Day: July 11, 2025

Desk Report, Bangladesh scores 9 goals against Sri Lanka, Sagarika scores hat-trick Bangladesh thrashed Sri Lanka 9-1 in the first match of the SAFF Under-20 Women’s Championship. The girls celebrated their goals with a show of strength from the first minute of the match at the Kings Arena in Dhaka today. Bangladesh scores 9 goals against Sri Lanka, Sagarika scores hat-trick Mosammat Sagarika scored a hat-trick, Munki Akhter scored two goals. Apart from this, Swapna Rani, Sinha Jahan Shikha, Rupa Akhter and Shanti Mardi scored one goal each. Bangladesh scored…

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Desk Report, How countries are dealing with Trump’s tariff threat, and what is the market’s reaction? US President Donald Trump announced new counter-tariffs on Monday. He also extended the deadline for their implementation until August 1. He first sent letters to 14 countries and then to seven more yesterday, warning that new tariffs would be imposed on them if they failed to reach a trade deal with the US within the stipulated time. How countries are dealing with Trump’s tariff threat, and what is the market’s reaction? In this situation,…

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Desk Report, Is AI slowing down the work of experienced workers, what does research say? Is AI slowing down the work of experienced workers, what does research say? A new study has found that the use of AI or artificial intelligence speeds up the work of experienced software developers – contrary to the popular belief. Is AI slowing down the work of experienced workers, what does research say? The study found that when experienced software developers were working on a familiar codebase, using the latest AI tools did not speed…

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Desk Report, Shashi Tharoor again in controversy for criticizing Indira Gandhi Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has once again come into the limelight. He has once again brought himself to the forefront of the controversy by writing articles in various newspapers in the country criticizing the Emergency during the Congress regime. Without naming Tharoor, Congress Chief Whip in the Lok Sabha, Manickam Tagore, sarcastically said that when a colleague speaks exactly like the BJP, it seems that the bird is no longer a bird. It has become…

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Desk Report, Calcutta High Court seeks information from Delhi on anti-Bengali conspiracy in BJP-ruled state The Calcutta High Court of West Bengal has sought details from the Union Home Ministry about the eviction of Bengalis in Delhi. The court took this initiative within 24 hours of a petition filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleging that an ‘anti-Bengali’ ‘scam’ is going on across India. Calcutta High Court seeks information from Delhi on anti-Bengali conspiracy in BJP-ruled state The petition was filed in the High Court in the wake…

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Desk Report, Barisal residents frustrated by waterlogging, initiative to restore dead canals Barisal, once known as a city of canals and rivers, is now facing severe waterlogging. The canals spread like a net in the city were once its lifeblood. Even during heavy rains, the water would drain away quickly. There was no waterlogging anywhere. However, now, even with a little rain, various areas of the city are submerged in water. Public life has come to a standstill. Barisal residents frustrated by waterlogging, initiative to restore dead canals Initiatives have…

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Desk Report, YouTube is tightening monetization conditions for video creators The number of low-quality, repetitive videos created using artificial intelligence (AI) technology on YouTube has increased alarmingly. As a result, the quality of videos on YouTube has decreased, as well as negatively affecting the monetization system. And so YouTube has created new policies to deal with the situation. The new policies will be implemented from July 15. The new policies have made the monetization conditions for creators involved in the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) stricter. Under the policy, if clips…

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Desk Report, Order to send Abul Barkat to prison The court has ordered the arrest of economist and former chairman of Janata Bank Professor Abul Barkat in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Order to send Abul Barkat to prison Abul Barkat was produced before the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court on Friday afternoon. According to court sources, a three-day remand was sought in the ACC case. On the other hand, the accused requested the rejection of the remand application. The court ordered him to be sent…

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Desk Report, CUET student permanently expelled for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad The university administration has permanently expelled a student of the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) for allegedly insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on social media. On Thursday, the expulsion of the student from the Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) department was announced in a notification signed by the director of the university’s Student Welfare Department, Md. Mahbubul Alam. The notification said that an investigation committee was formed based on written complaints from general…

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Desk Report, What are the chances of Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize? President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after taking office in 2009. Since then, Donald Trump has been chasing the Nobel Prize. After being elected for the first time in 2017, he got many people to nominate him for the prize. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe even wrote a similar letter at his request. Trump himself proudly said that the five-page letter that Abe sent to the Nobel Committee for him was one of his…

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