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The Ministry of Public Administration issued the instructions on the issue on Tuesday (30 July). Government offices will return to their usual working hours after 12 days on Wednesday as the curfew imposed amid the violence surrounding the quota reform protests eases. Shibli Sadiq, a public relations officer at the ministry confirmed that matter.

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Multiple landslides triggered by torrential rains in southern India have killed 70 people, and many others are feared trapped under the debris, officials said Tuesday (30 July), with rescue operations being hampered by bad weather. The landslides hit hilly villages in Kerala state’s Wayanad district early Tuesday and destroyed many houses and a bridge, but authorities have yet to determine the full scope of the disaster. Rescuers were working to pull out people stuck under mud and debris, but their efforts were hampered by blocked roads and unstable terrain.

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his call for all acts of violence to be investigated promptly, transparently, and impartially, and for those responsible to be held to account. He said they have taken note of the statements by the Bangladesh authorities that UN-marked vehicles are no longer being deployed within the country. “We remind and reiterate that UN troop- and police-contributing countries are to

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Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa virus, a member of the Arenaviridae family. It is endemic in parts of West Africa, including Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, where it poses a significant public health challenge. This virus was first discovered in Nigeria in 1969.

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More than six million children in South Asia including Bangladesh are at risk due to severe torrential rains, flash floods, and landslides that have devastated the region, leaving many homeless, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned. “We are only halfway through the monsoon season, yet the rainfall, damage and destruction have been devastating,” Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, said in a news release on Monday (29 July). “These erratic weather events, worsened by climate change, are severely impacting children across South Asia,” Wijesekera said.

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Landslides in southern India killed at least 36 people on Tuesday, a district official told reporters, with the army earlier announcing that hundreds more were believed trapped. "Thirty-six deaths have been confirmed in connection with the landslide in Wayanad district," D.R. Meghasree said.

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Thousands rallied in towns across Serbia on Monday against the approval of a controversial lithium mine that had been shuttered for two years following mass protests. Serbia has vast lithium deposits near the western city of Loznica, where a mining project being developed by the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has been a perennial political fault line in the Balkan country in recent years.

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A passenger train derailed Tuesday (30 July) in eastern India, killing at least two passengers and injuring 20 others, a railroad official said. Dozens of rescuers pulled the injured passengers from the derailed coaches and moved them to hospitals and government health centers for treatment, railway spokesperson Om Prakash Charan said. The cause of the accident is being investigated, he said

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World number two Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from next week`s ATP Canadian Open tournament in Montreal, Tennis Canada said on Monday. The 24-time Grand Slam champion from Serbia has reached the third round of the Paris Olympics with a victory over Spain`s Rafael Nadal.

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Khulna, known as a fish-surplus district, saw a decline in export earnings from fish by Tk 679 crore in the last fiscal year (2023-24). Fish and fish products worth over Tk 2,144 crore were exported in the last fiscal year while in 2022-23 fiscal year, the export earning was Tk 2,823 crore, and in the 2017-18 fiscal year, the amount was Tk 2,489 crore. In the 2023-24 fiscal year, approximately 16,000 metric tonnes of shrimp were exported, earning Tk 1,744 crore, and the export quantity of other fish was 25,000 MT, with an export income of over Tk 400 crore.

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Bangladesh already received US $1.5 billion in remittances in the first 24 days of July, according to the latest report from Bangladesh Bank. In the first 18 days of July, the country received an average of $79 million in daily remittances. However, from July 19 to 24, a total of $78 million was received over six days, indicating a significant drop. In July 2023, expatriates sent $1.97 billion, highlighting a significant decrease in remittances year-over-year

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Smaller parties have suddenly gained importance in politics. Amid the ongoing situation created by the quota reform movement, the Awami League (AL) wants to see its allied 14-party coalition playing an active role. On Monday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held a meeting with the leaders of these allied parties.

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Attempts to protest on Monday were initiated by a group associated with the anti-discrimination student movement, despite the official withdrawal of the movement. This has created a tense atmosphere. Protests occurred in Dhaka, Chattogram, Barishal and Rajshahi University, resulting in the arrest of at least 20 individuals in Dhaka. In Chattogram, the police dispersed protestors by chasing them away

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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday called the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris a "disgrace," after its creators came under fire for what some said was a show gone too far. "I`m very open-minded but I thought what they did was a disgrace," Trump told Fox News, following condemnation from Catholic groups and French bishops of a scene involving dancers, drag queens and a DJ in poses that appeared to recall depictions of the Last Supper, although creators have said it was not meant to represent the religious setting.

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Opposition leader and Jatiya Party Chairman Golam Mohammad Quader has called for the immediate release of student leaders detained “under the guise of protective custody.” According to a press release on Monday (29 July), GM Quader stated that the students have been held in the Detective Branch (DB) office for days without access to their families. He stressed that in Bangladesh, power belongs to the people, who have the right to criticize and protest against the government. He condemned the use of state forces to violently suppress non-violent protests, asserting that law enforcement should never fire upon peaceful demonstrators.

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