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দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

In the letter dated 9 October, and sent after US troops were pulled out of Syria, Mr Trump told Mr Erdogan: "Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool!" President Trump was urging Turkey not to launch a military offensive against Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria, but Mr Erdogan ignored this request. US Vice President Mike Pence is now in Ankara to push for a ceasefire. The US has faced intense criticism for the withdrawal of troops, which critics say gave Turkey the green light to launch the military attack. In recent years, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance has been a critical ally to the US in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. There are fears that the destabilisation of northern Syria could lead to a jihadist resurgence. The SDF is dominated by the members of a Kurdish militia called the People's Protection Units (YPG). Turkey says the YPG is an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a rebel group fighting for Kurdish autonomy in the region. What did Trump's letter say? In his letter to President Erdogan, Mr Trump wrote: "Let's work out a good deal! You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy - and I will. "History will look upon you favourably if you get this done the right and humane way. It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen." In response, Turkish presidential sources told BBC Turkish: "President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin." It is hard to imagine language like it in many letters between presidents. Donald Trump's mixture of threats and locker-room banter infuriated Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His staff told the BBC that he threw the letter into the bin and launched the Syrian operation the same day. That could be proof there was no Trumpian green light. But ever since President Obama partnered up with the Syrian Kurds of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the jihadists of IS it was clear the arrangement would lead to problems with the Turks. That's because the SDF is very close to the Turkish Kurds of the PKK. Turkey says they are two halves of the same terror group. Presidents Erdogan and Trump discussed military action last December. Diplomatic sources here in Ankara suggest that Turkey's broader strategic objective was to detach the Kurds and the Americans. That, at any rate, has happened. The diplomatic debacle that has surrounded events in and around Syria is the background to President Erdogan's meeting in Ankara with a US delegation headed by Vice-President Mike Pence, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It is hard to find common ground between the two sides. How have others responded to the crisis? Much of the criticism levelled at Mr Trump has come from within his own party. In a rare bipartisan rebuke, 129 members of the president's Republican Party in the House of Representatives joined Democrats to formally denounce the move in a vote on Wednesday. The joint resolution, which also called on President Erdogan to immediately cease military operations against Kurdish-led forces, was voted in by 354-60. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also held an apparently explosive meeting with President Trump on the issue, which led to her and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer walking out of the room. Republican leaders said Ms Pelosi's behaviour was "unbecoming", and criticised her for "storming out". Ms Pelosi and Mr Trump also each accused the other of having a "meltdown", with the president later tweeting a photo of their confrontation. But the image has been praised by Democrats, who said it was "iconic" and showed Ms Pelosi's "finest moment". Ms Pelosi also made the photo her top image on Twitter. What has Trump said? Earlier on Wednesday, President Trump said the US should not be intervening in Turkey's military operation in Syria because it is "not our border", and called the former US allies the Kurds "no angels". "They have a problem at a border," he told reporters at the White House. "It's not our border. We shouldn't be losing lives over it." The president also said he thought the situation on the Turkey-Syria border was "strategically brilliant" for the US. "Our soldiers are out of there. Our soldiers are totally safe. They've got to work it out. Maybe they can do it without fighting," he said. "We're watching and we're negotiating and we're trying to get Turkey to do the right thing, because we'd like to stop wars regardless." On the Kurds, he added: "They fought with us. We made a lot of money for them to fight with us, and that's okay. They did well when they fought with us. They didn't do so well when they didn't fight with us." What is the context? Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels launched the offensive in northern Syria last week. The aim, Turkey said, was to push YPG fighters back from the border, and to create a "safe zone" where up to two million Syrian refugees could be resettled. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said on Wednesday that 71 civilians had been killed in Syria since the beginning of the operation. However, the health authority of the Kurdish-led administration in the region put the civilian death toll at 218 on Thursday. At least 185 SDF fighters, 164 pro-Turkish rebels and nine Turkish soldiers have also been killed in the fighting, according to the SOHR. On Wednesday, Mr Trump also said that the PKK rebel group was "probably worse at terror and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than" IS. The PKK is already designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US, and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity.

তুরস্কের প্রেসিডেন্ট রেচেপ তাইপ এরদোয়ান মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্পের লেখা একটি চিঠি 'ডাস্ট বিনে ছুঁড়ে ফেলেছিলেন' বলে বিবিসি জানতে পেরেছে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

By Dr Jonathan Nichols Science writer The US space agency boasts that it will literally "look back in time to see the very first galaxies that formed in the early Universe". As if those claims were not bold enough, scientists have now surmised that the eventual successor to the world famous and beloved Hubble Space Telescope may - thanks to its 6.5m golden mirror and exquisitely sensitive cameras - have a another extraordinary talent. The JWST, as it is called, may be able to look for signs of alien life - detecting whether atmospheres of planets orbiting nearby stars are being modified by that life. Despite this, the project to build it narrowly survived cancellation by the US Government in 2011. That was in no small part down to its (perhaps appropriately) astronomical cost - an estimated $10bn rather than its originally planned $1bn. Back on Earth, however, astronomers - including the University of Washington team who proposed "life-detection" observations using the telescope - are unerringly thrilled at the prospect of its launch. How do you detect life on distant planets? University of Washington astronomer Joshua Krissansen-Totton and his team have looked into whether the telescope could detect signs of what they call "biosignatures" in the atmospheres of planets that are orbiting a nearby star. "We could do these life-detection observations in the next few years," says Mr Krissansen-Totton. The basis for this search may lie in JWST being so sensitive to light that it could pick up so-called "atmospheric chemical disequilibrium". It may not be a catchy term, but it is an idea with a long heritage, promoted by celebrated scientists James Lovelock and Carl Sagan. The reasoning is that if all life on Earth disappeared tomorrow, the many gases which make up our atmosphere would undergo natural chemical reactions, and the atmosphere would slowly revert to a different chemical mixture. It is continually held away from this state by organisms on our planet expelling waste gases as they live. Because of this, searching for signs of oxygen (or its chemical cousin ozone) has long been thought to be a good way of finding life. But this does rest on the assumption that extraterrestrial life runs by the same biological rules as our own. It might not. Therefore, assessing atmospheric chemical disequilibrium - looking for other gases and figuring out how far out of kilter from "normal' a planet's atmosphere sits - could be key to finding alien life of any kind. The chemical make-up of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star can be measured in light by carefully measuring the minuscule dip in starlight as the planet passes between us and the star during the planet's orbit. The gases in the planet's atmosphere cause the light reduction to vary with the wavelength - or colour - of light, revealing information about how much of each chemical is present. Where is the best place to look? Mr Krissansen-Totton simulated the data that would be obtained if JWST were to look at planets orbiting a small Jupiter-sized star called TRAPPIST-1, about 39.6 light-years away from our Sun. This star caused a sensation in 2017 when it was discovered to host seven Earth-sized planets, several of which could possess liquid water, and hence might be a good bet for hosting life. The Washington researcher predicts that James Webb could measure the amounts of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the fourth planet, TRAPPIST-1e, from the dips in light at wavelengths affected by these gases. It would be a tough measurement of an unimaginably tiny signal, but Cornell University astronomer Prof Jonathan Lunine, who was not involved in this study, is excited by the prediction, saying "they make the case that this can really be done with JWST". Once the measurement is made, though, Mr Krissansen-Totton explains, "you can then ask the question: do we know of any non-biological processes" that could produce that effect?" Planetary atmospheres, including our own, he points out, can also be modified by non-biological processes, such as volcanic activity. So, if the atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1e was found to be awry, researchers would then need to rule out any non-biological effects before declaring the existence of extraterrestrial life. Mr Krissansen-Totton says that "that kind of confirmation is going to require multiple observations, to really make a totally solid case". "But if we detect something that we don't have an alternative explanation for, I think that would be an incredibly exciting discovery." Who else will be doing this? For now, the telescope's golden mirror remains securely locked in a lab in California, and astronomers must continue to wait for these possibilities to be explored. JWST will be joining a host of new facilities that will subject planets around other stars to some serious scrutiny over the next few decades. Huge ground-based telescopes in Hawaii and Chile are also planned, and the European Space Agency's UK-led Ariel mission, designed to probe the atmospheres of planets around other stars, will blast off in the late 2020s. Prof Lunine says: "I think that we're in a remarkable time for understanding our Universe and exploring the cosmos, and James Webb is going to take the next step in that. "It is going to be truly worth it." Prof Gillian Wright, principal scientist on the telescope's UK-led Mid-InfraRed instrument, agrees. "We've never had access to something this big in space before," she says. "To say a telescope will open up new windows on the Universe sounds kind-of cliched, but with James Webb it's really true." JWST is led by Nasa but is a joint venture with the European and Canadian space agencies. Dr Jonathan Nichols is a planetary scientist from the University of Leicester and a 2018 British Science Association media fellow

মার্কিন মহাকাশ সংস্থা নাসা পরিকল্পনা করছে, ২০২১ সাল নাগাদ জেমস ওয়েব স্পেস টেলিস্কোপটি মহাকাশে উৎক্ষেপণ করা হবে। যেটি পৃথিবী থেকে ১৫ লাখ কিলোমিটার দূরত্বে থেকে সূর্যকে প্রদক্ষিণ করবে। বিজ্ঞানীদের দাবি, এই দূরবীনটি মহাকাশ বিদ্যায় বৈপ্লবিক পরিবর্তন নিয়ে আসবে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

By Shabnam MahmoodBBC Asian Network, Lahore Breast cancer claims the lives of more than 17,000 women in Pakistan every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), although charities and doctors in the country claim the annual figure is closer to 40,000. They say the disease affects one in every nine women in the country, but that cultural and social taboos make it very hard for women to get the help they need to survive. "Breast cancer is associated with women's sexuality so it becomes a taboo subject in Pakistan," says Omar Aftab, from the breast cancer charity Pink Ribbon Foundation. "Rather than seeing it as a disease, it's a sexuality issue." Survivors say it's a "lonely journey". 'I put my family first' Primary school teacher Silvat Zafar was in her twenties when she discovered a lump in her breast. She decided to hide it from her family, who were all getting ready for a holiday to Disney World at the time. "In our society girls stay quiet about personal things," she says. "You just don't talk about it. I couldn't say 'breast cancer'. My mum had passed away, and being the only female in the family, I kept quiet." During the vacation Silvat hid her growing lump by wearing baggy clothes, and couldn't openly discuss the excruciating pain she was going through. By the time she got help, six months later, she had stage 3 breast cancer, which meant the tumour had grown bigger and there was a risk of the disease spreading in her body. Even at this advanced stage, her treatment was still effective. Silvat's situation is familiar to Dr Huma Majeed, one of Pakistan's leading breast surgeons. She runs a clinic at the Ittefaq Hospital in Lahore, where she treats hundreds of breast cancer patients. "Women don't put themselves first as they worry about the family," she says. Being "shy" about discussing breast cancer is just one of the issues that prevent women in Pakistan from getting help. Many women - and their husbands - are reluctant to be checked by a male surgeon, as it concerns an intimate part of their body. But she cites other reasons too. "In a patriarchal society like Pakistan, women's health is often low down on the agenda," says Dr Majeed. "Many are dependent on the male members to take them for treatment, which usually is only available in the bigger cities." There's an economic factor at play, too. If a woman needs treatment and has to travel to one of the big cities, the whole family might have to go with her - men may have to take time off work to accompany female relatives, which means the costs add up. That particularly affects women from poorer backgrounds in rural areas. Sobia, 20, is having her first post-operative check-up with Dr Majeed, following the removal of a small lump she discovered a few months ago. Last year, she lost her father to cancer, so Sobia gave up her studies and took a job as a teacher to support her younger siblings. Today, she has travelled for two-and-a-half hours to get to the appointment in Lahore. None of her extended family or friends knows that she has breast cancer, let alone that she is being treated for it. She's told everyone she is in town for some wedding shopping. "It's a sensitive subject," explains Sobia. "This is a private body part and you cannot discuss it in front of people. "For young girls especially, it's best to hide the illness as it means you won't get marriage proposals. No-one here wants to marry anyone who has breast cancer. "First you have to cope with the stress of the illness and then you get tortured about not getting any proposals." It's been over a decade since Silvat Zafar went into remission, and she now works as a school teacher in Lahore. But the illness still affects her marriage prospects. "I get many marriage proposals but once they learn I had cancer - even though it's gone - no-one accepts me," she says. October is breast cancer awareness month, and in Pakistan, charities like the Pink Ribbon Foundation are busy campaigning. They have lit up key buildings like the tourist attraction Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore and government buildings in Islamabad. The group was set up 15 years ago and has only recently broken through the taboo to talk about breast cancer openly. The charity's latest campaign focuses on young girls. They're visiting over 200 colleges across the country to teach girls about early diagnosis and the importance of self-examination. "Through younger females we can reach older women in the household. When a girl goes home, she can tell her female relatives about checking for breast cancer," says Omar Aftab. But increasingly breast cancer is affecting younger women. According to the charity and other leading cancer experts in Pakistan, there's been a continuous increase in the number of young girls being treated for breast cancer - some are teenagers. They blame poor diet, intermarriage - which increases the likelihood of inherited forms of cancer - as well as a lack of specialist care. Plans are under way for the construction of a breast cancer hospital in Lahore. The state-of-the-art medical facility, being built by the foundation, will have everything under one roof, including an all-female staff, from diagnosis to treatment. It will open in the summer of 2020. The overall message from doctors, charities and patients alike is that attitudes towards breast cancer should change. Dr Majeed says this will involve targeting men, because of Pakistan's patriarchal society. "Men need to be educated that this is not a taboo subject," she says. "It's their responsibility to encourage their wives, daughters, sisters and mothers to get checked." But change is slow. "We've seen a slight change in mindset, but the public still have to raise their voices against the taboo," says Omar Aftab. Change can't come soon enough for patients like Sobia, who are still afraid to reveal they're undergoing treatment. "Attitudes have to change," she says. "Support the victim and motivate her, don't criticise." Silvat Zafar hopes that by sharing her story, she can help other women seek help, before it's too late. "You can do something about it," she says. "Don't be scared - stand up and win." *Some names have been changed You may also be interested in:

এশিয়ার দেশগুলোর মধ্যে পাকিস্তানে স্তন ক্যান্সারের হার সর্বোচ্চ। এ রোগ নিরাময়ের প্রথম পদক্ষেপ হচ্ছে রোগ দ্রুত শনাক্ত করা, কিন্তু পাকিস্তানের রক্ষণশীল সমাজ ব্যবস্থার কারণে অনেক নারী এ নিয়ে প্রকাশ্যে আলোচনাও করতে চান না।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

By Kelly-Leigh CooperBBC News Crowds of pro-Trump supporters were able to force their way inside one of the country's most historically and politically significant buildings while elected lawmakers were inside moving to certify Joe Biden's election victory. The world watched as a mob of rioters seemed to roam free around inside - looting and vandalising symbols of US democracy as they went. President-Elect Joe Biden has been scathing of the "unacceptable" handling of the rioters and compared it to the heavy-handed militarised response to last year's Black Lives Matter protests. Lindsey Graham, a Republican Senator, also railed against the security failures. "They could have blown the building up. They could have killed us all. They could've destroyed the government," he said. How could this be allowed to happen? Criticism centres on preparation by police and their failure to anticipate possible violence, despite evidence that radical pro-Trump supporters and other groups were openly discussing their plans online. The Washington Post, citing sources close to the matter, says that Capitol Police charged with guarding the building and its grounds did not make early requests for help from the city's main police force or the National Guard nor set-up a multiagency command centre to coordinate response to any violence. And without an adequate security perimeter in place, their sparse police lines were quickly overwhelmed by thousands descending on the Capitol. Dozens of officers were injured, and one later died, in the effort to retake control - including some with armour, weapons and chemical spray agents. Did police treat Trump supporters differently? To many, the optics were a sharp contrast to last year's protests following the death of George Floyd, when rows of National Guard Troops guarded and enforced order in the capital. Even hours into Wednesday's violence, protesters were filmed being escorted or guided out of the building without arrest - even appearing to be helped down the Capitol stairs and having doors held open for them to exit. Another viral clip appeared to show a police officer posing for a selfie with a man inside. Many rioters photographed and even live-streamed their crimes. One was pictured, his face uncovered, with his feet up on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk, and then showing off a letter he appeared to have stolen from her office. A Confederate flag was paraded by another unmasked man and a well-known conspiracy theorist - wearing horns, fur and facepaint - was seen posing by a Senate chair that had been occupied by Vice President Mike Pence just hours earlier. Nick Ochs, a known member of the Proud Boys far-right group, tweeted a selfie of himself inside and later told CNN: "There were thousands of people in there - [the police] had no control of the situation. I didn't get stopped or questioned." But despite the severity and scale of the chaos, relatively few arrests had been made by nightfall Wednesday. Supporters of BLM and others on the left have voiced their outrage at the perceived double-standard of policing the events. The incoming vice-president, Kamala Harris, said the disconnect was "unacceptable". Former First Lady Michelle Obama also released a lengthy statement. "I cannot think about moving on or turning the page until we reckon with the reality of what we saw yesterday," she wrote. "True progress will be possible only once we acknowledge that this disconnect exists and take steps to repair it." Top congressional Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were damning in their criticism of security failures - helping to force the departures of top officials. The chief of the US Capitol Police, Steven Sund, had initially defended his force in a statement on Thursday - describing the actions of law enforcement as "heroic" and their plan robust. But within hours his resignation was announced, alongside the departures of the sergeant-at-arms for both the House and Senate. Aside from the clear lack of preparation, confusion mounted during the violence about when and if other security forces were being deployed to help. According to the Washington Post, Pentagon officials had placed strict operational limits on the DC National Guard ahead of protests and remained concerned about the "optics" of armed military personnel at the Capitol. Defence officials on Thursday sought to defend the speed in which they authorised and mobilised Guardsmen to respond to the violence. Multiple US media outlets, citing senior sources, have suggested that President Donald Trump allegedly showed reluctance for the National Guard to be used to quell the unrest. If true, this is a complete contrast to the highly visible show of force the president has repeatedly called for against left-wing and BLM protesters. Gordon Corera, the BBC's security correspondent, says this emphasises how security decisions appear to have become politicised under the Trump administration. Professor Clifford Stott, a specialist in the policing of crowds who advises the UK government, has been analysing the police response to BLM protests in Seattle. He told the BBC there would be "powerful and important" questions to be asked about how officials failed to prepared for the escalation by Trump supporters. "It was the failure to predict that that led them to be inadequately prepared when it did happen and led them to be reactive and have to mobilise more resources," he said. "It's not just about the complexities of the police response, it's also about what appears to be a poor level of risk assessments around how they understand whether resources might be necessary in the first place." What was known in advance of violence? The gathering of the president's supporters, while Congress was certifying the election result, was not spontaneous. The protest was pre-planned and followed months of escalating rhetoric from President Trump and some of his Republican allies seeking to undermine the result. In the days (and indeed weeks and months) before the attack, people monitoring online platforms used by extreme pro-Trump supporters and far-right groups had warned of rhetoric encouraging violence at the Capitol, including toward lawmakers, over the election result. Some were even pictured wearing clothing that said "MAGA: CIVIL WAR" printed alongside the 6 January 2021 date. Prof Stott, who researches the psychology of group violence and hooliganism, told the BBC he found the overarching mood of "joy" among rioters openly committing crimes particularly interesting. "There was a very clear purpose to that crowd and that was driven by the idea their actions were legitimate, given their perception that their president - as their commander in chief - had sanctioned them to go and do this," he says. "And that sense that Capitol Hill itself had been over taken by corruption." Some appeared confused and angry at why officers had used force against them. One Yahoo News video, viewed more than 25m times on TikTok, shows a woman visibly upset that she had been maced by police, despite declaring: "We're storming the capitol - it's a revolution!" Some radical supporters have responded with disbelief and frustration at the concession video shared by President Trump on Thursday following the violence. The U-turn came only a day after he told supporters: "We will never give up, we will never concede" and openly pressured his vice-president to overturn the election result. Will the rioters face legal action? Vice-President Mike Pence is among those who have called for those involved in the breach to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and given the brazen behaviour of many involved, prosecutors surely have no shortage of evidence to draw from. As Facebook moved to remove videos seen to incite or encourage the events, some open-source investigators called for people to archive evidence to help with crowdsourced identification. Meanwhile, many seen in viral images from inside are already known figures within far-right groups and QAnon and related conspiracy networks. Dozens of people are already facing charges - including one man officials say had a semi-automatic rifle and 11 Molotov cocktails - and police have also appealed for help identifying offenders not yet in custody. Michael Sherwin, the acting US Attorney for DC, said on Thursday that prosecutors would bring "the most maximum charges we can", when asked if crimes such as seditious conspiracy and insurrection could be tabled. He also refused to rule out investigating anyone deemed to have incited the violence, including President Trump. "We're trying to deal with the closest alligators to the boat right now," he said. "Those are the people who obviously breached the Capitol, created violence and mayhem there and then exited. But yes, we are looking at all actors here, not only the people that went into the building."

রাজধানী ওয়াশিংটনে বুধবারের নজিরবিহীন সহিংসতার পর সারা দেশ যখন বিচলিত ও স্তম্ভিত হয়ে আছে তখন গুরুতর কিছু প্রশ্ন উঠছে যে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের সরকারের একেবারে কেন্দ্রে আইন শৃঙ্খলা ও নিরাপত্তা ভঙ্গের এতো বড় ঘটনা কীভাবে ঘটলো।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Roland HughesBBC News Why? "Not presidential," he said in April 2016. Fast forward to the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. Not only has he continued using Twitter since moving into the White House, he's done so with vigour, sending 2,608 tweets in the past year - some mundane, some inflammatory. It's "modern-day presidential", Trump said (in a tweet, naturally). To get a fuller picture of this thoroughly modern-day president. we've gone through every one of those 2,608 tweets. Among our findings are that 32% of his tweets were sent between 06:00 and 09:00 (perhaps it's not a coincidence that this is the time his favourite TV show, Fox and Friends, is on air). So who has felt his wrath the most? And who has he praised most often? Trump's criticism In all, Trump has been critical 135% more than he has been complimentary - 1,238 times compared with 527 (at times he has criticised up to seven different targets in one tweet). His most regular target is, of course, the media. It took him four days into his presidency to first attack the media - praising Fox News's ratings for his inauguration, and mocking CNN at the same time. The latter network became the subject of his most shared (and second-most liked) tweet of his presidency to date. Close to 361,000 people retweeted a mocked-up video that he tweeted in July, of him wrestling a CNN logo to the ground. The clip provoked outrage. His fury with the media reached its peak on 28 May, when he sent six tweets in 12 minutes early in the morning attacking "fake news"'. The tweets were posted hours after media outlets reported that his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner tried to set up a secret backchannel with Russian officials. His biggest lull in attacking the press came in August, when two hurricanes and an escalating crisis with North Korea saw him not tweet about "fake news" for two weeks. It may come as a surprise to learn that Trump tweeted only once about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in his first seven months as president - and that it was a tweet praising him for apparently delaying a decision on whether to hit Guam with a nuclear weapon. However, he was back a month later calling Kim "a madman", then "short and fat" a month after that. Here are some of the other people he's condemned in the past 12 months: Mika Brzezinski His spat with Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's show Morning Joe, began with two tweets in quick succession: Brzezinski and her co-host and partner Joe Scarborough then said they were warned a tabloid would run a negative story on them unless they said sorry for their coverage of Trump. They called his tweets "vicious" and "frightening". Arnold Schwarzenegger Yes, the former governor of California, one-time Terminator and ex-bodybuilder had a Twitter quarrel with the president this year. Arnie, who succeeded Trump as the host of The Celebrity Apprentice, was a regular critic of the president, attacking him over his withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, and for his response to white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The president tweeted about him after he left the show. Sadiq Khan On 3 June last year, eight people were killed in an attack on two areas of the British capital. Afterwards, mayor Sadiq Khan said: "Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. No reason to be alarmed." Cue Trump. (Note, this tweet was written before the death toll rose). PM Theresa May, who had previously stopped short of criticising the US president's comments, said his reaction was "wrong". Khan criticised Trump's "ill-informed tweet" that "deliberately" took his remarks "out of context". The response? His reaction drew renewed calls for an offer by the UK government for a Trump visit to be withdrawn. It wasn't, but that visit still hasn't taken place and there isn't yet one scheduled. Snoop Dogg In March, the rapper released a video showing him spoofing a presidential assassination (the victim bore more than a passing resemblance to Trump). The president replied: Late in 2017, Snoop Dogg released a new album. Its cover featured a body in a mortuary with the name tag 'Trump' attached. Read more on Trump's first year Trump's praise It may come as a surprise to learn that President Trump has actually praised more people on Twitter than he has criticised. He's praised 214 individual people, groups or places, while he has attacked 140 targets. But many of his tweets of praise are one-off, formulaic messages congratulating officials over visits to the White House, or over meetings that Trump attended. He has fewer targets for his critical tweets - but attacks them far more often. His first tweet of praise after his inauguration was to Fox News for their "GREAT" review of his speech - and the conservative network has been one of the most regular recipients of his warm words. His own cabinet and family are rarely subjects of praise - Kushner, for example, is praised as often as the Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey team (once). It is notable, however, that Trump has started to praise Republican leaders more and more over recent months - hinting at a willingness to work more alongside his party. Here are some of the recipients of his praise over the past 12 months: His own son This tweet: ...came a few hours after an interview Don Jr gave to Fox News's Sean Hannity. In it, Don Jr sought to dismiss the relevance of emails sent before he met a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton in 2016. A special counsel is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials. The White House later released a statement from Trump praising his son as "a high-quality person". Diamond and Silk You may not have heard of them, but Diamond and Silk are two sisters and YouTube personalities from North Carolina. They are both big fans of Trump, and have praised his "non-traditional approach, untainted by Washington's one-sided politics which give power to special interest groups". Their posts were retweeted twice by the president during the year, and in November he called them "great people". Golfer Gary Player Player is not the only golfer to be praised by the president in the past year (take a bow, John Daly, Park Sung-hyun, ) but he is the only one to get a birthday greeting. Incidentally, the others Trump gave birthday wishes to on Twitter were: his wife Melania, various military outlets, the CIA, evangelist Billy Graham and country singer Lee Greenwood (at the second time of asking). Emmanuel Macron Trump welcomed the election of the new French president in May: And he really does seem to have enjoyed working with him, praising him on eight different occasions (only one world leader has been praised by the US president more on Twitter this year - China's Xi Jinping, mentioned in warm terms 12 times). Trump and Macron's friendship was sealed in Paris in July with a handshake that looked as though it would never end. Trump's frenemies Over the course of the year, a few people have been the target of Trump's praise and his rage. They include his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who went from this: to this, after controversial quotes by Bannon emerged in Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: In February, he was all smiles during his first meeting with Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau: Two months later, though, things weren't as happy: At a rate of a little more than seven tweets a day from the Commander in Chief, prepare for a second year with plenty of rage (and a bit of praise mixed in too). All data from the Trump Twitter archive - all information accurate up to the morning of 19 January

