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Families claim children were ‘murdered’ at Jashore correctional facility

Family members of seventeen-year-old Abu Naeem and twenty-one-year-old Rasel alias Sujon, who died at Jashore Child Development Centre yesterday, claimed that it was not a clash. The families have alleged that their children were murdered by the authorities of the correction centre.

Subeda Bibi (60), Rasel’s mother said her son was serving his time for what his crimes in the past. “But why did the people in the correction centre kill my son?” she asked. She also said her son was taken to hospital at 8:30pm even though the incident took place at 2:00pm.

Rasel’s sister-in-law Fahima Akter Tania said Rasel had secured bail from the court last Thursday and was set to be released from the correction centre coming Sunday.

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Stocks dip on lukewarm data

Stocks fell on Friday as data out of China, the euro zone and the United States put a lid on expectations for a sustained global rebound, with traders already worried about a delay in US fiscal stimulus.

A review of the US-China trade deal initially slated for Saturday will be delayed due to scheduling issues and no new date has been agreed upon, according to sources familiar with the plans.

European shares were weighed further by a hit to travel stocks after Britain added more European countries, including France, to its quarantine list amid the coronavirus pandemic.

On Wall Street, a slowdown in retail sales growth last month and concern over further reluctance by consumers weighed on stocks, but the S&P 500 ended nearly unchanged, not far from record highs.

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Trump Praises Drivers That Biden Campaign Says Tried To Run Bus ‘Off The Road’

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President Donald Trump on Saturday offered praise to a group of pro-Trump pickup truck drivers in Texas who surrounded and slowed a Biden campaign bus and who the Biden campaign accused of trying to run it “off the road,” underscoring allegations that Trump encourages his supporters to act violently.

“I LOVE TEXAS!” Trump tweeted, along with a video of a dozen pickup trucks, sporting American and pro-Trump flags, following a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a highway in Texas.

The scene appeared to show the same incident chronicled in other videos posted to social media on Friday and Saturday showing the trucks following the bus and, in one case, ramming a white SUV accompanying it.

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Cricket Games Sports

All eyes on Mirpur as cricket returns to Bangladesh

March 16, 2020 was the last time Bangladeshi cricketers played a competitive game.The backdrop was the first round of the Dhaka Premier League, which was cancelled shortly after following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country.

After that long seven-month gap, cricketers will once again return to the field through the BCB President’s Cup today.

Mahmudullah XI will take on Najmul XI in the opening game of the 50-over tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National stadium in Mirpur today.

All matches will be day-night affairs and it will mark the Bangladesh Cricket Board actually resuming cricket in an attempt to gradually host international teams.

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Trump appears in public as his doctor says he is no longer a transmission risk

US President Donald Trump appeared back to his old self on Saturday as he addressed supporters at the White House in his first public event since being diagnosed with COVID-19 and his doctor said he was no longer a transmission risk.

Trump took a test on Saturday which showed that he was no longer a “transmission risk to others,” his physician Sean Conley said in a statement, adding that an assortment of tests taken by the president showed there was no longer evidence “of actively replicating virus.”

The White House had no immediate comment on whether Conley’s statement indicated that the president had tested negative for the coronavirus.

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Human chain against the ongoing rape of women and children in Basundia through the joint efforts of various social organizations.

In the wake of Corona’s fatigue, where ordinary people are struggling to make ends meet, a group of low-minded human-like beasts have awakened across the country.

Every day, women in different parts of the country are the victims of their low mentality; even the children are not getting relief there.

An epidemic of violence against women, sexual harassment and rape is rampant across the country to increase the prevalence of their reckless nature.

This is destroying the dignity of thousands of mothers and sisters as well as the image of a healthy society.

An anti-rape human chain has been organized in Basundia by 5 organizations Basundia Press Club, Sonali Shapna Academy, Pasa asi amra, Bot Bokho, Jungle Badhal Youth Association to protest against this rape, violence against women and demand exemplary severe punishment for the rapists.

On Saturday morning, October 10 2020, public gatherings with banners of all these organizations started taking place at Basundia corner of Jessore.

During the moment, the organizations displayed various anti-rape posters and banners. With the passage of time, the protests at the Basundiya junction in Jessore became vocal.

Besides, the people of the movement were obsessed with different slogans. Thousands of people are protesting in this protest procession.

At this time, all human chain workers demanded exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of violence against women across the country. Also demand the death penalty for all rapists.

Imdadul Haque: Jessore.

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Business

Discounts and offers galore in 10-day online shopping fest starting tomorrow

10-day-long online shopping festival is starting tomorrow with 14 leading e-commerce platforms of the country participating, providing hefty discounts and free deliveries among other offers.

With the slogan “Desher Taka Deshe Thakuk”, the third edition of 10-10 Mega Shopping Festival strives to cater to the customers amid the pandemic in a bid to push everything digital.

Mustafa Jabbar, minister for posts and telecommunications, inaugurated the festival today as the chief guest of an event held virtually.

“As we are entering the 4th industrial revolution, all conventional businesses will be gradually transformed into digital ones,” said Jabbar.

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22-year-old housewife gang-raped in Chattogram; 8 held

A 22-year-old housewife was gang-raped by around eight to ten people, most of them CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers in Chandgaon area of Chattogram city early today.

The victim later filed a case with Chandgaon Police Station over the incident and is now undergoing treatment at a One-Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), said Bijoy Basak, deputy commissioner (DC-North Zone) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police.

Police conducted drives in different areas of the port city and arrested eight people in connection with this case, DC Basak said at a press briefing this afternoon.

The arrestees are: Jahangir Alam (38), Md Yousuf (32), Md Ripon (27), Md Sujan (24), Debu Barua alias Jobayer Hossain (31), Md Shahed (24), Rintu Datta (30),……

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Football Games Sports

A night like no other

On a night when Serie A saw as bizarre an event as the Napoli-Juventus fixture being abandoned as Napoli players weren’t allowed by their local health authority to travel to Turin due to coronavirus fears.

La Liga meted out a tensed 1-1 draw between Barcelona and Sevilla and the Bundesliga witnessed yet another one-man show from Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski.

Who scored all four goals including a stoppage-time penalty to give the German champions a 4-3 home win over Hertha Berlin,  the focus still turned to the Premier League.

Champions Liverpool suffered a humiliating 7-2 defeat at Aston Villa and Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho savoured a 6-1 win over his former club Manchester United in one of the most astonishing days in Premier League history.

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Trump Briefly Leaves Hospital To Greet Well-Wishers Outside

TOPLINE President Donald Trump left Walter Reed Medical Center, where he is being treated for coronavirus,

Sunday and was driven by Secret Service agents past well-wishers who had lined up outside the medical facility, as part of a spontaneous makeshift parade that occurred just hours after doctors disclosed the president had been treated with oxygen and steroids.

Reporters on the scene like Associated Press’ Phillip Crowther captured video and images of Trump waving to supporters from the inside of a Chevy Suburban in Bethesda, Maryland.

All passengers inside the car, including Trump, appeared to be wearing masks.

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