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(6991, 6991, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">President Mohammed Shahabuddin today congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for an unanimous adoption of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)\'s resolution on community-based healthcare \"Community Clinic\" in Bangladesh, recognizing it as the successful innovative initiative.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a felicitation message, the President congratulated the Prime Minister for adopting a unanimous resolution titled \"Primary Health Systems: A Participatory and Inclusive Approach to Achieving Universal Health Services\" by the UNGA.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Head of State said in the resolution proposed by Bangladesh, the United Nations member states have referred to this initiative as \'The Sheikh Hasina Initiative\' to establish \'Community Clinics\' terming it as a matter of great pride and joy for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Bangladesh as well.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to premier\'s far-sighted thinking, talent, wisdom, courage and efficient leadership, he said, \"Bangladesh has now graduated to the status of the developing countries from a less developed one\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling medical care as one of the basic rights of the people, the President said, country\'s health sector, like other sectors, has also been influenced by the ongoing development.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Shahabuddin said the \'Community Clinic\' programme is one of the Prime Minister\'s 10 special initiatives and these are being widely appreciated by various international organizations, including the United Nations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 14,000 community clinics, established in country\'s marginal level, are playing an important role in improving the nutrition-level of the poor and underprivileged people at the grassroots, increasing the quality of life and protecting the overall public health, he mentioned.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Valiant Freedom Fighter Shahabuddin said, \"Establishment of community clinics is a landmark step to bring healthcare at the people\'s doorsteps . . . International recognition of this initiative is a result of your (PM) visionary leadership.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President believed that \'community clinics\' would serve as a model in other countries across the world where healthcare is not self-sufficient.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the dynamic and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh would move forward and become a developed and prosperous nation in the world in days to come, he hoped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Shahabuddin said soon after independence, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took all-out plans to turn war-ravaged Bangladesh into a happy and prosperous country and make it free from hunger and poverty, but the anti-independence vested quarter stopped that effort by killing Bangabandhu and his family on August 15, 1975.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subsequently, Sheikh Hasina\'s return to Bangladesh on May 17, 1981 after a long 6-year exile from 1975, paved the way to the spirit of the Liberation War, the values of Independence and the establishment of democracy, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Shahabuddin said after the establishment of the Grand Alliance Government under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina in 1996, the journey of development began with the aim of creating a hunger-and-poverty-free \'Sonar Bangla\' envisioned by Bangabandhu, the Greatest Bangali of all times.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"But in 2001 it turned into back again . . . The wheel of development started turning in the opposite direction,\" he observed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President said Bangabandhu\'s daughter was attacked many times including a grenade attack on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004 and the infinite mercy of Almighty God saved her from all dangers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the formation of the Alliance government led by Bangladesh Awami League in the 2008 general polls, Bangladesh started moving forward on the path of development and progress under PM Sheikh Hasina, he pointed out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the message, the President wished Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her family member\'s good health, long life and continued prosperity and prosperity. 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(6992, 6992, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP is taking preparation secretly for resorting to arson terrorism in the name of road march.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"BNP is getting ready for violence and conspiracy in the name of movement. BNP is taking preparation for arson terrorism during its road march. BNP\'s road march would be a march of fall,\" he told a peace rally here.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka South City unit of Awami League arranged the rally in front of the AL\'s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue this afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said toppling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\'s government is the key target of the BNP and that is why the party in collusion with foreign power has been involved in conspiracy to assume the state power.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Hatching conspiracy won\'t bring any results. As per the constitution, there will be a fair and peaceful election in the country,\" he said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terming BNP\'s Nayapaltan office a factory of falsehood, the AL general secretary said BNP\'s Gulshan office is a factory of rumours and it must be shut down.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP may call for a movement but the country\'s people will not allow the party to make its movement a success, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quader said BNP has failed in movement and struggle. \"Even if they (BNP) call for a movement, the country\'s people will not respond to it. Although you talk about movement frequently, the day of your movement is over now,\" he said.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that people would not join the BNP\'s movement as they have understood that nothing will happen through them (BNP).&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I want to assure my foreign friends that the next elections will be a free, fair and historic election. You don\'t need to be worried about anyone. You don\'t need to pay heed to knee-broken parties like BNP,\" the road transport minister said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chaired by Dhaka South City AL president Abu Ahmed Mannafi, the peace rally was addressed, among others, by AL presidium members Dr Abdur Razzaque, Advocate Qumrul Islam and Dr Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin, joint general secretaries AFM Bahauddin Nasim and Dr Dipu Moni, and organising secretary Mirza Azam and Afzal Hossain. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-19 21:28:10', '2023-05-19 21:28:10'),
(6993, 6993, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said time is up for the Awami League government, no matter how many countries Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits and what she says.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a rally in the capital, he called upon the law enforcers to play a neutral role as the country’s people and the democratic world want a credible national election in Bangladesh under a caretaker government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The time of this regime is over, no matter how much its Prime Minister shouts.&nbsp; Whether you (PM) go to Japan, the USA, the UK, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and China, you can\'t make any gains. Your time is up and that’s the reality,” the BNP leader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul urged the government to take steps before time runs out fast for freeing people from \'misrule\' and accept their demand for holding the next polls under a non-party caretaker government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the party’s countrywide programme, BNP’s Dhaka North City unit arranged the rally in Shyamoli Club Field in the capital to press home their 10-point demand, including holding the next polls under a non-party neutral government and to protest against the arrest and harassment of party leaders and activists in \'false cases\'.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party also organised rallies in 27 other cities and districts also for registering the party\'s protest against the filing of \'fictitious\' cases against opposition leaders and activists, soaring prices of essentials, frequent power cuts and the ‘all-pervasive’ corruption by the Awami League government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul alleged that people are going through suffering due to the crisis of power, gas, and water though the government has been repeatedly hiking the tariffs of the utility services.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said people are struggling to survive as the prices of all the daily necessities including rice, oil, eggs, salt, sugar, onion, garlic and ginger have increased two to three-fold.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“But the ministers and the ruling party leaders who live in air-conditioned rooms in luxury say everything is fine and the people of Bangladesh are in very good condition. The ruling party leaders often mock people by saying that they are better off than those in Singapore,” the BNP leader said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her party leaders cannot understand the pulse of people as they got isolated from them. “Stand before people without any state protocol to read their eye and body language.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leader said people have got fed up with the ‘misrule’ of the current regime. “They’re finding it difficult to survive. “Those who stay in power against the will of people can’t respect people. Those who stay in power depending on the law enforcement agencies and different forces can’t read the mind of people until their fall.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He alleged that the government has destroyed every sector of the country. “They steal Tk 78,000 crore every year only from the power sector through quick rental…they also destroyed the education system. There’s no academic atmosphere anywhere, including in colleges, schools, and universities.&nbsp; The Chhatra League cadres have occupied every educational institution. People with third-class degrees are becoming university teachers.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leader also said the government has also ruined the health sector by indulging in widespread corruption and plundering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the government is now using the “false and ghost’ cases against the opposition leaders and activists as a last resort to clinging to power at the fag-end of its rule.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul said their party leaders and activists have been subjected to repressions, imprisonment, and killing as they have been on a movement to restore democracy and people’s rights.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our 17 brothers have sacrificed their lives in the current movement. We have heard police opened fire on our leaders and activists in Khulna today (Friday). It won’t be possible to stop this movement of people by firing,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul slammed the ruling party leaders for their comments that the caretaker government system has already gone to its grave.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We want to make it clear that the people of this country will not accept any election without a caretaker government to ensure fair polls, vote by themselves and get fair results,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leader also said no election will be held in a free and fair manner under the Awami League government. “We saw the election in 2018 and in 2014…..there is no reason to trust them anymore. There can be no question of going to the elections under you (Sheikh Hasina).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the government must quit, dissolve parliament, free Khaleda Zia and withdraw the false cases against 40 lakh people.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul also questioned the capability of the Election Commission for holding a credible election as it is going to enact a law curbing its power to cancel the election of any constituency.&nbsp; “So where is the independence of the Election Commission? Do you think all the people of Bangladesh are fools? How long will you cheat people?&nbsp; You won’t be able to do it anymore.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He asked the law enforcers not to play any biased role as the current government has lost support both at home and abroad. “The people of the country and the democratic world want a fair, credible and participatory election and they know that it will not be possible without a caretaker government. So please don\'t create a situation where you (law enforcers) will be identified (for your biased role).\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BNP will also arrange rallies in Dhaka south city, 21 organisational districts and other metropolitan cities on Saturday. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-19 22:35:31', '2023-05-19 22:35:31'),
(6994, 6994, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The first hajj flight, carrying 419 pilgrims, is scheduled to leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Saudi Arabia at around 3.20am on Sunday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"A Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate the first hajj flight from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Jeddah on Sunday at 3.20am,\" Biman\'s spokesperson Tahera Khondoker told BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday inaugurated the Hajj Programme-2023 (1444 Hijri) at the Hajji Office in the capital\'s Ashkona area.</div><div><br></div><div>This year, a total of 122,221 pilgrims from Bangladesh are going to perform the holy hajj. The number of hajj pilgrims from Bangladesh was 57,585 last year due to Covid-19 restriction.</div><div><br></div><div>Before the Covid-19 pandemic, 127,198 pilgrims from Bangladesh performed hajj in 2019.</div><div><br></div><div>The Hajj is expected to be held on June 27 depending on the sighting of the moon. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 16:07:29', '2023-05-20 16:07:29'),
(6995, 6995, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Authorities in the western Canadian province of Alberta battling devastating wildfires have closed twelve local parks ahead of the long holiday weekend, fearing fresh flames, officials said Friday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alberta has declared a state of emergency and asked for foreign aid with more than 800,000 hectares of land destroyed in fires and thousands of people evacuated since the beginning of the month.</div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, there were 94 active forest fires in the province, 26 of which were out of control, according to officials.</div><div><br></div><div>The situation was also dire in neighboring British Columbia with 22 out-of-control fires and dozens of evacuation orders issued.</div><div><br></div><div>All of Alberta\'s 12 parks will be closed, state officials announced. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 16:47:46', '2023-05-20 16:47:46'),
(6996, 6996, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday urged the big countries which are heavily investing in Myanmar, to come forward for a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis for their own interests and protecting their investment.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"If the situation deteriorates, they could be easily succumbed to radicalism,\" he said at a seminar in a hotel in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Diplomats World, a publication that deals with cultural, legal, regional, global security, politics and various other issues, hosted the seminar titled \"Rohingya Repatriation: A Pathway to Peace, Stability and Harmony in the Bay of Bengal (BoB) Region.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said if the Rohingyas who are frustrated become terrorists big countries’ investment in the whole region would be at risk.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen said peace is required in the region so that their investment can sustain.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If there is a commitment, if there is a will, they can do it. It is the commitment that is lacking on the part of our global leadership. There are lip service, unfortunately,\" said the Foreign Minister.</div><div><br></div><div>He, however, said he always remains hopeful and mentioned that both the USA and China have engaged senior level focal point for resolving this Rohingya issue.</div><div><br></div><div>\"These are good news. We want to resolve this issue amicably through dialogue and discussion,\" he said urging the global leadership to come forward instead of talking too much.</div><div><br></div><div>\"They should come forward with sincerity and commitment. I must keep the hope alive. The Rohingyas have to go back to their own country for a better life and future. I hope it will happen one day,\" Momen added.</div><div><br></div><div>Former State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Executive Advisor of the publication Abul Hasan Chowdhury and Executive Editor Nazinur Rahim, among others, spoke. Accoring to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 17:04:56', '2023-05-20 17:04:56'),
(6997, 6997, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police filed a case with Khulna Sadar Police Station last night against 1,300 leaders and activists of BNP for attacking the law enforcers during the party\'s countrywide demonstrations yesterday near Khulna Press Club and adjoining areas.</span><br></b></div><div><b>&nbsp;</b></div><div>Sub-Inspector of Khulna Sadar Police Station Khalid Uddin filed the case against the 1,300 BNP men over the attack on police as complainant against 49 named accused and others unknown accused.</div><div><br></div><div>The named accused includes Azizul Bari Helal, ICT affairs secretary of central unit of BNP and Shafiqul Alam Tuhin, member secretary of city unit of BNP.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>According to the FIR, leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations attacked police on Friday afternoon from a procession in front of the Khulna Press Club and adjacent areas in the city.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>BNP men chanted a slogan against on-duty police and threw brickbats from a procession which prompted police to reiterate baton charge, tear gas and rubber bullets, narrated the FIR.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Talking to reporter, Tazul Islam, deputy commissioner (South) of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP), said police hurled rubber bullets and tear gas on unruly BNP men as they attacked on duty police from a procession.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Khulna Sadar Police Station Hasan-Al-Mamun told BSS that BNP brought out a procession in front of the Khulna Press Club without getting permission from KMP.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>\"They chased and attacked on duty police chanting anti-government slogans from the procession as the law enforcement agencies requested the leaders of BNP to stop the procession,\" he said.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The on-duty police were compelled to charge batons and hurled tear gas and rubber bullets while facing heinous attacks by unruly BNP men, he added, reports BSS.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The OC said, Police, so far, arrested 13 BNP men.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 17:36:46', '2023-05-20 17:36:46'),
(6998, 6998, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 30 people, including activists of Awami League (AL), Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and police personnel, were injured in clash between the two parties over holding rally in Sadar upazila of Patuakhali on Saturday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Police used teargas to disperse the fighting groups while an additional number of law enforcers have been deployed in the area to avert any untoward incident.</div><div><br></div><div>Local BNP leaders said there was a scheduled rally to press home their 10-point demand, including resignation of the incumbent government and holding the next parliamentary election under a neutral government, in front of the party office in Patuakhali\'s town\'s Banani intersection area at 10 am.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP activists and leaders from different parts of the district started gathering with processions since early morning, they said, adding that they were barred by the ruling party activists on their way to the rally venue.</div><div><br></div><div>A clash broke out between the activists of the parties when an AL procession was passing by, witnesses said.</div><div><br></div><div>Brickbats were thrown targeting each other, while BNP’s district office was also vandalised. The rival groups chased each other several times in the area, causing panic among the commuters and locals.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP Central leader ABM Mosharraf Hossain said at least 25 BNP activists were injured in the attack by AL men.</div><div><br></div><div>Md Saidul Islam, superintendent of police (SP), said, the situation is now under control and an additional number of policemen have been deployed in front of the BNP office in the town.</div><div><br></div><div>The SP said they used teargas to bring the situation under control but instantly could not inform how many rounds were used.</div><div><br></div><div>Additional Superintendent of Police Mohammad Mainul Hassan said several policemen were injured in the clash.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadar Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge, Md Moniruzzaman, said a process was underway to file cases against those who attacked law enforcers and tried to deteriorate the law and order situation.</div><div><br></div><div>The district unit of BNP held an emergency press conference in favour of their 10-point demand and protested the \"attack\" on their rally at a hotel this afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>At the press conference, BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo said the next national polls won’t be free and fair without a caretaker government.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, local AL leaders and activists held a peace rally in the morning.</div><div><br></div><div>AL\'s district unit President and freedom fighter Kazi Alamgir and Vice President Sultan Ahmad Mridha, among others, spoke at the rally, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>The district AL president said they will file a case against BNP men for \"attacking\" their rally.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 17:49:03', '2023-05-20 17:49:03'),
(6999, 6999, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The cluster admission test for the 2022-23 academic session in 22 general, science, and technology universities was conducted at Comilla University. A total of six centers, including Comilla University, conducted this admission test from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM on Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This year, the cluster exam was scheduled for 6,962 students, but 6,690 students took part in the examination at the Comilla University center, which accounts for approximately 98.05% participation in the admission test.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The examination was held peacefully, and there were no reports of any untoward incidents. The university authorities, law enforcement agencies, and other concerned authorities were highly vigilant to prevent any untoward incidents,\" said Professor Dr. A.F.M. Abdul Moyeen, the Vice Chancellor of Comilla University, after visiting the exam halls.</div><div><br></div><div>After the B unit admission test, the convener of the B unit admission test and dean of the Social Science Faculty of Comilla University, N.M Rabiul Awal Chowdhury said, \" Despite the campus being closed for a long time due to Eid Vacation&nbsp; and then various deficulties, we have successfully completed the admission test with the co-operation of others. We will aspire that the&nbsp; upcoming&nbsp; addmission test for the students of Science -Unit A and&nbsp; for the students of bussiness Unit C will also be conducted smoothly.\"</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'CoU Correspondent', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 19:04:07', '2023-05-20 19:04:07'),
(7000, 7000, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader urged BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to disclose whether the directives of their movements to oust the government will come from London or Thakurgaon.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Pointing out at Fakhrul, he said: \"If the date of when the government has to leave is known, the government can make preparations to leave. Besides, it\'s also better to be known that whether the storm of falling of the government is coming from London or Thakurgaon.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"BNP is saying every day that the government\'s time is over so as the general secretary of the party, I want to know from Mirza Fakhrul when the day (fall of the government) will come. I have been hearing this for the last 10 years,\" he reiterated.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said these while addressing the first triennial national conference of Awami Olama League at the auditorium of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) here.</div><div><br></div><div>The AL leader said BNP has to wage movement to bring down the government and the AL men are busy waging movement to save lives of the countrymen.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have to hold the peace rallies in this regard,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>AL General Secretary further said that the people of the country will decide when the time of this government will end.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The people of this country will also decide who will lead this country in the future,\" he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Reminding BNP of AL\'s popularity, reputation, strength and dedication to work for the people, Quader said BNP would be wrong to consider Awami League a drop of morning dew on taro leaf.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister said BNP is involved in waging movement to overthrow the government whereas Awami League is busy holding movement to protect people\'s lives.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"People of the country think that Bangladesh will not lose its way if Sheikh Hasina is in power,\" he continued.</div><div><br></div><div>From a least developed country, he said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has turned Bangladesh into a developing country despite facing variousdifficulties.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to Russia-Ukraine war and the difficult times of corona pandemic, he said:\"Due to the war crisis, the price of fuel and the dollar increased so that the price of daily necessities also increases. Moreover, we have to import many products from abroad.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Reducing the import of some products will increase people\'s suffering, he addeed.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite all these things, Quader said Bangladesh remains better than other countries of the world as it has a leader like Sheikh Hasina.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He criticized a vested quarter that spread false propaganda about the pro-people leader and the Premier Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>He also lauded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her enormous contribution to maintain massive development spree in the country for which she is being praised in the international area.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>With Bangladesh Awami Olama League Convener Dr K M Momen Siraji in the chair, the conference was addressed, among others, by AL Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 20:31:46', '2023-05-20 20:31:46'),
(7001, 7001, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The head of Russia\'s Wagner mercenary group on Saturday claimed the complete capture of the east Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, scene of the longest and bloodiest battle in Moscow\'s offensive.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Today on May 20, around mid-day, Bakhmut was taken in its entirety,\" Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video posted on Telegram, with fighters behind him holding the Russian flag surrounded by ruins. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 20:34:37', '2023-05-20 20:34:37'),
(7002, 7002, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban here this evening.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister informed the President about her recent tri-nation visit and discussed various issues relating to the affairs of the state.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister visited Japan, UK and USA from April 25 to May 9 and took part in different bilateral programmes on trade, investment and mutual cooperation with those countries, World Bank and IMF, President\'s press secretary Md. Joynal Abedin said.</div><div><br></div><div>President Shahabuddin thanked and congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the successful visit. He particularly appreciated the premier\'s excellence shown during the meeting with her counterparts and officials of the multilateral organizations.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister\'s visit would further expand bilateral and multilateral ties, including trade and investment with Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom, the President hoped, as his press secretary was saying.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>President Shahabuddin presented a copy of his book \"Egiye Jabe Bangladesh\" (Bangladesh will go ahead) to the Prime Minister.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The President and the Prime Minister also enquired about the health and personal wellbeing of each others.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>President Mohammed Shahabuddin and his spouse Dr. Rebecca Sultana greeted the Prime Minister with a bouquet of flowers on her arrival at Bangabhaban.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 21:21:32', '2023-05-20 21:21:32'),
(7003, 7003, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will arrive in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on a French plane Saturday afternoon to attend the G7 summit, a diplomatic source told AFP.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Zelensky will hold talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G7 summit, the source said. He will also hold separate meetings with US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 21:52:02', '2023-05-20 21:52:02'),
(7004, 7004, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>New Zealand\'s Devon Conway and Ruturaj Gaikwad smashed half-centuries to fire Chennai Super Kings into the IPL play-offs with a thumping 77-run win over Delhi Capitals on Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The left-handed Conway (87) and Gaikwad (79) put on a blazing opening stand of 141 to steer Chennai to a mammoth 223-3 after electing to bat first in Delhi.</div><div><br></div><div>Skipper David Warner hit a valiant 86 but Chennai kept down Delhi, who are coached by Ricky Ponting, to 146-9 and book their spot in the top four.</div><div><br></div><div>They join holders and table-toppers Gujarat Titans, who are assured of a top-two finish.</div><div><br></div><div>Four-time winners Chennai have finished the group stage with eight wins and can stay as the second-ranked team in the table, depending on the day\'s second result between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants.</div><div><br></div><div>The season remains special for Chennai skipper M.S. Dhoni, who is believed to be playing his last season and has attracted huge crowds wearing the teams\' yellow as a tribute to the legendary cricketer.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhoni, 41, though has kept the fans guessing and still not clarified on his swansong.</div><div><br></div><div>Delhi, who were the first team to get eliminated from the play-off race, bowed out with nine losses and five wins.</div><div><br></div><div>Batsmen set up victory for Chennai after Gaikwad and Conway, in his 52-ball blitz, got cracking on the opposition bowlers with fours and sixes.</div><div><br></div><div>Chetan Sakariya sent back Gaikwad, who hit seven sixes in his 50-ball knock, but Conway kept up the charge in another attacking partnership of 54 with Shivam Dube, who hit 22.</div><div><br></div><div>Dube\'s wicket raised the noise as Dhoni walked in with thunderous applause and stood unbeaten with Ravindra Jadeja, who hit a seven-ball 20.</div><div><br></div><div>Delhi were never in the chase as Warner played a lone hand in his attempt to drive the teams\' reply in his 58-ball knock but got little support from the other end.</div><div><br></div><div>Pace spearhead Deepak Chahar took three wickets while Sri Lankan duo of Matheesha Pathirana (fast bowler) and Maheesh Theekshana (off-spinner) took two each. According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'Sports Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 21:54:43', '2023-05-20 21:54:43'),
(7005, 7005, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that Sheikh Hasina\'s resignation is his party\'s only demand.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“Solution (to the political crisis) will come, on the streets. Bangladesh has to be returned, the Bangladesh we got after the Liberation War is a democratic Bangladesh,” he said at a rally organized by the district BNP at Lalmonirhat Collectorate ground on Saturday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have said that there will be no election in this country without a neutral caretaker government. For this, the Sheikh Hasina government will have to resign first. The election commission should be formed by forming a neutral caretaker government. According to the new law, the Election Commission cannot cancel any election. We don\'t want such an Election Commission,\" said Fakhrul.</div><div><br></div><div>“Those who have taken away our voting rights and democracy cannot be in power anymore. It\'s time to oust them. Wake up, everyone. The only demand is the resignation of Sheikh Hasina,” he also said.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP secretary general urged all to unite in the movement to topple the government, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“The government who came to power through vote-rigging could not feed rice at Tk 10 per kg, and increased the price of fertilizer several times, today people are unable to buy onions, eggs. By increasing the price of goods, The Awami League has destroyed the country\'s economy by looting the country\'s resources and smuggling it abroad,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“False cases have been filed against about 40 lakh leaders and workers of our party. Many leaders and activists , including former MPs, have been made disappeared. The Awami League government has killed our leaders and activists in the name of crossfire. Many children are waiting for their father, many wives for their husbands, many mothers are waiting for the arrival of their children. Sheikh Hasina\'s government has given us such a country,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-20 23:14:40', '2023-05-20 23:14:40'),
(7006, 7006, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Warring factions in Sudan have agreed to a seven-day ceasefire following talks in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, according to a statement from Washington and Riyadh, as fighting that has killed hundreds and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ceasefire agreement was signed late on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will take effect 48 hours after, at 9:45pm local time (19:45 GMT) on Monday, the sponsors of the talks, the United States and Saudi Arabia, said in their joint statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Numerous previous ceasefire agreements were violated. However, this agreement will be enforced by a US-Saudi and international-supported monitoring mechanism, the statement said without providing details.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agreement also calls for distributing humanitarian assistance, restoring essential services and withdrawing forces from hospitals and essential public facilities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is past time to silence the guns and allow unhindered humanitarian access. I implore both sides to uphold this agreement — the eyes of the world are watching,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has plunged the country into chaos. Stocks of food, cash and essentials are rapidly dwindling, and mass looting has hit banks, embassies, aid warehouses and even churches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Will this truce hold?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from the capital’s twin city, Omdurman, said the agreement will freeze the conflict, with the warring sides allowed to hold on to their current positions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The Rapid Support Forces will keep control of the presidential palace and the army keeps control of its headquarters, the General Command of the Armed Forces. As for the airport, the RSF has more control of the facilities there, so they will keep that,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the Sudanese people — who are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance — were deeply sceptical of the agreement, said Morgan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“People say that they are not sure if this ceasefire will hold. They’ve seen how previous ceasefires have played out. And they say that until Tuesday or Wednesday, when and if they do not hear the sound of artillery in their neighbourhoods and when and if they see humanitarian aid, then they will know if there’s an actual ceasefire.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ceasefire came as residents in Omdurman and Khartoum North, the two cities that lie across the Nile from Khartoum, reported heavy air raids.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the attacks took place near the state broadcaster in Omdurman, the witnesses said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We faced heavy artillery fire early this morning, the whole house was shaking,” Sanaa Hassan, a 33-year-old living in the al-Salha neighbourhood of Omdurman, told the Reuters news agency by phone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It was terrifying, everyone was lying under their beds. What’s happening is a nightmare,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RSF is embedded in residential districts, drawing almost continual air attacks by the regular armed forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witnesses in Khartoum said that the situation was relatively calm, although sporadic gunshots could be heard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Fighting in Darfur</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conflict, which began on April 15, has killed at least 705 people and wounded at least 5,287, according to the World Health Organization. Some 1.1 million people have been displaced internally and into neighbouring countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">In recent days, ground fighting has flared once again in the Darfur region, in the cities of Nyala and Zalenjei.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides blamed each other in statements late on Friday for sparking the fighting in Nyala, one of the country’s largest cities, which had for weeks been relatively calm due to a locally-brokered truce.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A local activist told Reuters there were sporadic gun clashes near the city’s main market close to army headquarters on Saturday morning. Almost 30 people have died in the two previous days of fighting, according to activists.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The war broke out in Khartoum after disputes over plans for the RSF to be integrated into the army under an internationally-backed deal to shift Sudan towards democracy following decades of conflict-ridden rule by former President Omar al-Bashir, who had appointed himself as leader of the country after staging a coup in 1989. Aljazeera</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 07:14:00', '2023-05-21 07:14:00');
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(7007, 7007, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The US’ decision to support the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine is certainly a military boost for Kyiv – but the devil is in the detail.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crucial questions are: how many, how quickly, and what weapons will the jets will come supplied with?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No-one doubts the ability of the F-16, which has more than proved itself in conflicts around the world, and will be a step up from Ukraine’s Soviet-era Mig-29s and Su-27s, which fly comparable missions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However it’s not yet clear which of its capabilities will be available to Ukraine, while training and delivery will also be a challenge.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\'ve seen a significant meeting already this morning - with the South Korean and Japanese leaders holding talks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan\'s PM Fumio Kishida and South Korea\'s President Yoon Seok-youl visited a cenotaph dedicated to the Koreans victims of the nuclear bombings in Japan during WW2.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The backdrop is highly symbolic as the two leaders try to repair a decades-long historic feud. Encouraged by Washington, this is the leader\'s third such meeting this year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korea\'s leader also met with Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bombing on Sunday and said that the Japanese PM\'s earlier declaration that \"his heart hurts\" for those who suffered from forced labour under Japan\'s colonial rule resonated with South Koreans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yoon is also expected to meet Volodymy Zelensky later on Sunday for the first time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">How did this year’s summit compare to last year’s?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated the agenda at last year’s G7 summit in Bavaria, Germany.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took place in June 2022, just months after the war started. At the time,G7 leaders said they were “appalled” by Russia’s “war of aggression” and promised to provide financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support to Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also addressed the summit via video-link.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>What is the G7 and what does it do?</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The G7 (Group of Seven) summit is an annual meeting of the world\'s seven largest so-called \"advanced\" economies – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan took over the G7 presidency from Germany in 2023, meaning it will host a number of meetings throughout the year, most notably this summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout the year G7 ministers and officials hold meetings, form agreements and publish joint statements on global events.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EU is not a member of the G7 but also attends, while representatives from countries including Australia, Brazil, South Korea and India have also been invited.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia was expelled from the group - previously known as the G8 - in 2014 in response to its annexation of Crimea. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 07:20:07', '2023-05-21 07:20:07'),