নির্বাচনে জেতার সাত মাস আগে ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প এক সমাবেশে প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়েছিলেন যে প্রেসিডেন্ট নির্বাচিত হলে তিনি আর টুইটার ব্যবহার করবেন না।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

By Geeta PandeyBBC News, Delhi Many angry citizens of the region, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, are now asking where their MP, Narendra Modi - India's prime minister - is in their hour of need. India's devastating second wave has pushed the country's total number of infections to 20 million and the death toll to more than 220,000. In Varanasi, with the health infrastructure swamped, patients can no longer find hospital beds, oxygen, or ambulances, and getting a Covid test can take up to a week. In the past 10 days, most pharmacies have run out of basic medicines like vitamins, zinc and paracetamol. "We are inundated with calls saying help us get a bed or oxygen," said a local medical professional, who did not want to be named. "With the most basic medicines in short supply, people are even taking expired drugs," he said. "They say it's a little less effective, but at least it's something." What caused the virus spread? City residents say the first signs of trouble became visible in March. As cases spiked in Delhi and Mumbai and authorities there began imposing restrictions, migrant workers began returning home to their villages in and around Varanasi on overcrowded trains, buses and trucks. Many came home for the Holi festival on 29 March or to vote in the village council elections on 18 April - held against advice from experts. Reports say more than 700 teachers on poll duty died in the state and the elections helped spread the virus. Varanasi's hospitals were soon overwhelmed and people left to fend for themselves. Rishabh Jain, a 25-year-old businessman based in the city, told the BBC that when his 55-year-old aunt fell sick he had to drive 19 miles (30km) every day to queue for up to five hours to refill an oxygen cylinder. "We panicked when her oxygen levels fell below 80," he said. "We couldn't find a hospital bed so the family started phone bashing to find an oxygen cylinder. We tried 25 numbers for 12 to 13 hours and finally with help from social media and the district administration, we managed to get a cylinder. She's recovering now." Alarmed by the situation, the Allahabad high court on 19 April ordered a week's lockdown in Varanasi and four other cities in the state, saying the pandemic had "virtually incapacitated our medical infrastructure". The state refused to enforce it and challenged the order in the Supreme Court, arguing it had to "protect both lives and livelihoods". Critics now say the government has failed to do either. With the district administration imposing intermittent weekend curfews and with most businesses and shops shut from fear, thousands are losing their livelihoods and the virus is still spreading. The question over numbers Varanasi has so far recorded 70,612 infections and 690 deaths. But 46,280 - or 65% - cases were recorded since 1 April. The official Covid death toll for the district hovers most days around 10-11. On Sunday, the government data put it at 16. But everyone I spoke to in Varanasi dismissed these numbers as a fiction. A long-time city resident, who lives close to the Harishchandra and Manikarnika ghats - the two main cremation areas on the banks of Ganges river - says funeral pyres have been burning non-stop for the past month. Earlier, the two locations between them would have 80-90 cremations a day, but for the past month, the resident said, he believed the number has risen to roughly 300-400 a day. "How do you explain this increase?" he asked. "These people are also dying of something? Most reports say they had a cardiopulmonary failure. How are so many people, including young healthy individuals, suddenly dying from a heart attack?" A recent video shared by a Varanasi resident showed corpses lined up on either side of a narrow lane leading up to the cremation ground, stretching up to a kilometre. The authorities opened two new cremation grounds about 10 days ago, but reports say they are operating around the clock. The virus spreads to villages The tragedy has not stopped at the city of Varanasi: the second wave has made deep inroads into smaller towns and remote villages in the state. Sudhir Singh Pappu, chief of Chiraigaon block, a cluster of 110 villages with a population of 230,000 on the outskirts of Varanasi, told the BBC that each village had reported five to 10 deaths in recent days. In some villages, he said, the toll was as high as 15 to 30. "There is no hospital in the block, no oxygen and no medicines," he said. "There's no space in government hospitals, private hospitals ask for a deposit of 200,000 rupees (£1,953; $2,705) to 500,000 rupees even before they look at a patient. We have nowhere to go." Kamal Kant Pandey, a resident of Aidhe village, said he thought the situation in his village was worse than in the city. "If you tested everyone in my village of 2,700 people, at least half would be positive. So many people have cough, fever, pain in the lower back, weakness, loss of taste and smell," he said. Deaths in Aidhe were not making it onto the official database because "there's no testing here", said Mr Pandey, who was himself sick with the virus but made a full recovery. "Imagine, this is the prime minister's constituency and even then we are gasping for breath," he said. 'Modi is in hiding' Mr Modi has often talked about his "special bond" with the river Ganges, the ancient city of Varanasi, and the city's people. But as the virus has ravaged the city and the medical infrastructure collapsed, Mr Modi has stayed clear of his constituency. Residents have watched as their MP made 17 trips to the key political state of West Bengal between February and April, to campaign for the assembly elections there, which he lost badly on the weekend. An angry restaurant owner described Mr Modi's review meeting to discuss the Covid crisis in Varanasi on 17 April - a day before the village council elections - as a "farce". "The prime minister and the chief minister have gone into hiding, abandoning Varanasi and its people to their own fate," the restaurant owner said. "The local BJP leaders are in hiding too. They have switched off their phones. This is the time people need them to help with a hospital bed or an oxygen cylinder but it's total anarchy here. People are so angry." The blame "lies with no-one else but the prime minister", said Congress politician Gaurav Kapoor. "The buck stops with him. The blame for every single death in the past month and a half in Varanasi - and in India - lies at his doorstep" Mr Kapoor said. Like many city residents, Mr Kapoor too has suffered personally - he lost an aunt and an uncle a fortnight back to Covid and a friend's brother is now battling for life in a hospital. When I called him for the interview on Friday, he was isolating in a room at home, infected with coronavirus. He said when the numbers first began rising, he was inundated with calls seeking help in finding a hospital bed or an ambulance. "But people have realised that it's pointless. The calls now are for oxygen cylinders," he said. The situation, by all accounts, is likely to get worse before it gets better. Varanasi is in chaos, and the picture on the outskirts and in the rural areas, where supplies are even more scarce, is worse. "Doctors there tell me they don't even have oximeters, so patients are dying in their sleep when their oxygen levels plummet," said the owner of a diagnostic centre in Varanasi. "When my wife and child were infected, I called our doctor and did everything he advised. But what about the illiterate man in the village who has no doctor on his speed dial? You know how he lives? He lives by God's mercy." Charts and data analysis by Shadab Nazmi

ভারতে এখন কোভিডের যে তাণ্ডব চলছে, তার অন্যতম প্রধান শিকার হিন্দু তীর্থস্থান বারাণসী এবং তার আশপাশের অঞ্চল।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

By Jeremy BowenBBC Middle East editor He set off a chain of events that betrayed America's ally, the Syrian Kurds, and opened a cornucopia of opportunities for Turkey, the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, its backers, Russia and Iran, and the jihadist extremists of Islamic State (IS). Eight years of war in Syria have shaped and changed the Middle East. This last week has been another turning point. Perhaps President Trump's wisdom helped him to foresee events. Or perhaps his habit of following his gut instincts is a serious mistake when it comes to the infinite complexities of the Middle East. For years it has been clear that Syria's fate would be decided by foreigners, not Syrians. Repeated interventions have sustained and escalated the war. Writing about the contest for influence and power in Syria should start with the war's victims. Every turn of the military screw means disaster and often death for civilians. Video of their suffering should be compulsory viewing for the leaders who give the orders. Those images are not hard to find online and on television. President Trump's decision to pull the US out of what he called an endless war gave Turkey the green light to send troops into Syria. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared he wanted to go after the Kurds of the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) because they are allies of his country's own Kurdish rebels. His plan is to control both sides of the border with north-eastern Syria, and to set up an occupation zone around 20 miles (32km) deep. Into that zone he wants to move a million or more Syrian refugees. When the US decided to equip and train Syrian Kurds, as well as some Arabs, to fight IS, they were aware of a potential problem, that their would-be Kurdish allies were regarded as terrorists by their Nato ally, Turkey. Washington turned a blind eye to a problem that could be kicked into the future. Now the future is here, and it has blown up. A week ago, a small number of US troops were the tangible symbol of what seemed to be a security guarantee to the Syrian Kurds, who had become vital allies in the war against the extremist jihadists of Islamic State. The Kurds fought and died on the ground while the US, the UK and others provided air power and special forces troops. When the Caliphate, the self-styled entity of IS fell, the Kurds rounded up and jailed thousands of jihadist fighters. But in not much more than the time it took President Trump to send some tweets, the Syrian Kurds were forced to recognise that they had been dumped, sparking consternation in the American military. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper denied that the Kurds had been abandoned. But with the Turks advancing, and the Americans leaving, that is not how it felt for the Syrian Kurds. Once again in their troubled history, Kurds had become the disposable allies of a foreign power. They turned to their old enemies in Damascus. On Sunday the Kurds announced a deal with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, agreeing that its troops could advance into the zone that had not been controlled by Damascus since 2012, right up to the border with Turkey. That is a big victory for the regime. The troops moved quickly out of bases they maintained in the north-east. Assad loyalists dug out regime flags. It was a disastrous day for American Middle East policy. The alliance with the Kurds, and the security guarantee safeguarding their self-governing slice of Syria, gave the Americans a stake in the war's endgame. It was also a way of pushing against the backers of the Assad regime: Russia and Iran. The departure of the Americans, and the advance of the Syrian army, are victories for them too. New opportunities seem to be opening up for the jihadist extremists of Islamic State. On the messaging app Telegram, they have declared a new campaign of violence across Syria. They lost their territory, the "caliphate", but those who stayed out of jail - or a grave - have reconstituted themselves in sleeper cells to carry out guerrilla attacks. Now with the Kurds reeling, they see a chance to free the thousands of fighters who are locked up in Kurdish jails. Some of them are notorious killers who would constitute a serious threat if they could get out to carry guns and bombs again, not just in Syria but further afield. Justifiably, western governments are getting nervous about a renewed IS threat. European governments, rattled in the way that happens when the problems of the Middle East come knocking at their doors, are calling on Turkey to stop the offensive. Some Nato members can see a nightmare scenario unfolding, with Syria, backed by Russian power, potentially facing off against Turkey, a fellow Nato member. The Russians say they are in regular contact with Turkey. But in a fluid, violent theatre of war. the chances for misperception, mistakes and escalation are always present. Perhaps what has happened in the last week simplifies the endgame of the Syrian war. Two major players, the Americans and the Kurds, look to be out of the picture. And President Assad, along with his allies from Russia and Iran, continue to solidify their victory in Syria's catastrophic war.

মাত্র এক সপ্তাহেই পাল্টে গেছে সিরিয়ার যুদ্ধের চিত্র। এই সাত দিনে প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প তার স্বঘোষিত "মহান এবং অতুলনীয় জ্ঞানের" মাধ্যমে সিরিয়ার উত্তরাঞ্চল থেকে মার্কিন সেনা প্রত্যাহারের নির্দেশ দিয়েছেন।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

Ruhollah Zam was hanged on Saturday after the supreme court upheld a death sentence against him, state television reported. Zam, who had been living in exile in France, was reportedly detained after travelling to Iraq last year. He ran Amad News, a popular anti-government website Iran accused of inciting the 2017-18 protests. The network, which had more than a million followers on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, shared videos of protests and damaging information about Iranian officials. It was removed by Telegram for breaching the company's rules on posting dangerous content, but later reopened under a different name. Zam, the son of reformist cleric Mohammad Ali Zam, was convicted of "corruption on earth" - one of the country's most serious offences - earlier this year. However, human rights organisation Amnesty International said he had been the victim of "an unfair trial that relied on forced confessions". A strident critic silenced Analysis by Siavash Ardalan, BBC Persian This is the story of a man who fell victim to his own ambitions of leading a crusade against a regime bent on eliminating its opponents. By the time he was lured to Iraq from his exile in France to meet the grand Ayatollah Sistani in the hope of securing his support, Ruhollah Zam had become a household name in Iran. Upon his arrest, the intelligence wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) posted news of its success on Amad News - the very platform on Telegram which Zam used to subvert the regime, incite disobedience and criticise opponents whom he viewed as being too soft. Being the son of a previously high-ranking cleric was not enough to save his life. Once in Iran, Zam was put on trial and made to confess on TV. A number of TV pieces detailed his network of contacts and how he fell prey to an intelligence deception operation by the IRGC. One such semi-documentary was broadcast the night before his execution. Earlier this week, the French foreign ministry described the decision to uphold Zam's death sentence as "a serious attack on freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Iran", according to Reuters news agency. He had been granted political asylum in France, having been imprisoned in Iran after the disputed 2009 presidential election. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) previously said that it had used "modern intelligence methods and innovative tactics", which enabled it to "deceive" foreign services and arrest Zam. The IRGC alleged that Zam was "under the guidance" and protection of intelligence services in France, Israel and the US.

ইরানে এক সাংবাদিকের মৃত্যুদণ্ড কার্যকর করা হয়েছে যার বিরুদ্ধে মেসেজিং অ্যাপ ব্যবহার করে অসন্তোষ সৃষ্টির উস্কানি দেয়ার অভিযোগ আনা হয়েছিল।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent They classified foods including cakes, chicken nuggets and mass-produced bread as "ultra-processed". A study of 105,000 people hinted the more of such foods people ate, the greater their risk of cancer. A lot of caution is being expressed about the study, but experts said a healthy diet is best. What counts as ultra-processed Diet is already known to affect the risk of cancer. Being overweight is the biggest preventable cause of the disease after smoking and the World Health Organization says processed meat does slightly increase the risk of cancer. But what about ultra-processed foods? The team - at Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite - used food surveys on two days to work out what people were eating. Those on the study, who were mostly middle-aged women, were followed for an average of five years. The results, in the British Medical Journal, showed that if the proportion of ultra-processed food in the diet increased by 10%, then the number of cancers detected increased by 12%. During the study: The researchers concluded: "These results suggest that the rapidly increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods may drive an increasing burden of cancer in the next decades." But they said the findings need to "be confirmed by other large-scale" studies and research was needed to establish what could be behind the link. A 'warning signal' This study is far from the definitive take on ultra-processed foods and cancer. It cannot say ultra-processed foods are a cause of cancer. There are also factors that muddy the waters as people who ate a lot of ultra-processed foods had other behaviours that have been linked to cancer. They were much more likely to smoke, were less active, consumed more calories overall and were more likely to be taking the oral contraceptive. While the researchers did adjust their analysis for this they say their impact "cannot be entirely excluded". Prof Linda Bauld, Cancer Research UK's prevention expert, said: "It's already known that eating a lot of these foods can lead to weight gain, and being overweight or obese can also increase your risk of cancer, so it's hard to disentangle the effects of diet and weight." You might also be interested in: Overall she said the study was a "warning signal to us to have a healthy diet" but people should not worry about eating a bit of processed food "here and there" as long as they were getting plenty of fruit, vegetables and fibre. Dr Ian Johnson, from the Quadram Institute in Norwich, said the study had "identified some rather weak associations". But he criticised the vagueness of the term ultra-processed. He said: "The problem is that the definition of ultra-processed foods they have used is so broad and poorly defined that it is impossible to decide exactly what, if any, causal connections have been observed." For Prof Tom Sanders at King's College London, the definition of ultra-processed foods throws up too many quirks. He said mass-produced bread would be classed as ultra-processed, but a home-made loaf or bread from a posh local bakery would not. "This classification seems arbitrary and based on the premise that food produced industrially has a different nutritional and chemical composition from that produced in the home or by artisans. This is not the case," Prof Sanders said. Even the accompanying commentary in the British Medical Journal warned against jumping to conclusions. Martin Lajous and Adriana Monge from the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, warned "we are a long way from understanding the full implications of food processing for health and well-being". They said the study was simply "an initial insight".

অতিরিক্ত মাত্রায় প্রক্রিয়াজাত করা খাবার গ্রহণে ক্যান্সারের ঝুঁকি বাড়ে বলে জানিয়েছেন ফরাসী গবেষকরা।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

The events produced one of the most iconic photos of the 20th Century - a lone protester standing in front of a line of army tanks. What led up to the events? In the 1980s, China was going through huge changes. The ruling Communist Party began to allow some private companies and foreign investment. Leader Deng Xiaoping hoped to boost the economy and raise living standards. However, the move brought with it corruption, while at the same time raising hopes for greater political openness. The Communist Party was divided between those urging more rapid change and hardliners wanting to maintain strict state control. In the mid-1980s, student-led protests started. Those taking part included people who had lived abroad and been exposed to new ideas and higher standards of living. How did the protests grow? In spring 1989, the protests grew, with demands for greater political freedom. Protesters were spurred on by the death of a leading politician, Hu Yaobang, who had overseen some of the economic and political changes. He had been pushed out of a top position in the party by political opponents two years earlier. Tens of thousands gathered on the day of Hu's funeral, in April, calling for greater freedom of speech and less censorship. In the following weeks, protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square, with numbers estimated to be up to one million at their largest. The square is one of Beijing's most famous landmarks. What was the government's response? At first, the government took no direct action against the protesters. Party officials disagreed on how to respond, some backing concessions, others wanting to take a harder line. The hardliners won the debate, and in the last two weeks of May, martial law was declared in Beijing. On 3 to 4 June, troops began to move towards Tiananmen Square, opening fire, crushing and arresting protesters to regain control of the area. Who was Tank Man? On 5 June, a man faced down a line of tanks heading away from the square. He was carrying two shopping bags and was filmed walking to block the tanks from moving past. He was pulled away by two men. It's not known what happened to him but he's become the defining image of the protests. How many people died in the protests? No-one knows for sure how many people were killed. At the end of June 1989, the Chinese government said 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel had died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to many thousands. In 2017, newly released UK documents revealed that a diplomatic cable from then British Ambassador to China, Sir Alan Donald, had said that 10,000 had died. Do people in China know what happened? Discussion of the events that took place in Tiananmen Square is highly sensitive in China. Posts relating to the massacres are regularly removed from the internet, tightly controlled by the government. So, for a younger generation who didn't live through the protests, there is little awareness about what happened.

ত্রিশ বছর আগে, ১৯৮৯ সালে বেইজিংয়ের তিয়েনআনমেন স্কোয়ারে বিশাল এক বিক্ষোভ শুরু হয়েছিল, যা দমন করে চীনের ক্ষমতাসীন কম্যুনিস্ট পার্টি।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

It is now planning a recruitment drive, with chief executive Laura Witjens saying that appealing to male pride may be an effective way to boost donations. She has suggested a new campaign featuring a cartoon superhero, echoing a successful strategy in Denmark. Ms Witjens said she hoped adopting the "superman" message would help. But it could still take five years before the national sperm bank had enough donors. She told the Guardian: "If I advertised saying 'Men, prove your worth, show me how good you are', then I would get hundreds of donors. "That's the way the Danish do it. They proudly say, this is the Viking invasion, exports from Denmark are beer, Lego and sperm. It's a source of pride." 'Lots of tests' The national sperm bank, based at Birmingham Women's Hospital, received a £77,000 grant from the Department of Health to get up and running, but it will now be funded independently of the government. It was created to help tackle the shortage of donors which often drives patients overseas or to unregistered services. It is also the first UK clinic to give people from ethnic minorities the chance to choose from a range of culturally matched donors. It will start shipping its first batches of sperm to clinics nationwide from January 2016. Ms Witjens told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while nine was a small number, it actually meant thousands of men were coming forward. "Nine donors at this stage can help 90 families, which is 90 families who otherwise would have had to go abroad," she said. Donors must have strong sperm to qualify, and Ms Witjens said many men were either put off or rejected after coming forward. Sperm donation: the rules Men must attend the clinic twice a week for three or four months and have a wide range of tests, she said. "Then the crux is having your sperm frozen and then tested, and that's where most men fail - about 80 to 90%." All children born as the result of sperm donation since 2005 will have the right to know the identity of their father when they turn 18. However, a donor is not the legal parent and is not named on the birth certificate. The screening process Concern about loss of anonymity has put many men off coming forward at a time when demand is rising, especially from same sex couples and single women. "One of the problems we have is this myth that you become the father either legally or socially," Ms Witjens said. "Children may want to know who their biological father is, but it doesn't mean to say that at the age of 18 they knock on your door and call you daddy. It's about curiosity." Donors are paid £35 per clinic visit, but Ms Witjens said financial reward was not a good way to boost recruitment. "We might get more donors if we paid £50 or £100 per donation, but money corrupts. "If you feel you can make £200 a week for four months, you might hide things about your health." Ms Witjens told the Guardian a November advert was planned, asking men to consider giving an "alternative Christmas gift". Have you ever donated sperm? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your experience. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:

পুরুষের শুক্রাণু সংগ্রহে রাখার জন্যে এক বছর আগে ব্রিটেনে যে জাতীয় ন্যাশনাল ব্যাঙ্ক প্রতিষ্ঠা করা হয়েছিলো তার জন্যে এখনও পর্যন্ত মাত্র ৯ জন দাতা হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছেন।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

By Katie HindleyBBC Panorama Andrew found himself wanting to change when he faced the prospect of losing his family. He had been abusive to his partner, Emma, injuring her a number of times. After his violence escalated, he moved out and Emma struggled to cope with their children. They were later removed from their care. Behaviour change Emma was offered courses to support her as she tried to move on from the abusive relationship and rebuild her self-esteem. However, Andrew was looking for something for himself. He wanted to stop abusing his partner and sought help. He found Phoenix Domestic Abuse Service, which offered a weekly programme to help men confront their actions and change their behaviour. Andrew remembers his first time at Phoenix, walking into a room full of "big blokes, mean looking blokes" and thinking "Oh, what have I done?" But after seven months on the course he has formed a bond with the group and says he is beginning to understand the effects of his behaviour. Every week he was challenged on his behaviour and had to confront his actions. The course uses role-play, problem-solving tasks, and challenging discussions to teach the men about the impact of their actions. "I'm not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of who I am now," he says. Emma says she recognises the transformation in Andrew. "He's different. We talk more, he listens," she says. They were separated for two years but are now together again and are working to get their children back. Lidia, who helped Andrew through the course, said it is important to intervene because "if no one does any work with that person then they are likely to go on and find another victim. "Their next relationship is likely to become abusive." Phoenix sees both sides of abusive relationships on a weekly basis, believing the abuser and the abused partner both need support - either together or apart - if they hope to break out of the violent cycle. 'Seriously bad violence' But not everyone has such positive experiences of domestic abuse courses. Sarah - not her real name - did not see any change in her partner when he was referred to a programme by her local authority. "If anything it made him angrier," she says. The abuse continued, both throughout and after the course. "[It was] seriously bad violence," she says. "Strangling you, picking you up by your hair, throwing you across rooms, smashing your head into walls." She thinks the courses are not enough to make meaningful change and abusers will only reform with years of therapy. "Their whole brain needs unpicking. It's got to be long-term mental health intervention, not a six-week course, because they are so manipulative they will pull the wool over people's eyes." She says she feels let down by the system. She has not been offered any significant support to protect her from her abusive partner, she says, adding that he knows where she lives and continues to harass her and her children. She doesn't feel the perpetrator programme held her abuser to account. It is estimated that every year more than 3,000 people in the UK attend such courses - and that number is growing each year. Cafcass, the Family Courts Support Service, made 800 referrals last year, four times as many as five years ago. The vast majority of those who attend are men. Cycle of violence Costs start at around £500, with that figure being picked up by either local authorities or individuals. Some courses target the perpetrator alone, while others run parallel courses for their partners. However, the debate rages as to which approach works best. Dr Gene Feder is conducting the first clinical trial of a perpetrator course. "If you ignore perpetrators you're really ignoring the upstream origin of the problem," he says. "If you just respond to survivors you're in some ways colluding in the repeated cycle of violence which goes on." Rachel Williams is a survivor of domestic abuse, she was with her husband for 18 years and the abuse she suffered escalated over time. When they separated he came to the salon where she worked with a sawn off shotgun and shot her in the leg at point blank range. Rachel is now an advocate for survivors and hears from lots of women seeking support. She has heard of abusers using the courses in court to claim they have changed, despite continuing to abuse and manipulate their partners and even blaming their partners for having to go on a course. She thinks people do not understand the true effect of domestic violence and how clever and manipulative abusers can be. "We need to keep monitoring them. The only people who can tell if they have changed is their new partner." Denise has been running a perpetrator course for more than 20 years. She says those who want to change should be given the opportunity to do so. "There are going to be some people out there who cannot change and will not change, for a variety of reasons. "But those that want to, those that are willing to give it a go, they need to be given the opportunity and I think for those people, yes they can change." Watch BBC Panorama's 'Can Violent Men Change' on Monday at 20:30.

যুক্তরাজ্যে প্রতিবছর লক্ষাধিক মানুষ পারিবারিক নির্যাতনের শিকার হন। এধরণের ক্ষেত্রে অধিকাংশ সময়েই মূল লক্ষ্যটা থাকে নির্যাতনের শিকার ব্যক্তির নিরাপত্তা নিশ্চিত করা - কিন্তু নির্যাতনকারীর বিষয়টা নিয়ে কতটা চিন্তা করা হয়? তাদের মানসিক সাহায্য করার বিষয়টি কি কখনো চিন্তা করা হয়? আর নির্যাতনকারীদের আচরণে কি আদৌ পরিবর্তন আসা সম্ভব?

