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Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday (20 April) said their party will keep stopped holding conferences and forming committees at all levels during the upcoming upazila parishad elections. “The first phase of upazila parishad elections is going to be held. During the upazila polls, no conference of the party at district or upazila level and forming of new committees will take place,” he told a press conference at AL President’s Dhanmondi political office here.

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Intense heat is going on across the country on the one hand, and load shedding is increasing along with it. The temperature has already crossed 41 degrees Celsius. High heatwaves, prolonged droughts, and adverse weather conditions across the country are reducing human performance. As a result, the production of boro paddy, mango, and litchi is feared to be disrupted. Weather experts said that the temperature may rise further. The impact of heat waves on the agricultural sector is severe. Rising temperatures due to climate change will increase drought levels in the coming days.

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Bangladesh is scheduled to leave the category of Least Developed Country (LDC) in November 2026. This significant transition follows the country`s fulfillment of all three required criteria for graduation, as assessed triennially by the United Nations` Committee for Development Policy (CDP): Gross National Income per capita, Human Assets Index, and Economic and Environmental Vulnerability Index, which assess economic health, human development, and resilience to shocks. Bangladesh first met these criteria in 2018 and then again in February 2021

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Yerevan and Baku to continue the delimitation and demarcation of the border, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, has said. On Friday (19 April), the eighth meeting of the commissions on border delimitation between Armenia and Azerbaijan was held. Armenia agreed to return four settlements, which it controlled since the early 1990s, to Azerbaijan.

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In the wake of the shocking nationwide water shortage in Colombia, a veteran environmental activist who has been fighting to protect the country`s rivers for over 10 years explained to Sputnik why she believed that the ongoing crisis was primarily caused by human activities, as opposed to weather conditions such as drought. Following months of drought caused by the weather phenomenon known as El Nino, water reservoirs across Colombia have reached critical levels.

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Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has declared a two-month state of emergency in the country over a massive energy crisis. "To declare a state of emergency in connection with serious domestic unrest and public disasters throughout the country, which were caused by the emergency situation in the electric energy sector, in order to secure continuous energy services," the president’s decree, as quoted by Expreso news agency.

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The US House of Representatives is poised to hold a crucial vote on Saturday on a major aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan -- and a possible ban of TikTok. The votes on the $95 billion foreign aid and arms bills are expected to begin at 1:00 pm (1700 GMT), and embattled Republican Speaker Mike Johnson will need Democratic votes to get them passed. The bills are the product of months of acrimonious negotiations, pressure from US allies and repeated pleas for assistance from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Mark Robins scored the goal that helped launch Manchester United`s era of dominance. Now he is plotting to deepen their misery in the FA Cup semi-final on Sunday as Coventry boss. The 54-year-old scored against Nottingham Forest in the third round of the competition in 1990, a goal that turned out to be a turning point in the history of United and was widely credited with saving Alex Ferguson`s job.

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Juventus came back from two goals down at half-time to claw themselves to a 2-2 draw at Cagliari, who took another step towards Serie A safety on Friday(19 April). Trailing at the break to penalties from Gianluca Gaetano and Yerry Mina, Massimiliano Allegri`s side salvaged a point as Dusan Vlahovic whipped in a perfect 62nd-minute free-kick before Alberto Dossena`s unfortunate own goal three minutes from time. Dossena diverting Kenan Yildiz`s cross into his own net means Cagliari stay 14th, five points above the relegation zone. The draw is another of a number of disappointing recent results for Juve whose season is petering out towards a drab ending after for a time promising a league title race.

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Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) is facing allegations of only collecting nominal fees instead of leasing out 20 river ghats including Chattogram Karnaphuli`s Saltghola-Dangarchar Ghat. This has resulted in the revenue department officials pressuring the local lessees of the old leases to pay nominal fees for the collection of special fees. Some even claim that some revenue officials are associating the mayor`s name with these actions. It`s observed that these ghats bring in millions of passengers and goods daily. Due to legal proceedings pending in the High Court regarding these ghats, it has not been possible to lease them out in the Bengali month of Pahela Baishakh.

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A 40-year-old man died and 21 others were injured in a clash between two groups over a land dispute in Sahapur Union of Ishwardi Upazila in Pabna on Friday (19 April). The deceased Khairul Islam was the son of late Nasim Uddin Pramanik of Chargargari Alhaj Mor Paschimpara. Some of the injured are Saju Hudi, 50, Jamaat Fakir, 50, Nasiruddin, 30, Md. Mithun, 35, Moslem Uddin, 60, Manu Pramanik, 55, Md. Khokon Pramanik, 35, and Nur Begum, 50. According to the locals, the two groups had a quarrel a few days back over a piece of land. This led to a clash between the two groups in the last two days.

