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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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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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Noakhali Gang-Rape Victim: Indifference drowned cries for justice

On the day following the Noakhali gang-rape on September 2, the Noakhali woman had gone to a member of Eklashpur Union Parishad seeking his help in taking the matter to the police, but to no avail.

This is what the survivor told our correspondent, yesterday morning, in an interview held inside the Begumganj Police Station.

“I went to the member and told him that I am poor and I do not have the power to go to the police myself and asked him to investigate the matter and seek justice on my behalf. I told him what the men did to me,” she said.

Noakhali Gang-Rape Victim:

When he did not do anything about it, she left the area and went into hiding, she said.

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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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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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Domingo supports tour postponement

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

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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Thrown into abyss of abuse

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……….