazi Jahirul Islam lodged the fake birthday case against Khaleda on August 30, 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the complainant, Khaleda from 1996 was celebrating her fake birthday on August 15, the day when Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was martyred along with most of his family members. She is doing this on purpose only to dishonour the Father of the Nation.</div><div><br></div><div>The complainant also submitted copies of different newspaper reports on Khaleda\'s birthday, copies of her passport, marriage certificate and mark sheets, which indicates August 15 is not her birthday in anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>Jananetri Parishad president AB Siddiqui filed the other case on November 3, 2016, against Khaleda Zia and her late husband Ziaur Rahman for stigmatizing the War of Liberation by rehabilitating anti- Liberation War elements.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP chief is on bail in both the cases as Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Qayesh granted her bail on July 31, 2018. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 01:38:32', '2022-07-22 01:38:32');
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(574, 574, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new listing. “This is one of the most recognizable butterflies in the world.”</div><div><br></div><div>The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for the first time to its “red list” of threatened species and categorized it as “endangered” — two steps from extinct.</div><div><br></div><div>The group estimates that the population of monarch butterflies in North America has declined between 22% and 72% over 10 years, depending on the measurement method.</div><div><br></div><div>“What we’re worried about is the rate of decline,” said Nick Haddad, a conservation biologist at Michigan State University. “It’s very easy to imagine how very quickly this butterfly could become even more imperiled.”</div><div><br></div><div>Haddad, who was not directly involved in the listing, estimates that the population of monarch butterflies he studies in the eastern United States has declined between 85% and 95% since the 1990s.</div><div><br></div><div>In North America, millions of monarch butterflies undertake the longest migration of any insect species known to science.</div><div><br></div><div>After wintering in the mountains of central Mexico, the butterflies migrate to the north, breeding multiple generations along the way for thousands of miles. The offspring that reach southern Canada then begin the trip back to Mexico at the end of summer.</div><div><br></div><div>“It’s a true spectacle and incites such awe,” said Anna Walker, a conservation biologist at New Mexico BioPark Society, who was involved in determining the new listing.</div><div><br></div><div>A smaller group spends winters in coastal California, then disperses in spring and summer across several states west of the Rocky Mountains. This population has seen an even more precipitous decline than the eastern monarchs, although there was a small bounce back last winter.</div><div><br></div><div>Emma Pelton of the nonprofit Xerces Society, which monitors the western butterflies, said the butterflies are imperiled by loss of habitat and increased use of herbicides and pesticides for agriculture, as well as climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>“There are things people can do to help,” she said, including planting milkweed, a plant that the caterpillars depend upon.</div><div><br></div><div>Nonmigratory monarch butterflies in Central and South America were not designated as endangered.</div><div><br></div><div>The United States has not listed monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act, but several environmental groups believe it should be listed.</div><div><br></div><div>The international union also announced new estimates for the global population of tigers, which are 40% higher than the most recent estimates from 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>The new figures, of between 3,726 and 5,578 wild tigers worldwide, reflect better methods for counting tigers and, potentially, an increase in their overall numbers, said Dale Miquelle, coordinator for the nonprofit Wildlife Conservation Society’s tiger program. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 01:44:08', '2022-07-22 01:44:08'),
(575, 575, '<div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">As record temperatures hit much of the UK on Tuesday, tech giants Google and Oracle suffered outages as cooling systems failed at London data centres.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Data centres are large highly secure buildings that hold banks of computers and are the powerhouses behind many online services.</div><div><br></div><div>But the concentrated computing power generates heat so powerful that cooling is essential.</div><div><br></div><div>Both companies say the problems have now been resolved.</div><div><br></div><div>Oracle, a large American database software and technology business, reported overheating problems just before 16:00 BST.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Following unseasonably high temperatures in the UK south (London) region, two cooler units in the data centre experienced a failure when they were required to operate above their design limits,\" the company wrote on a status page first spotted by The Register.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As a result, temperatures in the data centre began to climb, which caused some systems to shut down as a protective measure.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The company said the issue was resolved, in an update posted shortly after 10:00 BST on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>As Britain baked, overheating also hit a Google Cloud data centre location in London.</div><div><br></div><div>Google Cloud lets other businesses do work on the company\'s computers.</div><div><br></div><div>Just after 18:00 BST, the company reported that \"there has been a cooling-related failure in one of our buildings\".</div><div><br></div><div>In order to prevent damage to machines and an extended outage, the firm said it powered down some of them.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem was fixed by 07:00 BST on Wednesday and the company said that only a \"small set of our customers\" were affected.</div><div><br></div><div>Because the data processed can be highly valuable to their customers, data centres are built with many back-ups, including plenty of cooling capacity.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts the BBC spoke to on Monday doubted that modern data centres would experience difficulties, so the failures at big, well-resourced, companies like Google will have come as a surprise.</div><div><br></div><div>But operators were wary of the unprecedented temperatures.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul Hone, of Redcentric, which operates data centres in Harrogate, London, Reading and Cambridge, told the BBC that the firm had put its disaster recovery plan into action on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Hone added that while data centres are designed to withstand hot weather, the heatwave\'s temperatures would be at the \"upper end of design expectations for a lot of data centre operators\".</div><div><br></div><div>In the end, for Mr Hone, Tuesday passed without incident.</div><div><br></div><div>But additional cooling means additional electricity consumption, which in turn can mean increased carbon emissions.</div><div><br></div><div>With climate scientists warning that very hot days will become more frequent, tech firms are exploring greener cooling solutions and computer systems that consume less power and generate less heat.</div><div><br></div><div>Microsoft carried out an experiment with an underwater data centre off Orkney in 2020. Part of the attraction was the natural cooling provided by the surrounding seawater.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 01:54:01', '2022-07-22 01:54:01'),
(576, 576, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A 64-year-old former school teacher in India scripted history on Thursday by being the youngest and first tribal politician to win the presidency.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Droupadi Murmu, a former state governor who was fielded by India\'s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, defeated her main challenger and opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, a former finance minister, by a huge margin.</div><div><br></div><div>Murmu is slated to take oath of office on July 25, replacing incumbent head of state Ram Nath Kovind whose five-year tenure ends a day before.</div><div><br></div><div>Voting to elect India\'s 15th President was held on Monday, where more than 95% of the eligible 4,500-plus lawmakers across the country exercised their franchise.</div><div><br></div><div>In India, the President is elected not directly by the people but by the members of both Houses of Parliament -- the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha -- and state assemblies and federal government-ruled Territories.</div><div><br></div><div>Like in Bangladesh, the Indian President is the ceremonial head of state who does not exercise executive powers.</div><div><br></div><div>Who\'s Murmu?</div><div><br></div><div>Born in independent India on June 20 in 1958, Murmu completed her graduation in 1979 and began her career as a government employee before becoming a school teacher.</div><div><br></div><div>She subsequently made a foray into the eastern Indian state of Odisha\'s politics, first as a local civic body councillor and then as a legislator.</div><div><br></div><div>The two-term legislator went on to become a minister in the Odisha government in 2000. And some 15 years later, Murmu was sworn in as the first woman Governor of the neighbouring eastern state of Jharkhand.</div><div><br></div><div>In her personal life, Murmu lost her husband and their two sons. While her husband died of a cardiac arrest, one of her two sons was found dead under mysterious circumstances in 2009. She has a daughter. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 02:07:59', '2022-07-22 02:07:59'),
(577, 577, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia and Ukraine will sign a deal on Friday to reopen Ukraine\'s Black Sea ports for grain exports, Turkey said, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by Russia\'s invasion can be eased.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine and Russia, both among the world\'s biggest exporters of food, did not immediately confirm Thursday\'s announcement by the office of the Turkish presidency. But in a late-night video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hinted that his country\'s Black Sea ports could soon be unblocked.</div><div><br></div><div>The blockade by Russia\'s Black Sea fleet has worsened global supply chain disruptions and, along with Western sanctions imposed on Moscow, stoked high inflation in food and energy prices since Russian forces swept into Ukraine on Feb. 24.</div><div><br></div><div>Full details of the deal were not immediately released. It was due to be signed at 1330 GMT on Friday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan\'s office said. read more U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was heading to Turkey.</div><div><br></div><div>Zelenskiy, whose address focused mainly on Ukrainian forces\' potential to make gains on the battlefield, said: \"And tomorrow we also expect news for our state from Turkey - regarding the unblocking of our ports.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\'Package deal\'</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow has denied responsibility for the worsening food crisis, blaming instead a chilling effect from Western sanctions for slowing its own food and fertiliser exports and Ukraine for mining its Black Sea ports.</div><div><br></div><div>U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Washington would focus on holding Moscow accountable for carrying out the agreement.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations and Turkey have been working for two months to broker what Guterres called a \"package\" deal - to restore Ukraine\'s Black Sea grain exports while facilitating Russian grain and fertiliser shipments.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the 27-nation European Union had proposed to ease some earlier sanctions in a bid to safeguard global food security, and Moscow hoped this would create conditions for the unhindered export of grain and fertilisers.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine eyes turnung the tide</div><div><br></div><div>Zelenskiy met senior commanders on Thursday to discuss weapons supplies and intensifying attacks on Russians.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"(We) agreed that our forces have the strong potential to advance on the battlefield and inflict significant new losses on the occupiers,\" he said in his video address.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv hopes that Western weapons, especially longer-range missiles such as U.S. High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), will allow it to counter-attack and recapture eastern and southern territories lost in the invasion.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine has accused the Russians of intensifying missile and rocket strikes on cities in recent weeks in a deliberate attempt to terrorise its population.</div><div><br></div><div>Thousands of people have died and cities and towns have been devastated by Russian bombardment during the conflict, with some far from front lines hit by missiles. Moscow denies deliberately firing on civilians and says all its targets are military.</div><div><br></div><div>However, there is a high chance of Russian longer-range weaponry missing their intended targets and causing civilian casualties because Moscow is increasingly using long-range air-defence systems to compensate for a shortage of ground-attack missiles, according to British military intelligence.</div><div><br></div><div>Such air-defence systems, tipped with smaller warheads to shoot down aircraft and missiles, are not likely to be able to penetrate hardened military structures on the ground and their crews will have little training for such missions, Britain\'s defence ministry said in an intelligence update on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>There have been no major breakthroughs on front lines since Russian forces seized the last two Ukrainian-held cities in eastern Luhansk province in late June and early July.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian forces are now focused on capturing all of neighbouring Donetsk province on behalf of separatist proxies who have declared two breakaway mini-states covering the wider industrialised Donbas region.</div><div><br></div><div>In its morning update, Ukraine\'s general staff said Russian forces backed by heavy artillery fire continued seeking gains towards the cities of Kramatorsk and Bakhmut and the Vuhlehirska thermal power plant in Donetsk province, but made no notable progress on the ground.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian forces shelled Russian-held Donetsk city on Friday morning, the Russian state news agency TASS reported, quoting the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian troops also destroyed bridges before retreating from the Luhansk city of Lysychansk, which is now impeding food deliveries, its acting Mayor Andrey Skory told TASS.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia says it is waging a \"special military operation\" to demilitarise its neighbour and rid it of dangerous nationalists.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv and the West say it is an imperialist attempt to reconquer a country that broke free of Moscow\'s rule with the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.</div><div><br></div><div>The biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two has killed more than 5,000 people, forced more than 6 million to flee Ukraine and left 8 million internally displaced, according to the United Nations. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 20:23:03', '2022-07-22 20:23:03'),
(578, 578, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Chittagong University (CU) authority and police have identified two persons in the case filed against sexually assaulting a female student at the Chittagong University campus on the night of July 17.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>They were identified four days after the incident. However, their names have not been released yet, police said today (July 22, 2022), our staff correspondent reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Ruhul Amin, officer-in-charge of Hathazari police station, told to the media that the university administration and police are not disclosing the names and identities for the sake of the investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'re working on identifying the others,\" the official said.</div><div><br></div><div>The victim, a first-year student, filed a case against unidentified people under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Hathazari Police Station on Wednesday (July 20, 2022) night.</div><div><br></div><div>In the case statement, she said that on Sunday night, July 17, a group of five men forcibly picked her and her friend up from Hotashar Mor and took them to the Botanical Garden.</div><div><br></div><div>They first beat the two up and then tied up the plaintiff and sexually assaulted her. When her friend tried to save her, the abusers snatched one of their mobile phones and left the area.</div><div><br></div><div>Before filing a case with the police, the victim filed a complaint with the proctorial body.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 20:31:36', '2022-07-22 20:31:36'),
(579, 579, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sadio Mane has beaten former Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah to the African Footballer of the Year award for the second time.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mane enjoyed a brilliant domestic and international season, winning FA Cup and League Cup trophies with Liverpool while scoring the penalty that saw Senegal beat Egypt to win their first Africa Cup of Nations title.</div><div><br></div><div>He also led his country to qualify for the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar.</div><div><br></div><div>The African Footballer of the Year award was postponed for two years during Covid, but he also picked up the prize last time around in 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at the award ceremony in the Moroccan capital Rabat, Mane heaped praise on his compatriots.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am very, very happy to receive the trophy this year,\" Mane said.</div><div>\"I thank the Senegalese people, and dedicate this trophy to the youth of my country.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Shock as Nunez proves he can actually play football - The Warm-Up</div><div>Germany show class to beat resilient Austria and make semi-finals</div><div><br></div><div>Salah has come up short against Mane twice in a row, taking second spot this year and in 2019. But the tables have turned as Salah took the gong in 2017 and 2018 with Mane second.</div><div><br></div><div>Mane\'s team-mate, Senegal and Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, took third place in Rabat.</div><div><br></div><div>Barcelona and Nigeria forward Asisat Oshoala won the women\'s prize for a record fifth time.</div><div><br></div><div>She won Spain\'s Pichichi award for the top scorer as part of another incredible season.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s a record-breaking night for me, as an individual and for Africa as a whole - I\'ve got five today, five!\" Oshoala said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"2021-22 season was really tough for me as an individual, and I\'d like to thank everyone who has stood by me.\" -Eurosport</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"16\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 20:38:44', '2022-07-22 20:38:44'),
(580, 580, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Chhatra League leader of Cox’s Bazar killed from stab wounds in the early hours of Friday, July 22.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased is Emon Hasan Maula, joint general secretary of Chhatra League’s Cox\'s Bazar municipality ward No 4 unit.</div><div><br></div><div>Cox\'s Bazar Sadar model police station OC Sheikh Munir-Ul Gias said the police were searching for those who had fatally injured the Chhatra League leader.</div><div><br></div><div>At about 9:30pm on Thursday, Emon went for a ride on his father’s motorcycle to the local Bakkhali River in Peshkar Para.</div><div><br></div><div>At one point, seven or eight people obstructed him, before stabbing him multiple times and leaving him critically injured. They also took away his motorcycle.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Locals rescued him and took him to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, where the doctor on duty referred him to Chittagong Medical College Hospital. He died while undergoing treatment there at around 3am on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>Asiful Karim, president of the local Chhatra League unit, said the organization demanded the police immediately arrest the attackers and ensure their punishment.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 20:44:14', '2022-07-22 20:44:14'),
(581, 581, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ninety-five percent of monkeypox cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to the largest study to date, which also noted new clinical signs such as single genital lesions.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, came as World Health Organization experts debated whether to classify the outbreak as a global health emergency, the highest alarm it can sound.</div><div><br></div><div>Led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London, the new paper looked at 528 confirmed infections in 16 countries, between April 27 and June 24, 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is important to stress that monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection in the traditional sense; it can be acquired through any kind of close physical contact,\" said first author John Thornhill, in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>\"However, our work suggests that most transmissions so far have been related to sexual activity -- mainly, but not exclusively, amongst men who have sex with men,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This research study increases our understanding of the ways it is spread and the groups in which it is spreading which will aid rapid identification of new cases and allow us to offer prevention strategies.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Overall, 98 percent of infected people were gay or bisexual men, 41 percent had HIV and the median age was 38.</div><div><br></div><div>Their median number of sex partners in the prior three months was five, and around a third were known to have visited sex-on-site venues such as sex parties or saunas within the previous month.</div><div><br></div><div>Although sexual activity was behind most cases, the researchers stressed in a statement that the virus can be spread via any close physical contact, such as respiratory droplets and potentially through clothing and other surfaces.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of those infected showed symptoms not previously associated with monkeypox, including single genital lesions and sores on the mouth or anus.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>These are similar to those of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and could lead to misdiagnosis, the authors said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Clinical outcomes in this case series were reassuring,\" the authors wrote.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"Most cases were mild and self-limited, and there were no deaths. Although 13 percent of the persons were admitted to a hospital, no serious complications were reported in the majority of those admitted.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Monkeypox DNA was present in the semen of 29 out of 32 people tested, but it\'s still unclear whether this material is capable of transmission. -AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 20:49:54', '2022-07-22 20:49:54'),
(582, 582, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Belarus has assigned a new diplomat to Russia, state news agencies reported on Friday, as Moscow and Minsk continue to forge closer ties amid their mounting isolation from the West.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Moscow is Belarus\' key backer and the two sides - officially part of a borderless \"Union State\" - have accelerated integration talks in recent years after both were hit with Western sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko\'s crackdown on protesters and the opposition after a disputed 2020 presidential election pushed Minsk further into Moscow\'s arms, and he allowed Russia to use Belarusian territory as one of the launchpads for its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>In a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Lukashenko said the two leaders had agreed to appoint Dmitry Krutoi as Minsk\'s new envoy to Moscow, the Belta state news agency reported, citing Lukashenko\'s press office.</div><div><br></div><div>Krutoi was deputy head of Belarus\' presidential administration and was previously involved in integration projects with Russia - a broad list of policy areas the two countries have agreed to move closer together on.</div><div><br></div><div>Krutoi replaces Vladimir Semashko, a veteran Belarusian diplomat who had been ambassador to Russia since 2018. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 20:55:33', '2022-07-22 20:55:33'),
(583, 583, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The event came just hours after security forces raided a protest camp on government grounds in the main city of Colombo and cleared part of it, with at least nine arrests, as the new administration moves to crack down on protesters. read more</div><div><br></div><div>A former minister from the Podujana Peramuna party, Gunawardena took the oath of office in the presence of Wickremesinghe, seated in front of uniformed military officers in a room packed with lawmakers and officials.</div><div><br></div><div>The rest of the cabinet is expected to be sworn in later on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>Sri Lanka\'s crisis, the result of economic mismanagement and the fallout of conflict in Ukraine, sparked months of mass protests and eventually forced then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency while seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.&nbsp; -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 21:04:02', '2022-07-22 21:04:02'),
(584, 584, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bland heat wave sweeps through some districts of Bangladesh and is likely to continue, says the weather department.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>However, light to moderate rains or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty winds is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department.</div><div><br></div><div>Showers are also expected to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Rajshahi and Khulna divisions with moderately heavy falls at isolated places over the country, the department said in its bulletin.</div><div><br></div><div>The mild heat wave sweeping over the districts of Rajshahi and Pabna may continue, according to the weather office.</div><div><br></div><div>Day and night temperatures may also remain nearly unchanged over the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Thursday\'s maximum temperature was recorded in Rajshahi at 37.5 degrees, while the minimum was recorded in Rangamati and Feni at 25 degrees.</div><div><br></div><div>The sun rose on Friday at 5:23am and it will set at 6:47pm. -UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 21:10:35', '2022-07-22 21:10:35'),
(585, 585, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Goods imported through Benapole port reduced by Tk4.3 lakh tonnes in financial year 2021-22 compared to tonnage imported in 2020-21, which businessmen said was mainly because of a lack of required infrastructural development at the port.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In 2021-22, 21.14 lakh tonnes of goods came in through the port, which was 26.44 lakh tonnes in 2020-21.</div><div><br></div><div>The drop in imports saw revenue collection decline almost Tk559 crore, as Tk4,599 crore was collected as revenue against a target of Tk5,158 crore in 2021-22.</div><div><br></div><div>Businessmen said traders of the two countries are more interested in trade on this route due to ease of communication, but due to a lack of necessary infrastructure, traders cannot import goods as per their needs.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There is a severe shortage of space at Benapole port. Importers are not able to collect their goods on time with crane forklifts failing to move goods,\" said Benapole C&F Agent Association Joint Secretary Nasir Uddin.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from that, Bangladeshi businessmen are harassed for supposed illegal parking in India\'s Kolkata and incur financial losses. Due to these problems, many traders have left this port, which has reduced imports through Benapole, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He said if port authorities develop the infrastructure at the port and stop harassment in India, double the target revenue from this port is possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Importer Ejaz Uddin Tipu from Jashore said it takes a month for a truck to enter the country due to harassment for supposed illegal parking of trucks in India. Hence, the arrival of goods is delayed while businessmen end up having to pay Tk2,000 per truck per day.</div><div><br></div><div>Because of such problems traders have cut back on importing through Benapole port and go to other ports, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Vice President of Benapole Import-Export Association, Aminul Haque, said Benapole Customs does not have all the necessary means to check the quality of imported products, taking a month more than it takes to do the same in Khulna and Dhaka. He said goods get stuck for a long time  at Benapole and traders suffer financially.</div><div><br></div><div>The demand to set up branches of the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution at Benapole Customs House has not been implemented to date so many traders have left this port, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Director of India-Bangladesh Land Port Import Export Committee, Matiar Rahman, said it is only natural that businessmen will be interested in doing trade through ports where they get benefits.</div><div><br></div><div>There are many facilities in Chittagong port so businessmen are increasingly inclined to import through that route.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said that to increase revenue through Benapole port, it is necessary to ensure customs and other port facilities to retain traders.</div><div><br></div><div>Former President of Jashore Chamber of Commerce, Mizanur Rahman Khan, said although Benapole is a big port, traders do not benefit much from it. Benapole needs to be free of all kinds of harassment to expand trade. Businessmen have repeatedly complained of harassment in Kolkata, but the government is yet to move towards a solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Benapole Port Deputy Director (Traffic) Mamun Kabir said that development of Benapole port is ongoing. Land acquisition, construction of new warehouses, and much development of roads in the port area have taken place. He also said trade will increase in this port once the ongoing development work is completed.</div><div><br></div><div>The installation of 365 CCTV cameras at the port has already been completed, which will increase security at the port premises and surrounding areas, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 21:17:25', '2022-07-22 21:18:26'),
(586, 586, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Japan\'s nuclear regulators have approved a plan to release into the ocean water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, the government said on Friday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The water, used to cool reactors in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster, is being stored in huge tanks in the plant, and amounted to more than 1.3 million tonnes by July.</div><div><br></div><div>The regulators deemed it safe to release the water, which will still contain traces of tritium after treatment, the foreign ministry said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Plant operator Tokyo Power Electric Company (9501.T) will face additional inspections by regulators, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Tepco plans to filter the contaminated water to remove harmful isotopes apart from tritium, which is hard to remove. Then it will be diluted and released to free up plant space and allow decommissioning to continue.</div><div><br></div><div>The plan has encountered stiff resistance from fishing unions in the region which fear its impact on their livelihoods. Neighbours China, South Korea, and Taiwan have also voiced concern. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 21:23:42', '2022-07-22 21:23:42'),
(587, 587, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared a protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early on Friday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Media footage showed soldiers in riot gear and armed with assault rifles tearing down the camp, set up in April by protesters enraged by the country\'s economic collapse and acute shortages of fuel, food and medicine.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickremesinghe, a six-time prime minister, was sworn in as president on Thursday after winning a parliamentary vote to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to Singapore last week in the wake of massive public protests triggered by the country\'s worst economic crisis in seven decades. read more</div><div><br></div><div>Protesters had feared a crackdown was imminent as Wickremesinghe imposed a state of emergency in the country from Monday, when he was the acting head of state, and many regarded him as an ally of Rajapaksa.</div><div><br></div><div>Previous emergency regulations have been used to give powers to the military to arrest protesters, and curtail the right to protest.</div><div><br></div><div>A representative of the United Nations, and western envoys urged the government to exercise restraint, warning that the use of force could further destabilise the island nation, whose economy desperately needs an International Monetary Fund bailout, having virtually run out of dollars to pay for vital imports. read more</div><div><br></div><div>\"Actions that stifle protests and the right to peaceful assembly can worsen economic and political instability in Sri Lanka,\" said Hanaa Singer-Hamdy, the United Nations resident coordinator in Sri Lanka.</div><div><br></div><div>U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, said on Twitter:</div><div><br></div><div>\"We urge restraint by authorities and immediate access to medical attention for those injured.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Just hours after security forces moved against the protest camp, another Rajapaksa ally, senior lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena, was sworn in as the new prime minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Seventeen other ministers completed the cabinet, with former finance minister Ali Sabry becoming foreign minister, while sources said Wickremesinghe would keep the finance portfolio.</div><div><br></div><div>As Wickremesinghe, lawmakers and officials listened to Gunawardena being sworn in at the prime minister\'s office, uniformed military officers sat on one side of the room.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, police said nine people had been arrested following the raid on the protest camp.</div><div><br></div><div>\"A joint operation involving the military, police and police special forces was launched in the early hours to recover the presidential secretariat from the protesters as they have no legal right to hold it,\" police spokesperson Nalin Thalduwa told Reuters.</div><div><br></div><div>Angered by the pre-dawn raids, hundreds of protesters marched from the city\'s main railway station towards the Galle Face protest site, where they were held back by military and riot police manning barricades.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The very first day he used the armed forces - this is the face of Ranil Wickremesinghe,\" said Rajeevkanth Rajkumar, a construction company executive who was among the protesters. \"We don\'t want any more innocent people to be injured. But we will go to that place (the protest site) at any cost.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Opposition politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who lost the vote for the presidency, said on Twitter: \"Let\'s bring down the brutal ... regime that viciously attacked the protesters at Galle Face\".</div><div><br></div><div>\'Despicable\'</div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of security personnel surrounded the \"Gota Go Gama\" protest camp, mockingly named after Rajapaksa, after midnight and then began to tear down tents in front of the secretariat, according to protest organisers.</div><div><br></div><div>Security forces appeared to have taken control of the entire secretariat, which was earlier this month seized by protesters along with the president and prime minister\'s official residences. The residences were later handed back to government authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>Protest organiser Chameera Dedduwage told Reuters they had planned to hand over the presidential secretariat to government authorities on Friday afternoon. Police said they had no information on that.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 50 protesters were injured in the clashes, the organisers said, including some journalists who were beaten by security forces. Hospital sources said two were hospitalised.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They beat us really cruelly,\" said Buddhika Abeyrathne, 34, a protester who witnessed the raid but did not appear injured himself. \"Mr Wickremesinghe doesn’t know what democracy is.\" -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 22:52:53', '2022-07-22 22:52:53'),