(7008, 7008, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Group of Seven wealthy democracies united in urging China to pressure its strategic partner Russia to end its war on Ukraine and resolve territorial disputes peacefully, and China lashed back.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a joint statement, the G7 leaders emphasized they did not want to harm China and were seeking “constructive and stable relations” with Beijing, “recognizing the importance of engaging candidly with and expressing our concerns directly to China.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We call on China to press Russia to stop its military aggression, and immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw its troops from Ukraine,” said the statement Saturday. “We encourage China to support a comprehensive, just and lasting peace based on territorial integrity and the principles and purposes of the U.N. Charter,” including in direct talks with Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cooperation with China is needed given its global role and economic size, the group said, in appealing for working together on challenges such as climate change, biodiversity, debts and financing needs of of vulnerable countries, global health concerns and economic stability.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the leaders expressed “serious concern” about the situation in the East and South China seas, where Beijing has been expanding its military presence and threatening to use force to exert its control over self-governed Taiwan. They called for a “peaceful resolution” of China\'s claim to Taiwan, which has remained unresolved since the communists gained power on the Chinese mainland in 1949.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said there was “no legal basis for China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea, and we oppose China’s militarization activities in the region.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“A growing China that plays by international rules would be of global interest,” the statement said, alluding to charges that Beijing is undermining the “rules-based international order.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The G7 also united in voicing concerns about human rights in China, including in Tibet, in Hong Kong and in the far western region of Xinjiang, where the issue of forced labor is a perennial issue.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the statement also sought to counter accusations that the G7 is seeking to prevent China\'s rise as a global power.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Our policy approaches are not designed to harm China nor do we seek to thwart China’s economic progress and development,” it said. The statement highlighted a consensus that efforts to diversify manufacturing supply chains and ensure stable access to strategically vital minerals and other resources is not aimed at unraveling trade ties with the world\'s second-largest economy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are not decoupling or turning inwards,\" the statement said. “At the same time, we recognize that economic resilience requires de-risking and diversifying. We will take steps, individually and collectively, to invest in our own economic vibrancy. We will reduce excessive dependencies in our critical supply chains.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, the G7 members vowed to take a stand against various types of “economic coercion,” saying they “will counter malign practices, such as illegitimate technology transfer or data disclosure,” while also avoiding “unduly limiting trade and investment.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinese officials have reacted to various G7 statements about economic coercion and other issues with outrage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the G7 “used issues concerning China to smear and attack China and brazenly interfere in China’s internal affairs. China strongly deplores and firmly opposes this and has made serious démarches to the summit’s host Japan and other parties concerned.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The G7 needs to stop pointing fingers at China on Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet and take a hard look at their own history and human rights record,” it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taiwan, meanwhile, thanked the G7 for its support.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Taiwan will stand alongside with democracies and communities of the world to cooperate in defusing the risks,” its president, Tsai Ing-wen said Saturday. “Nowadays, the consensus around the world is very clear, which is the fact that cross-strait issues have to be solved in a peaceful manner. War is not an option,\" she said at a news conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from Japan, this year\'s host of the leader\'s annual summit, the G7 includes the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Italy and the European Union.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The G7 statement was released on the second day of a three-day summit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Hiroshima on Saturday to participate in meetings planned for Sunday. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 08:44:43', '2023-05-21 08:44:43'),
(7009, 7009, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 162 at 9:00 am this morning (May 21, 2023), Dhaka ranked 4th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\'s Lahore, India\'s Delhi and China’s Shenyang occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 190, 190, and 163, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 101 and 150, air quality is considered ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, between 151 and 200 is ‘unhealthy’, between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants — particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 10:17:45', '2023-05-21 10:17:45'),
(7010, 7010, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured when stampeding soccer fans pushed through one of the access gates at a quarterfinal match in the Salvadoran league Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Civil Police said in a preliminary report via Twitter that nine dead were confirmed at the match between clubs Alianza and FAS at Monumental stadium in Cuscatlan, which is about 25 miles (41 kilometers) northeast of the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least two of the injured transported to hospitals were in critical condition, the police said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local television transmitted live images of the stampede by Alianza fans. Dozens made it onto the field where they received medical treatment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It was an avalanche of fans who overran the gate. Some were still under the metal in the tunnel. Others managed to make it to the stands and then to the field and were smothered,” an unidentified volunteer with the Rescue Commandos first aid grouptold journalists. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 10:20:05', '2023-05-21 10:20:05'),
(7011, 7011, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin late Saturday congratulated the Wagner mercenary group and the national army on their claimed capture of the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, according to a Kremlin statement quoted by Russian news agencies.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Vladimir Putin congratulated the assault units of Wagner as well as all servicemen of units of the Russian armed forces who provided them with the necessary support and flank cover, on the completion of the operation to liberate Artemovsk (the Soviet-era name for Bakhmut),\" the TASS news agency quoted the Kremlin statement as saying. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 10:24:20', '2023-05-21 10:24:20'),
(7012, 7012, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Manchester City clinched a third straight English Premier League title after second-placed Arsenal lost at Nottingham Forest 1-0 to cap its end-of-season collapse on Saturday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">City holds an unassailable four-point lead, with Arsenal — the once long-time leader — having only one game remaining.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is City\'s seventh league crown in a 12-year period during which the Abu Dhabi-owned club has changed the face of the English game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">City’s latest title is the fifth in Pep Guardiola\'s seven years at the club and owes as much to its end-of-season streak of 11 straight victories as it does to an implosion by Arsenal, just when a first league title since 2004 was in sight.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arsenal led by eight points on April 1 but has since won only two of eight games.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A win at the City Ground likely would have delayed the inevitable but Taiwo Awoniyi\'s 19th-minute goal brought an end to the title race with City still having three games to play.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victory also ensured Forest was safe from relegation in its first season back in the top-flight since 1999. AP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 10:28:17', '2023-05-21 10:28:17'),
(7013, 7013, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russia said Saturday it has captured the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, epicentre of the fighting, as President Vladimir Putin congratulated his troops and private mercenary group Wagner.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement from the Russian army came hours after Kyiv said the battle was continuing, while admitting the situation was \"critical\", and with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky meeting G7 leaders in Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bakhmut, a salt-mining town that once had a population of 70,000 people, has been the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle in Moscow\'s more than year-long Ukraine offensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fall of Bakhmut, where both Moscow and Kyiv are believed to have suffered huge losses, would allow Moscow to bring home a key victory after a series of humiliating defeats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would also come before a major counteroffensive that Kyiv has been preparing for months. Zelensky himself has warned that the fall of the city would open the way for Russian troops to capture more parts of Donbas.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"As a result of offensive actions of the Wagner assault units, with the support of artillery and aviation of the \'Southern\' unit, the liberation of the city of Artemovsk was completed,\" Russia\'s defence ministry said, using the Soviet-era name of Bakhmut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Vladimir Putin congratulated the assault units of Wagner as well as all servicemen of units of the Russian armed forces who provided them with the necessary support and flank cover, on the completion of the operation to liberate\" the city, the TASS news agency quoted a Kremlin statement as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wagner\'s boss Yevgeny Prigozhin earlier claimed the city had fallen to his mercenaries in a video posted on Telegram, in which fighters held Russian flags against a backdrop of ruins.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Today on May 20, around midday, Bakhmut was taken in its entirety,\" Prigozhin said in the video, adding that Wagner fighters would search the captured city before handing it over to the Russian army.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"By May 25 we will completely examine (Bakhmut), create the necessary lines of defence and hand it to the military,\" Prigozhin said. \"We ourselves will go into field camps.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Artillery sound could be heard in the background of Prigozhin\'s video.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'Bakhmut will be liberated\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine, which this month claimed successes in and around Bakhmut, said earlier that the battle was not over.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Heavy fighting in Bakhmut. The situation is critical,\" deputy defence minister Ganna Malyar posted on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said Ukrainian troops were \"holding the defence\" in the city\'s \"Airplane area\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"As of now, our defenders control certain industrial and infrastructure facilities in the area,\" she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was not possible for AFP to verify either claim.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s announcement that the city had fallen came hours ahead of Zelensky\'s meeting Sunday with US President Joe Biden in Japan, during the G7 summit.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden, who has spearheaded Western backing of Ukraine with sanctions and supplies, \"looks forward\" to the meeting, a senior administration official said, adding that it is expected to take place after 2:00pm (0500 GMT) Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky made a surprise appearance Saturday at the summit in Hiroshima -- another diplomatic coup a day after he attended the Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ukrainian president, who was flown in on a French government plane, was able to meet not just G7 leaders but those from other key international players such as unaligned powers Brazil and India.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fruits of his diplomatic efforts have already paid off, with the US announcing Friday that it would allow Kyiv to acquire F-16 fighter jets, the most sophisticated material yet supplied by the West.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- ICC denounces Moscow warrant -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prigozhin meanwhile continued his running battle with Russia\'s military establishment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The operation to capture Bakhmut -- the Bakhmut meat grinder -- lasted 224 days,\" Prigozhin said, wearing a camouflage uniform. Moscow\'s losses would have been far smaller if it was not for incompetent generals, he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wagner, which spearheaded the fight for Bakhmut, is believed to have suffered huge losses in the months-long storming of the city. Prigozhin has long complained about Wagner not being given appropriate amounts of ammunition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There was only Wagner here (in Bakhmut),\" he said in the video. \"We fought not only the Ukrainian army here, we fought Russian bureaucracy.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He blamed Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov for turning the offensive into \"their own amusement\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two camps are now awaiting a counteroffensive announced by Ukrainian authorities who are backed by Western arms deliveries. Zelensky said recently that his army needs more time before launching the assault.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Criminal Court on Saturday denounced the previous day\'s \"unacceptable\" move by Moscow to put ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on a wanted list over his issuance of an arrest warrant for Putin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The court will remain undeterred in the conduct of its lawful mandate to ensure accountability for the gravest crimes,\" the Hague-based tribunal said. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 10:32:04', '2023-05-21 10:32:04'),
(7014, 7014, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The first hajj flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia in the early hours of today.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The national flag carrier\'s aircraft \'BG-3001\' departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) around 3:20am and it was scheduled to land in Jeddah at 7:20am (local time).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday inaugurated the Hajj Activities-2023 (1444 Hijri) at the Hajji Office in the capital\'s Ashkona area. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"7\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 11:01:47', '2023-05-21 11:01:47'),
(7015, 7015, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Met Office has predicted rain or thundershowers in parts of the country over 24 hours, starting from 9 am today (May 21, 2023). </b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind are likely to occur at a few places in Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places in Khulna and Barishal divisions,” said the Met Office bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mild heatwave is sweeping over the districts of Rajshahi, Pabna, Jashore and Chuadanga and it may continue, according to the bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged across the country, according to the Met Office bulletin.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The highest temperature was recorded at 37.1 degrees Celsius in Rajshahi while the lowest temperature was recorded at 20.5 degrees Celsius in Kishoreganj’s Nikli and Sylhet. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather office recorded the highest 34 mm rainfall in Sylhet. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 12:41:44', '2023-05-21 12:47:41'),
(7016, 7016, '<div><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US President Joe Biden announced Sunday a new weapons package for Kyiv, as he met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Biden said the package would include \"ammunition, artillery, armored vehicles\" -- days after giving allies the okay to transfer advanced F-16 jets to Ukraine. AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 12:45:36', '2023-05-21 12:45:36'),
(7017, 7017, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States has said that they maintain a \"broad and deep\" relationship with Bangladesh, and that they also want to advance the ties.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The United States maintains a broad and deep relationship with Bangladesh that we seek to advance,\" an official at the US Embassy in Dhaka told UNB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The response came when the US Embassy\'s attention was drawn to a media report that claims more US sanctions could be coming. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 13:33:33', '2023-05-21 13:33:33'),
(7018, 7018, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">World Meditation Day is an annual observance held on May 21st, dedicated to promoting the practice of meditation and its profound benefits. In today\'s stressful and fast-paced world, the practice of meditation has garnered significant prominence owing to its multiple mental, emotional, and physical benefits. Meditation offers a profound way to reconnect with ourselves, reduce stress, and cultivate a sense of balance and well-being.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet, a sizable number of individuals struggle to make meditation a routine habit despite the initial zeal. Designing a consistent meditation practice demands commitment and a well-defined strategy. Whether you\'re a beginner or have dabbled in meditation before, these practical tips will help you establish a consistent practice that brings peace and mindfulness into your daily routine.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Ways to make meditation a habit:</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raman Mittal, Meditation Expert and Co-founder and CEO of Idanim, shares with HT Lifestyle, seven proven strategies that will help individuals incorporate meditation into their daily routine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>1. Keep realistic expectations and be consistent</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It takes time to build muscles once you hit the gym. It takes time to lose weight once you start a diet. It takes time to learn a skill you just began. Similarly, once you begin meditating do not expect wonders overnight. Meditation is a journey and requires dedication and patience. Consistency is crucial when it comes to embracing any habit, and meditation is no exception. Select a specific time and place for your practice with minimal distractions. Be it early morning, lunch hour or before bedtime, maintaining a uniform schedule helps prepare your mind and body to expect and embrace the practice regularly.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>2. Adopt a gradual approach</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When venturing on your meditation journey, do not jump-start with advanced meditations. Start with short sessions of 5-10 minutes, and gradually expand the duration as you become more comfortable and acquainted with the practice and develop the habit of staying still. By designing attainable goals, you build momentum and avoid feeling overwhelmed or disheartened.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>3. Pick a suitable location</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Establishing a dedicated area for meditation can improve your focus and build a peaceful environment, facilitative to your practice. It is important to remember that it doesn\'t need to be an elaborate setup and could include a comfortable chair or merely a cushion or chair. Practitioners can also adorn it with objects that promote tranquillity like candles, plants, or meaningful symbols.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>4. Leverage meditation apps</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For beginners, meditation apps can deliver valuable support by offering guided sessions tailored for different durations and skill levels. They offer a structured framework, making it convenient to delve into the practice and stay focused. Also, integrating meditation into your existing daily routines can assist in framing it as a daily habit. For example, you can include mindfulness practices while conducting routine tasks like brushing your teeth, taking a shower, or commuting to work. By purposefully bringing awareness to these moments, you fill your day with mindfulness and make meditation an essential part of your life.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>7. Keep track of your progress</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scrutinising your progress can be a motivating factor in maintaining a meditation habit. Keep a log of your meditation sessions, recording the duration, any insights or experiences, and how you felt before and after each session. By following your progress, you can follow patterns, identify improvements, and celebrate accomplishments, strengthening your commitment to regular practice. Meditation apps are a great way to keep track of your progress. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 13:44:56', '2023-05-21 13:44:56'),
(7019, 7019, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Israel\'s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound Sunday, police said, a controversial move by the extreme-right politician amid heightened tensions in annexed east Jerusalem.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Minister Ben Gvir visited the Temple Mount this morning. There was no incident during the visit,\" police said in a statement, using the Jewish name for the holy site in the heart of the Old City. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 14:00:59', '2023-05-21 14:00:59'),
(7020, 7020, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Agriculture Minister Md Abdur Razzaque has said a decision on onion import will be taken within two to three days after monitoring the market situation.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"I know that all middle- and limited-income people are suffering. The price of onion should not be Tk 80 per kg. At the policy level, we are putting emphasis on the interests of our local farmers,” the minister said while talking to reporters at his Secretariat office today.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have discussed it at the highest level of policymaking. We are monitoring the market very closely. Insha\'Allah, you will get a decision on whether we will import onions in 2-3 days,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, the Agriculture Secretary Wahida Akhter said the government is considering importing onions due to the hike in onion prices in the market.</div><div><br></div><div>Due to government intervention, onion production in the country has increased by more than one million tonne in the last two years, according to the DAE (Department of Agricultural Extension).</div><div><br></div><div>This year alone, more than 34 lakh tonnes of onion have been produced in the country. Meanwhile, the demand for onion in the country is 26 to 28 lakh tonnes per year. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 16:52:14', '2023-05-21 16:52:14'),
(7021, 7021, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A guitar smashed on stage by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain sold for nearly $600,000, several times its original estimate, an auction house said Saturday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The busted black Fender Stratocaster has been put back together, but is no longer playable, Kody Frederick of Julien\'s Auctions told AFP earlier this month.</div><div><br></div><div>It was signed by all three members of the Seattle grunge outfit as they rocketed to global fame.</div><div><br></div><div>The auction house said it had expected the instrument to sell for $60,000 at the event in front of a live audience at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City.</div><div><br></div><div>Instead, it went for $595,000, Julien\'s said in a statement, calling the total \"astounding.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"You can see here the break that took place as he slammed down the guitar, where the neck here kind of connects, as well as down here on the bottom where he slammed the guitar down,\" Frederick told AFP earlier in May.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Kurt Cobain, when he was on stage, when he played, he was a machine. The man was angry, and you could feel that on stage. And you would feel that by the way he would treat his instruments.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This broken element, in a strange way, from this broken musician, that really defined this rough and tumble era of music.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Nirvana\'s hits, many of which were penned by Cobain, included \"Come As You Are,\" \"Lithium\" and the 1991 breakout \"Smells Like Teen Spirit\" -- a track that became anthemic for a generation of alienated teenagers.</div><div><br></div><div>Cobain struggled with substance addiction and depression, and had a tumultuous relationship with his wife, Courtney Love.</div><div><br></div><div>He took his own life in April 1994.</div><div><br></div><div>The three-day auction, which concludes Sunday, also includes memorabilia from the careers of Eddie Van Halen, Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Bill Wyman and Janet Jackson. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 17:23:16', '2023-05-21 17:23:16'),
(7022, 7022, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday has said that the people have no interest in the city polls being held under the Election Commission which is regulated by the government.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Speaking at a discussion programme, he also feared that the upcoming elections to the five city corporations will be stage-managed even though BNP is not fielding any candidate.</div><div><br></div><div>“They (govt) have completely destroyed the election system by using the state machinery. The Election Commission is under the control of the government. People are not interested in the election taking place in the country,” the BNP leader said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said opposition parties are not fielding candidates in most of the city corporation elections due to the “collapsed’ election system.</div><div><br></div><div>”Arif (Ariful Haque Chowdhury) is a very popular two-time mayor in Sylhet and the people of Sylhet want him to see as mayor again. In a public meeting, Arif yesterday (Saturday) said this election will never be accepted as the government has made a blueprint. So, there is no point in going to this election as it will be meaningless,” Fakhrul said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the people of Sylhet City shed tears as their beloved leader decided against participating in the election.&nbsp; “He (Arif) clearly said this election will be meaningless and no election will be fair under this government.”</div><div><br></div><div>A faction of the Jatiya Gonotantrik Party (Jagpa) arranged the programme at the Jatiya Press Club, marking the party founder Shafiul Alam Pradhan’s sixth death anniversary.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said all the authoritarian and fascistic regimes destroy the election system and use the stage-managed voting a tool to hang onto power.</div><div><br></div><div>“So, We would like to say it very clearly that there will be no free and fair elections if the current government remains in power…the election must be held under an impartial caretaker government,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul said the government has taken the election system to such a situation that ruling the party’s alliance partner and Workers Party President, Rashed Khan Menon, said a few days back that they do not want ‘planned’ elections.</div><div><br></div><div>“The message is very clear that Awami League holds planned elections and he (Menon) does not want such polls. Another state minister said that the ministers create syndicates here and they increase the prices of commodities,” the BNP leader observed.</div><div><br></div><div>Referring to a World Bank report, he said Bangladesh is the champion of default loans. “Bangladesh has even surpassed Sri Lanka in this regard.”</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader said the number of loan defaulters is increasing in the country as the ruling party leaders, including the ministers, do not repay after borrowing crores of taka.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul also warned the BNP rank and file not to be confused by different ‘evil games’ by the government ahead of the national election, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“We must remain united to free our leader Begum Khaleda Zia, ensure the return of our leader Tarique Rahman to the country, restore democracy, people’s voting rights and establish equality, the movement has already begun. We all have to take to the streets with all strengths to take it a final stage for establishing a caretaker government ousting the current regime,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 21:24:29', '2023-05-21 21:24:29'),
(7023, 7023, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister’s ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said BNP leaders described 2018 general elections as fair and participatory while speaking to the media on election day but they changed their statements in the evening as results were coming in.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The leaders of BNP did not talk about any kind of rigging or widespread irregularities on the election day. News reports show people voting spontaneously, BNP leaders expressing satisfaction,” he said in a facebook post along with uploading a compilation of news clips on Friday night.</div><div><br></div><div>He added: “But later in the evening, Mirza Fakhrul-Dr Kamal Hossain\'s statements changed completely.”</div><div><br></div><div>They started giving speeches blaming the government for their failure, he said, adding that so far they have not been able to present any concrete evidence in support of their claim.</div><div><br></div><div>“The leaders of BNP and Oikya Front have been lying continuously regarding the 11th Parliamentary Election in which they were defeated by a large number of votes. Even in the anti-Awami League media, a group is relentlessly trying to establish the \'night vote\' theory,” he wrote.</div><div><br></div><div>Joy said representatives of foreign observer groups ruled the election fair.</div><div><br></div><div>“The reason for BNP\'s collapse is BNP itself,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>In the facebook post, Joy uploaded a video which is compilations of news clips of private-run television channels including Independent, Somoy Television, DBC, News 24 and it also gave references of the daily Ittefaq, Jugantor, Prothom Alo and bdnews24.com. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 22:14:19', '2023-05-21 22:14:19'),
(7024, 7024, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Saudi Arabian Ambassador in Dhaka Essa Yousef Essa Alduhailan paid a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban here this noon.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"During the meeting, the President said Bangladesh\'s relationship with Saudi Arabia is very excellent…,\" President\'s press secretary Md Joynal Abedin told BSS later.</div><div><br></div><div>The Head of the State thanked the Saudi government for facilitating the Hajj process for Bangladeshis and launching e-visa.</div><div><br></div><div>Noting that Saudi Arabia is the biggest destination for the export of Bangladesh\'s manpower, President Shahabuddin said Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia are playing an important role in the economic development of both countries.</div><div><br></div><div>He put emphasis on increasing mutual communication and visit-exchange both at public and private levels to enhance trade investment between the two countries.</div><div><br></div><div>Along with strengthening relations with Bangladesh, the Saudi ambassador said Saudi investments in different sectors, including electricity and energy, are also increasing gradually.</div><div><br></div><div>After Kuwait, Bangladesh is the second country, where mobile Umrah Visa has been implemented, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The envoy also said many big companies in Saudi Arabia are showing interest in investing in Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>President\'s Office Secretary Sampad Barua, President\'s Military Secretary Major General SM Salahuddin Islam, President\'s press secretary Md Joynal Abedin and Secretary (Attachment) Wahidul Islam Khan were present on the occasion. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 22:18:40', '2023-05-21 22:18:40'),
(7025, 7025, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Full scale gas supply from one of the Maheshkhali floating LNG terminals, which remained off from May 11 due to the impact of cyclonic storm Mocha,&nbsp; resumed on Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aslam Alam, public relations officer (information officer) of Power,&nbsp; Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, said the operation of one of the floating LNG terminal in Mahishkhali of Cox’s Bazar district resumed on Saturday night.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the gas supply from the two LNG terminals in Maheshkhali remained suspended due to the impact of Cyclone Mocha from May 11.</div><div><br></div><div>On May 16, the authorities resumed the operation of one the floating LNG terminals.</div><div><br></div><div>With the resumption of gas supply from the second floating LNG terminal, some 800 million cubic feet of gas (mmcfd) is being added to the national pipeline from the two LNG terminals.</div><div><br></div><div>People of the country, especially the residents of Chattogram, faced frequent load shedding for several days due to the suspension of the gas supply from two LNG terminals.</div><div><br></div><div>Production in many factories also remained suspended due to the lack of gas supply. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 22:46:15', '2023-05-21 22:46:15'),
(7026, 7026, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Some 315 active members of extremist organizations in the North-Western of the country voluntarily surrendered by relinquishing their weapons to the Rapid Action Battalion in Sirajganj on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>They are members of Purba Banglar Communist Party (red flag), Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (MBRM) and Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (Janajudda).</div><div><br></div><div>The extremists from seven districts- Sirajganj, Pabna, Bogra, Meherpur, Kushtia, Rajbari, and Tangail- turned themselves in, handing over 216 weapons in the presence of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at the RAB-12 headquarters.</div><div><br></div><div>Addressing the surrender ceremony as the chief guest, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal assured that the current government is committed to rehabilitating the surrendered extremists fully.</div><div><br></div><div>He said, “They will receive the necessary assistance to reintegrate into normal life, including legal support.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Home Minister further said that prior to the event, the Prime Minister had conveyed her message, stating, “Those who have abandoned the path of darkness and are returning to the path of light will receive comprehensive support, including financial assistance,” reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The government aims to provide a supportive environment for the former extremists to lead a normal life and reintegrate into society successfully, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 22:54:29', '2023-05-21 22:54:29');
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(7027, 7027, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday made his most direct statement yet that some amendments will be made to the Digital Security Acts as part of steps to stop misuse of the law.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The Digital Security Act has not been enacted to regulate freedom of expression or the media or it is not being used to do these. Several solutions have already been taken to prevent the misuse of the law. As part of these solutions, some amendments will be made to the Digital Security Act,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister made the remarks while speaking at a discussion meeting titled ‘Digital Security Law in Bangladesh and freedom of expression’ at Brac University of the city\'s Mohakhali area. UN Resident s Coordinating office in Bangladesh and Brac University organize the program.</div><div><br></div><div>The government had lengthy discussions with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Office on the DSA and received some inputs which are under review now, the minister added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Women are often harassed online which needs to be addressed. The country, the government or any individual will not be allowed to be defamed through indiscriminate misuse of the digital space,” said Anisul Huq.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister also said “We need to protect our national interests and those who are targeted and vulnerable to digital attacks. That\'s why we need a DSA.”</div><div><br></div><div>So there is no question of repealing this law, the law minister said adding, “However, amendments to the law are being reviewed. It must be considered.”</div><div><br></div><div>Parliament Member Ahsan Adelur Rahman, BRAC University Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Syed Mahfuzul Aziz, Senior Journalist Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul, Professor Dr Kaderi Gayen, among others, spoke on the occasion. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-21 23:07:48', '2023-05-21 23:07:48'),
(7028, 7028, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A beach resort bristling with fortifications. A major road lined with anti-tank ditches. Satellite analysis by BBC Verify has uncovered some of the extensive defences built by Russia as it prepares for a major Ukrainian counter-attack.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After months of stalemate, the expected assault is likely to be a crucial test for Ukraine as it seeks to prove it can achieve significant battlefield gains with the weapons it has received from the West.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By examining hundreds of satellite images, the BBC has identified some key points in the significant build-up of trenches and other fortifications in southern Ukraine since October.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These four locations offer an insight into what Russia expects from the counter-offensive, and what defences Ukrainian forces might encounter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>1. Crimea\'s west coast</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seized by Russia in 2014, Crimea was formerly known for its beach resorts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, instead of sun loungers and parasols, the coastline stretching for 15 miles (25km) is littered with defence structures installed by Russian troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image below shows the only open sandy beach on the west coast without natural defences such as cliffs or hills.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Firstly, there are \"dragon\'s teeth\" along the shore: pyramid-shaped blocks of concrete, designed to block the path of tanks and other military vehicles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Behind them is a line of trenches, providing cover from incoming attacks. Several bunkers can also be spotted along the trenches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stacks of wood, digging machines and stores of dragon\'s teeth along the coast suggest building work was still in progress when the image was taken in March.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some military experts suggest the defences are likely to be a precaution, rather than a sign that Russia expects to defend a seaborne assault, since Ukraine has little naval capacity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Intelligence analyst Layla Guest says: \"The fortifications are likely in place to deter any bold Ukrainian operation to attack Crimea via the sea rather than on land.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The beach fortification is just one example of a vast network of trenches, as shown by the black dots in the map below, based on work by open-source analyst Brady Africk.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BBC Verify has been able to identify other key fortification sites by pinpointing individual trench locations from videos on social media.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once an exact location was discovered it was then possible to trace an entire trench network using satellite images.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>2. Tokmak</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The small city of Tokmak lies on a key route in the south-east of the country that Ukrainian forces may want to use to cut off Crimea from other Russian-held territories.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There have been reports that Ukrainian civilians have been moved out in order to turn the city into a military fortress. This would provide soldiers with access to supplies and a base to retreat to.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The satellite image above shows that a network of trenches in two lines has been dug north of Tokmak - the direction Ukraine would have to attack from.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Behind these trenches is a further ring of fortifications around the city, with three layers of defences that can be seen distinctly in this close-up satellite image.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The top of the satellite image shows an anti-tank ditch. These are usually at least 2.5m deep and designed to trap any enemy tanks that attempt to cross.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Behind the ditch are several rows of dragon\'s teeth and another trench network.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Ukrainian forces are likely to face further traps.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\'s highly likely that mines have also been hidden between Tokmak\'s three defence lines, says Mark Cancian from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Minefields are a standard part of every defence, and the Russians have used them extensively throughout the war.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Here they will be large and better concealed, slowing down Ukrainian attacks so that other combat elements, like artillery and infantry, can strike the attacking forces.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">BBC Verify has also discovered three other towns near Tokmak have been similarly fortified.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>3. E105 highway</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A line of anti-tank ditches and trenches now runs alongside a 22-mile (35km) stretch of the E105 main highway, west of Tokmak.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The E105 is strategically important, connecting Russian-held Melitopol in the south with the northern city of Kharkiv, held by Ukraine. The side that controls it can easily move around troops around the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If Ukrainian forces attempt to use this road, Russia will likely target it with heavy artillery from behind their defences. Russia\'s position is also in range of another nearby road - the T401 - which could also be targeted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Russians are worried about the recently built Ukrainian armour units. If these units can get on a main highway, they can move very quickly,\" says Mr Cancian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Russian defences aim to push them off the roads and therefore slow them down.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>4. Rivnopil, north of Mariupol</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The port of Mariupol has a strategic position between the Russian-occupied territories in the east and Crimea in the south. It also became a symbol of resistance to invasion when a hard-core of fighters held out for months as the city was besieged.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given Russia expects Ukraine to try to retake it, BBC Verify decided to look at the territory surrounding the city - leading to the discovery of a collection of circular trenches.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Located near the small village of Rivnopil about 34 miles (55km) north of Mariupol, each circular trench has a mound of soil in the middle, possibly either to protect artillery or to keep guns stable. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 07:17:07', '2023-05-22 07:17:07'),