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government, was killed inside the kingdom's consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul by a team of Saudi agents. The Saudi authorities said it was the result of a "rogue operation" and put 11 unnamed individuals on trial. A UN expert said the trial represented "the antithesis of justice". "Bottom line: the hit-men are guilty, sentenced to death. The masterminds not only walk free. They have barely been touched by the investigation and the trial," Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard wrote on Twitter. A report released by Ms Callamard concluded in June that Khashoggi's death was an "extrajudicial execution" for which the Saudi state was responsible, and that there was credible evidence warranting further investigation that high-level officials, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were individually liable. The prince denied any involvement, but in October he said he took "full responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia, especially since it was committed by individuals working for the Saudi government". A senior aide, Saud al-Qahtani, was sacked and investigated over the killing but not charged "due to insufficient evidence", the public prosecution said. Former Deputy Intelligence Chief Ahmad Asiri was put on trial but acquitted on the same grounds. The Turkish foreign ministry said the decision of the Saudi court "falls short of the expectations of Turkey and the international community for the clarification of all aspects of this murder and the serving of justice". Khashoggi's fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, called the Saudi announcement "not acceptable". The publisher of the Washington Post, for whom Khashoggi wrote columns, said: "The complete lack of transparency and the Saudi government's refusal to co-operate with independent investigators suggests that this was merely a sham trial." But Khashoggi's son Salah, who lives in Saudi Arabia, tweeted: "We affirm our confidence in the Saudi judiciary at all levels, that it has been fair to us and that justice has been achieved." The shadow cast by the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi has hung over Saudi Arabia's international reputation for more than a year now. The ruling princes, especially the all-powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will be hoping Monday's verdicts draw a line under the whole affair. That may be wishful thinking. The two most senior suspects - dubbed "the masterminds" - have walked free after a trial shrouded in secrecy. The reaction from the UK's foreign secretary has been a carefully-worded call for everyone to be held to account. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur who investigated the murder, has been rather more explicit. The trial, she said, was "the antithesis of justice", and "a mockery". And yet Saudi Arabia, with its vast oil wealth and allies in the White House, will doubtless be expecting that any outrage will soon give way to business as usual. How did Jamal Khashoggi die? The 59-year-old journalist, who went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017, was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on 2 October 2018 to obtain papers he needed to marry Ms Cengiz. After listening to purported audio recordings of conversations inside the consulate made by Turkish intelligence, Ms Callamard concluded that Khashoggi was "brutally slain" that day. Saudi Arabia's deputy public prosecutor Shalaan Shalaan told reporters in November 2018 that the murder was ordered by the head of a "negotiations team" sent to Istanbul by the Saudi deputy intelligence chief to bring Khashoggi back to the kingdom "by means of persuasion" or, if that failed, "by force". Investigators concluded that Khashoggi was forcibly restrained after a struggle and injected with a large amount of a drug, resulting in an overdose that led to his death, Mr Shalaan said. His body was then dismembered and handed over to a local "collaborator" outside the consulate, he added. The remains were not found. At a news conference in Riyadh on Monday, Mr Shaalan said the public prosecution's investigations had shown that "there was no premeditation to kill at the beginning of the mission". "The investigation showed that the killing was not premeditated... The killing was in the spur of the moment, when the head of the negotiating team inspected the premises of the consulate and realised that it was impossible to move the victim to a safe place to resume negotiations. "The head of the negotiating team and the perpetrators then discussed and agreed to kill the victim inside the consulate," he added. Ms Callamard dismissed as "utterly ridiculous" the assertion that the killing was not premeditated, noting that in one of the purported audio recordings from the consulate two Saudi officials were heard discussing how to cut up and transport Khashoggi's body before he entered the consulate. "I do not believe for one moment that the dismemberment of a body can be done in the spur of a moment," she told the BBC. "I do not believe for one second that the presence of a forensic doctor was an accident. And I certainly do not believe for a moment that the same doctor speaking of dismemberment, two hours before the killing and dismemberment actually happened, was accidental." Who was put on trial? A statement by the Saudi public prosecution said a total of 31 individuals were investigated over the killing and that 21 of them were arrested. Eleven were eventually referred to trial at the Riyadh Criminal Court and the public prosecutor sought the death penalty for five of them. Human Rights Watch said the trial, which took place behind closed doors, did not meet international standards and that the Saudi authorities had "obstructed meaningful accountability". On Monday, the Riyadh Criminal Court sentenced five individuals to death for "committing and directly participating in the murder of the victim", according to the public prosecution's statement. Three others were handed prison sentences totalling 24 years for "covering up this crime and violating the law", while the remaining three were found not guilty. The public prosecution said it would decide whether to review the court's rulings and decide whether to appeal. The death sentences must be upheld by the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Ms Callamard said in June that the five people facing the death penalty were Fahad Shabib Albalawi; Turki Muserref Alshehri; Waleed Abdullah Alshehri; Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, an intelligence officer who the US said worked for Mr Qahtani; and Dr Salah Mohammed Tubaigy, a forensic doctor with the interior ministry. The other six defendants were Mr Asiri, Mansour Othman Abahussain; Mohammed Saad Alzahrani; Mustafa Mohammed Almadani; Saif Saad Alqahtani; Muflih Shaya Almuslih, reportedly a member of the consulate staff. According to interviews conducted by Ms Callamard, the defendants' lawyers argued in court that they were state employees and could not object to the orders of their superiors, and that Mr Asiri insisted that he never authorised the use of force to bring Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia.

গত বছর সাংবাদিক জামাল খাসোগজিকে হত্যার ঘটনায় সৌদি আরবের একটি আদালত পাঁচজনকে মৃত্যুদণ্ড দিয়েছে। সৌদি আরবের একজন সরকারি কৌঁসুলি একথা জানিয়েছেন।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

The 9.0-magnitude quake was so forceful it shifted the Earth off its axis. It triggered a tsunami which swept over the main island of Honshu, killing more than 18,000 people and wiping entire towns off the map. At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the gigantic wave surged over defences and flooded the reactors, sparking a major disaster. Authorities set up an exclusion zone which grew larger and larger as radiation leaked from the plant, forcing more than 150,000 people to evacuate from the area. A decade later, that zone remains in place and many residents have not returned. Authorities believe it will take up to 40 years to finish the work, which has already cost Japan trillions of yen. Where is the plant? The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is in the town of Okuma, in Fukushima Prefecture. It sits on the country's east coast, about 220km (137 miles) north-east of the capital Tokyo. On 11 March 2011 at 14:46 local time (05:46 GMT) the earthquake - known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, or the 2011 Tohoku earthquake - struck east of the city of Sendai, 97km north of the plant. Residents had just 10 minutes warning before the tsunami hit the coast. Overall almost half-a-million people were forced to leave their homes as a result of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. What happened at Fukushima? Systems at the nuclear plant detected the earthquake and automatically shut down the nuclear reactors. Emergency diesel generators turned on to keep coolant pumping around the cores, which remain incredibly hot even after reactions stop. But soon after a wave over 14 metres (46ft) high hit Fukushima. The water overwhelmed the defensive sea wall, flooding the plant and knocking out the emergency generators. Workers rushed to restore power, but in the days that followed the nuclear fuel in three of the reactors overheated and partly melted the cores - something known as a nuclear meltdown. The plant also suffered a number of chemical explosions which badly damaged the buildings. Radioactive material began leaking into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean, prompting the evacuations and an ever-widening exclusion zone. How many people were hurt? There were no deaths immediately during the nuclear disaster. At least 16 workers were injured in the explosions, while dozens more were exposed to radiation as they worked to cool the reactors and stabilise the plant. Three people were reportedly taken to hospital after high-level exposure. Long-term effects of the radiation are a matter of debate. The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report in 2013 that said the disaster will not cause any observable increase in cancer rates in the region. Scientists both inside and outside Japan believe that aside from the region immediately around the plant, the risks of radiation remain relatively low. On 9 March 2021, ahead of the 10-year anniversary, a UN report said there had been "no adverse health effects" documented among Fukushima residents directly related to the radiation from the disaster. Any future radiation-related health effects were "unlikely to be discernible", it said. But many believe the dangers are far greater, and residents remain wary. Though officials have lifted restrictions in many areas most people have not returned to their homes. In 2018, the Japanese government announced that one worker had died after exposure to radiation and agreed his family should be compensated. A number of people are however confirmed to have died in the evacuation, including dozens of hospital patients who had to be moved due to fears of radiation. The Fukushima Disaster is classified as a level seven event by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the highest such event and only the second disaster to meet this classification after Chernobyl. Who was at fault? Critics blamed the lack of preparedness for the event, as well as a muddled response from both the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) and the government. An independent investigation set up by Japan's parliament concluded that Fukushima was "a profoundly man-made disaster", blaming the energy company for failing to meet safety requirements or to plan for such an event. However, in 2019 a Japanese court cleared three former Tepco executives of negligence in what was the only criminal case to come out of the disaster. In 2012, Japan's then prime minister Yoshihiko Noda said the state shared the blame for the disaster. A court ruled in 2017 that the government bore partial responsibility and should pay compensation to evacuees. How is the clean up going? Ten years later, several towns in north-eastern Japan remain off limits. Authorities are working to clean up the area so residents can return. Major challenges remain. Tens of thousands of workers will be needed over the next 30 to 40 years to safely remove nuclear waste, fuel rods and more than one million tons of radioactive water still kept at the site. But some residents have decided never to return because they fear radiation, have built new lives elsewhere or don't want to go back to where the disaster hit. Media reports in 2020 said the government could start to release the water - filtered to reduce radioactivity - into the Pacific Ocean as early as next year. Some scientists believe the huge ocean would dilute the water and that it would pose a low risk to human and animal health. Environmental group Greenpeace however said that the water contains materials that could potentially damage human DNA. Officials have said no final decision has been taken about what to do with the liquid.

দশ বছর আগে মার্চের এক শুক্রবার সকালে শক্তিশালী এক ভূমিকম্প আঘাত হেনেছিলো জাপানের পূর্ব উপকূলে যাতে তছনছ হয়ে যায় ফুকুশিমার পারমাণবিক বিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

The woman and the couple's five-month-old daughter have been in prison for the past fortnight. She was arrested after the teenager's mother lodged a police complaint. She has been charged under the stringent child sex abuse act. The woman says their relationship is consensual, and also contests the claim that her husband is underage. Although the age of consent for sex in India for all genders is 18, the legal age for marriage is 18 years for women and 21 years for men. So in this case, police have also charged the woman under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act. The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi says it's a rare case where a woman has been arrested for marrying an underage man. There are many instances where young men in consensual relationships have been arrested after complaints from the parents of girls who are less than 18 years of age. The teenager's mother registered a complaint with the police in December last year accusing the woman and her family of kidnapping her son and forcing him into marriage, a Mumbai police official told BBC Hindi. He said they carried out the arrest after a thorough inquiry and taking legal advice because the accused was a woman. In the complaint, the mother also said that her son had been in contact with the woman for two years and that she had threatened to kill herself if he stopped meeting her. The woman has filed a bail petition where she has claimed that her husband is over 18 and that their relationship is consensual, according to Indian media reports. She says that he has two sisters aged 20 and 18 so it's not possible for him to be 17 years and eight months old.

ভারতের মুম্বাই শহরে পুলিশ ১৭ বছর বয়সী একটি ছেলেকে বিয়ে করার অভিযোগে একজন নারীকে গ্রেফতার করেছে।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent@bbclysedouceton Twitter Some of the toughest questions on that exam are in the Middle East. Joe Biden's team is dominated by old hands from the Obama administration returning to a region with new orders to revisit old issues. Their biggest challenges involve policies they personally helped to shape - in places in far worse shape now. But some see openings and opportunities in that. "They've learned from what went wrong with the Obama administration's approach to the Middle East," observes Kim Ghattas, a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of the book, Black Wave, on Saudi-Iranian rivalry in the region. "They may take things in a different direction because they've learned from the mistakes, and because the region today is a very different place." In the top tray of the new administration's foreign files is policy towards Iran. The landmark 2015 nuclear deal by world powers is now dangling by a thread after Donald Trump discarded it and despatched waves of crushing sanctions. There is also the devastating war in Yemen, which Mr Obama initially supported, partly to assuage Saudi anger over the accord with its arch-enemy Iran. President Trump's term kicked off with the unorthodox choice of Riyadh as his first foreign stop in May 2017, where he signed a $110bn (£80bn) arms deal - the biggest in US history. It set in motion a Middle East policy anchored in unswerving loyalty to the kingdom and "maximum pressure" on Iran. That paved the way for a new axis of emboldened Arab states in the Gulf and Israel. "Active diplomacy by some of the old hands that served under Obama may be just what the region needs," says Hassan Hassan, editor of Newlines magazine, a new publication focusing on the region. "Arab states believed they could redraw the political map of the region in the absence of American leadership. But, after half a decade of trying, they recently recognised their limits in places like Libya, Yemen, Iran, and even against a tiny neighbour like Qatar." An emphasis on re-engaging with old traditional allies is already at the top of the new team's talking points. "It's vitally important that we engage on the take-off, not the landing, with our allies and partners in the region, to include Israel and the Gulf countries," pledged Antony Blinken, the nominee for secretary of state, during a Senate confirmation hearing which lasted more than four hours and often focused on Iran. Mr Blinken, a long-time senior aide to both Mr Biden and Mr Obama, emphasised that a new agreement could address Iran's "destabilising activities" in the region as well as its development of ballistic missile - two additional concerns also shared by many Western capitals. However, the Biden team will not want to ditch the 2015 agreement regarded as a rare success story of multilateral diplomacy. "If you look at the Biden appointees for foreign policy, nuclear disarmament and treasury positions, so many had a direct hand in the nuclear talks or the implementation of the deal," notes Ellie Geranmayeh, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "The Biden camp and Iranian leaders seem to be overlapping on one thing - the need to bring all sides back into full compliance with the nuclear deal - and they'll need to move swiftly to discuss how to sequence this," she emphasises. The appointment a US special envoy is on the cards. Ever since Washington pulled out, Tehran has been inching away from its commitments regarding limits on its nuclear programme. Its recent announcement that it had resumed enriching uranium to 20% purity - far beyond limits set out in an accord meant to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons - ratcheted up tensions with the US as well as European powers. Iranian leaders have repeatedly underscored that they will return to their obligations under the deal once the US does the same. But the vagaries of the last four years have also hardened suspicion at home of engaging with the West. The new US administration will also face a reckoning at home too. A newly elected US Congress, with many foreign policy veterans, is already signalling that it wants a greater say. In the Middle East that will mean everything from any deals with Iran; an end to US military support enabling the Saudi war in Yemen; Israeli-Arab peacemaking; to concerns over Saudi Arabia's human rights policy, including the detention of dissidents and the stubborn stain of the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr Biden's Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, was asked in her confirmation hearing if she would end the "lawlessness" of the Trump administration and submit to Congress an unclassified report on Khashoggi's murder by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. She replied: "Yes, senator, absolutely. We will follow the law." Media reports, based on intelligence sources, have said the CIA established a "medium to high degree of confidence" that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman must have ordered the killing. He has repeatedly denied this. "The Americans will have to give him the benefit of the doubt, because there is no smoking gun," insists Ali Shihabi, a Saudi author and analyst. "Whether it's the CIA or the state department, or the Pentagon, the reality is a fundamental understanding that Saudi Arabia is absolutely crucial for them to be able to do anything in the region." There are many shared priorities, including ending the disastrous war in Yemen. But like most files in this region, there are no easy options. "It isn't as simple as ending military support for Saudi Arabia," cautions Peter Salisbury, the senior Yemen analyst with the International Crisis Group. "If the US wants peace there, it is going to have to become much more active as a diplomatic player." Diplomacy will involve many awkward exchanges, especially for an administration which has already put human rights on their agenda. That will mean difficult conversations everywhere from Riyadh to Tehran and Cairo and beyond. Many will watch - with anxiety or anticipation - to see if talk translates into action. But for all the new approaches, they will also build on the old. There is praise for the Trump team's Abraham Accords, the agreements that established full diplomatic relations between several Arab states and Israel. But Mr Blinken has indicated they would "take a hard look" at some of the commitments they entail. They range from arms deals with the United Arab Emirates to US recognition of Morocco's claim of sovereignty over the disputed region of Western Sahara. Unfinished business and unending crises in Iraq and Syria and Israel-Palestinian peacemaking; new challenges in Lebanon; and the enduring threat of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group - the list is long for an administration which has its own fires at home. "I think there is definitely a moment of opportunity," says Kim Ghattas. "It's going to be very difficult. But there is a moment of opportunity to rethink America's role in the world and to rethink the Middle East."

"বন্ধুগণ, এখন সময় পরীক্ষার" - বুধবার অভিষেক উপলক্ষে দেয়া ভাষণে তার সামনে প্রধান চ্যালেঞ্জগুলো একেক করে বলতে গিয়ে এই সাবধান-বাণী শোনান আমেরিকার নতুন প্রেসিডেন্ট জো বাইডেন।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Imran Rahman-JonesNewsbeat reporter Lucy Beal Lott is 20 and lives with a rare condition called epidermolysis bullosa (EB). It means her skin can tear and blister at even the slightest touch, and Lucy often has to bandage up painful wounds. Young people with EB are sometimes called "butterfly children" because their skin is fragile, like a butterfly's wing. "The question I get asked quite a bit online is: 'Does it hurt?' And I'm like, 'I mean, yeah. Open wounds can be quite painful'," she says. "Right now, I also have a large open wound on my ankle, and I can really feel that." It can also affect Lucy internally - for example, she had to have multiple throat surgeries during her teen years to treat scar tissue. People with the condition can also die early. EB is genetic, which means Lucy inherited it and it can't be caught. There is no known cure. It is estimated that more than 5,000 people are living with EB in the UK, and 500,000 worldwide. Lucy, who is originally from Austin, Texas, is currently studying at St Andrews University in Scotland. She says her EB was first diagnosed when she was born without skin in some places on her body. "They knew that something was really wrong whenever a nurse removed a monitor from my skin, and it took the entire patch of skin away with it," she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. 'It's like my shadow' "EB grew up with me like my shadow," says Lucy. "I learned the name of my condition and the word 'terminal' around the same time I learned my own name." But far from allowing her condition to define her life in a negative way, Lucy has taken the opposite approach. She's become a positive voice for fellow sufferers and has helped raised awareness, appearing in magazines, giving a Ted talk and has just finished her first novel - all while she's still been studying. She attributes her drive to the fact that her condition led to her missing school as a child. "I loved school. I was that weird kid. I'd get so upset that I had to miss out on learning," she says. "I saw that the only thing EB couldn't limit for me was my ability to learn." Lucy also posts pictures of herself on Instagram, which she says is a great way to connect with other people living with a wide range of skin conditions. "It's hard enough being a teenager but being one that looks different is very, very hard," she says. "So if a teenager can see someone who looks like them in the media, it can really help." Now, she gets messages from people around the world who have visible skin conditions like hers. "I wake up every day with people telling me: 'Thank you', which makes my heart so full." 'They are an amazing group of people' Lucy's attitude isn't unique among the EB community, according to Caroline Collins, who's the director of research at EB charity Debra. "They are some of the most positive and forward-looking young people I have ever met," she says. "When I look at how many of them are going through school, going to university, having careers and living the best life that they possibly can in the face of adversity, I'm astonished to be honest. They are an amazing group of people." But the fact of EB is that it shortens people's lives. There are three main types. The form of the condition that Lucy lives with is recessive dystrophic EB, where the symptoms range from mild to severe. The more extreme form of the condition - called junctional EB - is the rarest. Caroline is leading a meeting, which Lucy will also attend, with other EB specialists from around the world in London next week - it's the biggest of its kind. "We've come a long way in the last few years," says Caroline, "but more research needs to be done. Since it's a genetic condition, you may end up having some sort of genetic treatment - and those treatments are in their infancy. "For certain types of EB, it can be fatal within weeks or months," she adds. "Other young people may go on and live through their teens and 20s, into their 30s or 40s." But for Lucy right now, it's all about focusing on the future. She's got what seems like an endless list of goals: "I hope to do much more for awareness this year. I have a lot of internships to apply for and I hope to get my masters soon as well. "If it were up to me, I would just go to school forever." Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.

''অনেকেই আমাকে জিজ্ঞেস করেন যে, কখনো আমার মনে হয় কিনা আমি বাড়তি পাওয়া জীবন কাটাচ্ছি...আমি অবশ্যই সেটা মনে করি না-কারণ এটা আমার নিজের জীবন। আর আমি সেটা সাধ্যমত ভালোভাবে ব্যবহার করে যেতে চাই।''

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

A Brussels court ordered the ex-monarch, 84, to provide a saliva sample in three months or risk being presumed to be the father of Delphine Boël, 50. The ex-king denies the paternity claim and is said to be seeking legal advice on a possible appeal. Ms Boël's lawyers have welcomed the DNA request. The former monarch announced his abdication in 2013, citing ill health. He stepped down on 21 July, Belgium's national day. He was sworn in as the sixth king of the Belgians on 9 August 1993. His accession followed the death of his brother, King Baudouin, at the age of 62. Ms Boël's mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, says she had an affair with the king spanning two decades. The allegations emerged over a decade ago that he was the father of Ms Boël, causing a royal scandal. There is some speculation in the media that this may have influenced his decision to abdicate. Belgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role. One of the duties the monarch does have is trying to resolve constitutional crises.

পিতৃত্বের দাবি নিয়ে জটিলতার প্রেক্ষাপটে বেলজিয়ামের সাবেক রাজা দ্বিতীয় আলবার্ট তার ডিএনএ নমুনা জমা দিয়েছেন।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Peter MwaiBBC Reality Check Here are some of the stories that have been widely shared recently. 1. The 'plot' to stop Africa developing its own cures We start with a baseless conspiracy revolving around Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina, and the unproven herbal tonic, Covid-Organics, which he's promoting to treat coronavirus. Social media posts have been circulating that claim he's being offered large amounts of money by the World Health Organization (WHO) to secretly poison the drink. The baseless theory suggests that the WHO wants to prove that African countries can't be self-reliant and find their own cure for Covid-19. It appears to have first appeared in a French-language post on a Facebook account that was operating from Angola and DR Congo on 23 April. The claims were later published by two newspapers in Tanzania on 14 May. One of these reports alleges President Rajoelina had admitted - during an interview with France24 - that he'd been offered money. The story has been picked up and widely shared on social media across Africa. Mr Rajoelina was indeed interviewed by France24 on 11 May, but at no point does he say he'd been offered any money by the WHO. The WHO has told the BBC the story is fake, and the Madagascar government has dismissed the allegations. "Since the launch of the Covid-Organics remedy, many words have been falsely attributed to President Andry Rajoelina", government spokesperson Lova Ranoramoro has said. The herbal drink Covid-Organics continues to be produced in Madagascar and has been exported for use in other African countries, but there's no evidence it works against the virus. The WHO says it welcomes innovations based on traditional remedies but has also warned against untested treatments. 2. Tanzania's health minister didn't test positive An online article claiming Tanzania's Health Minister, Ummy Mwalimu, had tested positive for coronavirus, was shared on Twitter by, among others, a prominent journalist. But this story is not true. The basis of the story was a screenshot of a tweet, which the author claimed was posted by the minister. The translation for the Swahili-language tweet reads: "It is unfortunate that I have tested positive for coronavirus. But I'll continue to serve my nation remotely as if I was on the frontline until things get better". But the tweet doesn't appear in the minister's Twitter feed. The minister and the ministry of health have both dismissed the report as fake. 3. South Sudan's bogus badges against the virus South Sudan President Salva Kiir and other senior officials have used so-called "protective" badges that claim to repel viruses, but which don't work. Photos posted on Facebook by the president's press unit show him and other officials wearing what look very similar to two kinds of badges that can be bought online - called "Air Doctor" and "Virus Shut Out ". But there's no evidence that these can ward off viruses and bacteria. When contacted by the BBC, a South Sudan government spokesperson said they'd been supplied to them by someone who said they were working on behalf of the Japanese government. But they added they'd stopped wearing them "as they are not approved by the WHO". The Japanese Embassy in South Sudan has denied any link to them. Similar devices are being sold around the world and have been spotted being used by members of the Russian parliament. The substance released by such cards or badges - the bleaching agent chlorine dioxide - is potentially harmful, and the subject of a warning from the US drug regulator, the FDA. 4. President Magufuli didn't ban wearing masks in public Misleading messages have been spreading on social media claiming that Tanzania's President John Magufuli has banned the wearing of masks in public. These posts claim the president had said wearing masks would spread fear, and send the wrong message to foreign visitors once international travel and tourism resume. They use a screenshot of a tweet purportedly posted by the president, but it is fake. There is also a fabricated press statement circulating, which is dated and signed from his hometown, Chato, However, when we checked, we found that President Magufuli was in the city of Dodoma at that time. The president's spokesperson has called on people to disregard the claim. The Tanzanian government encourages citizens to wear masks in public, and to practice social distancing. However, the authorities are not releasing regular data on the coronavirus outbreak, and there are concerns that the president is downplaying the impact of the virus. Read more from Reality Check Send us your questions Follow us on Twitter

আফ্রিকা জুড়ে বিভিন্ন দেশে যখন করোনাভাইরাস ছড়িয়ে পড়ছে, তখন এসব দেশে অনলাইনে এবং সোশ্যাল মিডিয়ায় এই ভাইরাস সম্পর্কে নানা বিভ্রান্তিকর তথ্য ছড়ানো হচ্ছে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