(588, 588, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">What age do you think counts as middle age? Forty to 60? Fifty to 70? Somewhere in between? It probably won\'t surprise you to learn that the answer people give to this question depends on how old they are at the time they are asked it.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>When half a million people completed an online questionnaire in 2018 the participants who were in their 20s and 30s said on average that middle age began at 40, while old age started at 62.&nbsp; By contrast, the over-65s didn\'t think old age began until the age of 71.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>It\'s fairly obvious what is going on here.&nbsp; No one really likes to think of themselves as getting older, so if you are 40 you relish articles that proclaim that 40 is the new 30. Likewise, people in their 70s are buoyed by suggestions that with advances in nutrition and health care they are barely out of middle age. Also, we tend to want to disassociate ourselves from any group that is stigmatised. This means we resist being designated as old, when we see elderly people portrayed as frail, sedentary, ill and even a burden on society.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, old age is a reality and older people should be treated with respect and dignity. So are people simply deluding themselves if they refuse to consider themselves to be old? In fact, it turns out it might be a sensible strategy, one that can be self-fulfilling and life enhancing.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2003, the researchers Hannah Kuper and Sir Michael Marmot (famous for demonstrating the impact that socio-economic status in life can have on our health and life expectancy) carried out a wide-ranging study in which participants were again asked the question: when does old age start?&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Answers varied of course, but what Kuper and Marmot found was that those people who thought old age began earlier were more likely to have had a heart attack, to be suffering from heart disease or be in poor physical health generally when they were followed up six to nine years later.</div><div><br></div><div>The participants in this study were taking part in the so-called Whitehall II study, a longitudinal study of more than 10,000 civil servants working in London.&nbsp; The research is robust, with participants asked a whole bank of questions. This meant that Kuper and Marmot could establish that other factors such as employment grade couldn\'t account for the differences in health outcomes.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>So how could the number you give to old age starting possibly have this great an impact on your health?</div><div><br></div><div>One idea is that the answer to the simple question of when old age starts actually provides a lot more information about a person than you might think. It might be, for instance, that the question prompts people to think about their own physical health, and if they have underlying health issues or a poor lifestyle, they might not feel that well and are moved to think old age is coming sooner.</div><div><br></div><div>People who say that old age sets in at an earlier age may also be more fatalistic and less likely to seek help for medical conditions or to adopt healthier routines, believing that decline is inevitable. They may, for instance, assume that older people are frail and so deliberately start walking more slowly and taking it easy when this is exactly what they shouldn\'t be doing for the sake of their physical and mental health.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>They might expect to forget things due to their age, so they stop relying on their memories. It\'s even possible that the stress of holding negative ideas about ageing contributes to chronic inflammation and more health problems in the long term. So living up to the stereotype of an older person might increase the very problems they fear.</div><div><br></div><div>And all of this may be true the other way round too of course. People who think old age starts later in life may be more conscious about their health and fitness and therefore take active steps to stay in better shape. They think they are younger and so behave in younger ways, creating a virtuous circle.</div><div><br></div><div>Whatever the explanation, the Kuper and Marmot study is not the only research to demonstrate measurable benefits of thinking positively about ageing. Becca Levy from the Yale School of Public Health, using data from the Ohio Longitudinal Study of Aging and Retirement, also produced some extraordinary findings. The Ohio study had followed imore than a thousand people who were at least 50 at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>She found that people who had positive ideas about their own ageing (who agreed with comments such as \"I have as much pep as last year\" and who disagreed that as you get older you get less useful) lived for an average of 22.6 years after they first participated in the study, while the people who felt less positively about ageing lived for just 15 years more on average.</div><div><br></div><div>Then along comes a new study conducted by Susanne Wurm from the University of Greifswald in northern Germany, which might pin down the problem more precisely. And her findings provide some good news for people who think more negatively about the onset of old age. They weren\'t any more likely than average to die early. But again, people who saw old age more positively, as a time to learn new things and make new plans, for example, lived longer on average.</div><div><br></div><div>In this study, it didn\'t matter as much what people thought about the physical implications of ageing, what mattered was whether they believed they would still develop and grow mentally.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Thinking younger may help people keep themselves open to new experiences for long, with positive effects (Credit: Aleksandar Nakic/Getty Images)</div><div>Thinking younger may help people keep themselves open to new experiences for long, with positive effects (Credit: Aleksandar Nakic/Getty Images)</div><div><br></div><div>None of this research means we can magically halt or reverse the ageing process. Eyesight, hearing, memory, muscle mass, bone strength, healing processes: you name it, they all decline. And older people are of course more vulnerable to a whole ranges of illnesses.</div><div><br></div><div>These big studies are all based on averages, so saying you\'re not middle aged isn\'t going to stop everyone getting ill. But in his book The Expectation Effect, science journalist David Robson has some tips for us. He suggests that instead of mourning the loss of youth, we should focus on the experiences and knowledge we gain as we get older and notice how much better we get at dealing with things.</div><div><br></div><div>When older people are unwell, they shouldn\'t assume that\'s all due to old age. Above all, as we age, we should never give up on trying to be healthier and believing that there are many things we can still do. If we adopt this attitude, we are likely both to live longer and to enjoy those years. -BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Lifestyle Desk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 23:31:31', '2022-07-22 23:31:31'),
(589, 589, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">What would you do to help ensure a club legend returns for one last hurrah?</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Well, Nacional fans went above and beyond after being linked with a move to sign Luis Suarez. Approximately 20,000 of them wore Suarez masks at a game on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Uruguay international, 35, is a free agent after leaving Atletico Madrid when his contract expired this summer.</div><div><br></div><div>The former Liverpool and Barcelona striker has reportedly been offered to German side Borussia Dortmund.</div><div><br></div><div>But reports back in his homeland suggested Suarez is set to return to where it all began. A short-term deal, at least until the World Cup begins in November, is understood to be in the pipeline.</div><div><br></div><div>He made his professional debut for Nacional aged 18, in 2005, helping them with the Uruguayan league title to earn a move to Europe with Groningen the following season.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, Nacional officials told a local journalist that \"except for a catastrophe\", Suarez would rejoin El Club Gigante (The Giant Club) within 48 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>The club then tweeted \'what do you say wizard?\' with a picture of a sign reading #SuarezANacional (Suarez to Nacional) being held by a statue of tango singer-songwriter Carlos Gardel, which is inside their Gran Parque Central stadium.</div><div><br></div><div>#SuarezANacional then became a social media campaign, mobilising fans to show just how much they wanted Suarez to return.</div><div><br></div><div>In a few hours, the large quantity of Suarez masks were produced and another 15,000 sheets reading #SuarezANacional, to be displayed at their Primera Division home game against Cerrito.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 20,000 fans attended, way more than expected, and the masks and signs were distributed to them as they came into the Gran Parque Central.</div><div><br></div><div>Then in the ninth minute, to mark the number Suarez wore while playing for Barca and Atleti over the last eight years, fans wore them and held them aloft while chanting \'Ole, ole, ole, ole, Lucho, Lucho\'.</div><div><br></div><div>If this is how Nacional fans react when he might sign, imagine when it\'s a done deal. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"10\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-22 23:45:02', '2022-07-22 23:45:02');
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(590, 590, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The 68th National Film Awards were held on Friday afternoon (July 22) and Suriya\'s Soorarai Pottru and Ajay Devgan\'s Tanhaji- The Unsung Warrior earn the biggest accolades. The winners of the reputed awards were announced by jury member Choreographer Dharam Gulati, and Ajay Devgan and Suriya have been awarded the Best Actor for Tanhaji and Soorarai Pottru respectively.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Talking about other awards, Best Feature Film (Hindi) went to Ashutosh Govarikar-backed Toolsidas Juinor. Whereas, Ajay Devgn\'s Tanhaji- The Unsung Warrior won Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Aparna Balamurali won the Best Actress award for showcasing her impressive acting chops in Suriya\'s Soorarai Pottru. Suriya\'s 2020 Tamil film Soorarai Pottru also bagged awards in the categories of Best Screenplay (Sudha Kongara) and Best Music Director (GV Prakash), Best Direction (Sudha Kongara), Best Production (2D Production).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Malayalam thriller Ayyappanum Koshiyum won two major awards. Director K R Sachidanandan, known professionally as Sachy, won Best Director posthumously, and Biju Menon won Best Supporting Actor. In 2020, Sachy died of cardiac arrest at the age of 47. Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli won Best Supporting Actress for her act in Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengalum. The film has also won Best Tamil Film and Best Editing.</div><div><br></div><div>Check out the complete list of award winners</div><div><br></div><div>Best Feature Film in each of the languages specified</div><div><br></div><div>Best Haryanvi Film: Dada Lakhmi</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Tulu Film: Jeetige</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Telugu Film: Colour Photo</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Tamil Film: Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengallum</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Malayalam Film: Thinkalazcha Nishchayam (Engagement is on Monday)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Marathi Film: Goshta Eka Paithanichi (Tale of a Paithani)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Kannada Film: Dollu</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Hindi Film: Toolsidas Junior</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Bengali&nbsp; Film: Avijatrik (The Wanderlust of Apu)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best&nbsp; Assamese Film: Bridge</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best&nbsp; Music Direction: Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (Telugu), Soorarai Pottru (Tamil)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Costume Designer: Tanhaji- The Unsung Warrior (Hindi)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Production Design: Kappela (Chapel)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Editing: Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengallum (Tamil)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Audiography: Dollu (Kannada), Mi Vasantrao (Marathi), Malik (Malayalam)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Screenplay: Soorarai Pottru (Tamil), Mandela (Tamil)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Supporting Actress: Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengallum (Tamil)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Supporting Actor: AK Ayyappanum Koshiyum (Malayalam)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Actress: Soorarai Pottru (Tamil)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Actor: Soorarai Pottru (Tamil), Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Hindi)&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Hindi)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director: Mandela (Tamil)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best Feature Film: Soorarai Pottru (Tamil)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The jury of the National Film Awards was led by producer Vipul Shah with 10 other members. The 68th National Film Awards can be watched on PIB official YouTube channel. - dnaindia</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 00:10:14', '2022-07-23 00:10:14'),
(591, 591, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Wasfia Nazreen early today became the first person from Bangladesh to scale Pakistan\'s notorious K2, the world\'s second highest mountain, her expedition told AFP.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wasfia is mostly known for being the only Bangladeshi and first Bangalee in the world to climb the Seven Summits -- the highest mountains of every continent.</div><div><br></div><div>Her expedition, sponsored by Renata Limited, consisted of some of the strongest and most renowned climbers in the world -- MingmaTenzi Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, and Nirmal Purja.</div><div><br></div><div>She began her push for the summit on Sunday. The 39-year-old reached the top of the 8,611m (28,251ft) peak early today.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan is home to five of the world\'s 14 mountains higher than 8,000m, and climbing them all is considered the ultimate achievement of any mountaineer.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides being far more technically difficult to climb than Everest, K2 has notoriously fickle weather, and has only been scaled by 425 people since 1954 -- including around 20 women.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 6,000 people have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the top in 1953 -- some of them multiple times.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 00:45:47', '2022-07-23 00:45:47'),
(592, 592, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhallywood \'King\' Shakib Khan is coming back to Dhaka next week. The star recently attended the premiere of his hit film \"Golui\" in New York.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>As the industry buzzes on the prospect of his return, the superstar dropped a bombshell announcement.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I do not want to traverse the journey of my life alone. My family is looking for a bride for me, and I will comply to their wishes,\" said Shakib to The Daily Star.</div><div><br></div><div>He also expressed some anguish on his past relationships. \"Whomever I have mixed with while working in films, have always wanted to use me as a ladder. They did not want a family, they wanted to rise up the ranks using my name.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Shakib Khan was previously married to Apu Biswas. Together, they have a beautiful baby boy, named Abraham Khan Joy.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 01:59:32', '2022-07-23 01:59:32'),
(593, 593, '<p class=\"single-artical-content-container-600\" style=\"width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21.6px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times, serif;\">State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Friday said the ongoing power cuts in the country will not last long.</span></p><p class=\"single-artical-content-container-600\" style=\"width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;\"><font color=\"#333333\" face=\"times, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 21.6px;\">\"We\'re sorry to our consumers for the current crisis and seek their cooperation to overcome it,\" he wrote on his verified Facebook page on Friday.</span></font></p><p class=\"single-artical-content-container-600\" style=\"width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21.6px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times, serif;\">Nasrul made similar statements while talking to reporters at his residence earlier in the day.</span><br></p><p class=\"single-artical-content-container-600\" style=\"width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21.6px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times, serif;\">He said the government was forced to implement schedule-based power cuts across the country to resolve the ongoing crisis. \"However, a new plan for load shedding will be undertaken within a week after taking stock of the situation.\"</span></p><p class=\"single-artical-content-container-600\" style=\"width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;\"><font color=\"#333333\" face=\"times, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 21.6px;\">\"Within the next few months, the second unit of Payra power plant and Rampal power plant will come into operation. Also, 1600 MW of electricity will be imported from India\'s Adani power plant soon. All these will add more than 4000 MW of electricity to the national grid,\" Nasrul added.</span></font></p><p class=\"single-artical-content-container-600\" style=\"width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;\"><font color=\"#333333\" face=\"times, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 21.6px;\">The state minister sought everyone\'s cooperation at this difficult time.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class=\"single-artical-content-container-600\" style=\"width: 600px; margin-right: auto !important; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; margin-left: auto !important;\"><font color=\"#333333\" face=\"times, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 21.6px;\">bnbd24/TR</span></font></p>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 02:42:05', '2022-07-23 02:42:05'),
(594, 594, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion can be eased.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The accord crowned two months of talks brokered by the United Nations and Turkey aimed at what UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called a \"package\" that would both restore Ukrainian grain exports while easing Russian grain and fertilizer shipments despite tough Western sanctions on Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Guterres said the accord opens the way to significant volumes of commercial food exports from three key Ukrainian ports – Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny, and the UN would set up a coordination centre to monitor implementation of the deal.</div><div><br></div><div>But fighting raged on unabated in Ukraine\'s east and, underlining deep-seated enmity and mistrust driving the worst conflict in Europe since World War Two, Russian and Ukrainian representatives declined to sit at the same table at the ceremony, and the display of the two countries\' flags was adjusted so that they were no longer next to one other.</div><div><br></div><div>\"In case of provocations, (there will be) an immediate military response\" by Ukraine, Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia and Ukraine, both among the world\'s top exporters of food, sent their defence and infrastructure ministers respectively to Istanbul for the signing ceremony, also attended by Guterres and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.</div><div><br></div><div>A blockade of Ukrainian ports by Russia\'s Black Sea fleet, trapping tens of millions of tonnes of grain in silos and stranding many ships, has worsened global supply chain bottlenecks and, along with sweeping Western sanctions, stoked galloping inflation in food and energy prices around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow has denied responsibility for the worsening food crisis, blaming instead Western sanctions for slowing its own food and fertilizer exports and Ukraine for mining the approaches to its Black Sea ports.</div><div><br></div><div>Senior UN officials, briefing reporters on Friday, said the deal was expected to be fully operational in a few weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Safe passage into and out of the ports would be guaranteed in what one official called a \"de facto ceasefire\" for the ships and facilities covered, they said, although the word \"ceasefire\" was not in the agreement text.</div><div><br></div><div>Though Ukraine has mined nearby offshore areas as part of its defences against Russia\'s five-month-old invasion, Ukrainian pilots would guide ships along safe channels in its territorial waters, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>Monitored by a Joint Coordination Center based in Istanbul, the ships would then transit the Black Sea to Turkey\'s Bosphorus strait and proceed to world markets, UN officials said.</div><div><br></div><div>The deal will be valid for 120 days but renewable and would not be expected to be stopped any time soon.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The fact that two parties at war - and still very much at war - have been able to negotiate an agreement of this kind...I think that\'s unprecedented,\" one UN official said.</div><div><br></div><div>Another said a separate pact signed on Friday would smooth Russian food and fertilizer exports and that the United Nations welcomed US and European Union clarifications that their sanctions would not apply to such shipments.</div><div><br></div><div>To address Russian concerns about ships smuggling weapons to Ukraine, all returning ships will be inspected at a Turkish port by representatives of all parties and overseen by the JCC.</div><div><br></div><div>The overall objective is to help avert famine among tens of millions of people in poorer nations by injecting more wheat, sunflower oil, fertilizer and other products into world markets including for humanitarian needs, partly at lower prices.</div><div><br></div><div>The United States welcomed the deal and said it was focusing on holding Russia accountable for implementing it.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkey, a NATO member that has good relations with Russia and Ukraine alike, controls the straits leading into the Black Sea and has acted as a mediator on the grain issue.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Turning the battlefield tide?</b></div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy met senior commanders on Thursday and said Kyiv\'s forces, now increasingly armed with precision, longer-range Western weaponry, had strong potential to turn the tide on the battlefield.</div><div><br></div><div>The United States believes Russia\'s military is sustaining hundreds of casualties a day, including thousands of officers up to general rank in total, in the course of the war, a senior US defense official said on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>The official said Washington also believed that Ukraine had destroyed more than 100 \"high-value\" Russian targets in Ukraine, including command posts, ammo depots and air-defence sites.</div><div><br></div><div>There have been no major breakthroughs on front lines since Russian forces seized the last two Ukrainian-held cities in eastern Luhansk province in late June and early July.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian forces are now focused on capturing all of neighbouring Donetsk province on behalf of separatist proxies who have declared two breakaway mini-states covering the wider industrialised Donbas region.</div><div><br></div><div>In its morning update, Ukraine\'s general staff said Russian forces backed by heavy artillery kept trying to advance toward the cities of Kramatorsk and Bakhmut and the Vuhlehirska thermal power plant in Donetsk, but made no notable progress.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv hopes that its gradually increasing supply of Western arms, such as US High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), will allow it to counter-attack and recapture lost eastern and southern territories.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia\'s defence ministry said on Friday its forces had destroyed four HIMARS systems between 5-20 July . Kyiv denied the claims, calling them \"fakes\" meant to sap Western support for Ukraine. Reuters could not verify the assertions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thousands of people have been killed and cities and towns devastated by Russian bombardment, with some far from front lines hit by missiles. Moscow denies deliberately firing on civilians and says all its targets are military.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia says it is waging a \"special military operation\" to demilitarise its neighbour and rid it of dangerous nationalists.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyiv and the West say Russia is mounting an imperialist campaign to reconquer a pro-Western neighbour that broke free of Moscow\'s rule when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 02:51:24', '2022-07-23 02:51:24'),
(595, 595, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A total of six new air-conditioned (AC) tourist buses are going to be purchased for the Padma Bridge tour.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali made the announcement while inaugurating the Padma Bridge Package Tour from Parjatan Bhaban in Agargaon on Friday.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The state minister said: \" Six new buses will be brought from France very soon so that domestic and foreign tourists can safely travel to Kuakata beach, Sundarbans, and other tourist hotspots in the south of the country in a short time.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Under the supervision of the Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC), the Padma Bridge tour package on Fridays and Saturdays.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On those two days, the bus will leave the Agargaon Tourism Building for Padma Bridge at 4pm and return to Dhaka by 10:30pm the same day. The trip costs Tk999.</div><div><br></div><div>The tour will be conducted by trained guides from Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC)\'s National Hotel and Tourism Training Institute.</div><div><br></div><div>On the eave of the launch, BPC Manager (Sales and Development) Ziaul Haque Hawlader said all tickets have already been sold for next Friday and Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>“While moving towards Bhanga, tourists will savour the beauty of the Padma River in daylight and, in the evening, they will enjoy the wonderful lighting of the bridge and the expressway as they return,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 28 people will be able to travel on each bus.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 03:36:20', '2022-07-23 03:36:20'),
(596, 596, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Flooding in southern Iran has killed at least 17 people and left six others missing following heavy rainfall in the largely arid country, state media reported on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Around 5:00 pm yesterday, heavy rains in the towns of Ij and Roodbal in the central parts of Estehban County led to flooding,\" Yousef Kargar, governor of the county in Fars province, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As a result of the flood, 17 bodies have been found in the vicinity of Estehban, of which 13 have been identified,\" he said, adding that six people are still missing.</div><div><br></div><div>\"A number of local people and sightseers (from other areas) who had gone to the riverside and were present in the river bed were caught in the flood due to the rise in the water level,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Video posted on local media and social media show cars caught in the rising waters of the Roodball river and carried away.</div><div><br></div><div>Iran has endured repeated droughts over the past decade, but also regular floods.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2019, heavy flooding in the country\'s south left at least 76 people dead and caused damage estimated at more than $2 billion.</div><div><br></div><div>In January at least two people were killed in flash flooding in Fars when heavy rains hit the area, a local official said at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Scientists say climate change amplifies extreme weather, including droughts as well as the potential for the increased intensity of rain storms.</div><div><br></div><div>Like other nearby countries, Iran has suffered chronic dry spells and heat waves for years, and these are expected to worsen.</div><div><br></div><div>In the last few months, demonstrations have occurred against the drying up of rivers, particularly in central and southwestern Iran.</div><div><br></div><div>Last November, tens of thousands of people, including farmers, gathered in the dry riverbed of the country\'s Zayandeh Rood river in the country\'s central region, to complain about the drought and blame officials for diverting water.</div><div><br></div><div>Security forces fired tear gas when the protest turned violent and said they arrested 67 people.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, official media said Iranian police had arrested several people for disturbing security after they protested the drying up of a lake once regarded as the Middle East\'s largest.</div><div><br></div><div>Lake Urmia, in the mountains of northwest Iran, began shrinking in 1995 due to a combination of prolonged drought, and the extraction of water for farming and dams, according to the UN Environment Programme.</div><div><br></div><div>In neighbouring Iraq in December, 12 people died in flash floods that swept through the north of that country, despite severe drought. Source : AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 19:08:36', '2022-07-23 19:08:36'),
(597, 597, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four persons have been arrested for their involvement with the sexual assault of a female student at Chittagong University (CU).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested the four during separate drives in the city, RAB\'s senior director Md Nurul Absar confirmed the arrest news on Saturday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Further details will be disclosed at a press briefing, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>On July 17, a female student was physically assaulted by five youths while she was going to Botanical Garden from Pritilata Hall of the campus with his friend around 10pm. They had also captured the incident on video and threatened them to make it viral.</div><div><br></div><div>The victim lodged a complaint with the administration on Tuesday (July 19). Criminal charges were also filed at Hathazari Police Station.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, a friend of the alleged victim claimed the CU unit Chhatra League president Rezaul Haque Rubel prevented them from lodging a written complaint with the university administration on Monday, the day after the incident.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 19:58:03', '2022-07-23 19:58:03'),
(598, 598, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">China\'s Xinjiang on Saturday warned of more flash floods and mudslides and risks to agriculture as heatwaves swept across the region, accelerating the pace of glacial melt and posing hazards for its vast cotton production.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>China has been baked by above-normal summer heat since June, with some meteorologists blaming climate change. The excessively hot weather has driven up demand for electricity to cool homes, offices and factories. In agricultural regions, drought has been a concern.</div><div><br></div><div>Xinjiang\'s latest heatwaves have been particularly long lasting and widespread, Chen Chunyan, chief expert at the Xinjiang Meteorological Observatory, told state media.</div><div><br></div><div>She noted the extreme weather in the south and east of the region, more than twice the size of France, has already lasted for about 10 days.</div><div><br></div><div>Ruoqiang in the southeast of Xinjiang activated a red alert - the highest in a three-tier heat warning system - on Friday evening, forecasting temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius or more for the next 24 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2015, a local news portal reported 50.3C at a weather station near Ayding, a dry lake in Xinjiang\'s Turpan Depression.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places,\" Chen said.</div><div><br></div><div>The China Meteorological Administration said a day earlier that the glacial melting in Xinjiang poses a high risk of dam failure on a tributary of the Aksu River near China\'s border with Kyrgyzstan.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Mostly known for its deserts, Xinjiang is also home to long mountain ranges along its borders, including the Tian Shan mountains, the Pamirs, the Kunlun mountains and the Karakoram, which have become increasingly popular for Chinese tourists amid Covid-19 restrictions on international travel.</div><div><br></div><div>Such heatwaves could also impact crops, especially cotton, Chen cautioned.</div><div><br></div><div>Xinjiang accounts for production of about 20% of the world\'s cotton, a water-thirsty crop. By some estimates, 20,000 litres of water is needed to produce 1kg of cotton, enough for one T-shirt and a pair of jeans.</div><div><br></div><div>Xinjiang is not suffering alone. Another round of extreme temperatures are expected to affect some 20 provinces.</div><div><br></div><div>Coastal provinces and the financial capital of Shanghai are expected to be the most affected, with temperatures as high as 39C expected on Saturday, said the National Meteorological Center. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 21:07:33', '2022-07-23 21:07:33'),
(599, 599, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Wheat prices tumbled Friday, retreating to levels last seen prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a landmark agreement to unblock Ukraine\'s Black Sea grain exports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In Chicago, the price of wheat for delivery in September dropped 5.9 percent to $7.59 per bushel, which is equivalent to about 27 kilograms and the lowest close since Russia invaded its neighbor on 24 February.</div><div><br></div><div>On Euronext, wheat prices for delivery in September fell 6.4 percent to $325.75 per ton.</div><div><br></div><div>Friday\'s agreement between Kyiv and Moscow -- through United Nations and Turkish mediation -- establishes safe corridors along which Ukrainian ships can come in and out of three designated Black Sea ports in and around Odessa.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia and Ukraine together produce about 30 percent of the world\'s wheat exports.</div><div><br></div><div>Up to 25 million tons of wheat and other grain have been blocked in Ukrainian ports by Russian warships and landmines Kyiv has laid to avert a feared amphibious assault.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite Friday\'s retreat in wheat prices, analysts expressed skepticism about the accord\'s ability to sidestep the realities of the grinding Russia-Ukraine conflict amid doubts over Moscow\'s willingness to implement the deal.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I\'m still skeptical and I don\'t think I\'m alone in that in questioning that it will actually move much grain,\" said Michael Zuzolo, president of Global Commodity Analytics &amp; Consulting.</div><div><br></div><div>But Zuzolo said wheat prices may not have much further to fall, given that drought conditions are hitting output in some other parts of Europe. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 21:16:05', '2022-07-23 21:16:05'),
(600, 600, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked the public servants to devote themselves to the welfare of the people who pay taxes for their salaries, comforts and luxuries.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She made the remarks while speaking at a programme marking the National Public Services Day and distribution of Bangabandhu Public Administration Award 2022 held at Osmani Memorial Auditorium joining virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>“All of you are getting salaries and perks from the money paid by the mass people as taxes. All including your comfort and luxury are coming from the money of the people. So, you have to work for them, for their interest and welfare,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that socio-economic development of the grassroots people is the main target of the government. And our government works keeping that aim in its mind.</div><div><br></div><div>The government wants to take the administrative system to the doorsteps of the mass people so that every employee of the republic could perform their responsibilities that have been specified in the Constitution of the country, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said that to develop a country there should be a specific goal, a specific direction and philosophy.</div><div><br></div><div>And for that there should be a formulation of a work-plan and its proper implementation. That means the duties towards the people is the main task for all, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that the government is creating a congenial atmosphere in the workplace so that the public servants can perform their duties fearlessly and smoothly.</div><div><br></div><div>“For that the government has taken several steps. Our target is to make the administrative structure time befitting,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said that the government has taken a special initiative to let the public servants purchase their vehicles and flats borrowing money from the government.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have taken steps to lessen your tension for your families so that you could think about the people,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She asked the civil servants to perform their duties towards the people with utmost devotion.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking about the Russia-Ukraine war and sanctions on Russia by the US, Hasina said it was thought that a lesson will be taught to one country by imposing sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>“But all are suffering from that lesson now. All are getting affected by that,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that inflation has increased worldwide. The developed countries like Britain and America have started maintaining austerity in the use of power and energy.</div><div><br></div><div>“Their condition is very deplorable,” she observed.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding Bangladesh, the PM said: “As we have performed our duties with sincerity and skilfully so far, we are advancing properly in comparison to many countries across the globe.”</div><div><br></div><div>“But considering the future we have to maintain austerity and avoid wastage. We have to give special attention to this,” she reiterated.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to criticism from opposition parties and media reports she urged the officials to check if there have been any lapses or not.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s all, but don’t get confused and depressed, she told the bureaucrats adding: “You have to be confident that what you are doing is for the welfare of the people.”</div><div><br></div><div>State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Administration Ministry HN Ashiqur Rahman, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam and Public Administration Secretary K M Ali Azam also spoke.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, on behalf of the prime minister, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque distributed the awards among the recipients. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 21:23:10', '2022-07-23 21:23:10'),
(601, 601, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Swara Bhasker tweeted about Ranveer Singh’s bold photoshoot for a magazine, in which the actor posed nude. Swara asked people to not make his latest photos ‘a moral issue’.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Following his nude photoshoot for a magazine, actor Ranveer Singh made headlines. Many also reacted to his bold photos on social media. Now, actor Swara Bhasker has responded to those expressing ‘outrage’ over Ranveer’s nude pictures. She said people, who were showing their outrage over Ranveer’s latest photos, should not ‘thopo (force)’ their preferences on others. His photos were not a ‘moral issue’, she added.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday, Swara tweeted about Ranveer’s nude photoshoot that has become a widely-discussed topic on social media. Some have praised the actor for posing naked, while others have reacted more .&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In her tweet, Swara Bhasker questioned those, who were sharing their outrage on social media, and wondered why they were silent on more important issues facing the country. She said people could choose not to see Ranveer\'s nude pictures, if it was ‘not their cup of tea’.</div><div><br></div><div>Swara Bhasker reacted to Ranveer Singh\'s latest photoshoot, where the actor posed in the nude.</div><div><br></div><div>“Daily cases of injustice and oppression in India, but sure… our outrage is reserved for Ranveer Singh’s photos! I mean, seriously… don’t like it, don’t look at it! Not your cup of tea, don’t drink it! But don’t ‘thopo’ your preferences on us! And no, this isn’t a moral issue!” Swara tweeted on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Bengali actor and politician Mimi Chakraborty had shared her thoughts on Ranveer Singh baring it all in his recent photoshoot.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She tweeted about the reception the actor\'s photos received online, and asked whether a woman posing in similar pictures would get the same response.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Mimi tweeted on Friday, “Internet broke with Ranveer Singh\'s latest photoshoot and comments were (fire emojis) mostly. Just wondering if the appreciation would have been same if this were a woman. Or would you have burned her house down, taken up morchas, given her a death threat and slut shamed her.”</div><div><br></div><div>Ranveer Singh shared a series of pictures from his Paper magazine photoshoot on Instagram.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday, Ranveer shared his much-talked-about pictures from Paper Magazine cover shoot on Instagram. In no time, the comments section of his post was flooded with fire emojis thanks to fans and celebs alike. Actor Priyanka Chopra commented on his post, “Major”. Fashion designer and actor applauded Ranveer for being ‘brave’ and wrote, “The best cover shoot this country has seen. Brave and unapologetic.” Source: Hindustan Times&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 21:32:56', '2022-07-23 21:32:56'),