(7029, 7029, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his conservative party had unleashed a “political earthquake” with a thumping win in Sunday’s election but hinted that he would seek another election in order to secure an absolute majority that would allow the party to govern alone.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With most votes counted, his New Democracy party was on 40.8 percent of the votes — a 20-point lead over the left-wing Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras, which had 20.1 percent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the clear lead, projections from Greece’s interior ministry showed New Democracy falling six seats short of an outright majority in parliament, leaving Mitsotakis with the choice of building a coalition or bringing about a new ballot for a decisive result.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 55-year-old made clear his preference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The citizens want a strong government with a four-year horizon,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Today’s political earthquake calls on all of us to speed up the process for a definitive government solution,” he added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsipras also indicated a new vote was likely, saying “the electoral cycle is not over yet”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next battle, he said, will be “critical and final”.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Monday, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will give the top three parties — New Democracy, Syriza and the socialist PASOK — three days each in turn to form a coalition government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If they all fail, Sakellaropoulou will appoint a caretaker government to prepare new elections about a month later.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We have said that we want to govern outright because that would ensure stability and the way forward. So we have the right to ask the Greek people for that in the next election,” Public Order Minister Takis Theodorikakos said on Skai television shortly after polls closed Sunday evening.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The election was held under a new law of proportional representation, which makes it particularly difficult for any party to win enough parliamentary seats to form a government on its own.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If a second election is held, probably in late June or early July, the law will change again, shifting to a system that rewards the leading party with bonus seats and making it easier for the frontrunner to secure a parliamentary majority.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Political disengagement among youth</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday’s election is the first in Greece since its economy ceased being under strict supervision by international lenders who had provided bailout funds during the country’s nearly decade-long financial crisis.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mitsotakis, a 55-year-old Harvard-educated former banking executive and global management firm consultant, won the last election in 2019 on a promise of business-oriented reforms and has promised to continue tax cuts, boost investments and bolster middle-class employment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">His popularity took a hit following a February 28 rail disaster that killed 57 people after an intercity passenger train was accidentally put on the same rail line as an oncoming freight train. It was later revealed that train stations were poorly staffed and safety infrastructure broken and outdated.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of people, many of them university students like the railway disaster victims, staged rallies across Greek cities in protest at what they saw as negligence on the part of the government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, with the economy growing at 5.9 percent in 2022, and unemployment and inflation falling, opinion polls showed the prime minister steadily ahead in the run-up to the election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">George Tzogopoulos, lecturer at the Democritus University of Thrace, told Al Jazeera that young people were dissatisfied with the political class as a whole. “But what happened is that they didn’t show up and vote, they expressed their anger with demonstrations or through social media [instead],” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is how New Democracy managed to score such an impressive success,” Tzogopoulos added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turnout reached 60 percent, with abstentions lower than earlier feared.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Welcoming the results, 62-year-old retiree Glykeria Tzima said: “Democracy won today — not only New Democracy, but democracy as a whole. 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(7030, 7030, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States said Sunday it was \"concerned by today\'s provocative visit\" by Israel\'s right-wing National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This holy space should not be used for political purposes, and we call on all parties to respect its sanctity,\" State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben-Gvir\'s visit came three days after he and tens of thousands of Jewish nationalists marched through the Old City and just over a week into a fragile Gaza ceasefire. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 09:01:44', '2023-05-22 09:01:44'),
(7031, 7031, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Bakhmut was \"not occupied\" by Moscow, while the head of Russia\'s Wagner mercenary group insisted his fighters had taken control of the eastern city \"to the last centimetre\".</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv\'s military said it was hanging on to a small part of the city and said its troops were advancing on its flanks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bakhmut, a salt-mining town that once had a population of 70,000 people, has been the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting in Moscow\'s 15-month Ukraine offensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day earlier, Wagner and Moscow\'s regular army claimed to have fully captured Bakhmut, with Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulating them on the alleged conquest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But speaking at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Zelensky denied Russia\'s claims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bakhmut is not occupied by Russia today,\" he said during a press conference.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I cannot share with you the tactical views of our military. The most difficult thing would be if there was some tactical mistake in Bakhmut and our people were surrounded.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitting next to US President Joe Biden, Zelensky suggested it would be a pyrrhic victory for Moscow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"You have to understand there is nothing\" there in Bakhmut, he said on the sidelines of the summit in Japan.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky compared the \"absolute total destruction\" in Bakhmut to the devastation in Hiroshima when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city in 1945.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is absolutely nothing alive (there).\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ukrainian army on Sunday said it retained an \"insignificant\" part of the city and that soldiers were advancing in from the city\'s outer limits.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We continue to advance on the flanks in the suburbs of Bakhmut,\" said Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of Ukraine\'s ground forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Wagner claims no Ukrainian soldiers left -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Wagner whose fighters have spearheaded Russia\'s advance on Bakhmut, insisted there were no Ukrainian troops there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There is not a single Ukrainian soldier in Bakhmut as we have stopped taking prisoners,\" he said in a post on Telegram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There are a huge number of corpses of Ukrainian soldiers.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prigozhin said Zelensky was either not telling the truth or \"like many of our own military leaders, simply does not know what is happening on the ground, this is a possibility.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, he had announced that his fighters had taken full control of Bakhmut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prigozhin said Wagner would hand over control of the city to the Russian army by May 25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But a spokesperson for Ukraine\'s Eastern Grouping of Forces, Sergiy Cherevatyj, said Ukrainian troops were conducting counterattacks in the city and its surroundings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian forces \"are trying to take the whole city under their control. Our units are holding defense -- several buildings and a number of fortifications in the southwestern part\" of Bakhmut, he said on national television.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fierce clashes occurred in other eastern cities and towns including Mariinka and Avdiivka in the Donetsk region, according to a Ukrainian General Staff report, which said Russians conducted four missile strikes and 45 air strikes Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Bakhmut and Mariinka remain at the epicenter of hostilities,\" the report said. \"Battle for the town of Bakhmut continues.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The loss of Bakhmut would be hugely symbolic for the Ukrainians, who had held on for months -- ignoring US advice behind the scenes to focus elsewhere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But some analysts have said Ukraine has inflicted heavy losses on Russia in Bakhmut and forced it to commit large resources, potentially weakening its defences in other parts of the front line.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fall of Bakhmut would allow Moscow to bring home a key victory after a series of humiliating defeats.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would also come before a major counteroffensive that Kyiv has been preparing for months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zelensky himself has warned that the city\'s loss would open the way for Russian troops to capture more of the Donbas region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Congratulations from Putin -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian army released a statement several hours after Prigozhin on Saturday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The liberation of the city of Artemovsk was completed,\" it said, using the Soviet-era name of Bakhmut.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kremlin later congratulated both Wagner and the Russian army, who have been at increasing loggerheads during Moscow\'s offensive.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Vladimir Putin congratulated the assault units of Wagner as well as all servicemen of units of the Russian armed forces who provided them with the necessary support and flank cover, on the completion of the operation to liberate\" the city, TASS news agency quoted a Kremlin statement as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two camps are now awaiting the Ukraine counteroffensive, but Zelensky said recently his army needs more time before launching the. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 10:00:58', '2023-05-22 10:00:58'),
(7032, 7032, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A day after national elections, Greece on Monday was bracing for a new ballot which vote-winner Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis\' party is poised to seek in order to govern alone.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conservative New Democracy party of Mitsotakis scored a thumping win in Sunday\'s vote, with a clear 20-point lead over its nearest rival -- Syriza led by leftist Alexis Tsipras.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voters handed the conservatives their best result in 14 years, crediting the party with bringing economic stability back to a nation once known as an EU laggard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mitsotakis himself said the \"great victory surpassed our own expectations\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it fell short of an outright majority, leaving Mitsotakis with the option of either seeking a coalition or calling a new vote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 55-year-old Harvard graduate on Sunday made clear his preferred option.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Together we will fight as of tomorrow, so that in the next elections, what citizens have already decided -- a self-reliant New Democracy -- will be mathematically confirmed at the ballot.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We will move forward, boldly and steadily, to complete today\'s important first step, and be the final winners,\" he said, adding that Greeks \"want a strong government\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsipras also set the stage for a new vote, saying \"the electoral cycle is not over yet\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next battle, he said, will be \"critical and final\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Economic stability -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In power over the last four years, former McKinsey consultant Mitsotakis, 55, had steered the country through the pandemic which devastated Greece\'s vital tourism industry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his watch, the erstwhile EU economic headache has enjoyed a post-Covid revival, booking growth of 5.9 percent in 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With unemployment and inflation falling, and growth this year projected at twice that of the European Union average, Greece\'s outlook was a far cry from the throes of the crippling debt crisis a decade ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mitsotakis\' term had been blighted by a wiretapping scandal as well as a train crash that claimed 57 lives in February.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government initially blamed the accident -- Greece\'s worst-ever rail disaster -- on human error, even though the country\'s notoriously poor rail network has suffered from years of under-investment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, neither the accident nor the wiretapping scandal appeared to have dented support for his conservatives -- which scored a far bigger win than that predicted by opinion polls ahead of the vote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the massive protests that broke out in the aftermath of the rail crash, the transport minister at the time, Kostas Karamanlis, was reelected on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Turn the tide -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under a new electoral law that comes into play in the next election, the winner can obtain a bonus of up to 50 seats. Based on Sunday\'s showing and that calculation, New Democracy is virtually assured of a victory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the left will likely seek to turn the tide by campaigning on cost-of-living problems which occupy many voters\' minds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Tsipras and socialist party Pasok-Kinal, led by 44-year-old Nikos Androulakis, face an uphill task however.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pasok was credited with just 11.5 percent of the vote.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another casualty Sunday was Tsipras\' former maverick finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, whose anti-austerity MeRA25 party failed to garner enough support to make it to parliament. 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(7033, 7033, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Doha this afternoon on a three-day official visit to attend the Qatar Economic Forum 2023 at the invitation of Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage, will depart Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3 pm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The flight is scheduled to land at Hamad International Airport in Doha at 6 pm local time (9 pm Bangladesh Time).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister will attend the Forum, titled “3rd Qatar Economic Forum: A New Global Growth Story”, to be held on May 23-25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Qatar Economic Forum is the Middle East\'s leading voice dedicated to global business and investment. The main objective of this forum is to find a solution by increasing mutual cooperation among the international community to deal with the multi-faceted challenges, global crises and the adverse economic consequences arising from them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On May 23, Sheikh Hasina will join the opening session of the 3rd Qatar Economic Forum, address students of Qatar University in Doha, and hold meetings separately with Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi and Minister of Investment of Saudi Arabia Khalid A. Al-Falih.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On May 24, the PM will join the forum, have a meeting with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (at Amiri Diwan) and visit Awsaj Academy (a specialized school).&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Sheikh Hasina is expected to return to Dhaka in the morning of May 25, leaving Doha the previous night. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 10:11:28', '2023-05-22 10:11:28'),
(7034, 7034, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Despite the rain last night, with an air quality index (AQI) score of 156 at 8:45 am this morning (May 22, 2023), Dhaka ranked 4th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\'s Lahore, China’s Shenyang, and Indonesia’s Jakarta occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 198, 174, and 160, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 101 and 150, air quality is considered ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, between 151 and 200 is ‘unhealthy’, between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants — particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 10:40:18', '2023-05-22 10:40:18'),
(7035, 7035, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ilisha-1 in Bhola district was announced to be the country\'s 29th gas field where substantial gas was found recently.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We believe, Ilisha-1 has a reserve of 200 billion cubic feet (bcf) of gas. The entire Bhola area, including this one, has a reserve of 3 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas,” State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid told reporters today during a briefing at his Dhaka residence while formally announcing the discovery of the gas field.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said this is great news for the people of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ilisha-1 is located in an union in Bhola district, about 182 km from the capital city Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 8 this year, Ilisha-1 excavation started in the Maler Hat area of Ilisha union under Bhola Sadar upazila and the drilling was completed successfully on April 24 through the Drill Stem Test in three levels at a depth of 3,475 metres.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state minister said earlier that gas was found in different wells under Bhola north and Bhola south structures.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said a plan is being prepared to bring gas from the Bhola area to Dhaka through a pipeline where many industries are facing a nagging gas sh</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A pre-feasibility was conducted and now work is in progress for conducting a feasibility study on the issue, he noted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nasrul Hamid said it will take about 3 years to bring the gas from Bhola to Dhaka through a pipeline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially, he said, a private company has signed a contract to bring a total of 25 mmcfd gas from Bhola through a big trailer. Primarily, it will start with 5 mmcfd.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He informed that the government has a plan to create a ring-fence of pipeline covering Bhola, Barishal and Dhaka to use the gas for this region while another ring-fence will be created covering the districts in Dhaka, Sylhet and others.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the commercial value of the gas in Bhola will be Tk 6500 crore if calculated in local value and Tk 26000 crore in the value of gas being imported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nasrul Hamid said the Ilisha-1 gas field’s discovery was announced after completion of necessary drilling and other works.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, about 2300 mmcfd gas is being produced from 22 gas fields in the country, while about 700 mmcfd gas is being imported to meet the demand of about 4000 mmcfd, leaving a deficit of about 1000 mmcfd.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from Ilisha-1, two Bhola gas fields have around 200 mmcf production capacity, while the production hovers between 80-85 mmcf.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, around 120 mmcf surplus capacity remains unused in the eight wells of the Shahbazpur and Bhola gas fields.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to the lack of pipeline and transmission facilities, the government was unable to supply the surplus gas from the Bhola field to energy-hungry industrial zones in Dhaka and elsewhere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 11:27:25', '2023-05-22 11:27:25'),
(7036, 7036, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Vinícius Júnior was subjected to racist abuse yet again on Sunday with the Brazil star saying the Spanish league \"now belongs to racists.\"</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest abuse against Vinícius came in Real Madrid\'s 1-0 loss at Valencia, a match that had to be temporarily stopped after the Brazil forward said he was insulted by a fan behind one of the goals at Mestalla Stadium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It wasn\'t the first time, or the second or the third. Racism is normal in LaLiga. The competition thinks it\'s normal, as does the federation, and the opponents encourage it,\" Vinícius said on Instagram and Twitter. \"The league that once belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano (Ronaldo) and (Lionel) Messi now belongs to racists ... But I\'m strong and I will fight until the end against the racists. Even if far from here.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 22-year-old Vinícius, who is is Black, has been subjected to racist abuse since moving to Spain five years ago.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti considered replacing the star forward after Vinícius said fans at Mestalla chanted \"monkey\" toward him. He said Vinícius initially didn\'t want to continue playing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What happened today shouldn\'t happen,\" Ancelotti said. \"When a stadium yells \'monkey\' to a player, and the coach considers taking him out of the field because of that, it means that there is something bad in this league.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The veteran coach refused to talk about the game after what happened, saying his team\'s loss meant nothing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The game should have been stopped,\" Ancelotti said. \"This shouldn\'t happen. It wasn\'t only one person, as it has happened in several stadiums. Here, it was a stadium racially insulting a player, the game had to stop. I would have said the same thing if it was 3-0 for us. You have to stop the game, there was no way around it.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ancelotti said he asked the referee to stop the match, but was told that the protocol was to first make an announcement to fans, then take other action if the problem continued.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ancelotti said Vinícius didn\'t want to keep playing but he told the player that he wasn\'t guilty of anything and that he was the victim. Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said he would have left the field with Vinicius if his teammate had decided to stop playing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Vinícius is upset, obviously, but more than upset, he is sad,\" Ancelotti said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Spanish media reports, Valencia has identified two fans who allegedly insulted Vinícius behind one of the goals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some comments on social media claimed fans were saying the Spanish word \"tonto\" (silly) instead of \"mono\" (monkey).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Valencia later said it expected Ancelotti to apologize to Valencia fans for accusing them of racism after misunderstanding what was said. The coach told a news conference that the referee wouldn\'t have started the racism protocol if he didn\'t think there was racism in the stadium.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinícius was later sent off after an altercation with Valencia players, and gestured to home fans about their team\'s fight against relegation as he left the field. Valencia took a huge step toward avoiding the drop with the 1-0 victory opening a five-point gap to the bottom three teams entering the final three rounds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The reward for the racists was my ejection!\" Vinícius said on Instagram, along with the Spanish league\'s slogan \"It\'s not soccer, it\'s LaLiga.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinícius had called the referee around the 70th minute and started pointing to a person sitting among the Valencia supporters. The player went near the stands and confronted the fans while players from both teams tried to restore calm.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police eventually arrived in the stands to deal with the supporters. An announcement was made asking fans to behave.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match at Mestalla was stopped for about seven minutes, and not long after it resumed Vinícius clashed with Valencia players and was sent off for pushing one of his opponents away with a hand to his face.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the decision of his ejection was made following a video review, Vinícius started applauding ironically. As he was leaving the field, he made a \"going down\" gesture over relegation. That upset players on the Valencia bench and some charged toward Vinícius as he left the field, causing the game to be temporarily stopped again.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Valencia coach Rubén Baraja condemned the behavior of Valencia fans but also criticized Vinícius, saying he should have respected the club and its supporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinícius\' teammate Dani Ceballos criticized the fans but said he also expected Vinícius to apologize for his gestures after being sent off.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ancelotti said Vinícius\' reaction was normal considering what he had gone through moments earlier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Spanish league said it has requested images from the game to investigate what happened. It will also probe possible insults against Vinícius outside Mestalla, when a large group of fans also allegedly called the player a monkey as the Madrid bus arrived.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">League president Javier Tebas criticized Vinícius for attacking the league without fully understanding what it has done recently to combat racism, and saying the player didn\'t show up for talks on the subject that he had requested himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The league has made nine formal complaints over racist abuse against Vinícius over the last two seasons, with many of the cases being shelved. A Mallorca fan may end up going on trial after allegedly racially insulting the Brazilian during a game.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva joined a wave of Brazilian politicians, players and clubs coming out to support Vinícius and criticize racism in the Spanish league.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lula told a news conference in Japan on the sidelines of a G7 meeting that he hopes FIFA, the Spanish League and other soccer bodies \"take measures so we don\'t allow racism and fascism to take over\" in the sport.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first trial against a fan accused of racial abuse in Spanish professional soccer is expected to happen at some point this year in a case involving Athletic Bilbao forward Iñaki Williams, who was insulted by an Espanyol supporter in a match in 2020. 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(7037, 7037, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrier rocket launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft with a crew of four to the International Space Station, according to a livestream on the SpaceX website.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missile started at 17:37 local time from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. The mission commander is NASA ex-astronaut Peggy Whitson, who already made three flights to the ISS and holds the NASA record on time in orbit: 665 days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The crew also includes businessman John Shoffner and Saudi astronauts Ali al-Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. During its almost two-week mission, the crew will carry out over 20 scientific and technological experiments. TASS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"18\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 12:15:19', '2023-05-22 12:15:19'),
(7038, 7038, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Monday conferred with the highest honour of Fiji by its premier Sitiveni Rabuka in recognition of his global leadership, in a rare honour for a non-Fijian.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi arrived here in Papua New Guinea on Sunday on his maiden visit to the country to host a key summit between India and 14 Pacific island countries to boost bilateral ties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian premier had also met Rabuka on the sidelines of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) summit in Papua New Guinea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Big Honour for India. Prime Minister Modi has been conferred the highest honour of Fiji by the PM of Fiji: Companion of the Order of Fiji in recognition of his global leadership. Only a handful of Non-Fijians have received this honour to date,\" the Prime Minister\'s Office said. PTI</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 12:33:03', '2023-05-22 12:33:03'),
(7039, 7039, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">El Salvador soccer fans were mourning Sunday after 12 people died and hundreds were injured in a stampede at a stadium, with the country\'s president vowing an investigation.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities said initial reports pointed to a crush of fans who tried to enter the 35,000-seat Cuscatlan Stadium in the Central American country\'s capital San Salvador to watch a game between two local teams, Alianza and FAS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match was suspended as emergency personnel evacuated people from the stadium, where hundreds of police officers and soldiers gathered as ambulance sirens wailed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carlos Fuentes, spokesman for the emergency services group Comandos de Salvamento, said they were treating more than 500 people for various injuries, while civil protection authorities said 88 people in total were hospitalized.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stampede started after a stadium gate fell, causing people to crowd together, Fuentes said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fredy Alexander Ruiz, a 28-year-old survivor, said he was \"traumatized from seeing people thrown on the ground, dead, bruised, with their faces stepped on.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stampede started 10 minutes into the game and after it was suspended even the players joined in the frantic rescue efforts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I had five people on top of me that were suffocating me,\" said Ruiz. \"Thank God, I was able to grab the foot of a policeman, and he and a friend of mine pulled me out.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday night, dozens of Alianza fans set up a memorial to victims, placing a \"Rest in peace\" banner on the stadium wall, where they also left flowers and 12 candles to represent the dead.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After saying a prayer, the fans left, some of them in tears.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">El Salvador\'s President Nayib Bukele said Saturday that authorities would investigate the incident and those responsible would be punished.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Everyone will be investigated: teams, managers, stadium, box office, league, federation,\" Bukele said on Twitter.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned that \"whoever the culprits are, they will not go unpunished.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- \'I couldn\'t even breathe\' -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Survivor Sandra Guzman described chaos at the stadium in the moments the stampede began.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"A huge crowd of people fell on me. I couldn\'t even breathe, they were choking me,\" Guzman, 40, told AFP early Sunday as she was leaving the Rosales National Hospital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When she was in front of the stadium gate that collapsed, she said, \"people were pushing me to get in. They did not give me a chance to go back.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She panicked when people toppled onto her, Guzman said. \"I fainted, and when I woke up I was in the hospital.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Salvadoran Football Federation (Fesfut) said in a statement it \"deeply regrets\" the events that occurred at the stadium and \"expresses its solidarity\" with the families of those \"affected and killed.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Fesfut will immediately request a report of what happened and will communicate the relevant information as soon as possible,\" it said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to the incident, the federation said \"all soccer is suspended at the national level\" on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chief of world soccer body FIFA offered his condolences after the \"tragic\" stampede.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tragedy comes seven months after 135 people, including more than 40 children, were killed in a stampede following a football match in Malang, Indonesia. 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(7040, 7040, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh\'s Dr AK Abdul Momen today (May 22, 2023) said there is no reason for new sanctions, and if that happens it will be very unfortunate.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he does not have any idea on new sanctions as it depends on individual countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We hope good sense will prevail,” Momen told reporters at a media briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The briefing was arranged to inform the media on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Qatar visit that begins this afternoon. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Seheli Sabrin, among others, was present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last night, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly protested and condemned part of a media report, terming it “false, baseless” and done with an “ulterior motive.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The foreign minister reiterated that he had never worked as a Chinese firm’s lobbyist before becoming a minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rather, he said, he stayed in the US and worked there. “This (the media report) is something very strange,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It was very strange and surprising. No reference (source) is mentioned,” Momen said regarding the , g.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He referred to Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque who also said there is no reason to impose sanctions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the news published in the daily Kalbela newspaper, titled “US sanctions coming, government remains ready,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last night said in a part of the report, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen “was defamed.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report mentioned that Dr Momen worked as a lobbyist for a Chinese organization before becoming a minister. “It is completely false and baseless,” the ministry said in a media release.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through such lies about AK Abdul Momen, the image of the government has been tarnished along with defaming him, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 14:29:52', '2023-05-22 14:29:52'),
(7041, 7041, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An already-qualified Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will have to wait for another season to exact revenge on Royal Challengers Bangalore as the Virat Kohli-starrer side has failed to set up a mouth-watering meeting with the KL Rahul-less side at the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 playoffs. Faf Du Plessis and Co. were outplayed by visitors Gujarat Titans (GT) in their final league fixture of the IPL 2023 on Sunday. RCB received another unceremonious exit from IPL as Shubman Gill slammed a brilliant century to seal a memorable win over the hosts at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With RCB suffering a heartbreaking exit from the playoff race, record-time winners Mumbai Indians (MI) punched their tickets for the business end of the celebrated tournament by securing the fourth spot in the final league standings. Reflecting on Kohli\'s heated rivalry with Lucknow mentor Gautam Gambhir, the official social media handle of the LSG franchise posted a noteworthy message for the Bengaluru heavyweights. “Give it? Take it? Let\'s leave it. Well fought, @RCBTweets. See you next season,” LSG tweeted after GT defeated RCB by 6 wickets in the final league game of the season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the unversed, former RCB skipper Kohli took a sly dig at Gautam Gambhir and Co. after RCB defeated LSG in their away match at the IPL 2023. \"That\'s a sweet win boys. A sweet win. Let\'s go. If you can give it, you got to take it. Otherwise don\'t give it,\" how Kohli opted to hit back at LSG stars after the ex-RCB skipper\'s post-match altercations with Gambhir, Naveen-ul-Haq and Kyle Mayers created a ruckus in Indian cricket. Kohli and Gambhir were fined 100 per cent of their match fees for breaching the IPL code of conduct.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Gambhir\'s LSG side has made it to the playoffs, RCB have finished sixth in the IPL 2023 after registering a defeat at the hands of table-toppers Gujarat Titans. Kohli shattered Chris Gayle\'s century record with his sublime 101-run knock against GT in match No.70 of the IPL 2023. The 34-year-old smashed 639 runs in 14 matches for RCB this season. Lucknow Super Giants will meet five-time winners Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2023 Eliminator at MA Chidambaram Stadium on Wednesday. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 14:49:52', '2023-05-22 14:49:52'),
(7042, 7042, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ragi or finger millet is a wonder grain that can provide holistic health benefits. With zero cholesterol and sodium, ragi is high in dietary fibre, calcium, iron and other essential micronutrients. Consuming it on a regular basis can also prevent cardiac ailments, aid weight loss, help with blood sugar management in diabetes to cholesterol control. Ragi is also a summer-friendly grain as it keeps your body cool in hot weather. As per Ayurveda, ragi helps reduce Ama (toxin) and also cut cholesterol. Ragi is a storehouse of protein and mineral and is a good source of protein for vegetarians.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>What is ragi</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ragi, is a millet and its scientific name is Eleusine coracana. It is found in the tropical regions of Africa and Asia, such as in India, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka. Ragi looks like mustard seeds in appearance. It can be powdered and consumed as ragi flour in dishes like dosa, roti, idli, upma, paratha, halwa, barfi. In India, Karnataka is the highest producer of ragi. Good thing about ragi is that it can be consumed in its original form and doesn\'t need to be polished like other grains which makes it ever healthier.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nutritionist Sakshi Lalwani in an interview with HT Digital talks about benefits of ragi and delicious summer recipes you can try.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Benefits of ragi</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>1. High in calcium, iron and fibre</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ragi is abundant in calcium and is excellent for bone health. The wonder millet is also a storehouse of iron and fibre which can boost immunity and keep your digestive system on track.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>2. Gluten-free and easy to digest</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ragi unlike wheat is gluten-free and those who have gluten intolerance can easily switch to this grain. Ragi is also good for digestion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>3. Can help regulate blood sugar levels</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ragi being high in fibre and keeps one full for longer. This can be beneficial for people with diabetes as it helps prevent blood sugar spikes.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>4. Known to reduce the risk of heart disease</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Ragi has dietary fibres that helps increase HDL cholesterol and control bad cholesterol levels. This can help reduce chances of heart disease.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>5. Great for weight management due to its low glycaemic index</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">For those aiming to lose weight, ragi can be a good choice as the grain has a low GI and curbs cravings.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Summer ragi recipes</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>1. Ragi milkshake: </b>Blend cooked ragi with milk, banana, and honey for a tasty and nutritious summer drink.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>2. Ragi dosa: </b>This traditional South Indian dish is gluten-free and a great source of protein. Mix ragi with water, onion, coriander and spices, then cook it like a pancake.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>3. Ragi salad bowl:</b> Mix cooked ragi with vegetables like bell peppers, cucumber, and tomatoes for a refreshing and filling summer salad. Add a dash of lemon juice and some herbs for flavour.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>4. Ragi popsicle: </b>Mix ragi flour with coconut milk, sugar, and a teaspoon of vanilla extract before pouring it into ice pop moulds. Freeze them and enjoy a healthy and tasty cold treat on hot summer days.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>5. Ragi pancakes:</b> Mix ragi flour with eggs, buttermilk, and oil to make fluffy and nutritious pancakes. Serve with fresh fruit and maple syrup for added sweetness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Give these recipes a try and you will surely enjoy the nutritional benefits of ragi while satisfying your taste buds in the process. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"24\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 14:57:47', '2023-05-22 14:57:47'),