By Sameer HashmiBBC News, Kashmir The BBC heard from several villagers who said they were beaten with sticks and cables, and given electric shocks. Residents in several villages showed me injuries. But the BBC was not able to verify the allegations with officials. The Indian army has called them "baseless and unsubstantiated". Unprecedented restrictions have put Kashmir into a state of lockdown for more than three weeks and information has only trickled out since 5 August when Article 370 - as the provision giving the region special status is known - was revoked. Tens of thousands of extra troops have been deployed to the region and about 3,000 people - including political leaders, businesspeople and activists - are reported to have been detained. Many have been moved to prisons outside the state. The authorities say these actions are pre-emptive and designed to maintain law and order in the region, which was India's only Muslim-majority state but is now being divided into two federally-run territories. The Indian army has been fighting a separatist insurgency here for over three decades. India blames Pakistan for fomenting violence in the region by supporting militants - a charge that its neighbour, which controls its own part of Kashmir, denies. Many people across India have welcomed the revocation of Article 370 and have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking the "bold" decision. The move has also been widely supported by mainstream media. Warning: Content below might cause distress to some readers I visited at least half a dozen villages in the southern districts which have emerged as a hub of anti-India militancy in the past few years. I heard similar accounts from several people in all these villages of night raids, beatings and torture. Doctors and health officials are unwilling to speak to journalists about any patients regardless of ailments, but the villagers showed me injuries alleged to have been inflicted by security forces. In one village, residents said that the army went from house to house just hours after India announced the controversial decision that upended a decades-old arrangement between Delhi and Kashmir. Two brothers alleged that they were woken up and taken to an outside area where nearly a dozen other men from the village had been gathered. Like everyone else we met, they were too afraid of reprisals to reveal their identities. "They beat us up. We were asking them: 'What have we done? You can ask the villagers if we are lying, if we have done anything wrong?' But they didn't want to hear anything, they didn't say anything, they just kept beating us," one of them said. "They beat every part of my body. They kicked us, beat us with sticks, gave us electric shocks, beat us with cables. They hit us on the back of the legs. When we fainted they gave us electric shocks to bring us back. When they hit us with sticks and we screamed, they sealed our mouth with mud. "We told them we are innocent. We asked why they were doing this? But they did not listen to us. I told them don't beat us, just shoot us. I was asking God to take me, because the torture was unbearable." Another villager, a young man, said the security forces kept asking him to "name the stone-throwers" - referring to the mostly young men and teenage boys who have in the past decade become the face of civilian protests in Kashmir Valley. He said he told the soldiers he didn't know any, so they ordered him to remove his glasses, clothes and shoes. "Once I took off my clothes they beat me mercilessly with rods and sticks, for almost two hours. Whenever I fell unconscious, they gave me shocks to revive [me]. "If they do it to me again, I am willing to do anything, I will pick up the gun. I can't bear this every day," he said. The young man added that the soldiers told him to warn everyone in his village that if anyone participated in any protests against the forces, they would face similar repercussions. All the men we spoke to in all the villages believe the security forces did this to intimidate the villagers so that they would be too scared to protest. In a statement to the BBC, the Indian army said it had "not manhandled any civilians as alleged". "No specific allegations of this nature have been brought to our notice. These allegations are likely to have been motivated by inimical elements," army spokesperson Col Aman Anand said. Measures had been taken to protect civilians but "there have been no injuries or casualties due to countermeasures undertaken by the army", he added. We drove through several villages where many residents were sympathetic towards separatist militant groups, whom they described as "freedom fighters". It was in one district in this part of Kashmir in February that a suicide attack killed more than 40 Indian soldiers and brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. This is also the same region where popular Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani was killed in 2016, after which many young and angry Kashmiris joined the insurgency against India. There's an army camp in the region and the soldiers regularly comb the area to track down militants and sympathisers, but villagers say they often get caught in the middle. In one village, I met a man in his early 20s who said the army threatened to frame him if he didn't become an informant against militants. When he refused, he alleged, he was beaten so badly that two weeks later he still cannot lie on his back. "If this continues I'll have no choice but to leave my house. They beat us as if we are animals. They don't consider us human." Another man who showed us his injuries said he was pushed to the ground and severely beaten with "cables, guns, sticks and probably iron rods" by "15-16 soldiers". "I was semi-conscious. They pulled my beard so hard that I felt like my teeth would fall out." He said he was later told by a boy who had witnessed the assault that one soldier tried to burn his beard, but was stopped by another soldier. In yet another village, I met a young man who said his brother had joined the Hizbul Mujahideen - one of the largest groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir- two years ago. He said he was recently questioned at an army camp, where he alleged he was tortured and left with a leg fracture. "They tied my hands and legs and hung me upside down. They beat me very badly for more than two hours," he said. But the army denies any wrongdoing. In their statement to the BBC they said they were "a professional organisation that understands and respects human rights" and that all allegations "are investigated expeditiously". It added that 20 of a total 37 cases raised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in the past five years were found to be "baseless", 15 were being investigated and "in only three cases allegations were found to be probe-worthy". Those found guilty, the statement added, are punished. However, earlier this year, a report released by two prominent Kashmiri human rights organisations documented hundreds of alleged cases of human rights violations in Kashmir over the past three decades. The UN Commission on Human Rights has also called for setting up a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to conduct a comprehensive independent international investigation into allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir. It has released a 49-page report on alleged excesses by security forces in the region. India has rejected the allegations and the report. What is happening in Kashmir? Read more on Kashmir:

ভারতের সংবিধান থেকে কাশ্মীরের বিশেষ মর্যাদার ব্যবস্থা বাতিল করার পর ভারত শাসিত কাশ্মীরের নিরাপত্তা রক্ষাকারী বাহিনীর বিরুদ্ধে স্থানীয়দের মারধর এবং নির্যাতনের অভিযোগ ওঠে অনেকদিন আগে থেকেই।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Alex TherrienHealth reporter, BBC News Women who received palbociclib and hormone therapy lived up to 10 months longer than those given hormone treatment alone. It also delayed the time at which women needed to begin chemotherapy, which often has debilitating side-effects. Experts say the preliminary results of the trial are very encouraging. But they point out that the treatment is not a cure and will not work for everyone. The placebo-controlled clinical trial tested the benefit of adding palbociclib to the hormone therapy fulvestrant in a trial of 521 women with advanced, oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer whose tumours did not have the HER2 gene. Oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancers are the most common form of breast cancer, accounting for about 70% of cases. The study, led by researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, examined what effect palbociclib had on women's overall survival and whether it could delay the need for chemotherapy. The analysis found that in women whose tumours had previously responded well to hormone therapy (410 of the 521 women), the treatment extended survival by 10 months to an average of 39.7 months, compared with 29.7 months in the women who received fulvestrant and a dummy pill (placebo). However, the treatment did not extend survival in those who had previously not responded well to hormone therapy. Three years after they were enrolled in the study, 49.6% of women who received both palbociclib and fulvestrant were still alive, compared with 40.8% of women who were treated with fulvestrant alone. The group of women given the combination treatment also had a nine-month longer delay until the start of chemotherapy. 'More precious time' Prof Nicholas Turner, who led the study, said: "The development of palbociclib is one of the biggest advances in treatment for women with advanced breast cancer in the last two decades. "This drug can offer women more precious time with their loved ones, and because it is a targeted treatment it is much kinder than chemotherapy, and enables many women to carry on with their lives normally." Palbociclib was approved for use in England by NICE in November 2017, but currently is only available for women with oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer who were diagnosed after the disease had begun to spread. The authors of this new study want it to also be made available to women whose breast cancer has previously been treated with hormone therapy. Prof Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said the results were "very encouraging". "Although the treatment gave some people with breast cancer precious extra months, it's not a cure, and won't work for everyone. "So we need to understand more about breast cancer's weak spots and exploit them to develop even more effective treatments in the future." Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, said the results were "exciting" but more research was needed. Lady Morgan said it was important for NICE to reform its method of appraising combination therapies so that breast cancer patients could benefit from the palbociclib and fulvestrant treatment. The study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and was presented at the European Society of Medical Oncology congress in Munich, Germany. Follow Alex on Twitter.

হরমোন থেরাপির সাথে নতুন ধরনের ঔষধের সংমিশ্রণে চিকিৎসা পদ্ধতিতে প্রাথমিক পর্যায়ে স্তন ক্যান্সারে আক্রান্ত কোনো কোনো নারীর ক্ষেত্রে আরো বেশিদিন বেঁচে থাকা সম্ভব, পরীক্ষামূলক ভাবে এমনটাই দেখা গেছে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Pearson said students would only be able to rent physical textbooks from now on, and they would be updated much less frequently. The British firm hopes the move will make more students buy its e-textbooks which are updated continually. "We are now over the digital tipping point," boss John Fallon told the BBC. "Over half our annual revenues come from digital sales, so we've decided a little bit like in other industries like newspapers or music or in broadcast that it is time to flick the switch in how we primarily make and create our products." The firm currently makes 20% of its revenues from US courseware, but has been struggling as students increasingly opt to rent second-hand print textbooks to save money. To counter this Mr Fallon said Pearson would stop revising print books every three years, a model that has dominated the industry for 40 years. It means that next year the firm will only update 100 of its 1,500 titles in print - down from 500 in 2019. "There will still be [print] textbooks in use for many years to come but I think they will become a progressively smaller part of the learning experience," Mr Fallon said. "We learn by engaging and sharing with others, and a digital environment enables you to do that in a much more effective way." Digital textbooks can be updated responsively and also incorporate videos and assessments that provide students with feedback. However, many of Pearson's digital products are sold on a subscription basis, raising fears that authors will lose out in the way musicians have to music streaming services. Mr Fallon denied this, saying the firm's plans would provide authors with "a more sustainable income over time". He added: "For the Netflix and Spotify generation, they expect to rent not own." Pearson has been going through a painful turnaround after years of falling sales and profits, but appeared to have turned a corner in 2018. Its underlying sales rose 2% in the first quarter of 2019, although the firm admitted revenue in its US business could fall by as much as 5% this year. Mr Fallon said its plans for textbooks would begin in the US, but in time be extended to other markets including the UK.

বিশ্বে পাঠ্যপুস্তকের সবচেয়ে বড় প্রকাশক পিয়ার্সন সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছে, তারা পাঠ্যপুস্তক ছাপানো ধাপে ধাপে বন্ধ করে দেবে। তাদের সব শিক্ষা বিষয়ক জিনিসপত্র এখন থেকে প্রথম কেবল ডিজিটাল ফর্ম্যাটেই পাওয়া যাবে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

By Sean CoughlanBBC News family and education correspondent She says there needs to be a "national conversation" to end the stigma about admitting to feeling lonely. "The government can't make friends for us," she told a conference in London. But Ms Crouch said the strategy will help to improve "social connections" and to get better evidence about what really works in reducing loneliness. The loneliness minister says attitudes to taking loneliness seriously are "where we were with mental health a decade ago". The loneliness strategy, commissioned by the prime minister and expected next week, will not be focused on the elderly, but would recognise how feelings of loneliness could deeply affect people at many times in their lives. Ending the stigma "It's a common misconception that it only happens in later life," the minister told a conference organised by the Campaign to End Loneliness, supported by a coalition of charities. Ms Crouch said she had been shocked by the negative impact of isolation, which can affect young people, new parents, the bereaved, those who had lost touch with their family, as well as those in old age. The minister for loneliness said it was a major health problem that needed to be tackled as much as smoking or obesity. The strategy will work across departments, including transport, education and health. Rising up agenda The minister recognised that some local services which could reduce loneliness have been affected by austerity. "Decisions taken at central government level and local government level may well have impacted some people's connectivity in their communities. "There's no point pretending that has not happened," said Ms Crouch. The strategy will also try to create a clearer picture of the extent of the problem. The minister said the Office for National Statistics would produce a more "consistent" definition for measuring loneliness, which would provide better evidence on what works in reducing it. But Ms Crouch told the conference that loneliness was rising up the political agenda. "The government now recognises loneliness as one of the biggest health challenges we face."

একাকীত্ব সকল বয়স নির্বিশেষে একটি সমস্যা হিসাবে স্বীকৃত হওয়া উচিত---এ মন্তব্য যুক্তরাজ্যের ইতিহাসের প্রথম একাকীত্ব বিষয়ক মন্ত্রী ট্রেসি ক্রাউচের। তিনি প্রথমবারের মতো একাকীত্ব কৌশল প্রকাশ করেছিলেন।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

The men were in police detention and were taken back to the scene of the crime in the early hours of Friday. The suspects were shot when they tried to steal the officers' guns and escape, police told BBC Telugu. However, human rights organisations including Amnesty International have called for investigations to determine if these were extrajudicial killings. "Extrajudicial killings are not a solution to preventing rape," said Avinash Kumar, executive director of Amnesty International India. The 27-year-old rape victim's charred remains were discovered last Thursday - leading to outrage and protests over alleged police inaction. After news of the killings broke, the victim's mother told the BBC, "justice has been done", while neighbours celebrated with firecrackers, and thousands of people took to the streets to hail the police. How do the police explain the shooting? Ten armed policemen took the four suspects - who were not handcuffed - to the scene of the crime to reconstruct the incident early on Friday, said VC Sajjanar, police commissioner of the Hyderabad suburb of Cyberabad. The toll plaza where the rape and murder took place is close to the suburb, which houses a number of global tech companies like Microsoft and Google. The police were looking for the victim's phone, power bank and watch which were reported missing, the police commissioner said. "The four men got together and started to attack the officers with stones and sticks and also snatched away weapons from two officers and started firing," the commissioner said, in response to questions about why the men had been killed. "Although the officers maintained restraint and asked them to surrender, they continued to fire and attack us. This went on for 15 minutes. We retaliated and four accused got killed." Two officers suffered head injuries but these were not caused by bullets, he added. The two police officers were admitted to hospital, he said "Let me tell you this. The law has taken its own course," he added. The police were heavily criticised after the rape and murder of the vet - particularly when the victim's family accused them of inaction for two hours. A region familiar with 'encounters' Analysis by G S Ram Mohan, BBC Telugu editor Police "encounter killings" - the term for an extrajudicial killing dressed up as an unavoidable police action - are nothing new in this part of the country. A long-running Maoist insurgency in the 1980s and 1990s saw many those suspected of involvement with the group being killed in a similar manner. VC Sajjanar, the commissioner of the police division that killed the four suspects on Friday, had in fact been involved in an encounter before - an incident which played out in a strikingly similar manner. He was superintendent of police when three people accused of carrying out an acid attack on a woman were killed at the scene of the crime by police. They were also taken there to "recreate" the crime and were reportedly shot while trying to escape. Supt Sajjanar received great adulation then and become a hero. How have the victim's family reacted? BBC Telugu's Deepthi Bathini visited the family in their home, where neighbours could be seen celebrating the news by setting off firecrackers and distributing sweets. "I can't put it into words. I felt happiness but also grief because my daughter will never come home," the victim's mother said. "My daughter's soul is at peace now. Justice has been done. I never thought we would get justice. No other girl should experience what my daughter did." The mother added that she wanted the law on sexual assault and rape to be stricter. "Men should be scared to even stare at women - because they will be punished," she said. What about the wider reaction? News of the police action has been widely celebrated on social media. Many took to Twitter and Facebook to applaud the police, saying they had "delivered justice". The mother of a student who died after being gang-raped on a bus in capital Delhi in 2012 also hailed the killing. "I am extremely happy with this punishment. Police have done a great job," she told ANI news agency. BBC Telugu reporter Satish Balla, reporting from the scene of the killings, said approximately 2,000 people had gathered, causing a huge traffic jam. Police were showered with rose petals. Could the police have acted differently? A few have questioned the police's version of events. Prakash Singh, a retired police officer and a key architect of police reforms, told the BBC the killings were "entirely avoidable". "Abundant caution should be taken when people in custody are being taken to the court or the scene of the crime," he said. "They should be secured, handcuffed and properly searched before they are taken out. All kinds of things can happen if the police are not careful." But Mr Singh said it was too early to say if the incident was an extrajudicial killing - known popularly in India as an "encounter killing". In the days after the rape and murder, thousands of people had protested at Hyderabad police station, insisting the killers faced the death penalty. Jaya Bachchan, a former Bollywood star who is now an MP in India's upper house of parliament, said earlier this week that the accused men should be "lynched". Several other MPs from across the political spectrum also condemned the brutal gang-rape and murder. Elsewhere in the country, there were other protests and vigils for the victim, who cannot be named under Indian law. How did the vet's murder happen? The victim left home on her motorbike at about 18:00 local time (12:30 GMT) 10 days ago to go to a doctor's appointment. She called family later to say she had a flat tyre, and a lorry driver had offered to help. She said she was waiting near a toll plaza. Efforts to contact her afterwards were unsuccessful, and her body was discovered under a flyover last Thursday. Last week, three police officers were suspended when the victim's family accused them of not acting quickly enough when the woman was reported missing. Officers had suggested she may have eloped, relatives told the National Commission for Women, a government body. Are women any safer in India today? Rape and sexual violence against women have been in focus in India since the December 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in the capital, Delhi. But there has been no sign that crimes against women are abating. According to government figures, police registered 33,658 cases of rape in India in 2017, an average of 92 rapes every day.

ভারতের হায়দ্রাবাদ শহরে এক তরুণী পশু চিকিৎসককে গণধর্ষণ করে আগুনে পুড়িয়ে মেরে ফেলার ঘটনায় ধৃত চার অভিযুক্ত পুলিশের গুলিতে নিহত হয়েছেন।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

The plan appears to be in its early stages, with all districts in Wuhan told to submit details as to how testing could be done within 10 days. It comes after Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, recorded six new cases over the weekend. Prior to this, it had seen no new cases at all since 3 April. Wuhan, which was in strict lockdown for 11 weeks, began re-opening on 8 April. For a while it seemed like life was getting back to normal as schools re-opened, businesses slowly emerged and public transport resumed operations. But the emergence of a cluster of cases - all from the same residential compound - has now threatened the move back to normalcy. 'The ten-day-battle' According to report by The Paper, quoting a widely circulated internal document, every district in the city has been told to draw up a 10-day testing plan by noon on Tuesday. Each district is responsible for coming up with its own plan based on the size of their population and whether or not there is currently an active outbreak in the district. The document, which refers to the test plan as the "10-day battle", also says that older people and densely populated communities should be prioritised when it comes to testing. However several senior health officials quoted by the Global Times newspaper indicated that testing the entire city would be unfeasible and costly. Peng Zhiyong, director of the intensive care unit of the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, instead that testing was instead likely to be targeted at medical workers, vulnerable people and those who'd had close contacts with a case. Another Wuhan University director suggested that a large percentage of Wuhan's population - around 3-5 million - had already been tested, and Wuhan was "capable" of testing the remaining 6-8 million in a 10-days period. To put the goal into context, the US now conducts around 300,000 tests each day, according to the White House. So far, it's tested almost 9 million people in total. On Chinese social media site Weibo, people have been raising questions about whether such a large number of tests can be carried out in just a matter of days. "It is impossible to test so many people," said one commenter, who also questioned how much it would cost. Another said that such tests should have been carried out before Wuhan re-opened its doors to the rest of China. Taking no chances Stephen McDonnell, BBC News, Beijing Wuhan was where this global emergency started and there was relief when the first cluster site seemed to come out the other side. There would also be despair if the first lockdown city was to be engulfed again by the coronavirus. Not letting this happen has become a priority for the Chinese government. When a new domestic infection appeared in the city three days ago you could feel the concern over 1,000km away in Beijing. Then five others were infected by the 89-year old man previously declared "asymptomatic", and the manager of their housing complex was removed. However, sacking local officials in this way might also encourage a tendency to hide future cases. China's most powerful seven people, in the Politburo Standing Committee, met last week to discuss improving the country's early warning system for outbreaks like this. They could start by easing the "no mistakes at all costs" approach to governing, in which those who reveal the bad news can end up being punished. China reported just one new cases on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 82,919, with the death toll at 4,633. Hundreds of asymptomatic cases are being monitored by Wuhan health authorities

চীনে উহান শহরের কর্তৃপক্ষ শহরের সমস্ত বাসিন্দা অর্থাৎ এক কোটি দশ লক্ষ মানুষের করোনাভাইরাস পরীক্ষার পরিকল্পনা নিচ্ছে।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

Ms Begum has had her UK citizenship revoked by Home Secretary Sajid Javid - a move Mr Corbyn said was "extreme". The leader of the opposition told ITV News the 19-year-old should return to the UK to face questioning. Ms Begum told Sky News on Thursday she was "willing to change" and called for "mercy" from British politicians. UK nationals can only have their citizenship revoked if they are eligible for citizenship elsewhere. It is thought Ms Begum could be a Bangladeshi citizen because her mother is believed to be one. However, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said Ms Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there was "no question" of her being allowed into the country. Mr Corbyn, who is currently in Brussels to discuss his Brexit proposals, said: "She obviously has, in my view, a right to return to Britain. "On that return she must obviously face a lot of questions about everything she has done and at that point any action may or may not be taken. "But I think the idea of stripping somebody of their citizenship when they were born in Britain is a very extreme manoeuvre indeed. "Indeed, I questioned the right of the home secretary to have these powers when the original law was brought in by Theresa May when she was home secretary." Mr Javid has defended the move, which followed a debate over whether the teenager should be able to return to the UK after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp. Ms Begum, who left east London in 2015, said she never sought to be an IS "poster girl" and now simply wished to raise her child quietly in the UK. The home secretary said he would not leave an individual stateless, which is illegal under international law. But the Begum family's lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, who is preparing an appeal, has said he is considering whether she has been left stateless. Ms Begum gave birth to a boy in a Syrian refugee camp at the weekend, who the home secretary has suggested could still be British, despite the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship. "Children should not suffer. So, if a parent does lose their British citizenship, it does not affect the rights of their child," he told the Commons. Mr Akunjee told the Guardian he planned to travel to the Syrian refugee camp "as soon as possible" to ask for Ms Begum's consent to bring her newborn son back to Britain, while her legal case is resolved. "We can't do anything against her will, so I would hope that I would be able to outline the options for her, explain things to her," he said. But Ms Begum told Sky News her son was unwell and she would not allow him to travel to the UK without her. Ms Begum has previously said she had two children who both died.

আইএস-এ যোগ দিয়ে নিজের ব্রিটিশ নাগরিকত্ব হারানো শামীমা বেগমের ব্রিটেনে ফিরে আসার অধিকার রয়েছে বলে উল্লেখ করেছেন দেশটির লেবার পার্টির নেতা জেরেমি করবিন।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

It has jumped by more than 25% in the last two weeks alone, and almost doubled in value over the last year. At about $2,500 (£1,922) an ounce of palladium is more expensive than gold, and the pressures forcing its price up are unlikely to ease anytime soon. But what is palladium, what is it used for, and why is its price rising? What is palladium? It is a shiny white metal in the same group as platinum, along with ruthenium, rhodium, osmium, and iridium. The majority of the world's palladium comes from Russia and South Africa. Most of it is extracted as a byproduct in the mining of other metals, usually platinum and nickel. What is it used for? Its key commercial use is as a critical component in catalytic converters - a part of a car's exhaust system that controls emissions - found mainly in petrol and hybrid vehicles. The vast majority of palladium, more than 80%, is used in these devices that turn toxic gases, such as carbon monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide, into less harmful nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapour. It is also used, to a far lesser extent, in electronics, dentistry, and jewellery. The metal's soaring value in recent years has seen a jump in the theft of catalytic converters around the world. London's Metropolitan police said the number of thefts in the first six months of 2019 were more than 70% higher than the whole of the previous year. Why is its price rising? In short, it is because demand for palladium outstrips supply, and it has done for some time. The amount of the metal produced in 2019 is forecast to be below global demand for the eighth year in a row. As a secondary product of platinum and nickel extraction, miners have less flexibility to increase palladium output in response to rising prices. And that shortfall looks set to continue, with South Africa, which produces around 40% of the world's supply, last week saying its output of platinum group metals, including palladium, fell by 13.5% in November compared to a year earlier. Meanwhile, demand for palladium from car makers has increased sharply for a number of reasons. Around the world governments, notably China, are tightening regulations as they attempt to tackle air pollution from petrol vehicles. At the same time the diesel emissions scandal in Europe has also had an impact. Consumers there have been shifting away from diesel cars, which mostly use platinum in their catalytic converters, and are instead buying petrol-driven vehicles, which use palladium. The US-China trade deal, which was signed earlier this month, has also boosted prices. Traders expect the agreement to help ease downward pressure on global economic growth and slow the decline in Chinese car sales.