(602, 602, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Odesa in southern Ukraine on Saturday, the Ukrainian military said, dealing a blow to a deal signed on Friday to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The landmark deal signed by Moscow and Kyiv on Friday would allow certain exports to be shipped from Black Sea ports, including the hub of Odesa.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The enemy attacked the Odesa sea trade port with Kalibr cruise missiles,\" the Operational Command South wrote on Telegram app. Two missiles hit infrastructure at the port, while another two were shot down by air defence forces, it said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A blockade of Ukrainian ports by Russia\'s Black Sea fleet since Moscow\'s 24 February invasion of its neighbour has trapped tens of millions of tonnes of grain and stranded many ships. This has worsened global supply chain bottlenecks and, along with Western sanctions on Russia, stoked food and energy price inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>Friday\'s export deal seeks to avert famine among tens of millions of people in poorer nations by injecting more wheat, sunflower oil, fertilizer and other products into world markets including for humanitarian needs, partly at lower prices.</div><div><br></div><div>Under the plan signed on Friday, Ukrainian officials would guide ships through safe channels across mined waters to three ports, including Odesa, where they would be loaded with grain.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow has denied responsibility for the crisis, blaming sanctions for slowing its own food and fertiliser exports and Ukraine for mining the approaches to its Black Sea ports.</div><div><br></div><div>Senior UN officials, briefing reporters on Friday, said the deal was expected to be fully operational in a few weeks and would restore grain shipments from the three reopened ports to pre-war levels of 5 million tonnes a month. - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 21:42:05', '2022-07-23 21:42:05'),
(603, 603, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The body of Jatiya Sangsad Deputy Speaker Advocate Fazle Rabbi Miah will arrive in Dhaka at 8:40 am on Monday by an Emirates flight from New York.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, a namaz-e-janaza will be held after Johor prayer at the Jamaica Muslim Center, New York tomorrow, said a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>After arrival of the body, his first namaz-e-janaza will be held at the National Parliament followed by second one on the Supreme Court premises.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, his body will be taken to Gaibandha as he will be buried at his family graveyard after another namaz-e-janaja at the Bharatkhali school ground there.</div><div><br></div><div>Fazle Rabbi Miah passed away around 2 am on Saturday (BD time) at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, USA while undergoing treatment there.</div><div><br></div><div>He was suffering from incurable cancer. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 22:48:33', '2022-07-23 22:48:33'),
(604, 604, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Wasfia Nazreen has become the first Bangladeshi to scale Pakistan\'s K2, the second-highest mountain in the world.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 39-year-old Wasfia completed this mission with 11 other summiteers from different parts of the world, according to mountaineering guide company Elite Exped.</div><div><br></div><div>Elite Exped posted a photo of Wasfia and the other summiteers as well as the guide team members on Instagram on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>Her seven summits\' expedition which began in 2011 on the occasion of Bangladesh\'s 40 years of independence, ended with this one.</div><div><br></div><div>On May 26, 2012, she became the second woman from Bangladesh to summit Mount Everest. She has previously scaled South America\'s Aconcagua and Africa\'s Kilimanjaro. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-23 23:03:40', '2022-07-23 23:03:40'),
(605, 605, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the capital Friday, evicting activists in a pre-dawn assault that raised international concern for dissent under the crisis-wracked country\'s new pro-Western president.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Troops and police Special Task Force commandos wielding batons and armed with automatic assault rifles charged on people blockading the sea-front Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.</div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of soldiers removed demonstrators\' barricades and tents outside the colonial-era building, while the last remaining protesters on the premises -- some were still on the steps -- were baton charged away.</div><div><br></div><div>The operation came hours before new president Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed an old friend as prime minister and the ousted head of state\'s personal lawyer as foreign minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickremesinghe was elected by legislators on Wednesday to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to Singapore and resigned after demonstrators chased him from his palace.</div><div><br></div><div>The remaining protesters -- far fewer than the thousands who overran several government buildings earlier this month -- have been demanding Wickremesinghe also quit.</div><div><br></div><div>They accuse him of protecting the Rajapaksa clan who have dominated politics for much of the last two decades.</div><div><br></div><div>- \'Listen to us\' -</div><div>By sunrise, police commandos and soldiers barricaded the complex and the main roads leading to the area were cordoned off.</div><div><br></div><div>Hundreds of activists demonstrated at a nearby designated protest site against the military action, demanding the new president resign and dissolve parliament to allow fresh elections.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Don\'t attack peaceful protesters, instead listen to us,\" said student Dimmithu, 26.</div><div><br></div><div>The activists insisted they would continue their struggle.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The peoples\' wish is system change, and parliament should be dissolved. It has no public mandate,\" said Basantha Samarasinghe, 45, a businessman and trade union leader.</div><div><br></div><div>Police said in a statement that security forces acted to clear protesters who were \"illegally occupying\" the presidential compound, with nine people arrested, two of whom were injured.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickremesinghe later met with several Colombo-based diplomats and US ambassador Julie Chung tweeted that she expressed \"my grave concern over the unnecessary &amp; deeply troubling escalation of violence against protesters overnight\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is not the time to crack down on citizens,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>The European Union said freedom of expression was essential for Sri Lanka to transition from its chaos.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Hard to see how restricting it severely can help in finding solutions to the current political and economic crises,\" the EU delegation in Colombo said.</div><div><br></div><div>Human Rights Watch said more than 50 people were injured in the crackdown and called on authorities to release the detained and prosecute those responsible for the violence.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This action sends a dangerous message to the Sri Lankan people that the new government intends to act through brute force rather than the rule of law,\" the New York-based rights group said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>- Political rival -</div><div><br></div><div>A foreign exchange crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic was exacerbated by mismanagement, critics say, with Sri Lankans left to suffer lengthy power blackouts and record-high inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>The country\'s 22 million people have also endured months of food, fuel and medicine shortages.</div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, Wickremesinghe swore in his political rival Dinesh Gunawardena as the country\'s new prime minister.</div><div><br></div><div>The two men have been schoolmates and friends since the age of three but lead political parties that are ideologically opposed.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickremesinghe is a free-market champion and a pro-West politician while Gunawardena is a staunch Sinhala nationalist who wants greater state control over the economy.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have differences, but we have enough friendship to unite to deal with the main problem of the country, that is the economy,\" Gunawardena told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>Wickremesinghe also swore in a new cabinet, largely re-instating his predecessor\'s ministers but retaining the finance portfolio for himself to continue bailout talks with the IMF.</div><div><br></div><div>He also replaced the foreign minister with Gotabaya Rajapaksa\'s personal lawyer Ali Sabry.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials said it was an \"interim cabinet\" that could be replaced \"within weeks\".</div><div><br></div><div>Hours after Wickremesinghe -- a six-time prime minister who had earlier extended a state of emergency -- was elected, he warned protesters that occupying state buildings was illegal and that they would be evicted unless they left on their own.</div><div><br></div><div>The day his predecessor was forced to flee, protesters also set fire to Wickremesinghe\'s private home in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>Amnesty International urged Sri Lankan authorities to respect dissent and condemned the use of force against journalists, including a BBC photographer kicked in the stomach by troops who confiscated his videos.</div><div><br></div><div>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa accused the government of using excessive force.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Nothing can justify this inhumane act,\" he said. \"Is attacking foreign journalists the most innovative policy of the new government to promote tourism?\" - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 01:16:25', '2022-07-24 01:16:25'),
(606, 606, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Opposition Leader Raushon Ershad on Saturday expressed deep shock at the demise of Jatiya Sangsad deputy speaker Md Fazle Rabbi Miah.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Fazle Rabbi, a valiant Freedom Fighter and Member of Parliament, died during treatment at Mt Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 76.</div><div><br></div><div>In her condolence message, she said, “Rabbi, an advocate by profession, was active in politics and he worked for the country... People of the country will remember his contribution in the Liberation War and parliamentary democracy forever.”</div><div><br></div><div>“His death is an irreparable loss in the political arena which will not be healed soon,” she added.</div><div><br></div><div>Raushon also prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 01:18:57', '2022-07-24 01:18:57'),
(607, 607, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former national team captains Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Mushfiqur Rahim have congratulated Nurul Hasan Sohan on becoming Bangladesh\'s T20 captain for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Friday announced the squads for the tour where the Tigers will play a three-match T20I and three-match ODI series from July 30 to August 10.</div><div><br></div><div>Sohan replaced Mahmudullah Riyad as the T20 captain. Riyad had been leading the Tigers in T20s since February 2018. He failed to guide the team to T20 victories and could not perform well with the bat in the West Indies.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Hard work is better than talent when talent refuses to work hard. Congratulations Quazi Nurul Hasan Sohan on becoming the captain of the Bangladesh T20 squad. Wish you all the luck,\" Mashrafe wrote on his social media profile.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Congrats to Sohan on becoming the new T20I captain for the Zimbabwe series. The young team has my full support and I strongly believe this team will do well in the upcoming series,\" Mushfqiur wrote on his social media page.</div><div><br></div><div>Sohan regularly leads Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, a 50-over format event at the domestic level of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>In his first assignment as the captain of Bangladesh, Sohan will have to face a tough challenge. He will not get the services of Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Riyad and Mushfiq.</div><div><br></div><div>Tamim recently announced his retirement from T20s. Riyad, Shakib, and Mushfiq have been rested for the T20 series.</div><div><br></div><div>The Bangladesh team is set to travel to Zimbabwe on July 26.</div><div>The T20I series will begin on July 30. The last two matches of the series will take place on July 31 and August 2. The first ODI will be played on August 5, and the other two matches on August 7 and 10.</div><div><br></div><div>Mushfiq will be part of the ODI team.</div><div><br></div><div>The ODI series of this tour is not part of the ICC World Cup Super League. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 01:29:59', '2022-07-24 01:29:59');
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(608, 608, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Cases of the viral disease monkeypox in the United States have been identified for the first time in children - a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident, health authorities said on Friday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The two cases are unrelated and are likely the result of household transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement. The agency said the children are in good health and are being treated.</div><div><br></div><div>Monkeypox, which causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions, has been spreading largely in men who have sex with men in the recent outbreak, outside the west and central Africa countries where it is endemic. The disease spreads chiefly through close contact.</div><div><br></div><div>So far this year, there have been more than 14,000 cases of monkeypox in more than 60 countries, and five deaths in Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking on a conference call, Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the CDC\'s division of high consequence pathogens and pathology, said it is not a surprise that pediatric cases of monkeypox have emerged, but \"there is no evidence to date that we are seeing this virus spread outside of\" the communities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.</div><div><br></div><div>She said 99% of the 2,891 monkeypox cases confirmed in the United States involve men who have sex with men, but there have been a handful of women and transgender men who have become infected.</div><div><br></div><div>White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, speaking on the same call, said the government has delivered 300,000 doses of a monkeypox vaccine and is working to expedite the shipment from Denmark of 786,000 more doses.</div><div><br></div><div>He said there is already enough vaccine on hand to provide a first vaccine dose to more than half of the eligible population in New York City and over 70% of the eligible population in Washington D.C.</div><div><br></div><div>The fatality rate in previous outbreaks in Africa of the current strain has been around 1%, but so far this outbreak seems to be less lethal in the non-endemic countries. However, a number of patients have reported being hospitalized for severe pain.</div><div><br></div><div>Jha said the U.S. is still evaluating whether the monkeypox outbreak should be declared a public health emergency. \"We\'re looking at that, looking at what are the ways in which the response could be enhanced, if any, by declaring a public health emergency.\" - Reuters&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 01:40:13', '2022-07-24 01:40:13'),
(609, 609, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actor Salman Khan has applied for a gun licence after he and his father got a death threat in early June, just days after singer Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead near Punjab\'s Mansa on May 29.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The actor came to the Mumbai Police headquarters today and met with top cop Vivek Phansalkar for a gun licence, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Salman Khan wants to own a gun to protect himself and his family, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>His visit to the police headquarters was for physical verification before the licensing authority, a mandatory step in applying for a gun licence, sources said.</div><div><br></div><div>Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan had received a threat letter in early June, just days after Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead by members of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who had threatened the actor in 2018 too.</div><div><br></div><div>Lawrence Bishnoi\'s death threat to Salman Khan was linked to the black buck poaching case of 1998, in which the actor was one of the accused.</div><div><br></div><div>The actor\'s father had found the unsigned letter on a bench where he sits daily after jogging in the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Lawrence Bishnoi, who had been serving time in Delhi\'s Tihar Jail, is in Punjab Police custody in connection with the investigation into the murder of Sidhu Moose Wala. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 02:13:54', '2022-07-24 02:13:54'),
(610, 610, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that the country is in danger because of deep economic and political crises.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said this while speaking at \'Meet the Ocab\' arranged by  Overseas Correspondents Association Bangladesh at National Press Club in Dhaka on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>“The lives of people have become miserable due to the government’s anti-people activities and snatching of human rights. The anti-people and unelected government must resign to solve the country’s crisis,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Demanding the restoration of the caretaker government system and abolishment of the ongoing parliament, Mirza Fakhrul said BNP is the only alternative who can solve the country’s crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will force the government to resign through movement,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mirza Fakhrul said that the government has turned Bangladesh into an authoritarian state. “Even after 50 years of independence, people are being deprived of their minimum rights. Dreams of people are shattered today. They are living in a suffocating situation after being deprived of their basic rights.”</div><div><br></div><div>He further said, “Civil society people in the country are being afraid of speaking while journalists are afraid of writing and judges of justice.”</div><div><br></div><div>Criticising the government for its failure to tackle the economic crisis, Mirza Fakhrul said, “The government has turned the economy into a nightmare. A frightening situation has emerged across the country.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said, “Mega looting and corruption are going on in the name of mega projects. The poverty rate has risen to 42 percent, which was below 40 percent earlier. The rise in the prices of essentials, oil, gas and fuel has made life miserable for the common people.”</div><div><br></div><div>BNP secretary general said that the suffering in public life has increased due to enforced disappearances, murders, extrajudicial killings and false cases.</div><div><br></div><div>About the election, he said, “The government has destroyed the electoral system. The people of the country who used to vote on festive mood do not go to the voting centers today. They hate voting. People have no confidence in elections.”</div><div><br></div><div>Foreigners have already called the 2014 and 2018 elections as fake elections, added Fakhrul.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 02:42:49', '2022-07-24 02:43:32'),
(611, 611, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">India’s forex reserves fell to $572.7 billion as of 15 July, the lowest in over 20 months, as the Reserve Bank of India stepped in to protect the rupee.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The reserves fell by $7.5 billion from the week ended 8 July, according to data released by RBI. The reserves fell by $15.5 billion in the first two weeks of July.</div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said that the central bank has zero tolerance for bumpy movements in the rupee and assured that India’s forex reserves are adequate.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“In recognition of the fact that there is a genuine shortfall of supply of forex in the market relative to demand because of import and debt servicing requirements and portfolio outflows, the RBI has been supplying dollars to the market to ensure that there is adequate forex liquidity,\" said Das.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The governor’s remarks came at a time the rupee has been touching new record lows against the dollar in the last few sessions. The value of the rupee has depreciated by around 7% since January.</div><div><br></div><div>The rupee has been under pressure because of concerns about the interest rate normalization path of the US Fed and the deteriorating growth environment, which have led to an exodus of foreign funds from the domestic markets to the safety of dollar assets, according to media reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts said the recent rupee weakness is caused by strong dollar demand from oil importers due to high crude oil prices.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 02:56:08', '2022-07-24 02:56:08'),
(612, 612, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that she will offer ‘tea’ to leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) if they stage a peaceful movement.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise, a befitting reply would be given to them for violent acts, she warned.</div><div><br></div><div>“If they come to besiege the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) peacefully, they will not be intercepted. Rather, if they can walk to the office, tea will be served to them with due respect. I don\'t have any problem to listen them,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, said this while virtually addressing a joint AL meeting with Dhaka city south and north units of the party and presidents and general secretaries of its associate bodies at the party central office on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said she already directed police not to create any obstruction to the BNP’s programme, police should not stop them at Banglamotor.</div><div><br></div><div>“Let them come to my office on foot. I don’t have any objection. I will welcome them and offer tea. I will listen to them if they want to talk as I believe in democracy. But, a befitting reply will be given them if they hurl bombs and unleash vandalism,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that people get something if Awami League remains in office, Sheikh Hasina said the people of the country get food, shelter, education, medical care and clothes.</div><div><br></div><div>“The Awami League-led government has achieved that ability so that all the people of the country can have meals,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning the number of population as per recent census, the Premier said the country has some 16.50 crore people.</div><div><br></div><div>“The number of the population has increased a little. I believe we will be able to ensure food for those people. I can do everything for them. We have achieved that capability,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>“People will get everything while Awami League in power. But I don\'t know what will happen if the looters come to power. They have left the country by giving undertaking. Now they are the party of money launderers,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 03:05:13', '2022-07-24 03:05:13'),
(613, 613, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian missiles hit Ukraine\'s southern port of Odesa on Saturday, the Ukrainian military said, threatening a deal signed just a day earlier to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease global food shortages caused by the war.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the strike blatant \"barbarism\" showing Moscow could not be trusted to implement the deal. However, public broadcaster Suspilne quoted the Ukrainian military as saying the missiles had not caused significant damage and a government minister said preparations continued to restart grain exports from Black Sea ports.</div><div><br></div><div>The deal signed on Friday by Moscow and Kyiv and mediated by the United Nations and Turkey was hailed as a breakthrough after nearly five months of punishing fighting since Russia invaded its neighbour. It is seen as crucial to curbing soaring global food prices by allowing grain exports to be shipped from Black Sea ports including Odesa.</div><div><br></div><div>The strikes on Odesa drew strong condemnation from the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy. On Friday, U.N. officials said they hoped the agreement would be operational in a few weeks.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Turkey\'s defence minister said Russian officials told Ankara that Moscow had \"nothing to do\" with the strikes. Neither Russian defence ministry statements nor the military\'s evening summary mentioned missile strikes in Odesa.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Two Russian Kalibr missiles hit the area of a pumping station at the port; two others were shot down by air defence forces, according to Ukraine\'s military. Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ignat said the missiles were fired from warships in the Black Sea near Crimea.</div><div><br></div><div>Suspilne quoted Ukraine\'s southern military command as saying the port\'s grain storage area was not hit.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Unfortunately there are wounded. The port\'s infrastructure was damaged,\" said Odesa region governor Maksym Marchenko.</div><div><br></div><div>But Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Facebook that \"we continue technical preparations for the launch of exports of agricultural products from our ports\".</div><div><br></div><div><b>Safe passage</b></div><div><br></div><div>The strike appeared to violate Friday\'s deal, which would allow safe passage in and out of Ukrainian ports.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If anyone in the world could have said before this that some kind of dialogue with Russia, some kind of agreements, would be necessary, look at what is happening,\" Zelenskiy said in a late-night video.</div><div><br></div><div>He vowed to do everything possible to acquire air defense systems able to shoot down missiles like those that hit Odesa.</div><div><br></div><div>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that \"this attack casts serious doubt on the credibility of Russia’s commitment to yesterday’s deal.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Russia bears responsibility for deepening the global food crisis and must stop its aggression,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres \"unequivocally condemned\" the strikes, a spokesperson said, adding full implementation of the deal was imperative.</div><div><br></div><div>Turkish Defence Minister Hulusai Akar said in a statement: \"The Russians told us that they had absolutely nothing to do with this attack ... The fact that such an incident took place right after the agreement we made yesterday really worried us.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine has mined waters near its ports as part of its war defences, but under the deal pilots will guide ships along safe channels.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A Joint Coordination Center (JCC) staffed by members of all four parties to the agreement will then monitor ships transitting the Black Sea to Turkey\'s Bosphorus Strait and off to world markets. All sides agreed on Friday there would be no attacks on these entities.</div><div><br></div><div><b>\'Spit in the face\'</b></div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said on Facebook that \"the Russian missile is (Russian President) Vladimir Putin\'s spit in the face\" of Guterres and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow has denied responsibility for the food crisis, blaming Western sanctions for slowing its food and fertiliser exports and Ukraine for mining the approaches to its ports.</div><div><br></div><div>A blockade of Ukrainian ports by Russia\'s Black Sea fleet since Moscow\'s Feb. 24 invasion has trapped tens of millions of tonnes of grain and stranded many ships.</div><div><br></div><div>This has worsened global supply chain bottlenecks. Along with Western sanctions on Russia, it has stoked food and energy price inflation. Russia and Ukraine are major global wheat suppliers and a global food crisis has pushed some 47 million people into \"acute hunger,\" according to the World Food Programme.</div><div><br></div><div>The deal would restore grain shipments from the three reopened ports to pre-war levels of 5 million tonnes a month, U.N. officials said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Also on Saturday, the U.S. State Department confirmed that two Americans were killed recently in Ukraine\'s Donbas region but declined to provide details. read more</div><div><br></div><div>A U.S. congressional delegation that met Zelenskiy in Kyiv promised continued support. Adam Smith, chair of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, was quoted as telling Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that Washington and its allies aimed to provide more multiple rocket launch systems.</div><div><br></div><div>Three people were killed when 13 Russian missiles hit a military airfield and railway infrastructure in Ukraine\'s central region of Kirovohrad, the regional governor said.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine struck a bridge in the occupied Black Sea region of Kherson, targeting a Russian supply route, a Ukrainian official said. The deputy head of the Russian-installed regional authority said the bridge had been hit but was still operating, Russia\'s TASS news agency said.</div><div><br></div><div>Zelenskiy said late on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were moving \"step by step\" into the eastern Kherson region, which was taken over by Russia at the start of the war.</div><div><br></div><div>Putin calls the war a \"special military operation\" and has said it is aimed at demilitarising Ukraine and rooting out dangerous nationalists. Kyiv and the West call this a baseless pretext for an aggressive land grab. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 14:20:57', '2022-07-24 14:20:57'),
(614, 614, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 22 people were killed in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Iran\'s southern province of Fars, a provincial official said on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>There was at least one person missing, said Khalil Abdollahi, head of the province\'s crisis management department, quoted by the semi-official news agency Tasnim.</div><div><br></div><div>He said 55 people had been rescued in the flood which submerged 15 cars.</div><div><br></div><div>The governor of Fars province declared Sunday a day of mourning, state media said. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 14:26:13', '2022-07-24 14:26:13'),
(615, 615, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Alphabet Inc\'s Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company\'s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his claims on LaMDA to be \"wholly unfounded.\"&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information,\" a Google spokesperson said in an email to Reuters.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year, Google said that LaMDA - Language Model for Dialogue Applications - was built on the company\'s research showing Transformer-based language models trained on dialogue could learn to talk about essentially anything.</div><div><br></div><div>Google and many leading scientists were quick to dismiss Lemoine\'s views as misguided, saying LaMDA is simply a complex algorithm designed to generate convincing human language.</div><div><br></div><div>Lemoine\'s dismissal was first reported by Big Technology, a tech and society newsletter. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Science Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 14:29:58', '2022-07-24 14:29:58'),
(616, 616, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Eve Perisset\'s settled a tense quarter-final between France and Netherlands with an extra time penalty in Rotherham.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>France dominated the first half but couldn’t score, with Delphine Cascarino hitting the post and Stephanie van der Gragt making two outstanding blocks to prevent certain goals.</div><div><br></div><div>In the first period of extra time France finally broke through when Kadidiatou Diani won the penalty that Perisset converted.</div><div><br></div><div>France will now face Germany in the semi-finals in Milton Keynes on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Talking point&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>Can France reach even higher ground? After three quarter-final defeats in their last three attempts, France finally got over the hump and reached the last four of the European Championship for the first time.</div><div><br></div><div>They made hard work of beating Netherlands tonight, missing a string of chances as they did so and coming up against an inspired Van Domselaar. In eliminating the European champions though they have shown serious credentials for going all the way in this tournament.</div><div><br></div><div>The eight-time champions Germany await France in the last four. It’s not getting any easier for France in this tournament but with a vibrant attacking team and some serious talent in reserve on the bench, they could surpass every French team in history and reach their first major final.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Player of the match - Selma Bacha (France)</b></div><div><br></div><div>The young Lyon star performed with such skill, energy and purpose in the final hour of the match it seems amazing that she was held in reserve. After a prolonged cameo that wore down the Dutch and eventually broke their resistance, she is surely a certain starter in the semi-final.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Player ratings&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>France (4-3-3): Peraud-Magnin 6; Perisset 7, Mbock 6, Renard 7, Karchaoui 6; Toletti 7, Bilbaut 6, Geyoro 7; Diani 7, Malard 6, Cascarino 7</div><div>SUBS: Bacha 8, Mateo 7, Sarr 6, Palis 6, Torrent 6</div><div><br></div><div>Netherlands (4-3-3): Van Domselaar 8; Wilms 6, Van der Gragt 7, Janssen 6, Casparij 6; Groenen 5, Spitse 6, Van de Donk 5; Beerensteyn 5, Miedema 6, Pelova 6</div><div>SUBS: Roord 6, Brugts 7, Nouwen 6, Leuchter 6, Egurrola 6 -Eurosport&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div>&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 14:45:56', '2022-07-24 14:45:56'),
(617, 617, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Song by Habib Wahid and Muza,&nbsp; the song \"Beni Khuley\" is now trending on Tiktok. It was released on Thursday, under the banner of Qinetic Music on YouTube.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The song, composed by Russell Ali, Fuad And Muza, has been written jointly by Faujia Sultana and Muza.</div><div><br></div><div>Actors like Bidya Sinha Saha Mim, Nusraat Faria, Sunehra Binte Kamal, Mumtaheena Chowdhury Toya have lip-synced and danced to this song on Tiktok. The song has already crossed a million views on YouTube.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 14:52:12', '2022-07-24 14:52:12'),
(618, 618, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It has been almost 10 years since the attack on Buddhist monasteries and communities in Ramu upazila of Cox\'s Bazar took place, but the trial is still nowhere near a conclusion.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Locals said the case was not making any progress as witnesses were reluctant to testify in court.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 29, 2012, a Buddhist youth named Uttam Barua was allegedly found tagged in a picture that insulted the Prophet (pbuh) and the Quran.</div><div><br></div><div>Miscreants attacked, looted, and set fire to 12 Buddhist monasteries, shrines, and 30 homes of the Buddist community in Ramu upazila on the same day.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, on the night of September 30, seven more Buddhist monasteries and 11 houses were torched in Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas.</div><div><br></div><div>The government rebuilt the damaged temples and homes immediately after the attack. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Buddhist temples on September 3, 2013. </div><div><br></div><div>Damaged Buddhist religious books are lined up at a torched Buddhist temple in Ramu, which was one of the temples and homes attacked and destroyed by a mob on September 29, 2012 Rajib Dhar/Dhaka Tribune</div><div>As many as 19 cases against some 1,500 unidentified persons and 378 named individuals were filed. However, only one case, in which a Buddhist was a plaintiff, was disposed of, said Public Prosecutor Faridul Alam of the local District and Sessions Judges Court.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the police submitted chargesheets against 1,020 accused in 18 cases in court, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite 10 years having elapsed since the incident, the local Buddhist community still holds out hope for justice, believing that it will keep amity among the various religious communities intact. </div><div><br></div><div>Rupan Barua, a resident of Rajarakul in Ramu, said people of all faiths were now living in harmony in the upazila. </div><div><br></div><div>“At present the trial is stalled as witnesses are reluctant to testify in court. All we ask for is that those guilty are punished, so that all communities can live in harmony,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Cox\'s Bazar Boudhho Shurokkha Parishad (Buddhist Protection Council) Chairman Progyanando Bhikkhu said progress in the prosecution of the cases had slowed down in the 10 years since the violence was perpetrated.</div><div><br></div><div>“Many of the victims do not want to come forward and testify in court. From the outside, they show that everything is going on fine. Due to this, the proceedings of the cases have stalled.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said he hoped that the cases could be resolved through coordination between the state parties and the victim witnesses.</div><div><br></div><div>Attacks on minorities in Bangladesh are not something new.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ramu attack of 2012, the 2016 attack in Nasirnagar, and the October 2021 attacks in several districts made headlines, but thousands of other incidents did not receive such attention.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 1,642 Hindu houses were attacked, destroyed, or set on fire while 456 businesses suffered the same fate between 2013 and June 2022, according to data compiled from news reports by the rights group Ain O Salish Kendra.</div><div><br></div><div>As many as 1,807 temples, monasteries, and statues were attacked or vandalized. </div><div><br></div><div>At least 13 people were killed and 1,037 were injured in different incidents over the same period.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 15:43:04', '2022-07-24 15:43:54'),
(619, 619, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two people died and 15 were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a bus in Tangail\'s Kalihati upazila early today.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The incident took place around 5am in Sholla area on Dhaka-Bangabandhu Bridge Highway.</div><div><br></div><div>The deceased could not be identified yet, our local correspondent reports quoting police.</div><div><br></div><div>Sub-Inspector (SI) of Bangabandhu Bridge East Police Station, Jilkad Hossain, said that a Dhaka-bound passenger bus of Hanif Paribahan collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction. Drivers of both vehicles died on the spot.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Fifteen more people were injured in the accident. They were rescued and sent to Tangail General Hospital for treatment,\" the SI said.</div><div><br></div><div>The accident resulted in a tailback on both sides of the highway.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 16:04:55', '2022-07-24 16:04:55'),
(620, 620, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">FC Barcelona had the slight edge in Las Vegas this evening against Real Madrid in the first El Clasico of the season. It\'s actually the pre-season but the importance of this game, especially for two specific players. Robert Lewandowski was bound to make his debut against Real Madrid, he didn\'t disappoint.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>But the most important player of this first half was Raphinha, who scored an incredible long range goal that plunged into the top corner. Real Madrid was clearly unable to keep up the pace at the start but they still had a few good chances that weren\'t enough to score. Near the end of the first half, we had an important possible brawl that wasn\'t extremely grave for either side.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Busquets provoked a possible brawl</b></div><div><br></div><div>Close to halftime, Busquets and Alba double teamed Vinicius Junior. This was more than enough for many Real Madrid players to get flustered. _Due to the high temperatures in Las Vegas, both teams were bound to make many substitutions. After the break, that\'s exactly what happened as Robert Lewandowski wasn\'t allowed to stay on the pitch after the break.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of eleven subs were made between both teams, Real Madrid improved drastically with Modric, Kroos and Casemiro on the pitch. However, FC Barcelona still got the most important chances during the final 20 minutes of the game. It wasn\'t even a contest for them. Coach Xavi Hernandez wasn\'t happy with some of the ref\'s decisions but he was hapy with the result in the final whistle.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite the final result, Belgian goalie Thibaut Courtois was arguably the most important player on the pitch. He made a total of four saves during the last ten minutes of the match. Before that, Kessie got in front of him but wasn\'t able to release a potent shot. Ousmane Dembele had two consecutive chances that Courtois was able to deflect in spectacular fashion.</div><div><br></div><div>But the most impressive save came after a potent shot from Serginño Dest. If it hadn\'t been for his performance, Real Madrid would\'ve been demolished by Barcelona during the final minutes of the game. So far, the Blaugranas are doing well in this start of the pre-season. Real Madrid needs a few more games to get into rhythm though. -Marca</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"10\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 17:20:17', '2022-07-24 17:20:17'),