(7043, 7043, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The United Nations food agency said Monday lack of funding has forced it to cut food aid for around one million Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh for the second time in three months.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rations would be cut from $10 per person per month to $8 from June 1, World Food Programme spokesperson Kun Li told AFP in an email.</div><div><br></div><div>The full ration of $12 had already been cut in March.</div><div>\"The reasons for the ration cuts are lack of funding. We need urgently $56 million to restore the full ration ($12),\" Kun Li said.</div><div><br></div><div>There was no immediate reaction from Bangladeshi authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>Aid groups said the cut in March caused hardship in the overcrowded camps, where malnutrition was already rampant.</div><div><br></div><div>Khin Maung, who heads the Rohingya Youth Association inside the camps, told AFP the new food cut decision came as a surprise to the refugees and that it would lead to hunger.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s a shameful action by the United Nations,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I think it is political. Some people have said it is a ploy to send Rohingyas back to Myanmar.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Aid workers said the move could worsen security in the camps, which last year saw scores of deadly drug-related clashes between Rohingya criminal groups.</div><div><br></div><div>UN and foreign diplomats have urged the Bangladeshi government to drop a ban preventing Rohingya working outside the camps in the surrounding Cox\'s Bazar region.</div><div><br></div><div>Experts have warned, however, that this could stoke resentment among the local population and further discourage the Rohingya from returning to Myanmar.</div><div><br></div><div>After several failed repatriation attempts, Myanmar has launched a pilot project to resettle around 1,100 Rohingya to a border township.</div><div><br></div><div>A team sent by Myanmar authorities is expected to visit the camps this week in an effort to convince the refugees to return.</div><div><br></div><div>But Rohingyas who visited the resettlement villages this month told AFP they have serious misgivings, with one saying: \"We don\'t trust the Myanmar government one percent.\" According to AFP reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 16:58:41', '2023-05-22 16:58:41'),
(7044, 7044, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Preparations for the budget for the 2023-24 fiscal must balance expectations in an election year with the conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and tackle inflation, foreign exchange crisis and revenue shortfall.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Balancing public satisfaction and protecting the economy is a major issue. Economists say it has been seen in the past that election year budgets often prioritise public satisfaction over the improvement of the economy.</div><div><br></div><div>As such, the opportunity to deliver a budget that is satisfactory is very limited, said macroeconomist and public policy analyst Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, who is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).</div><div><br></div><div>He told UNB, \"Before the election, all governments want to give a budget that satisfies the people. But due to the financial situation, fiscal deficit, and trade deficit, the opportunity is very limited for the government. If such a big effort is made, it will have a negative impact on the overall economy.\"</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is important to remember that this budget will be implemented by two governments. In this budget, flexibility must also be preserved. Because, if the government makes any big promises, there is doubt as to how much they can implement,\" he pointed out.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Debapriya said that the budget is coming at a time of political uncertainty in the country. Plus exit from LDC, and the Covid-19 response revival are issues hanging over the budget.</div><div><br></div><div>“Compared to any other year, this year\'s budget has to be prepared in a very complicated situation. Because earlier, there would be a deficit in terms of income and expenditure in the country, but there would be comparative relief in terms of foreign transactions. But this time it is not,” he opined.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr Debapriya said, \"There has been a major disruption in the growth rate. It is going down further because there is no money, no dollar. There is a huge deficit in both areas to be dealt with together.”</div><div><br></div><div>So the government has to control imports and limit its investment program. As a result, next year\'s growth target should also be moderated.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The financial structure has actually weakened,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Executive Director of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) Salim Raihan, also a professor of economics at Dhaka University (DU), said that in the previous election years, the economy was not in such a crisis as this time, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>\"As a result, no new major pressure was created in the economy despite budgeting for public satisfaction at that time. But this time, if the budget is made considering only public satisfaction in view of the election, it will create new pressure on the economy,\" Professor Raihan said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 18:29:46', '2023-05-22 18:29:46'),
(7045, 7045, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bengali actor Suchandra Dasgupta died on Saturday night in a road accident while returning home in Panihati from the sets. The accident took place in the Baranagar area while she was on a bike taxi, as per eyewitnesses.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The actor was reportedly run over by a lorry near Ghoshpara of Baranagar Police Station&nbsp;</div><div>Baranagar Police reached the spot and brought the situation under control as the accident disrupted traffic for some time. According to a report of Anandabazar Patrika, Suchandra had booked the bike taxi online.</div><div><br></div><div>While crossing the Baranagar area, the driver reportedly applied brakes when a bicycle came in front of the vehicle. At the moment, Suchandra fell from the bike and was run over by a 10-wheeler lorry, as per reports. Although she was wearing a helmet, she died on the spot as per reports. Reportedly, her helmet broke into pieces.</div><div><br></div><div>As per the latest update, the lorry driver has been arrested by the police. Suchandra Dasgupta was seen in the Bengali TV serial Gauri Elo. She was reportedly 29. Source: Hindustan Times</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 18:36:53', '2023-05-22 18:36:53'),
(7046, 7046, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Memorisation will not prepare students for future challenges, said Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Monday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The ability to learn will be critical in the future for which we are training our students, a student should have communication skills, subtle thinking skills, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work with many people. And the more creative and free-thinking a student is, the more proficient the student will become in these subjects. It will not be possible to meet the challenges of the future with memorisation,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister was speaking as the chief guest at a prize distribution ceremony of the winners of various creative works on the national days at the International Mother Language Institute in the capital on Monday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel was present as the special guest, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have come up with a new curriculum to transform education. The evaluation system of the students has been revamped. The new curriculum will be implemented in all secondary level classes by 2025,” the minister said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 20:12:22', '2023-05-22 20:12:22'),
(7047, 7047, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Haznah Md. Hashim has said the tourism sector has emerged as a vital component of bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Malaysia.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"This is acting as a bridge to bring our people closer and allowing us to experience the unique beauty and diversity each nation has to offer,\" she said while speaking at a B2B networking dinner on Sunday at a Dhaka hotel.</div><div><br></div><div>Marking the \"Roadshow to Bangladesh\", the High Commissioner said Malaysia registered more than 10 million tourists’ arrivals in 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This shows that Malaysia is on track to gain back 26 million tourists’ arrivals. Out of 10 million tourists in 2022, about 59,000 were originated from Bangladesh,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>With respect to Bangladeshi tourists, leisure tourism plays a significant role in attracting them to Malaysia.</div><div><br></div><div>The High Commissioner said Malaysia, Truly Asia, offers the Bangladeshi travellers a perfect blend of natural landscapes, vibrant cities, and rich cultural heritage – which is a multitude of experiences for every traveller.</div><div><br></div><div>The Tourism Malaysia Roadshow serves as a platform to showcase the immense potential of our partnership and the opportunities that lie ahead, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is a testament to the dedication of the Malaysian government in promoting tourism and strengthening the ties between our nations. Through this roadshow, we aim to highlight the range of tourism offerings in Malaysia, from leisure and medical tourism to educational opportunities,\" said the High Commissioner.</div><div><br></div><div>The envoy said Malaysia and Bangladesh share many cultural, traditional, and culinary similarities, which is why Malaysia is a popular destination for Bangladesh tourists, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>\"And halal food has never been an issue in Malaysia. Besides this, we are also encouraging our trade partners to develop and sell more holiday packages to Malaysia with a special focus on niche products like medical tourism, luxury travel, and spa as well as Education tourism,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 21:03:31', '2023-05-22 21:03:31'),
(7048, 7048, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Philippine military said on Monday it had received reports of the death of Radullan Sahiron, the remaining top leader of the militant Abu Sayyaf Group.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Formed in 1991, ASG was initially heavily influenced by Al-Qaeda and has been notorious since the early 2000s for assassinations, extortion, and kidnappings.</div><div><br></div><div>The group was a significant source of violent conflict between 2011 and 2018, with some of its factions pledging allegiance to Daesh in 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>Sahiron is ASG’s chief leader and was one of its first members. He has been on the FBI’s most-wanted list since 1993, with a $1 million bounty on his head.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have obtained information (that Radullan Sahiron) is dead,” Maj. Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio, commander of the 11th Infantry Division designated to fight militancy in Sulu, told Arab News on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Sulu province, in the country’s Mindanao region, was formerly a known stronghold of ASG.</div><div><br></div><div>Patrimonio added: “We haven’t seen the body… We have (made) efforts to find his corpse, so slowly we are reaching out to his former members and even members of his family.</div><div><br></div><div>“He is recognized as the remaining senior leader of the group and no one has emerged to become his successor… so it would lead to the demise of the ASG.”</div><div><br></div><div>Sahiron took over ASG’s leadership in 2006 after the death of Khadafi Janjalani, who had succeeded his brother and the group’s founder Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani.</div><div><br></div><div>ASG has been identified as the main Daesh affiliate in the Philippines due to some of its factions, but Sahiron has never pledged allegiance to the militant group.</div><div><br></div><div>Patrimonio said authorities had received “a lot of reports” of Sahiron’s death, adding that at least 21 of his closest followers had surrendered earlier this year.</div><div><br></div><div>Patrimonio added: “There are reports saying that he is already sickly, probably due to old age. He is, I think, in his late 70s.”</div><div><br></div><div>Sahiron’s death would provide a chance for the Philippine military to eliminate the ASG, said Rikard Jalkebro, an expert on international relations and associate professor at Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.</div><div><br></div><div>Jalkebro told Arab News: “It could be a golden opportunity for the military. Right now, the demise (of ASG) has already started based on high-profile people being captured and killed and also surrendering. It’s a good sign.” - Arab News</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 21:09:13', '2023-05-22 21:09:13'),
(7049, 7049, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to singer Mainul Ahsan Noble in a fraud case filed with Motijheel Police Station.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shafi Uddin passed the order till the submission of a chargesheet on bond of Tk 5,000.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier in the day, DB inspector also the investigating officer of the case Humayun Kabir produced him before the court after completion of his one-day remand in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Abdullah Al Mamun stood for Noble.</div><div><br></div><div>Md Safayet Islam filed a case on May 16 on behalf of Shariatpur’s Vedorganj Headquarter Pilot High School’s HSC 16th batch.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, a court granted one-day remand to Noble on May 20.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case details, Noble received TK 1.72 lakh for performing at the high school’s reunion programme but he didn’t perform at the event organised for April 28 and he did not even return the money.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, his ex-wife Salsable Mahmud complained to the police and wrote on social media about the constant physical and emotional abuse of Noble, citing that he is an avid drug addict and his demeanour got drastically changed in recent years due to his addiction.</div><div><br></div><div>Noble won the 2nd runner-up position in the popular Indian TV reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’s West Bengal edition on Zee Bangla in 2019 and received the \"Viewer\'s Choice\" award, winning hearts in both countries.</div><div><br></div><div>However, his addiction led him to several miserable acts one after another, degrading his popularity among his audiences. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 21:19:51', '2023-05-22 21:19:51'),
(7050, 7050, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The death toll from clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has risen to 863 civilians, according to local medics on Monday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In a statement, the Sudan Doctors Syndicate said that 3,531 people have also been injured in the violence since April 15.</div><div><br></div><div>The NGO said that 28 civilians had been killed in clashes between the two military rivals in Nyala city, the provincial capital of South Darfur province, in recent days.</div><div><br></div><div>Last week, the syndicate had put the death toll from the violence at 850 and 3,394 others injured.</div><div><br></div><div>A 7-day cease-fire is set to come into force between the army and the RSF on Monday following talks between the two conflicting parties in Saudi Arabia.</div><div><br></div><div>A disagreement had been fomenting in recent months between the army and the RSF over the paramilitary group’s integration into the armed forces, a key condition of Sudan\'s transition agreement with political groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Sudan has been without a functioning government since October 2021, when the military dismissed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok\'s transitional government and declared a state of emergency in a move decried by political forces as a \"coup.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Sudan\'s transitional period, which started in August 2019 after the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir, had been scheduled to end with elections in early 2024. - Anadolu Agency</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 21:57:51', '2023-05-22 21:57:51'),
(7051, 7051, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Doha on Monday evening on a three-day official visit when she will attend the Qatar Economic Forum 2023.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>She is visiting the Gulf nation at the invitation of Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.</div><div><br></div><div>A regular commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airline, carrying the premier and her entourage landed at Hamad International Airport at 5:32 pm local time (BD time 8:32pm). Earlier in the day it took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3:13 pm Bangladesh time.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Ambassador to Qatar Md Nazrul Islam received the prime minister at the airport.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister will attend the Forum titled “3rd Qatar Economic Forum: A New Global Growth Story” to be held on May 23-25.</div><div><br></div><div>The Qatar Economic Forum is the Middle East\'s leading voice dedicated to global business and investment. The main objective of this forum is to find a solution by increasing mutual cooperation among the international community to deal with the multi-faceted challenges and crises going on globally and the adverse economic consequences arising from them.</div><div><br></div><div>On May 23, Hasina will join the opening session of the 3rd Qatar Economic Forum, address the students of Qatar University in Doha, and hold meetings separately with Qatar Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi and Minister of Investment of Saudi Arabia Khalid A. Al-Falih.</div><div><br></div><div>On May 24, the PM will join the forum, have a meeting with the emir of Qatar at Amiri Diwan and visit Awsaj Academy (a specialized school).</div><div><br></div><div>PM Hasina is expected to return home in the morning of May 25. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 22:20:06', '2023-05-22 22:20:06'),
(7052, 7052, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Dhaka court on Monday fixed June 22 for submission of the probe report in the murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>With this, the deadline for submission of the probe report in the case was deferred for the 98th time.</div><div><br></div><div>Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was supposed to submit the report today but as it failed to submit the report Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam fixed the new date for submitting it.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 2, 2021, RAB submitted a progress report in the Sagar-Runi murder case in affidavit form to the Attorney General’s Office.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the report, two unidentified people were involved in the murder.</div><div><br></div><div>Maasranga Television News Editor Sagar Sarowar and his wife ATN Bangla senior reporter Meherun Runi were found dead at their rented apartment in the city’s West Rajabazar area on 11 February 2012.</div><div><br></div><div>Nousher Ali Roman, brother of Runi, filed a case with Sher-e-Banglanagar Police Station on the following day.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrested Tanvir Rahman in connection with the murder case on October 1, 2012. Later, he secured bail in 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>Law enforcers have so far arrested eight people, including Tanvir, in connection with the murder case.</div><div><br></div><div>The seven other suspects are Rafiqul Islam, Bakul Mia, Abu Syed, Mintu alias Baggira Mintu alias Masum Mintu, Quamrul Hasan alias Arun, security guard Enam Ahmed alias Humayun Kabir and Palash Rudra Pal. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-22 22:58:40', '2023-05-22 22:58:40'),
(7053, 7053, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An armed group has crossed from Ukraine into Russia\'s Belgorod region and clashes there have injured a number of people, Russian authorities say.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Russian forces were searching for \"saboteurs\" who, he said, had attacked Grayvoronsky district by the border.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vladimir Putin\'s spokesman said the Russian president had been informed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine denies responsibility and said Russian citizens from two paramilitary groups were behind the incursion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Gladkov said eight people had been hurt, including two people admitted to hospital after a village was shelled and three people who were hit by shrapnel in the town of Grayvoron.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fighting had also damaged three houses and a local administrative building, and the situation remains \"extremely tense\", he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor said a \"counter-terrorist operation\" had been launched in the region, giving special powers to the authorities including on identity checks and communications surveillance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">BBC Verify has been analysing footage from the Belgorod region that emerged on social media on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, the team has located a video apparently filmed from a drone that features several armoured vehicles near a border checkpoint south of Belgorod. Additionally, BBC Verify has geolocated footage of helicopters operating in the region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The footage is recent, but it is hard to say for certain from the videos what the exact sequence of events is.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv said those behind the ongoing incident were from groups called the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Liberty of Russia Legion - a Ukraine-based Russian militia which says it is working inside Russia to overthrow President Vladimir Putin - said on Twitter on Monday it had \"completely liberated\" the border town of Kozinka. It said forward units had reached the town of Grayvoron, further east.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However Mr Putin\'s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies that efforts were under way to eliminate the sabotage group, and said its purpose was to draw attention away from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut - which a Russian mercenary group claims to have taken control of after months of intense and bloody fighting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We perfectly understand the purpose of such sabotage - to divert attention from the Bakhmut direction, to minimise the political effect of the loss of Artyomovsk [Bakhmut] by the Ukrainian side,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyiv says it still controls parts of the city.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Behind these attacks are Russian citizens who are fed up with the actions of their terrorist regime\", commented Yurik Sak, an adviser to Ukraine\'s defence minister.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to BBC Radio 4\'s World Tonight programme, he welcomed the developments and pointed to what he called a \"growing trend of Russian partisan movements\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he said he could not confirm or deny whether his country was harbouring or supporting the groups involved.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest incident comes ahead of a widely expected counter-offensive by Kyiv against invading Russian forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parts of Belgorod and several other Russian regions have come under artillery or drone attack since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Russian officials have blamed the Ukrainian military, although Ukraine has denied responsibility for alleged sabotage attacks on Russian territory. 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(7054, 7054, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US President Joe Biden and top Republican Kevin McCarthy have called their latest talks on the debt ceiling productive but no deal has yet been reached.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"I believe we can get a deal done,\" House Speaker McCarthy told reporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While acknowledging areas of disagreement, Mr Biden said \"default is off the table\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has reiterated that the US will likely default on its debt as early as 1 June.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The debt ceiling is a spending limit set by Congress which determines how much money the government can borrow.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Failure to raise it beyond the current cap of roughly $31.4tn (£25.2tn) by June could result in the US defaulting on its debt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That would mean the government could not borrow any more money or pay all of its bills. It would also threaten to wreak havoc on the global economy, affecting prices and mortgage rates in other countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The president ended his trip to Japan for the G7 summit early and returned to the US on Sunday to address the deadlock over US debt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued after his meeting with the House speaker, Mr Biden said: \"Default is off the table, and the only way to move forward is in good faith toward a bipartisan agreement.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tone of the talks at the White House appeared to be more optimistic after weeks of divisive partisan discourse. But it is unclear how quickly the two sides can reach a deal.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We don\'t have an agreement yet,\" Mr McCarthy said. \"But I did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion.\'\'</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Biden and I will talk everyday until we get this done,\" he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr McCarthy said the source of the stalemate between Democrats and Republicans is the same as it has always been, spending.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But while recognising the differences he said the tone \"was better than at any other time\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the House speaker emphasised that a deal needed to be reached this week to give Congress adequate time to meet the 1 June deadline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He estimated it would take about 72 hours for the agreement to be written, read and voted on.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning letter to Congress on Monday maintaining that the US would likely run out of money to pay its bills as early as 1 June without a debt limit increase.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She heightened the urgency and called the possibility of a default in early June \"highly likely\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If Congress fails to increase the debt limit, it would cause severe hardship to American families,\" her statement read.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Republicans are demanding over $4tn in budget cuts which would dissolve several of Mr Biden\'s legislative priorities.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Democrats have refused and instead are offering to keep spending flat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Mr Biden and Mr McCarthy are under pressure from the left and right flanks of their respective parties to hold the line.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With a one-seat Democratic majority in the Senate and Republicans in narrow control of the House, a deal has so far proven elusive. 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(7055, 7055, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A SpaceX capsule carrying two Saudi astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Monday, as part of a private mission chartered by Axiom Space.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rayyanah Barnawi, a scientist who became the first Saudi woman to go into space, and Ali Al-Qarni, a trained fighter pilot, are the first two people from their country to fly to the orbital outpost.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Greetings from outer space, I\'m here not only representing myself, but representing the hopes and dreams of everyone back home, everyone in the region,\" said Barnawi.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We really are excited to be here,\" added mission commander Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who made the voyage three times in the past.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It was a great launch, a great ride, we had a lot of fun on the way up and we\'re really excited to get a lot of work done up here.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fourth crew member is American businessman John Shoffner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About two hours after docking, the quartet entered the ISS, where they joined the seven astronauts -- three Russians, three Americans and an Emirati -- already on board.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SpaceX rocket blasted off from Florida on Sunday, and the trip to the ISS, which orbits around 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth, lasted about 16 hours.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This mission, named Ax-2, is the second fully private mission to visit the space station, following a first in April 2022. The members of Ax-2 will stay about 10 days and carry out some 20 experiments.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA is trying to seed a commercial space economy in the region of space known as \"Low Earth Orbit,\" allowing it to focus its own energies on missions deeper into the solar system and beyond.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Axiom Mission 1 launched last April, with the seats for three private astronauts accompanying an Axiom-employed astronaut reported to cost $55 million each. The cost of seats for Ax-2 has not been disclosed. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 09:44:33', '2023-05-23 09:44:33'),
(7056, 7056, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has arrived in China, Moscow\'s foreign ministry said, for a visit in which he will meet with President Xi Jinping and ink a series of deals on infrastructure and trade.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mishustin arrived late Monday in Shanghai, the ministry said, where he was greeted at the airport by Moscow\'s ambassador to China Igor Morgulov and Beijing\'s top diplomat to Russia Zhang Hanhui.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will take part in a Russian-Chinese Business Forum and visit a petrochemical research institute in Shanghai, the Kremlin said, as well as hold talks with \"representatives of Russian business circles\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That forum has invited a number of sanctioned Russian tycoons -- including from the key fertiliser, steel and mining sectors -- as well as Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, who handles energy issues, Bloomberg reported.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China last year became the top energy customer for Russia, whose gas exports had otherwise plummeted after a flurry of Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mishustin will then travel to Beijing, where he will meet with Xi and Premier Li Qiang, Russian state media TASS has said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">China and Russia have in recent years ramped up economic cooperation and diplomatic contacts, with their strategic partnership having only grown closer since the invasion of Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While China says it is a neutral party in that war, it has refused to condemn Russia for the invasion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February, Beijing released a paper calling for a \"political settlement\" to the conflict, which Western countries said could enable Russia to hold much of the territory it has seized in Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a March summit in Moscow, Xi invited President Vladimir Putin to visit Beijing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analysts say China holds the upper hand in the relationship with Russia, and that its sway is growing as Moscow\'s international isolation deepens. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 09:48:59', '2023-05-23 09:48:59'),
(7057, 7057, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dhaka’s air ranked 6th most polluted among cities around the world Tuesday morning, as per Air Quality Index (AQI).</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air in Dhaka city was categorised as ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, with an AQI score of 137 at 8:30am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indonesia’s Jakarta, Pakistan’s Lahore and China’s Shanghai occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 168, 162, and 153 respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 101 and 150, air quality is considered ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, between 150 and 200 is ‘unhealthy’, between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants — particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 10:07:18', '2023-05-23 10:07:18'),
(7058, 7058, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">An overnight fire raced through a dormitory in Guyana, killing at least 19 students who were trapped and injuring several others at a government boarding school as authorities probe whether it was intentionally set. All but one of the victims were Indigenous girls, officials said Monday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is a horrific incident. It’s tragic. It’s painful,” President Irfaan Ali said, adding that his government was mobilizing all possible resources as he requested help from the region to identify the remains of 13 bodies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire broke out at about 10:50 p.m. Sunday in the dormitory building of a secondary school that serves remote, mostly Indigenous villages and is located in the border town of Mahdia, a gold and diamond mining community about 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of the capital, Georgetown, the government said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Fire Chief Dwayne Scotland said \"the fire was maliciously set” and began in the building\'s southwest corner. However, Police Chief Clifton Hicken said “initial investigations suggest that it was maliciously set.\" He also said that while the girls\' dorm had five doors, iron grill work trapped the students inside.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities did not provide further details and did not share what evidence, if any, points to arson.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is the saddest day of my life as president. I wish it had not occurred,” Ali said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 59 girls usually reside in the dorm, but only 56 were in the rooms when the fire began because three of them went home for the weekend. Thirteen girls and a small boy died at the dorm, while five died at Mahdia Hospital, the government said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of those injured, six children were flown to Georgetown and 17 remain hospitalized in Mahdia, officials said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials initially said 20 students were killed but later updated the toll to 19, with several others injured. National Security Adviser Gerald Gouveia said the figure was revised after doctors revived a very critical patient that “everyone thought was dead.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“When firefighters arrived on the scene, the building was already completely engulfed in flames,” Guyana’s Fire Service said in a statement. “Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the relatives and friends of those young souls.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials said two children remain in critical condition and four have severe injuries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Firefighters did manage to rescue some 20 students by breaking holes in the northeastern wall of the building,” the department said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The school serves mostly Indigenous children aged 12 through 18, Gouveia said. He said it was too early to speculate what might have caused the fire, adding that heavy thunderstorms in the area posed a challenge to those responding by air.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It was a battle for us,” he said. “The pilots were very brave, very determined.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the government and emergency responders “made a gigantic effort” to save as many people as possible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ali said officials were contacting parents and mobilizing psychologists to help those affected by the fire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I cannot imagine the pain right now of the parents,” he said. “This is a major disaster.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition party, APNU+AFC, issued a statement saying it will seek a thorough investigation and thanked people in the small community for helping authorities rescue children who were trapped.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We need to understand how this most horrific and deadly incident occurred and take all necessary measures to prevent such a tragedy from happening again in the future,” opposition lawmaker Natasha Singh-Lewis said. 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(7059, 7059, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka and some other divisions may experience rain or thundershowers in 24 hours from 9am on Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chattogram &amp; Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Khulna &amp; Barishal divisions with hails at isolated places over the country, said a bulletin of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mild heat wave is sweeping over Khulna division and the districts of Madaripur &amp; Pabna and it may abate from some places, it read.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Day and Night temperature may fall slightly over the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country’s highest temperature was recorded at 36.8 degrees Celsius on Saturday in Jashore and the lowest temperature was recorded in Nikli and Rajarhat at 24.0 degrees Celsius. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 11:26:56', '2023-05-23 11:26:56'),
(7060, 7060, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The World Health Organization on Monday won basic approval for a $6.83-billion budget over the next two years, including a 20-percent hike in mandatory membership fees.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the UN health agency kicked off its annual decision-making assembly, member states in a key committee approved the budget without objection.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the move as \"historic and a big milestone\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The budget still needs to be approved by all the member states at the end of the 10-day event, but this is basically a formality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision comes after last year\'s assembly agreed to a dramatic overhaul of WHO funding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaken by the Covid 19 pandemic, countries agreed on the need to provide more reliable and stable funding.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO is largely financed by its 194 member states.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The portion of funding from mandatory membership fees -- \"assessed contributions\" calculated according to wealth and population -- had dwindled to below one-fifth, with the rest coming from \"voluntary contributions\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This left WHO with limited leeway to respond to crises like Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and other health emergencies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year\'s assembly agreed to gradually increase the membership fee portion to 50 percent by the 2030-31 budget cycle at the latest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2024-25 budget cycle marks the first incremental increase, with countries agreeing to hike their assessed contributions by 20 percent from the 2022-23 budget.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In return for the funding shift, WHO has begun implementing 96 reforms, including towards more transparency on its financing and hiring and broader accountability.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tedros told the assembly earlier Monday that WHO so far had implemented 42 of the requested reforms \"and 54 are ongoing. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 11:33:23', '2023-05-23 11:33:23'),
(7061, 7061, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon briefly went viral and caused a ten-minute long dip on the markets on Monday, stoking further talk that generative AI could cause problems to society.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image, which many observers suspected came from artificial intelligence, was spread by several accounts, forcing the Pentagon to comment that there was no such explosion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We can confirm this was a false report and the Pentagon was not attacked today,\" a spokesman said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Arlington, Virginia fire department also reacted, posting on social media that there was no explosion or incident taking place at or near the Pentagon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident followed other occurrences of fake imagery that also created buzz recently on the internet, including of former US president Donald Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis in a puffer jacket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The earliest tweet found by AFP sharing the Pentagon image came from a QAnon-promoting account that has previously shared disinformation, though the original source of the image was not known.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emerging generative AI technologies make it easier for non-specialists to create convincing images in just a few moments, instead of needing the expertise to use programs such as Photoshop.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shared image caused the markets to be knocked for a few minutes, with the S&amp;P 500 stumbling by 0.29 percent compared to its Friday close before recovering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"There was a dip likely related to this fake news as the (trading) machines picked up on it, but I would submit that the scope of the decline did not match the seemingly bad nature of the fake news,\" said Pat O\'Hare of Briefing.com. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 11:40:48', '2023-05-23 11:40:48'),
