A 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death while chasing members of a ‘teen gang’ attempting to steal bicycles in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh. The victim, Shahadat Hossain Akbar Shanto, lived in Hazaribagh Lane. His father Afzal Hossain works at a shop in Elephant Road. “He died around 10:30am on Friday under hospital care.”A group of five to six members of a local teen gang went to steal bicycles at Hazaribagh Park area when locals confronted them, said Shanto’s father Afzal. “During the chase, the teenagers stabbed Shanto in the left side of his chest and fled, leaving him on the street,” Afzal said.

SEOUL, Nov 15, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has orderedthe "mass production" of attack drones, state media reported Friday, asconcerns mount over the country's deepening military cooperation with Russia. Pyongyang first unveiled its attack drones in August, with experts saying thecapability may be attributable to the country's budding alliance with Russia. "He underscored the need to build a serial production system as early aspossible and go into full-scale mass production," KCNA said. "The suicide attack drones to be used within different striking ranges are toperform a mission to precisely attack any enemy targets on the ground and inthe sea," the agency said. South Korea launched a drone operation command last year to better addressthe growing threat.

Delhi was swathed in 'dense' to 'very dense' smog early on Wednesday and ThursdayWhy has smog hit visibility in New Delhi? Traffic passes by on a road as the sky is enveloped with smog after Delhi's air quality was classified as "hazardous" amidst severe air pollution, in New Delhi, India, November 14, 2024. REUTERSTraffic passes by on a road as the sky is enveloped with smog after Delhi's air quality was classified as "hazardous" amidst severe air pollution, in New Delhi, India, November 14, 2024. Delhi was swathed in 'dense' to 'very dense' smog early on Wednesday and Thursday. Dense smog has engulfed other parts of northern India, such as the states of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, where visibility fell to zero in some areas on Thursday.

Bangladesh Bank has reduced the fees for income tax payments made through internet banking, debit or credit cards, and mobile financial services, or MFS.The new fees will now be Tk 20 for transactions up to Tk 25,000 and a maximum of Tk 50 for payments above that amount.For MFS or payment service providers, or PSP, wallets, a fee of 1 percent of the transaction amount, up to a maximum of Tk 30, will be applied, including value-added tax, or VAT.The new fee structure was communicated to all banks, MFS, and PSPs across the country through a letter from the central bank on Wednesday.The move follows a request by the National Board of Revenue, or NBR, to reduce higher charges on online tax payments.Earlier, a fee of 1.6 percent was charged on debit and credit card payments, while MFS users had to pay a general transaction fee.On Oct 27, the NBR sent a letter to Governor Ahsan H Mansur, urging a reduction in the fees.As part of ongoing reforms, from this year, all government employees in Dhaka North City Corporation, Dhaka South City Corporation, Narayanganj, and Gazipur city corporations, as well as employees from scheduled banks, mobile phone operators, and certain multinational companies, will be required to file their income tax returns online.Paper-based tax returns will no longer be accepted for these individuals, said NBR chief Abdur Rahman Khan.A Bangladesh Bank official told bdnews24.com that the reduction in fees aims to make online tax payments more accessible and convenient for taxpayers. —bdnews24.com

Daily Ittefaq photojournalist Naimur Rahman has been beaten and robbed of his camera, mobile phone and money by a group of men in Dhaka's Mohammadpur.He says the incident occurred 'in public' around 10pm on Wednesday as he walked from the Mohammadpur Bus Stand area to the intersection,Naimur said, "I finished my office work and was headed home to Bosila… Suddenly, four or five men blocked the road and then dragged me into an alley. Then, all of them beat me. ""One of them had a machete in their hand and they hit me with the back of the blade and the handle. At one point, they snatched my Nikon D-850 camera, a Samsung A13 model phone, and my wallet. "There were many people around, but no one came forward to help, he said.—bdnews24.com

Md Abdullah, a college student who was shot during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement protests on Aug 5, has died at a hospital in Dhaka. The 23-year-old was a political science student at Government Shahid Suhrawardy College. We will then take him to his college, where funeral prayers will be held. We will take him back to our village home after funeral prayers at the Shaheed Minar after Maghrib. He was lying on the road for two to three hours before he was taken first to Mitford Hospital and then to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

ICT Advisor Nahid Islam and Sayedur Rahman, a special assistant to the chief advisor overseeing the health ministry, joined the talks on Thursday. At about 5:30pm, Sayedur announced that a decision would be reached shortly on the countries where injured individuals would be sent to receive advanced medical treatment. "The commitment to provide healthcare for the injured will be documented in writing within the next five working days," he said. He confirmed that a comprehensive plan for the treatment of the injured would be outlined within five working days, with short-term actions to follow by December. Discussions about the injured protesters' demands began at the health ministry at 2pm and concluded at 5:30pm.