(622, 622, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three garment workers have died and at least 15 bus passengers have been injured after their vehicle was rammed by a train on the Maizpara rail crossing in Gazipur’s Sreepur.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The incident took place on the Joydebpur-Mymensingh rail line at 7:30 am, according to Sreepur Railway Station Master Md Harun-or-Rashid.</div><div><br></div><div>A Balaka commuter train bound for Mymensingh crashed into the bus on the rail tracks between Kaoraid Rail Station and Satkhamari Rail Station, Harun said.</div><div><br></div><div>The bus was mostly carrying workers and belonged to the Zaman Fashion Limited factory, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the dead has been identified as Priya but police could not immediately identify the others, according to Md Shahidullah, chief at the Gazipur railway police outpost.</div><div><br></div><div>Priya died on the spot and the other two succumbed to their injuries while they were on their way to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital by train.</div><div><br></div><div>The injured are receiving treatment at the hospital, Shahidullah said. -bdnews24</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 17:46:17', '2022-07-24 17:46:17'),
(623, 623, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak, which has affected nearly 17,000 people in 74 countries, to be a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,\" WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a committee of experts who met on Thursday was unable to reach a consensus, so it fell to him to decide whether to trigger the highest alert possible.</div><div><br></div><div>\"WHO\'s assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and in all regions, except in the European region where we assess the risk as high,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Monkeypox has affected more than 16,800 people in 74 countries, according to a tally by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published on July 22.</div><div><br></div><div>Washington welcomed the WHO\'s declaration as \"a call to action for the world community to stop the spread of this virus\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"A coordinated, international response is essential to stop the spread of monkeypox, protect communities at greatest risk of contracting the disease, and combat the current outbreak,\" said Raj Panjabi, senior director for the White House\'s global health security and biodefence division.</div><div><br></div><div>A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic.</div><div><br></div><div>Overall, 98 percent of infected people were gay or bisexual men, and around a third were known to have visited sex-on-site venues such as sex parties or saunas within the previous month.</div><div><br></div><div>Tedros has previously expressed concern that stigma and scapegoating could make the outbreak harder to track.</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday, he said the outbreak was \"concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners\" which meant it \"can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups\".</div><div><br></div><div>He urged all countries to \"work closely with communities of men who have sex with men, to design and deliver effective information and services, and to adopt measures that protect\" the communities affected.</div><div><br></div><div>- Potential vaccine -</div><div><br></div><div>On June 23, the WHO convened an emergency committee of experts to decide if monkeypox constitutes a so-called Public Health Emergency of International Concern -- the UN health agency\'s highest alert level.</div><div><br></div><div>But a majority advised Tedros that the situation, at that point, had not met the threshold.</div><div><br></div><div>The second meeting was called on Thursday with case numbers rising further, where Tedros said he was worried.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I need your advice in assessing the immediate and mid-term public health implications,\" Tedros told the meeting, which lasted more than six hours.</div><div><br></div><div>A viral infection resembling smallpox and first detected in humans in 1970, monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980.</div><div><br></div><div>Ninety-five percent of cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to a study of 528 people in 16 countries published in the New England Journal of Medicine -- the largest research to date.</div><div><br></div><div>The European Union\'s drug watchdog on Friday recommended for approval the use of Imvanex, a smallpox vaccine, to treat monkeypox.</div><div><br></div><div>Imvanex, developed by Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, has been approved in the EU since 2013 for the prevention of smallpox.</div><div><br></div><div>It was also considered a potential vaccine for monkeypox because of the similarity between the monkeypox virus and the smallpox virus.</div><div><br></div><div>The first symptoms of monkeypox are fever, headaches, muscle pain and back pain during the course of five days.</div><div><br></div><div>Rashes subsequently appear on the face, palms of hands and soles of the feet, followed by lesions, spots and finally scabs. -AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 17:58:50', '2022-07-24 17:58:50'),
(624, 624, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A state of emergency has been declared in part of California as a wildfire continues to rapidly spread near Yosemite National Park.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The so-called Oak Fire has exploded in size since starting on Friday, but firefighters were still unable to get any of it under control 24 hours later.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Explosive fire behaviour is challenging firefighters\", California\'s fire department said.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 3,000 people have been evacuated and 10 homes destroyed.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), it has burnt 11,900 acres (4,815 hectares) of land, making Oak Fire the largest active wildfire in the United States right now.</div><div><br></div><div>The state of emergency has been declared in Mariposa County. In a statement, California\'s Governor Gavin Newsom said the flames were being \"driven by hot, dry weather and drought conditions\".</div><div><br></div><div>Must of the United States is sweltering through a heatwave this weekend. Temperatures in Mariposa County hit 96F (35.5C) on Saturday, and are expected to stay at that level for the next few days.</div><div><br></div><div>Yosemite National Park, which lies to the north-east of where Oak Fire is burning, is home to some of the largest and oldest sequoia trees in the world. The redwoods were threatened by another blaze earlier this month, but firefighters managed to save them.</div><div><br></div><div>Climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.</div><div><br></div><div>The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 18:40:54', '2022-07-24 18:40:54'),
(625, 625, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">For most of the 2010s, Warner Bros. cast a massive shadow at San Diego Comic-Con. Between its substantial presence on the showroom floor and a pull-out-all-the-stops presentation in Hall H that could stretch well beyond two hours, the studio was second to none — not even its main rival, Marvel Studios — in its ability to leverage the largest fan convention in North America to its advantage.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This year, the studio took a decidedly different approach. It skipped the show floor completely, including a presence for DC Comics. And while it did use its hour-long panel in Hall H to showcase two of its 2022 releases — “Black Adam” and “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” — the studio’s biggest DC movies for 2023, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” and “The Flash,” were completely MIA. There was no mention of other DC titles like “Batgirl” (expected to debut this year) and “Blue Beetle” (the first Latino superhero film), nor updates on the future of Gal Gadot’s “Wonder Woman” and Robert Pattinson’s “The Batman.” (Meanwhile, persistent internet rumors of an appearance by “Man of Steel” star Henry Cavill also proved to be as unfounded as they seemed.)</div><div><br></div><div>‘Fantastic Four’ Sets November 2024 Release Date as Part of Marvel Phase 6</div><div>Instead, “Shazam! 2” star Zachary Levi bantered with costars Lucy Liu, Asher Angel and Jack Dylan Grazer and director David F. Sandberg, while Helen Mirren and Rachel Zegler appeared in a scripted video message in which Mirren celebrated her female costars by saying, “Yay, pussy power!”</div><div><br></div><div>It was up to Dwayne Johnson, in costume as Black Adam, to bring the drama, emerging on a raised platform surrounded in smoke and sending a bolt of lightning into the audience — activating blue lights in lanyards handed out to the Hall H audience.</div><div><br></div><div>The crowd lapped it up, but there was a palpable sense that they were eager for more: An audience member asked Levi if Shazam would fight Superman (Levi played dumb and then winked at the audience), and Johnson was asked how Black Adam would fare against the man of steel. (Johnson’s eyebrow-raising reply: “It probably all depends on who’s playing Superman.”)</div><div><br></div><div>As for “Aquaman 2” and “The Flash,” studio insiders have said those films are too far away on the schedule to warrant a big splash at Comic-Con. But in previous years, Warner Bros. has used Hall H as a launching pad for films well beyond the calendar year. The 2014 panel for the studio included the first-ever look at 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Zack Snyder first announced 2016’s “Batman v Superman” at Comic-Con in 2013; the panel for the film was held in 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>Both “Aquaman 2” and “The Flash” completed shooting months ago, giving their respective directors, James Wan and Andy Muschietti, plenty of time to put together some sizzling footage to whip up the buzz commensurate with the characters’ stature among the Comic-Con faithful.</div><div><br></div><div>“Aquaman 2,” however, costars Amber Heard, who just spent months at the center of one of the ugliest public court battles in Hollywood history against her ex-husband Johnny Depp. A jury found in June that they both defamed each other, but Depp was awarded millions more in damages against Heard, who was also relentlessly ridiculed and excoriated by Depp’s fans on social media. (She filed a notice of appeal on July 21.)</div><div><br></div><div>And “The Flash” star Ezra Miller is facing multiple allegations of abusive behavior, including choking a woman in Iceland and harassing another woman in her home in Berlin, as well as two arrests in Hawaii this year — once in March, for disorderly conduct and harassment, and another a month later, for second-degree assault. (Miller has never commented on the allegations of misconduct against them; a source close to the situation told Variety in June that the actor is privately focusing on their health and healing, hoping to address the allegations at some point in the future.)</div><div><br></div><div>The circumstances of Heard and Miller’s situations are quite different. However, in both cases, Warner Bros. is facing down an impossible dilemma without much precedent, even in the #MeToo era: How to promote their escapist superhero franchises when their stars are embroiled in toxic scandals that overwhelm all other conversation about them.</div><div><br></div><div>In the case of “Aquaman 2,” Walter Hamada, who runs the studio’s DC unit, testified in a video deposition in the Heard-Depp trial that the studio did consider recasting Heard in the role of Mera opposite star Jason Momoa because the actors “didn’t have a lot of chemistry together.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Editorially they were able to make that relationship work in the first movie, but there was a concern that it took a lot of effort to get there,” Hamada said. It’s not exactly a rousing endorsement for a movie.</div><div><br></div><div>Mera, however, isn’t the central character for “Aquaman,” and promotion for the film could downplay Heard’s presence. That isn’t possible for “The Flash,” which is built around Miller’s performances as multiple versions of their speedster character, Barry Allen. Though the studio could replace Miller for any future “Flash” movies, calls to reshoot Muschietti’s film with a new actor are financially untenable.</div><div><br></div><div>The Flash was referenced during the panel, in the “Shazam! 2” trailer, just not by name; though the character appeared on screen, Miller’s face did not. (By contrast Aquaman and Batman get a full name-check in the trailer, with Momoa and Ben Affleck’s faces both appearing on screen.)</div><div><br></div><div>At some point, Warner Bros. will need to engage the DC fan base about these films and the actors within them. But rather than try to navigate these choppy waters in front of some 6,000-plus superfans at Comic-Con, Warner Bros. elected to avoid them altogether — for now. -variety&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 18:49:43', '2022-07-24 18:49:43'),
(626, 626, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Pope Francis left Rome on Sunday for a trip to Canada to apologise for the role of the Roman Catholic Church in residential schools where many indigenous children were abused.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 85-year-old pope, his entourage and journalists flew out of Rome\'s Fiumicino airport on an ITA Italian airline plane en route to Edmonton, capital of Alberta.</div><div><br></div><div>The week-long trip will include at least five encounters with native people as Francis makes good on a promise to apologise on their home territory for the Church\'s role in the state-sanctioned schools, which sought to erase indigenous cultures. read more</div><div><br></div><div>It also will be a test of pope\'s health. He had to cancel a trip to Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan in early July because of a knee problem that forced him to use first a wheel chair and later a cane.</div><div><br></div><div>In an exclusive interview with Reuters this month, Francis gave details of his ailment for the first time in public, saying he had suffered \"a small fracture\" in the knee when he took a misstep while a ligament was inflamed. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 19:02:02', '2022-07-24 19:02:02'),
(627, 627, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israeli forces killed two Palestinian fighters in a pre-dawn clash in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and, off the coast of the Gaza Strip, attacked a fishing boat accused of smuggling in Hamas supplies from Egypt after its two crewmen escaped.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant group claimed the two Palestinians slain at a house in Nablus as its members. The Palestinian Health Ministry said six others were wounded.</div><div><br></div><div>Israeli security forces on an apparent arrest raid outside the house of a wanted suspect came under fire by gunmen and \"responded with live fire and other means until neutralising the terrorists inside the house and on its roof,\" police said.</div><div><br></div><div>A neighbour, Naser Estitya, 60, said he heard gunshots from inside the house before the Israelis fired at the house. \"They were calling the name of one person, asking him to surrender,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Photos from the scene showed part of the wall at the top floor had been destroyed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Another crime committed by the occupation forces in the old city of #Nablus, where martyrs have fallen and many wounded,\" Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official, said on Twitter. \"We strongly condemn this crime, and we hold the occupation responsibility for its repercussions.\"</div><div><br></div><div>U.S.-brokered peace talks aimed at establishing a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza collapsed in 2014 and have shown no sign of revival.</div><div><br></div><div>Israeli forces have stepped up raids in recent months in the West Bank after men from the area carried out deadly street attacks in Israel. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority regularly condemns such incursions.</div><div><br></div><div>Separately, the Palestinian fishermen\'s union said two crew members dove into Mediterranean waters and swam to safety before the Israeli navy fired on their boat. A picture circulated on social media showed black smoke rising close to the Gaza coast.</div><div><br></div><div>A military spokesperson said the vessel had come from Egypt and strayed from Israel\'s maritime cordon on Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas Islamists. The navy fired on the boat after it did not heed orders to stop, the military said, adding that it carried unspecified supplies for Hamas.</div><div><br></div><div>Nizar Ayyash, chairman of the fishermen union, described the two crewmen as fishermen, telling Reuters: “The boat was completely burnt and destroyed, I think it may have sunk but fishermen on board jumped and swam to the shore. It wasn’t the first time they made such allegations and at the end these allegations proved baseless.\" -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 19:06:49', '2022-07-24 19:06:49');
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(628, 628, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">China on Sunday launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, in one of the final missions needed to complete the orbiting outpost by year\'s end.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A live feed on state broadcaster CCTV showed the 23-tonne Wentian (\"Quest for the Heavens\") laboratory module launching on the back of China\'s most powerful rocket, the Long March 5B, at 2:22 p.m. (0622 GMT) from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan.</div><div><br></div><div>Space agency staff, seen on the live feed observing the progress of the launch from a control room, cheered and applauded when the Wentian separated from the rocket about 10 minutes after the launch.</div><div><br></div><div>The launch was \"a complete success\", CCTV reported shortly after.</div><div><br></div><div>China began constructing the space station in April 2021 with the launch of the Tianhe module, the main living quarters, in the first of 11 crewed and uncrewed missions in the undertaking.</div><div><br></div><div>The Wentian lab module, 17.9 metres (59 feet) long, will be where astronauts can carry out scientific experiments, along with the other lab module yet to be launched - Mengtian (\"Dreaming of the Heavens\").</div><div><br></div><div>Wentian features an airlock cabin that is to be the main exit-entry point for extravehicular activities when the station is completed.</div><div><br></div><div>It will also serve as short-term living quarters for astronauts during crew rotations on the station, designed for long-term accommodation of just three astronauts.</div><div><br></div><div>Mengtian is expected to be launched in October and, like Wentian, is to dock with Tianhe, forming a T-shaped structure.</div><div><br></div><div>The completion of the structure, about a fifth of the International Space Station (ISS) by mass, is a source of pride among ordinary Chinese people and will cap President Xi Jinping\'s 10 years as leader of China\'s ruling Communist Party.</div><div><br></div><div>On board the space station are Shenzhou-14 mission commander Chen Dong and team mates Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe. They are slated to return to Earth in December with the arrival of the Shenzhou-15 crew. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 19:12:10', '2022-07-24 19:12:10'),
(629, 629, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today, July 24, urged the youths to set up export-oriented fish processing industries to help boost the country\'s foreign exchange earnings.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We can process the fish or we can produce various types of products from fish and export those,\" she said while launching the National Fisheries Week 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier hoped that this generation of entrepreneurs will come forward further to set up such industries that will create employment opportunities for the jobless.</div><div><br></div><div>This year\'s July 23-29 Fisheries Week began with the theme \"Nirapad Machhe Bhorbo Desh, Bangabandhur Bangladesh\".</div><div><br></div><div>The programme was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, joined virtually by the PM from her official residence Gono Bhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina said that fish processing industries will also contribute to meet the domestic demands.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I believe that by this way we will be able to advance our country further,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She urged all to remain alert against catching shrimp fry by net along coastal areas, including Cox\'s Bazar and Kuakata, as this destroys many other varieties of fish fry.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister put emphasis on utilising Haor areas of the country for fish production.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Haor areas of the country have immense potentials, not only for producing rice but also fish. For that purpose, we have to set up fish landing stations in various parts of haor (water body) across the country,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In this connection she mentioned that the government has built a fish landing station in Netrokona while work on Sunamganj, Kishoreganj and Sylhet areas are going on.</div><div><br></div><div>Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque and Secretary of Fisheries and Livestock Ministry Muhammad Yamin Chowdhury also spoke at the programme.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, on behalf of the prime minister, the agriculture minister handed over the National Fisheries Award among the recipients.</div><div><br></div><div>A documentary on the development of fishery sector was also screened at the programme.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 19:49:01', '2022-07-24 19:49:01'),
(630, 630, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The weather department has predicted showers across the country in 24 hours commencing 9 am on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely at many places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over the country,” said a Met office bulletin.</div><div><br></div><div>A mild heat wave is sweeping over the districts of Sylhet, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dinajpur and Nilphamari and it may abate.</div><div><br></div><div>The axis of monsoon trough runs through Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal to Assam across central part of Bangladesh. One of its associated troughs extends upto Northwest Bay.</div><div><br></div><div>Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate elsewhere over North Bay.</div><div><br></div><div>Day temperature may fall slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 20:23:14', '2022-07-24 20:23:14'),
(631, 631, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Five people were killed and seven others injured when a train hit a bus on an unauthorised railway level crossing at Sripur of Gazipur district on Sunday morning, said police.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>One of the deceased was identified as Rahima Khatun Priya, 22, a worker of Zaman Fashion Wears Ltd and wife of Julhas Mia of Baliapara village in the upazila.</div><div><br></div><div>Sripur Railway Station Master Harun-ur-Rashid said&nbsp; Netrakona-bound ‘Balaka Express’ train from Dhaka hit the bus carrying RMG workers on Maijhpara railway level crossing around 7:15 am while it was passing the it, leaving one dead on the spot and eleven others injured.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the injured, four died on way to a local hospital. The other injured were admitted to a local hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Gazipur deputy commissioner Anisur Rahman visited the spot.</div><div><br></div><div>A three-member probe body, headed by Additional District Magistrate, has been formed to look into the accident. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 20:45:12', '2022-07-24 20:45:12'),
(632, 632, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Parts of China are set to experience searing temperatures over the next ten days as a heatwave takes hold.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In some provinces, authorities are predicting levels to rise to at least 40C and the national government has warned that forest fires could occur.</div><div><br></div><div>Mercury levels will start spiking on Saturday - \"Big Heat\" day in the traditional Chinese calendar.</div><div><br></div><div>In Zhejiang, in the south-east, some cities are issuing red alerts, the highest warning.</div><div><br></div><div>The province normally experiences temperatures in the high 20s in July but this year local authorities are warning of 40C in the next 24 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>To deal with the hot spells many in China turn to air conditioning in their homes, offices and factories however it could cause trouble for the national power grid.</div><div><br></div><div>Demand could reach a new high over the summer and the Ministry of Emergency Management has warned that safe operations would face \"severe tests\".</div><div><br></div><div>In July, Shanghai\'s temperature hit a sweltering 40.9C, equalling its hottest day since records began in 1873, hitting this mark the first time in 2017, Reuters news agency reports.</div><div><br></div><div>The city had to issue its third extreme heat warning of the summer.</div><div>Heatwaves have become more frequent globally, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 20:59:59', '2022-07-24 20:59:59'),
(633, 633, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A fast-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size Saturday into one of California’s largest wildfires of the year, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of people and shutting off power to more than 2,000 homes and businesses.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Oak Fire started Friday afternoon southwest of the park near the town of Midpines in Mariposa County and by Saturday had grown to nearly 15 square miles (38 square kilometers), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. It erupted as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias in the southernmost part of Yosemite park.</div><div><br></div><div>Evacuation orders were put in effect Saturday for over 6,000 people living across a several-mile span in the sparsely populated, rural area, said Daniel Patterson, a spokesman for the Sierra National Forest.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 400 firefighters were battling the blaze, along with helicopters, other aircraft and bulldozers, facing tough conditions that included hot weather, low humidity and bone-dry vegetation caused by the worst drought in decades, Patterson said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Explosive fire behavior is challenging firefighters,” Cal Fire said in a statement Saturday that described the Oak Fire’s activity as “extreme with frequent runs, spot fires and group torching.”</div><div><br></div><div>By Saturday morning, the fire had destroyed 10 residential and commercial structures, damaged five others and was threatening 2,000 more structures, Cal Fire said. The blaze prompted numerous road closures, including a shutdown of Highway 140 between Carstens Road and Allred Road — blocking one of the main routes into Yosemite.</div><div><br></div><div>California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. Scientists have said weather will continue to be more extreme and wildfires more frequent, destructive and unpredictable.</div><div><br></div><div>“The fire is moving quickly. This fire was throwing embers out in front of itself for up to 2 miles yesterday,” Patterson said. “These are exceptional fire conditions.” The cause of the fire was under investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>Pacific Gas &amp; Electric said on its website that more than 2,600 homes and businesses in the area had lost power as of Friday afternoon and there was no indication when it would be restored. “PG&amp;E is unable to access the affected equipment,” the utility said.</div><div><br></div><div>A shoeless older man attempting to flee the blaze on Friday crashed his sedan into a ditch in a closed area and was helped by firefighters. He was safely driven from the area and did not appear to suffer any injuries. Several other residents stayed in their homes Friday night as the fire burned nearby.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, firefighters have made significant progress against a wildfire that began in Yosemite National Park and burned into the Sierra National Forest.</div><div><br></div><div>The Washburn Fire was 79 percent contained Friday after burning about 7.5 square miles (19.4 square kilometers) of forest. It was one of the largest fires of the year in California, along with the Lost Lake Fire in Riverside County that was fully contained in June at 9 square miles (23 square kilometers)</div><div><br></div><div>The fire broke out July 7 and forced the closure of the southern entrance to Yosemite and evacuation of the community of Wawona as it burned on the edge of Mariposa Grove, home to hundreds of giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees by volume.</div><div><br></div><div>Wawona Road is tentatively set to reopen on Saturday, according to the park website. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 22:08:24', '2022-07-24 22:08:24'),
(634, 634, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">When fighting erupted between Taliban and a breakaway group led by one of their former commanders in northern Afghanistan last month, Zahra and her family fled to the mountains.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>For days they walked across the rocky terrain, unsure what lay ahead or when they might return to their home in Sar-i-Pol province’s Balkhab district, where the clashes erupted.</div><div><br></div><div>“We didn’t want to get trapped... we all might have been killed,” said Zahra, 35, asking to use a pseudonym for security reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>Zahra’s family is among thousands that fled conflict between the Taliban and fighters loyal to Mahdi Mujahid, the group’s former intelligence chief for Bamiyan.</div><div><br></div><div>Ethnicity, religious sectarianism, and a battle for a lump of Balkhab’s lucrative coal resources are at the heart of the fighting.</div><div><br></div><div>“All these factors are working together in driving the conflict,” Australia-based political analyst Nematullah Bizhan said.</div><div><br></div><div>Mujahid, a Shia Hazara, joined the mostly Sunni and Pashtun Taliban in 2019, and was appointed to his post soon after the hardline group seized power in August last year.</div><div><br></div><div>Afghanistan’s Hazaras have faced persecution for decades, with the Taliban accused of abuses against the community when they first ruled from 1996 to 2001.</div><div><br></div><div>They are also the target of attacks by the militant Islamic State group, which considers them heretics.</div><div><br></div><div>Mujahid’s appointment was initially seen as supporting the Taliban’s claim of being more inclusive to non-Pashtuns, but he soon fell foul of the leadership.</div><div><br></div><div>The group routinely denies reports of infighting in its ranks, but last month media said Mujahid split with the Taliban leadership when Kabul sought greater control over the coal business.</div><div><br></div><div>History of resistance</div><div><br></div><div>Balkhab is home to several coal mines and demand has soared in recent months with Pakistan stepping up imports to fuel power plants.</div><div><br></div><div>Local Taliban commanders were known to “tax” trucks on their way to Pakistan -- as officials in the previous government did before them -- but when Mujahid resisted Kabul’s efforts to rein in the practice, they sacked him.</div><div><br></div><div>“Balkhab has a long history of resisting the government,” analyst Bizhan said, adding the region also fought strongly against the Taliban during their first reign.</div><div><br></div><div>While the June fighting lasted only a few days, the United Nations says it displaced at least 27,000 people -- almost all of them Hazara.</div><div><br></div><div>The result is a humanitarian crisis that aid agencies are now struggling to deal with.</div><div><br></div><div>“We used to sleep thirsty on empty stomachs and wake up in the morning and start walking again,” said Zahra, whose family walked for nearly a fortnight before finding shelter in a village mosque in Bamiyan.</div><div><br></div><div>“Everyone was sick.”</div><div><br></div><div>The family of Barat Ali Subhani, another resident of Balkhab, has taken refuge in the same mosque.</div><div><br></div><div>“We didn’t have anything with us. We just left in clothes we were wearing,” Subhani said.</div><div><br></div><div>His seven-member family walked for four days before a shepherd led them to the mosque.</div><div><br></div><div>“He saved us,” Subhani said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We had nothing. We thought that we will probably die.” - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 22:12:34', '2022-07-24 22:12:34'),
(635, 635, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least three people, including a former Philippine town mayor, were killed and another was wounded in a brazen attack Sunday by a gunman in a university campus in the capital region, officials said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The gunman, who was armed with two pistols, was captured after the shooting near the gate of the Ateneo de Manila University in suburban Quezon city. The university was put under lockdown and the graduation rite at a law school was canceled, police said.</div><div><br></div><div>Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, who was supposed to be a speaker at the ceremony, was en route to the university when the attack happened and was advised to turn back, officials said.</div><div><br></div><div>Quezon city Mayor Joy Belmonte condemned the attack. “This kind of incident has no place in our society and must be condemned to the highest level,” she said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials said those killed in the attack were Rosita Furigay, a former mayor of Lamitan town in southern Basilan province, her aide and a university guard.</div><div><br></div><div>Furigay’s daughter, who was supposed to attend the graduation ceremony, was wounded and taken to a hospital, a police report said.</div><div>Investigators were trying to determine a motive for the attack.</div><div><br></div><div>The shooting happened despite heavy security and a gun ban imposed by police and other government forces in Quezon city, where newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is to deliver his first state of the nation address on Monday before a joint session of Congress at the House of Representatives. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 22:21:04', '2022-07-24 22:21:04'),
(636, 636, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has sent&nbsp; a legal notice to telecom operator Banglalink and Jamuna Bank demanding fine for illegally using his photos and brand image for business purposes.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Shakib’s&nbsp; lawyer Ashraful Hadi sent the notice through registered post on Sunday seeking Tk 5,80,50,000 fine&nbsp; from these organisations.</div><div><br></div><div>Both the organisations have been asked to remove Shakib’s photos, brand, signature etc used in different places for business purposes within seven days.</div><div><br></div><div>The companies have been warned of legal action for failure to follow the notice.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the notice, on January 21 in 2014, a deal was signed between Shakib and Banglalink Digital Communication Ltd for using Shakib’s popular brand image on a limited scale for their business purpose.</div><div><br></div><div>Although the deal expired on January 20, 2016, the company continued to use the brand image of the Bangladesh team cricket allrounder and then he&nbsp; decided to send a legal notice, said barrister Ashraful Hadi. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-24 22:50:29', '2022-07-24 22:50:29'),
(637, 637, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Four democracy activists have been executed by Myanmar\'s military in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in decades.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Former lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw, writer and activist Ko Jimmy, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zawor were accused of committing \"terror acts\".</div><div><br></div><div>The executions, which were first announced by the military in June, drew international condemnation.</div><div><br></div><div>They come in the wake of a 2021 military coup.</div><div><br></div><div>The junta overthrew the democratically elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi\'s National League for Democracy (NLD) in February last year, sparking huge protests which were swiftly crushed.</div><div><br></div><div>The National Unity Government of Myanmar - a coalition comprising pro-democracy figures, representatives of armed ethnic groups and members of the NLD - condemned the killings, saying they were \"extremely shocked and saddened\".</div><div><br></div><div>It went on to urge the international community to \"punish (the) murderous military junta for their cruelty and killings\".</div><div><br></div><div>The state news outlet - Global News Light of Myanmar - said the four men were executed as they \"gave directives, made arrangements and committed conspiracies for brutal and inhumane terror acts\".</div><div><br></div><div>It said they had been charged under the Counter Terrorism Law, but did not say when or how they were executed.</div><div><br></div><div>Ko Jimmy, 53, was a veteran of the 88 Generation Students Group - a Burmese pro-democracy movement known for their activism against the country\'s military junta in the 1988 student uprisings. He served multiple stints in prison for his involvement in the pro-democracy movement, before being released in 2012.</div><div><br></div><div>He was arrested in October last year after being accused of hiding weapons and ammunition at an apartment in Yangon and being an \"advisor\" to the National Unity Government.</div><div><br></div><div>Phyo Zeya Thaw, 41, was a former NLD lawmaker and a close ally of Suu Kyi.</div><div><br></div><div>A hip-hop artist, he often drew the ire of the junta for his anti-military lyrics. He was arrested in November for alleged anti-terror offences.</div><div><br></div><div>The two others - Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw - were sentenced to death for killing a woman was an alleged informer for the junta.</div><div><br></div><div>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had called the military\'s decision to sentence the four activists to death \"a blatant violation to the right to life, liberty and security of person\".</div><div><br></div><div>Military authorities have intensified their crackdown on local militias, opposition activists and those deemed to be harbouring anti-coup sentiments since they seized power last year.</div><div><br></div><div>They claimed the results of a general election that saw Suu Kyi\'s political party winning by a landslide were rigged.</div><div><br></div><div>Since then, Suu Kyi has been detained under house arrest, and slapped with a litany of charges ranging from corruption to violating the country\'s official secrets act, which could see her serving a sentence of up to 150 years.</div><div><br></div><div>The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which keeps a toll of those killed, jailed or detained by the military, says that 14,847 people have been arrested since the coup, with an estimated 2114 having been killed by military forces. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 14:43:00', '2022-07-25 14:43:00'),