(7062, 7062, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US troops stage an airborne assault. British marines conduct a nighttime beach landing. French paratroopers drop from the skies after flying across Europe.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Estonia, on NATO\'s eastern flank, the allies train in the shadow of Russia\'s war on Ukraine.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The message is clear.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"It says that at short notice we can deploy very fast,\" said Lieutenant Colonel Edouard Bros, commander of the French troops in Estonia and taking part in the Spring Storm exercise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifteen months into Russia\'s war on Ukraine, and a month ahead of a summit of NATO leaders in Vilnius, the alliance is reinforcing its eastern defences.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that Moscow has ripped up decades of post-Cold War order, NATO is conducting the biggest overhaul to its defences and planning in a generation.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This change will move us from an alliance that was optimised for out of area contingency operations to an alliance fit for the purpose of large-scale operations to defend every inch of the alliance\'s territory,\" US General Christopher Cavoli, NATO\'s supreme commander in Europe, said this month.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is necessitated by the new realities we face.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a summit in Madrid last year, spurred on by the destruction Russian troops wrought in Ukraine, NATO reverted to \"deterrence by denial\" as it had during the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That means stopping any attack by Moscow at the borders, rather than being willing to cede frontline territory such as the Baltics, which would then need to be recaptured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"What is clear is that NATO made a strategic shift,\" said Kristjan Mae, the head of the policy planning department at Estonia\'s defence ministry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Collective defence is the most important task and we need to get our house in order.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- Battle groups and brigades -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the alliance has added thousands more troops to its eastern flank.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has deployed four more multinational \"battle groups\" in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria in addition to those set up on Russia\'s border in Poland and the Baltic states in the wake of Moscow\'s 2014 seizure of Crimea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO members are now planning how to scale up deployments to Baltic nations and Poland to brigade-size, which would mean adding thousands more troops, \"where and when required\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Military hardware -- time-consuming and complicated to lug across the continent -- is being pre-positioned in the east, and exercises are being stepped up.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Estonia, Britain will have troops on standby at their home bases ready to rush to the country to bolster the roughly 1,000 British and French troops already on the ground.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"That is a key shift -- the extra layer of capability in time to be part of the in place force prior to the outbreak of a conflict,\" said Brigadier Giles Harris, British commander of the NATO deployment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Estonia seems satisfied with that model, its neighbour Lithuania wants more troops consistently on the ground and is still discussing with its lead partner Germany how to get them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These deployments -- along with the militaries of the frontline nations -- are NATO\'s forward defence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in their headquarters, NATO commanders are drawing up more detailed plans -- to be approved by leaders in Vilnius -- on how the alliance would defend each region.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That involves details of how many forces, from which countries would go where, integrating national and NATO defence planning and setting clearer spending priorities for new gear.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO membership for Finland and eventually Sweden will also help bolster the eastern flank, but commanders must decide how the Scandinavian neighbours fit into broader plans.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The allies plan to have a pool of 300,000 troops ready to deploy within 30 days and will hold a conference at the end of June to commit personnel.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">- From paper to practice -</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All these new deployments and plans will inevitably require money, resources and forces.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"If nations need more time, or nations have less money, or there\'s all sorts of things that happen along the way, then it will have an impact of reaching that ideal situation,\" said Admiral Rob Bauer, chair of NATO\'s military committee.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of the Vilnius summit, NATO members are haggling over a new pledge to boost defence spending as a percent of gross domestic product.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just seven alliance members hit the two percent target set in 2022 and the aim for Vilnius will be agreeing to turn that target into a baseline.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Estonia, which has never stopped viewing Russia as an existential threat, wants allies to commit to spending 2.5 percent of GDP on defence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tallinn insists it is pulling its weight. The country of 1.4 million is already boosting defence spending to 3 percent of GDP, standing up a new army division, and buying modern weaponry.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faced by its aggressive giant neighbour, it now wants NATO\'s new defence strategies to become operable as soon as possible.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"One thing is to have good plans on paper. The other thing is to have these executable and implementable,\" said Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur, surrounded by British and French armoured vehicles at the Spring Storm exercise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"So this is the task. And this is the challenge for all of us.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 12:35:41', '2023-05-23 12:35:41'),
(7063, 7063, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A case has been filed against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Rajshahi district BNP convener Abu Sayeed Chand for making a “death threat” against Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina.&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">District Awami League General Secretary Shariful Islam Ramzan filed the case with Natore Police Station around 9:30pm on Monday (May 22, 2023).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Sayeed Chand has been made the main accused in the case. The BNP secretary general has also been accused in the case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Top leaders of district and municipal Awami League were present.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nasir Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Natore Sadar Police Station, accepted the case.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Rajshahi BNP leader Abu Sayeed Chand as traitors, the plaintiff said the “threatening remarks” made by the main accused towards Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has tarnished the reputation of the country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The remarks may deteriorate the law and order situation of the country, the case statement reads.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Friday afternoon, Abu Sayeed Chand threatened the prime minister at a public rally of metropolitan and district BNP at Shibpur High School ground in Puthia Upazila of Rajshahi as part of the central program.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"No more 27- or 10-point demand, just one point now – send Sheikh Hasina to the grave! We will do whatever is necessary to get Sheikh Hasina to resign,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a video of the threat went viral on social media, triggering a storm of protests among Awami League leaders and supporters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case was filed against Abu Sayeed Chand with Puthia Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act in this regard. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 12:43:09', '2023-05-23 12:43:09'),
(7064, 7064, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Brazil said on Monday it had formally protested to the Spanish ambassador and would lodge an official complaint with authorities in Madrid over the latest incident of racist abuse directed at Brazilian footballer Vinicius Junior.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There has been an outpouring of condemnation in Vinicius\'s native Brazil since the Real Madrid star was targeted with racist abuse during the club\'s 1-0 loss at Valencia on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Brazilian government said Racial Equality Minister Anielle Franco would present an official complaint to Spanish authorities and La Liga.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A foreign ministry source meanwhile told AFP the government had protested to Spain\'s ambassador in Brazil.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The Spanish ambassador is away from Brasilia, but we have already been in contact with her by telephone to express the Brazilian government\'s displeasure over the repeated racist attacks against (Vinicius) and the need for an adequate response,\" the source said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In solidarity, the Christ the Redeemer, whose arms extend over Rio de Janeiro, will turn off its lights this Monday for one hour (between 2100 and 2200 GMT).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The monument (...) will have its lighting turned off as a symbol of the joint fight against racism and in solidarity with the player and with all those who suffer from prejudice in the world,\" the Archdiocese in charge of the sanctuary said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match in Valencia was halted for several minutes after Vinicius, who has repeatedly been targeted with racial slurs in Spain, was abused again Sunday from the stands.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The referee wrote in his post-match report that shouts of \"monkey\" had been directed at the player.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the abuse, which triggered a flood of support for Vinicius, including from fellow Brazil stars Neymar and Richarlison and retired legend Ronaldo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brazil \"deeply regrets that no effective measures have yet been taken to prevent the recurrence of these racist acts,\" the government said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It called on Spanish authorities to \"punish the perpetrators and stop further cases,\" and urged FIFA, the Spanish Football Federation and La Liga to take \"the necessary measures.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spanish prosecutors opened an investigation of the incident on Monday, and Spain\'s sports council said it was analysing video images to \"identify the perpetrators of these insults and behaviors to propose the appropriate sanctions.\" AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 12:45:53', '2023-05-23 12:45:53'),
(7065, 7065, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined the opening session of the 3rd Qatar Economic Forum in Doha of Qatar on Tuesday morning.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The forum is being held at Fairmont &amp; Raffles Hotels in Lusail city from May 23-25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Hasina arrived in Qatar on Monday to attend the forum at the invitation of Qatar Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main objective of the forum is to find a solution by increasing mutual cooperation among the international community to deal with the multi-faceted challenges and crises going on globally and the adverse economic consequences arising from them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, on Tuesday, she will deliver her speech before the students of Qatar University in Doha, have meetings separately with Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, Minister of State for Energy Affairs of Qatar Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi and Saudi Minister of Investment Khalid A. Al-Falih.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier will also attend the Qatar Economic Forum Gala Dinner. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 13:33:52', '2023-05-23 13:33:52'),
(7066, 7066, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been tested covid-19 positive for third time.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"He received the of Covid-19 positive report at 10am on Tuesday (23 May)\",  BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the BNP secretary general was feeling ill since Monday afternoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has been admitted to the capital\'s Square Hospital for treatment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before this, the 75-year-old BNP leader was infected with Covid 2 twice. </div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"4\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 13:38:38', '2023-05-23 14:53:18'),
(7067, 7067, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The first hajj flight carrying 419 pilgrims left the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chattogram City Mayor M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury inaugurated the first hajj flight, Airport director Group Captain Taslim Ahmed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of Hajj Agencies Association, Bangladesh (HAAB) Chattogram Chapter Shah Alam said Bangladesh Biman will operate 22 dedicated hajj flights from Chattogram to Modinah and Jeddah during the current hajj season.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These flights will carry 10,500 pilgrims and the last flight will leave Chattogram on June 22, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, 11 flights were operated from Chattogram to Jeddah and Modinah, but this year the number has been increased to 22 and six of them will go to Modinah.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sajal Barua, Chattogram district manager of Biman, said all necessary steps have been taken to send the pilgrims properly and various guidelines have also been given to the concerned in this regard.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We are trying so that the pilgrims can perform the holy hajj safely and without any hassel,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Biman sources, the number of pilgrims from Bangladesh this year is 1,22,211. Of them, half will be carried by Biman and the remaining half by Saudia Airlines and Flynas Airlines. Biman will operate a total of 162 flights to transport the pilgrims. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 14:28:42', '2023-05-23 14:28:42'),
(7068, 7068, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Seven people, including four children, died Monday when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a metal roof on a school’s activity center to collapse in northern Thailand, officials said Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The latest casualty was a 6-year-old boy who died late Monday night in a hospital after the collapse at the Wat Nern Por primary school, according to the public relations office in Phichit province, 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of Bangkok.</div><div><br></div><div>Several students had gone inside the activity center to shelter from the rain when the roof collapsed, according to a Facebook post from the official disaster prevention department, and 18 people were hospitalized.</div><div><br></div><div>Patcharin Siri, a staff member of the provincial Public Relations Department, said four boys, two parents and one member of the school’s cleaning staff died.</div><div><br></div><div>The meteorological department issued a warning for heavy rain in northern Thailand this week. Monday was also the official start of the rainy season. According to AP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 15:39:23', '2023-05-23 15:39:23'),
(7069, 7069, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Russian officials claimed that Ukrainian military saboteurs launched an attack across the border Monday, wounding eight people in a small town. Kyiv officials denied any link with the group and blamed the fighting on a revolt by disgruntled Russians against the Kremlin.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Neither version of events could be independently verified in an area that has witnessed sporadic spillover from the almost 15-month war in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said that a Ukrainian Armed Forces saboteur group entered the town of Graivoron, about five kilometers (three miles) from the border. The town also came under Ukrainian artillery fire, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said eight people were wounded and most residents had left the area, but the situation remained “tense.”</div><div><br></div><div>In nearby Zamostye village, a projectile hit a kindergarten and caused a fire. One woman was wounded in her hand, Gladkov said. He also reported that Russian anti-aircraft systems shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle over Belgorod region. According to AP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 15:51:17', '2023-05-23 15:51:17');
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(7070, 7070, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Smoke from wildfires in Canada is moving into parts of the central US and could linger in the days ahead, health and weather officials warned Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Air quality alerts have been posted as of early Friday across several states, including Nebraska, Washington, Montana and Wisconsin, with a special weather statement about air quality in Wyoming.</div><div><br></div><div>The heaviest smoke concentrations should shift further east into the Midwest later in the day, affecting major metro areas including Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis.</div><div><br></div><div>Canada has had an especially active start to the fire season. Last week, devastating wildfires in Alberta had burned more than 150 times more area in that province than in the last five years combined by the same point in the year, CNN has reported.</div><div><br></div><div>In Nebraska, “Canadian wildfire smoke is going to move through the area today through tomorrow morning, resulting in potentially dangerous air quality and poor visibility across eastern Nebraska and Iowa. Limit outdoor activities if possible when the air quality is poor!” the National Weather Service in Omaha tweeted Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>Wildfire smoke “is beginning to move into the Lincoln and Omaha metro areas,” the service’s Omaha office said Thursday afternoon. “Visibility should drop to 1-2 miles within the next couple of hours and air quality will go into the unhealthy range for sensitive groups.”</div><div><br></div><div>In eastern Nebraska’s Douglas County – which includes Omaha – the health department warned smoke could remain through Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index indicated parts of the Rockies, the Great Plains and the Midwest, including the Nebraska Panhandle and northeast corner of the state, had “very unhealthy” air quality early Friday. According to CNN reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 16:27:47', '2023-05-23 16:27:47'),
(7071, 7071, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The United States has condemned the Rajshahi BNP leader’s public ‘death threat’ against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, noting that they stand firmly against any attempts to incite violence.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"The U.S. Embassy condemns the use of any inflammatory language, intimidation, or threats of violence,\" Sean J. McIntosh, Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka told UNB on Tuesday.</div><div><br></div><div>The US comment came when asked whether the US is condemning such threat by the opposition leader.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Political stability, peaceful coexistence, and respect for democratic principles are vital for any society to flourish,\" said the official at the US Embassy.</div><div><br></div><div>The United States is committed to supporting Bangladesh in its pursuit of a stable, prosperous, and democratic future, said McIntosh.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We stand firmly against any attempts to incite violence, and we reiterate our support for the principles of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law,\" said the official.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Awami League and its associate organizations held processions and rallies in all district and metropolitan areas, protesting Rajshahi district BNP Convener Abu Sayeed Chand’s&nbsp; “death threat” to Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina.</div><div><br></div><div>In a video posted on AL’s verified Facebook page, that had been circulating on social media and reported on by media outlets, Abu Sayeed Chand is heard saying: “No more 27- or 10-point demand, just one point now – send Sheikh Hasina to the grave!”</div><div><br></div><div>According to the video, the speech was given on May 19 at a Rajshahi district and metropolitan BNP rally. According to to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 19:52:38', '2023-05-23 19:52:38'),
(7072, 7072, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Pakistan Anti-Terrorism Court on Tuesday extended interim bail Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan in eight cases registered against him.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The former Pakistan prime minister — who is facing a number of cases — reached the Islamabad judicial complex, ahead of his appearance before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) at its Rawalpindi office in the £190 million settlement case.</div><div><br></div><div>The prosecutor opposing the extension in interim bail of the former premier said he is not joining the investigation despite court orders.</div><div><br></div><div>The accused has to join the investigation after security interim bail but Imran Khan is saying his leg is injured and he cannot join the probe.</div><div><br></div><div>To this, Salman Safdar, the former prime minister\'s counsel in his arguments before the court, said his client booked in over 160 cases and added they are ready to join the investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>The investigation officer is not interested to leave his office, Safdar said and added Imran Khan will respond to the questionnaire within three days.</div><div><br></div><div>The court after hearing arguments from both sides extended interim bail of Imran Khan in eight cases until June 8.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The judge also directed the joint investigation team to inform the court how they want Imran Khan to join the investigation.</div><div><br></div><div>Security was beefed up at the judicial complex and the NAB office ahead of the PTI chief\'s arrival and a heavy contingent of police were deployed there to deal with any untoward incident. - The Nation</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 20:09:08', '2023-05-23 20:09:08'),
(7073, 7073, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Bangladesh\'s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said a joint operation will be conducted very soon to seize arms and drugs and to prevent terrorist activities in the Rohingya camps.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>If necessary, the army will also be involved in this operation, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The minister made the remarks while talking to reporters after attending a meeting of the National committee for coordinating, managing and maintaining law and order of Rohingyas at the Secretariat on Tuesday (May 23, 2023).</div><div><br></div><div>Highlighting the decision of the national committee on coordination, management and law and order of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals displaced, the minister said: \"There is an increasing trend of violence in the Rohingya refugee camps. Terrorist activities are on the rise. In light of this, it was decided in the meeting to increase law enforcement patrols, checkpoints, and intelligence surveillance to stop Rohingya miscreants from committing acts of violence within the camp.”</div><div><br></div><div>Asaduzzaman Khan said the authorities will conduct a joint operation – based on intelligence – to prevent members of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and Arakan Army (AA) from entering the camps.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have set up barbed wire fences and watchtowers to prevent Rohingyas from leaving the camp, and we conduct regular patrols,\" he said. “The security measures will be strengthened further so that they cannot escape. Members of law enforcement agencies are on high alert.”</div><div><br></div><div>Asked whether the army will be involved in the joint operation, the minister said, \"If necessary, we will call the army.\"</div><div><br></div><div>“We will not allow drug trade. We will make sure that there is no more bloodshed.”</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, the home minister said the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will be instructed to stay on high alert on the border to prevent anymore Myanmar nationals from entering the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Among other things, discussions were held to speed the diplomatic efforts to send Rohingyas back to Myanmar. Various issues including rohingya health, birth control were also addressed at the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The home minister said, \"The decision to repatriate the Rohingyas is still active. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on it. We hope (repatriation process) it will continue. ’</div><div><br></div><div>When asked about the Rohingyas who are hesitant to go back to Myanmar, he said, \"It’ll pass. How long will we keep them? We want them to go back to their country,” reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The Home Minister said the registration process of Bangladeshi fishermen fishing in the Naf River is ongoing.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 21:20:38', '2023-05-23 21:20:38'),
(7074, 7074, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The United Nations and its partners in Bangladesh on Tuesday appealed for $42.1 million for the Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi communities in Cox’s Bazar who are facing the devastating impact of Cyclone Mocha.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The cyclone severely affected all 33 refugee camps and surrounding Bangladeshi villages, leaving thousands desperately in need.</div><div><br></div><div>The urgent appeal includes $36.5 million under the Rohingya Refugee Response to benefit refugees and Bangladeshi communities.</div><div><br></div><div>Additionally, the UN and its partners seek $5.6 million exclusively for Bangladeshi families in Teknaf.</div><div><br></div><div>The appeal focuses on the urgent needs to replenish contingency stocks, prepare ahead of the monsoon season, and use weather and fire-resistant materials for shelters and facilities that are critical in saving lives.</div><div><br></div><div>Cyclone Mocha struck the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on 14 May, bringing heavy rains and strong winds. Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis and Rohingya were impacted by the cyclone.</div><div><br></div><div>Shelters built of bamboo and tarpaulin were damaged and destroyed. Many more lost access to clean drinking water and other water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities. Key facilities for education, nutrition, protection, and more were damaged or destroyed.</div><div><br></div><div>“The cyclone has taken a huge toll on Bangladeshi and refugee communities, even if we missed the eye of the storm,” said Gwyn Lewis, the UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“What we need to do is to build back better with weather and fire-resistant materials. Many refugees lost their homes in March due to devastating fires and had just begun rebuilding their lives. They are now rebuilding their shelters once again following the cyclone and are bracing for the monsoons that are around the corner,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Rohingya refugees are particularly vulnerable this year because the 2023 Appeal seeking $876 million dollars is only 17% funded as of mid-May. Funding shortfalls, resulting in two ration cuts in March and imminently in June 2023, will decrease food assistance by 33.3%. Other critical programmes and activities are also being cut.</div><div><br></div><div>“Refugees are not allowed to work and are completely reliant on the international community.” said Lewis, “We desperately need $56 million to restore the full food rations of refugees. Now we also need additional support to rebuild the camps after the cyclone and prepare for the monsoons.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Resident Coordinator acknowledged the government’s leadership in implementing its sophisticated disaster preparedness and response systems that has saved countless lives in the past years and during Cyclone Mocha.</div><div><br></div><div>In Myanmar, the humanitarian community also launched a $333 million Flash Appeal on Tuesday to assist 1.6 million people affected by Cyclone Mocha. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 22:21:28', '2023-05-23 22:21:28'),
(7075, 7075, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the Qatar University students to be the change-makers being remained focus on vision having the mentality to embrace the new and future.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>\"Lead by example and be the change-maker,\" she said while addressing a session with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the students of Qatar University on theme titled \"Bangladesh: a development model: Learning from Sheikh Hasina.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The Premier, who is now on a three-day official visit to Doha to attend the Qatar Economic Forum-2023, told the students, \"To represent a value, remaining focused on your vision and make concrete plans to realize your vision.\"</div><div><br></div><div>She also said: \"Trust your people and team. Invoke your maternal spirit, and embrace the new and the future.\"</div><div><br></div><div>During her long speech, Sheikh Hasina gave a brief description of the struggle of achieving Bangladesh\'s independence under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and advancing the country towards transforming it into a developed, prosperous and Smart Bangladesh by 2041.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We want to build a knowledge-based, SMART Bangladesh. In SMART Bangladesh, there will be a smart government, a smart economy, a smart population, a smart society, and smart manpower,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said the people will be made skilled in using digital devices so that they can contribute to the fourth industrial revolution.</div><div><br></div><div>She went on saying that the purpose of Smart Bangladesh is to keep pace with the changing world and use digital devices in all areas of education, health, agriculture, industrial production, business, and trade.</div><div><br></div><div>\"To achieve the goals, we are setting up digital labs in all educational institutions, from primary to higher education. Computer training and incubation centers and hi-tech parks are being established throughout the country,\" Sheikh Hasina said.</div><div><br></div><div>Skilled manpower is being built through training in artificial intelligence, she said, adding that they have passed an act to establish a nanotechnology institution.</div><div><br></div><div>The use of digital devices or technology has created vast employment opportunities for women in our society, the premier said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Today\'s Bangladesh is a changed Bangladesh. It is dubbed as a role model for development. Hunger, poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy and etc are vanishing fast,\" she said</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said their hard-earned development in the country is not a miracle.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is the collective work of our men and women. I have only tried to guide them in the desired direction,\" she continued.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said, however, it was not an easy journey to reach today\'s position as she have had to undergo huge ordeals and persecution throughout her life.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My father had to spend nearly one-fourth of his life in prison. We, the children, had been deprived of his love and affection. Within three and a half years of independence, the founder of the country, my father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was assassinated along with 18 of our family members, including my mother, three brothers, two sisters-in-law, and an uncle,\" she continued.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said her youngest brother was only ten years old at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My sister and I survived being abroad on that day. My sister and I had to lead a refugee life for six years,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sheikh Hasina said she returned home in 1981, when her party Awami League made her its president.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I came home with a pledge to materialize my father\'s dream of a poverty-, hunger, and illiteracy-free, prosperous Bangladesh,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>On return, Sheikh Hasina said she launched a movement for establishing the rights to food and vote. I was interned time and again.</div><div><br></div><div>\"At least 19 attempts were made on my life, the gravest one being in August 2004 when a dozen Arges grenades were hurled at me to kill me. I survived, but 22 of my party workers and leaders were killed and several hundred wounded,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Braving all odds, Sheikh Hasina said she continued her struggle only to change the fates of her countrymen.</div><div><br></div><div>\"I shall continue to do so as long as I live, Insha\'Allah. My dream is to turn our delta into a land of prosperity once again,\" she pledged.</div><div><br></div><div>Following Bangabandhu\'s assassination, she said Bangladesh went under military and quasi-military rule for the subsequent 21 years, and the fates of the people had not changed much.</div><div><br></div><div>\"My party, the Awami League, got elected to office in 1996 after a long struggle of 21 years, and I was made Prime Minister for the first time. In five years, we managed to build a solid foundation for Bangladesh\'s socio-economic transformation,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said they handed over power through peaceful means in 2001, and then followed another dark period of killings, terrorism, corruption, and military interventions.</div><div><br></div><div>She said their party got re-elected to office in December 2008, and since then for two more consecutive terms.</div><div><br></div><div>\"In the last fourteen and a half years, we got Bangladesh ready for what my father had wished for-a happy and prosperous \'Golden Bangladesh,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2015, Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh became a lower middle-income country, and they envision it becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2031 and a high-income one by 2041.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Meanwhile, we have been qualified to graduate to a developing country by 2026 from the LDC category,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said since the assumed office, their priority has been to alleviate the conditions of the poor and marginalized sections of society.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh has made impressive progress in almost all socio-economic fields, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Bangladesh is now the world\'s 35th largest economy, with a GDP of USD 460.75 billion,\" Sheikh Hasina said.</div><div><br></div><div>The headcount poverty rate was 41.5 percent in 2005-06, while the current poverty rate has come down to 18.7 percent and the extreme poverty rate to 5.6 percent, she continued.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said that Bangladesh\'s economy grew at an average of 6.5 percent over the past one and a half decades, and before the pandemic struck, it grew at 8.15 percent in the 2018-19 fiscal year.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have made impressive gains in food security, free and affordable housing, community healthcare, compulsory primary education, women\'s empowerment, financial inclusion, digital services, access to electricity, disaster preparedness, and climate adaptation,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>After a decade\'s efforts that include make education free up to 12th grade by her government, she said, \"We now rank the highest in South Asia in reducing gender disparity.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Due to her government\'s initiatives, she said \"We are among the world\'s top ten nations for women\'s political empowerment.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh is perhaps the only country where the Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Parliament, Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, and Deputy Leader of the House are all women, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have 33 percent reserved seats for our women in the local government bodies,\" Sheikh Hasina continued.</div><div><br></div><div>The Prime Minister said she has introduced a scheme named Ashrayan</div><div><br></div><div>(Shelter) through which semi-pucca houses are being built and distributed among landless and homeless people at free of cost.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The total number of landless and homeless families in the country is 885 thousand and 622. So far, we have built and distributed houses among 555 thousand and 228 families,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Not only that, but arrangements for their livelihoods have been made through income-generating training and providing them with interest-free loans, she added, reports BSS.</div><div><br></div><div>The villages of Bangladesh are being turned into towns by reaching urban facilities in every nook and cranny of the country, she said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-23 22:44:39', '2023-05-23 22:44:39'),
(7076, 7076, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The US has distanced itself from an incursion into Russia - which Moscow says ended in the defeat of armed insurgents who entered from Ukraine.</span><br></b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parts of the border region of Belgorod came under attack on Monday, in one of the most major cross-border raids since Russia invaded its neighbour last year.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia later released pictures of abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US insisted it did not \"encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A state department spokesman acknowledged reports \"circulating on social media and elsewhere\" that US-supplied weapons had been used, but said his country was \"sceptical at this time of the veracity of these reports.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a news briefing on Tuesday, Matthew Miller added: \"it is up to Ukraine to decide how to conduct this war.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villages in Belgorod near the border were evacuated after coming under shellfire. Russia says 70 attackers were killed, and has insisted the fighters were Ukrainian.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Kyiv denies involvement - and two Russian paramilitary groups opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin say they were behind the incursion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday\'s raid led Moscow to declare a counter-terrorism operation, giving the authorities special powers to clamp down on communications and people\'s movements.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The measures were only lifted the following afternoon, and even then, one of the paramilitary groups was claiming it still controlled a \"small, but our own piece of the Motherland\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Belgorod\'s governor said one civilian had died during the violence, and that several others had been injured.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a later development, Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Tuesday evening that Belgorod had come under fresh attack from a drone which dropped an explosive device and damaged a car.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the flying vehicle had been shot down and that there did not appear to be any new casualties.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The claims by the warring sides have not been independently verified - although the BBC was able to establish that a building used by Russia\'s main security agency, the FSB, was among those hit during the violence. It is not clear what caused the damage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the hostilities in Belgorod, Russia\'s defence ministry said a \"unit of the Ukrainian nationalist formation\" had invaded its territory to carry out attacks.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of its photos showed a wrecked vehicle with the words \"for Bakhmut\" written in Russian on the side. This appears to refer to the Ukrainian city which Russia says it has recently captured - a claim disputed by Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as killing dozens of what it described as \"Ukrainian terrorists\" in artillery and air strikes, the ministry claimed to have driven the rest of the fighters back to the Ukrainian border.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Ukrainian officials said the attackers were Russians, from groups known as the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social media posts from the two paramilitary groups appeared to confirm their involvement. Both groups also told Ukraine\'s public broadcaster Suspilne that they were creating \"a demilitarised zone on the border with the Russian Federation from which they will not be able to shell Ukraine\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any assaults on Russian soil make leaders in the Nato military alliance of Western countries nervous - meaning that the developments could prove a mixed blessing for Kyiv.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cross-border incursion may be embarrassing for Moscow, and go some way to offset the bad optics for Ukraine of reportedly losing control of Bakhmut after months of intense and bloody fighting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is also likely to be part of Ukraine\'s shaping operations ahead of its coming counter-offensive, aiming to draw Russian troops away from the south where Kyiv is expected to attack.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it is not a development that is likely to welcomed by the West.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The long-range weapons these countries have provided to Kyiv - although not used in this attack - still come with the proviso they are not to be used to hit targets inside Russia.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite official denials from Kyiv, it is hard to believe this raid was launched without assistance from Ukrainian military intelligence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It plays into the Kremlin narrative that Russia\'s own sovereign security is under attack from malign forces backed by the West.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a narrative likely to be fuelled by reports that some of those who took part are linked to far-right extremism, reinforcing Moscow\'s claim that it is trying to rid Ukraine of neo-Nazis. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 06:25:38', '2023-05-24 06:25:38'),
(7077, 7077, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Chennai Super Kings are through to their 10th Indian Premier League final after beating defending champions Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 1.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Opener Ruturaj Gaikwad top-scored with 60 from 44 balls as Chennai posted 172-7 after being put in to bat.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">On a pitch growing increasingly difficult to bat on, Gujarat were all out for 157 with only Shubman Gill - 42 from 38 - making a score of note.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Gujarat go into Qualifier 2, while CSK advance to Sunday\'s final in Ahmedabad.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Is India batter Gill cricket\'s next big thing?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium was a sea of yellow as the Chennai crowd roared on MS Dhoni\'s side but they were silenced in the second over when Gaikwad chipped tamely to mid-wicket off Darshan Nalkande.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">However, the opener was reprieved as replays showed Nalkande had overstepped and it proved a costly error.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Gaikwad hit the next ball for six and proceeded to play the match\'s defining innings, reaching his half-century from 36 balls as he put on 87 with Devon Conway for the first wicket.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Once Gaikwad departed, batting looked much tougher but useful cameos throughout the order, including an unbeaten nine from four balls from England all-rounder Moeen Ali, took the Super Kings to a competitive total.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Gujarat failed to build any real momentum with the turn and bounce of Ravindra Jadeja and Mahesh Theekshana causing the batting side problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Gill went past 700 runs in a magnificent IPL season but even he struggled for fluency before falling to Deepak Chahar, two balls after Jadeja had bowled David Miller.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Rashid Khan hit three fours and two sixes late on to give the Titans a glimmer of hope but Chennai held on comfortably and took the final wicket with the last ball of the match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">What is the IPL play-off schedule?</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Chennai are now safely through to the final on Sunday, 28 May and Gujarat could yet join them there.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Wednesday will see third-placed Lucknow Super Giants take on five-time champions Mumbai Indians in the Eliminator, with the loser going out.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The winner of the Eliminator will then face Gujarat on Friday in Qualifier 2.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">Whoever wins that will advance to play Chennai for the trophy. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 06:34:55', '2023-05-24 06:34:55'),