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An engineer of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) was killed in a road accident in front of Dhaka Elevated Expressway near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital on Friday (19 April). Police said the accident occurred at about 10 am when a passenger bus of Raida Paribahan crashed through the security wall of the third terminal of the HSIA after losing its control and hit a motorcycle. Civil Aviation Senior Sub Assistant Engineer Maidul Islam was riding a motorcycle along the road and it was run over by the bus, sub-inspector of Airport Police Station Soman Chandra Das confirmed.

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Two people were killed and three others sustained injuries after a dump truck hit two motorcycles in Rajshahi`s Poba upazila on Friday (19 April). The deceased are Julhas Uddin, 32, son of Rabiul Islam of the Aliganj area of Damkura Thana and Rimon Hossain, 35 son of Manik Mia of the New Kasba area of the same area. Ali Akbar, officer-in-charge (OC) of Damkura police station, said that 5 people on two motorcycles were heading towards the city around 4 pm. Around 4:30 pm, when they reached the Muralipur area, the dump truck knocked down the two motorcycles, leaving Julhas and Rimon dead on the spot.

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Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has launched smart banking, which offers online banking and electronic fund transfer among other facilities, to make its banking services more dynamic. On Friday, it also launched service delivery and internet service activities on the RAKUB mobile app through the central e-payment system ekpay of the Aspire to Innovate (a2i) programme. With this, clients of the bank will be able to open new accounts from home through e-KYC as well as submit income tax, VAT, and passport fees

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Popular actor Misha Sawdagar was elected president from the Misha-Dipjol panel after the nail-biting 18th edition of the Bangladesh Film Artistes` Association elections held on Friday, which also declared veteran actor Monowar Hossain Dipjol as the new general secretary. They defeated prominent actor Mahmud Koli and actress Nipun Akter from the Koli-Nipun panel for the respective positions.

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A three-day heatwave alert has been issued in Bangladesh as the scorching summer sends the mercury rise past 40C in parts of the country. The heatwave may continue and intensify further over the next 72 hours commencing today, the Met Office said in an alert message on Friday (April 19). “Due to increasing moisture incursion, the discomfort may increase,” the warning message by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said. April has already experienced a severe heatwave, and the BMD says that there will be no immediate relief from this situation.

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The Awami League says it will take action against those disobeying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s orders about the upcoming upazila elections. The matter will be discussed in detail at the party`s working committee meeting on April 30, party leaders say. They also say the party will not spare those trying to influence the elections despite the directives of the prime minister and the final decision on the action against the defiers will be made at the meeting.

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More than 2,100 people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia`s Sulawesi Island were evacuated Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami. Indonesia`s Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation recorded at least three eruptions since Friday afternoon, with the maximum height of the eruption column reaching 1,200 meters (3,900 feet).

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The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said on Friday (19 April), though how long the virus can survive in milk is unknown. Avian influenza A(H5N1) first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an increase in the number of infected mammals. The strain has led to the deaths of tens of millions of poultry, with wild birds and land and marine mammals also infected.

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UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday (19 April) warned that intensified fighting in Rakhine State between the military and the Arakan Army, alongside tensions being fuelled between the Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine communities, pose a grave threat to the civilian population. He warned of a grave risk that past atrocities will be repeated. Since the year-long informal ceasefire between the two sides broke down last November, 15 of Rakhine’s 17 townships have been affected by fighting, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, and taking the number of displaced to well over 300,000.

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Gold prices rose on Friday (19 April) and were poised for a fifth straight week of gains, as investors rushed to the safe-haven asset as escalating tensions between Iran and Israel fuelled fears of a wider regional conflict. Spot gold was up 0.1% at $2,380.68 per ounce as of 1040 GMT, after rising to as high as $2,417.59 earlier in the session. Prices were up over 1% this week. U.S. gold futures rose 0.1% at $2,396.60. Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation.

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Iran fired air defences at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday (19 April) morning near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones, which were suspected to be part of an Israeli attack in retaliation for Tehran`s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country. No Iranian official directly acknowledged the possibility that Israel attacked, and the Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment. However, tensions have been high since the Saturday assault on Israel amid its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and its own strikes targeting Iran in Syria.

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Indonesian authorities were on alert Friday (19 April), for more eruptions from a remote island volcano that forced thousands to evacuate this week, as nearby residents began clearing debris after molten rocks rained down on their villages. Mount Ruang erupted nearly half a dozen times in 24 hours beginning late Tuesday, stirring a spectacular mix of fiery orange lava, a towering ash column and volcanic lightning. While officials said Ruang had started to calm Friday, authorities maintained the highest alert level of a four-tiered system, which indicates high volcanic activity.

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