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Trump Briefly Leaves Hospital To Greet Well-Wishers Outside

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Trump

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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Football Sports

Much-anticipated BFF polls this afternoon

The much-hyped election and congress of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), also known as BFF Elective Congress 2020, will be held on Saturday at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.

The election voting will start at 02:00pm after a two-hour congress which will be held from 11:00am to 01:00pm.A total of 139 councillors from the federation’s affiliated associations will exercise their franchise to form the 21-member BFF executive committee including president, senior vice-president, four vice presidents and fifteen members.

The 3-member election commission, headed by Mezbah Uddin Ahmed, will conduct the polls. Other two members of BFF EC are Mahfuzur Rahman Siddique and Motahar Uddin Saju.

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COVID-19 International World

Leading COVID-19 vaccine trial resumes in Japan but not US

COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine

Trials on the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University have resumed in Japan but not the United States, where the pharmaceutical giant is working with regulators, a statement released Friday said.

The Financial Times, citing sources close to the case, reported that the US drug regulator the FDA had expanded its investigation into the serious side effects suffered by one trial participant, which had led to a brief halt in the tests, reports AFP.

The British company did not respond immediately to an AFP request for comments.

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National

Giving away greenery

Giving away greenery
Giving away greenery

The heartland of a reserve forest in Moulvibazar is in the process of being leased out to a private company for tea plantation.      

Several companies were vying for a lease of the 2,174.35 acres of land, disputed between the local Forest Department and administration following a controversial survey decision and subsequent filing of a case with the Land Survey Tribunal.

But one leading tea producer managed to get a green signal from the PMO with the condition of case disposal.

Forest officials and green activists squarely put the blame on local offices concerned for misleading the highest office,

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Cricket Games Sports

Domingo supports tour postponement

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Bangladesh Head Coach Russell Domingo welcomed the move taken by Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to ask Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to reschedule the three-Test Sri Lanka tour citing their inability to undergo 14-day quarantine as it would have been mentally draining for his charges.

BCB opted not to travel to Sri Lanka after the host insisted on a 14-day mandatory quarantine that too with movement limited to their hotel room.“Obviously I am very disappointed that the Sri Lanka tour is not taking place. I think BCB were correct in refraining from going under the stipulations that were placed upon the team.

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National

49 women including Ayesha in condemned cells

including Ayesha
including Ayesha

There are 888 convicts, including Ayesha Siddika alias Minni, in the condemned cells of 68 prisons around the country. Ayesha Siddika was recently sentenced to death in the Rifat murder case.

Among the prisoners in the condemned cells, 49 are women. So far no woman sentenced to death has been hanged in the country.

According to the prison directorate, once the court sentences a prisoner to be hanged, the convict is placed in a condemned cell and has to remain there till the sentence is carried out.

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Education National

A-Level Exams: Students negotiate a new reality

A-Level Exams
A-Level Exams

Advanced Level examinations of the October and November session began yesterday amid parents’ concern about the grades their children would get as many could not prepare for the tests properly due to the closure of schools.

Many were worried not only about the health safety at exam halls but also on their way to and from the exam centre.

“We are worried about what grade my child will get She could not concentrate on her studies. I had advised her to adjust to the situation,” said a guardian waiting outside Oxford International School exam center in the capital.

Anjum Ara said as school remained closed since mid-March, candidates could not take their desired preparations for the exams.

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North America World

US President Trump, first lady test positive for Covid-19

US President Trump

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early today.

Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. Trump was last seen by reporters returning to the White House on Thursday evening and looked to be in good health. Trump is 74 years old, putting him at higher risk of serious complications from a virus that has now killed more than 200,000 people nationwide.

“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump tweeted.

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National

Thrown into abyss of abuse

Thrown
Thrown

The recruiting agency that sent 14-year-old Umme Kulsum to a Saudi employer, who tortured her to death, threw many others into similar pits of abuse.

Details of such incidents came to light on Thursday when Rab-3 raided the office of the recruiting agency, M/H Trade International, and arrested its owner Mokbul Hossain and his associate Parvez for activities which are offenses under the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act.

While dozens upon of dozens of women have returned to narrate horror stories of the ordeals they faced in the hands of their foreign employers, most of their recruiting agencies stay out of the purview of law. And nested under that umbrella of impunity, a recruiting agency can send countless women to work abroad under circumstances that can only be described as trafficking.

In 2018, M/H Trade International sent a 28-year-old woman from Dhalpur (T. Akhter) to the city of Ha’il in Saudi Arabia, to work as a household help……….

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National

After 30 years of autocracy’s demise, democracy still remains a distant dream

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democracy

To the question, “how democracy is faring in Bangladesh”, a ruling party’s answer has always been “we are a global example” and that of the opposition “we are the pits”. Since we have had the same ruling party in power for the last 12 years at a stretch, the narrative of democracy’s success has been unrelenting, and whatever little voice the real opposition has been allowed, “we are the pits” story continues.

But what say “WE, the PEOPLE”? Well, to the extent we are allowed to or safely can.

One method of gauging democracy’s health would be to look at the institutions that embody it in a country like Bangladesh: the judiciary, the legislative and the executive branches of the state.

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