(7078, 7078, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The path to the 2024 US presidential election began almost as soon as last November\'s midterm elections ended - and several candidates are waiting in the wings.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former President Donald Trump has announced he will run in the party\'s nominating contest, vowing to \"make America great and glorious again\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Trump remains the favourite choice of Republican voters, but his legal troubles and his role in an underwhelming midterm election performance for the party have left him vulnerable.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ex-president, who will be 78 when the general election begins, could face a stiff challenge from a coterie of Republican hopefuls, including some who once backed him.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senator Tim Scott has a decades-long career in South Carolina politics and entered the race in May with nearly $22m (£18m) - more than his rivals - in cash on hand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only black man to ever serve in both chambers of Congress, the 57-year-old has represented South Carolina in the Senate since 2013.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Scott is the grandson of a cotton field worker and the son of a single mother, and he has often spoken of how his family rose \"from cotton to Congress\" in a lifetime.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He launched his 2024 bid vowing to turn around \"a nation in retreat\" and revive America\'s \"culture of greatness\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well-liked among his colleagues, he quickly earned endorsements from two fellow senators, including John Thune, the chamber\'s second highest-ranking Republican.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he\'s not the only top South Carolina Republican with a hat in the ring.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nikki Haley announced her bid for the presidency in mid-February, becoming the first major Republican candidate to commit to taking on Mr Trump.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once considered one of the Republican Party\'s brightest young prospects, Ms Haley, 51, has kept a lower profile in recent years.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in South Carolina to Punjabi Sikh immigrants, Ms Haley became the youngest governor in the country in 2009.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She earned national attention in 2015 after calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite saying she was \"not a fan\" of Mr Trump in 2016, she later accepted his nomination to be the US ambassador to the United Nations, a tenure marked by her dramatic exit from a UN Security Council meeting as a Palestinian envoy was speaking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her campaign, which includes a call for mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old, stresses the need for \"a new generation\" of US leaders. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 06:39:00', '2023-05-24 06:39:00'),
(7079, 7079, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A total of 387 aspiring candidates including 11 for mayoral post submitted their nomination papers to compete in the upcoming Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) elections slated for June 21.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another 89 are for the reserved seats submitted the nomination papers and 287 for the post of general ward councillor.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syed Kamal Hossain, an official (media cell) of Sylhet regional election office, confirmed the matter saying that the nomination papers were submitted from morning to 4pm on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though 456&nbsp; collected nomination papers, 376 submitted their nomination papers for the posts of general and reserved ward councillor&nbsp; till the last date (May 23) of submission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mayoral candidates who will contest with political symbol are Awami League-backed Md Anoruzzaman Chowdhury, Jatiya Party-sponsored Nazrul Islam Babul, Islami Andolan-nominated Hafiz Mawlana Mahmudul Hasan and Jaker Party’s Md Jahirul Alam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Independent candidates are Mohammad Abdul Hanif Kutu, Mohammad Abdul Mannan Khan, Samsun Nur Talukder, Md Salah Uddin Rimon, Mawlana Jahid Uddin Chowdhury, Md Shahjahan Miah and Moshtak Ahmed Rouf Mostafa.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visiting the election office, it was noticed that the candidates were submitting their nomination papers with enthusiasm and happiness.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling party-backed candidate Anoruzzaman accompanied by his party men also submitted his nomination paper on the last day of submission.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scrutinization of the nomination papers will be held on May 25 and the last day of withdrawal of the nomination papers has been set for June 1.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The symbols will be distributed among other candidates on June 2 while the candidates will be able to conduct their electioneering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wrapping up all speculation, incumbent SCC Mayor and BNP leader Ariful Haque Chowdhury on last Saturday announced that he will not contest in the election as his party boycotted all elections under the current government. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 09:49:26', '2023-05-24 09:49:26'),
(7080, 7080, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Saudi Arabia has offered to make large scale investment in various sectors of Bangladesh as the country has a stable government and good record of economic growth.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabian Minister of Investment Khalid A. Al-Faliah and Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Alibrahim came up with the offer when they jointly called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her place of residence in Doha on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While briefing the reporters after the meeting, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said they said Saudi sees a few issues as investor --stability (of country) and future of investment.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, they said the present situation and future of Bangladesh is very good and this is why they have taken the decision to strengthen its relation with Bangladesh.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi ministers said Bangladesh has a stable government and Bangladesh’s economic growth is very good. Bangladesh\'s leadership, vision and commitments are very good, they added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They informed that Saudi Arabia has already taken a few proposals. Of these, they want to do Patenga port and take the economic zone beside it.&nbsp; Saudi Arabia wants to establish Bangladesh as a regional hub considering its geographical location as the country is in between South and Southeast Asia. If Saudi makes it a hub, they can cover Indonesia, Malaysia and more countries, they added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two ministers said their country wants to set up major distribution centres of Saudi petrochemical, diesel, jet fuel, fertiliser and shipping lines in Bangladesh. They want to make Patenga as a red sea gateway.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply, the prime minister said that she has already given permission and urged them to start it immediately.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina offered the Saudi government Matarbari and Payra Sea ports and economic zones in this regard as well for the mutual benefits.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this regard, she directed the authorities concerned to take necessary measures for removing obstacles if there is any to ease Saudi investment in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia also wants to develop a partnership with Bangladesh through cooperation in various sectors like agriculture for mutual benefits.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this regard, they assured the prime minister of providing necessary financial and technical assistance to Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi ministers requested Bangladesh for making investment to build housing and hospitals in Saudi Arabia for Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two ministers requested the prime minister to establish pharmaceuticals, beverage and real estate industries in Saudi Arabia for the benefits of the two peoples.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They highly appreciated Bangladesh’s RMG sector saying that Bangladesh has shown that it has become the capital of textiles and garments in the world.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM\'s Speechwriter Md Nazrul Islam was present in the press briefing. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 10:39:17', '2023-05-24 10:39:17'),
(7081, 7081, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Qatar\'s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Tuesday said his country is keen to strengthen its friendly relations with Bangladesh.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said this at a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held at the bilateral meeting room of Raffles Tower here in Doha.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, the Qatari PM told Hasina that they (Qatar) are a true friend of Bangladesh and want to take the relation with the country forward further, said Foreign Minister&nbsp; AK Abdul Momen at a press briefing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Qatari premier praised Hasina for bringing stability in Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM&nbsp; Hasina said Bangladesh procures a huge amount of energy from Qatar. “We want you to assist us over energy,” she was quoted as telling her counterpart.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said&nbsp; Qatar would do as much as possible for Bangladesh.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About the fear of losing jobs among Bangladeshi workers in Qatar after the FIFA World Cup 2023, the Qatari PM said Bangladeshi workers are their assets and friends and Qatar will keep them as much as possible in their country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, Qatar\'s Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi called on the Bangladesh Prime Minister at the latter’s place of residence.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the meeting, the issue of signing a fresh contract over the supply of additional liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Bangladesh in future came up for discussion.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM Hasina called for signing the new contract as soon as possible to procure a larger amount of energy from Qatar, said Momen at the press briefing.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The existing 15-year agreement signed in 2017 to import LNG from Qatar will be effective till 2032, but it needs to sign a new contract to get the larger amount of energy after 2025, he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Momen said the Bangladesh PM asked to sign the contract immediately, fixing the pricing related problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Describing Bangladesh as a friendly country that stood with Qatar in their tough days, they (Qatar) promised that they would consider all sorts of concessions whatever possible for Qatar during signing the contract.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held a meeting with President of Rwanda Paul Kagame on the sidelines of Qatar Economic Forum at Raffles Tower.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, Kagame told Sheikh Hasina that he always hears the development story of Bangladesh and he wants to visit Bangladesh. “We are very proud of Bangladesh,” he was quoted as saying by&nbsp; Momen.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Bangladesh is a very densely populated country and you (Sheikh Hasina) are governing the country very well. I want to see it,” the President of Rwanda was quoted as saying.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply, the Premier invited Kagame to visit Bangladesh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paul Kagame said he wants to establish air connectivity between Bangladesh and Rwanda.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to the recent opening of a pharmaceutical factory by a Bangladeshi company in Rwanda, the president invited more Bangladeshi investment in different sectors in his country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hasina praised&nbsp; Kagame, saying that Rwanda is in a very good position in Africa due to his good leadership.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She told Kagame that the Ukraine-Russia war has created difficulties and sent warnings to countries like Bangladesh and Rwanda. “We can overcome such type of situation if we cooperate with each other,” she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kagame appreciated&nbsp; Hasina’s remark saying that it is high time to strengthen the cooperation. 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(7082, 7082, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality was marked \"unhealthy for sensitive groups\" on Wednesday morning in spite of rain in the capital city.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 112 at 8:50 am, Dhaka ranked 10th in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka residents on Tuesday experienced a relief after a long time as heavy showers drenched the city amid a scorching heat. But it had little impact on air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa’s Johannesburg, Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh and Indonesia’s Jakarta occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 159, 158 and 158, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered “unhealthy”, particularly for sensitive groups.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, an AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be “poor\'”, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered “hazardous”, posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how safe or polluted the air of a certain city is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 10:45:50', '2023-05-24 10:45:50'),
(7083, 7083, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Residents stockpiled supplies, battened down windows and abandoned wood and tin homes for emergency shelters as Guam was buffeted by rains and winds Wednesday from Typhoon Mawar, the strongest storm to approach the U.S. Pacific territory in decades.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. military sent away ships, President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration and anyone not living in a concrete house was urged to seek safety elsewhere ahead of the typhoon, which was forecast to arrive as a Category 4 storm but could possibly strengthen to a Category 5. The last Category 5 to make a direct hit in Guam was Super Typhoon Karen in 1962.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said on social media that the emergency declaration will support the mobilization of resources into Guam, which is “especially crucial given our distance from the continental U.S.” Guerrero ordered residents of coastal, low-lying and flood-prone areas of the territory of over 150,000 people to evacuate to higher elevations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Federal assistance will be needed to save lives and property and \"mitigate the effects of this imminent catastrophe,” Guerrero said in a letter to the president requesting a “pre-landfall emergency” for Guam. Officials warned residents who aren’t in fully concrete structures — some homes on the far-flung island are made of wood and tin — to relocate.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guam is a crucial hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific, and the Department of Defense controls about a third of the island. Rear Adm. Benjamin Nicholson, Joint Region Marianas commander, authorized the evacuation of defense personnel, dependents and employees in areas expected to be affected</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All ships were moved out to sea as a standard precaution, according to the Navy, and any personnel remaining on the island were sheltering in place. About 6,800 U.S. service members are assigned to Guam, according to the Pentagon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With rain from the storm\'s outer bands already falling over the island as of late morning local time, the typhoon had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) with gusts peaking at 170 mph (274 kph), said Landon Aydlett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Guam. Its center was about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of the island and was moving to the north-northwest.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was a slight downgrade from earlier when Mawar was reported to be a Category 4 “super typhoon,” meaning maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (241 kph) or greater. But it still posed extreme danger to life and property.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather service warned of “considerable damage” from a “triple threat” of winds, torrential rains and life-threatening storm surge of 4 to 6 feet (1.2 to 2 meters), with dangerous surf of 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters). It said the storm could hit Wednesday afternoon in the southern part of Guam, which lies west of the International Date Line and is a day ahead of the U.S. mainland and Hawaii.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This is going to be a rough afternoon for us across the island,” Aydlett said. “So watch out.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If Guam doesn’t take a direct hit, it will be very close, said Patrick Doll, the lead weather service meteorologist in Guam. Mawar is a Malaysian word that means “rose,” he noted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shool buses picked up residents at island community centers and transported them to 11 elementary schools outfitted as shelters. Civic workers in various villages warned residents to secure loose objects in their yards and seek shelter immediately. Some spread the word by megaphone, while others turned to social media. Power flickered off and on as the rain and wind intensified, and officials said nearly 900 people were in shelters.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guerrero urged residents in a YouTube message to remain calm and ordered the National Guard to help those in low-lying areas evacuate, saying, “We are at the crosshairs of Typhoon Mawar. Take action now.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The storm was moving at 6 mph (10 kph) but had an eye 17 miles (27 kilometers) wide, meaning people at the typhoon\'s center could see calm conditions for over three hours and conclude, far too soon, that the worst is over, Doll said. As the eye leaves, the winds could rise to 150 mph (241 kph) in minutes, so people should remain sheltered until the government gives the all-clear.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Folks may say, ‘Hey it’s over, we could go outside and start cleaning up,’” Doll said. “That is totally wrong.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In low-lying Agat along the southern coast, resident Reuel Drilon began preparing Friday and spent the weekend tying down patio furniture and trash containers. Nearly every home in the village, he said, has a mango tree — which officials warned could be ripped from the ground and become roadblocks and deadly flying projectiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“A lot of folks are keeping their eyes on trees,” he told The Associated Press. \"Down south, we have a lot of coconut trees and mango trees.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joshua Paulino, a client manager at Xerox Guam, was sheltering at home in the central village of Chalan Pago with his wife, two sons and mother after the family closed the shutters and secured outdoor objects. He worried that the storm could dump rain on the island for a long time, since it was forecast to pass by gradually.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“This storm is moving very slowly so that is making me really uneasy,” Paulino said by text message.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And an ocean away in Los Angeles, Marichelle Tanag was fretting from afar after her parents, who are in their 70s and have survived many typhoons in their decades on the island. They boarded up windows, stocked up on a couple of weeks of food, prepared the generator and filled bathtubs with water. Their home in Tamuning, also in central Guam, is made of concrete, but she worried about it nevertheless.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Will the house stand? ... If not, will they be able to go to another place of safety if needed, as fast as possible, and not get in the way of any of the flying debris?” Tanag said by phone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rota, an island in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was also under a typhoon warning, Doll said. Tinian and Saipan, in the Northern Marianas, were under tropical storm warnings. Some people in those areas are still in temporary shelters or tents after Category 5 Super Typhoon Yutu in 2018, Doll noted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The western Pacific is “a notorious breeding ground for intense tropical cyclones,’’ said Yale Climate Connections meteorologist Jeff Masters. “They’ve got a much bigger area to romp around in and more time to intensify.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that in a warmer world, the number of Category 4 or stronger storms will increase by 10% — and Mawar “could well be a harbinger of the type of battering that the U.S. could expect to see,” Masters said. 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(7084, 7084, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Russia said Tuesday it had scrambled an Su-27 fighter jet to \"prevent violations of the state border\" by two US Air Force strategic bombers flying over the Baltic Sea.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"After removing the foreign military aircraft from the Russian state border, the Russian fighter went back to its air base,\" the Russian defense ministry said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army prevented the violation of the border, the statement said, adding that \"the flight of the Russian fighter was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder confirmed that US aircraft were intercepted by Russia, saying the B-1 bombers were taking part in a \"long-planned exercise in Europe.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the latest in a series of similar incidents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just over a week ago, Russia said two aircraft, one German and one French, were intercepted attempting to \"violate\" its airspace.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mid-April, Russia dispatched a fighter jet to escort a German naval aircraft over the Baltic Sea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March, an American drone crashed after colliding with a Russian jet over the Black Sea.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\'s defense ministry said it had scrambled jets after detecting a US drone over the Black Sea, but denied causing the crash, saying the aircraft had lost control. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 12:02:00', '2023-05-24 12:02:00'),
(7085, 7085, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Lightning strikes mostly occur in from April to May till June and most of the deaths occur in flat lands and haor areas, said a handout of PID issued on Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nine people including a woman died after being struck by lightning in Narsingdi, Chandpur, Kurigram Brahmanbaria districts on Tuesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, 2,164 people died in lightning strikes in the country from 2011 to 2020. Considering the upward trend, the government in 2016 declared it as a natiinal disaster.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To avoid casualties, the government has asked people to take the following precaution:</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Thunderbolts usually last 30 to 35 minutes and people have been asked to remain in their respective houses during this period. It is safe to go out wearing rubber shoes in case of any emergency which will protect people from thunderbolts.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• People, who are in open paddy fields during thunderbolt, have been asked to sit down on their toes and put fingers in their ears.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• People have been asked to take shelter under concrete sheds or buildings as soon as possible and refrain from going over the rooftop or high places during this time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Children have been asked to refrain from playing outside and stay inside home.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Avoid places where there are tall trees, electric poles and mobile towers as it is dangerous to take shelter under trees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• People should refrain from catching fish by a boat without a shed. It also asked people to stop fishing in the sea or the river during thunderbolt.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• If someone is inside the vehicle, then the body cannot be connected to the metal part of the vehicle.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• There is no problem touching any injured people hit by lightning strikes and people should be treated in the same way as those injured by electric shock. Efforts should be taken to restore the breathing and heart rate of the person injured by lightning quickly. It may be possible to save if artificial breathing can be arranged within a few minutes, if there is any delay it may invite death.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">• Provide Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to activate the heart of injured victims and take the victim to the hospital by ambulance or vehicle as soon as possible. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 12:06:38', '2023-05-24 12:06:38'),
(7086, 7086, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">WhatsApp says it will allow users to edit messages, in a move that will see it match a feature offered by competitors like Telegram and Discord.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The firm says messages can be edited for up to 15 minutes after being sent.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">The instant-messaging service is part of US technology giant Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The feature will made be available to WhatsApp\'s 2 billion users in the coming weeks. It counts India as its largest market, with 487 million users.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"From correcting a simple misspelling to adding extra context to a message, we\'re excited to bring you more control over your chats,\" the messaging service said in a blog post on Monday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"All you need to do is long-press on a sent message and choose \'Edit\' from the menu for up to fifteen minutes after,\" it added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edited messages will be tagged as \"edited\", so recipients are aware that the content has been changed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, they will not be shown how the message has been tweaked over time.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">WhatsApp\'s announcement came after the feature was offered by messaging services Telegram and Signal. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"5\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 12:39:53', '2023-05-24 12:39:53'),
(7087, 7087, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A Mexican journalist who was also a former local official was shot dead Tuesday in the country\'s central Puebla region, authorities said.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marco Aurelio Ramirez, 69, was killed in broad daylight as he left his home in the town of Tehuacan. He had worked for decades for several different media outlets.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An investigation into the crime was opened, the prosecutor\'s office said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mexican branch of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that Ramirez, working as a civil servant, had contributed to the arrest of suspected criminals.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"RSF calls for a swift and transparent investigation,\" the non-governmental media rights group said, to determine \"whether the homicide was related to his work as a municipal official or to his practice of journalism.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, according to RSF. Most of the murders have gone unpunished. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 12:52:24', '2023-05-24 12:52:24'),
(7088, 7088, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The EU has supplied Ukraine with over 200,000 artillery shells and 1,000 missiles under a plan to rush urgently needed ammunition to Kyiv, the bloc\'s foreign policy chief said Tuesday.</b></span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Union has agreed to spend two billion euros (around $2.2 billion) from its common funds to try to get a million rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine over twelve months.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said so far \"220,000 artillery munitions of different calibre and 1,300 missiles have been provided\" to Kyiv under the scheme.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s international backers are scrambling to deliver ammunition as Kyiv\'s forces gear up for a promised counter-offensive to push back Moscow\'s troops.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EU plan provides a first billion euros to get member states to send ammunition urgently from their existing stockpiles.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The money is intended to reimburse the partial cost of ammunition provided from 9 February to 31 May 2023.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second billion from EU funds will go towards covering joint procurement contracts signed by the bloc\'s member states for 155-millimetre shells by the end of September.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">EU officials have batted away major doubts over the ability of the European defence industry to manufacture that number of shells.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brussels has proposed a package of financing to help companies increase their production capacity. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 13:59:27', '2023-05-24 13:59:27'),
(7089, 7089, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prince Harry has lost an attempt to challenge the UK government over his security arrangements while in the UK, according to a ruling published on Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry and his wife Meghan lost their UK taxpayer-paid protection when they quit frontline royal duties in 2020 and moved to North America.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The couple have their own private security team in the United States but Harry says they do not have adequate jurisdiction or access to UK intelligence to keep his family safe when they are in the UK.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prince, known formally as the Duke of Sussex, had been asking for a legal review of a decision refusing him permission to pay for the UK security himself.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">London\'s Metropolitan Police also opposed Harry\'s offer on the grounds that it would be wrong to \"place officers in harm\'s way upon payment of a fee by a private individual\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harry is also involved in a separate trial at the same court against tabloid publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for alleged unlawful information gathering.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is expected to give evidence at that trial in June. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 14:03:53', '2023-05-24 14:03:53'),
(7090, 7090, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A total of 13,000 law enforcers will be engaged to maintain law and order during the Gazipur City Corporation election slated to be held on Thursday, said Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Molla Nazrul Islam on Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“ 20-22 members of law enforcement agencies will perform duty at each centre. I hope a free and fair election will be held with the efforts of all amid foolproof security,” he told UNB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Campaign in the Gazipur City Corporation election has ended and the local administration has taken all-out preparation to hold the polls.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have been deployed alongside 30 teams of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Ansar members, said Returning Officer Faridul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Already the EVM machines and all necessary materials have been sent to the polling centers while CCTVs were installed at all polling centres.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mobile teams will be there in 57 wards while 19 striking forces led by 19 magistrates will remain vigilant at the polling centers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Already 351 polling centres out of 480 have been declared vulnerable and additional forces will be deployed at these centres, said FDaridul.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gazipur City Corporation election will be held on Thursday (May 25), using electronic voting machines (EVMs) at all polling stations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight candidates will contest for mayoral posts in the election and there are 248 councillors and 79 female councilor candidates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 11,79,476 voters are expected to exercise their franchise and of them, 5,92,762 are males while 5,86,696 are females and the number of transgender is 18. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 15:06:37', '2023-05-24 15:06:37'),
(7091, 7091, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday made it clear that the next general election in Bangladesh will be held under her Awami League government and it will be free and fair.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>“So under our government, definitely election will be free and fair,” she told a session titled \"In conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\" of the Qatar Economic Forum at the Raffles Hotel here in Doha.</div><div><br></div><div>Haslinda Amin, editor-at-large of Qatar Economic Forum anchored the session.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister is now in Doha on a three-day official visit mainly to take part in the Qatar Economic Forum 2023.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Her assertion came as the opposition BNP and its allies have launched a renewed campaign of street protests asking her government to step down to pave the way for holding the next election under a neutral caretaker administration.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh is due to go to&nbsp; polls by December this year or in the first week of next year.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question, she said that after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, military dictators jeopardised all election process.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The election was just a game (then),” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She recalled that when the Awami League elected her as its president back in 1981 in her absence only then she could return to the country.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Since then we started to struggle for restoring democracy and people’s right to vote. It was our struggle to ensure free and fair election. And we did it during our time in every election,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the opposition BNP\'s demand, Hasina, also the president of ruling Awami League, said that in 2008 election nobody raised any question about it.</div><div><br></div><div>“What was the result then? The party (BNP) which is raising the question now got only 29 out of 300 seats in the Parliament,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Sounding firm the prime minister said that she is here to ensure people’s voting right, Because people should decide who will run the country.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“It is people’s power, I want to ensure people’s power. I am here not to grab power. Rather I want to empower our people that they should have their right to choose their government,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question, Hasina mentioned that now some parties said they will not participate.</div><div><br></div><div>“How will they participate? Because during their time the country suffered a lot. Our people suffered. At their time terrorist activities increased. Everywhere there was corruption, nepotism and exploitation. They never bothered about the people. It was very difficult for our people to get one meal per day. That was the situation,” she said.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>She said that after the Awami League came to power it has ensured everything for the people.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“It\'s the people’s right to vote in election. What we have done now the people understand that. If they vote for us I am here, if they don\'t, ok fine,” she said clearly.</div><div><br></div><div>The PM said that during her tenure there had been many by-elections, local government elections, which were free and fair.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“You can see, who is creating problem. We are not. But in every election some incidents may take place,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She also mentioned that the government has asked everybody to send election observers to Bangladesh for the next voting.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“So I can tell you I am here to ensure my people’s democratic right, voting right and it is our struggle,\" she stated.</div><div><br></div><div>She said that she is here to serve the country and its people so they could live a better and prosperous life.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Bangladesh should be a developed country, that is my aim. Why should I try to jeopardise people’s right that we have established. Definitely election will be free and fair.”</div><div><br></div><div>She also termed BNP as a party of criminals and killers.</div><div><br></div><div>“They (BNP) may not feel comfortable. But, there are other parties, those parties will participate in the election,\" she said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question IMF\'s recent loan to Bangladesh, PM Hasina said the IMF assists only the country that can repay the loan. In providing the loan, the IMF considered whether the country can pay it back or not, she said&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>\"We\'ll definitely be able to pay it back,\" said the PM, reports UNB.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier said Bangladesh has successfully&nbsp; overcome the fallout of COVID-19 pandemic due to her government\'s pragmatic plans and steps.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 17:29:05', '2023-05-24 17:29:05'),
(7092, 7092, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Typhoon Mawar roared over the US territory of Guam on Wednesday, bringing destructive winds to the Pacific military outpost.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The eye of the storm passed just north of the island, its governor said, after forecasters had warned that winds of up to 225 kilometers per hour (140 miles per hour) could cause major damage.</div><div><br></div><div>“What we are feeling right now is the eye going over the Rota Channel,” Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said in a Facebook video, referring to the body of water between the islands of Guam and Rota.</div><div><br></div><div>Local authorities earlier issued evacuation orders and opened temporary shelters, while US President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency for the island of 170,000 people, paving the way for federal aid.</div><div><br></div><div>“I am in a concrete-reinforced house and my windows are shuttered. I did go outside briefly and winds are getting very gusty with intermittent rains,” Beckie Merrill, a 46-year-old middle school teacher, said from a southern area of the island.</div><div><br></div><div>After predicting a “direct hit” on Guam, forecasters later said the typhoon had moved just north of the island.</div><div><br></div><div>“It looks like we are getting a near hit with the eye passing through the Rota Channel. The southern wall of the eye will pass over much of Guam. The worst winds will be in the northern third of Guam,” the US National Weather Service said.</div><div><br></div><div>Warnings of extreme winds and flash floods have been issued for the island with wind speeds of 74 miles per hour already recorded, forecasters said.</div><div><br></div><div>“I am worried for the safety of our people. This is the first storm of this magnitude for 20 years,” Guerrero said.</div><div><br></div><div>Evacuations were ordered for low-lying coastal areas, especially in the flood-prone southern villages.</div><div><br></div><div>The NWS warned of the “triple threats” of torrential rain, catastrophic winds and a life-threatening storm surge.</div><div><br></div><div>Winds near the eye wall could bring major damage to buildings and homes made of light materials such as non-concrete roofs and walls not made of reinforced concrete.</div><div><br></div><div>A calamitous storm surge threatens to wreak havoc on shorelines, and large boats “could be torn from moorings.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Surge may reach to between 20 and 25 feet above normal high tide for the most vulnerable storm-surge-prone areas near the eye wall,” the NWS said.</div><div><br></div><div>Forecasts predicted Guam will receive rainfall of 10 to 15 inches, with some areas seeing 20 inches or more, the NWS said.</div><div><br></div><div>This could trigger landslides in the central and southern parts of the island, the weather service warned.</div><div><br></div><div>“Many of us right now are feeling the full strength of Typhoon Mawar, and although it is a frightening experience that hasn’t been felt for over two decades, we want you to know that we are here for you,” Guerrero said in a Facebook post.</div><div><br></div><div>“Even as the typhoon makes its initial landfall, we have multiple agencies coordinating response efforts and relaying helpful information to those in need.”</div><div><br></div><div>People were told to stay inside and away from windows, and not venture outside during temporary lulls as flying debris can cause serious injury.</div><div><br></div><div>Guam’s Office of Civil Defense urged motorists to stay off the roads on Wednesday, saying “winds are expected to intensify to typhoon force winds by midday.”</div><div><br></div><div>About 21,700 US military personnel and their families are based at or near several facilities on Guam, which routinely hosts nuclear attack submarines and long-range bombers.</div><div><br></div><div>The territory is also home to crucial electronic listening posts.</div><div><br></div><div>The US bases have some of the Pacific region’s most significant ammunition and fuel storage facilities, reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>About 60 flights scheduled to depart or arrive in Guam between Tuesday and Thursday were canceled, A.B. Won Pat International Airport said.</div><div><br></div><div>Conditions in Guam are expected to improve on Thursday, but the storm is expected to intensify over the next few days, possibly becoming a super typhoon over the Philippine Sea, the NWS said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 18:16:58', '2023-05-24 18:16:58'),
(7093, 7093, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Sea urchins in Israel\'s Gulf of Eilat have been dying off at an alarming rate, researchers announced Wednesday - a development that threatens the Red Sea\'s prized coral reef ecosystems.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>According to Tel Aviv University scientists, an unknown pathogen is killing off the black sea urchin, Diadema setosum. The massive die-off first began in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, from where it has spread to the neighboring Red Sea, the scientists said.</div><div><br></div><div>The black sea urchin is critical to maintaining a healthy reef habitat. Without them, algae grow unchecked, choking off corals and compromising the delicate balance of the reef ecosystem.</div><div><br></div><div>A paper outlining the findings was published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It\'s a fast and violent death: within just two days a healthy sea urchin becomes a skeleton with massive tissue loss,\" said Oren Bronstein, a marine biologist at Tel Aviv University and lead author on a series of papers on the sea urchin deaths.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that they have ruled out localized poisoning or pollution, and instead suspect a \"rapidly spreading epidemic\" caused by an as-yet-unidentified pathogen.</div><div><br></div><div>Last month, researchers in the United States identified a single-celled parasite responsible for a similar mass die-off of sea urchins in the Caribbean that has laid waste to reef ecosystems.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli researchers believe a similar pathogen might also be responsible for killing sea urchins in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and have called for urgent action by the Nature and Park Authority to protect Israel\'s already endangered reef ecosystems.</div><div><br></div><div>\"This new outbreak of disease is a grave concern,\" said Ian Hewson, a professor at Cornell University\'s Marine Mass Mortality Lab who was not involved in the Tel Aviv University study.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that it \"would be interesting to know if the same agent is at work\" in the Mediterranean as has been identified killing sea urchins in the Caribbean. \"If that is the case it will raise questions about how it is vectored between such geographically separated sites.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The Gulf of Eilat, a branch of the Red Sea shared by Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, is home to exquisite coral reefs that scientists believe might be more resilient to warming waters resulting from human-caused climate change. - AP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 19:15:39', '2023-05-24 19:15:39'),