বৈশ্বিক পণ্যের বাজারে প্যালেডিয়াম ধাতুর দাম বেড়ে গেছে।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

Tasleema Wani and her family were fast asleep on the night of 6 August when there was a loud banging on the door. It was the day after the Indian government in Delhi stunned the country by revoking a constitutional provision that gave Jammu and Kashmir special powers. The decision split the part of the disputed region that India administers into two federal territories, and saw an unprecedented curfew and communications lockdown imposed. "It was a team of joint security forces from the army and police and they were screaming for us to open the door. It was terrifying," Ms Wani said. "They sent me inside, and took both my sons outside to the lawn and questioned them for about 15 minutes. Then they left." But they later came back and asked her elder son, 19-year-old Nadeem, to show them the way to a neighbour's house. That was the last time Ms Wani saw him. He was taken to a police station, detained and eventually transferred to a jail in Uttar Pradesh state, more than 1,000km (620 miles) away. In an official dossier, which the BBC has seen, police have accused Nadeem Wani of being an "Over Ground Worker". Such "OGWs" are defined by security forces as non-combatant members of armed rebel groups, usually tasked with logistics. He has also been charged with other offences, including putting up posters asking people not to participate in the 2014 elections - he was 15 at the time. "I know my son. He is not a militant and never took part in any unlawful activity. I appeal to the government to please release him," Ms Wani pleaded. Her husband, Mohammad Ashraf Wani, has only seen Nadeem once in the entire year that he has been in jail. Nadeem is among thousands of Kashmiris who were detained in a massive security operation that began in the region just before 5 August and continued for weeks after. Politicians, businesspeople, lawyers, activists and others with alleged links to protests or militant groups were detained, imprisoned or placed under house arrest. Three former chief ministers were among those who were detained - one of them is still under house arrest. Despite strident criticism in India and abroad, the government insisted that the arrests were necessary to maintain law and order in the region, which has seen increased militancy in recent years. Many, including Nadeem, have been detained under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA), which among other things, allows detention without formal charge for up to two years. It's unclear exactly how many Kashmiris have been detained or jailed as part of this crackdown. On 20 November 2019, the government told parliament that they had made 5,161 preventive arrests since 4 August that year. But it's unclear how many of them have been charged under the PSA and how many are still in jail. Court records obtained by a civil organisation made up of parents of "disappeared" Kashmiris show that as many as 662 petitions challenging detentions under the PSA were registered in 2019. The majority of those, 412, were filed after 5 August. The BBC asked Kashmir Inspector General of Police (IGP) Vijay Kumar for information on the arrests but he said he could not share "such sensitive data". Rights activists have alleged that these arrests and detentions are aimed at creating fear. "The arrests were to silence the people. Many were booked under PSA. Some were released. And fear was created. The government wanted to ensure that no-one would come out of their homes and protest against the new law," said Srinagar-based rights activist Parvaiz Imroz. Srinagar-based journalist and political commentator Haroon Reshi agrees. "August 5th was a big event and the state knew it could trigger public resentment. The state didn't want to hear reactionary voices," he said. Meanwhile, those who have been released have spoken of the ordeal of detention. Qamar Zaman Qazi, editor of regional online news portal The Kashmiryat, was detained days after being summoned to "explain" some tweets. In the days before 5 August, the region had seen a massive military build-up. Until then the government had given no indication of what was to come, and the entire operation had been kept a closely-guarded secret. Mr Qazi's tweets on 26 July - talking about additional troop movements - were noticed by local police who summoned him to the station the next day and detained him. On 8 August, he was transferred to the central jail in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. "We were stripped naked there. Initially, we tried to resist but we couldn't," he said. There, Mr Qazi added, he was told he was being charged under the PSA He was transferred to Bareilly central jail in Uttar Pradesh state. "As they put us in the military aircraft, we started singing Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz's anthem of resistance, Hum Dekhenge (We shall bear witness)." With no information about where he was being held, Mr Qazi's family visited four prisons in the state looking for him. It took them 52 days to find him - and when they did, he was still wearing the shirt he had been wearing when he went to the police station. At his home, after he was released following the revocation of his detention order by a district magistrate, he showed me the T-shirt, ragged and torn, with 119 holes in it. "The worst thing was that I wasn't given a paper and pen inside my cell despite several requests. I wanted to record the agonies and pain I went through for nine months," he said. Earlier this week, Mr Qazi was detained again because of a story he wrote - authorities have told his family to apply for bail after 6 August, when the curfew imposed on Monday will be lifted. Across the state thousands of worried families are still fretting about the safety of their loved ones, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. Among them is the mother of Waseem Ahmad Sheikh, who has been in jail since he presented himself at a police station on 8 August 2019 - one day after security forces came looking for him in the middle of the night. He is accused of helping militants and throwing stones at security forces. Waseem was also flown to a jail in faraway Uttar Pradesh, and his family has not been able to seen him since then. His mother, Sara Begum, said she was terrified that Covid-19 would either kill him or her before they are reunited. "We want to die together. I haven't seen my beloved son for the last 11 months," she said, sobbing. "I appeal to the government to at least shift him to a jail in Kashmir even if they don't want to release him." Read more on Kashmir:

গত বছরের ৫ই আগস্ট ভারতের কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার জম্মু এবং কাশ্মীরের বিশেষ সাংবিধানিক মর্যাদা বাতিল করেছিল। এই সাংবিধানিক ধারাবলে কাশ্মীর যে আধা-স্বায়ত্বশাসন ভোগ করতো, সেটি কেড়ে নেয়া হয়। বিতর্কিত এই পদক্ষেপের আগে ভারত সরকার কাশ্মীরে হাজার হাজার মানুষকে আটক করে। এদের অনেকেই ভারতের নানা জায়গায় জেলে এখনো বন্দী। তাদের বিরুদ্ধে আনা হয়েছে গুরুতর সব অভিযোগ। বিবিসি হিন্দির মজিদ জাহাঙ্গীরের রিপোর্ট:

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Pakistan said Indian troops had raided a military post in the Haji Pir sector of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, killing a soldier and injuring another. An Indian army spokesman said it had responded to a "ceasefire violation" but did not cross the Line of Control. Kashmir is claimed by both nations in its entirety and has been a flashpoint between them for more than 60 years. Exchanges are not uncommon but rarely result in fatalities. 'Small arms' The Pakistani military said in a statement that Indian troops had "physically raided a checkpost named Sawan Patra". The Haji Pir Pass is just south of the main road from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir. "Pakistan army troops effectively responded to the attack," the Pakistani statement said, adding that Indian troops had left behind weapons as they retreated. One Pakistani soldier was killed and another critically injured, it said. Indian army spokesman Col Jagadish Dahiya told Reuters news agency it had responded to a "ceasefire violation" by Pakistan. He added: "None of our troops crossed the Line of Control. We have no casualties or injuries." Another Indian army spokesman, Col Brijesh Pandey, told Associated Press that Pakistani troops had "initiated unprovoked firing" with mortar shells and automatic weapons at Indian military posts. One civilian home was destroyed, he said. "We retaliated only using small arms. We believe it was clearly an attempt on their part to facilitate infiltration of militants," Col Pandey said. There has been a ceasefire in Kashmir since late 2003. India suspended a peace process with Pakistan following attacks by Pakistan-based militants in Mumbai in 2008. Negotiations resumed in February last year. Last month, the nations signed an agreement to ease visa restrictions on travel for some citizens.

কাশ্মীরের নিয়ন্ত্রণ রেখা বা লাইন অফ কন্ট্রোল বরাবর ভারত আর পাকিস্তানি বাহিনীর মধ্যে ব্যাপক গোলাগুলি হয়েছে বলে খবর পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

There are a total of 35,713 confirmed cases in the country, with more than 4,000 having successfully recovered. Lombardy, the worst-hit region, recorded 319 deaths in one day. Italy is the world's worst affected country after China, where the virus originated last year. At least 8,758 people have died, most in China. The vast majority of the more than 200,000 confirmed cases - 80% - have occurred in Europe and the Western Pacific region, which includes much of Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Many countries have taken drastic measures, including social distancing and cancelling major events to help slow transmission and reduce pressure on the health systems. "But to suppress and control epidemics, countries must isolate, test, treat and trace," the WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Italy has been on lockdown for over a week as authorities try to halt the progress of the virus. People have been asked to stay indoors - but the number of deaths has continued to spiral. The WHO's emergencies director, Mike Ryan, said this was probably due to the "astonishing" number of cases within the health systems, as well as the high number of elderly people in the population at large. Dr Tedros hailed the beginning of the first vaccine trial so soon after the emergence of the virus as "an incredible achievement". The first human trial of a vaccine began in the US at the Kaiser Permanente research facility in Seattle earlier this week. But experts warn that it will be many months before it is clear if it will work. How bad is the situation in the rest of Europe? Spain now has 598 dead and 13,716 infections. An inquiry is to be launched into the deaths of at least 17 residents of a nursing home in Madrid, where dozens of cases of Covid-19 have been reported. In France, the number of confirmed cases grew by more than 16% on Tuesday, reaching 7,730, while the death toll rose to 175, with 7% of the dead aged under 65. In the UK, the number of dead has reached 104. Germany has 12 deaths and 8,198 cases. In a TV address, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to abide by restrictions aimed at combating the pandemic. "Since German reunification, actually, since World War Two, there has never been a challenge for our country in which acting in solidarity was so very crucial," she said. Belgium has 14 deaths and 1,486 cases. What's happening across Europe's borders? Travellers from outside the EU are being turned away from airports and borders after the 27-country bloc imposed a 30-day ban to halt the spread of coronavirus. EU leaders agreed that internal borders that have been erected in recent days should come down. The ban will not affect Europeans going home or cross-border workers. UK citizens are also not affected by it because an interim Brexit deal still ties the UK to EU rules. The ban specifically covers all EU states as well as countries within the Schengen border-free zone, including Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein. All citizens will be given help returning home, and Germany has said it will continue a drive to fly home tens of thousands of tourists stranded abroad, from Morocco and Egypt to the Philippines and Argentina. In many countries, people have been urged to stay at home as much as possible and only essential travel is allowed.

ইতালিতে করোনাভাইরাস আক্রান্ত হয়ে একদিনে ৪৭৫ জন মারা গেছেন, যা প্রাদুর্ভাব ছড়ানোর পর থেকে সেখানে একদিনে মারা যাওয়া মানুষের সংখ্যার দিক থেকে সবচেয়ে বেশি।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, nationals of Myanmar, were arrested while carrying official documents which had just been given to them by police officers. They have maintained their innocence, saying they were set up by police. The case has been widely seen as a test of press freedom in Myanmar. "I have no fear," Wa Lone said after the verdict. "I have not done anything wrong. I believe in justice, democracy and freedom." The two men, who both have families with young children, have been in prison since their arrest in December 2017. What were they investigating? Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, are Myanmar citizens who were working for the international news agency. They had been collecting evidence about the murders of 10 Rohingya men by the army in the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine in September 2017. They were arrested before the report's publication, after being handed some documents by two policemen who they met at the restaurant for the first time. A police witness testified during the trial that the restaurant meeting was a set-up to entrap the journalists. The final report - a collaboration with other colleagues - was considered extraordinary, because it gathered testimonies from a range of participants, including Buddhist villagers who confessed to killing Rohingya Muslims and torching their homes. Accounts from paramilitary police also directly implicated the military. The military had previously released its own investigation into allegations of abuse in Rakhine, and exonerated itself of all wrongdoing. Authorities later launched their own probe into the Inn Din killings, confirming the massacre took place and promising to take action against those who had taken part. What is happening to the Rohingya? At least 700,000 Rohingya have fled violence in the country in the past year. The crisis erupted when a brutal crackdown was launched in response to a Rohingya militant group attacking several police posts. The United Nations has called the army's response - including murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery, persecution and enslavement - "grossly disproportionate to actual security threats". A UN report - released last week - called for military leaders to face genocide charges for their actions. Myanmar rejected the report. It sees the Rohingya - who have their own culture and language - as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. What did the judge say? Judge Ye Lwin told the court in Yangon the pair had "intended to harm the interests of the state". "And so they have been found guilty under the state secrets act," he said. The verdict had been delayed once because of the judge's ill health. A crushing blow to freedom' Nick Beake, BBC Myanmar correspondent, Yangon Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo bowed their heads as the verdict was delivered, while their families broke down in tears in court. The reporters have always insisted they were framed. Wa Lone - who missed the birth of his first child while being detained - protested his innocence once again as he was led away. Many will see this verdict as a crushing blow to freedom of the press in Myanmar and another setback for democracy, three years after Aung San Suu Kyi's party triumphed in free elections. Last week, UN inspectors called for Myanmar's top generals to stand trial for genocide for the crimes committed against the Rohingya - the very subject these reporters were investigating. What is the reaction to the jailing? "Today is a sad day for Myanmar, Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and press freedom anywhere," Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler said. The verdict has been widely criticised by observers and human rights groups. "We are extremely disappointed by this verdict," Britain's ambassador to Myanmar, Dan Chugg, said according to Reuters. US ambassador Scot Marciel echoed the same criticism, saying the court's decision was "deeply troubling for everybody who has struggled so hard here for media freedom". The UN's resident and humanitarian co-ordinator in Myanmar, Knut Ostby, said the UN had "consistently called for the release" of the journalists and that "a free press is essential for peace, justice and human rights for all. We are disappointed by today's court decision". "The outrageous convictions show Myanmar courts' willingness to muzzle those reporting on military atrocities," Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said. "These sentences mark a new low for press freedom and further backsliding on rights under Aung San Suu Kyi's government." Media access to Rakhine is strictly controlled by the government so it is difficult to get reliable news from the region.

মিয়ানমারে বার্তা সংস্থা রয়টার্সের দুই সাংবাদিককে সাত বছরের কারাদণ্ড দিয়েছে দেশটির একটি আদালত।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Szu Ping ChanBBC News Angel Gurría, OECD secretary general, said the economic shock was already bigger than the financial crisis. He told the BBC it was "wishful thinking" to believe that countries would bounce back quickly. The OECD has called on governments to rip up spending rules to ensure speedy testing and treatment of the virus. Mr Gurría said a recent warning that a serious outbreak could halve global growth to 1.5% already looked too optimistic. While the number of job losses and company failures remains uncertain, Mr Gurría said countries would be dealing with the economic fallout "for years to come". He said many of the world's biggest economies would fall into recession in the coming months - defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline. "Even if you don't get a worldwide recession, you're going to get either no growth or negative growth in many of the economies of the world, including some of the larger ones, and therefore you're going to get not only low growth this year, but also it's going to take longer to pick up in the in the future," he added. Big shock Mr Gurría said the economic uncertainty created by the virus outbreak meant economies were already suffering a bigger shock than during the September 11 terror attacks or the 2008 financial crisis. He said: "And the reason is that we don't know how much it's going to take to fix the unemployment because we don't know how many people are going to end up unemployed. We also don't know how much it's going to take to fix the hundreds of thousands of small and medium enterprises who are already suffering." Governments around the world have taken unprecedented steps to support workers and businesses during the outbreak. Policymakers in the UK have pledged to pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Gurría called on governments to rip up borrowing rules and "throw everything we got at it" to deal with the crisis. However, he warned that bigger deficits and larger debt piles would also weigh on heavily indebted countries for years to come. No quick recovery Mr Gurría said that just weeks ago, policymakers from the G20 club of rich nations believed the recovery would take a 'V' shape - with a short, sharp drop in economic activity followed swiftly by a rebound in growth. "It was already then mostly wishful thinking," he said. "I do not agree with the idea of a 'V' shaped phenomenon ... Right now we know it's not going to be a 'V'. It's going to be more in the best of cases like a 'U' with a long trench in the bottom before it gets to the recovery period. We can avoid it looking like an 'L', if we take the right decisions today." The OECD is calling for a four-pronged plan to deal with the outbreak, including free virus testing, better equipment for doctors and nurses, cash transfers to workers including the self-employed and tax payment holidays for businesses. Mr Gurría compared the level of ambition to the Marshall Plan - which helped to pay for the reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War.

অর্থনৈতিক সহযোগিতা ও উন্নয়ন সংস্থা ওইসিডি হুঁশিয়ার করে দিয়েছে যে বিশ্ব অর্থনীতির ওপর করোনাভাইরাসের প্রভাব কাটিয়ে উঠতে অনেক বছর সময় লেগে যাবে।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

Spark New Zealand wanted to use Huawei equipment in its 5G mobile network. However, a NZ government security agency said the deal would bring significant risks to national security. The move is part of a growing push against the involvement of Chinese technology firms on security grounds. 5G networks are being built in several countries and will form the next significant wave of mobile infrastructure. Huawei, the world's biggest producer of telecoms equipment, has faced resistance from foreign governments over the risk that its technology could be used for espionage. Telecoms firm Spark New Zealand planned to use equipment from the Chinese firm in its 5G network. The head of NZ's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) told Spark the proposal "would , if implemented, raise significant national security risks", the company said. Intelligence services minister Andrew Little said Spark could work with the agency to reduce that risk. "As the GCSB has noted, this is an ongoing process. We will actively address any concerns and work together to find a way forward," Huawei said. What other countries have concerns? The move follows a decision by Australia to block Huaewi and Chinese firm ZTE from providing 5G technology for the country's wireless networks on national security grounds. The US and UK have raised concerns with Huawei, and the firm has been scrutinised in Germany, Japan and Korea. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that the US government has been trying to persuade wireless providers to avoid using equipment from Huawei. In the UK, a security committee report in July warned that it had "only limited assurance" that Huawei's telecoms gear posed no threat to national security. One country is standing by Huawei: Papua New Guinea said this week it would go ahead with an agreement for Huawei to build its internet infrastructure. The Pacific nation has seen a surge in investment from China over the past decade. What are the fears? Experts say foreign governments are increasingly worried about the risk of espionage by China, given the close ties between companies and the state. Tom Uren, visiting fellow in the International Cyber Policy Centre at Australia's Strategic Policy Institute, said the Chinese government had "clearly demonstrated intent over many years to steal information". "The Chinese state has engaged in a lot of cyber and other espionage and intellectual property theft," he said. Links between firms and the government have fuelled concerns that China may attempt to "leverage state-linked companies to be able to enable their espionage operations", Mr Uren said. Those concerns were exacerbated by new laws introduced last year that required Chinese organisations assist in national intelligence efforts. The laws enable the Chinese state to compel people and possibly companies to assist if they needed it, Mr Uren said. The combination of new rules and a history of espionage have increased the perceived danger of using companies like Huawei and ZTE in critical national infrastructure. "It's hard to argue that they don't represent an elevated risk," Mr Uren added.

জাতীয় নিরাপত্তার কারণ দেখিয়ে সর্বশেষ দেশ হিসাবে নিউজিল্যান্ড চীনের মোবাইল প্রযুক্তি কোম্পানি হুয়াওয়ে থেকে সরঞ্জাম কেনার প্রস্তাব নাকচ করে দিয়েছে।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent The "no girl villages" were reported from Uttarkashi, where some 400,000 people live in 550 villages and five towns. Much of the terrain is hilly and remote. In a country which has been grappling with an awful sex-ratio imbalance - largely because of illegal sex-selection abortions - the news has caused considerable anguish. Except that this might not be completely true. The reports said 216 boys and no girls were born in the 132 villages between April and June. But officials found 180 girls and no boys were born during the same period in 129 different villages. And to complete the mixed picture, 88 girls and 78 boys were born in another 166 villages. Overall 961 live births were recorded in Uttarkashi between April and June. A total of 479 were girls, while 468 were boys. (The rest were possibly stillborn) This, officials say, corresponds with the district's favourable sex ratio of 1,024 women for 1,000 men, higher than the national average of 933 women per 1,000 men. Officials say the media possibly cherry-picked the birth data provided by volunteer health workers entrusted with collecting it. Some 600 of these workers are tasked with the job of recording pregnancies and births, and carrying out immunisation and birth control programmes. "I feel media reports about the no-girl villages have been misinterpreted. Also, there is not enough understanding of the context. We've ordered an investigation anyway," Ashish Chauhan, the senior-most official of the district told me. So 26 officials have fanned out across 82 villages to check the veracity of the data and to find out whether something is wrong. Slip-up? What could have gone wrong? One possibility is the data is erroneous or incomplete, and the health workers slipped up. Did they assign a number of male births to a group of villages, and a number of female births to another group? Second, Uttarkashi is a thinly populated place. The average population of a village is 500, and some of the more remote villages have a population of about 100. Health officials say the smallest villages will typically have 10-15 households, and a substantial number of such villages with single-sex births "did not add up to much". "If girl babies have not been born in so many villages, it would have hurt the overall sex ratio of the district," Mr Chauhan said. Locals claim there is little history of discrimination between boys and girls in the district, and point to its favourable sex ratio. "Be it girl or boy, we only pray that the child is healthy and happy," Roshni Rawat, a local woman, told the Hindustan Times newspaper. Also, women here are typically more hardworking than men: labouring on farms, cutting grass, milking cows, cooking and doing household chores. Alcoholism among men is high. Officials say they have not reported cases of female foeticide in the district for some years now. There are three registered ultrasound machines in the district, all in government clinics. "There's no economies of scale here to carry out large-scale illegal abortions or tests to abort female births," says Mr Chauhan. But there's an interesting caveat. Of the 961 births here between April and June, 207 were recorded at home. (The rest were recorded in hospitals or institutions.) A total of 109 of them were male and 93 were girls, upending the overall sex ratio in this district. "This is a bit of a puzzle. We have to investigate this further. Home births typically happen in far-flung villages where access to ambulances and clinics is difficult," Dr Chandan Singh Rawat, a senior medical officer of the district told me. In a week's time, we will know more about the so-called "missing girls" of Uttarakhand. Read more from Soutik Biswas Follow Soutik on Twitter at @soutikBBC

ভারতের উত্তরাখণ্ড প্রদেশের ১৩২ টি গ্রামে গত তিন বছরে কোন কন্যা শিশু জন্মায়নি - চলতি সপ্তাহের প্রথম দিকে এ রকম একটি খবর প্রকাশিত হবার পর বিষয়টি বেশ আতঙ্কের জন্ম দিয়েছে এবং সরকার বিষয়টি তদন্ত শুরু করেছে।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

Latest contact suggests that Nobukazu Kuriki, 33, has reached the South Col, where he will rest before a final push later on Saturday to reach the summit. Mr Kuriki is the first person to attempt the climb since Nepal's devastating earthquake in April. It will be his fifth try at reaching the summit in the past six years. Mr Kuriki is expected to rest on the South Col for about seven to eight hours before attempting the final leg of the climb. It is not uncommon for climbers to set out for the summit late at night to reach the top around dawn, Ang Tsering, the president of the Nepalese Mountaineering Association, told the BBC. Tackling the final stretch overnight allows climbers to reach the summit and descend in daylight, and the lack of heating from the Sun can mean lower winds. "We are very much hoping he will be successful and come back OK," Mr Tsering said. Mr Kuriki, who arrived in Nepal more than a month ago to begin acclimatising, is so far the only person scheduled to climb Everest during the challenging autumn season. He is following the same route used by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay when they became the first people to reach the summit in 1953. Mr Kuriki prefers to climb in winter, alone and with minimal gear. "This is the purest form of climbing and it is worth the extra danger," he has said. He has taken on Everest alone four times in the previous six years but has been forced to abandon the climb each time with the summit in view. In 2012, he lost all of his fingers and one thumb after spending two days in a snow hole at 27,000 feet (8,230m) in temperatures lower than -20C. His injuries present significant challenges in even the most basic climbing manoeuvres. "I do feel nervous and afraid," he told Reuters shortly after arriving in Nepal. "This is only natural before attempting the challenge of climbing Everest, particularly after the earthquake and at this time of year." Nepal's lucrative climbing industry was destroyed by the 25 April earthquake which killed more than 9,000 people and the avalanches that followed. If Mr Kuriki is successful, his climb may help to reinvigorate the ailing industry, correspondents say.

জাপানের একজন পর্বতারোহী - যার হাতের নয়টি আঙুল ঠান্ডায় জমে ঘা হয়ে যাওয়ায় কেটে বাদ দিতে হয়েছিল - তিনি অষ্টম বারের মতো এভারেস্টের শৃঙ্গে আরোহণের চেষ্টা করতে গিয়ে মারা গেছেন।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

Despite the result being closer than the previous two rejections, MPs still voted it down by 344 to 286, a majority of 58. The vote came on Friday 29 March - the date originally set for the UK to leave the EU. However, the EU had agreed that if the deal were passed by midnight on Friday then an extension of Brexit until 22 May would take place to allow the UK to sort out the paperwork. Failure to do so means the UK now has only until 12 April to come up with an alternative - perhaps a longer delay to Brexit - or face leaving the EU without a deal. Massive uncertainty for the British people and business remains. What vote was on offer this time? For Friday, the prime minister split her Brexit deal in two, allowing MPs to approve the legally binding part of the agreement while leaving the political declaration - which outlines plans for the future relationship between the UK and the EU - to one side. This was partly because the Speaker had said a vote could not be put in front on MPs again without significant differences. But Mrs May also thought that her pledge to her Conservative Party that she would not remain as PM through the next phase of political negotiations if the deal were passed - combined with a fear among Brexiteer MPs that they could lose Brexit altogether - might attract enough votes to get the withdrawal agreement through. Key members of the Conservatives, including Boris Johnson, former Brexit minister Dominic Raab and Jacob Rees-Mogg, said they would support it. But, crucially, Mrs May's government allies - Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party - opposed the deal, as did the main opposition Labour Party and 34 Conservatives. So where does this result leave us? The government now has until 12 April - the date by which the UK must indicate whether it will put up candidates in May's European Parliament elections - to indicate a way forward. The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says there are two choices - leaving without a deal or a having a longer extension, which would involve taking part in the elections. Given that Parliament's previous votes have been solidly opposed to a no-deal Brexit, many commentators feel the extension is more likely. However, Mrs May has said she does not want the UK to take part in the EU elections. And any extension would have to be agreed by the EU - by no means a certainty. Following Friday's vote, European Council president Donald Tusk announced there would be a council meeting on 10 April. The bloc would need to decide whether the conditions for a longer delay would be met. Ahead of Friday's vote, Mr Barnier said a no-deal Brexit was looking more likely and the EU should be prepared for it. There is a third option - the UK could revoke the so-called Article 50 and cancel Brexit altogether - but this appears very unlikely. A tumultuous week - again Friday's vote came after an extraordinary session of Parliament on Wednesday, when MPs rejected eight different proposals on Britain's withdrawal. The plans ranged from holding a second referendum to staying in a customs union to leaving the EU without a deal on 12 April. All of them went down. Please upgrade your browser Your guide to Brexit jargon Use the list below or select a button Wednesday's votes were held after Mrs May and her government were defeated on Monday in a vote that allowed MPs to seize control of business in the chamber from the government for at least a day. Are we anywhere nearer an end to all this? No. On Monday, some of the most popular of Wednesday's rejected proposals - including a second referendum - could be put to the House of Commons for a second time in the attempt to break the impasse. Others insist that the only way forward is a general election to create a new Commons that will hopefully be able to find a path. Where Mrs May will be over the next few weeks is also up in the air. She pledged to stand down if the deal passed, but many now question whether she has the authority to stay. It is worth remembering that the debate now is focused on the terms of the UK's exit from the EU. The conditions of the future relationship between the country and the bloc, assuming the UK leaves at all, still have to be negotiated.

ব্রেক্সিট অর্থাৎ ব্রিটেনের ইউরোপিয়ান ইউনিয়ন ত্যাগের জন্য প্রধানমন্ত্রী টেরিজা মে-র চুক্তি তৃতীয় বারের মতো প্রত্যাখ্যান করেছে সেদেশের পার্লামেন্ট।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

At least 60 people, many of them children, were treated for skin irritation and breathing problems. Fuel may be dumped in emergency landings, but only over designated areas and at a high altitude, aviation rules stipulate. The Delta Airlines flight returned to the airport due to an engine issue. Delta confirmed in a statement that the passenger plane had released fuel to reduce its landing weight. The children and adults treated following the dumping incident were connected with at least six local schools. All the injuries are said to be minor. At Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy, some 16 miles (26km) east of the airport, two classes of children were outside when the fuel was released. Elizabeth Alcantar, mayor of Cudahy, told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: "I'm very upset. This is an elementary school, these are small children." Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told Reuters news agency: "The FAA is thoroughly investigating the circumstances behind this incident. There are special fuel-dumping procedures for aircraft operating into and out of any major US airport. "These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomises and disperses before it reaches the ground." Many planes, especially those used for long-haul flights, take off weighing more than their maximum allowed landing weight due to the amount of fuel they carry. This weight is normally reduced as fuel is consumed during the flight. But when a flight is cut short the aircraft may still be too heavy to land safely. In such situations the pilot may take the rare decision to dump fuel and reduce the aircraft's weight quickly. Only certain planes have this capability, and it is done through valves in the aircraft's wings which allow fuel to be pumped out by a specific amount.

যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে যাত্রীবাহী একটি বিমান জরুরী অবতরণ করার আগে তেল ফেলে দিলে সেই তেল বেশ কয়েকটি স্কুলের ওপর পড়েছে।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By George Pierpoint, BBC UGC and Social NewsSerter Akyol and Dilay Yalcin, BBC Monitoring The campaign comes after Mr Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey for 15 years, said in a speech to Parliament on Tuesday that "if one day our nation says 'enough', then we will step aside". Seizing up on this statement, many Turks have taken to the hashtag #TAMAM, which translates as 'enough', to say they have indeed had enough. You may also like: Erdogan's Turkey: The full story Swedish meatball admission: They're Turkish Syrian shoe-shine refugee photo wins Turkish hearts The hashtag has been used almost two million times since Tuesday evening, with many social media users strongly criticising the president and the ruling AK Party. As the trend gathered momentum, pro-government accounts mobilised to launch a counter hashtag, #DEVAM - which translates as "carry on". The showdown between the rival campaigns has been called "one of the largest political hashtag wars in internet history" by Professor Akin Unver, who is a Fellow of Cyber Research Program at the Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy Research. One Instagram user depicted the battle between #TAMAM and #DEVAM as a fight between superheroes. Mr Erdogan's comments come amid heightened political tensions after the president called a snap election to be held on 24 June. Muharrem Ince, who is the presidential candidate of the opposition Republican Peoples' Party used the phrase to suggest "time's up" for Mr Erdogan. Syrian cartoonist Iad Tawil used the hashtag to share an illustration suggesting Mr Erdogan may be haunted by his "TAMAM" comments. Many thousands simply tweeted #TAMAM, while others got creative with the ways they shared the anti-Erdogan slogan. Some spelt it out with green peppers and some used their limbs to form the word. Despite the rapid growth of the hashtag and the fiercely critical nature of many posts, Mr Erdogan remains popular in Turkey having brought sustained economic growth to the country. The rival hashtag #DEVAM was launched later on Tuesday by pro-government users and has been used over 300,000 times. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu used the hashtag to claim the government "will carry on with our blessed cause for a more prosperous and powerful Turkey," Some Erdogan supporters used variations of #DEVAM to ask those critical of the president what they have had enough of. "Enough of what? Of the fight against terror? Of a completely independent Turkey that stands tall against the world? Of the homeland? Of the state? Enough of what? We will continue to the end" one user wrote. Other users linked the anti-Erdogan #TAMAM campaign to the 2013 anti-government Gezi Park protests. Taylan Kulaçoğlu posted that the authorities were "mad about this TAMAM issue... because it reminds them of the opposition that organised on Twitter prior to Gezi". While #TAMAM has been widely used to criticise the government, censorship by the Turkish authorities is prevalent and well documented. Twitter's Transparency report 2017 revealed that Turkey was at the top of the list of countries that had asked the social media platform to remove content. Reflecting on this governmental control, prominent lawyer Kerem Altiparmak suggested that if a million people are using the term TAMAM on social media, the number of people who wish to express the notion, but don't, must be much higher. Turkish authorities have previously restricted access to social media sites including Twitter and Facebook, and blocked all access to Wikipedia in 2017. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, referenced the hashtag while calling on Mr Erdogan to "unblock Wikipedia and to listen to the people".

তুরস্কের প্রেসিডেন্ট রিসিপ তাইপ এরদোয়ানকে পদত্যাগের আহ্বান জানিয়ে একটি প্রচারণা সামাজিক যোগাযোগ মাধ্যমে ঝড় তুলেছে। দেশটিতে মধ্যবর্তী নির্বাচনের তারিখ ২৪ জুন ঘোষণার পর নতুন করে এই রাজনৈতিক উত্তেজনা শুরু হলো।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

In a new report, it says Israel has a policy "to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians", including those who are its citizens. Apartheid amounts to state-sanctioned racial discrimination and is considered a crime against humanity. Israel's foreign ministry has rejected the report as "preposterous and false". It accused Human Rights Watch of having a "long-standing anti-Israeli agenda" and carrying out an ongoing campaign "with no connection to facts or reality on the ground". Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the report. "It is urgent for the international community to intervene, including by making sure that their states, organisations, and companies are not contributing in any way to the execution of war crimes and crimes against humanity," he said. Israel's Arab minority comprises just over 20% of its population of 9.3 million, while at least 2.5 million Palestinians live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and 350,000 in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem. About 1.9 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, which the UN considers to also be occupied by Israel. Israel occupied the territories in the 1967 Middle East war. It pulled out of Gaza in 2005, but still controls most of its borders, as well as its airspace and waters off its coast. More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Most of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. Human Rights Watch's 213-page report, entitled A Threshold Crossed, states that the present-day reality is that Israel is the sole governing power throughout most of those areas and that in the remainder it exercises primary authority alongside limited Palestinian self-rule. "Across these areas and in most aspects of life, Israeli authorities methodically privilege Jewish Israelis and discriminate against Palestinians," it says. "Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has long guided government policy," it adds. "In pursuit of this goal, authorities have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated Palestinians by virtue of their identity to varying degrees of intensity. In certain areas... these deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution." Apartheid was a policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991. Human Rights Watch says that apartheid today is a universal legal term, and that the prohibition against particularly severe institutional discrimination and oppression that go with it constitutes a core principle of international law. The 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid defines apartheid as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them". The 1998 Rome Statute to the International Criminal Court (ICC) adopts a similar definition. "Denying millions of Palestinians their fundamental rights, without any legitimate security justification and solely because they are Palestinian and not Jewish, is not simply a matter of an abusive occupation," said Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director. "These policies, which grant Jewish Israelis the same rights and privileges wherever they live and discriminate against Palestinians to varying degrees wherever they live, reflect a policy to privilege one people at the expense of another." Human Rights Watch says the ICC's chief prosecutor should investigate and prosecute those credibly implicated in the crimes of apartheid and persecution. The group also urges the international community to re-evaluate its relationship with Israel and to establish a United Nations commission of inquiry to investigate systematic discrimination and repression in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Last month, the ICC's chief prosecutor opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip since June 2014 following a request from the Palestinians. Israel insisted the Hague-based court lacked the authority to open a probe and that it would refuse to co-operate with it.

ইসরায়েল তার রাষ্ট্রের মধ্যে এবং অধিকৃত ফিলিস্তিনি ভূখণ্ডে আরবদের ওপর রাষ্ট্রীয়ভাবে বর্ণবাদ প্রয়োগ করছে এবং নির্যাতন চালাচ্ছে বলে অভিযোগ করেছে আন্তর্জাতিক মানবাধিকার সংস্থা হিউম্যান রাইটস ওয়াচ।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

President Hassan Rouhani said he hoped to "restore stability" to the region following days of heavy clashes over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. The enclave is officially part of Azerbaijan but run by ethnic Armenians. The current fighting is the worst seen in decades, and both sides have blamed each other for the violence. "We must be attentive that the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan does not become a regional war," President Rouhani said on Wednesday. "Peace is the basis of our work and we hope to restore stability to the region in a peaceful way," he added. President Rouhani also said it was "totally unacceptable" for any stray shells and missiles to land on Iranian soil. His comments followed reports that shells had landed on villages in Iran, just across from its northern border with Armenia and Azerbaijan. "Our priority is the security of our cities and villages," President Rouhani said. Iranian Border Guards Commander Qasem Rezaei also said his forces had been placed "in necessary formation" across from the fighting. "Since the beginning of the conflict... a number of artillery shells and rockets have hit the territory of [Iran]," he said, according to the Tasnim news agency. "Our border guards are vigilant and have moved into the necessary formation. They are fully monitoring and controlling the borders." What else is happening? On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for an end to the fighting, which he described as a "tragedy". "We are very concerned," he said in a televised interview. "We hope that this conflict will end in the very near future. "People are dying [and] there are heavy losses on both sides." Mr Putin also held a brief telephone call with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday, the Kremlin said. Russia is part of a military alliance with Armenia and has a military base in the country. However, it also has close ties to the government of Azerbaijan. The US, France and Russia have jointly condemned the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh and have called for peace talks, but the conflict shows no signs of abating. On Wednesday Azerbaijan said Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov would meet international mediators in Geneva on Thursday. Armenia responded that it was "impossible to hold negotiations with one hand and continue military operations with the other", and that its foreign minister would not meet Mr Bayramov in Geneva. Armenia's Zohrab Mnatsakanyan is however due in Moscow for talks next week. Cities rendered ghost towns by conflict Analysis by Orla Guerin in Tartar, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan says it is continuing to advance around the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. It has more fire power, and more sophisticated weaponry. For now it appears to have the upper hand, but areas near the frontline are within range of shelling by ethnic Armenian forces. The city of Tartar - which borders Nagorno-Karabakh - has become a ghost town. Normally it is home to 100,000 people but most appear to have fled. The main street is empty and is littered with broken glass and shrapnel. Shopfronts have been blown out, and roofing ripped off. We found a handful of families sheltering below ground. One elderly woman - whose son and daughter are fighting with Azerbaijani forces on the frontline - told us she was waiting for victory and would never leave. Her seven-month-old grandson was nestled in her arms and didn't flinch at the sound of incoming fire. "He's used to it," she explained. What's the latest from the battlefield? The clashes have displaced half of Nagorno-Karabakh's population - about 70,000 people - the region's human rights ombudsman Artak Beglaryan told AFP news agency. The main city in Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, has been hit by several days of shelling. Residents have been taking shelter in basements and much of the city has been left without power. There were fresh strikes on Wednesday morning and smoke was seen around Stepanakert, AFP reports. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan accused ethnic Armenian forces of shelling urban areas and targeting civilian buildings. Its second-largest city, Ganja, has been shelled and Azerbaijani officials said hundreds of buildings were destroyed. At the weekend the International Committee of the Red Cross condemned "reported indiscriminate shelling and other alleged unlawful attacks". It also said "scores" of civilians had been killed. More than 300 people have died since the clashes began on 27 September. But there are fears the actual death toll among military forces from all sides as well as civilians could be much higher, as casualty claims have not been independently verified. Nagorno-Karabakh - key facts

করোনাভাইরাস প্যানডেমিকের মধ্যেই মধ্য এশিয়ার দুই বৈরি প্রতিবেশী আজারবাইজান এবং আর্মেনিয়ার মধ্যে নতুন করে পুরাদস্তুর যুদ্ধ শুরুর সম্ভাবনা নিয়ে গভীর শঙ্কা তৈরি হয়েছে।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

Reuters photographer Ahmed Jadallah and reporter Rania El Gamal joined some of the 200 women employees being taught at Saudi Aramco Driving Center in Dhahran. One of the students is Maria al-Faraj (pictured left below), who is having a lesson with driving instructor Ahlam al-Somali. As well as being taught to drive, she is also learning how to check oil levels, change a tyre and the importance of wearing a seat belt. The lifting of the driving ban is a huge moment for the women of Saudi Arabia. Previously they could face arrest and a fine if caught driving, and were reliant on male members of their family to either drive them or hire private drivers. Architect Amira Abdulgader (pictured below) says that on 24 June she plans to be sitting at the wheel of a car giving a ride to her mother. "Sitting behind the wheel [means] that you are the one controlling the trip," Amira Abdulgader said. "I will be the one to decide when to go, what to do, and when I will come back. "We need the car to do our daily activities. We are working, we are mothers, we have a lot of social networking, we need to go out - so we need transport. It will change my life." Women make up 5% of Aramco's 66,000-strong workforce, meaning some 3,000 more could eventually enrol in the driving school, Reuters says. Although Saudi Arabia has been widely praised for deciding to lift the ban, it has not been without controversy. Activists who have been campaigning for the ban to be lifted say they have received online death threats, and a number were arrested in May on suspicion of being "traitors" and working with foreign powers. Photos by Ahmed Jadallah.

সৌদি আরবে ২৪শে জুন থেকে নারীদের গাড়ি চালানোর ওপর নিষেধাজ্ঞা উঠে যাচ্ছে। তার জন্য ড্রাইভিং শেখার ধুম পড়েছে সৌদি নারীদের মধ্যে।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

It said Chinese troops carried out "provocative military movements" to change the status quo in Ladakh. At least 20 Indian soldiers died in clashes with Chinese troops in the region in June. China has not said if its soldiers also died. The two nuclear powers accused each other of crossing the poorly demarcated border and provoking the fight. China has denied that its troops violated the status quo. "Chinese border troops have always strictly observed the Line of Actual Control and have never crossed the line. The border troops of the two countries have been in communication over territory issues," China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said. But Delhi said that Indian troops "pre-empted" Chinese activity on "the Southern Bank of Pangong Tso Lake" on the night of 29 August. "We undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground," a statement from the Indian government said. It added that Delhi was committed to peace talks but "is also equally determined to protect its territorial integrity". Analysts say that such a public announcement from India suggests that the relative peace on the border has been broken. What happened in June? Media reports said troops clashed on ridges at a height of nearly 4,300m (14,000ft) on steep terrain, with some Indian soldiers falling into the fast-flowing Galwan river in sub-zero temperatures. At least 76 Indian soldiers were reportedly injured in addition to the 20 dead. China has not released any information about casualties on its side. The fighting took place without any firearms because of a 1996 agreement barring guns and explosives from the area. Since then, the two sides have held several military-level and diplomatic talks to resolve the issue. But both sides continue to accuse each other of not stopping construction at the border. Minor clashes have also been reported and analysts say the situation has remained fluid in the region since June. Why did the troops clash? The Line of Actual Control, as the disputed border between the two nations is known, is poorly demarcated. The presence of rivers, lakes and snowcaps mean the line can shift. The soldiers on either side - representing two of the world's largest armies - come face to face at many points. India has accused China of sending thousands of troops into Ladakh's Galwan valley and says China occupies 38,000sq km (14,700sq miles) of its territory. Several rounds of talks in the last three decades have failed to resolve the boundary disputes. The two countries have fought only one war so far, in 1962, when India suffered a humiliating defeat. There are several reasons why tensions have risen recently - but competing strategic goals lie at the root, and both sides blame each other. India's new road in what experts say is the most remote and vulnerable area along the border in Ladakh could boost Delhi's capability to move men and materiel rapidly in case of a conflict. Analysts say India's decision to ramp up infrastructure seems to have infuriated Beijing.

ভারত অভিযোগ করছে যে সম্প্রতি শান্তি আলোচনার সমঝোতা ভঙ্গ করে চীন আবারও সীমান্ত লঙ্ঘন করেছে।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh were given the death penalty by a court in 2013. Rejecting their appeal, Justice R Banumathi said the men committed "a barbaric crime" that had "shaken society's conscience". The brutal gang rape led to nationwide outrage and new anti-rape laws. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was attacked on a bus that she had boarded with her male friend as they returned home from watching a film in December 2012. Her friend was also beaten up. Jyoti Singh - whose name was publicly revealed by her mother only in 2015 - died from injuries in a hospital 13 days later. Media reports said relatives of Ms Singh applauded as the judgement was read out in court. "This is a historic message to all the people, the criminal mindset who wrong women, who inflict violence on women, to know that if you do something like this you will be also paying for it by the severest punishment that exists in our laws of the land," Ranjana Kumari, a women's rights activist, told news channel NDTV. Legal experts say it could still be months or even years before the sentences are carried out. The four men still have the right to file a review petition in the Supreme Court. Their last hope lies with a plea for clemency to the president. Six men were arrested over the attack on Ms Singh. One suspect, Ram Singh, was found dead in jail in March 2013, having apparently taken his own life. Another, who was aged 17 at the time, was released in 2015 after serving three years in a reform facility - the maximum term possible for a juvenile in India. Convicting the four men in 2013, Judge Yogesh Khanna said the case fell into the "rarest of rare category" which justifies capital punishment in India. Case timeline 16 December 2012: A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is gang-raped by six men on a bus in Delhi, her male friend is beaten up and the pair are thrown out after the brutal assault 17 December: Key accused Ram Singh, the bus driver, is arrested. Over the next few days, his brother Mukesh Singh, gym instructor Vinay Sharma, fruit seller Pawan Gupta, a helper on the bus Akshay Thakur, and the 17-year-old juvenile, who cannot be named, are arrested. 29 December: The victim dies in hospital in Singapore from injuries sustained during the assault; body flown back to Delhi 11 March 2013: Ram Singh dies in Tihar jail; police say he hanged himself, but defence lawyers and his family allege he was murdered 31 August: The juvenile is found guilty and sentenced to three years in a reform facility 13 September: The four adult defendants are convicted and given the death penalty by the trial court 13 March 2014: The Delhi high court confirms the death sentence March - June: The convicts appeal in the Supreme Court and the death sentences are put on hold until the court takes a decision

ভারতে সাত বছরেরও বেশি আগে চলন্ত বাসে এক মেডিক্যাল ছাত্রীকে নৃশংসভাবে ধর্ষণ ও হত্যার মামলায় আজ দোষীদের বিরুদ্ধে মৃত্যু পরোয়ানা জারি করেছে দিল্লির পাতিয়ালা হাউস কোর্ট।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent For most, the disease is mild, but some people die. So how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated? Incubation period This is when the virus is establishing itself. Viruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them. The coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face. It first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into "coronavirus factories" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells. At this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms. The incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average. Mild disease This is all most people will experience. Covid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough. Body aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed. The fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines. These rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever. The coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus. Some people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus. These symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care. This stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus. However, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19. This is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too. Severe disease If the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus. Those chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body. "The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know," said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London. Inflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia. If it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs. This is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. Some people will need a ventilator to help them breathe. This stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China. Critical disease It is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill. By this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death. The problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body. It can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely. Acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines. "The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure," Dr Bharat Pankhania said. And if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage. Treatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation. This is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in. But eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive. The first deaths Doctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts. The first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs. The first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital. He was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating. He died 11 days after he was admitted. The second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome. He was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed. Follow James on Twitter.

গত বছরের ডিসেম্বরে করোনাভাইরাস সম্পর্কে প্রথম জানা গেলেও এরই মধ্যে এই ভাইরাস এবং এর ফলে সৃষ্ট রোগ কোভিড-১৯ এর মহামারি সামাল দিতে হচ্ছে বিশ্বকে।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Selin GiritBBC News, Istanbul Over the weekend, fresh stocks of milk, yogurt, poultry and juice from Turkey were flown to Doha as the country faced a shortage of fresh produce due to the recent crisis in the Gulf - the worst in the past decade. On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the isolation of Qatar as inhumane and against Islamic values, comparing it to a "death sentence". His foreign minister is due to visit the country on Wednesday for talks about the crisis. As Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt decided to sever all ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism, Turkey's initial reaction was to try to refrain from taking sides and to call for dialogue. But just two days later Ankara made a dramatic pro-Qatari turn. The passing of a bill to authorise the deployment of Turkish troops to Qatar was presented to the international community as a clear message: Doha is not alone. In fact, the bill had been waiting for parliamentary approval for almost two years - long before the Qatar crisis erupted. The two countries had already signed a military protocol back in 2015, and Turkey had opened a military base in Qatar - its first in the region, currently hosting about 100 Turkish soldiers, but with a capacity of up to 5,000 troops. On Monday, the Turkish army sent a further three officers to co-ordinate the future deployment. Some reports suggest that Ankara will initially deploy infantry, then a naval force, followed by F16 fighter jets. Ankara perceives Doha as one of its key allies, especially after Turkey's increasing isolation internationally. Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was the first leader to make a solidarity call to President Erdogan after the Turkish coup attempt last year. There are even reports alleging that a 150-strong elite unit of Qatari special forces was sent to Turkey for close protection of Mr Erdogan after the coup plot. The governments of the two countries also share similar ideological stances. Neither classifies the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas as "terrorist organisations"; both have condemned the military coup in Egypt that toppled Mohammed Morsi in 2013; and both have supported Islamist groups in their attempt to overthrow Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. They also have the same attitude towards Iran. Both acknowledge that it is one of the key players in the region and try to maintain good ties - contrary to the Saudi demonisation of Tehran. Qatar has also been investing heavily in Turkey - it ranks seventh in terms of Doha's foreign investments. Turkish exports to Qatar are valued at more than $420m (£330m), and the emirate is seeking several arms deals with Turkish defence firms. The value of projects undertaken in Qatar by more than 30 Turkish companies, mainly in the construction sector, has reached approximately $8.5bn to date, according to official numbers. And with the 2022 World Cup's preparations under way, Turkish contractors are eyeing the country for further investments. Mr Erdogan has demanded an immediate end to the Qatar crisis, calling on the Saudi king to take the lead to resolve it. Although taking a pro-Qatari position, Turkey does not want to be perceived as anti-Saudi. What it wants first and foremost is a diplomatic settlement to restore the relations between the parties. But if the tension escalates further leading to a military confrontation, or a coup, will Turkey still be prepared to stand by its recently adopted "brother"?

"দুধের জন্য ধন্যবাদ তুরস্ক!" কয়দিন আগে টুইটারে এমন একটি মন্তব্য করেন কাতারের এক নাগরিক।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

During the visit, he will co-chair the Sixth meeting of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Commission along with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirkamar. He will also meet Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumarathunga, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakshe and leaders of political parties. India-Sri Lanka relations have seen significant progress since the last meeting of the Joint Commission held in 2003, Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "Political relations are close, trade and investments have increased, infrastructural linkages are expanding, defence cooperation is under discussion and there is a general, broad-based improvement across all sectors of bilateral cooperation", the statement added. Trade Talks Analysts say Natwar Singh will be discussing economic, political and defence cooperation between India and Sri Lanka. Indian role in the tsunami reconstruction in the Island nation and Tamil Tigers (LTTE) related security issues are also expected to be discussed. Reacting to reports that the LTTE had secretly built up air capabilities, in a recent interview Natwar Sigh had said that India was "concerned about LTTE having built an airstrip and having two aircraft and there's news about more coming." Describing the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement as a success, Indian statement said that, "bilateral trade has more than doubled after the FTA was signed and exceeded US$ 1.8 billion in 2003-04. India was the largest investor in Sri Lanka in 2002 and 2003". Both countries have agreed to finalise their discussions on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement by the end of 2005. Indian Investments Discussions are also underway between the two countries on major Indian investments in the power sector, in development of road and rail infrastructure and in energy. India has committed a total of US$ 381 million as credit lines to Sri Lanka for financing a variety of economically important activities in Sri Lanka. In addition, India had announced a Rs. 100 crore composite Tsunami relief package for Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004. Indian assistance in Sri Lanka's "Rebuilding the Nation Programme" is continuing, Indian statement said. Natwar Singh is visiting Sri Lanka at a time when the Island's nation's political divisions are getting sharpened over the proposed Joint Tsunami Reconstruction Mechanism between Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE). Joint Mechanism While Chandrika Kumarathunga wants to set up the joint mechanism, a key coalition ally of her government JVP is opposing it. The party even threatened to quit the government if she implemented it. Powerful Buddhist monks are also opposing the move and one of them is on a fast unto death opposing it. During Kumaratunga's recent visit to India, Indian government supported her efforts to establish the Tsunami joint mechanism. Since India had banned LTTE as a terrorist outfit following the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by a suspected LTTE suicide bomber, India's indirect support to the joint mechanism was seen as an important endorsement of Chandrika's move.