(638, 638, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 17 people from Haiti have died in a boat accident off the coast of The Bahamas, the government has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bahamian PM Philip Davis said it is thought those on board were travelling from Haiti to Miami, Florida in the US.</div><div><br></div><div>Police in The Bahamas said the boat capsized more than 11 km (6.8 miles) off the island of New Providence.</div><div><br></div><div>Another 25 people were rescued, including one woman who was found alive inside the overturned boat, authorities said.</div><div><br></div><div>One child was among the dead. At least one person is still missing, with search missions underway.</div><div><br></div><div>Two people were taken into custody, both from The Bahamas, over the suspected human smuggling operation, officials said.</div><div><br></div><div>The numbers of people attempting the dangerous journey to the United States have increased significantly with the rise in Haiti of gang violence, coupled with endemic poverty.</div><div><br></div><div>Preliminary investigations suggest that the speed boat left New Providence, the most populous island in The Bahamian archipelago, around 01:00 (0500 GMT) on Sunday with some 60 people on board.</div><div><br></div><div>One woman was found alive after police heard her \"knocking on the hull of the boat\", said Clayton Fernander, police commissioner of The Bahamas.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The divers eventually went down and that\'s where they recovered the bodies, the 17 bodies,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"There was one female who was still alive, was up in the air pocket of the hull of that boat, so I believe that that\'s what kept her alive.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Immigration Minister Keith Bell said survivors indicated that they paid between $3,000 and $8,000 (£2,500 and £6,670) for the voyage.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We mourn lives lost of those seeking a better way of life,\" Mr Bell said. \"Those here with families and friends in Haiti, encourage your loved ones not to risk their lives.\"</div><div><br></div><div>In May, at least 11 people, mostly from Haiti, died near the US territory of Puerto Rico. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 14:48:44', '2022-07-25 14:48:44'),
(639, 639, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tunisians vote on Monday in a referendum on a new constitution that critics of President Kais Saied fear will maul the democracy that emerged from a 2011 revolution by handing him nearly total power.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The vote is being held on the anniversary of Saied\'s sudden move against the elected parliament when he ousted the government, established emergency rule and began governing by fiat.</div><div><br></div><div>It is not clear when the results will be announced after polls close at 2100 GMT, but with little apparent enthusiasm for the vote among most Tunisians and a boycott by major parties, analysts expect a \'yes\' vote with low turnout.</div><div><br></div><div>Under Saied\'s own rules for the referendum, no minimum level of participation is needed to approve the new constitution. They only stipulate it will come into effect once the final results are published, and do not say what happens if voters reject it.</div><div><br></div><div>Saied has hailed his moves as the foundation of a new Tunisian republic to put the revolution back on course and end years of political sclerosis and economic stagnation.</div><div><br></div><div>His foes accuse him of a coup.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Disunity&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>However, while nearly all major political parties and civil society organisations have denounced his unilateral approach to rewriting the constitution and the legitimacy of the referendum, they have failed to build a united front.</div><div><br></div><div>Disunity was visible in protests against Saied in recent days. The Islamist Ennahda, the biggest party in parliament, took part in a protest on Saturday. Civil society organisations and smaller parties held one on Friday. A party that backed the pre-revolution autocracy held its own on both days.</div><div><br></div><div>The protests attracted only small numbers, but rallies organised by Saied supporters have also had only modest attendance and there has been little sign of excitement around the campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>Most Tunisians remain focused on the dire economy and rising prices.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the economic decline since 2011 has left many people angry at the parties that have governed since the revolution and disillusioned with the political system they ran.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I don\'t support Saied, but I will vote \'yes\' in the referendum because those protesting against it are the main cause of our problems for the past decade,\" said Mohammed, a Tripoli resident.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the three parliamentary elections and two presidential elections since the revolution, the lowest turnout, of 41%, was in 2019 for the chamber that Saied has dissolved.</div><div><br></div><div>A turnout on Monday far below that rate would further call into question the legitimacy of Saied\'s new constitution and his project to remake Tunisian politics. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 14:54:05', '2022-07-25 14:54:05'),
(640, 640, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The third one-day international between England and South Africa at Headingley was washed out, meaning the series is drawn 1-1.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Just 27.4 overs were possible in Leeds, with two lengthy rain delays enough to force the abandonment at 16:05 BST.</div><div><br></div><div>The first delay - which lasted an hour and 50 minutes - came after 20.5 overs, with South Africa batting after winning the toss.</div><div><br></div><div>Play resumed for just 6.5 overs before more rain at 14:35 ultimately led to an early abandonment of the series decider.</div><div><br></div><div>South Africa were 159-2 when the second lot of rain came, with opener Quinton de Kock unbeaten on 92 from 76 balls.</div><div><br></div><div>The opener had ridden his luck initially, twice edging through the vacant slip cordon, but played some beautiful cover drives and reverse sweeps as he moved towards what looked certain to be an 18th ODI century.</div><div><br></div><div>Aiden Markram was 24 not out at the other end, after Janneman Malan fell for 11 and Rassie van der Dussen 26.</div><div><br></div><div>Malan miscued David Willey to Jason Roy at backward point, before Van der Dussen was caught on the square-leg boundary off Adil Rashid.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It was a good wicket and this can be a tough ground to defend at times,\" England captain Jos Buttler said. \"The game was quite evenly poised.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It would have been great to have a full game.\"</div><div><br></div><div>A three-match T20 series will start at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol on Wednesday night (18:30 BST), with the game live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.</div><div><br></div><div>England\'s next ODI series will be against Australia, after the T20 World Cup, in November. -BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"9\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 14:58:17', '2022-07-25 14:58:17'),
(641, 641, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Audiences responded with a resounding “yep” to Jordan Peele’s science-fiction thriller “Nope,” which topped the box office with its $44 million debut.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Those ticket sales were slightly behind projections of $50 million and fall in between the results of Peele’s first two films, 2017’s “Get Out” (which opened to $33 million) and 2019’s “Us” (which opened to $71 million). “Nope” may not have cemented a new box office record for Peele, but it demonstrates the director’s popularity at the movies and marks a strong start for an original, R-rated horror film.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, “Nope” stands as the highest opening weekend tally for an original film since “Us” debuted more than three years ago. Yes, that includes Quentin Tarantino’s star-studded “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which started with $41 million in July 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>Marvel Studios’ Phases 5 and 6: Everything We Learned at Comic-Con About the Multiverse Saga</div><div>“The opening isn’t as big as ‘Us,’ but it’s still extremely impressive,” says David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “The weekend figure is far above average for the genre.”</div><div><br></div><div>It’s worth noting that Peele’s sophomore feature “Us,” a scary story about menacing doppelgängers, enjoyed an especially huge opening weekend because it followed the runaway success of the Oscar-winning “Get Out.” After his directorial debut captured the zeitgeist by delivering scares while encouraging audiences to think, fans of the filmmaker were more than a little eager to watch Peele’s next mind-bending nightmare. Though Peele still has outsized goodwill with audiences, box office expectations for “Nope,” another anxiety-inducing social thriller, should have been comparatively a little more Earth-bound.</div><div><br></div><div>“Nope” cost $68 million, which is significantly more than “Get Out” (with its slender $4.5 million budget) and “Us” (with its $20 million budget). So the movie will require a little more coinage than Peele’s past films to turn a profit. Word-of-mouth will be key. “Get Out” and “Us” were wildly successful in theaters, with each collecting $255 million at the global box office. “Nope” does not open at the international box office until mid-August.</div><div><br></div><div>“Nope” reunites Peele with “Get Out” star Daniel Kaluuya — and adds Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun to the mix — in the story of siblings who live on a gulch in California and attempt to uncover video evidence of a UFO. Critics were fond of “Nope,” which holds an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences gave the film a “B” grade, the same CinemaScore as “Us.”</div><div><br></div><div>Universal’s president of domestic distribution Jim Orr points out that “Nope” is appealing to all demographics; according to exit polls, 35% of ticket buyers were Caucasian, 20% were Hispanic, 33% were African American and 8% were Asian. He says that’s a good sign in terms of its theatrical run.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re thrilled with the results this weekend,” Orr says. “Jordan Peele is an incredible talent. His films are layered and thought-provoking and ridiculously entertaining.”</div><div><br></div><div>Since “Nope” was the only new movie to open this weekend, several holdover titles rounded out North American box office charts.</div><div><br></div><div>Disney’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” slipped to second place after two weeks in the No. 1 spot. The Marvel adventure added $22.1 million (a 53% decline) from 4,370 locations, taking the film’s domestic tally to $276.2 million. Globally, the fourth “Thor” movie has grossed $598 million and will imminently cross the $600 million mark. It’s already out-earned at least one of its predecessors, 2011’s “Thor” ($449 million globally), and it should soon pass 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World” ($644 million globally). However, it still has a ways to go to match (or beat) 2017’s charmer “Thor: Ragnarok” ($853 million).</div><div><br></div><div>Another Universal movie, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” took third place with $17.7 million from 3,816 venues. After four weeks on the big screen, the animated family film has earned $297.8 million in North America and $640.2 million worldwide.</div><div><br></div><div>Sony’s literary adaptation “Where the Crawdads Sing” landed at No. 4 with $10.33 million from 3,650 locations. With its better-than-expected debut last weekend, the mystery-drama has amassed $38.3 million to date.</div><div><br></div><div>“Where the Crawdads Sing” beat “Top Gun: Maverick” by a hair. Paramount’s blockbuster sequel pulled in $10 million from 3,160 theaters in its ninth weekend of release, bringing its domestic tally to a massive $635 million. “Maverick” recently overtook “The Avengers” ($623.3 million) to become the ninth-highest grossing movie in domestic box office history. Since the “Top Gun” sequel has not made less than $10 million in a single weekend, industry experts believe the movie has enough juice to soon pass the No. 7 and 8 slots, which respectively belong to “Titanic” with $659 million and “Jurassic World” with $653 million.</div><div><br></div><div>At the indie box office, A24’s “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” continues to expand at a snail’s pace. The movie, about a resilient inch-tall seashell (voiced by Jenny Slate), collected $846,950 from 590 venues, its widest theater-count to date. So far, “Marcel” has grossed $2.8 million. -Variety</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 15:02:54', '2022-07-25 15:02:54'),
(642, 642, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">These days it’s kind of a coinflip as to whether or not I’ll agree with critics when it comes to the new Netflix thing they’re roasting. And while I have generally been underwhelmed at Netflix’s attempts at blockbuster movies in the past, I really did think that The Gray Man had too much going for it between its cast and the Russos directing to be bad.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>And it’s not bad! It’s pretty good!</div><div><br></div><div>This is an instance where I think the critics and the 50% Rotten Tomatoes score is getting are off base. Not that I think it’s a 90% movie like the audience scores say, but I do lean more toward that end, and I think it’s a worthwhile action flick that sure, I’d watch a sequel set in the same universe, even if it’s not John Wick-level amazing.</div><div><br></div><div>The Gray Man, I suppose, is not the most terribly original of plots at baseline. Ryan Gosling plays a prisoner recruited by the CIA to do off-book assassinations and surprise, things take a turn when suddenly the CIA has hired someone to do an off-book assassination on him when he learns too much. That someone is Chris Evans with a mustache, relishing a rare villain role. Helping Gosling’s Agent Six is CIA operative Ana de Armas, who has been caught up in the conspiracy, and the “suits” in the picture include Billy Bob Thornton, Regé-Jean Page and Jessica Henwick. There’s also a little girl kidnapped being used as leverage, so Six must kill everyone and manage to keep her safe at the same time.</div><div><br></div><div>What the Russos may lack in a brilliant script here, they more than make up for in the action itself. There are some truly wild sequences here where it’s really interesting to see what they do when they’re outside the Marvel realm. But strangely, I’d call this the most non-violent, violent movie I’ve ever seen. As in, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen more bullets fired in a single movie, but this is an almost entirely bloodless film for reasons I’m not quite clear on. Given that this is Netflix, I’m not sure why they felt the need to go for a PG-13 rating, and it’s kind of goofy to see hordes of cops and agents machine gunned down but this is not “R” level violence because there’s no blood spray. It’s very strange, and I actually do think the film would have been helped with a bit harder of an edge in that regard. Again, it worked for John Wick.</div><div><br></div><div>‘Genshin Impact’ Still Refuses To Increase Anniversary Rewards, Despite Fan Outcry</div><div>The performances here are all top notch. Gosling is playing some variant of his somewhat stoic yet charismatic action hero we’ve seen a few times now. Chris Evans is clearly having the time of his life. I would watch Ana de Armas dramatically check her emails for two hours, and Regé-Jean Page is somehow even more hateable than Evans. One casting sin the film commits is getting Jessica Henwick in here (as seen in The Matrix and Iron Fist) and not letting her actually fight anyone. But she’s still great.</div><div><br></div><div>This movie is fun and enjoyable and only two hours, so not a bloated three hour superhero thing. It may not be the most original spy thriller ever, and I think its PG-13 rating does hold it back in weird ways, but there’s a lot to like here, and I’d watch a (hopefully R-rated) sequel. -forbes</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 15:20:19', '2022-07-25 15:20:19'),
(643, 643, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The sustained growth that Major League Soccer (MLS) has had over the years is no mystery to anyone, and proof of this is that the two best players in world soccer, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo could be considering playing in the US.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the current season, players of the caliber of Giorgio Chiellini and Gareth Bale at Los Angeles FC, Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi at Toronto FC, or the return of Englishman Wayne Rooney as coach at DC United have all arrived.</div><div><br></div><div>But when it comes to players like Messi or Cristiano, whose potential entry into the MLS appears to be closer than many people think, former striker and current coach Landon Donovan staked a wager that the Argentine and the Portuguese will join the league soon.</div><div><br></div><div>For the historical scorer of the United States National Team, the starting point for figures to reach the competition is the English star David Beckham.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Beckham led the way: now our league is growing very fast and everyone wants to come here. I think one day Messi and Cristiano will play here too.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"Not at 38 years old, he sent a message that MLS is growing very fast and continues today with Carlos Vela, Chicharito, Gareth Bale. I believe that one day Messi and Cristiano can come,\" Donovan stated in an interview with AS USA.</div><div><br></div><div>Donovan\'s assertion might be more accurate than some people would like to think. So there\'s a good chance that Ronaldo and Messi will end up competing in the MLS at some point.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, the strategist for the San Diego Loyal of the United Soccer League pointed out that US soccer is becoming more and more attractive to players and their agents, among other things, because the quality of the game is now better and so are salaries.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Players from all over the world want the opportunity to play in the Americas, whether it\'s Major League Soccer or the USL. I get three or four emails every day from agents who want to bring their players to California. Now the quality of the leagues is better and that is why the players want to come. They can also earn more money than before.\"- Marca&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"16\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 15:29:57', '2022-07-25 15:29:57'),
(644, 644, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A fast-moving wildfire in California continues to grow in size, firefighters say, as they struggle through sweltering temperatures.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Oak Fire has now burned 15,603 acres of land and is still \"zero per cent uncontained\", California\'s fire department said on Sunday night.</div><div><br></div><div>But it added that the fire activity is not as extreme as previous days, and firefighters are making progress.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 6,000 people have been evacuated and 10 structures destroyed.</div><div><br></div><div>A further 3,271 structures - both homes and businesses - are under threat, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) reported.</div><div><br></div><div>At a community meeting on Sunday night, an official said they hoped the blaze, which started on Friday, would start to be contained \"very soon\".</div><div><br></div><div>A state of emergency was declared in Mariposa County on Saturday, and will allow the state to access some federal assistance to tackle the fires.</div><div><br></div><div>The scale of the blaze marks an ominous start to California\'s wildfire season and officials have warned that a combination of drought, climate change, and overgrown vegetation are posing significant challenges and increasing the chances of the fire spreading rapidly.</div><div><br></div><div>Much of the United States is sweltering through a heatwave and heat advisory warnings are in effect in more than a dozen states. Temperatures in Mariposa County hit 100F (38C) on Sunday, and are expected to stay high for the next few days.</div><div><br></div><div>Yosemite National Park, which lies to the north-east of where Oak Fire is burning, is home to some of the largest and oldest sequoia trees in the world. The redwoods were threatened by another blaze earlier this month, but firefighters managed to save them.</div><div><br></div><div>The US Forest Service said on Friday it is taking emergency measures to protect the trees, including removing low-lying vegetation that can fuel fires and other measures.</div><div><br></div><div>Climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.</div><div><br></div><div>The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.</div><div><br></div><div>Several European governments have struggled to contain dozens of separate wildfires which have ripped across the continent in recent weeks. -bbc</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 15:36:57', '2022-07-25 15:36:57');
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(645, 645, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Hindu residents of Digholia village in Lohagra upazila of Narail are still haunted by the fear and memories of the communal attacks in the area two weeks ago.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Since the attacks on July 15, sparked by a Facebook post that allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), members of the Hindu community have been standing guard outside their homes with help from the Hindu communities of neighbouring villages. A tense atmosphere prevails over the village almost constantly.</div><div><br></div><div>The Saha brothers, Hemlet Saha and Subrata Saha Shuvo, on Sunday told this reporter about life in the village after the attacks.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“For the last two weeks, since the day of the attacks, my father Sunil Saha, president of the village committee, has been crying and crying,” one of the brothers said.</div><div><br></div><div>Hemlet Saha told the Dhaka Tribune: “Around 16-17-year-old boys were calling my 65-year-old father\'s name. There were about 300-400 people. They kept hurling abusive words at my father. They told us that we were staying in their country. They said we must have had a lot of courage to insult their prophet and other such things.”</div><div><br></div><div>Before the family could understand what was happening, hundreds of people stormed the area with homemade weapons. Around 10-12 people broke into each house and started ransacking them.</div><div><br></div><div>“They were saying to give them our money or they would burn down our house. They burned a house completely. They entered all the houses and vandalized and looted them,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our father is a respectable man, so he wanted to sit with the gathering Muslims to decide if someone from our community had committed a crime and to punish him if he did. But the attackers did not wait or even try to hold any discussions. Our house was the first one they attacked and they attacked all the other houses within the next 30 minutes,” Helmet further said.</div><div><br></div><div>Subrata Saha said several Hindu families had fled the area as they were unable to bear the constant threat of attacks or arson.</div><div><br></div><div>“We didn\'t even have time to think about our belongings during the incident. First of all, I tried to take my mother and sisters to a safe place. The Hindu community of the neighboring village sheltered us. For the next few days, our young men and women could not return home for fear. Only the elders stayed at home,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He further said Narail MP&nbsp; Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, the Union Parishad chairman and some Awami League leaders tried to protect their community, but the attackers looted and fled the area before they could arrive with additional law enforcement officials. “The 10 policemen in the area could not alone protect our homes and businesses from hundreds of attackers.”</div><div><br></div><div>Hemlet said: “My brother is the managing director of a reputed company in the country. He arranged employment for young boys of many Muslim families in this village. We live together in this village, there was no question of violence in the past, but this attack has made us lose all confidence.”</div><div><br></div><div>He asked why they should live in fear when they were also citizens of Bangladesh.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"26\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 15:44:25', '2022-07-25 15:44:25'),
(646, 646, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The core index of the Dhaka Stock (DSE), following uncertainty over the country\'s macroeconomic situation, has fallen below the 6,000-mark after 13 months.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the first hour of trading on Monday, the major index on the premier bourse went down 1.06% or 64 points to close at 5,987 – a figure lowest since 7 June 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) continued to suffer the outrage of panic-driven selling pressure on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Investors started dumping equities right from the start of the trading session as the market outlook is still bleak and they are still worried about a number of macroeconomic headwinds, including the energy crisis brought on by gas shortages, inflationary pressure, and currency depreciation, wrote EBL Securities in its daily market commentary.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 16:45:51', '2022-07-25 16:45:51'),
(647, 647, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Authorities in Sylhet have decided to increase the duration of load-shedding to 10-13 hours daily in several areas in a bid to tackle the ongoing power crisis.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The government, amid the global energy crisis, had decided to carry out two hours of area-based load-shedding across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>On 18 July, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid announced that no load shedding will continue for more than an hour.</div><div><br></div><div>He had said that if the situation demands the duration of scheduled power outages will be increased to two hours.   </div><div><br></div><div>However, Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) Sales and Distribution Division-2 on Sunday published a new load-shedding schedule for Sylhet. </div><div><br></div><div>As per the latest development, many Sylhet areas are to remain in the dark for a staggering 13 hours daily. </div><div><br></div><div>BPDB provides electricity in Sylhet through five distribution points. New schedules have been issued for all of them with power cuts ranging from 10-13 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking with The Business Standard, Shams-e-Arefin, executive engineer of BPDB Sales and Distribution Division-2, said, \"We are not being able to supply as per the people\'s needs. Only 33% of the total demand was met on Sunday. </div><div><br></div><div>\"This is why we had to increase the duration of power outages. The people are suffering a great deal due to this.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"The updated schedules, which is a preliminary one, have been published to notify consumers in advance. Load-shedding durations may increase or fall depending on supply,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>When contacted, BPDB Sylhet Division Chief Engineer Abdul Qadir said, \"Not only the areas under the Sales and Distribution Division-2, in fact the whole of Sylhet is facing an acute electricity crisis. </div><div><br></div><div>\"Supply remains dry during day time due to the factories. The situation improves at night.\" </div><div><br></div><div>\"On Sunday afternoon, Sylhet district\'s power demand stood at 200MW but received a supply of just 90MW. This resulted in a disruption in the load-shedding schedules,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the villages in Sylhet are faring much worse than the cities. Rural consumers complained that they were getting power for only 4-5 hours a day.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 16:51:46', '2022-07-25 16:52:57'),
(648, 648, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Droupadi Murmu on Monday took oath as the 15th president of India. She was sworn in by Chief Justice NV Ramana.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Murmu is the first tribal woman to hold the post. The 64-year-old is from Odisha and has served as the governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>A National Democratic Alliance candidate, Murmu became the president after defeating the opposition’s pick, Yashwant Sinha, in the polls held on July 18. </div><div><br></div><div>The results were declared on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>After four rounds of polling, Murmu had received 2,824 votes of 676,803 value while Sinha got 1,877 votes or 380,177 value. She received 64.03% of the total valid votes polled.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Monday, Murmu, who arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, paid tribute to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi, at Raj Ghat.</div><div><br></div><div>Outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita Kovind extended their greetings to Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, reported ANI.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 17:42:10', '2022-07-25 17:42:33'),
(649, 649, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The migration cost of Saudi-bound Bangladeshi workers has gone up by at least Tk20,000 in recent months as their recruiting agencies are charging them the extra amount on the pretext of an uncalled-for expenditure on getting work visas issued by the embassy in Dhaka.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bangladeshi labour recruiting agents have alleged that they have to pay the embassy $220-$250 \"unofficially\" through middlemen against each application for work visa, otherwise the embassy does not issue visas.</div><div><br></div><div>The Saudi Embassy, however, has told The Business Standard that there are no fees or charges associated with applying for a visa at the embassy.</div><div><br></div><div>The recruiting agencies have also claimed that the secret payment has been going on for about a year.</div><div><br></div><div>To get a work visa issued, recruiting agencies have to pay the brokers in US dollars directly, they said, adding that this additional expenditure ultimately is passed on to the workers, pushing their migration cost which is already much higher than the official rate amid widespread illegal transactions to pay for work visas.</div><div><br></div><div>The government-fixed immigration cost to go to Saudi Arabia is Tk1.65 lakh, but a Saudi-bound worker has to spend Tk3.5-4 lakh for the purpose.</div><div><br></div><div><b>New addition to \'visa trading\'</b></div><div><br></div><div>\"Visa trading\" – the procurement of demand letters from employers by middlemen and their sales to recruiting agencies in source countries, such as Bangladesh – is illegal.</div><div><br></div><div>But the practice remains widespread, forcing jobseekers to cough up extra amounts of money as they prepare for work overseas.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, the extra payment of money to the embassy for issuing visas is a new addition to the existing illegal deals, say recruiters.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The Saudi Embassy did not issue a visa against any of the passports submitted by my agency in six months until this May,\" a recruiting agent wishing anonymity told TBS.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Since there was no other way, I started paying $220 against each passport through brokers. And, in the past three months, the embassy has issued about 200 visas against passports submitted by my agency,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked who the brokers are, he said they are not staff members of the Saudi Embassy. \"But it appears that the brokers have inside connections in the embassy. In particular, they may have contacts with some Bangalee officials there,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently, around 700 Bangladeshi recruiting agencies out of 1,500 registered ones are enlisted with the Saudi Embassy and can send workers to the Gulf country, according to the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira).</div><div><br></div><div>An agency is allowed to submit a maximum of 30 passports to the Saudi Embassy a week, but there is no cap on the number of passports of female workers.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If an agency has 400 demand letters to send workers in a month, it can legitimately submit a maximum of 120 passports at the Embassy,\" said a former leader of Baira on condition of anonymity, adding, \"Sometimes, the authorities return many of the submitted passports without mentioning any reason.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"However, more than 100 passports are being received at a time and visas are being issued against them too through the back door. As such, recruiting agencies are being forced to pay dollars [for obtaining visas],\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Tasneem Siddiqui, founding chair of the Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit (RMMRU), said, \"Paying money through brokers for getting visas is a new addition to visa trading. The Saudi Embassy should take action against this.\"</div><div><br></div><div><b>What Saudi Embassy says</b></div><div><br></div><div>TBS had written an email to the Saudi Embassy, asking for its statement on the allegations.</div><div><br></div><div>In response, the embassy, referring to Saudi Ambassador in Dhaka Issa bin Youssef Al-Dahilan, said, \"The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia would like to reassure that there are no fees or charges associated with applying for a visa at the Embassy. In this instance, referred to as Enjaj (an electronic application for the Saudi visa), the applicant is required to pay a nominal fee, and the payment is made online, not cash.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Some visa brokers, middleman, dalal, and agents might have taken extra money from visa applicants by exploiting the Embassy\'s name. Again, there is no direct way to conduct transactions with the Saudi Embassy.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the Saudi envoy at a press conference on 22 June this year at the embassy, said they had issued around 6 lakh visas thus far this year, all of which were work visas.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are also issuing business and tourist visas,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are struggling to cope with the huge pressure of visa applicants. Every day, 8,000-10,000 visas are issued. There is a plan to increase the daily visa issuance rate in the future,\" he mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>On 24 February this year, the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka issued 12,300 visas – an all-time high visa issuance in a single day so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Saudi Arabia, the largest destination of Bangladeshi workers, generated 63% of all overseas jobs for Bangladeshi migrant workers this year till June, according to the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>About 3.85 lakh Bangladeshis were employed in the Kingdom in the first six months of 2022, while the total foreign employment was about 6.14 lakh.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladeshis working in Saudi Arabia sent home around $8,955 million in the same period.</div><div><br></div><div>At present, around 23 lakh Bangladeshis are employed in various sectors in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2019, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia entered into an agreement to stop \"visa trading\" that heavily increases recruitment costs, and contributes to debt bondage and forced labour abroad, but there has been no visible progress yet in putting a stop to the illegal practice.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2016, an estimated $2.1 billion was laundered out of Bangladesh through illegal transactions to pay for work visas, which are officially supposed to be free of cost, in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Singapore, and Malaysia, according to Transparency International Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>In 90% of the cases, visas – which actually have no cost – are purchased illegally, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 19:48:07', '2022-07-25 19:48:07'),
(650, 650, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The number of Australians admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 hit a record of about 5,450 on Monday, official data showed, as the spread of highly contagious new Omicron sub-variants strains the healthcare system nationwide.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The figure has grown since late June, as the BA.4 and BA.5 strains became dominant since they can evade immune protection, whether from vaccination or prior infection, while some experts say the latter can be as infectious as measles.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The number of those in hospitals is the highest since the emergence of the coronavirus, exceeding January\'s high of 5,390 during the first wave of Omicron infections. Daily death tolls have also risen, topping 100 on Saturday for the first time.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 1,000 retirement homes have suffered outbreaks, the government said, as the elderly are largely affected.</div><div><br></div><div>With several aged care centres battling a shortage of staff, the support of defence personnel in such facilities is to be extended until the end of September, Defence Minister Richard Marles said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is an extreme measure and it\'s right to describe it as that,\" he told ABC television. \"Given the number of outbreaks that we\'ve got right now, this is the right thing to do.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Many frontline workers in hospitals are also sick or in isolation, worsening the healthcare crisis. read more</div><div><br></div><div>During a harsh winter with both COVID-19 and the flu virus circulating, authorities have recommended the use of masks indoors and urgent booster doses of vaccine, while telling businesses to allow work from home.</div><div><br></div><div>Australia, one of the countries most heavily vaccinated against COVID-19, has given two doses to about 95% of those older than 16, although just about 71% have had booster shots.</div><div><br></div><div>Still, its tally of about 9.13 million infections and 11,181 deaths was lower than many developed economies. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 19:52:30', '2022-07-25 19:52:30'),