(7094, 7094, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A suicide bomber killed four people when he detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in a marketplace in northwest Pakistan today, officials said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan is grappling with an uptick in militancy since the Taliban returned to power in neighbouring Afghanistan, although the latest attack has not yet been claimed by any group.</div><div><br></div><div>Local police official Rasool Daraz told AFP two soldiers, a policeman and a civilian were killed when the bomber blew himself up in Liaqat Bazar of the Datta Khel sub-division of North Waziristan.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The bomber blew up his vehicle while he was being searched at the check post,\" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It seems the bomber wanted to reach another destination but blew himself up after he was stopped by police for a routine search.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Another five people were wounded in the blast.</div><div><br></div><div>A second police official, Tariq Dawar, confirmed the incident and casualties.</div><div><br></div><div>Officials said on Tuesday six security personnel had been killed in a militant siege on a Hungarian-owned oil and gas exploration site around 70 kilometres (44 miles) northeast of today\'s blast.</div><div><br></div><div>The attack on Tuesday was claimed by the Pakistan Taliban, a chapter of the Afghan movement that splintered off in 2007 to focus its fight against Islamabad.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, officials said unidentified militants detonated explosives in two empty girls\' schools in North Waziristan, destroying nine classrooms but leaving no casualties.</div><div><br></div><div>North Waziristan has historically been a hive of militancy and was the target of a long-running Pakistani military offensive and US drone strikes during the post-9/11 occupation of Afghanistan.</div><div><br></div><div>The Pakistan Taliban -- known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- is the most active group in the region and mostly focuses its attacks on security forces and foreign interests accused of exploitation.</div><div><br></div><div>Since the Taliban returned to Kabul in August 2021, Islamabad has said TTP fighters are plotting their attacks from Afghan soil. According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 19:32:40', '2023-05-24 19:32:40'),
(7095, 7095, '<div><b><br></b></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>The 124th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be celebrated across the country tomorrow in a befitting manner.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ministry of Cultural Affairs has taken elaborate programmes to mark the day at the national level. Different organizations and cultural bodies, including Dhaka University, have also taken programmes to celebrate the day amid various functions.</div><div><br></div><div>President Mohammed Shahbuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages paying rich tributes to the memory of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>This year\'s theme of the day is \'Agnibinar Shatabarsha: Bangabandhur Chetanai Shanitarup\'.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The birth anniversary of the national poet will be celebrated in the poet\'s memorable place Trishal in Mymensingh, Doulatpur in Cumilla, Tewta in Manikganj and Karpasdanga in Chuadanga and Chattogram.</div><div><br></div><div>The main programme of the birth anniversary will be held at Darirampur of Trishal in Mymensingh. The three-day programmes will jointly be organized by the cultural ministry and the local district administration. Deputy leader of the Jatiya Sangsad Begum Matia Chowdhury will inaugurate the programme.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar and private television channels will live telecast the inaugural ceremony and air special programmes and print media will bring out special supplements highlighting the birth anniversary of the national poet.</div><div><br></div><div>Bangla Academy will pay respect to the national poet by placing wreaths at his grave near Dhaka University mosque and Nazrul\'s portrait at Nazrul Mancha on the academy premises at 8am tomorrow.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka University has taken programmes to mark the birth anniversary of the national poet. As part of the programmes, teachers-students and officials-employees of the university will assembly at the Aparajeo Bangla at 6.15am and then place wreaths at the grave of Nazrul Islam near the university mosque lead by VC Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman. A discussion will also be held there with the vice chancellor in the chair.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Kazi Nazrul Islam was born on the 11th Joishtha in Bengali calendar year 1306 in Churulia, near Asansol in the Burdwan district of West Bengal.</div><div><br></div><div>He was famous for his fiery poem Bidrohi (The Rebel) and his many melodious songs. He was a poet, lyricist, musician, revolutionary and philosopher.</div><div><br></div><div>The nation got inspirations from Nazrul\'s poems and songs during the great Liberation War and all democratic movements and struggles.</div><div><br></div><div>There are 2,400 Nazrul songs, and together, they are known as Nazrul-Geeti or Nazrul Sangeet. He composed the songs, which he liked to tune himself.</div><div><br></div><div>Considering his impressive talent, Rabindranath Tagore dubbed him as Saraswati\'s bor-putra (the gifted son of the Goddess of learning).</div><div><br></div><div>Kazi Nazrul Islam was the poet of rebellion against injustice and taboos. His nickname was Dhukhu Miah (Mr. Sorrow). True to his name, Nazrul suffered a lot in his life.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>His father died in 1910 while he was still at school and he became the breadwinner of the family working for a bakery company, Wahid\'s, the most well known in north Bengal at that time.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Later, he resumed studies at Darirampur, Trishal, Mymensingh. But he left his studies to join the British Indian Army as a non-commissioned officer and was posted to Karachi. He left the army and settled in Kolkata, where he started publishing a fortnightly, Dhumketu (The Comet).</div><div><br></div><div>The magazine had a fiery tone and was critical of the British rule in India. He soon found himself in prison for publishing a poem written by him, \"Anandomoir Agomone\" (Advent of Goddess Durga-the Goddess of destruction of all evil).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In prison, he did not stop writing. He wrote, \"Rajbandir Jabanbandi\" (Deposition of a political prisoner).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>After a prolonged hunger strike, Nazrul was released from the prison. But throughout the 1920s, he found most of his work banned. After the death of his second son- Kazi Bulbul- the poet was sad. He wrote, \"My nightingale sleeps forever.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Although known for his rabid criticism of imperialism, social and religious taboos, Nazrul also explored the themes of love, romance and devotion.</div><div><br></div><div>He also introduced a robust style that was very bold and innovative. His use of Persian and Arabic words in Bengali poetry also opened up new literary horizons. In the 1930s, the leading gramophone company of India, HMV, as a lyricist, employed him full-time.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, All-India Broadcasting Authority employed him. But his luck once again ran out and in 1942, he developed a rare neurological disorder that led to the loss of his voice and memory. Doctors in Vienna diagnosed it as Pick\'s disease.</div><div><br></div><div>After independence, Nazrul was declared the national poet and he was brought to Dhaka from Kolkata by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and given a house at Dhanmondi. He died here in 1976 and was buried beside the central mosque of Dhaka University. According to BSS reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 20:49:09', '2023-05-24 20:49:09');
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(7096, 7096, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said BNP had tacit consent to a recent death threat given to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“BNP had connivance to the death threat given to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. It was not a slip of tongue,” he told the reporters after laying foundation stone of Baroiarhat-Heyako-Ramgarh Road Up-gradation Project at Tejgaon’s Sarak Bhahan here.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Asking whether BNP wants to implement its one-point demand by killing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Quader said US Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Haas did not take it normally too but any responsible leader of BNP did not take measure to this end yet.</div><div><br></div><div>“A joint secretary general of BNP claimed that it was a slip of tongue. The person who gave death threat to Sheikh Hasina is not any ordinary worker of BNP. He is a district convener and central leader of BNP. The statement he was given was BNP’s one,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said BNP now announced its one-point demand leaving its 27-point and 10-point demand, and that means BNP wants to implement its one-point by killing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Calling upon all the AL leaders and workers to remain alert in this regard, the AL general secretary said “We must stay alert until next general elections. We will resist those who will try to halt the elections”.</div><div><br></div><div>About the BNP’s attack on a BRTC bus and police on Tuesday, Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said it is BNP’s old nature that the party would carry out anarchy and terrorist acts in the name of movement.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said the situation that arises will tell how the law enforcement forces will deal with it and “we will deal with the situation politically. We will not resort to any violence”.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the road transport and bridges minister laid the foundation stone of Baroiarhat-Heyako-Ramgarh Road Up-gradation Project initiated jointly by Bangladesh and India.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking on the occasion, he said Bangladesh has strong relations with India as it is Bangladesh’s close neighbour.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said the government is not allowing any insurgent group of India to conduct its terrorist acts using the land of Bangladesh.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Claiming that there was no hindrance from India in implementation of the border agreement, Quader said when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, the border agreement was approved in a joint session of the Parliament of India and then none raised objection to this.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“India has unanimously implemented the border agreement. It was a historical work. But it would not have been possible if we had not dismantled the wall of mistrust,” he said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pranay Kumar Verma was present at the function with Chief Engineer Roads and Highways Department Md Ishaque in the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari, MP, Road Transport and Highways Division Secretary ABM Amin Ullah Nuri, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority Chairman Nur Mohammad Mazumder, Managing Director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited MAN Siddique and Managing Director of Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Limited Safiqul Islam were, among others, present. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 20:56:23', '2023-05-24 20:56:23'),
(7097, 7097, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Bangladesh Bank (BB) is planning to introduce a digital bank in the country soon.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"Soon we will introduce digital bank in the country. We are also planning to introduce an online real-time credit rating system very soon,” BB Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder said here today.</div><div><br></div><div>The BB governor said this while speaking as chief guest at the first Digital Transformation Summit-2023 at a local hotel in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>The Association of Bankers Bangladesh Limited (ABB) is hosting the two-day summit with the theme \"Banking on Digital Transformation”.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In his speech, Abdur Rouf Talukder informed that they are very close to issuing national debt cards.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the most talked about issue in the banking sector now is corporate governance and non-performing loans.</div><div><br></div><div>“We need to bring cultural changes and enforce ethics and good practices in the banking system through planning and properly educating of our workforce. Introduction of guidelines and the strong role of the management and CEOs may solve the problem,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We have successfully implemented the Digital Bangladesh vision. Now, we are taking steps to achieve the Smart Bangladesh vision,\" the central bank governor further said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the banking operations holistically changed all over the world because of the intervention of artificial intelligence (AI) in the era of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR).</div><div><br></div><div>So, the bankers have to prepare themselves digitally to cope with rapid change in the business, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>The two-day \'Digital Transformation Summit\' has brought together around 150 participants from Bangladesh\'s 46 commercial banks, aiming to explore the digital transformation journey of the banking industry in the country, reads a press release.</div><div><br></div><div>The conference aims to shed light on the key trends propelling the growth of digital financial services in Bangladesh. By analysing the strategies, banks can adopt to navigate the swift digital transformation; the conference aims to provide valuable insights into the industry. According to BSS reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 21:02:13', '2023-05-24 21:02:13'),
(7098, 7098, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said Wednesday that the US showdown over government debt was \"unnecessary\" for the world economy but a default could be avoided.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Georgieva and the head of Blackstone, one of the world\'s biggest investment funds, expressed exasperation to the Qatar Economic Forum over the spending standoff between US President Joe Biden and opposition Republicans with an early June deadline looming.</div><div><br></div><div>International markets have become unnerved by the battle as some Republicans have questioned whether a quick agreement is necessary to avert a default.</div><div><br></div><div>\"History tells us that the US wrestles with this notional default,\" Georgieva said, referring to past US showdowns over spending limits.</div><div><br></div><div>\"At the 11th hour, it gets resolved\".</div><div><br></div><div>But she added that the Washington drama was \"unnecessary for a world economy that is in such high uncertainty\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"We always have to be mindful that the risk is there.\"</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen Schwarzman, a major Republican donor, told the forum \"it is a bit of a nail biter\" and a battle of \"wills and desires\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is somewhat difficult to imagine that this is actually going on,\" said Schwarzman, chairman of Blackstone which manages more than $900 billion in assets around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is a political standoff. I think the two parties are about $100 billion apart on freezing spending levels. I think that could be negotiated.</div><div><br></div><div>\"The whole world is watching,\" added the veteran tycoon who added that he too did not expect a default but could not predict when a solution would be found.</div><div><br></div><div>\"If something were to happen -- really as a miscalculation on the part of the people involved in the negotiations -- I think it would hit domestic constituents in the US. It would put enormous pressure to have things resolved in a few days.\"</div><div><br></div><div>The IMF chief also warned that interest rates would remain high around the world because of the threat from rising prices.</div><div><br></div><div>Georgieva said headline inflation in many countries was \"peaking\" because of central banks raising interest rates but \"core inflation, primarily because of very stubborn food prices, is still not trimming down the way it should\".</div><div><br></div><div>\"Central banks have to stay the course, because, if they move back on interest rates prematurely, then tension may become a problem for growth for a longer period of time,\" she said.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Interest rates are high, they will stay high for longer, but we are expecting 2024, early 2025, the picture to change.\" According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 21:27:13', '2023-05-24 21:27:13'),
(7099, 7099, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Dr V. Vinoth, Sr. Consultant Interventional Cardiologist CARE Hospitals Hitech City, Hyderabad of India shares signs and symptoms of heart attack that people should not ignore as early medical intervention can improve chances of survival.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>1. Chest discomfort</div><div><br></div><div>The most common and recognizable symptom of a heart attack is chest pain or discomfort. This sensation is often described as a tightness, pressure, or squeezing feeling in the centre or left side of the chest. It can be persistent or intermittent, lasting for a few minutes or coming and going. Most importantly that discomfort or pain will increase while patient is walking or climbing upstairs. It is essential to pay attention to any unusual or unexplained discomfort in the chest region.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Upper body pain</div><div><br></div><div>Heart attack symptoms may extend beyond the chest to other areas of the upper body. Pain or discomfort can radiate to the arms (usually the left arm), back, neck, jaw, or even the stomach. Sometimes they can have only throat pain which will increase during exercise or walking and decrease with rest. This pain may occur alongside or independent of chest discomfort. Any unexplained pain or discomfort in these regions should not be disregarded.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Shortness of breath</div><div><br></div><div>Difficulty in breathing or a feeling of shortness of breath can be indicative of a heart attack. This symptom can manifest even without chest pain and may occur at rest or during physical activity. Breathing difficulty during walking or during sleep is very important symptom which may be related to heart. If you find yourself struggling to catch your breath, it is important to consider the possibility of a heart attack.</div><div><br></div><div>4. Nausea and indigestion</div><div><br></div><div>Some individuals experiencing a heart attack may feel nauseous, or experience symptoms resembling indigestion. These symptoms are more common in women. If you have unexplained nausea or indigestion-like discomfort, particularly when accompanied by other potential signs of a heart attack, it is crucial to seek medical attention promptly. Don’t self-medicate. This is the most common reason for delay in seeking medical attention.</div><div><br></div><div>5. Profuse sweating</div><div><br></div><div>Unexplained or excessive sweating, often accompanied by cold and clammy skin, can be an alarming sign of a heart attack. This symptom is more frequently observed in men. If you suddenly break out in a profuse sweat without any apparent cause, it is important not to overlook it.</div><div><br></div><div>6. Fatigue and weakness</div><div><br></div><div>Feeling unusually tired, weak, or exhausted, especially with minimal physical exertion or during rest, can be an indication of a heart attack. If you find yourself experiencing extreme fatigue or weakness that is out of the ordinary, it is prudent to consider the possibility of a cardiac event.</div><div><br></div><div>7. Dizziness and light-headedness</div><div><br></div><div>Feeling dizzy or lightheaded, experiencing fainting spells, or having a sensation of nearly passing out can be a result of reduced blood flow to the heart. These symptoms should never be ignored and should prompt immediate medical attention.</div><div><br></div><div>8. Anxiety and panic</div><div><br></div><div>Emotional symptoms such as feelings of anxiety, fear, or impending doom can sometimes precede or accompany a heart attack. These psychological symptoms, particularly when combined with other warning signs, should not be dismissed.</div><div><br></div><div>\"It is important to remember that symptoms can vary among individuals, and some people, especially women and older adults, may experience atypical or milder symptoms during a heart attack. However, any suspicion of a heart attack should be taken seriously. If you or someone around you experiences any of these signs, it is crucial to call emergency services immediately and seek prompt medical care. Timely intervention can make a significant difference in the outcome, potentially saving lives and minimizing heart damage,\" concludes Dr V. Vinoth. Source: hindustantimes.com</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 21:40:13', '2023-05-24 21:40:13'),
(7100, 7100, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Election Commissioner Rashida Sultana on Wednesday said that Gazipur City Corporation voting will be held in a free and fair environment and voters can cast their vote peacefully on Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The commissioner said this while exchanging views with journalists after a meeting with magistrates on maintaining law and order in the Gazipur City Corporation election at Gazipur Circuit House.</div><div><br></div><div>Mentioning that this election is not a separate challenge, Rashida Sultana said that all elections are considered equally important.</div><div><br></div><div>“The CCTV cameras have been installed in the polling centres. The election will be monitored from the morning,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Also on Wednesday, Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Commissioner Molla Nazrul Islam said that a total of 13,000 law enforcers will be deployed to maintain law and order during the day’s election.</div><div><br></div><div>The EC will use electronic voting machines (EVMs) at all polling stations.</div><div><br></div><div>Eight candidates will contest for mayoral posts in the election and there are 248 councillors and 79 female councilor candidates.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 11,79,476 voters are expected to exercise their franchise and of them, 5,92,762 are men and 5,86,696 are women, and the number of transgender people is 18. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-24 22:33:30', '2023-05-24 22:33:30'),
(7101, 7101, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Real Madrid\'s players and fans showed support for Vinicius Jr as they beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 at the Bernabeu.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The win was the club\'s first match since their Brazilian forward was racially abused at Valencia on Sunday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinicius missed the match through injury and Real\'s players took to the pitch in his number 20 shirt, while the captains of both teams wore armbands carrying anti-racism messages.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Supporters chanted the 22-year-old\'s name in the 20th minute in solidarity.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Players from both clubs joined together prior to kick-off in the La Liga fixture to hold a sign which read \"Racists [get] out of football\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A banner displayed in the stands also read: \"We are all Vinicius. Enough is enough\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinicius, whose red card against Valencia has been rescinded, was applauded as he took to the pitch before the match.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He watched from the stands, where he sat beside Real president Florentino Perez.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinicius rose to his feet to acknowledge the show of support and later posted a picture of him waving to fans on Instagram, accompanied by the message: \"I love them! Thank you, thank you and thank you\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fellow Brazilian Rodrygo scored an 89th-minute winner for third-placed Real.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They had seen Karim Benzema\'s opener cancelled out by Raul de Tomas - and Rodrygo celebrated his goal by making a black power salute.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">La Liga president Javier Tebas had apologised to Vinicius on Wednesday, saying he did not mean to \"attack\" the player in a social media row after Sunday\'s events.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinicius, who was sent off for violent conduct late in the match at Valencia, said the Spanish league \"belongs to racists\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tebas\' and La Liga\'s handling of the incident has been widely condemned after the president told Vinicius \"you need to inform yourself properly\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">La Liga has said it will seek \"more sanctioning powers\" to ensure it can punish incidents of racism.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Spanish football federation announced on Tuesday that Valencia had been sanctioned with a partial stadium closure for five matches and fined 45,000 euros (£39,000).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the sanction, Real manager Carlo Ancelotti said: \"I was surprised by the decision of the competition committee. I think it is the right decision.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before Tuesday night\'s games between Real Valladolid and Barcelona, and Celta Vigo and Girona, players and match officials stood behind banners which read \"Racism, out of football\".</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona winger Raphinha also revealed a message of support for his Brazil compatriot in the second half when he was substituted. BBC</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"20\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 06:10:11', '2023-05-25 06:10:11'),
(7102, 7102, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A new “revolution” could rock Russia if its stuttering war effort in Ukraine continues, the chief of private military group Wagner has said, in a scathing assessment of Moscow’s military readiness that could further expose divisions in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military hierarchy.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an interview with Konstantin Dolgov, a pro-Russian blogger, that Moscow’s troops are unprepared to resist forces loyal to Kyiv even when they enter Russian territory.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also praised the capabilities of the Ukrainian army, and urged Moscow to escalate its war effort if it wants to avoid a long and costly conflict.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“I believe Ukrainians today are one of the strongest armies in the world,” Prigozhin said. He called Kyiv’s forces “highly organized, highly trained and their intelligence is on the highest level, they can operate any military system with equal success, a Soviet or a NATO one.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent days Moscow suffered embarrassment when a group of anti-Putin Russians entered the Belgorod region in an incursion that caused anger and confusion among Russia’s influential military analysts. Asked about the incident, Prigozhin said Russian defense forces are “absolutely not ready to resist them in any shape or form.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Here we are with Ukraine, that is our enemy, in the middle of the war, Russian Volunteer Corps groups come in effortlessly and go through (the border) in tanks and APCs without any repercussions and make their own videos if it,” the Wagner chief vented.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prigozhin has frequently criticized Russia’s traditional military hierarchy as he sought to win a power struggle against military commanders to lead Putin’s ground effort in eastern Ukraine. Earlier this month he blamed Russian defense chiefs for “tens of thousands” of Wagner casualties because they didn’t have enough ammunition.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But his comments to Dolgov were alarmist even for the free-wheeling Putin ally. As he has frequently done, Prigozhin urged Moscow to step up its war in order to defeat Ukraine – urging Putin to “declare a martial law and a new wave of mobilization.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned that if Russian losses continue to mount, “all these divisions can end in what is a revolution, just like in 1917.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“First the soldiers will stand up, and after that – their loved ones will rise up. It is wrong to think that there are hundreds of them – there are already tens of thousands of them – relatives of those killed,” he said. “And there will probably be hundreds of thousands – we cannot avoid that.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian forces, primarily made up of Wagner troops, have labored for months over the capture of Bakhmut – a city in Ukraine’s east of relatively insignificant strategic value, where Russia has suffered vast losses – and its larger ground campaign has been in stalemate since a string of successful Ukrainian counter-attacks last autumn. CNN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 06:14:47', '2023-05-25 06:14:47'),
(7103, 7103, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Twitter’s livestream event with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis crashed and was delayed on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of users logged on to hear DeSantis announce his bid for the White House.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sound from the livestream event — which was held on Twitter Spaces and hosted by owner Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur David Sacks — cut in and out in the first minutes after starting.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“We’ve got so many people here that we are kind of melting the servers,” Sacks said at one point.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 500,000 Twitter users joined the event, which was ultimately ended and then restarted, delaying DeSantis’ announcement by nearly half an hour. When the event was relaunched using Sacks’ account, only around 250,000 users ultimately listened in.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter has faced a variety of outages and technical issues since Musk took over the platform late last year. Shortly after acquiring the company, Musk laid off large numbers of technical and other staff and reduced Twitter’s server capacity in an effort to cut costs.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent months, Twitter has faced multiple service outages that affected the ability of thousands of users to access the site, to view images and to read tweets on their timelines. Users have also previously reported issues with the app’s two-factor authentication tool, seeing replies listed above a tweet rather than below it and seeing old tweets show up repeatedly in their feed or mentions.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musk and Sacks admitted on Wednesday that the limited capacity of Twitter’s servers played into the issues it faced getting the DeSantis event underway. “I think you broke the internet there,” Sacks said when the event was relaunched.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pair added that Musk’s following of more than 140 million users may have also contributed to the issue. “I think it crashed because when you multiply a half-million people in a room by an account with over 100 million followers, which is Elon’s account, I think that creates just a scalability level that was unprecedented,” Sacks said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attempting to spin the launch issue in a positive direction, Sacks said: “You know you’re breaking new ground when there’s bugs and scaling issues.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter’s Spaces product was not necessarily built to host events with hundreds of thousands of listeners. Most other Spaces have — at most — several hundred listeners at a time. Spaces was described as a “prototype” and “janky” tool by a former Twitter employee familiar with its development.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Spaces was largely a prototype, not a finished product,” the former employee told CNN. “It’s a beta test that never ended.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They added that Spaces relies on a mix of Twitter’s technical infrastructure and Amazon Web Services servers, “things that aren’t intended to handle Twitter-scale traffic.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter acquired the video streaming platform Periscope in 2015. The former employee said Twitter Spaces had been built on Periscope’s existing infrastructure and not integrated with Twitter properly — which likely contributed to Wednesday’s technical problems.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After restarting, the event ran for close to an hour. Sacks acknowledged the glitch again at the end, saying, “It’s not how you started, it’s how you finish and we finished strong.” CNN</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 06:17:53', '2023-05-25 06:17:53'),
(7104, 7104, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Voting in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election began on Thursday using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in all polling stations in a peaceful manner.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The voting began around 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight candidates are contesting for mayoral posts in the election and there are 248 councillors and 79 female councilor candidates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 11,79,476 voters are eligible to vote and of them, 5,92,762 are men and 5,86,696 are women, and the number of transgender people is 18.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Election Commissioner Rashida Sultana said that Gazipur City Corporation voting will be held in a free and fair environment and voters can cast their vote peacefully.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The commissioner said this while exchanging views with journalists after a meeting with magistrates on maintaining law and order in the Gazipur City Corporation election at Gazipur Circuit House on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The election commission will monitor the election through CCTVs, which were set up in all polling stations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tight security</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 13,000 law enforcers have been deployed to maintain law and order during the election, said Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Molla Nazrul Islam on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“ 20-22 members of law enforcement agencies will perform duty at each centre. I hope a free and fair election will be held with the efforts of all amid foolproof security,” he told UNB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have been deployed alongside 30 teams of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Ansar members, said Returning Officer Faridul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mobile teams will be there in 57 wards while 19 striking forces led by 19 magistrates will remain vigilant at the polling centers. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 09:00:58', '2023-05-25 09:00:58'),
(7105, 7105, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 179 at 08:25am on Thursday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air was classified as \'unhealthy\', according to the air quality and pollution city ranking.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 151 and 200 is considered \'unhealthy\' while 201-300 is \'very unhealthy\', and 301-400 is considered \'hazardous\', posing severe health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kuwait’s Kuwait City and the United Arab Emirates Dubai occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 163 and 158, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, informs people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is and what associated health effects might be a concern for them.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AQI in Bangladesh is based on five pollutants: particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2, and ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, mainly due to increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 09:04:43', '2023-05-25 09:04:43'),
(7106, 7106, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The fighting between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary force has displaced more than 1.3 million people, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Organization for Migration said the clashes have forced over 1 million people to leave their homes to safer areas inside Sudan. Some 320,000 others have fled to the neighboring countries of Egypt, South Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, the Central African Republic and Libya.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fighting erupted on April 15 after months of escalating tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces commanded by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The conflict derailed Sudanese hopes of restoring the country\'s fragile transition to democracy, which was disrupted by a military coup led by the two generals in October 2021.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conflict has killed at least 863 civilians, including at least 190 children, and wounded more than 3,530 others, according to the most recent numbers from the Sudanese Doctors’ Syndicate — which mainly tracks civilian casualties. It has also pushed the East African country to near collapse, with urban areas in the capital, Khartoum, and its neighboring city of Omdurman turning into battlegrounds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt is hosting the largest number of those who fled, with at least 132,360 people, followed by Chad with 80,000 and South Sudan with over 69,000, the agency added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">All but one of Sudan’s 18 provinces experienced displacement, with Khartoum at the top of the list with around 70% of the total number of displaced people, according to the IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sporadic fighting continued Wednesday in several areas, despite a cease-fire reached this week. Residents reported hearing gunshots and explosions in central Khartoum as well as areas close to military facilities in Omdurman.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides in the conflict Wednesday traded blame for violating the cease-fire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weeklong cease-fire, which was brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia, took effect Monday night. It was the latest international effort to push for humanitarian aid delivery to the conflict-torn country.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A joint statement from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia late Tuesday warned that neither the Sudanese military nor the Rapid Support Forces observed the short-term cease-fire.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“The Sudanese people continue to suffer as a result of this devastating conflict,\" the statement said. It called on both sides to “fully abide by their commitments\" and to implement the temporary cease-fire to deliver urgently needed humanitarian relief.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken cautioned both parties of possible sanctions if the latest cease-fire was not adhered to.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But on Wednesday, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington that the cease-fire has largely been holding, despite reports of sporadic fire in Khartoum and elsewhere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Ultimately, it’s of course up to the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to implement this thing.” Kirby said. “But in general, in the main, it appears to be holding. I want to caution you though, this is early, I mean, just went into effect yesterday afternoon. We have seen this movie before. So, we’re being pretty pragmatic as we look at it.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fighting has exacerbated the already dire humanitarian conditions in Sudan. According to the U.N., the number of people who need assistance this year has increased by 57% to reach 24.7 million people, more than half the country’s population. The international body said it would need $2.6 billion to provide them with much-needed humanitarian assistance.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.N. special envoy for sexual violence Pramila Patten, meanwhile, said Wednesday she is “is gravely concerned” about reports of sexual attacks against women.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“There are strong indications that it is parties to the conflict who have committed sexual violence, including rape, against women and girls,” she said in a statement.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said many of the sexual attacks apparently took place in residential areas in Khartoum, or while they were fleeing the fighting in the capital.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other attacks on women also took place in the western region of Darfur, where sexual violence against women has been consistently reported over the past two decades, she said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She called for investigations into the allegations and urged all parties to take immediate measures against suspects, including suspending or removing them from the ranks. AP/UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 10:26:35', '2023-05-25 10:26:35'),
(7107, 7107, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States has indicated their new Bangladesh-specific visa policy will help Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government in its efforts to hold free and fair elections.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government have committed to supporting free and fair elections in Bangladesh. This policy is designed to support these efforts and the Bangladeshi people, so they may hold elections to choose their leaders,\" said the US Embassy in Dhaka, in a message to journalists just after the new policy was announced.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States said they support free and fair elections everywhere.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The message also contained a set of FAQs with responses, through which it clarified certain points that may likely arise in people\'s minds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To start with, the US Embassy said this policy applies to any individual responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic election process in Bangladesh. This includes current or former Bangladeshi officials, government supporters, and opposition members, among others. This would also include the immediate family members of such persons.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States said they are committed to building a strong partnership with the government of Bangladesh grounded in democracy and human rights.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"We welcome the Prime Minister’s expressed commitment to holding free and fair elections,\" said the US Embassy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States emphasised it does not support any particular political party, and that their handling of this policy would not favour anyone over another - except on the grounds of undermining electoral democracy.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Restrictions under this new policy target individuals engaging in behavior that undermines the democratic election process, regardless of affiliation.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also assured that it is a general practice to notify individuals whose visas are revoked or cancelled.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given US\' \"close cooperation\" with the government of Bangladesh, the US informed it of this policy decision on May 3. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 10:29:37', '2023-05-25 10:29:37'),
