But Bangladesh levelled things in the second half. At the end of 90 minutes, they were tied at 1-1. Bangladesh’s start to the tiebreaker was not promising. But, after a nerve-wracking penalty shootout, they will be taking home the 2024 SAFF U-16 Women’s Championship. The difference maker was goalkeeper Yearzan Begum, who saved three penalties to give Bangladesh a 3-2 win in the shootout.

DHAKA, March 10, 2024 (BSS) - State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat today expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Prime Minister's Press Secretary, prominent journalist and 1971 Liberation War veteran Ihsanul Karim Helal. He prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family. Ihsanul Karim, former Managing Director and Chief Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), breathed his last around 8.00 pm today at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) where he was under life-support with multiple-organ complications.

He breathed his last at 8:10pm on Sunday at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital, according to his family. The family said funeral prayers will be held at the National Press Club at 11am on Monday. Ihsanul joined the Liberation War in 1971 and fought in the western frontier as a member of the Bangladesh Liberation Force (BLF). He was appointed the prime minister’s press secretary in 2015 for a year. Before joining the Prime Minister’s Office, Ihsanul worked as the president’s press secretary, and managing director and chief editor of the government-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha or BSS.

File PhotoMEHERPUR, March 10, 2024 (BSS) - Public Administration Minister Farhad Hossain today said that the incumbent government will provide job opportunities to about 20 lakh youths every year. "Awami League's election manifesto in the 12th National Parliament election mentioned that employment will be ensured. For that purpose, the current government will provide employment to about 20 lakh youths every year," he said. The minister said this while he was speaking at the programme of distributing laptops among women trainees under the 'Her Power' project as chief guest. 'Her Power Project': Empowerment of Women through ICT Frontier Initiative' was organized by Meherpur District Administration and the Department of ICT at Mujibnagar Smrity Complex Auditorium in the district.

City Desk :The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) has brought a change in its schedule ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan. The visa applications will be accepted until 3:30pm at the IVAC in Dhaka’s Jamuna Future Park from Mar 12, the High Commission of India said in a post on its official Facebook account on Saturday, reports bdnews24.com“Those with appointment slots between 3pm to 4pm are requested to reach IVAC before 3:30pm.”The 16 Indian visa application centres in Bangladesh are managed by the State Bank of India. They are located in Dhaka (Jamuna Future Park), Jashore, Khulna, Mymensingh, Barishal, Chattogram, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Satkhira, Bogura, Noakhali, Brahmanbaria, Cumilla and Kushtia. All types of Indian visa applications are accepted at the IVAC based on date and time.

Kafi Khan :Tahseen Bahar Shuchona and Ekramul Haque Titu have been elected as the mayors of Cumilla City Corporation and Mymensingh City Corporation respectively in mayoral elections. Cumilla Metropolitan Awami League General Secretary Arfanul Haque Rifat was elected mayor in 2022 by defeating Sakku by only 343 votes. Ekramul Haque Titu, the recently resigned mayor, has once again been elected as the city mayor after a landslide victory. Following the result announcement, supporters of Mayor Ekramul Haque Titu have been celebrating with victory processions across various areas. In his immediate response to the victory, Ikramul Haque Titu expressed gratitude towards the city’s residents, promising to reciprocate their support through dedicated service.

A Chattogram court has sentenced two men to death for the murder of an elderly woman during a robbery in the city’s Sadarghat area, reports bdnews24.com. Chattogram Sixth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Begum Sirajam Munira delivered the verdict in the case on Sunday. The death row convicts have been identified as Md Rubel, 27, and Md Abbas, 30. Rubel is absconding, but Abbas was present in court to hear the verdict and was sent to jail afterwards.

A worker has died and two others are injured after a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup in Lakshmipur Sadar Upazila. The accident occurred near the Department of Youth Development in the Moju Chowdhury Haat area on Sunday, said Saifuddin Anowar, chief of Sadar Police Station. Md Rubel, 27, and Md Sagar, 26, from Ratanpur village, were injured, reports bdnews24.com. Rubel was driving the sand-laden pickup, accompanied by Rahim and Sagar, when it collided with an oncoming truck transporting drums, the police officer said citing witnesses. Locals subsequently rescued the three men and took them to Lakshmipur Sadar Hospital.

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Playing Iowa. Clark and Co. go for their third straight Big Ten Tournament title and a lock on a No. Anyone in attendance that day saw the lines of Iowa fans outside and heard the alternating cheers inside Pinnacle Bank Arena for Clark and Iowa. Asked last week about the state’s great year in basketball, Shelley mentioned Clark unprompted. "It's always fun playing Iowa,” Shelley said.

Awami League leader Ekramul Hoque Titu has been voted back to the office of the mayor of Mymensingh City Corporation by a huge margin of 103,841 votes. Titu bagged 139,604 votes while his nearest rival Sadequl Hoque Khan got 35,763, according to the results announced by Returning Officer Belayet Hossain Chowdhury on Saturday night. In the voting from 8m to 4pm, Ehteshamul Alam received 10,773 votes, Rezaul Haque 1,487 and the Jatiya Party’s Shahidul Islam got 1,321 votes. A former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League, Titu was elected commissioner of a ward in 1999 when Mymensingh was a municipality.

ReadingMayoral races: Tahseen Bahar Shuchona shows victory sign with the supporters after winning the Cumilla mayoral by-polls, beating her nearest opponent Monirul Hoque Sakku by a margin of 21,993 votes.

KHULNA, March 9, 2024 (BSS) - The research on diagnosing of the tigers of the Sundarbans and the animals considered as tiger food started last night under a project titled “Sundarbans Tiger Conservation Project” with a view to gain a better understanding regarding the diseases of tigers and the bacteria and virus affected by animal food. Khulna Divisional Forest Officer of the Sundarbans West Division Dr Abu Naser Mohsin Hossain told BSS today that the activities of the research programme were started last night. Dr Abu Naser said, taking a span of 15 days time, a total of 250 samples from 65 research points under the four ranges of the Sundarbans will be collected to make the research successful. He said, the researchers will finalize whether animals like tiger, deer, monkey, pig are infected with any bacteria or virus. A total of 289 species of animals live in the Sundarbans.

Simultaneously, Gracie also completed the radiography program, the sonography program and a post-baccalaureate certificate through the University of Nebraska Medical Center. And she got ready for the yearlong sonography program. As part of the program, Gracie had three nine-hour clinical shifts a week and two eight-hour class days a week. And we would not be where we are without all those people either.”‘It was just like PTSD’A few months into her sonography program, Gracie got a phone call from her father. Gracie said having her father around was comforting as she finished up the sonography program and graduated in August 2022.

How did Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party become former President Donald Trump’s? Though Reagan was the first MAGA president (he ran for the White House in 1980 on the slogan “Let’s Make America Great Again”), he wouldn't be welcomed in today’s Republican Party. For Reagan, immigration was a unique cornerstone of American vitality and renewal, and it was central to his own origin myth. Unlike Reagan, today’s GOP has used immigration to divide Americans and to make immigrants the scapegoats for a range of domestic ills, including income inequality. Impatient with the slow-grinding nature of the post-war containment policy, Reagan turned his foreign policy on a redefinition of America’s stance toward the Soviet Union.