ভারতের স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী রাজনাথ সিং আগামী ১৩ই জুলাই শুক্রবার তিনদিনের এক রাষ্ট্রীয় সফরে বাংলাদেশে যাচ্ছেন।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

The Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 went down just minutes after taking off from Tehran's airport, leaving no survivors. Under global aviation rules, Iran has the right to lead the investigation. But manufacturers are typically involved and experts say few countries are capable of analysing black boxes. The crash came at a time of high tensions between Iran and the US and just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two air bases housing US forces in Iraq. There is no evidence that the two events are linked. Normally, the US National Transportation Safety Board would have a role to play in any international investigations involving US-made Boeings. But the board must act with permission and in accordance with legislation of the foreign country concerned. In comments published by Iran's conservative Mehr news agency, the head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation (CAO), Ali Abedzadeh, said: "We will not give the black box to the manufacturer and the Americans." "This accident will be investigated by Iran's aviation organisation but the Ukrainians can also be present," he added. Mr Abedzadeh said it was not yet clear which country would analyse the black boxes - a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. Boeing said it was "ready to assist in any way needed", while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country expected to have a role in the investigation and had offered technical assistance. What happened? The Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 to Kyiv had 176 people on board when it crashed in Iran on Wednesday. The majority of passengers were from Iran and Canada. Ukraine's Tehran embassy initially blamed engine failure but later removed the statement, saying any comment regarding the cause of the accident prior to a commission's inquiry was not official. There was good visibility when the plane went down near Iran's capital, according to the Flightradar24 aviation website. Officials from the airline said the crew were experienced. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned against "speculation or unchecked theories regarding the catastrophe" until official reports were ready. Iranian media blamed technical problems and quoted an aviation official who said no emergency had been declared. Mr Abedzadeh said "terrorism" had played no role in the crash, according to Mehr. Who was on board? Among the victims were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians including all nine crew, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Britons and three Germans, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said. Fifteen of the dead were children. But the German government later said "we currently have no knowledge that German citizens are among the victims of the plane crash in Iran". Iran's head of emergency operations said 147 of the victims were Iranian. That would suggest that 65 of the foreign nationals had dual nationalities. The Ukrainian airline gave a helpline number for further information about passengers: +38-044-581-50-19. Mr Trudeau said 138 passengers on the flight were en route to Canada via Kyiv. "All people who won't be coming home to their parents, their friends, their colleagues or their family," he said. "All had so much potential, so much life ahead of them". What went wrong? Flight data from the Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737-800 is openly available online. It shows that the plane climbed normally after taking-off from Tehran. It reached nearly 8,000ft (2,400m) before the aircraft's data suddenly disappears. This is unusual and would suggest some type of catastrophic incident on board the plane. We have no evidence at this stage to tell us what caused the incident. According to a former air crash investigator, any suggestion of engine failure feels premature. This possibility can't be ruled out at this early stage but an airliner such as the Boeing 737-800 is designed to keep flying if there is an engine failure. Plus, if there was a failure then we would normally expect the flight data to show the plane's climb becoming less steep. Have you been personally affected by this story? Please get in touch with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:

১৭৬ জন যাত্রী নিয়ে যে বিমানটি বিধ্বস্ত হয়েছে তার ধ্বংসাবশেষ থেকে উদ্ধারকৃত ব্ল্যাক বক্স ফ্লাইট রেকর্ডারটি বিমানের প্রস্ততকারক সংস্থা বোয়িং বা মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের কাছে হস্তান্তর করবে না ইরান।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

By Rana JawadBBC News,Tunis They are being shared under the hashtag #EnaZeda, which means "MeToo" in Tunisian Arabic. The man in the photos is a recently elected MP, Zouheir Makhlouf, who denies the allegations - saying he was about to urinate into a bottle as he is a diabetic. Women, wearing #EnaZeda T-shirts, gathered outside parliament earlier this month when MPs were being sworn in, demanding the case be investigated. The MP technically enjoys parliamentary immunity now, though a judge is still examining the case. The images were taken in October by a student who alleges the politician had been harassing her. 'Paedophilia and incest rampant' Outrage over the case prompted Aswaat Nisaa, a non-government organisation meaning "Women's Voices", to launch a closed group on Facebook called #EnaZeda. It is a safe space for victims to share their experiences - and the revelations have been a shock for the moderators of the page. "Paedophilia and incest are more rampant than we would like to admit," moderator Rania Said told the BBC. "Many, many families are hiding this, and many families don't even know how to deal with this." You may also be interested in: The page now has more than 25,000 members, with thousands still pending approval. There are a deluge of testimonies detailing allegations of rape, marital rape and sexual harassment. Accusations have been made against people in the military, the police, universities, schools, the media and relatives. It is not just women making the allegations - some men have also posted. The level of engagement took Aswaat Nisaa by surprise, especially about child abuse that has been ignored within families. "In the beginning especially there were so many stories about uncles, brothers, neighbours, the guy at the neighbourhood corner store," says Ms Said. 'My mother didn't help' Aswaat Nisaa put me in touch with a 36-year-old woman who said she was molested by her aunt's husband when she was 14. She had gone to live with the couple one summer after her father had beaten her. "It started by kissing me on my mouth, he started touching my breasts," she said. "I didn't understand what he was doing because… I never saw myself as sexual, my body as sexual yet, because nobody had talked to me about it." This continued for several weeks whenever he cornered her alone, until one night he entered her room. "He climbed on top of me; he tried to force himself, but I started to shout. So he was scared because my aunt - his wife - was sleeping in the other room," she says. Women in Tunisia: She did tell some of her relatives about it but they dismissed the incident, suggesting it was a sign of her uncle's affection, and offered her no support. "My mother said: 'I lived through stuff like that, I do not think this is too bad.'" She said she could not bring herself to report the incident to the authorities. "If I was to accuse him, even if it's my right, I would destroy a whole network of family - I didn't want to be guilty of that." Taking on family and culture In 2017, Tunisian lawmakers introduced a landmark law to protect women against all forms of violence. At the time some observers went so far as to describe it as being one of the most progressive in the region, possibly the world, because once a complaint is officially lodged, even if the victim changes her mind, the legal procedure continues. But Fadoua Brahem, a lawyer who has taken on several cases of sexual abuse, told the BBC the law was still "in the transition phase of being implemented". As it stands, the wider system and culture a victim faces before reaching court make a mockery of the law. She said the first obstacle victims face is simply filing a complaint with the police, where often there are attempts to dissuade them from doing so by both the family and law enforcement authorities. The health system also exposes victims to what can feel like a humiliating process because, for example, there are no specialised units to deal with cases of rape. "A victim needs to have the psychological and financial tools to seek justice - it's not set up to be available to everyone," Ms Brahem said. What #EnaZeda is doing is giving everyone the freedom to be honest about the sexual violence and harassment that is largely unacknowledged in the country. There are hopes it might further encourage sex education both at home and in schools. "In Tunisia the sanctity of a child's body is not respected," says Ms Brahem. "We are families and a population that is very affectionate when it comes to touching and kissing. Maybe the parents now understand that there are things that should not take place, or that they need to be more vigilant." For Ms Said the messages sent to the #EnaZeda Facebook page show a real sea change in attitudes - in trying to do something concrete to stop abuse. "One lawyer posted that she would be willing to defend victims of sexual violence free of charge. "Many parents have reacted by sharing resources like books about bodily integrity for children, in Arabic French and English, and thanking us and saying that they're more aware - that's my favourite part."

তিউনিসিয়ায় একটি স্কুলের সামনে গাড়িতে বসে এক পুরুষের হস্তমৈথুনের ছবি প্রকাশ পাবার পর সেদেশের নারীদের মধ্যে তীব্র ক্ষোভের সৃষ্টি হয়েছে।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

Prosecutors have asked for the death penalty for five of the defendants. Khashoggi, a prominent US-based critic of the Saudi government, was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on 2 October. Prosecutors say he was murdered in a "rogue" operation by agents sent to persuade him to return to the kingdom. Saudi Arabia has refused Turkey's request to extradite 18 suspects for trial, including 15 alleged agents who it says flew to Istanbul to carry out the killing. What do we know of the trial? Little information was released by state media other than that the first session of the criminal court's hearing of the case had begun and that the 11 defendants and their lawyers were present. Defence lawyers requested a copy of the indictment sheet and time to review it. No date was set for the next hearing. Requests to Turkey for evidence had not yet been answered, the attorney general said in a statement carried on the Saudi Press Agency. No names of the defendants have been officially released. Earlier statements said another 10 people were also being investigated. What have the Saudis said so far? In November, Deputy Public Prosecutor Shalaan bin Rajih Shalaan said investigators had concluded that an intelligence officer ordered Khashoggi's murder, applying a lethal injection inside the consulate. The officer had been tasked with persuading the dissident journalist to return to the Gulf kingdom, he added. Khashoggi's body was dismembered inside the building and the body parts were then handed over to a local "collaborator" outside the grounds, according to Mr Shalaan. The remains have not yet been found. Are there any clues about the defendants' identities? Turkey has identified 15 men it believes to be Saudi agents arriving at and departing from Istanbul's international airport around the time of the killing. But whether any of them are now on trial in Riyadh is unknown. One man who will not be on trial is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the son of King Salman and Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, who has been accused by some in the West of being behind the killing. US officials have reportedly said such an operation would have needed the prince's approval. Prince Mohammed has denied any role in what he has called a "heinous crime that cannot be justified". The US has imposed sanctions on 17 Saudi officials, including Saud al-Qahtani, a former adviser to the crown prince who it alleged was "part of the planning and execution of the operation" that led to Khashoggi's murder. Again, it is unclear if any of the 17 are being tried. Will it tell us the whole story? Analysis by Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent The key question a lot of people will be asking about this trial is: Will it tell us the whole story about how Khashoggi died? The past history of previous trials in Saudi Arabia would tend to indicate that it won't. Commenting on the first day of the trial today, Amnesty International said "Saudi Arabia's criminal justice system falls far short of international law". The human rights group, which has called for a UN investigation into the journalist's murder, added that "the impartiality of any investigation by the Saudi authorities is inevitably highly questionable". The Saudi authorities have previously defended their justice system saying it is based on Sharia (Islamic law) and that therefore it is above criticism. But Saudi trials are notoriously opaque and due to the absence of a standard criminal code judges are often given leeway to hand out arbitrary punishments. Who was Jamal Khashoggi? As a prominent journalist, he covered major stories including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of Osama Bin Laden for various Saudi news organisations. For decades he was close to the Saudi royal family and also served as an adviser to the government. But he fell out of favour and went into self-imposed exile in the US last year. From there, he wrote columns for the Washington Post in which he criticised the policies of the crown prince. In his first column for the newspaper, Khashoggi said he feared being arrested in an apparent crackdown on dissent overseen by the prince. In his last column, he criticised Saudi involvement in war in Yemen.

সৌদি আরবের রাজধানী রিয়াদে সাংবাদিক জামাল খাসোগজি হত্যা মামলায় ১১ জনের বিচার শুরু হয়েছে। সৌদি গণমাধ্যম জানিয়েছে, সরকারি কৌশুলিরা সেখানে এই মামলায় বিবাদীদের পাঁচজনের মৃত্যুদন্ড চেয়েছেন।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

"It was all about the sanctions," Mr Trump told reporters. "They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that." North Korea said it had made "realistic proposals" at the summit. The two leaders had been expected to announce progress on denuclearisation. "Sometimes you have to walk and this was one of those times," Mr Trump said. Speaking at a news conference after the summit, in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, Mr Trump said no plans had been made for a third summit, but he expressed optimism about a "good outcome" in the future. And on his flight back to the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was very hopeful that officials from both sides could resume talks before too long. The original White House programme for the day had planned for a "joint agreement signing ceremony" as well as a working lunch for the two leaders, but expectations were abruptly dashed with the cancellation of both. What were the sticking points? According to Mr Trump, Mr Kim made a significant offer - to dismantle all of the Yongbyon complex, the research and production facility at the heart of North Korea's nuclear programme. But in return Mr Kim wanted all sanctions on North Korea lifted, something the US was not prepared to offer. There was also a question over the network of facilities that extend beyond Yongbyon. Last month, Stephen Biegun, the US state department special representative for North Korea, said North Korea had committed in pre-summit talks to destroy all of the nation's plutonium- and uranium-enrichment facilities, dependent on unspecified US measures in return. Yongbyon is North Korea's only known source of plutonium but the country is believed to have at least two other facilities where uranium is enriched. Those unspecified US measures appear now to have been complete sanctions relief, which Mr Trump would not offer. The US president also suggested in his news conference that Mr Kim had offered only the destruction of Yongbyon and not North Korea's entire nuclear apparatus. The president said that when he raised the issue of a second enrichment facility apart from Yongbyon, the North Korean delegation was "surprised" by what the US knew. North Korea's foreign minister later said that Pyongyang had been seeking partial sanctions relief, not a complete lifting. The North had offered to permanently stop nuclear and long-range rocket testing, the minister added. Is this a setback for Trump? The first summit between the two leaders, which took place in Singapore in June 2018, was criticised for having produced little in terms of substance, leading to anticipation that Mr Trump would push at the summit in Hanoi to produce an agreement on denuclearisation. The failure will be viewed as a setback for self-styled deal-maker Mr Trump, who has talked up his historic rapprochement with Mr Kim as a significant policy achievement. Some saw the president's decision to not agree a deal as a good move. "From Mr Trump's perspective it will be a loss he can weather," Andray Abrahamian, a North Korea expert at Stanford University, wrote in a column for the BBC. "A 'bad deal' in which he gave away a lot would inspire years of debate and pushback from US foreign-policy elites. With this, he's spun it as saveable through working-level talks." The summit came as Mr Trump was facing increased scrutiny at home in the US over his business dealings and alleged ties to Russia, after his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified before Congress on Wednesday. International reaction A statement from South Korea's presidential office called the breakdown of talks "regrettable" but said the US and North Korean leaders had made "more meaningful progress than at any time prior". South Korean leader Moon Jae-in has worked to improve bilateral relations between the two Koreas, and played a role in arranging the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore. A later statement from President Moon said he had held a 25-minute phone conversation with Mr Trump and "looked forward to productive results at follow-up consultations between the US and North Korean leaders". China, North Korea's main ally, said it hoped both sides would keep talking. "Solving this problem is definitely not something that can be achieved overnight," foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said. What was said about Otto Warmbier? US media extensively covered remarks by Mr Trump about an American student, Otto Warmbier, who died from extensive injuries shortly after he was released from North Korean detention in 2017. The president said he had raised the Warmbier case with Mr Kim and believed the North Korean leader's assurances that he knew nothing of the student's treatment. "Some really bad things happened to Otto - some really really bad things. But he tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word," Mr Trump said. Warmbier, who was 22, was arrested for taking a propaganda poster from a hotel while on a visit to Pyongyang in January 2016. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. Mr Trump is not thought to have pressed Mr Kim during their talks on North Korea's wider human rights record. According to Human Rights Watch, the United Nations and international powers, the North Korean regime is among the world's worst human rights abusers, with an estimated 80,000 - 120,000 political prisoners and a history of murder, torture, and sexual violence perpetrated against its citizens. What does denuclearisation mean? There is uncertainty about what exactly both sides mean by denuclearisation. Washington has previously said North Korea must unilaterally give up its all of its nuclear weapons and destroy all of its nuclear facilities before there can be any sanctions relief, but that condition is known to be a sticking point for the North Koreans. It is thought Mr Kim views denuclearisation as a mutual arrangement in which the US withdraws its military presence on the Korean peninsula. Asked at the news conference on Thursday what he meant by denuclearisation, Mr Trump said: "To me it's pretty obvious, we have to get rid of the nukes." Mr Trump said the US delegation "had some options and this time we decided not to do any of the options". Where does this leave the relationship? The pair seemed to get along at the Hanoi summit, as they did at the previous summit in Singapore. They took a poolside stroll for the cameras, although neither appeared to say much. Speaking after the talks in Hanoi, Mr Trump said Mr Kim was "quite a guy and quite a character" and described their relationship as "very strong". Despite the lack of an agreement, the second summit would appear to build on a significant shift in the tenor of the relationship between the two nations. In late 2017, they were exchanging vitriolic threats, with Mr Trump calling Mr Kim "little rocket man" and Mr Kim calling Mr Trump a "mentally deranged dotard". An end to war? Before the summit, there was talk of a possible political declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War, which finished with an armistice rather than a full peace treaty. With the abrupt end of the talks, that peripheral goal seemed to have been kicked into the long grass.

যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প আর উত্তর কোরিয়ার নেতা কিম জং-আনের মধ্যে বৈঠকটি কোন সমঝোতা ছাড়াই শেষ হয়ে গেছে কারণ উত্তর কোরিয়ার দাবি অনুযায়ী নিষেধাজ্ঞা তুলে নিতে রাজি হয়নি যুক্তরাষ্ট্র।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

They also agreed to field a joint women's ice hockey team in rare talks at the truce village of Panmunjom. These are the first high-level talks between the countries in more than two years. It marks a thaw in relations that began in the new year when North Korea offered to send a team to the games. The games will take place between 9 and 25 February in Pyeongchang in South Korea. What will happen? If the plans are realised, a hundreds-strong North Korean delegation - including 230 cheerleaders, 140 orchestral musicians and 30 taekwondo athletes - could cross into the South via the land border to attend the Winter Olympics. It will mean the opening of the cross border road for the first time in almost two years. The two countries have also agreed to field a joint team for the sport of women's ice hockey. It would be the first time athletes from both Koreas have competed together in the same team at an Olympic Games. The North has also agreed to send a smaller, 150-member delegation to the Paralympics in March. The agreement will have to be approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Saturday, because North Korea has missed registration deadlines or failed to qualify. South Korea will also need to find ways to host the North Korean delegation without violating UN Security Council sanctions outlawing cash transfers to Pyongyang and blacklisting certain senior North officials. What has the reaction been? South Korea's hockey coach and conservative newspapers have expressed concern about the prospect of a united hockey team, saying it could damage South Korea's chances of winning a medal. Tens of thousands of people are said to have signed online petitions urging President Moon Jae-in to scrap the plan. But the liberal leader told South Korean Olympic athletes on Wednesday that the North's participation in the Games would help improve inter-Korean relations. Japan has viewed the latest detente with suspicion, with Foreign Minister Taro Kono saying the world should not be blinded by Pyongyang's recent "charm offensive". "It is not the time to ease pressure or to reward North Korea," Mr Kono said, according to Reuters news agency. "The fact that North Korea is engaging in dialogue could be interpreted as proof that the sanctions are working." No Korean Spring Analysis by Jonathan Marcus, BBC Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent The Olympic embrace between North and South Korea represents a rare moment of hope in a crisis that at times has appeared to be steadily moving towards another war on the Korean peninsula. But is this a brief respite from the bluster and war-like words exchanged between Pyongyang and President Donald Trump, Seoul's main ally? Or does it really offer a platform for a diplomatic route out of this crisis? The enormity of an armed conflict is clear to all - even President Trump. However, the Olympic detente does not alter the realities of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. Both programmes need more testing to demonstrate a true inter-continental capability. And with Mr Trump insisting that this is a capability that the North will not be allowed to obtain, it is hard to see this developing into a Korean spring, let alone a definitive resolution of the nuclear dispute. How did the agreement come about? The talks which resulted in this agreement came after tensions on the Korean peninsula reached their highest point in decades. This is because North Korea has made rapid advances in its nuclear and conventional weapons programmes in recent years. Its latest ballistic missile test, on 28 November, sparked a series of fresh sanctions from the UN targeting petrol shipments and travel. Soon afterwards North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he was "open to dialogue". In a New Year speech, he said he was considering sending a team to the Winter Olympics. South Korea's Olympics chief had said last year that the North's athletes would be welcome. Then, on 9 January, the two countries made the breakthrough announcement that the North would be sending a delegation. It was also agreed that a military hotline between the nations, suspended for nearly two years, would be reinstated. President Moon Jae-in has said the Olympic agreement could pave the way for the nuclear issue to be addressed and lead to dialogue between the North and the US, according to Yonhap news agency in Seoul.

আগামী মাসে শুরু হতে যাওয়া শীতকালীন অলিম্পিকে একসাথে এক পতাকার নিচে সামিল হবার ঘোষণা দিয়েছে দুই কোরিয়া।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

He tweeted that he had consulted with military experts and cited "tremendous medical costs and disruption". The Obama administration decided last year to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military. But in June, Defence Secretary James Mattis agreed to a six-month delay in the recruitment of transgender people. How has Mr Trump justified his decision? As is often the case, the announcement came in a series of tweets. Mr Trump said: "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." But the measure will not go into effect immediately, as spokesperson Sarah Sanders told reporters at a White House press briefing. The implementation policy has to be worked out, she said when asked if troops on battlefields would be immediately sent back to the United States. This was "a military decision" said Mrs Sanders, adding that it is "not meant to be anything more than that". 'My stomach dropped': Transgender troops hit by ban The secret life of a transgender airman Why has the president decided on this now? Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America Reporter The timing of this transgender ban is almost as interesting as the move itself. Why now? With the Trump administration being buffeted by the Jeff Sessions political death watch, the ongoing multi-prong investigation into the Trump campaign, the healthcare drama in the Senate and the impending Russian sanctions bill, perhaps the administration decided this was a good time to change the subject and rally conservative forces to his side. Republicans have long used cultural issues as a wedge to divide Democrats and energise evangelicals. As one White House insider acknowledged, this is straight out of that playbook. While Mr Trump campaigned as sympathetic to LGBT rights, he needs the traditional religious conservatives to stay loyal to him now, more than ever. Or perhaps, as Politico is reporting, the White House sought to resolve an intraparty dispute that threatened passage of a key military spending bill in the House of Representatives. That the president chose to do so suddenly, with little advanced notice, would not be out of the ordinary for this administration. The president's action will create a furore among liberals and the media commentators whose disdain for the current administration is not a new development. This is a fight the White House will welcome. What is the status of transgender service personnel? The independent Rand Corporation estimated in 2016 that about 4,000 US active-duty and reserve service members are transgender, although some campaigners put the figure higher than 10,000. Rand also predicted that the inclusion of transgender people in the military would cause a 0.13% increase in healthcare spending (approximately $8.4m). A Military Times analysis found that the Department of Defense spends five times that figure just on erectile dysfunction drug Viagara alone. The Obama administration's move to allow transgender people in the military to serve openly was announced in June 2016 by then Defence Secretary Ash Carter. The policy included a provision for the military to provide medical help for service members wanting to change gender. Transgender people would be permitted to join the services, so long as they could demonstrate they had been stable in their new gender for at least 18 months. This was meant to come into effect on 1 July 2017 but the Trump administration delayed it by a further six months. The Pentagon said the five branches of the military needed more time to "review their accession plans and provide input on the impact to the readiness and lethality of our forces". While Mr Trump's decision concerns transgender military personnel, the US military's ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemen and women - known as "Don't ask don't tell" - was lifted in 2011. Delays leave transgender military in limbo UK chiefs praise transgender troops What do critics of this say? LGBTQ campaign group, GLAAD, called Mr Trump's move "a direct attack on transgender Americans". Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Centre, a leading think-tank which studies gender and sexuality in the military, told the BBC that Mr Trump's decision would force transgender troops to in effect live as gays and lesbians did under "Don't ask, don't tell". Kristin Beck, a retired elite Navy SEAL, issued a challenge to President Trump in an interview with Business Insider: "Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy." She said that during her decorated military career, she had been "defending individual liberty". "Being transgender doesn't affect anyone else," she said. "We are liberty's light. If you can't defend that for everyone that's an American citizen, that's not right." Former Defence Secretary Carter released a critical statement: "To choose service members on other grounds than military qualifications is social policy and has no place in our military. There are already transgender individuals who are serving capably and honourably." Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Republican John McCain, said major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter and continued: "The statement was unclear. The Department of Defense has already decided to allow currently-serving transgender individuals to stay in the military, and many are serving honorably today. Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving." Several British military generals have condemned Mr Trump's decision, including the commander of the UK Maritime Forces, Rear Admiral Alex Burton. "As an @RoyalNavy_LGBT champion and senior warfighter I am so glad we are not going this way", he wrote on Twitter, later adding: "We have a justifiably rigorous selection process but it doesn't include discrimination and we're a better fighting force for it." Trump revokes transgender toilet rules What about those in favour? Republican opponents of transgender people serving in the military include Vicky Hartzler, a congresswoman from Missouri, who wants transgender service members honourably discharged. Some oppose the military having to bear medical costs associated with transgender recruits, such as gender reassignment. Tony Perkins of the socially conservative Family Research council said: "Our troops shouldn't be forced to endure hours of transgender 'sensitivity' classes and politically correct distractions." Trump supporter and political commentator Scott Presler is among those who disagree with the military carrying the cost of such interventions. While disagreeing with the ban, he added that "generals know more about war than I do. "I am cognisant that they understand what it takes to go to war... I don't think this is an attack on the LGBT community. "I'm mixed, but I have confidence in the guidance that President Trump is receiving," he said. "I don't think for a second he's prejudiced."

যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প বলেছেন, দেশটির সেনাবাহিনীতে তৃতীয় লিঙ্গের মানুষেরা কোনোভাবেই কাজ করতে পারবে না ।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

A man of great humour, he became a popular ambassador for science and was always careful to ensure that the general public had ready access to his work. His book A Brief History of Time became an unlikely best-seller although it is unclear how many people actually managed to get to the end of it. He appeared in a number of popular TV shows and lent his synthesised voice to various recordings. Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. His father, a research biologist, had moved with his mother from London to escape German bombing. Hawking grew up in London and St Albans and, after gaining a first-class degree in physics from Oxford, went on to Cambridge for postgraduate research in cosmology. As a teenager he had enjoyed horse-riding and rowing but while at Cambridge he was diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease which was to leave him almost completely paralysed. As he was preparing to marry his first wife, Jane, in 1964 his doctors gave him no more than two or three years of life. But the disease progressed more slowly than expected. The couple had three children, and in 1988 - although Hawking was by now only able to speak with a voice synthesiser following a tracheotomy - he had completed A Brief History of Time - a layman's guide to cosmology. It sold more than 10 million copies, although its author was aware that it was dubbed "the most popular book never read". He received honorary degrees, medals, prizes and awards throughout his career and was honoured with a CBE in 1982. He was reportedly offered a knighthood in the 1990s but later revealed he had turned it down over issues with the government's funding for science. Celebrity Hawking discovered the phenomenon which became known as Hawking radiation, where black holes leak energy and fade to nothing. He was renowned for his extraordinary capacity to visualise scientific solutions without calculation or experiment. But it was perhaps his "theory of everything", suggesting that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws, that attracted most attention. "This complete set of laws can give us the answers to questions like how did the universe begin," he said. "Where is it going and will it have an end? If so, how will it end? If we find the answers to these questions, we really shall know the mind of God." Hawking's celebrity status was acknowledged even by The Simpsons - he was depicted drinking at a bar with Homer, suggesting he might steal Homer's idea that the universe is shaped like a doughnut. He appeared in a special documentary about BBC comedy series Red Dwarf during which he spoke about why he enjoyed the show and also starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a hologram of his image. The rock group Pink Floyd used his distinctive synthesised voice for the introduction to Keep Talking, on their 1994 album The Division Bell. Undeterred by his condition, he continued his work as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, and in 2001, his second book - Universe in a Nutshell - was published. Erratic He believed his illness brought some benefits; he said before he developed the disease he had been bored with life. But his condition inevitably made him dependent on others. He often paid tribute to his wife, who had looked after him for more than 20 years, and friends and relatives were shocked when he left her for one of his nurses, Elaine Mason, whom he married in 1995. The couple later divorced in 2006. By 2000, Hawking was a frequent visitor to the emergency department of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, seeking treatment for a variety of injuries. Police questioned several people about allegations that he had been subjected to verbal and physical abuse over a period of years. He was known to be an erratic, almost reckless driver of his electric wheelchair, and Hawking insisted his injuries were not caused by abuse. No action was taken. In 2007, he became the first quadriplegic to experience weightlessness on board the so-called "vomit comet", a modified plane specially designed to simulate zero gravity. He said he did it to encourage interest in space travel and booked a seat on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic sub-orbital space plane. "I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space." In 2014, the film The Theory of Everything was released, based on Jane Hawking's account of their courtship and marriage. Hawking himself met Eddie Redmayne as part of the actor's preparation for taking on the role of the scientist. In a series for the Discovery Channel, he said it was perfectly rational to assume there was intelligent life elsewhere but warned that aliens might just raid earth of its resources and then move on. Hawking also predicted the end of humanity from global warming, a large comet or a new virus. He collaborated with Russian investor Yuri Milner in 2015 to work on projects to find evidence of alien life. He once wrote that he had motor neurone disease for practically all his adult life but said that it had not stopped him having an attractive family and being successful in his work. "It shows," he said, "that one need not lose hope." .