He returns to Dhaka after meeting more than 20 world leaders on the sidelines of the COP29 summitChief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has returned to Dhaka after attending the COP29 climate summit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. During his stay in Baku, the chief advisor met with more than 20 world leaders and the heads of several international organisations on the sidelines of the COP29 summit, state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha or BSS, reports. He held meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, and Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel, according to the Chief Advisor's Office. On the second day of the COP29 summit, Yunus addressed world leaders, outlining his vision for a world made of the ‘three zeroes’ -- zero net carbon emissions, zero wealth concentration, and zero unemployment. Later, he also met with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, and former British prime minister Theresa May on the sidelines of the summit.

The former head of government has been staying in India for the past three months since her resignation. Furthermore, recordings of Hasina’s phone calls to various political leaders – both within Bangladesh and abroad – have been circulating in the media for the past few months. They said they will look into the matter.”Responding to questions related to getting Indian visas, he said: “We have been repeatedly telling the Indian authorities. They have informed us about their manpower crisis.”“We have asked them to expedite the issue of health visas, and those seeking visas to visit third world countries. We have also asked them to make the process easier for students seeking visas for Romania, Bulgaria and Finland.”

Five people have died of dengue, while 1,107 more patients been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease throughout Bangladesh in the past 24 hours. The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, said as many as 415 were admitted to hospital in Dhaka among the new dengue patients until Thursday morning. With the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 77,127 this year. The DGHS has been keeping records of dengue hospitalisations and deaths since 2000. Since then, a record 321,179 dengue hospitalisations were logged in 2023.

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The home ministry will request foreign affairs to lodge an official protest with IndiaHome Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said the Indian media is spreading misinformation about Bangladesh every day and the interim government will protest it. “The home ministry will ask the foreign ministry to issue an official protest, as that ministry handles formal communication with other nations. When asked specifically about remarks from an Indian TV anchor regarding Chattogram, the advisor replied, "Stay vigilant on this matter. "It’s widely known that Indian reports are often inaccurate. Speaking about the Barishal division's law and order, he said: "The law and order here is notably better than in other regions.

The army raids the separatist group's hideout in a remote area of Bandarban’s Ruma UpazilaThe Bangladesh Army has recovered a large cache of firearms and ammunition after busting a hideout of the separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), also known as the Bawm party, in the Chattogram Hill Tracts. The army conducted the raid in a remote part of Bandarban’s Ruma Upazila, the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Thursday. The KNF was the focus of a joint operation in the remote Chattogram Hill Tracts for a year until October 2023, following reports of escalating violence. However, the peace was short-lived as KNF members carried out daring bank robberies in early April, prompting the government to restart the crackdown. Several members of the separatist group, along with dozens of individuals from the ethnic Bawm community, have been arrested since then.

Ever since seeing this Full Belly Deli menu item on Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Drives,” it’s been on a bucket list of things to try. Starting with the buttermilk biscuits, they are baked from scratch before torn apart and nestled atop a warm tortilla. Full Belly Deli’s Biscuits and Gravy Burrito. The biscuits were light and flaky, the hashbrowns crunchy and salty, the egg and cheese ooey gooey, and the gravy – oh, that delectable gravy – was the star of the show. Not sure why it took me so long to try, but it definitely won’t be long before my next one.

The DU unit president says this is the first full-fledged committee after the fall of Sheikh Hasina's regimeJatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, has announced a 242-strong committee for its Dhaka University chapter. The newly appointed committee was announced in a press release issued by Mohammad Jahangir Alam, secretary of the BNP’s central office on Thursday. According to the press statement, Chhatra Dal President Rakibul Islam Rakib and General Secretary Nasir Uddin Nasir approved the committee. On Mar 1, a partial committee consisting of seven members was announced for the Chhatra Dal’s Dhaka University branch. Through this committee, I will try to underscore the positive aspects by establishing a democratic and student-oriented politics, as opposed to the Chhatra League’s politics of occupation.”