(7108, 7108, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home this morning wrapping up her three-day official visit to Qatar.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage members, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 5.58am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the flight departed Hamad International Airport at 10.25pm local time (01:25am BST) for Dhaka.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On May 22, Sheikh Hasina arrived in Doha on a three-day official visit to attend the 3rd Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) at the invitation of Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the visit, Sheikh Hasina joined the Qatar Economic Forum, met with Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani at Amiri Diwan, held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani and a meeting with President of Rwanda Paul Kagame.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, Qatar Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi met her.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabian Minister of Investment Khalid A. Al-Falih and Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Alibrahim also jointly called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier also addressed the students of Qatar University and visited Awsaj Academy, a specialized school for the children with special needs, which runs under Qatar Foundation in Doha. BSS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 10:32:39', '2023-05-25 10:32:39'),
(7109, 7109, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United States on Wednesday announced the approval of a $285 million sale of a NASAMS air defense system and related equipment to Ukraine as Kyiv seeks to boost protection against Russian strikes.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Ukraine has an urgent need to increase its capabilities to defend against Russian missile strikes and aircraft,\" the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement. \"Acquiring and effectively deploying this capability will enhance Ukraine\'s ability to defend its people and protect critical national infrastructure.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agency also said the sale will support US foreign policy national security goals by \"improving the security of a partner country that is a force for political stability and economic progress in Europe.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sale would not require any additional US government employees or contractors to be assigned to Ukraine, the statement added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State Department approved the sale, and the DSCA on Wednesday provided the required notification to Congress, which still needs to sign off on the transaction.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Countries including the United States that are supporting Ukraine in its battle against invading Russian forces have donated tens of billions of dollars of military equipment to Kyiv, but this transfer would be a sale.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine\'s air defenses have played a key role in protecting the country from strikes and preventing Moscow\'s forces from gaining control of the skies.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Russia invaded in February 2022, Ukraine\'s air defenses largely consisted of Soviet-era planes and batteries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have since been significantly augmented by Kyiv\'s international supporters, who have donated a series of systems including NASAMS. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 11:27:32', '2023-05-25 11:27:32'),
(7110, 7110, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Early voting has been peaceful&nbsp; and the law and order situation is also good, said Zayeda Khatun, an independent mayoral candidate in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) elections.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She made the remark while talking to reporters after casting her vote at Kanaia Government Primary School polling station around 10 am.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There has been no complaint so far against the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), she said adding “I am hopeful about my victory in the&nbsp; election.’</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also urged the voters to cast their votes at the respective polling stations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Gazipur City Corporation\'s (GCC) former mayor Jahangir Alam also cast his vote at the same polling station with his mother.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voting in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election began on Thursday using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in all polling stations in a peaceful manner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The voting began around 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 12:25:28', '2023-05-25 12:25:28');
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(7111, 7111, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Voting in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election began on Thursday (May 25, 2023) using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in all polling stations in a peaceful manner.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The voting began around 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight candidates are contesting for mayoral posts in the election and there are 248 councillors and 79 female councilor candidates.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 11,79,476 voters are eligible to vote and of them, 5,92,762 are men and 5,86,696 are women, and the number of transgender people is 18.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Election Commissioner Rashida Sultana said that Gazipur City Corporation voting will be held in a free and fair environment and voters can cast their vote peacefully.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The commissioner said this while exchanging views with journalists after a meeting with magistrates on maintaining law and order in the Gazipur City Corporation election at Gazipur Circuit House on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The election commission will monitor the election through CCTVs, which were set up in all polling stations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Tight security</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 13,000 law enforcers have been deployed to maintain law and order during the election, said Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Molla Nazrul Islam on Wednesday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“ 20-22 members of law enforcement agencies will perform duty at each centre. I hope a free and fair election will be held with the efforts of all amid foolproof security,” he told UNB.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have been deployed alongside 30 teams of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Ansar members, said Returning Officer Faridul Islam.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mobile teams will be there in 57 wards while 19 striking forces led by 19 magistrates will remain vigilant at the polling centers. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 12:28:22', '2023-05-25 12:28:22'),
(7112, 7112, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Six drones were downed or blocked overnight in Russia-annexed Crimea, the region\'s Moscow-appointed governor said on Thursday.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"During the past night, six drones were shot down or blocked ... in different parts of Crimea,\" Sergei Aksyonov said on Telegram, adding \"there were no victims or injured\". AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 12:52:39', '2023-05-25 12:52:39'),
(7113, 7113, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The German economy contracted by 0.3 percent over the first three months of 2023, official figures published Thursday showed, pushing the country into recession around the turn of the year.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final figure from the federal statistics agency Destatis was worse than the initial estimate of zero growth, and followed a 0.5-percent contraction in the fourth quarter of 2022. AFP</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 12:56:53', '2023-05-25 12:56:53'),
(7114, 7114, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sunny Leone is busy with the promotions for her upcoming film Kennedy at the Cannes Film Festival. The Anurag Kashyap film stars Sunny as Charlie, and the actor recently shared that no one can point fingers at her now as she\'s in the film because of her additional ‘glamour quotient’.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kennedy premiered under the Midnight Screenings section of the at the Cannes Film Festival in the Grand Theatre Lumiere. Sunny looked stunning in a champagne dress with a thigh-high slit and long train whereas Anurag Kashyap wore a black bandh-gala suit. Actor Rahul Bhat opted for a classic tuxedo.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Sunny recalls mean comments</b></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, in a conversation with Forbes India at Cannes Film Festival 2023, Sunny opened up about the comments she has received over the years and how with Kennedy, no one can point them at her now. She said, \"I believe that your actions are louder than your words. All those people who said you can’t do this, or you’re not good enough, or you know you are just Sunny Leone, the porn star, you are just this glamour quotient that we’ve added, all of these different comments that have gone on for so many years. You can’t say that this time. You can’t just say Sunny Leone is in this film because of who she is and what her past was.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunny opened up about how even if mean comments were written about her, she would have to hide her hurt in the public. “People out there don’t always know how their comments or what they say or people who write these articles that are just nasty or people who don’t believe in you, they think the worst of you. You hide behind your smile going, ‘no, it’s okay, I’m going to push past this’ but deep down inside it does hurt your feelings and it does affect you but as an entertainer, you are not allowed to show that,” she added.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kennedy stars Sunny Leone, Rahul Bhat and Abhilash Thapliyal in lead roles. The film revolves around an insomniac ex-cop, long thought to be dead, but still operating for the corrupt system, and looking for redemption. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 13:29:57', '2023-05-25 13:29:57'),
(7115, 7115, '<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A new study has shown that human T cells have an important role to play in controlling Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection, a highly contagious and seasonal respiratory virus that mainly causes common cold symptoms in healthy adults but can cause more serious lung infections in infants, the immunocompromised and older individuals.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strikingly, RSV infection remains the most common reason for hospitalization of infants and young children. Health officials have recently promoted flu vaccines and reformulated COVID boosters as they prepare for a respiratory infection season that could rival some of the worst cold and flu seasons in history.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new study published in JCI Insight, led by Angela Wahl, PhD, Raymond Pickles, PhD, and J. Victor Garcia, PhD, with the International Center for the Advancement of Translational Science (ICATS), the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) at the UNC School of Medicine has shown that human T cells have an important role to play in controlling infection.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Vaccine strategies for RSV have largely focused on the induction of an antibody response. Using novel precision animal models of RSV infection, we\'ve gained novel insight into how the human immune system, and in particular human T cells, controls and clears RSV infection,\" said Wahl, assistant professor of medicine and assistant director of the UNC ICATS.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Our data show that T cells can independently control RSV infection in human lung tissue in the absence of an RSV-specific antibody response. While a vaccine-induced RSV-specific T cell response would not be able to prevent infection, it could accelerate virus clearance and ameliorate disease if vaccine-elicited antibodies fail to prevent infection, due to antigenic variability among circulating strains.\"</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The research team used two novel precision animal models to analyze RSV-induced human lung pathology and human immune correlates of protection at pre-determined time points. They showed that primed human CD8 T cells or CD4 T cells effectively and independently controlled RSV replication in human lung tissue in the absence of an RSV-specific antibody response. HT</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"6\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 13:35:09', '2023-05-25 13:35:09'),
(7116, 7116, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Iran\'s defence ministry on Thursday unveiled a new ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,242 miles) and a capacity to carry warheads weighing over a tonne.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Kheibar missile -- the latest version of the Khorramshahr which is Iran\'s longest-range missile to date -- was unveiled alongside a replica of the Al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem, in a live broadcast on state television</div><div><br></div><div>Iran\'s Defence Minister Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani said the missile was unveiled as part of moves to \"provide comprehensive support to our friends and countries that are on the path of fighting against the domination system\".</div><div><br></div><div>State news agency IRNA said the Kheibar is \"a liquid fuel missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres and a 1,500 kilogrammes warhead\".</div><div><br></div><div>The unveiling comes amid heightened tensions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and just over 10 days into a fragile Gaza ceasefire that ended five days of cross border conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. According to AFP reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 16:23:27', '2023-05-25 16:23:27'),
(7117, 7117, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Election Commission (EC) is observing the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) elections through 4,435 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras as the voting for the GCC begins from 8am this morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Election Commissioners Brigadier General (retd) Ahsan Habib Khan, M Alamgir, Rasheda Sultana and Anisur Rahman are closely monitoring the GCC elections from the Nirbachan Bhaban control room at city\'s Agargaon.</div><div><br></div><div>A total of 4,435 CCTV cameras have been installed to monitor the GCC elections -along with all the polling centers are being monitored with 466 CCTV cameras and displaying on 18 digital display boards set up at the EC, said an official release.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the by-polls of Rangpur City Corporation(RCC), Cumilla City Corporation (CCC), Jenaidah municipality and Gaibandha-5 constituency were also monitored through the CCTV cameras.</div><div><br></div><div>Eight Mayoral candidates, seventy-nine in reserved councilor posts and 246 candidates are also contesting in councilor posts in the GCC elections.</div><div><br></div><div>Of these Mayoral candidates, Advocate M Azmat Ullah Khan is contesting from the ruling Awami League with symbolof boat, Jatiya Party candidate MM Niaz Uddin contesting with plough, Atiqul Islam is contesting from Gano front with symbol of fish, Gazi Ataur Rahman from Islami Andolon Bangladesh and Mohammad Raju Ahamed from Zaker Party.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Besides, Zayeda Khatun, M Harun-or Rashid and Sarker Shahnur Islam are also being participated in the GCC polls as the independent candidates. Source: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 17:19:20', '2023-05-25 17:19:20'),
(7118, 7118, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Road Transport and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said that the government wants to make the upcoming national election free and fair and it will resist if anyone attempts to impede the next election.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The Minister said this after paying homage to national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 124th birth anniversary at his graveyards at Dhaka University this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader assured that the government will extend all possible cooperation to the Election Commission to hold a free and fair election.</div><div><br></div><div>Replying to a question, Quader, the Awami League general secretary, said those who set fire to buses, vandalise those in the name of movement ahead of the election are engaged in political violence.</div><div><br></div><div>About the non-communal spirit of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, the minister said, “We want to be inspired by the non-communal humanist spirit of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.”</div><div><br></div><div>Awami League Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Organizing Secretaries Ahmed Hossain, SM Kamal Hossain, Science and Technology Affairs Secretary Engineer Abdus Sabur, Office Secretary Barrister Biplob Barua and other central leaders were present on the occasion. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 17:43:14', '2023-05-25 17:43:14'),
(7119, 7119, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Thursday said the newly announced visa policy was “merely their way of helping” to support democratic electoral process in Bangladesh.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>He made the remarks while talking to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after his meeting with Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Ambassador Haas said they have discussed the new visa policy, among other issues, noting that this is something they have done in support of Bangladeshi people, Bangladesh government and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina herself and everyone here in Bangladesh who support a free and fair election.</div><div><br></div><div>He said the meeting with FM Momen was part of the regular series of meetings that they have. “We talked about US-Bangladesh relations, our growing relationship across a whole number of areas.”</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, the US ambassador met the representatives of the major political parties and discussed the new US visa policy.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Representatives of the Awami League, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and Jatiya Party were present.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“We support free and fair elections. The new visa policy to restrict visas to those who undermine the democratic process applies to everyone,\" said Ambassador Haas.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 17:57:40', '2023-05-25 17:57:40'),
(7120, 7120, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Police arrested 18 BNP leaders and activists conducting several drives across five upazilas in Sirajganj districts.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The arrestees include district BNP vice president Amar Krishna Das, Kawakola union president Badal Mandal Gutu, Kalia Haripur union organizing Secretaries Monir Hossain Khan and Mamun alias Pora Mamun and others.</div><div><br></div><div>Sirajganj Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration and Finance) Md Hannan Mia said police conducted several drives in Sirajganj Sadar upazila, Raiganj upazila, Tarash upazila, Shahjadpur upazila, Belkuchi upazila and Enayetpur police station areas arrested 18 leaders and activists of BNP. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 18:53:22', '2023-05-25 18:53:22'),
(7121, 7121, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Welcoming the US’s new visa policy targeting the next national election in Bangladesh, BNP on Thursday hoped that it would play a supporting role in ensuring fair election.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Talking to reporters in front of party chairperson’s Gulshan office, BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru also said there is no reason for their party to be worried about the US move since it is involved in vote rigging.</div><div><br></div><div>“We welcome this decision of the US as it was made considering the concern of the people of Bangladesh over the (next general) election. I think this step will at least play a supporting role in holding the next polls in a fair and credible manner,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Khasru, also the chairman of BNP’s foreign affairs committee, also the US move has sent out a message that the people of Bangladesh can’t exercise their right to franchise and their constitutional rights have been taken away while their lives are at a risk.</div><div><br></div><div>Stating that vote rigging is going on continuously in Bangladesh, he also said the US new visa policy is a big message to stop election manipulation in the days to come.</div><div><br></div><div>Khasru said the ruling party should be worried about their future if they again indulge in vote rigging instead of restoring people’s voting and democratic rights.</div><div><br></div><div>He also said the US has taken the move as a reflection of the people of Bangladesh’s worries over the upcoming national election.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“There’s no discussion about the election of&nbsp; other countries, including our neighbouring ones. The US visa policy was announced exclusively for Bangladesh and its specific organisations and individuals.”</div><div><br></div><div>The United States on Wednesday announced a new visa policy specific to Bangladesh, with a view to promoting free and fair elections.</div><div><br></div><div>\"Under this policy, we can impose visa restrictions on individuals and their immediate family members if they are responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic election process in Bangladesh,\" US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 19:14:47', '2023-05-25 19:14:47'),
(7122, 7122, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">At least 15 houses, 10 cows, 20 maunds of paddy, furniture and cash taka were gutted in a fire at Holimpur village under Nabiganj upazila of the district in the early hours of today.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a house of the village around 2am and soon engulfed the adjacent houses. As a result, 15 houses, 10 cows, 20 maunds of paddy, cast taka and furniture were completely gutted, officer-in-charge (OC) of Nabiganj Police Station Dalim Ahmed said.</div><div><br></div><div>It is initially estimated to have caused a loss of about Taka 60 lakh, the affected house owners claimed. Souce: BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 19:57:04', '2023-05-25 19:57:04'),
(7123, 7123, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Three people have been killed in a stabbing and shooting attack in central Japan, local media say.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>A man in camouflage is said to have stabbed a woman and then used a hunting rifle in the city of Nakano, Nagano prefecture. Two policemen were also killed, and another person was injured.</div><div><br></div><div>The alleged attacker is holed inside a building, Japanese media report.</div><div>Gun violence remains extremely rare in Japan, despite the killing of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July last year.</div><div><br></div><div>Abe was Japan\'s longest-serving prime minister and his death profoundly shocked a country where handguns are banned and incidents of political violence are almost unheard of.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2014, there were just six incidents of gun deaths in Japan, compared to 33,599 in the US.</div><div><br></div><div>People have to undergo a strict exam and mental health tests in order to buy a gun. Even then, only shotguns and air rifles are allowed. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'International Desk', '[\"29\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 20:07:16', '2023-05-25 20:07:16'),
(7124, 7124, '<div><b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said there is nothing to worry about the newly announced US visa policy, noting that the government is neither feeling pressure nor any discomfort.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>With this announcement, he hoped that parties which resort to violence, arson and destruction would remain cautious.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We don\'t want arson, violence and destruction. I hope these acts will come down,\" Momen told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when his comment was sought.</div><div><br></div><div>Responding to a question, Momen said they are not under any additional pressure from the US, noting that the relationship with the US is excellent.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are not sure. It is yet to be tested. We do not know yet how helpful it will be. He (Ambassador Haas) could not tell whether they have become successful by applying such policy in any other country,” he told reporters after his meeting with US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas.</div><div><br></div><div>Describing the letter he received from the US Secretary of State as very encouraging, Momen said Bangladesh Awami League is committed to holding a free and fair election.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wants free and fair elections and this policy will further strengthen her position.</div><div><br></div><div>\"We want free and fair elections. Our Prime Minister is committed to it,\" Momen said, adding that Awami League always believes in voters.</div><div><br></div><div>The Foreign Minister said they see very positively that they received from the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.</div><div><br></div><div>This policy supports Prime Minister Hasina’s stated commitment to hold free and fair elections in Bangladesh, Momen said, quoting the letter.</div><div><br></div><div>He mentioned the use of transparent ballot boxes that made the norm to establish confidence among the electorates as well as the polling officials and agents.</div><div><br></div><div>Momen also mentioned a strong National Election Commission is in place.</div><div><br></div><div>He said all parties will have to have political commitment for a free and fair election.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked whether the government accepts or rejects the new visa policy, Momen said there is nothing to accept or reject as this is a policy announced by the US. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 20:22:43', '2023-05-25 20:22:43'),
(7125, 7125, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>Salman Khan is one of the biggest superstars in Indian cinema and there is no denying this. The actor boasts of an unparalleled fanbase that spans across age groups. We see a glimpse of this in one of the new videos of the actor going viral on the internet. In the clip, Salman Khan is seen entering the airport with his entourage and group of bodyguards.&nbsp;</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>While walking towards the entry gate, Saman Khan stops abruptly and turns, only to have a boy run towards the actor and hug him. The child is seen smiling widely as Salman Khan hugs and places his hand on the boy\'s head. Salman Khan then continues walking towards the entry gate, the video shows.</div><div><br></div><div>The warm video comes on the heels of Salman Khan being named as the first among the ten targets that jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi planned to eliminate, as per his confession to the National Investigation Agency. Salman Khan has been provided with Y+ category security by the Mumbai police in light of the threats.</div><div><br></div><div>A few days ago, Salman Khan, who is currently working on Tiger 3, shared in a post that he sustained a shoulder injury presumably while working on the project. In the image posted by the actor on social media, he is seen with his back facing the camera.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>One can also spot kinesiology tape on one shoulder of the superstar. In the caption, Salman Khan said, “Wen u think u r carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, he says duniya ko chodo paanch kilo ka dumbbell utha ke dikhao. Tiger zakhmi hai. […forget the world, pick this five-kilogram dumbbell. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'Entertainment', '[\"13\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 20:48:47', '2023-05-25 20:48:47'),
(7126, 7126, '<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><b>A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader died after suffering from bullet injuries while another was also shot in a factional clash between two groups over a procession in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi on Thursday afternoon.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sadekur Rahman Sadek, 32, former joint convenor of district unit JCD, died after he suffered injuries in his forehead, said Bacchu Mia, a police official at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Doctors at the DMCH declared Sadek dead after he was brought there for treatment, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>JCD activist Ashraful Islam, 22, was also shot in his thigh and was being treated at the DMCH.</div><div><br></div><div>A 71-member committee of the JCD district unit was announced around four months back. Several clashes occurred between the office bearers of the newly formed committee and those who were deprived in the committee.</div><div><br></div><div>The deprived JCD men brought out a procession, in favour of a district BNP programme scheduled to be held on May 27 near the house of the BNP’s Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokan in Chinishpur area of Sadar upazila around 3:45pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Suddenly, a group of the JCD opened fire on the procession, said Mayeen Uddin, a former joint convenor and post-deprived member in the new committee.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadek suffered bullet injuries in his forehead while Ashraful in his thigh, he said, adding that they were first rushed to Sadar Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital due to critical condition.</div><div><br></div><div>Abul Kashem, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, said the situation is now under their control and an additional number of law enforces were deployed to ward off any unexpected incident further, reports UNB&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Legal actions will be taken once complaints are lodged in this connection, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"30\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-25 21:42:48', '2023-05-25 21:42:48'),
(7127, 7127, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The United Nations has awarded ‘Dag Hammarskjöld Medal’ to five fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers for their supreme sacrifice in UN Peacekeeping operations.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The award was handed over on Friday at the General Assembly Hall by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a ceremony to honor 103 peacekeepers from 39 countries who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty in 2022.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The respective Permanent Representatives received the awards on behalf of their countries.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN in New York, received the medals on behalf of the fallen peacekeepers of Bangladesh on May 25.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> The five Bangladeshi fallen peacekeepers are: Sergeant Md Manjur Rahman (was serving in UNISFA, Abyei), Lance Corporal Kafil Majumder (was serving in UNMISS, South Sudan), Sainik Md Sharif Hossain (was serving in MUNISCA, Central African Republic), SainikMd JahangirAlam (was serving in MINUSCA, Central African Republic) and Sainik Md Jasim Uddin (was serving in MINUSCA, Central African Republic).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After receiving the Medal, Ambassador Muhith signed the condolence book kept at the General Assembly Hall on this occasion and expressed his deepest condolences to the bereaved families of the fallen peacekeepers.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangladesh is currently the top contributor of uniformed personnel to UN peacekeeping operations.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At present around 7,500 Bangladeshi peacekeepers are deployed in 9 peacekeeping missions. So far, 166 peacekeepers from Bangladesh have lost their lives while serving in UN peacekeeping operations. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-26 12:48:37', '2023-05-26 19:59:07'),
(7128, 7128, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the new visa policy of the USA targeting Bangladesh’s next election has reflected the people’s long-standing demand for restoration of voting rights.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement in the early hours of Friday, he also said the main theme of the US visa policy is to ensure all the process for arranging the upcoming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh in a free, fair, participatory and acceptable manner.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, the BNP leader said the stance taken by the US government against any move to rig votes, intimidate voters, violently suppress the people\'s freedom of peaceful assembly and exercise of their rights is a clear echo of the long-standing demand of the people of Bangladesh for a free and fair election.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“BNP thinks the changed US policy has clearly reflected the long-standing demand of the democracy-loving people of Bangladesh, including BNP, for ensuring people\'s right to franchise,” he observed.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leader said they clearly observed that not only the law enforcement agencies, including the police, are brought under the new US visa policy but also the judiciary, administration, security-related government employees, former and current government officials and political leaders who, directly or indirectly, can disrupt the electoral system. “Their family members are also brought under the preview of the of the visa policy.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul said BNP believes that free and fair elections will not be possible under the current fascist government.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“That is possible only under a non-partisan and impartial caretaker government. For that reason, BNP along with all the democratic parties and forces of the country is carrying out systematic and peaceful political programmes to realise the demand for a non-partisan and neutral polls-time caretaker government,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BNP leader demanded the current “unelected fascist” government resign immediately dissolving the parliament.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">“Arranging a free and fair election by establishing a polls-time non-partisan neutral government is the demand and expectation of the country’s people and international community. This is the only way to get rid of the ongoing political, economic, social and national crisis,” he said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fakhrul also called upon the people of the country to remain firm and determined in realising the demand.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Wednesday, the United States announced a new visa policy specific to Bangladesh, with a view to promoting free and fair elections.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"Under this policy, we can impose visa restrictions on individuals and their immediate family members if they are responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic election process in Bangladesh,\" said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-26 12:52:36', '2023-05-26 12:52:36'),
(7129, 7129, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dhaka\'s air quality is in the ‘unhealthy’ zone Friday morning.</span><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With an air quality index (AQI) score of 152 at 8:53 am today, Dhaka ranked 6th in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iraq’s Baghdad, China’s Beijing and Pakistan’s Lahore occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 547, 161 and 159, respectively.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI between 101 and 150 is considered \'unhealthy\', AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be \'very unhealthy\', while a reading of 301+ is considered \'hazardous\', posing serious health risks to residents.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants — Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-26 12:56:12', '2023-05-26 12:56:12'),
(7130, 7130, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Following cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh, the European Commission has released €2.5 million in emergency humanitarian aid to address the most urgent needs of the affected population.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full magnitude of the damage is not yet known as access to the affected areas is limited.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, early reports suggest humanitarian needs are extensive and include shelter, water, sanitation, and food.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both countries are host to highly vulnerable populations that have been severely affected by the cyclone.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myanmar’s Rakhine State, which was the worst affected, is home to people who have been already displaced by conflict and whose temporary shelters have been largely destroyed. Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, also hit by the cyclone, hosts 1 million Rohingya refugees.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additional heavy rainfall is expected in both countries over the coming days, increasing the risk of more flooding and landslides.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the wake of the emergency, the EU triggered the Copernicus Satellite Emergency Management Service to provide real time mapping and deployed experts to help conduct assessments in the field.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to previously allocated EU funds, humanitarian partners took anticipatory measures ahead of Mocha’s impact by preparing shelter and food for the populations who would be affected, said a media release on Thursday.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In refugee camps in Bangladesh, volunteers trained and supported by EU partners helped inform and prepare communities and provided an immediate response.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These anticipatory measures helped to reduce further loss and damage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, said: “A swift response is crucial in the wake of any emergency, especially when a disaster impacts already vulnerable communities, like those affected by cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh. We are releasing €2.5 million in humanitarian support and coordinating with our partners on the ground to address the most urgent needs of the population. Prompt action can save lives and prevent more damage.”</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 14 May, extremely severe cyclone Mocha made landfall on Myanmar and Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, with maximum winds of around 209km/h (equivalent to category 4 hurricane winds). UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-26 13:03:12', '2023-05-26 13:03:12'),
(7131, 7131, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Natural gas prices in Europe fell by more than 10 percent over the day to less than $280 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first time in more than two years, according to ICE data.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">June futures at the TTF hub in the Netherlands declined to $277 per 1,000 cubic meters or 24.94 euro per MWh.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gas prices in Europe are going down amid high filling indicators in storage facilities, record high inflows of liquefied natural gas and warm weather. TASS</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"1\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-26 14:30:48', '2023-05-26 14:30:48'),
(7132, 7132, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Symbols have been allocated among the seven mayoral candidates in Barishal City Corporation election.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Returning Officer Humayun Kabir distributed the symbols at the regional election officer\'s office at Nathullabad in the city on Friday morning.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mayoral candidates have started campaigning with their allocated symbols.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thel candidates and their symbols are: Awami League\'s Abul Khair Abdullah (boat), Jatiya Party\'s Iqbal Hossain Taposh (plough), Islami Andolan Bangladesh\'s Mufti Syed Mohammad Faizul Karim (hand fan), Zaker Party\'s Mizanur Rahman Bachchu (rose flower), independent candidate Kamrul Ahsan (clock), Asaduzzaman (elephant) and Ali Hossain (deer).</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case of councillor candidates, symbols were allotted through lottery.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, symbols have been distributed to 115 out of 116 vying for the posts of councillors of 30 wards. As there is one candidate in ward-7, no symbol has been allotted.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, 42 women candidates have been given symbols for 10 posts of reserved councillors. Within the stipulated time, the returning officer gave guidance to the candidates before starting the symbol allocation process.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The candidates submitted nomination papers for Barishal City Corporation election by May 16. A total of 2,76,298 people will cast their votes in 894 rooms of 126 polling stations in Barishal City Corporation election on June 12. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-26 15:11:20', '2023-05-26 15:11:20'),
(7133, 7133, '<div style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A passenger opened an emergency exit on an Asiana Airlines flight as it was preparing to land Friday, the carrier told AFP, adding that the plane landed safely but several people were&nbsp; hospitalised.</b><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Airbus A321-200 was carrying nearly 200 passengers as it approached the&nbsp; runway at Daegu International Airport, about 240 kilometres (149 miles) southeast of Seoul, on a domestic flight.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the plane was still about 200 meters (650 feet) above the ground, a passenger sitting near the emergency exit \"opened the door manually by touching the lever\", the South Korean carrier\'s representative told AFP.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unexpected opening of the door caused some passengers to have breathing difficulties, and some people were taken to a hospital after the landing, Asiana said, adding that there were no major injuries or damage.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korea\'s Yonhap News Agency reported that nine people were hospitalised.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"The passenger has been taken to the police and is under questioning\" to find out why they opened the door, Asiana said.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A short video of the incident was shared by Yonhap.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The footage shows wind ripping through the open door in mid-air, with fabric seat-backs and passengers\' hair flapping wildly as some shout in surprise.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another video shared on social media showed passengers sitting in the emergency exit row next to an open door being buffeted by strong winds.</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two male passengers, who are wearing their seatbelts, can be seen wincing as the wind whips around them, while they clutch the armrests and try and turn away from the door. UNB</div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br></div><div style=\"text-align: justify; \">bnbd24/kh</div>', NULL, 'News Desk', '[\"19\"]', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '2023-05-26 15:16:22', '2023-05-26 15:16:22');