(651, 651, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Recently, it feels as if every purchase serves as a reminder of inflation. Things that used to seem affordable have suddenly become unattainable or shocking as the cashier rings them up. If all this talk of inflation is confusing and overwhelming, you are far from alone.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>So, what exactly is inflation? The International Monetary Fund defines inflation as “the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time.” Inflation can be considered a broad determination of many goods and services or only specific ones at a time.1</div><div><br></div><div>In June, United States inflation reached a four-decade high at 9.1%, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food, gasoline, and shelter inflation rates were most pronounced. So, why is inflation occurring at such a rapid speed right now? According to Dr. Jaime Peters, the assistant dean and assistant professor of finance at Maryville University, there are a few related reasons, including:</div><div><br></div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains, and companies can charge a higher amount for their goods.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a labor shortage, which allows people to ask for a higher wage, and costs more to the company.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine has meant more countries competing for oil from the Middle East instead of buying from Russia.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Inflation’s Impact on Mental Health&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and worried when inflation increases faster than expected. According to Kara Nassour, a licensed professional counselor with her own private practice, inflation has two main effects on mental health: financial stress and uncertainty.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“It decreases the power of the money you have, which can increase stress around finances. Financial stress can create chronic anxiety, exhaustion, strained relationships with partners, and prevent a person from getting housing, education, or healthcare,” says Nassour. “Poverty itself can be traumatic.” These issues can be further exacerbated for single-parent families and others facing a significant drop in their standard of living.</div><div><br></div><div>Nassour adds that this stress around expenses couples with the mysterious nature many people feel around inflation. “Most people don’t know why it happens, how to stop it, or how fast it will rise,” she explains. “This makes it difficult to plan for the future or save money for future purchases like college or a home. In ‘hyperinflation,’ the value of money drops so quickly that people start withdrawing from their bank accounts and buying goods to sell later because they’re afraid their savings will become worthless. That leads to an increased sense of instability, anxiety, cynicism, and loss of trust in the government.”</div><div><br></div><div>According to Hazel Navarro, a licensed independent clinical social worker with her own private practice, people may experience physical or mental pain such as loss of sleep, low energy, irritability, headaches, and other muscle pains.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Financial stress can create chronic anxiety, exhaustion, strained relationships with partners, and prevent a person from getting housing, education, or healthcare,</div><div>— KARA NASSOUR, LPC</div><div><br></div><div>There is also the issue of this uncertainty and hopelessness coming on the heels of a similarly tumultuous and mentally and financially challenging time: the pandemic. As if that’s not enough, this period can also cause many people to flashback to the 2008 recession and begin to fear troubles will reach the same level.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On top of all that, people are getting priced out of therapy due to increasing rates or needing to spend money on other things. A recent study from Verywell Mind found that 48% of people would be unable to pay for therapy if the rate increases and 38% have required help from someone else to pay for their therapy. In fact, about one-third of people have reduced the frequency or stopped attending therapy sessions altogether due to finances.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>While seeking help for mental health is certainly as critical as physical health, it can often feel less urgent or be dismissed as a luxury expense—leaving people to deal on their own at an incredibly anxious time. Of course, when money is tight, people may not be able to afford either physical or mental health due to the exceptionally high healthcare costs in the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Navarro recommends checking if your insurance policy includes any in or out-of-network mental health providers, even if it’s a reimbursement of part of the rate you pay out of pocket.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Financially Savvy Tips</b></div><div><br></div><div>There is no ignoring the fact that inflation, especially when it occurs at a fast rate, can be quite detrimental to people’s standard of living and create a challenge for many people. With that said, some tips may help limit inflation’s negative impact on you.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>Budgeting</b></div><div><br></div><div>The first and likely most obvious tip is to create a budget. Peters recommends adjusting your budget every quarter due to the high inflation. In addition to the explicit reason to create a budget—saving money—it can significantly help your mental health.</div><div><br></div><div>“In the absence of a budget, your mind is likely to make more negative assumptions about where things are at,” says Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier, MBA, an award-winning work psychologist and expert in resilience and workplace mental health.</div><div><br></div><div>In the absence of a budget, your mind is likely to make more negative assumptions about where things are at.</div><div>— MARIE-HELENE PELLETIER, PHD, MBA, A PSYCHOLOGIST</div><div><br></div><div>Pelletier continues, “It is also possible that your mind is making unrealistically positive assumptions—but sort of knows they are not real. One way or the other, the budget will help you have clarity on the situation and provide a direction on next steps.”</div><div><br></div><div><b>Take Public Transportation When Possible</b></div><div><br></div><div>With gas prices soaring, Peters recommends walking, biking, or opting for the bus any chance you get.</div><div><br></div><div>For anyone who lives in an area where driving is required to get anywhere, consider planning what you need before heading out to avoid repeat trips, and try carpooling with people who live close to you.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>Look Into A Cost of Living Adjustment</b></div><div><br></div><div>As Peters explains, “If you have not gotten a good-sized raise recently, you are making less than you did a year ago. You need to let your employer know that you are in need of a raise.” Ask politely with precise data to back up the request.&nbsp; &nbsp;-verywellmind</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Lifestyle Desk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 19:59:23', '2022-07-25 20:01:16'),
(652, 652, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chattogram University on Monday suspended four students for their alleged involvement in sexually assaulting two female students of the university last year, officials said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Those suspended are Junayed of Arabic Department of the university, Rubel, Islamic History and Culture Department, Md Raju and Md Emon, of Philosophy Department of the university.</div><div><br></div><div>All of them were suspended for one year, said CU Registrar (Acting) SM Manirul Hasan while talking at a press briefing held at the conference room of the VC.</div><div><br></div><div>The university authorities also asked to resolve two more allegations received by Sexual Repression Cell.</div><div><br></div><div>Already three allegations received by Sexual Repression Cell were resolved and the authorities concerned also warned two more teachers of the university of the allegations brought against them, said Manirul.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 16, two students of Communication and Journalism Department were allegedly sexually assaulted in front of CU Central Mosque.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, another female student was sexually assaulted by five youths while she was going to the Botanical Garden from Pritilata Hall of the campus with his friend on July 17, this year.</div><div><br></div><div>Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained four people in connection with the alleged assault of a female student that sparked protests on the campus. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 20:34:19', '2022-07-25 20:34:19'),
(653, 653, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile east has summarily executed 29 civilians since mid-June in areas under their control, Human Rights Watch said today.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The M23 – or “March 23 Movement” – leapt to prominence when it briefly captured the eastern Congolese city of Goma in 2012 before being driven out in a joint UN-Congolese offensive.</div><div><br></div><div>After lying mostly dormant for years, the group resumed fighting last November. The rebels have since made significant advances in eastern Congo.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, M23 fighters captured the strategic town of Bunagana on the Congolese-Ugandan border.</div><div><br></div><div>“Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that on June 21, following fighting around the village of Ruvumu, M23 rebels summarily killed at least 17 civilians, including two teenagers, whom they accused of informing the Congolese army about their positions and hideouts,” HRW said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Some were shot dead as they attempted to flee, while others were executed at close range,” the rights monitor said.</div><div><br></div><div>The other deaths took place in subsequent attacks on the same village and in the hamlets of Ruseke and Kabindi, taking the death toll to 29, HRW said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Since the M23 took control of several towns and villages in North Kivu in June, they’ve committed the same kind of horrific abuses against civilians that we’ve documented in the past,” said HRW’s senior Congo researcher Thomas Fessy.</div><div><br></div><div>The DRC has repeatedly accused neighbouring Rwanda of backing the M23, a charge the small central African country has always denied.</div><div><br></div><div>HRW said there were “heightened concerns” that M23 “is receiving Rwandan support for its operations in North Kivu province”.</div><div><br></div><div>“Donor countries should suspend military assistance to governments found to be supporting the M23 and other abusive armed groups,” the New York-based body said.</div><div><br></div><div>HRW urged the UN, the African Union and DR Congo’s international donors to “support a clear strategy to address impunity for serious abuses.”</div><div><br></div><div>Such a strategy should include “a vetting mechanism for the security and intelligence services, an internationalised justice mechanism, and a comprehensive reparations programme, as well as an effective demobilisation programme,” it added. Source: AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 20:46:45', '2022-07-25 20:46:45'),
(654, 654, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit Japan this year as the two countries want to further strengthen the relations.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Our Prime Minister has been invited. It will be a priority visit,\" State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam told reporters on Sunday after his meeting with parliamentary vice-minister for foreign affairs of Japan Honda Taro.</div><div><br></div><div>The State Minister said the visit will take place at a time convenient to the both sides.</div><div><br></div><div>He termed the relations between Bangladesh and Japan very deep and comprehensive.</div><div><br></div><div>The two sides discussed ways to strengthen political and economic relations with continued support from Japan to Bangladesh in the post-LDC era.</div><div><br></div><div>They also discussed ways to expedite Rohingya repatriation efforts apart from cooperating towards mega projects.</div><div><br></div><div>The Japanese parliamentary vice-minister termed his meetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen fruitful and meaningful.</div><div><br></div><div>They also discussed issues related to cooperation in international fora, including the United Nations. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 20:54:26', '2022-07-25 20:54:26'),
(655, 655, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Actors Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal received death threat from an unidentified man through social media, the Mumbai police said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The police said they have registered a case at Mumbai\'s Santacruz police station and an investigation has been initiated.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the police, the actors were receiving threats on Instagram and the accused was also stalking Katrina Kaif and threatening her.</div><div><br></div><div>Based on the complaint, the Santacruz police here have registered an FIR against the unidentified person under Indian Penal Code Sections 506-II (criminal intimidation) and 354-D (stalking), the official said, adding that no arrest has been made so far.</div><div><br></div><div>The police have also registered a case under the IT Act. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 21:04:14', '2022-07-25 21:04:14'),
(656, 656, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The European Commission has approved a smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, the Danish drugmaker that developed the jab said on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The European Commission has extended the marketing authorisation for the company\'s smallpox vaccine, Imvanex, to include protection from monkeypox\" in line with a recommendation by the EU\'s medicines watchdog, Bavarian Nordic said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The approval... is valid in all European Union Member States as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.\"</div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday, the WHO declared the monkeypox outbreak, which has affected nearly 16,000 people in 72 countries, to be a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound.</div><div><br></div><div>Imvanex has been approved in the EU since 2013 for the prevention of smallpox.</div><div><br></div><div>It was also considered a potential vaccine for monkeypox because of the similarity between the monkeypox virus and the smallpox virus.</div><div><br></div><div>Monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 22:08:00', '2022-07-25 22:08:00'),
(657, 657, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Fishermen in Barguna have been delighted after netting huge quantity of hilsa after a 65-day ban imposed by the government ended on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Huge hilsa netted from the Bay of Bengal and different rivers have flooded the wholesale fish market of the district.</div><div><br></div><div>On the first day after the ban lifted, the fishermen of Patharghata coast went to rivers and the sea for netting hilsa and brought those to the market as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Joy spread among the trawler owners, traders and fishermen as the fishing trawlers arrived at the Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC)ghat with a load of fish.</div><div><br></div><div>During a visit the UNB correspondent found around 20 to 25 fishing trawlers are anchored at Patharghata fish landing centre and workers are picking up fish from the trawlers.</div><div><br></div><div>Golam Mostafa Chowdhury, president of the District Fishing Trawler Owners’ Association, said at least 25 fishing trawlers came to the ghat on the first day and the fishermen are getting good prices.</div><div><br></div><div>Biplab Kumar Sarkar, marketing officer of BFDC, said that a total of 11,869 kg of fish, including 7,780 kg of hilsa, were sold at Tk 67.56 lakh at&nbsp; the BFDC fish market on the first day. Out of this, the government received a revenue of Tk 84,460. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 22:24:44', '2022-07-25 22:24:44'),
(658, 658, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Marking World Drowning Prevention Day, WHO and UNICEF on Monday called on the governments, development partners, communities and individuals each to do their part to raise awareness and work to prevent the untimely deaths of thousands of children across the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Each year, over 14,000 children in Bangladesh die from drowning.</div><div><br></div><div>Although largely unrecognised, drowning is the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five in the country, making it a major public health problem.</div><div><br></div><div>“It is heart-breaking that so many lives are lost each year in this country. We know that these deaths are preventable. We urge individuals, communities and the government to join us in raising awareness and doing all we can to ensure every child’s right to survive and thrive,” said Sheldon Yett, UNICEF Representative to Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Globally, drowning claims the lives of over 230,000 people every year.</div><div><br></div><div>Nine in ten drowning cases occur in low- and middle-income countries, with children under the age of five being at the highest risk.</div><div><br></div><div>In Bangladesh, where large areas of land remain submerged due to yearly floods, the absence of awareness and swimming skills can prove to be life-threatening.</div><div><br></div><div>Children in rural areas who grow up near bodies of water are also exposed to the risk of drowning daily.</div><div><br></div><div>Drowning is a significant public health concern and the third leading cause of unintentional death worldwide. Drowning is one of the leading causes of death among children in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>WHO recommends strategies and interventions to prevent drowning and continues to promote a multisectoral approach. By enhancing multisectoral collaboration, promoting strong leadership on drowning prevention, and implementing necessary actions, we can prevent the tragedy of drowning and achieve a safer, healthier future for all,” said Dr. Bardan Jung Rana, WHO Representative to Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Evidence shows that drowning is preventable through low-cost solutions. Increased awareness among families and communities, providing safety and swimming skills for children and adolescents, ensuring childcare facilities for pre-school children, and national policies and investments for prevention can make a significant difference.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2021, the United Nations General Assembly declared July 25 as World Drowning Prevention Day to acknowledge drowning as a leading cause of death around the world and highlight that every drowning death is preventable.</div><div><br></div><div>WHO and UNICEF have been working with Government and non-government partners around the country to increase awareness on drowning prevention and provide children and adolescents with safe swimming skills. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 23:19:20', '2022-07-25 23:19:20'),
(659, 659, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Although the government resorted to some austerity measures to save electricity amid the ongoing energy crisis,&nbsp; a large number of battery-operated rickshaws continue to run across the country causing shortage of electricity.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Power Development Board (PDB) authorities in the district have identified some reasons for the rampant load shedding that’s crippling peoples’ lives in the district, among which battery-operated rickshaws have found a top spot.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Thakurgaon municipality, although the number of registered battery-run rickshaws in the municipality is 2,400, in reality around 4,000 such rickshaws are plying the streets.</div><div><br></div><div>These vehicles are consuming 330,00 units of electricity on average per day and&nbsp; 9,90,000 units of electricity per month, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>A household consumes around 300 units of electricity per month, which means that a total of 3,300 families can use this amount of electricity that is used for charging battery-run rickshaws.</div><div><br></div><div>Owners of charger stations in Thakurgaon municipality said that they take Tk 80 to Tk 100 for charging battery of the rickshaws. Besides, driver of a battery-powered rickshaw has to give Tk 300 to its owner per day.</div><div><br></div><div>“A fully charged battery-run rickshaw can travel 200 kilometers. Sometimes charge diminishes within afternoon for plying longer distances. A driver of such rickshaws earns Tk 700 to Tk 800 per day,” said Md Kalam, an easybike driver, of the district.</div><div><br></div><div>Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, Executive Engineer of Thakurgaon Power Development Board (PDB), said that there are separate electricity rates for charging stations.</div><div><br></div><div>“Flat rate for charging battery-powered rickshaws is Tk 7.64, while off peak rate is Tk 6.88 and peak rate is Tk 9.55. Those who use double tariff meters pay their bills as per peak and off peak rates, while those with single tariff meters pay their bills in flat rate,” Mamunur said.</div><div><br></div><div>Following a high-level meeting at the prime minister\'s office on July18,&nbsp; Prime Minister\'s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Choedhury announced the Bangladesh government\'s plan to resort to two hours of power cuts daily in each zone to tackle the energy crisis affecting electricity generation in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Later in the day, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid apprised reporters of the revised decision of one hour of load shedding daily.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the government\'s decision, different power distribution entities – Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited and Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited – published their area-wise outage plans.</div><div><br></div><div>The government also announced a slew of measures for saving electricity, including the closure of shopping malls and markets by 8pm and the restricted use of air-conditioners. Plans are afoot to limit office hours and keep fuel outlets closed one day every week. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-25 23:37:06', '2022-07-25 23:37:06'),
(660, 660, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Economists have expressed concern just after Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves slipped below $40 billion, even though that should be capable of meeting six months import payments, based on imports for the immediate past fiscal.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Such concern was not seen 12 years ago, when Bangladesh’s forex reserves were only $10.60 billion in the FY2010 (2009-10 fiscal).</div><div><br></div><div>That is roughly the same level, since imports back then were also lower, at around $23 billion, meaning the reserve was enough to cover 4-5 months.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>What is worrying now is a surge in imports driven by both demand for raw materials by export-oriented industries and growing consumption among the domestic consumers.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>That, allied to an energy crisis caused by both domestic and international factors, is causing significant downward pressure on the forex reserve. Bangladeshis were used to hearing about the reserve rising gradually, reaching a peak of $48 billion a year ago.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>But now, these two factors have combined to bring the reserve down quite rapidly below $40 billion, and it is likely even lower, given that exporters have started defaulting on dollar loans taken out of the Export Development Fund, which is funded out of the reserve.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Many economists now believe that foreign exchange reserves in Bangladesh have gone to dangerous levels.</div><div><br></div><div>They say, now that the reserves have fallen below $40 billion dollars, it is not possible to cover more than three months of import expenses.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking with UNB, Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya of CPD said how much in foreign exchange reserve is secure for a country depends on the price of energy and commodities in the global markets, dollars required in a month to meet import payments, and whether the demand for import will go up in the coming months or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Though the Bangladesh Bank (BB) is showing forex reserves near $40 billion, unencumbered reserves is actually around $31 or $32 billion after excluding dollar support to the export sector (the Export Development Fund is worth $7 billion), he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Debapriya said the government is taking the right measures to face the situation, but it is not enough considering the global and domestic situation.</div><div><br></div><div>He suggested taking a loan of $1.5 or $2 billion from the IMF as a cautionary step to avert any worsening situation.</div><div><br></div><div>Debapriya also pointed out that the current situation (depreciation of taka) would create some opportunities to boost exports and encourage expatriates to send remittances.</div><div><br></div><div>But the overall macroeconomic stability has undoubtedly weakened. There is a danger of slowing down the ongoing development activities in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the government does not consider the situation to be critical yet. To reduce the pressure on reserves, several cost-effective measures, including load shedding in the power sector, have been taken so that the cost of fuel imports can be kept under control.</div><div><br></div><div>The central bank is also dismissing economists\' concerns about current forex reserves.</div><div><br></div><div>Md Serajul Islam, executive director and spokesperson of BB, said that if the reserves are enough meet the import expenses for three months, there is no danger.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The reserves we have now will cover more than three months of import expenses. Now we have increased the import duty on all luxury goods. Hopefully, we will reap the benefits,\" he added.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh’s import expenses grew to $80 billion in the immediate past fiscal, but even then, $40 billion should be enough to meet the Bangladesh Bank benchmark of 3 months, and possibly up to six months (half a year).</div><div><br></div><div>The inward remittance flow also slipped to $21 billion in FY 22 from $24.77 billion in FY 21.</div><div><br></div><div>The real concern stems from the fact that there are now issues beyond the government’s control at play. With gas reserves dwindling fast, Bangladesh has suddenly become highly dependent on energy imports, and their prices have been rising to record levels in the international market, with a pandemic-ending rally exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh was forced to sit out two rounds of purchasing LNG on the international market recently due to exceptionally high price, and that directly led to the country’s energy crisis, as production of gas from the country’s own gasfields is nowhere near enough these days to meet demand. That led to the return of load shedding.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>There is also the issue of export income not being fully repatriated to the country. Besides, the garment sector also imports 60 percent of its export volume.</div><div><br></div><div>In the face of all this, the government’s steps to cut imports of luxury goods is also a step in the right direction. But whether they will be enough, only time will tell. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 00:40:29', '2022-07-26 00:40:29'),
(661, 661, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The High Court on Monday fixed August 11 for the final hearing on the appeal to scrap the case filed against Nobel Laureate and Chairman of Grameen Communications Dr Muhammad Yunus over violation of the Labour Law.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The HC bench of Justice SM Quddus Zaman and Justice KM Zahid Sarwar Kajol passed the order.</div><div><br></div><div>Lawyer Md Khurshid Alam Khan represented the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments while lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun stood for Prof Yunus.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 13, the Appellate Division stayed the trial proceedings of the case for two months.</div><div><br></div><div>The SC also ordered the HC bench led by Justice SM Kuddus Zaman to dispose of the rule seeking explanation as to why the case against Prof Yunus should not be cancelled, said Attorney General AM Amin Uddin.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 7, the Appellate Division ordered disposal of the rule within two months.</div><div><br></div><div>On September 9 last year, Labour Inspector Arifuzzaman of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments, filed the case with Dhaka third labour court.</div><div><br></div><div>Other accused in the case are- Ashraful Hasan, Managing Director of Grameen Telecom, its director Nurzahan Begum and Shahjahan.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case, in an inspection visit to Grameen Telecom inspectors of the department found that 101 workers and staff who were supposed to be permanent were not made so.</div><div><br></div><div>No participation fund and welfare fund was formed for them and five per cent of the company’s profit was not provided to the workers following the law.</div><div><br></div><div>Upon the complaint a criminal case was filed under section 4, 7, 8, 117, 234 of the Labour Act.</div><div><br></div><div>On October 12, the labour court granted bail to the all four accused.</div><div><br></div><div>Later on December 7, Prof Yunus filed a petition with the High Court seeking cancellation of the case.</div><div><br></div><div>On December 12, HC stayed the procedure of a case for six months.</div><div><br></div><div>The court also issued a rule asking the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments why the case will not be set aside. The court asked secretaries of the ministry of law, ministry of labour and employment and others involved to respond to the rule. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 00:46:56', '2022-07-26 00:46:56');
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(662, 662, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Lionel Messi and Neymar combined to devastating effect as Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Gamba Osaka 6-2 on Monday to finish their pre-season Japan tour with three wins out of three.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The star forwards both played the opening 70 minutes in Osaka and Neymar scored a first-half penalty before setting up a goal for Messi.</div><div><br></div><div>Messi then returned the favour in the second half, releasing Neymar for the Brazilian to notch his second goal of the game.</div><div><br></div><div>Kylian Mbappe got his name on the scoresheet with a late penalty after coming on for the final 30 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>Pablo Sarabia and Nuno Mendes also scored for PSG, who now head to Israel to play Nantes in the French Super Cup in Tel Aviv on July 31.</div><div><br></div><div>Gamba goalkeeper Masaaki Higashiguchi frustrated PSG\'s stars early in the game, first denying Messi and then keeping out Neymar with the Brazilian clean through on goal.</div><div><br></div><div>The French champions found a way through in the 28th minute after a defensive mistake gave the ball to Messi, whose saved shot fell nicely for Sarabia to slam home.</div><div><br></div><div>Neymar made it two just minutes later, rolling his penalty to the goalkeeper\'s left after the Brazilian forward had been brought down in the box.</div><div><br></div><div>Gamba hit straight back when Keisuke Kurokawa bundled the ball home after Gianluigi Donnarumma had initially kept out the Japanese side with a sharp reflex save.</div><div><br></div><div>Mendes restored PSG\'s cushion after controlling a pass from Vitinha and smashing the ball past the goalkeeper.</div><div><br></div><div>Messi made it four after Neymar picked him out in the box to turn the ball home.</div><div><br></div><div>Neymar scored his second in the 60th minute but Gamba kept PSG on their toes, Hiroto Yamami turning the ball home in the 70th minute.</div><div><br></div><div>Mbappe added the final touch for PSG with a penalty in the 86th minute. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 01:45:31', '2022-07-26 01:45:31'),
(663, 663, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The recent devastating floods ravaging the country’s north and northeastern regions caused damages worth over Tk 86811.65 crore, said State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md. Enamur Rahman on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The flooding was triggered by torrential rains from second week of May in the north and eastern region, said the minister. Heavy rainfall in the bordering Indian states of Meghalaya and Assam and onrush of uphill waters aggravated the flood situation, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Enamur was talking to reporters following a meeting of an inter-ministerial disaster management coordination committee’&nbsp; at the Secretariat.</div><div><br></div><div>“The water level of Surma was flowing above its danger mark from May 13 due to the torrential rains and onrush of hilly water from the upstream, causing flood in Sylhet, Sunamganj and other adjacent areas which spread to 18 districts of the country,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The damages include crops worth over Tk 1258,53 crore (full)&nbsp; and of Tk 55957.21 crore (partial), he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, houses worth Tk 368.84 crore have been damaged fully while partially damaged houses worth over Tk 1355.03 crore, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The damages to bridges, culverts, paved and dirt roads, schools, colleges and madrashas, mosques, temples and embankments have been estimated at Tk 86811.65 crore, said the minister.</div><div><br></div><div>The government has allocated 7.20 thousand metric tonnes of rice, Tk 09.44 crore in cash, 1.40 lakh for dry foods, Tk 40 lakh for baby food, Tk 40 lakh for fodder,&nbsp; Tk 2.61 crore for houses and 8,7000 bundles of corrugated iron-sheets for building houses from April 1 to July 21, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The death toll from the&nbsp; floods in the country rose to 129 in the past 24 hours till Monday morning. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 01:48:36', '2022-07-26 01:48:36'),
(664, 664, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the authorities concerned to avoid the procurement of less important items in order to reduce the cost of government amid the current global crisis.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The procurement of the items, which are not immediately essential, will remain stopped now,\" she said while chairing the Cabinet meeting through a virtual platform from her official residence Ganobhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier directed that A-category projects would be implemented immediately and the full allocation of those projects can be spent.</div><div><br></div><div>In case of B-category projects, up to 75% costs can be spent. Meanwhile, the implementation of C-category projects will remain suspended.</div><div><br></div><div>Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam briefed reporters after the meeting detailing PM\'s directives on several issues including the collision of Biman aircraft, project costs, and the use of cars by officials.</div><div><br></div><div>Khandker Islam said all the projects have already been categorized into A, B and C.</div><div><br></div><div>The Cabinet secretary said if any ministry feels that any project needs to be re-categorised, then they will discuss with the finance ministry and decide.</div><div><br></div><div>He said there is still scope for overseas tours by the government officials under foreign aid and procurement matters. But other overseas visits are restricted.</div><div><br></div><div>Citing an example, he said no official can go abroad on a study tour spending the government\'s money.</div><div><br></div><div>At the meeting, the prime minister also put emphasis on raising the crops production and careful use of energy.</div><div><br></div><div>She asked all to exercise austerity in the use of energy and ensure proper use of transport vehicles – both public and private cars, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, about Biman, Sheikh Hasina instructed to specify further the responsibilities of its staff and make all on-duty staff accountable, finding the responsible ones soon in case of any accident.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 01:55:28', '2022-07-26 01:55:28'),
(665, 665, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia said it will cut gas supplies to Europe from Wednesday in a blow to countries that have supported Ukraine, just as there were hopes that economic pressures could ease after Russia agreed to let Ukraine export grain from Black Sea ports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The first ships from Ukraine may set sail in days under a deal agreed on Friday, the United Nations said, despite a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian port of Odesa over the weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>Soaring energy costs and the threat of hunger faced by millions in poorer nations show how the biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two, now in its sixth month, is having an impact far beyond Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported Russian cruise missile strikes in the south, and that Ukrainian forces had hit enemy targets. Russia\'s defense ministry did not immediately reply to an out-of-hours request for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>President Vladimir Putin warned the West earlier this month that sanctions risked triggering huge global energy price rises.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian energy giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM), citing instructions from an industry watchdog, on Monday said gas flows to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would fall to 33 million cubic metres per day from Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>That is half of the current flows, which are already only 40% of normal capacity. Prior to the war, Europe imported about 40% of its gas and 30% of its oil from Russia. read more</div><div><br></div><div>The Kremlin says the gas disruption is the result of maintenance issues and Western sanctions, while the European Union has accused Russia of energy blackmail.</div><div><br></div><div>Germany said it saw no technical reason for the latest reduction.</div><div><br></div><div>Adding to concerns on the energy front, the Ukrainian state pipeline operator company said Russian gas giant Gazprom without prior notice has increased pressure sharply in a pipeline that runs through Ukraine to deliver Russian gas to Europe. read more</div><div><br></div><div>Such pressure spikes could lead to emergencies including pipeline ruptures, and pipeline operators are obliged to inform each other about them in advance, the Ukrainian company said. Gazprom could not be immediately reached for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Gazprom had estimated that it supplied 41.7 million cubic metres (mcm) through that pipeline on Monday versus 41.2 mcm a day earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that the Kremlin was waging an \"open gas war\" against Europe.</div><div><br></div><div>Politicians in Europe have repeatedly said Russia could cut off gas this winter, a step that would thrust Germany into recession and hurt consumers already hit by soaring inflation.</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow says it is not interested in a complete stoppage of gas supplies to Europe.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Grain ships</b></div><div><br></div><div>Before the invasion and subsequent sanctions, Russia and Ukraine accounted for nearly a third of global wheat exports.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Nations agreed on Friday there would be no attacks on merchant ships moving through the Black Sea to Turkey\'s Bosphorus Strait and on to markets. read more</div><div><br></div><div>Moscow brushed aside concerns the deal could be derailed by a Russian attack on Odesa on Saturday, saying it targeted only military infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>The White House said the strike cast doubt on Russia’s credibility and was watching closely to see if commitments would be fulfilled.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We will also continue to actively explore other options with the international community to increase Ukraine exports through overland routes,\" it said.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia\'s Black Sea fleet has blocked grain exports from Ukraine since Moscow\'s Feb. 24 invasion. Moscow blames Western sanctions for slowing its food and fertiliser exports and Ukraine for mining the approaches to its ports.</div><div><br></div><div>Under Friday\'s deal, pilots will guide ships along safe channels through the naval minefields.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A Ukrainian government official said he hoped the first grain shipment could be made from Chornomorsk this week, with shipments from other ports within two weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Zelenskiy was adamant that trade would resume: \"We will start exporting, and let the partners take care of security,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on a tour of African countries, said there were no barriers to the export of grain and nothing in the deal prevented Moscow from attacking military infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>The Kremlin also said the United Nations must ensure curbs on Russian fertiliser and other exports were lifted for the grain deal to work.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Air strikes</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Kremlin says it is engaged in a \"special military operation\" to demilitarise and \"denazify\" Ukraine. Both Kyiv and Western nations say the war is an unprovoked act of aggression.</div><div><br></div><div>Thousands of civilians have died and millions have fled during the war. Russian artillery barrages and air strikes have pulverised cities.</div><div><br></div><div>With Western weapons boosting the Ukrainians, Putin\'s forces are making slow progress but they are believed to be readying for a new push in the east.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine said on Monday its forces had used U.S-supplied HIMARS rocket systems to destroy 50 Russian ammunition depots since receiving the weapons last month.</div><div><br></div><div>Russia did not comment but its Defence Ministry said its forces had destroyed an ammunition depot for HIMARS systems. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 15:46:58', '2022-07-26 15:46:58'),
(666, 666, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a policy speech before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second term.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Trump will address the America First Policy Institute’s two-day America First Agenda Summit as some advisers urge him to spend more time talking about his vision for the future and less time relitigating the 2020 election as he prepares to announce an expected 2024 White House campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>“I believe it will be a very policy-focused, forward-leaning speech, very much like a State of the Union 5.0,” said Brooke Rollins, AFPI’s president. Composed of former Trump administration officials and allies, the nonprofit is widely seen as an “administration in waiting” that could quickly move to the West Wing if Trump were to run again and win.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump’s appearance in Washington — his first trip back since Jan. 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden was sworn into office — comes as his potential 2024 rivals have been taking increasingly overt steps to challenge his status as the party’s standard-bearer. They include former Vice President Mike Pence, who has been touting his own “Freedom Agenda” in speeches that serve as an implicit contrast with Trump.</div><div><br></div><div>“Some people may choose to focus on the past, but I believe conservatives must focus on the future. If we do, we won’t just win the next election, we will change the course of American history for generations,” Pence had planned to say in a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on the eve of Trump’s visit. Pence’s appearance was postponed because of bad weather, but he will be delivering his own speech Tuesday morning before the Young America’s Foundation not far from the AFPI meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump has spent much of his time since leaving office fixated on the 2020 election and spreading lies about his loss to sow doubt about Biden’s victory. Indeed, even as the Jan. 6 committee was laying bare his desperate and potentially illegal attempts to remain in power and his refusal to call off a violent mob of his supporters as they tried to halt the peaceful transition of power, Trump continued to try to pressure officials to overturn Biden’s win, despite there being no legal means to decertify the past election.</div><div><br></div><div>On Tuesday, he plans to focus on public safety.</div><div><br></div><div>“President Trump sees a nation in decline that is driven, in part, by rising crime and communities becoming less safe under Democrat policies,” said his spokesman, Taylor Budowich. “His remarks will highlight the policy failures of Democrats, while laying out an America First vision for public safety that will surely be a defining issue during the midterms and beyond.”</div><div><br></div><div>Beyond the summit, staff at the America First Policy Institute have been laying their own groundwork for the future, “making sure we do have the policies, personnel and process nailed down for every key agency when we do take the White House back,” Rollins said.</div><div><br></div><div>The nonprofit developed, she said, from efforts to avoid the chaotic early days of Trump’s first term, when he arrived at the White House unprepared, with no clear plans ready to put in place. As Trump was running for reelection, Rollins, then the head of Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, began to sketch out a second-term agenda with fellow administration officials, including top economic policy adviser Larry Kudlow and national security adviser Robert O’Brien.</div><div><br></div><div>When it became clear Trump would be leaving the White House, she said, AFPI was created to continue that work ”organized around that second term agenda that we never released.”</div><div><br></div><div>The organization, once dismissed as a landing zone for ex-Trump administration officials shut out of more lucrative jobs, has grown into a behemoth, with an operating budget of around $25 million and 150 staff, including 17 former senior White Houses officials and nine former Cabinet members.</div><div><br></div><div>The group also has more than 20 policy centers and has tried to extend its reach beyond Washington with efforts to influence local legislatures and school boards. An “American leadership initiative,” led by the former head of the Office of Personnel Management, Michael Rigas, launched several weeks ago to identify future staff loyal to Trump and his “America First” approach who could be hired as part of a larger effort to replace large swaths of the civil service, as Axios recently reported.</div><div><br></div><div>The group is one of several Trump-allied organizations that have continued to push his polices in his absence, including America First Legal, dedicated to fighting Biden’s agenda through the court system, the Center for Renewing America and the Conservative Partnership Institute.</div><div><br></div><div>The summit is intended to highlight AFPI’s “America First Agenda,” centered around 10 key policy areas including the economy, health care and election security. It includes many of Trump’s signature issues, like continuing to build a wall along the southern border and a plan to “dismantle the administrative state.”</div><div><br></div><div>In a speech Monday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose “Contract with America” has been credited with helping Republicans sweep the 1994 midterm elections, praised the effort as key to future GOP victory.</div><div><br></div><div>“The American people want solutions,” he said. -AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 15:51:02', '2022-07-26 15:51:02'),
(667, 667, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Even though businesses recovered from Covid-19 fallouts in the fiscal 2021-22 and revenue grew 14% year-on-year, VAT collection from 34 large sectors saw a growth of only over 6%.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>VAT collection from 13 of these sectors, in fact, fell by 1%-90% year-on-year, while the mobile, banking and cosmetic sectors saw only less than 1% rise.</div><div><br></div><div>Different sources pinned the blame on the policies of VAT exemptions for a few top contributors, evasion, unequal treatment in imposing it and a lack of capacity that caused the expected growth in VAT collection from large taxpayer units (LTUs) to stumble in FY22.</div><div><br></div><div>The NBR\'s VAT collection target from LTUs fell short a whopping Tk12,000 crore in FY22 against a target of Tk64,000 crore.</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, top VAT-paying sectors, such as cement, soap, and insurance registered a negative growth when it comes to their contribution to VAT mobilisation.</div><div><br></div><div>Seeking anonymity, an official at the LTU-VAT told The Business Standard, \"We are now trying to assess the reason behind a lower-than-expected VAT collection from large taxpayers.\"</div><div><br></div><div>There are some valid reasons for lower collection from some sectors, but they cannot find any logic behind a negative growth in cement and some other sectors, he noted.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We are collecting audit data and other documents from low VAT payers and analysing those,\" he pointed out.</div><div><br></div><div>In FY22, the NBR collected over Tk1,00,000 crore in the form of VAT, while the contribution from large taxpayer units stood at Tk52,433 crore. The mobilisation from three tobacco companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT) Bangladesh, amounted to around Tk28,000 crore with a 3% growth, according to the LTU-VAT.</div><div><br></div><div>Tobacco industry insiders say not playing a balanced role in pricing tobacco products is one of the reasons for a poor VAT collection from this sector&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Shabab Ahmed, head of External Affairs of BAT Bangladesh, told The Business Standard that around 75% of the cigarette market is occupied by low-priced segments that saw no hike in prices in the last three years.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>So, mobilisation of VAT from the tobacco sector is not yet up to the mark, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>With only a Tk1 rise in lower segments in the current fiscal year, he thinks that the situation will remain the same this year as well.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Muhammad Abdul Mazid, former NBR chairman, told TBS that large companies might be avoiding VAT through different ways that the NBR cannot detect owing to a lack of capacity.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>However, Dr Ahsan H Mansur, executive director at Policy Research Institute said businesses could not fully make a turnaround from the pandemic-induced losses in FY22 because of an economic slowdown to some extent, which led to a lower growth in VAT collection from large companies.</div><div><br></div><div>Commenting on the poor collection from the banking sector, he said banks are now going through a bad patch with a slump in profitability.</div><div><br></div><div>In FY22, the VAT collection from telecom operators stood at less than 1% year-on-year.</div><div><br></div><div>Shahed Alam, chief corporate and regulatory officer at Robi Axiata Ltd said currently, the unique mobile connection penetration stands at 55%, which has remained stagnant for several years. One of the key reasons for the situation is the low adoption of smartphones, still under 50%, by low income people.</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, average revenue per connection of the industry has remained flat for the last three years, having a clear reflection in the government\'s VAT and tax collection from the industry.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He, however, hoped that the revenue collection from the sector will see a positive surge in near future through conducive changes in regulatory environment, rollout of new technologies and initiatives to bring the unconnected people under the connectivity umbrella.</div><div><br></div><div>VAT collection from two edible oil companies – TK Group\'s Shabnam Vegetable Oil Industries Ltd and Bangladesh Edible Oil Limited – drastically fell by around 90% because they have been exempted from VAT payments in the face of the volatile oil market.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the overall collection from nine cement companies stood at Tk386 crore with a 8% year-on-year drop.</div><div><br></div><div>Md Shahidullah, first vice-president of Bangladesh Cement Manufacturers Association, told TBS that soaring prices of cement have led to a slump in cement sales. That is why VAT collection from this sector dropped as well in the last fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 16:10:17', '2022-07-26 16:10:17'),
(668, 668, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Myanmar\'s ruling military announced on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of aiding \"terror acts\", sparking widespread condemnation of the country\'s first executions in decades.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sentenced to death in secretive trials in January and April, the men were accused of helping a civilian resistance movement that has fought the military since last year\'s coup and bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.</div><div><br></div><div>Among those executed were democracy campaigner Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Jimmy, and former lawmaker and hip-hop artist Phyo Zeya Thaw, an ally of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The two others executed were Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw.</div><div><br></div><div>State media said \"the punishment has been conducted\", but did not say when, or by what method. Previous executions in Myanmar have been by hanging.</div><div><br></div><div>The shadow National Unity Government (NUG), which is leading efforts to undermine the junta\'s attempts to rule Myanmar, said it was time for an international response.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The global community must punish their cruelty,\" said Kyaw Zaw, a spokesperson for the NUG president\'s office.</div><div><br></div><div>Myanmar has been in chaos since the Feb 1, 2021 coup, with the military, which has ruled the former British colony for five of the past six decades, engaged in battles on multiple fronts with newly formed militia groups.</div><div><br></div><div>United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called the executions a \"cruel and regressive step.\"</div><div><br></div><div>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the executions and called again for the release of all arbitrarily detained prisoners, including Suu Kyi.</div><div><br></div><div>In a joint statement, the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Britain and the United States described the executions as \"reprehensible acts of violence that further exemplify the regime\'s disregard for human rights and the rule of law.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Amnesty International\'s death penalty adviser, Chiara Sangiorgio, said the executions were \"an enormous setback\" and that the junta is \"not going to stop there.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Human Rights Watch acting Asia director Elaine Pearson said it was \"an act of utter cruelty\" that \"aims to chill the anti-coup protest movement.\"</div><div><br></div><div>One video showed several masked protesters chanting and carrying a large banner down on a street in Yangon that read \"We will never be frightened\" before turning to run.</div><div><br></div><div><b>\'Hiding bodies away\'</b></div><div><br></div><div>The executions were the first carried out among some 117 death sentences handed down by military-run courts since the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which has been tracking arrests, killings and court verdicts in Myanmar.</div><div><br></div><div>Families of the executed men were denied the opportunity to retrieve their loved ones\' bodies, said Thazin Nyunt Aung, wife of Phyo Zeyar Thaw, comparing it to murderers covering up their crimes.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This is killing and hiding bodies away,\" she told Reuters. \"They disrespected both Myanmar people and the international community.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Nilar Thein, wife of Kyaw Min Yu, said she would hold no funeral without a body.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We all have to be brave, determined and strong,\" she posted on Facebook.</div><div><br></div><div>The men were held in Yangon\'s Insein prison, where families visited last Friday, according to a person with knowledge of the events, who said prison officials allowed only one relative to speak to the detainees via video call.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I asked then \'why didn\'t you tell me or my son that it was our last meeting?\'\" Khin Win May, the mother of Phyo Zeyar Thaw, told BBC Burmese.</div><div><br></div><div>The junta made no mention of the executions on its nightly television news bulletin on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Its spokesperson last month defended the death sentences as justified, and used in many countries.</div><div><br></div><div><b>\'Henious execution\'</b></div><div><br></div><div>The White House condemned the \"heinous execution of pro-democracy activists and elected leaders.\" US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Washington was considering further measures in response to the junta, adding that \"all options\" were on the table, when asked specifically on potential sanctions on the country\'s gas sector.</div><div><br></div><div>Price urged countries to ban sales of military equipment to Myanmar, not do anything that could lend the junta any international credibility.</div><div><br></div><div>US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez in a statement urged President Joe Biden to impose sanctions on Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, among others.</div><div><br></div><div>Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who has long had close ties to Suu Kyi, called on Myanmar\'s neighbours to respond. \"If they will not step up and impose meaningful costs on the junta the Biden administration should use authorities already given to it by Congress to sanction Burma\'s energy sector,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), last month sent a letter of appeal to junta chief Min Aung Hlaing not to carry out the executions, relaying deep concern among Myanmar\'s neighbours.</div><div><br></div><div>France condemned the executions and called for dialogue among all parties.</div><div><br></div><div>China\'s foreign ministry urged all parties in Myanmar to properly resolve conflicts within its constitutional framework.</div><div><br></div><div>Others called for swift sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>The UN Security Council should \"pass a strong resolution of not only condemnation, but clear strategic action, sanctions, economic sanctions and arms embargo,\" UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Tom Andrews told Reuters.</div><div><br></div><div>The AAPP says more than 2,100 people have been killed by security forces since the coup. The junta says that figure is exaggerated.</div><div><br></div><div>The true picture of violence has been hard to assess, as clashes have spread to more remote areas where ethnic minority insurgent groups are also fighting the military.</div><div><br></div><div>The executions have shattered hopes of any peace agreement, said the Arakan Army (AA), one of more than a dozen ethnic minority armies in Myanmar that have fought the military for years.</div><div><br></div><div>The executions will close off any chance of ending the unrest across Myanmar, said analyst Richard Horsey of the International Crisis group. The military \"sees this as a demonstration of strength, but it may be a serious miscalculation.\"</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 16:16:05', '2022-07-26 16:16:05'),
(669, 669, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">National University has suspended two students of Hathazari Government College for sexually assaulting a female student of Chittagong University (CU).&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Vice-Chancellor Prof Md Mashiur Rahman took the decision at an emergency syndicate meeting on Monday, Ataur Rahman, director of the university\'s public relations department said.</div><div><br></div><div>The suspended students are - Nur Hossain Shaon, and Md Abdul Mannan.</div><div><br></div><div>Ataur Rahman said Shaon and Mannan have been temporarily suspended. A show cause notice was issued against the accused as to why their studentship should not be permanently cancelled by the university.</div><div><br></div><div>The students have been asked to explain themselves in 10 days, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>On July 17, a female student was physically assaulted by five youths while she was going to the Botanical Garden from Pritilata Hall of the campus with her friend around 10pm.</div><div><br></div><div>The goons also captured the incident on video and threatened to make it viral. Later, they fled with the mobile phones and wallets of the two students.</div><div><br></div><div>A five-member body was formed to investigate the assault after the female student filed a written complaint to the proctor.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, five people have been arrested, and a seven day remand have been sought by police to interrogate them.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 16:20:50', '2022-07-26 16:20:50'),
(670, 670, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka University student Mohiuddin Roni last night adjourned his protest against mismanagement and corruption in the country\'s railway system, for the time being as the authorities concerned assured him of meeting his demands.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>He made the decision after a four-hour meeting with the railway officials at the railway building at 9:45pm.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Railway Secretary Humayun Kabir and Director General Dhirendra Nath Mazumder promised to keep me in the follow-up in implementing my six-point demand. I took this decision to keep the country\'s situation normal and to prevent any third party from taking advantage of my movement to create unrest,\" Roni said.</div><div><br></div><div>Roni suspended his movement after 19 days. He, however, said if he sees any irregularities in implementing his demands, he will resume his movement.</div><div><br></div><div>On July 7, he took to the streets with a six-point demand for ending mismanagement and corruption in the railway system, after he failed to book Dhaka-Rajshahi train tickets online on June 13.</div><div><br></div><div>He alleged that the ticket money was deducted from his bKash account, but he did not get a seat on the train nor was he given a receipt. He filed a complaint with the authorities concerned the next day, which was left pending for a month.</div><div><br></div><div>Students from different parts of the country joined his movement separately.</div><div><br></div><div>On July 20, the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined online ticketing platform Shohoz for its negligence in selling tickets.</div><div><br></div><div>The High Court on the same day asked Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik and ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan to inquire about the steps taken on the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>This is not the first time Roni stood up against mismanagement and irregularities.</div><div><br></div><div>In April, he started a hunger strike for the modernisation of the university\'s medical centre, after not being satisfied with its facilities.</div><div><br></div><div>Following his 77-hour strike, the university authorities developed washroom facilities, increased medicinal amenities, set up an information desk at the entrance and took initiatives to meet his other demands.</div><div><br></div><div>He is also involved in various social and voluntary organisations like -- Rover Scout, National Children Task Force, and the fire service.</div><div><br></div><div>Roni is now the coordinator of the Dhaka unit of \"Youth Ending Hunger\" and an active member of \"BD Clean\".</div><div><br></div><div>He recently launched \"Green Happy Birthday Campaign\" to create awareness regarding climate change. One of his campaigns \"Makeup Our Power\", focused on women empowerment, and was selected as one of the best ideas in the \"Top Ten Project Ideas\" by the British Council during the pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Roni has always been vocal against different irregularities and engaged himself with various forms of social work,\" Asif Khan, a senior-year student of Arabic, told the media.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 16:26:52', '2022-07-26 16:26:52'),
(671, 671, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police are yet to file a charge sheet in the case filed over the vandalizing of a Puja mandap in Comilla’s Nanuardighi, that triggered countrywide violence nine months ago.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On October 13, 2021, the country saw massive communal violence over the Holy Quran being placed on a Puja mandap. The incident sparked a number of communal attacks on the minority Hindu community in several districts including Chandpur, Noakhali and Chittagong, ruining the Durga Puja celebrations.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>A few days after the incident, police arrested one Iqbal Hossain, who was identified from video footage of security cameras installed around the Durga Puja pavilion in the Nanuardighi neighborhood.</div><div><br></div><div>A case was filed against him and it was subsequently handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on October 14.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, police filed as many as 12 cases over the violence reported around Comilla. However, the charge sheet for only two cases has been submitted while Iqbal’s case and that of nine others are still under investigation, much to the dismay of Hindu leaders.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from Iqbal, the rest of the accused are out on bail, confirmed CID Inspector Mohammad Abdul Hakim, also the investigating officer in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Ikram Hossain aka Rezaul Haque, Ashiqur Rahman, Humayun Kabir and former mayor Monirul Haque Sakku’s former assistant Mohiuddin Ahmed Babu are currently out on bail.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Although Iqbal is currently in jail, police have been unable to submit a charge sheet against him despite nine months having elapsed.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to queries on the matter, Inspector Hakim said: “Our investigation is done but the case was filed under Section 295 of the Penal Code, which is bailable.”</div><div><br></div><div>“We have already appealed to the home ministry’s Law Division-2 through the court and the district administration to change the section,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Section 295 of the Penal Code: “Whoever destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship, or any object held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons or with the knowledge that any class of persons is likely to consider such destruction, damage or defilement as an insult to their religion, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.”</div><div><br></div><div>The CID official said that police have appealed for the case to be tried under Section 295A, which is non-bailable.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Saying that they found proof against all the accused, he added that the charge sheet will be submitted as soon as the appeal is approved.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, scrutinizing information, interrogating the accused and forensics of the CCTV footage also delayed investigations, he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Among the 12 cases, CID is investigating six cases and has submitted the charge sheet of the case filed under the Digital Security Act, charging seven people.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, PBI is investigating four cases and has submitted the charge sheet of one case charging a lone man, confirmed PIB Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Two more cases are under investigation under Comilla Kotwali Model Police, OC Shahidur Rahman told Dhaka Tribune.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>According to court inspector Md Mujibur Rahman, a total of 94 people have been accused in the 12 cases and 150 were arrested as suspects. He was unable to say how many people are behind bars at the moment.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>However, a reliable source told Dhaka Tribune that other than Iqbal, only one other accused is currently behind bars.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Foyez Ahmed was arrested under the Digital Security Act over a Facebook live on October 13 regarding the Holy Quran incident.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“These incidents are being repeated only because justice is not being served,” said Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikkya Parishad Comilla unit President Chandan Rai.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He added that if those responsible for the Comilla incident had been brought to book, no one would have dared repeat such incidents.</div><div><br></div><div>“Unless justice is served, these incidents will be repeated,” he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“We were able to win the Independence War because we were united as Bangalis. We got freedom. But today, in a free country, Hindus are being attacked repeatedly,” he lamented.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Following the incident in Comilla, violence broke out at several districts in Bangladesh during the Durga Puja celebrations in October 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>At least seven people were killed over the incident in different parts of the country and hundreds of Hindus lost their homes, businesses while many temples and puja venues were vandalized.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 16:33:14', '2022-07-26 16:33:14'),
(672, 672, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to the UK and will tell Manchester United he wants to leave when holding talks with the club’s chiefs, The Sun reports. Ronaldo missed United’s pre-season tour to Australia and Thailand due to “family reasons”, but now he is back in Manchester, he has no intention of playing in the Europa League – a competition he has never featured in. United appear willing to accept a loan deal, although Erik ten Hag will supposedly try and get the forward to stay.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Get him gone, it’s not worth the hassle, and this has dragged on long enough – although, mainly, because his options are running out thick and fast. It may get to the point where Ronaldo weighs up whether he wants a Champions League contender or simply a club playing in the competition, as unless Atletico Madrid come through with a loan deal, he may be out of teams capable of winning it. Real Madrid, pretty please take me back? -Eurosport&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 17:19:26', '2022-07-26 17:19:26'),
(673, 673, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Paul Pogba’s return to Juventus has already run into trouble after the club revealed he had injured his meniscus.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Pogba made his first Juve appearance in six years in a 2-0 win over Mexican side Chivas Guadalajara in a friendly in Las Vegas on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>“Following the pain reported in his right knee, Paul Pogba was subjected to radiological investigations which revealed a lesion of the lateral meniscus [a shock absorbing pad of cartilage in the knee],” the club reported.</div><div><br></div><div>“In the next few hours he will undergo a specialist orthopedic consultation. Therefore, he will not take part in the trip to Dallas to continue treatment.”</div><div><br></div><div>Pogba only completed his return to the Serie A giants on a free transfer from Manchester United earlier in July. He was beset with injury problems last season at Old Trafford. -eurosport&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 18:35:55', '2022-07-26 18:35:55'),
(674, 674, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">It seems controversy can\'t seem to get enough of the daring \'Ranveer Singh\'. The actor has landed in hot waters for his viral nude photoshoot for \"Paper Magazine\".</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to ANI reports, a Mumbai-based NGO has filed a complaint against the actor for \"hurting sentiments of women\" and \"insulting their modesty\" through his allegedly \"obscene\" photographs on social media. The case was allegedly made by a woman lawyer.</div><div><br></div><div>The complaint demands the registration of the case in accordance with the Information Technology Act, as well as various sections of the Indian Penal Code.</div><div><br></div><div>According to a Reddit post, a similar protest has been going around in Indore. A poster showcasing Ranveer Singh\'s viral nude picture along with a regressive message has been circulating all over social media.</div><div><br></div><div>Ranveer Singh\'s nude photographs became immensely viral all over social media. The actor was pictured posing nude on a Turkish rug, bearing nothing except his own bare body. The photos were subject to memes as well. -ANI&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 18:45:15', '2022-07-26 18:45:15'),
(675, 675, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Shimada Yoko, the Japanese actor who earned a Golden Globe for her role as Mariko in 1980s miniseries ‘Shogun,’ has died, age 69.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Japanese media reported that she died of multiple organ failure due to colorectal cancer, in a Tokyo hospital on Monday (July 25, 2022).</div><div><br></div><div>Born in 1953 in Kumamoto, a city on the southern island of Kyushu, Shimada made her TV debut in the 1970 drama “Osanazuma.” She became popular in the 1970s playing pure and virtuous types on TV and in films, including the 1974 hit “The Castle of Sand.”</div><div><br></div><div>Despite limited English-language skills, she had one of the few English-speaking roles in “Shogun” when she was cast in the role of Mariko (aka Lady Toda Buntaro), the love interest of Richard Chamberlain’s shipwrecked British navigator turned samurai. Nevertheless, her portrayal as an aristocratic woman who dies saving her foreign lover’s life earned Shimada her first and only Golden Globe.</div><div><br></div><div>The series, an adaptation of the James Clavell novel, was a massive hit in the U.S. But it played in Japan in a theatrical version that disappointed at the box office. NBC, Paramount Television, Asahi National Television, Toho Company and trading firm Jardine Matheson had production credits.</div><div><br></div><div>Following “Shogun”’s worldwide success, Shimada essayed other roles in Hollywood, while continuing to work in Japan, mainly on television. One such international project was “Little Champion,” a 1981 biopic of Japanese-American marathoner Michiko “Miki” Suwa Gorman with Shimada playing the lead.</div><div><br></div><div>But Shimada found herself embroiled in scandal when an affair with married rock star Uchida Yuya became tabloid fodder. She was reported to have had alcohol problems and amassed debts that she tried to clear by appearing in a nude photo book 1992. The book was a bestseller, but it damaged her standing as an actor. A kind of nadir was reached when she appeared in an adult video in 2011. Her last screen role was in the 2016 Saiga Toshiro drama “Kanon.” -variety</div><div><br></div><div>bbd24/TR</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Entertainment Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 19:01:00', '2022-07-26 19:01:00'),
(676, 676, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic (BAVA.CO) said on Monday the European Commission had given permission for its Imvanex vaccine to be marketed as protection against monkeypox, as recommended last week by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The approval comes just one day after the World Health Organization issued a high-level alert declaring the rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak as a global health emergency.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"The availability of an approved vaccine can significantly improve nations\' readiness to fight emerging diseases, but only through investments and structured planning of the biological preparedness,\" Bavarian Chief Executive Paul Chaplin said.</div><div><br></div><div>Bavarian\'s vaccine, the only one to have won approval for the prevention of monkeypox disease in the United States and Canada, has in the EU so far only been approved to treat smallpox.</div><div><br></div><div>But the company has supplied the vaccine to several EU countries during the current monkeypox outbreak for what is known as \"off-label\" use.</div><div><br></div><div>The approval is valid in all European Union Member States as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, Bavarian Nordic said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The development of Imvanex was made possible through significant investments from the US government during the past two decades, the company added.</div><div><br></div><div>Bavarian\'s share price has risen by 122 percent in the last three months, driven by strong demand for the monkeypox vaccine.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 19:05:08', '2022-07-26 19:05:08');
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(677, 677, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The US embassy here has said they were hopeful to clear huge backlog of student visa ahead of the fall session as its consular section was engaged in processing them even on Friday weekends.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"We are doing everything we can clear the backlog, the embassy is really prioritizing this,\" a consular officer of US embassy told BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the consular section was hopeful to clear the backlogs by fall as a group of officials were engaged only in processing the student visas intending to attend the fall semester in US universities.</div><div><br></div><div>The US embassy\'s consular section is faced with the backlog of both immigrant and non-immigrant visa applications due to COVID-19 pandemic while many Bangladeshi students are particularly waiting for a visa interview appointment to catch their in-person classes in the US universities.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials of the section said they were making special efforts by working on Friday to ensure as many students as possible receive interviews before the start of the fall semester.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We know how frustrating it is for a student for this backlog . . . so we are working very hard to clear the backlog, that\'s why we are working on Fridays (as) it\'s a priority for us\" the consular officer said on Friday last.</div><div><br></div><div>She said on Friday last alone they interviewed over 600 students who applied for visas.</div><div><br></div><div>The US Embassy Dhaka decided to hold another \"Super Friday\" on Friday, July 29 as part of a campaign to allow the mission to meet high demand for such visas.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We really want to make sure that we can process as many visas as possible, so students can go to the US,\" said the officer.</div><div><br></div><div>The US embassy is providing emergency appointment dates to those students who fail to get visa interview appointment slot before the start of their scheduled class in the US universities.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We recognize the unique opportunity that study in the United States offers and we are prioritizing student visa interviews,\" said US Embassy Consul General William Dowers marking the \"Super Friday\" initiative.</div><div><br></div><div>An undergrad student, Zerin Ali , who intends to join University of Chicago in the coming fall semester said she first got visa interview appointment slot on March, 15 in 2023, \"but my class is scheduled to start in late September this year\".</div><div><br></div><div>Ali said after failing to get appointment date before her class started, she applied for the emergency appointment dates and after 10 days she received an email confirming her fresh interview date on Friday, July 22.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I thought the visa process would be very complicated, but I was wrong . . . it went smooth,\" she said at the consular section after getting the visa on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>A PhD student named Shita Biswash also expressed her joy after getting the emergency interview appointment date on Super Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I am delighted to get the emergency interview appointment date, otherwise it would have been difficult for me to join my PhD programme,\" she said who applied for the student visa including her spouse Anik Kumar as dependent.</div><div><br></div><div>The US embassy officials said the number of Bangladeshi students in the United States tippled nearly in the past one decade saying the figure was currently over 8,500 annually.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the 2021report of Institute of International Education Open Doors, Bangladesh currently ranks 14th among the top-sending countries of students to the US from around the world, while the country\'s ranking in the index was 17 in 2019-2020 academic year.</div><div><br></div><div>The US embassy in a statement, meanwhile, said the United States remained a popular destination for higher education while during the 2020-2021 academic year, it welcomed over 914,000 international students from over 200 countries of origin.</div><div><br></div><div>It said anyone interested in educational opportunities in the US could learn about them through EducationUSA, a global network of over 430 educational advising centres operating in more than 175 countries and territories around the world. -BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Staff Correspondent', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 19:07:48', '2022-07-26 19:07:48'),
(678, 678, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">U.S. and Taliban officials have exchanged proposals for the release of billions of dollars from Afghan central bank reserves held abroad into a trust fund, three sources familiar with the talks said, giving a hint of progress in efforts to ease Afghanistan\'s economic crisis.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Significant differences between the sides remain, however, according to two of the sources, including the Taliban\'s refusal to replace the bank\'s top political appointees, one of whom is under U.S. sanctions as are several of the movement\'s leaders.</div><div><br></div><div>Some experts said such a move would help restore confidence in the institution by insulating it from interference by the Islamist militant group that seized power a year ago but which foreign governments do not recognise.</div><div><br></div><div>While the Taliban do not reject the concept of a trust fund, they oppose a U.S. proposal for third-party control of the fund that would hold and disburse returned reserves, said a Taliban government source who spoke on condition of anonymity.</div><div><br></div><div>The United States has been in talks with Switzerland and other parties on the creation of a mechanism that would include the trust fund, disbursements from which would be decided with the help of an international board, according to a U.S. source who also declined to be named in order to discuss the matter.</div><div><br></div><div>A possible model could be the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, a World Bank-administered fund created to get donations of foreign development assistance to Kabul, the U.S. source added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"No agreement has been reached yet,\" said Shah Mehrabi, an Afghan-American economics professor who is on the Afghan central bank\'s supreme council.</div><div><br></div><div>The U.S. State Department and Switzerland\'s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs declined to comment; the Afghan central bank did not respond to requests for comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Some $9 billion in reserves have been held outside Afghanistan, including $7 billion in the United States, since the Taliban overran Kabul last August as U.S.-led forces withdrew after 20 years of fighting the militants.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreign governments and rights groups have accused the Taliban of human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings during and after the insurgency, and the movement has curtailed women\'s freedoms since regaining power.</div><div><br></div><div>The international community wants the group to improve its record on women\'s and other rights before officially recognising it.</div><div><br></div><div>The Taliban have promised to investigate alleged killings and say they are working to secure Afghans\' rights to education and free speech within the parameters of Islamic law.</div><div><br></div><div>\'Possitive move\'</div><div><br></div><div>At talks in Doha last month, the Taliban submitted to U.S. officials their response to the U.S. proposal for a mechanism to free up Afghan assets, said Mehrabi, the Taliban official and a senior diplomat.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts cautioned that releasing funds would bring only temporary relief and new revenue streams were needed to replace direct foreign aid that financed 70 percent of the government budget before it was halted after the Taliban takeover.</div><div><br></div><div>But the exchange of proposals was seen by some as a glimmer of hope that a system can be created that allows for the release of Afghan central bank funds while ensuring they are not accessed by the Taliban.</div><div><br></div><div>Negotiations on the assets and other issues faltered after Washington cancelled meetings in Doha in March when the Taliban reneged on their promise to open girls\' high schools. read more</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is a positive move overall,\" that the Taliban did not reject the U.S. proposal, said Mehrabi, who added that he had not seen the Taliban counter-offer.</div><div><br></div><div>The Taliban official said the group was open to allowing a State Department-appointed contractor to monitor Afghanistan\'s central bank compliance with anti-money laundering standards, and that monitoring experts would be able to go to Afghanistan.</div><div><br></div><div>But the Taliban were concerned the U.S. idea could create a parallel central banking structure, the official added, and were not prepared to remove top political appointees including deputy governor Noor Ahmad Agha, who is under U.S. terrorism sanctions.</div><div><br></div><div>The U.S. source denied the proposed trust fund would amount to a parallel central bank.</div><div><br></div><div>Initial tranche&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Negotiations have focused on an initial release of $3.5 billion that U.S. President Joe Biden ordered set aside \"for the benefit of the Afghan people\" out of $7 billion in Afghan reserves held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.</div><div><br></div><div>The other $3.5 billion is being contested in lawsuits against the Taliban stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, but courts could decide to release those funds too.</div><div><br></div><div>U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Tom West in February said funds set aside by Biden potentially could be used to recapitalize a reformed central bank and the paralyzed banking system.</div><div><br></div><div>Afghanistan\'s economy went into freefall after the Taliban takeover, with the central bank\'s foreign-held reserves frozen, Washington and other donors halting aid and the United States ending deliveries of hard currency.</div><div><br></div><div>The banking sector all but collapsed and the national currency, the Afghani, plummeted.</div><div><br></div><div>The World Bank says it has strengthened, although shortages of dollars and Afghanis persist. High unemployment and soaring prices, fuelled by drought, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia\'s invasion of Ukraine, worsened a humanitarian crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations says millions of Afghans ar facing a second winter without enough to eat.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts said releasing foreign-held funds to the central bank would help it stem the crisis.</div><div><br></div><div>\"You need a central bank regulating the value of the currency, regulating prices, ensuring liquidity for imports ... this is not optional. People won\'t eat,\" said Graeme Smith, a senior consultant for the International Crisis Group. -Reuters</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 20:14:06', '2022-07-26 20:14:06'),
(679, 679, '<div><b>What is sexual fluidity?</b><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sexual fluidity, like the term, might hint at refers to a person’s sexual preferences being flexible. Many people tend to identify with one particular type of sexual orientation.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>For instance, someone might identify as heterosexual, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, gay, etc. However, people who identify as sexually fluid don’t commit to a particular sexual orientation or identity. They don’t ascribe to any of these labels.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>If you think you are sexually fluid, you should know you are not alone. In a 2015 study, 64% of women and 52% of men reported that their sexual orientation was fluid. Sexual fluidity means you have no particular sexual orientation, and it can change over time.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>History of sexual fluidity</b></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Historically, a person’s sexual identity has been determined by their gender. People attracted to members of the opposite sex were heterosexual, and people attracted to members of the same sex were considered to be gay. This strict dichotomy didn’t leave room for people who had other sexual orientations. For instance, there are bisexual people who are attracted to people who either identify as male or female.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Some people consider bisexuality to be one of the earliest forms of sexual fluidity. However, some sexually fluid people prefer not to be labeled by any of the typical sexual orientation terms.</div><div><br></div><div>Being sexually fluid doesn’t imply that sexual orientation is unimportant. It just emphasizes the fact that sexual attraction is not determined by another person’s gender or sexual identity. Sexual fluidity is not a new concept. It has been around for decades. Erotic plasticity is a term that has previously been used to define sexual fluidity.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s important to note that some people who identify as bisexual, heterosexual, or gay can also experience periods of sexual fluidity. Anyone who shows varying patterns in their sexual attractions and preferences is sexually fluid.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Signs you are sexually fluid&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>If your sexual preferences change over time, you may identify as sexually fluid. According to some research, the most common manifestations of sexual fluidity include:</div><div><br></div><ul><li>Having bisexual attractions, this means being attracted to either men or women regardless of your gender&nbsp;</li><li>Having inconsistent sexual behavior or attraction&nbsp;</li><li>Experiencing a change in who and what you are sexually attracted to over some time</li></ul><div><br></div><div>You could identify as gay, bisexual, heterosexual, or any other common concepts under sexual orientation and still be sexually fluid. Being sexually fluid means that different types of people can evoke a sexual response from you, depending on the situation you find yourself in.</div><div><br></div><div>For instance, if you are a heterosexual woman who finds yourself amid other women for long periods, you might find yourself being sexually attracted to some of these women. These women you are attracted to could have masculine features or other attributes you find attractive when seeking a heterosexual partner. They also might not and you could just find yourself attracted to them for some other reason. This is sexual fluidity.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>Sexual Fluidity and Bisexuality&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>People tend to use the terms bisexuality and sexual fluidity interchangeably. However, there’s a distinct difference between both concepts.</div><div><br></div><div>While people who are bisexual remain consistently attracted to people who are either male or female, people who are sexually fluid constantly experience changes in their sexual desires throughout their lives. They might experience sexual attraction to people of any gender sporadically.</div><div><br></div><div>Some sexually fluid people could remain sexually attracted to a particular gender for several years and only experience fluidity periodically.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>While bisexuality only gives room for a person to be attracted to two genders, sexual fluidity allows for constant change in sexual attractions.</div><div><br></div><div>The most distinct difference between both concepts is that sexual fluidity isn’t a sexual orientation, while bisexuality is. People of any sexual orientation could be sexually fluid.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>How to Practice Sexual Fluidity</b></div><div><br></div><div>There’s no one way to practice sexual fluidity. That’s the whole point of it. You shouldn’t think too deeply about who you are attracted to or how you practice your sexuality. Sexuality is a personal thing and looks different in everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>Sexual fluidity doesn’t also always focus on just sex. You might enjoy having sex with people who identify with one gender and only seek to make romantic connections with people who identify with another gender.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>Tips for Living as a Sexually Fluid Person&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div>The bottom line is that human sexuality is dynamic. You don’t need any labels to help identify who you are sexually attracted to and what your sexual preferences are.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s important to remember that it’s perfectly OK for your sexual attraction to be fluid. Who you are sexually attracted to isn’t something you should seek to control. If you’ve recently discovered that you are a sexually fluid person, here are some tips to help you become comfortable with who you are:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><ul><li><b>Don’t overthink things.</b> You might feel sexually attracted to men for a while, and depending on the situation you find yourself in, find that you are now attracted to women. You might start to question your sexual orientation when this happens, but you shouldn’t let labels define you.&nbsp;</li><li><b>Learn about sexual fluidity.</b> Reading this article is a great start! Reading about what sexual fluidity is and stories from other people who are sexually fluid will help you better understand the feelings you are experiencing.</li><li><b>It’s essential to communicate with your partner.</b> If you are partnered up with a person who is not sexually fluid or ascribes to particular orientations, it’s great to let them know how you feel. Help them understand that sexuality is a spectrum for you, and the fact that your sexual attraction is fluid doesn’t diminish your interest in them.&nbsp; </li></ul><div><br></div><div>-verywellmind</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'Lifestyle Desk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 20:28:40', '2022-07-26 20:28:40'),
(680, 680, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi is likely to visit Bangladesh next month and Dhaka is working with Beijing to find a date for the visit convenient to both sides, says a diplomatic source.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Chinese side has initially proposed August 5-6 for the visit but Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen has prescheduled engagement abroad at that time.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka expects that the Chinese side will find alternative dates for the visit which will be convenient to both sides.</div><div><br></div><div>Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming met Foreign Minister Momen on Sunday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and discussed various issues of mutual interest including the proposed visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister.</div><div><br></div><div>Minister Wang is a member of the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, State Councilor and a member of the Leading CPC Members Group of the State Council.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 22:16:19', '2022-07-26 22:16:19'),
(681, 681, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Two members of a UK expatriate family died at a hospital in Sylhet after five members of the family were found unconscious at rented house in Osmaninagar upUpazilaf the district Tuesday morning, said police.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Rafiqul Islam, 50, and his 16-year-old son Mahikul Islam.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafiqul Islam’s wife Hosne Ara Begum, 45, his son Sadiqul Islam, 25 and daughter Samira Islam, 20, are undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital (SOMCH).</div><div><br></div><div>According to the locals, the family came to the country from the United Kingdom on July 12.</div><div><br></div><div>After staying in Dhaka for six days, they rented the house in Tajpur of the upazila on July 18.</div><div><br></div><div>Additional Superintendent of Sylhet Police MD Lutfar Rahman said they rescued the five people in unconscious condition from a house on Mangalchandi road in Tajpur Bazar around 11:30 am after receiving a call from the National Emergency Service 999.</div><div><br></div><div>They were rushed to SOMCH where the father and the son died around 2pm, said the official.</div><div><br></div><div>SOMCH Director Brigadier General Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan said that the bodies were kept at the hospital morgue.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides, a medical Board has been formed headed by Professor Shishir Ranjan Chakraborty&nbsp; for the treatment of three others as their condition is very critical, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Superintendent of District Police Farid Uddin said they might have died due to food poisoning. “An investigation is on in this regard.”</div><div><br></div><div>A team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has also reached the spot to collect evidence. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div><b>bnbd24/fas</b></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 23:05:53', '2022-07-26 23:05:53'),
(682, 682, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The death toll from floods in the country rose to 131 with two more deaths in Lalmonirhat&nbsp; district in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deaths were recorded from May 17 to July 26, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</div><div><br></div><div>The latest victims drowned in floodwater, it added.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the deceased, 73 were from Sylhet, 43 from Mymensingh, 14 from Rangpur and one from Dhaka division.</div><div><br></div><div>One hundred and three people drowned in floodwaters, 16 died by lightning strikes, two from snake bites, one from diarrhoea, and nine others due to other reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>Around 24,838 people were hit by floods during the same period.</div><div><br></div><div>One hundred and eighty-five upazilas were affected by floods, including 33 in Sylhet, three in Rangpur, seven in Mymensingh and one in Chattogram divisions.</div><div><br></div><div>Sylhet, Sunamganj, Netrokona and Moulvibazar were the worst-hit districts, with 13, 11, seven and five upazilas affected by floods respectively. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-26 23:50:04', '2022-07-26 23:50:04'),
(683, 683, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station \"after 2024\", the newly-appointed chief of Moscow\'s space agency told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Of course, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made,\" Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov told Putin in comments released by the Kremlin. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 00:10:08', '2022-07-27 00:10:08'),
(684, 684, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dengue claimed another life and 99 new patients were hospitalised with the viral infection in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With these, the authorities recorded eight deaths from the viral infection this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The latest death was reported from Cox’s Bazar district.</div><div><br></div><div>Among the deaths, five were reported from Cox’s Bazar while three from Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Of the new patients, 74 new patients were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 25 outside it.</div><div><br></div><div>As many as 301 dengue patients, including 227 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season from the mosquito-borne viral disease.</div><div><br></div><div>This year, the DGHS has recorded 2,305 dengue cases and 1,996 recoveries so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year, 105 dengue patients, including 95 in Dhaka division, died. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 00:45:09', '2022-07-27 00:45:09'),
(685, 685, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The 52nd birth anniversary of Bangabandhu\'s grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy, also ICT Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be observed tomorrow in a befitting manner.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and eminent nuclear scientist Dr MA Wazed Miah, played the pivotal role in setting the country\'s crucial course being the beacon of \'Digital Bangladesh\'.</div><div><br></div><div>To mark his birthday, different programmes will be arranged including discussions, webinars, tree plantation, cutting of cakes, doa mahfil and distribution of foods among distressed people.</div><div><br></div><div>Awami League and its associates and like-minded bodies have drawn up programmes to celebrate his birthday.</div><div><br></div><div>Awami Jubo League will plant tree saplings on the premises of Mahanagar Natyamanch at 4pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Doa mahfil will be held after Asr prayers on the ground floor of Awami League\'s Bangabandhu Avenue central office here. Cooked foods will also be distributed after the prayers.</div><div><br></div><div>Prayers will also be arranged at mosques, temples, churches, pagodas and others prayer houses all over the country. Countrywide tree plantation programme will also be held to mark the birthday of Bangabandhu\'s grandson.</div><div><br></div><div>Awami Swechchhasebak League will arrange a cake-cutting ceremony in the auditorium of Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) at Khamarbari here in the afternoon. Doa mahfil seeking sound health of Joy will also be held on the occasion.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite being born to a leading political family, Joy so far preferred a distinct course of action unlike any conventional politician, to materialize the electoral pledge of the party he belongs to and his mother Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leads to build a Digital Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Joy was a key figure in formulating the Awami League\'s Vision 2021 manifesto, based-on what the party was elected thrice to power at a stretch since 2008, according to media reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Being a member of Bangladesh\'s most illustrious political family, Joy\'s character largely reflects the qualities of his grandfather Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of independent Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>A graduate in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States, Joy was born in 1971, coinciding with the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent nation. His father Dr MA Wazed Miah was an internationally reputed nuclear scientist.</div><div><br></div><div>In August 1975, his grandparents including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, uncles and aunts were assassinated during a military coup in Bangladesh. During the time, he and his mother, father and aunt survived as they were visiting West Germany.</div><div><br></div><div>The family was barred by the military regime from entering the country until 1981. After returning to Bangladesh in 1981, his mother assumed the presidency of the Awami League and spearheaded the campaign for the restoration of democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>Sajeeb Wazed attended boarding school in India, including St. Joseph\'s College in Nainital and Kodaikanal International School in Palani Hills, Tamil Nadu, according to wikipedia.</div><div><br></div><div>He studied computer science at the University of Bangalore. Then, transferred to The University of Texas at Arlington in the United States where he graduated with a BSc in computer engineering.</div><div><br></div><div>Subsequently, Wazed attended the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University where he completed his Masters in Public Administration.</div><div><br></div><div>During the black chapter of caretaker government, when his mother Awami League President Sheikh Hasina was arrested on non-existent charges which was subsequently found to be unsubstantiated, Sajeeb Wazed took charge of bringing the world\'s attention not only to the plight of his mother Sheikh Hasina but also the restoration of democracy in his motherland by launching several campaigns in the United States and Europe.</div><div><br></div><div>His efforts brought fruition, and the military-backed extra constitutional government was compelled to release Sheikh Hasina from prison, following which she has led three consecutive governments having won the national elections in 2008, 2014 and 2018 respectively. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 01:25:54', '2022-07-27 01:25:54'),
(686, 686, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A German woman was convicted Tuesday of membership in the Daesh group and other offenses for traveling to Syria to join the organization with her young son. She was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Duesseldorf state court said Verena M., whose full name wasn’t released in line with German privacy rules, was convicted of membership in a foreign terrorist organization and abduction of a minor, among other charges.</div><div><br></div><div>The court found that the defendant traveled to Syria in 2015 with her son, then aged 5, without the knowledge of the child’s father. It found that she ran the household and brought up her son in line with Daesh ideology while her new husband fought for the group, and that the couple had two Kalashnikov rifles.</div><div><br></div><div>The child was lucky to emerge unscathed from two bombing attacks during their time with Daesh, judges found. The defendant surrendered to Kurdish forces in 2019. She and her three children — two more were born in Syria — were repatriated to Germany in October last year.</div><div><br></div><div>The case is one of several in Germany involving women who traveled to Daesh-held terroritory. Last month, a German who took her young daughter to Syria and allegedly took advantage of an enslaved Yazidi woman was given a sentence of three years and three months. - AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 01:29:30', '2022-07-27 01:29:30'),
(687, 687, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The T20 squad of Bangladesh team will leave Dhaka for Harare at the early hours of Wednesday to play a three-match series against Zimbabwe.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>They will leave the country at 1.40 am through an Emirates flight.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>A total of five including three cricketers-- Munim Shahriar, Najmul Hossain Shanto and Hasan Mahmud-- had already flown to Harare earlier separately.</div><div><br></div><div>Team Director Khaled Mahmud Sujon will accompany the T20 squad in the Zimbabwe but no selectors or media manager were sent.</div><div><br></div><div>The team will get the opportunity to practice for two days before taking on the Zimbabwe side. Bangladesh had only won three matches out of 16 since the 2021 T20 World Cup.</div><div><br></div><div>The Tigers, however, had a goal to be back in the winning way through the series against Zimbabwe, which has been their favourite opponents for sometimes now.</div><div><br></div><div>The players who are the part of ODI squad, however, will leave the country at the early hours of Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>three T20 matches are scheduled for July 30, 31 and August 2 while the three ODIs, which Bangladesh will play under Tamim Iqbal\'s captaincy, will be held on August 5, 7 and 10. All of the matches will be taken place at Harare Sports Club.</div><div><br></div><div>The T20 matches will begin from 5 pm (Bangladesh Time) and ODI matches start from 1.15 pm (Bangladesh Time).</div><div><br></div><div>T20 Squad:</div><div>Nurul Hasan Sohan (Captain), Munim Shahriar, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Liton Das, Afif Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Parvez Hossain Emon</div><div><br></div><div>ODI Squad:</div><div><br></div><div>Tamim Iqbal (captain), Liton Das, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah Riyad, Afif Hossain, Nurul Hasan Sohan, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nasum Ahmed, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat and Taijul Islam. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 01:34:32', '2022-07-27 01:34:32'),
(688, 688, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Marriage remains an important part of any Muslim’s life – Islam encourages us to better understand love, marital equality, and gender roles within marriage in order to become both better spouses and Muslims.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Let us therefore look into the Holy Quran – the definite authoritative word of God – to understand the true importance of marriage. If we want to truly appreciate both the beauty of marriage and the blessings of having a spouse, we must understand what Allah asks of us when it comes to marriage.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Find comfort in your spouse</div><div>“And one of His signs is that He created for you spouses from among yourselves so that you may find comfort in them. And He has placed between you compassion and mercy. Surely in this are signs for people who reflect.” (Quran, 30:21)</div><div><br></div><div>The Holy Quran reminds us here that marriage and living with a spouse should be about comfort and happiness – after all, we need to remember that getting married is a blessing from Allah Himself. It is also a chance to learn about compassion, mercy, and love – which in turn can help us grow in our faith and love for Allah as well.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Every soul has a match</div><div>“It is He who created you from one soul and created from it its mate that he might dwell in security with her.” (Quran, 7:189)</div><div><br></div><div>We must take comfort in knowing that Allah provides for us in more ways than we can ever comprehend – and even if it does not manifest in a way we can understand or agree with, all of our souls have been granted a match to bring us comfort either in this world or the next.</div><div><br></div><div>3. A garment for each other</div><div>“Your spouses are a garment for you as you are for them.” (Quran, 2:187)</div><div><br></div><div>While the deeper meanings of the verses of the Quran are beyond our comprehension, this beautiful verse is a reminder of the beauty of having a spouse. By being a garment for each other, we are more than just a partner – we are a covering, a comfort, and a layer of beauty for each other to grow in both our relationship with each other and with Allah.</div><div><br></div><div>4. Each spouse has a role</div><div>“Men are the caretakers of women, as men have been provisioned by Allah over women and tasked with supporting them financially. And righteous women are devoutly obedient and, when alone, protective of what Allah has entrusted them with.” (Quran, 4:34)</div><div><br></div><div>Here, the Holy Quran tells us that each spouse has a role to play in the marriage – and by supporting each other and by playing to one’s strengths, the relationship can better grow when each spouse is working towards bettering themselves to work as a team.</div><div><br></div><div>5. Honor the bond between husband and wife</div><div>“O humanity! Be mindful of your Lord Who created you from a single soul, and from it He created its mate, and through both He spread countless men and women. And be mindful of Allah — in Whose Name you appeal to one another — and honour family ties. Surely Allah is ever Watchful over you.” (Quran, 4:1)</div><div><br></div><div>By reminding us that we all come from Adam and Eve, the Quran tells us that having a spouse and being in a marriage is to honor the bonds between a man and woman that have been proscribed by Allah since the beginning of humankind – we must, therefore, treat marriage as a deeply faithful act of worship towards Allah and treat the relationship we have with our spouse with the utmost respect. - TMV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 01:45:01', '2022-07-27 01:45:01'),
(689, 689, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in separate messages on Tuesady greeted the recipients of \'Agricultural Important Person (AIP)\' status for the first time in the country.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque will confer the AIP status on 13 persons at a function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city tomorrow</div><div><br></div><div>In his message, the President said: \"I welcome the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture for honoring the AIPs -2020\'.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Highlighting the importance of the agriculture sector of the country, the head of the state said the success of this country in the socio-economic field is based on the sustainable agricultural production system.</div><div><br></div><div>In this context, agri-scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers, producers and agricultural organizers are playing a key role in the agricultural production system, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>He believed that giving state status to those selected as AIPs for their significant contribution in agriculture is a unique addition to the agriculture sector.</div><div><br></div><div>He congratulated those who have been conferred with \'Agricultural Important Person (AIP)-2020\' award in recognition of their contributions in various fields of agriculture.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I strongly believe that this initiative will encourage all individuals and organizations related to agriculture and accelerate the ongoing progress of agriculture,\" Hamid continued.</div><div><br></div><div>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, said: \"...I congratulate all the persons recognized as \'Agricultural Important Persons (AIPs).\"</div><div>The premier became delighted to know that the AIPs of 2020 award are going to be felicitated for their significant contribution in the field of agriculture.</div><div><br></div><div>The greatest Bangalee of all time, Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the first to realize that knowledge-based modern agriculture is the first step to build a developed and prosperous \'Sonar Bangladesh\', she added.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence, he gave utmost importance to agriculture in the reconstruction of the war-torn country after independence, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said Bangabandhu took various initiatives to modernize the agricultural system of Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangabandhu began the agricultural revolution by providing improved agriculture materials, including waiver of land development tax, up to 25 bighas, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In 1973, Bangabandhu introduced the \'Bangabandhu Jatiya Krishi Puroskar\' for the development of agriculture and also gave first class status to agriculturists in government jobs, the premier added.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the footsteps of Father of Nation, the Awami League government has taken various timely measures and agricultural-friendly policies for the modernization and overall development of agriculture since 2009, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have established new agriculture universities to promote modern agricultural education,\" she added.</div><div><br></div><div>She hoped that the government will attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2030 to build a developed, happy and prosperous \'Sonar Bangladesh\' (as dreamt by Bangabandhu) by 2041.</div><div><br></div><div>Both the president and the premier once again congratulated all the persons who recognized as AIPs and wished all the programmes taken to honor them a success. BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 02:31:11', '2022-07-27 02:31:11'),
(690, 690, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was released by the Delhi Police almost over six hours after he was detained during his party\'s march from Parliament to Rashtrapati Bhawan, officials said Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"They have been released,\" Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Amrutha Gugolth said while responding to a query about the Congress party leaders\' detention, reports Times of India.</div><div><br></div><div>The Congress MPs carried out a protest march from the Parliament House to Rashtrapati Bhawan in wake of questioning of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate and no discussion on important issues like price rise in Parliament.</div><div><br></div><div>However, as the parliamentarians moved forward to give a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu, the Delhi Police stopped them midway near Vijay Chowk.</div><div><br></div><div>Subsequently, the Congress parliamentarians, including Rahul Gandhi, sat in protest in front of the Vijay Chowk. The protesting Congress leaders, holding placards, raised slogans against the probe agency ED and the Central government.</div><div><br></div><div>There was a heavy police deployment, including para military and Rapid Action force. Initially, the police began detaining other leaders, including women MPs, and at last Deepender Singh Hooda and Rahul Gandhi were left at the spot. </div><div><br></div><div>The woman Congress MPs could be seen being dragged by the police personnel and bundled in a bus.</div><div><br></div><div>\"What is the problem? We want to go there to meet the President and handover the memorandum. Why are we not allowed?,\" Rahul Gandhi could be heard while he was talking to a Delhi Police official.</div><div><br></div><div>After detaining every protesting leader from near the Vijay Chowk, Rahul Gandhi was then detained and taken from there in a bus along with other MPs to new police lines, Kingsway Police camp.</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from Vijay Chowk, hundreds of party workers were also detained from outside the Congress party headquarters at 24, Akbar Road.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 02:35:16', '2022-07-27 02:37:39'),
(691, 691, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will talk Thursday, according to a U.S. official, their first conversation in four months coming during new tension among Washington and Beijing over China’s claims on Taiwan.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The planned talks between the two leaders — the fifth in a series of regular check-ins — have been in the works for weeks. But the possibility of a visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top congressional Democrat and second in line of succession to the presidency, has added fresh strain to the complicated relationship.</div><div><br></div><div>Beijing is warning that it will take “forceful measures” should Pelosi visit the self-ruled island of Taiwan that China claims as part of its territory.</div><div><br></div><div>The U.S. official declined to be identified ahead of the public announcement. The schedule was first reported by Bloomberg.</div><div><br></div><div>Pelosi hasn’t confirmed plans to visit Taiwan, but Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for the speaker to visit the island at the moment. Biden’s comments came after the Financial Times reported last week that Pelosi planned to visit Taiwan in August, a trip she had originally planned to make in April but postponed after she tested positive for COVID-19.</div><div><br></div><div>The speaker has declined to comment on whether she plans to visit Taiwan, citing security protocol on her travel. But she said Biden’s comment stemmed from military brass being “afraid our plane would get shot down, or something like that, by the Chinese.” She would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to visit Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he served as House speaker.</div><div><br></div><div>“It’s important for us to show support for Taiwan,” Pelosi said. “None of us have ever said we’re for independence when it comes to Taiwan. That’s up to Taiwan to decide.”</div><div><br></div><div>Administration officials have privately stressed to Pelosi that traveling to Taiwan could further complicate a delicate status quo.</div><div><br></div><div>Chinese officials aren’t mincing words, sending a message that a visit by Pelosi would be viewed as a change in U.S. policy and treated as a provocation.</div><div><br></div><div>“If the U.S. insists on going its own way, China will take forceful measures to resolutely respond and counter it, and we will do what we say,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin.</div><div><br></div><div>The U.S. has a longstanding commitment to the “One China” policy that recognizes Beijing as the government of China but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei. China has stepped up its military provocations against Taiwan in recent years, and there are fears that it’s trying to intimidate the island into accepting Beijing’s demands to unify with the communist mainland.</div><div><br></div><div>The talks between Biden and Xi could also include discussion of North Korea’s nuclear program, differences between Beijing and Washington over Russia’s war in Ukraine, efforts by the Biden administration to revive the Iran nuclear deal and the status of the U.S. administration’s review of tough tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration.</div><div><br></div><div>“There are issues of tension in this relationship,” John Kirby, a national security spokesperson for the White House, said Tuesday. “But there’s also issues where we believe cooperation is not only possible, but mandatory, for instance on climate change, which affects us greatly.”</div><div><br></div><div>Long-simmering differences over Taiwan have come into intense focus in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion and ongoing efforts to annex swaths of eastern Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>As the U.S. scrambled to assemble a global coalition to hit the Russian economy with heavy sanctions following Vladimir Putin’s ordered invasion of Ukraine, Biden warned allies — particularly those in the Indo-Pacific — that Beijing would be watching closely how democracies responded as it considers its next steps on Taiwan.</div><div><br></div><div>White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday he fears that Beijing might be gleaning some “concerning” takeaways from the five-month-old war in eastern Europe. But he suggested the moment has also led to careful reflection in Taipei.</div><div><br></div><div>“Not as many people ask ‘Is Taiwan learning lessons from Ukraine?’ and you can bet they are,” Sullivan said during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum. “They’re learning lessons about citizen mobilization and territorial defense. They’re learning lessons about information warfare, and how to set the information space. And they’re learning lessons about how to prepare for a potential contingency involving China and they’re working rapidly at that.”</div><div><br></div><div>Taiwan was a central topic during Biden and Xi’s last call in March, about three weeks after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>China has repeatedly threatened to assert its claim to Taiwan by force, and has dispatched hundreds of sorties in Taiwanese airspace since Biden took office 18 months ago. The U.S. is legally obligated to ensure the self-governing island democracy can defend itself and treats threats to it with grave concern.</div><div><br></div><div>The conversation also comes as Biden’s national security and economic aides near the completion of a review of U.S. tariff policy and prepare to make recommendations to the president.</div><div><br></div><div>The tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump applied a 25% duty on billions of dollars of Chinese products. The penalties were intended to reduce the U.S. trade deficit and force China to adopt fairer practices. -AP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2022-07-27 14:30:35', '2022-07-27 14:30:35');