দীর্ঘদিন যাবত মোটর নিউরন ডিজিজের সাথে লড়াই করে বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে সম্মানিত এবং সুপরিচিত একজন বিজ্ঞানীতে পরিণত হওয়া স্টিভেন হকিং ৭৬ বছর বয়সে মারা গেছেন।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Reality Check teamBBC News Two recent crashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo have raised serious concerns about air safety there. The most recent was earlier in November, when a plane crashed into houses in the eastern city of Goma, killing 27 people. So how unsafe is it to fly in the DR Congo and is it any worse than other parts of world? What is DR Congo's safety record? Data from the Aviation Safety Network, which monitors and collates information about airline safety, shows DR Congo has had the most passenger-plane accidents in Africa since 1945. Daniel Kwasi Adjekum, of the University of North Dakota, says the high accident rate in DR Congo can be attributed to a variety of factors, among them the large size of the country, its terrain and weak regulation. Air travel is important because only four out of the other 25 provincial capitals in the country can be accessed by reliable roads from the capital, Kinshasa. But DR Congo has dilapidated airport infrastructure, traffic navigation and surveillance equipment. There are also weak technical and safety regulations in the country. Other challenges include the use of obsolete or aged aircraft. There are also issues with flight crew and maintenance staff, who often lack supervision and stringent regulatory standards to adhere to. And some accidents are down to factors such as bad weather, including heavy rains and storms during the rainy seasons, since DR Congo lies in the tropical belt. Who has the most accidents globally? The US has had the most air accidents since 2010, followed by Russia, Canada, Mexico and Indonesia. But the US has some of the busiest commercial air routes in the world and the high volume of air traffic would make it more vulnerable to risk and possible safety lapses. Russia has had the highest number of fatalities, 532, in accidents since 2010 - followed by Indonesia, with 520 deaths. These two countries have big commercial airline operations and passenger numbers have grown sharply in the past decade. In Russia, the number of people flying has nearly tripled since 2009. In Indonesia, it has grown more than fourfold. Nepal has had a similar number of fatalities to DR Congo over that period - around 180, and it also has difficult terrain, regulation and air safety issues, and growing numbers of people taking to the air. But Nepal has three times as much passenger traffic as DR Congo, with a sharp rise in the last few years. DR Congo's share of world air traffic is tiny - less than 0.1% - but it has accounted for nearly 4% of total air accidents since 2010. International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) data on the accident rate in relation to the number of flights each year shows that in the last decade, DR Congo had one of the worst records globally. So far this year, it is in fourth place behind Dominica, Niger and Bosnia for the number accidents reported in relation to the number of flights flown. Airlines operating in DR Congo have been banned from or restricted within the European Union. But it is not the only African country on this list. It includes 13 other African countries, as well some in Asia and Latin America. In DR Congo, the worst year for accidents was 2007, when there were eight crashes in a single year. But the country's deadliest accident was in 1996, when an Antonov transport plane overshot the runway in Kinshasa and slammed into a market, killing 237 people. Read more from Reality Check Send us your questions Follow us on Twitter

বিমানে কোথাও যাওয়াকে মনে করা হয় সবচেয়ে নিরাপদ ভ্রমণ, কিন্তু কিছু দেশ আছে যেখানে বিমানে চলাচল করা মৃত্যুর কারণ হতে পারে।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Interim data suggests 70% protection, but the researchers say the figure may be as high as 90% by tweaking the dose. The results will be seen as a triumph, but come after Pfizer and Moderna vaccines showed 95% protection. However, the Oxford jab is far cheaper, and is easier to store and get to every corner of the world than the other two. So the vaccine will play a significant role in tackling the pandemic, if it is approved for use by regulators. "The announcement today takes us another step closer to the time when we can use vaccines to bring an end to the devastation caused by [the virus]," said the vaccine's architect, Prof Sarah Gilbert. The UK government has pre-ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford vaccine, and AstraZeneca says it will make three billion doses for the world next year. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was "incredibly exciting news" and that while there were still safety checks to come, "these are fantastic results". Speaking at a Downing Street briefing on Monday evening, Mr Johnson added that the majority of people most in need of a vaccination in the UK might be able to get one by Easter. And Prof Andrew Pollard - director of the Oxford vaccine group - said it had been "a very exciting day" and paid tribute to the 20,000 volunteers in the trials around the world, including more than 10,000 in the UK. What did the trial show? The vaccine has been developed in around 10 months, a process that normally takes a decade. There are two results from the trial of more than 20,000 volunteers in the UK and Brazil. Overall, there were 30 cases of Covid in people who had two doses of the vaccine and 101 cases in people who received a dummy injection. The researchers said it worked out at 70% protection, which is better than the seasonal flu jab. Nobody getting the actual vaccine developed severe-Covid or needed hospital treatment. Prof Andrew Pollard, the trial's lead investigator, said he was "really pleased" with the results as "it means we have a vaccine for the world". However, protection was 90% in an analysis of around 3,000 people on the trial who were given a half-sized first dose and a full-sized second dose. Prof Pollard said the finding was "intriguing" and would mean "we would have a lot more doses to distribute." The analysis also suggested there was a reduction in the number of people being infected without developing symptoms, who are still thought to be able to spread the virus. When will I get a vaccine? In the UK there are four million doses of the Oxford vaccine ready to go. But nothing can happen until the vaccine has been approved by regulators who will assess the vaccine's safety, effectiveness, and that it is manufactured to high standard. This process will happen in the coming weeks. It is also unclear who will get this vaccine or the other vaccines the government has ordered. However, the UK is preparing to press the go button on an unprecedented mass immunisation campaign that dwarfs either the annual flu or childhood vaccination programmes. Care home residents and staff will be first in the queue, followed by healthcare workers and the over-80s. The plan is to then to work down through the age groups. How does it work? It uses a completely different approach to the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which inject part of the virus's genetic code into patients. The Oxford vaccine is a genetically modified common cold virus that used to infect chimpanzees. It has been altered to stop it causing an infection in people and to carry the blueprints for part of the coronavirus, known as the spike protein. Once these blueprints are inside the body they start producing the coronavirus' spike protein, which the immune system recognizes as a threat and tries to squash it. When the immune system comes into contact with the virus for real, it will know what to do. Why is the low dose better? There is not a straightforward answer. One idea is the immune system rejects the vaccine, which is built around a common cold virus, if it is given in too big an initial dose. Or a low then high shot may be a better mimic of a coronavirus infection and lead to a better immune response. Are the results disappointing? After Pfizer and Moderna both produced vaccines delivering 95% protection from Covid-19, a figure of 70% is still highly effective, but will be seen by some as relatively disappointing. But this is still a vaccine that can save lives from Covid-19 and is more effective than a seasonal flu jab. It also has crucial advantages that make it easier to use. It can be stored at fridge temperature, which means it can be distributed to every corner of the world, unlike the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, which need to be stored at much colder temperatures. The Oxford vaccine, at a price of around £3, also costs far less than Pfizer's (around £15) or Moderna's (£25) vaccines. And the Oxford technology is more established, so the vaccine is easier to mass produce cheaply. AstraZeneca has also made a "no-profit pledge". What difference will this make to my life? A vaccine is what we've spent the year waiting for and what lockdowns have bought time for. However, producing enough vaccine and then immunising tens of millions of people in the UK, and billions around the world, is still a gargantuan challenge. Life will not return to normal tomorrow, but the situation could improve dramatically as those most at risk are protected. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Breakfast we would be "something closer to normal" by the summer but "until we can get that vaccine rolled out, we all need to look after each other". What's the reaction been? Prof Peter Horby, from the University of Oxford but not involved in the trial, said: "This is very welcome news, we can clearly see the end of tunnel now. There were no Covid hospitalisations or deaths in people who got the Oxford vaccine." Dr Stephen Griffin, from the University of Leeds, said: "This is yet more excellent news and should be considered tremendously exciting. It has great potential to be delivered across the globe, achieving huge public health benefits. England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, expressed an "absolutely massive thank you" to people up and down the country who are volunteering for studies into Covid-19. "Because as we've repeatedly said, it's only science that is going to get us out of this hole," he said, adding that "it will be a long haul". Follow James on Twitter" What questions do you have about the Oxford University vaccine? 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ব্রিটেনের অক্সফোর্ড ইউনিভার্সিটি করোনাভাইরাসের যে ভ্যাকসিনটি নিয়ে কাজ করছে, সেটির একটি ব্যাপক ট্রায়ালের ফলাফলে দেখা যাচ্ছে, ভ্যাকসিনটি শতকরা ৭০ ভাগ মানুষের মধ্যে কোভিড বাসা বাধতে দেয় না।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

After more than two weeks of denials, Saudi Arabia eventually admitted that he had been killed within the consulate in what officials called a "rogue operation" and has vowed to punish "those responsible". Once an adviser to the royal family, Khashoggi had fallen sharply out of favour with the Saudi government and went into self-imposed exile last year. Here, we take a look at Khashoggi, his career and the events that led up to his disappearance. Born in Medina in 1958, he studied business administration in the US at Indiana State University. He then returned to Saudi Arabia and started his career as a journalist in the 1980s as a reporter for regional newspapers covering the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. There, he followed closely the rise of Osama Bin Laden, interviewing the late al-Qaeda leader several times during the 1980s and 1990s. A prominent journalist From there his career covered other major events in the region, including the first Gulf War in Kuwait. He returned full-time to Saudi Arabia in the 1990s and in 1999 became the deputy editor of the English-language Arab News newspaper. In 2003 he became editor of the Al Watan newspaper but was fired just two months into his tenure for publishing stories that were critical of the Saudi clerical establishment. After his dismissal he moved to London and later Washington to serve as a media adviser to ambassador Prince Turki bin-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief. He returned to Al Watan in 2007 but left three years later after further controversy. Following the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, he expressed support for Islamist groups that had gained power in several countries. In 2012 he was chosen to lead the Saudi-backed Alarab news channel - touted as a rival to the Qatari-funded Al Jazeera. But the Bahrain-based news channel stopped broadcasting less than 24 hours after its launch in 2015 after inviting a prominent Bahraini opposition figure on to speak. Considered an authoritative voice on Saudi affairs, Khashoggi has also been a regular contributor on international news outlets. 'We Saudis deserve better' The journalist left Saudi Arabia for the US in summer 2017. In his debut September column for the Washington Post newspaper, he said that he and several others had gone into self-imposed exile because they feared being arrested. He said dozens of people had been detained in an apparent crackdown on dissidents under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been pioneering an ambitious economic and social reform program in the country. He also alleged the Saudi government had pressured the publisher of Arabic daily newspaper Al-Hayat to cancel his column and said he was told to stop tweeting to his 1.8 million followers after he cautioned against the country's "overly enthusiastic embrace" of then US President-elect Donald Trump in late 2016. "I have left my home, my family and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot. I want you to know that Saudi Arabia has not always been as it is now. We Saudis deserve better," he wrote. In his writing he accused the Saudi government of ignoring real extremists in its crackdown, and he compared the crown prince to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Khashoggi's most recent piece was published on 11 September, and the Washington Post published a blank column on 5 October to highlight his disappearance. In his last column, he criticised Saudi involvement in the Yemen conflict . Mr Khashoggi was last seen in public when he went into the Istanbul consulate on 2 October to obtain official divorce documents so he could marry a Turkish woman he had become engaged to. His fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, waited outside for him for hours but he never emerged. She says he had to surrender his mobile phone while entering, and had told her to contact an adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if he did not return. The Turkish authorities were quick to report he had been murdered and said they had evidence, including gruesome audio recordings, to back this up. For two weeks, Saudi Arabia insisted Khashoggi had left the building alive. But amid global outcry and pressure over the case, the authorities on 19 October said for the first time that he had been killed in a fight inside the consulate. The conflicting Saudi accounts over the incident have angered the kingdom's Western allies, and shaken their ties with the world's top oil exporter. 'Just a writer' Just three days before his disappearance, the BBC's Newshour programme interviewed Khashoggi off-air. In a released audio snippet, he said he did not think he'd be able to ever return to his native country. "The people being arrested are not even being dissidents, they just have an independent mind," he said. "I don't call myself an opposition: I always say I'm just a writer, I want a free environment to write and speak my mind and that's what I do in the Washington Post. "They give me a platform to write freely and I wish I had that platform in my home." He also criticised how the Saudi government was initiating reform. "This serious transformation that is happening isn't discussed - the Prince supplies us every couple of weeks or couple of months with a huge multi-billion dollar project that wasn't discussed in the parliament, wasn't discussed in the newspapers and the people will just clap and say great... and things don't work that way."

বিবাহ বিচ্ছেদের একটি সনদ নেয়ার জন্য দোসরা অক্টোবর নিজ দেশ, সৌদি আরবের ইস্তানবুল কনস্যুলেটে প্রবেশে করেছিলেন সৌদি সাংবাদিক জামাল খাসোগজি। তুরস্কের পুলিশ বলছে, তিনি এরপর আর সেখান থেকে বেরিয়ে আসেননি।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

The blaze broke out at the four-storey building in the city's congested old quarter early on Sunday morning. At least 100 people were sleeping inside the factory, which mainly makes school bags, when the fire started. More than 60 have been rescued. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the fire "horrific" and sent his condolences. A local fire chief told BBC Hindi the building did not have a proper fire licence and was operating illegally as a factory. Local media reported that the owner of the factory, named as Rehan, had been arrested. One firefighter, Rajesh Shukla, was hailed as a "hero" for saving 11 people - despite suffering injuries himself. 'Cries and shouts for help' Delhi's firefighters received the first call about the fire at 05:22 local time on Sunday (23:52 GMT Saturday). The fire began on the lower storeys, spreading rapidly to the third floor where workers were sleeping. "We woke up with cries and shouts for help," said Ronak Khan, a 17-year-old living next door. "I saw people trapped. We asked them to come to the rooftop so that we could rescue them but they were not able to come up." The area where the factory is located - Azad Market - is a web of narrow alleyways, which made it difficult to reach the blaze. Rescuers had to carry out victims on their shoulders one-by-one with firefighters cutting away window grills to access the building. It is not clear what caused the blaze but an investigation has been ordered. An initial probe and eyewitnesses suggested a short circuit may have been to blame. A brother's grief By Anant Prakash, BBC Hindi, Lok Nayak hospital, Delhi Mohammad Haider's brother Bablu worked in the factory. Haider says he rushed there and was told: "Your brother has been saved." "I was relieved and rescued three to four other people. "But then I learned that my brother was actually inside. Afterwards, I found him lying in the mortuary." Mohammad Haider is shaking. Two other men are trying to console him. "I had never thought that my brother would be separated from me this way," he says. "Bablu used to inform me about everything in his life, whatever he was up to. "Even when the fire started, he called me and said, 'Brother, please save me'. But I could not save him." Victims' relatives have been scrambling for information. One man told India's PTI agency his brother was inside. "I got a call from his friend informing that he has been injured in the incident. I have no clue which hospital he has been taken to," he said. Indian cities have often seen deadly fires, with poor planning and lax enforcement of safety regulations major factors. Indian politicians have been expressing their horror at the blaze. "The fire in Delhi's Anaj Mandi on Rani Jhansi Road is extremely horrific," Prime Minister Modi tweeted. "My thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. Wishing the injured a quick recovery. Authorities are providing all possible assistance at the site of the tragedy." Home Minister Amit Shah called it a "tragic loss of precious lives".

ভারতের রাজধানী দিল্লিতে একটি কারখানায় আগুন লেগে নিহতের সংখ্যা বেড়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে ৪০ জনে।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

By Alex TherrienHealth reporter, BBC News The study, which analysed data from 522 trials involving 116,477 people, found 21 common anti-depressants were all more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than dummy pills. But it also showed big differences in how effective each drug is. The authors of the report, published in the Lancet, said it showed many more people could benefit from the drugs. There were 64.7 million prescriptions for the drugs in England in 2016 - more than double the 31 million in 2006 - but there has been a debate about how effective they are, with some trials suggesting they are no better than placebos. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the study "finally puts to bed the controversy on anti-depressants". The so-called meta-analysis, which involved unpublished data in addition to information from the 522 clinical trials involving the short-term treatment of acute depression in adults, found the medications were all more effective than placebos. However, the study found they ranged from being a third more effective than a placebo to more than twice as effective. Lead researcher Dr Andrea Cipriani, from the University of Oxford, told the BBC: "This study is the final answer to a long-standing controversy about whether anti-depressants work for depression. "We found the most commonly prescribed anti-depressants work for moderate to severe depression and I think this is very good news for patients and clinicians." Anti-depressant "stigma" Christian Talbot, a comedian, said he first started taking anti-depressants three and a half years ago after he found talking therapies had been ineffective for him. His doctor told him his depression was due to his low levels of serotonin, which is thought to influence mood, emotion and sleep. Christian said he had been reluctant to take anti-depressants at first because he feared they might make him "numb" or dull his senses. But he said when he did take them the results were "immediately beneficial". "It wasn't that I felt a huge change come over me but I did feel literally like there was a weight that came off my shoulders. I was less anxious and felt more even." He said he felt there was a stigma around taking the drugs. "I don't know if people are afraid of them or they're embarrassed about them, because it's a medication just like anything else, except it's for a mental health issue rather than a physical issue." Anti-depressants - the most and least effective The most effective: The least effective: 'Compelling evidence' The study's authors said the findings could help doctors to pick the right prescription, but it did not mean everyone should be switching medications. That is because the study looked at the average effect of drugs rather than how they worked for individuals of different ages or gender, the severity of symptoms and other characteristics. Researchers added that most of the data in the meta-analysis covered eight weeks of treatment, so the findings might not apply to longer-term use. And they said it did not mean that anti-depressants should always be the first form of treatment. At least one million more people in the UK would benefit from treatments, including anti-depressants, they said. "Medication should always be considered alongside other options, such as psychological therapies, where these are available," Dr Cipriani added. You might also be interested in: Prof Carmine Pariante, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: "This meta-analysis finally puts to bed the controversy on anti-depressants, clearly showing that these drugs do work in lifting mood and helping most people with depression. "Importantly, the paper analyses unpublished data held by pharmaceutical companies, and shows that the funding of studies by these companies does not influence the result, thus confirming that the clinical usefulness of these drugs is not affected by pharma-sponsored spin." However, Prof Pariante said the paper did not improve understanding of how to help patients who had treatment-resistant depression and who were not helped by taking any of the 21 tested drugs. Glyn Lewis, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at University College London, said the "excellent" study provided "compelling evidence" for the effectiveness of anti-depressants. He added: "Anti-depressants often receive a 'bad press' but this paper shows they have a role in the management for people with depression."

বিজ্ঞানীরা বলছেন, চিকিৎসাশাস্ত্রের অন্যতম একটি প্রধান বিতর্কের অবসান ঘটিয়েছেন তাঁরা। গবেষণায় উঠে এসেছে যে অবসাদ নিরাময়কারী (অ্যান্টি-ডিপ্রেসান্ট) ওষুধ অবসন্নতা দূর করতে কার্যকর ভূমিকা রাখে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

The fight in the Galwan Valley left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead and raised tensions between the two powers. China did not acknowledge any casualties among its forces. Both sides accused the other of an incursion. The border between the two nations in the region is poorly demarcated and can shift with topographical changes. The image that emerged on Thursday showed crude weapons that appeared to be made from iron rods studded with nails. It was passed to the BBC by a senior Indian military official on the India-China border, who said the weapons had been used by the Chinese. Defence analyst Ajai Shukla, who first tweeted the image, described the use of such weapons as "barbarism". The absence of firearms in the clash dates back to a 1996 agreement between the two sides that guns and explosives be prohibited along the disputed stretch of the border, to deter escalation. The image was widely shared on Twitter in India, prompting outrage from many social media users. Neither Chinese or Indian officials commented on it. Media reports said troops clashed on ridges at a height of nearly 4,300m (14,000 ft) in steep terrain, with some soldiers falling into the fast-flowing Galwan river in sub-zero temperatures. First deaths in four decades The two sides have brawled along the disputed border in recent weeks, but Monday's clash was the first to lead to fatalities in at least 45 years. Unconfirmed reports in Indian media said at least 40 Chinese soldiers died, but China is yet to issue any information about casualties. Indian officials said all of their soldiers involved in the clash have been accounted for, following reports some were missing. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said India had crossed the border twice, "provoking and attacking Chinese personnel, resulting in serious physical confrontation between border forces on the two sides", the AFP news agency reported. China on Wednesday claimed "sovereignty over the Galwan Valley region" - a claim rebutted by India as "exaggerated and untenable". Members of the public in both nations have since staged protests over the clashes in the disputed Himalayan border area, while officials have spoken cautiously and moved towards a diplomatic resolution. Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the foreign ministers of both countries had a phone conversation on Wednesday on the developments and "agreed that the overall situation should be handled in a responsible manner". "Making exaggerated and untenable claims is contrary to this understanding," Mr Srivastava was quoted as saying by Press Trust of India news agency. An Indian government statement after Subrahmanyam Jaishankar's conversation with China's Wang Yi said Chinese forces tried to erect a structure on the Indian side of the de facto border, the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The statement accused the Chinese of a "premeditated and planned action that was directly responsible for the resulting violence and casualties" and urged China to "take corrective steps". Meanwhile, a Chinese statement quoted Mr Wang as saying: "China again expresses strong protest to India and demands the Indian side launches a thorough investigation... and stop all provocative actions to ensure the same things do not happen again." Why were there no guns? The Galwan river valley in Ladakh, with its harsh climate and high-altitude terrain, is close to Aksai Chin, a disputed area claimed by India but controlled by China. This is not the first time the two nuclear-armed neighbours have fought without conventional firearms on the border. India and China have a history of face-offs and overlapping territorial claims along the more than 3,440km (2,100 mile), poorly drawn LAC separating the two sides. The last firing on the border happened in 1975 when four Indian soldiers were killed in a remote pass in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The clash was variously described by former diplomats as an ambush and an accident. But no bullets have been fired since. At the root of this is a 1996 bilateral agreement that says "neither side shall open fire... conduct blast operations or hunt with guns or explosives within two kilometres of the Line of Actual Control". But there have been other tense confrontations along the border in recent weeks. In May Indian and Chinese soldiers exchanged physical blows on the border at Pangong Lake, also in Ladakh, and in the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim hundreds of miles to the east. India has accused China of sending thousands of troops into Ladakh's Galwan Valley and says China occupies 38,000 sq km (14,700 sq miles) of its territory. Several rounds of talks in the last three decades have failed to resolve the boundary disputes.

লাদাখের গালওয়ান উপত্যকায় ভারত ও চীনের সেনাবাহিনীর মধ্যে সোমবার রাতে যে প্রাণঘাতী সংঘর্ষ হয়েছে তাতে যে হাতে তৈরি অস্ত্র ব্যবহার করা হয়েছে বলে দাবি করা হচ্ছে সেটির একটি ছবি প্রকাশ পেয়েছে।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

P Jeyaraj, 58, and his son Benicks, 38, were arrested for allegedly keeping their stores open past permitted hours - Tamil Nadu is still observing a lockdown to curb the spread of Covid. Both men were kept in police custody an entire night and died within hours of each other two days later. Relatives of the two men say the men were subjected to brutal torture. What has happened since their deaths? As details of the alleged torture emerged, people began demanding action. State opposition lawmakers have taken to the streets in protest, a traders body has condemned the actions of police, and a local court has taken up the issue for hearing. The policemen who arrested the two men have been transferred, and the state government has awarded compensation of one million rupees (£10,716; $13,222) to their families. The incident has also found its way to social media, which has in turn brought it into the national spotlight. What has the reaction been like? Initially, many questioned why there is little to no outrage over the deaths of the two men, when so many Indians on social media have been vocal about the fate of George Floyd in the US, whose death at the hands of a white officer has triggered a huge movement against police brutality. Many Indian social media users have been supporting the protests against white police brutality against black Americans. However, this incident has been slower to pick up, partly because it took place in a smaller city - Thoothukudi, and it took some time to come to the attention of national media. But in recent days, the issue has begun gaining traction as furious discussion began on various social media platforms. In a video which has had more than a million views, one user said she was "sick of people not discussing what happens in south India because it is not in English" and then proceeded to give a graphic account of the alleged torture of the two men. There is also massive outrage that the policemen believed to be responsible for the men's deaths are not being charged with murder and have been merely transferred. Now high-profile users such as opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and national cricketer Shikhar Dhawan have also tweeted, demanding justice for the two men and more accountability. The issue of police brutality in India Ayeshea Perera, BBC India online editor The numbers are startling. A report by a consortium of NGOs against custodial torture have released a report in which they say 1,731 people died in custody in India during 2019. This works out to around five custodial deaths a day. The report also describes several methods of torture. The fact remains that torture and beating up suspects to extract confessions have become very much part of policing in India. Policemen who engage in it are rarely punished - most times they are simply transferred to another district or state. The rare times that they are held accountable, judiciary have made stinging remarks about the need for reform. In one verdict last year, a judge noted that "they are confident that they will not be held accountable even if the victim dies in custody and even if the truth is revealed." In 2006, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that each state should set up a police complaints authority where any citizen can lodge a complaint against police officers for any misdemeanour. However, this has not been done in most states. Activists say much more far-reaching intervention is needed to change the system.

দক্ষিণ ভারতের তামিলনাডুতে একজন প্রৌঢ় দোকানদার ও তার ছেলেকে পুলিশ হেফাজতে অকথ্য যৌন নির্যাতন করে পিটিয়ে মারার ঘটনায় সারা দেশ জুড়ে নিন্দার ঝড় বইছে।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

Saif Mulook told news agency AFP he had to leave so he could continue to represent Asia Bibi, whose conviction was overturned by judges on Wednesday. Officials have since agreed to bar Asia Bibi from leaving Pakistan in order to end violent protests over the ruling. Campaigners blasted the deal as akin to signing her "death warrant". Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 of insulting the Prophet Muhammad during a row with neighbours, and many are calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty following her acquittal. Mr Mulook told the BBC earlier this week she would need to move to a Western country for her own safety. A number of attempts have previously been made on her life. Several countries have offered her asylum. Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry defended the government against allegations that a deal reached with an Islamist party was capitulating to extremists. He said the government would "take all steps necessary" to ensure Asia Bibi's safety. Mr Mulook, however, called the agreement "painful". "They cannot even implement an order of the country's highest court," he told AFP before he boarded the plane to Europe. Mr Mulook said he had decided to leave as it was "not possible" to continue living in Pakistan, adding: "I need to stay alive as I still have to fight the legal battle for Asia Bibi." He told Pakistan's Express Tribune he would return to the country to defend his client - but needed the government to provide security. The protests were led by the Tehreek-i-Labaik (TLP) party. As party of its deal with the TLP, the government said it would not oppose petitions filed against the Supreme Court's verdict. What else is in the deal? All protesters arrested since Asia Bibi's acquittal will be released, and any violence towards them will be investigated. The government will also start legal proceedings to put her on a list which would ban her from leaving Pakistan. In return, the TLP is asking its supporters to stop the protests and disperse peacefully. The authorities earlier said that Asia Bibi was scheduled for release later this week. What was she accused of? The trial stems from an argument Asia Bibi, whose full name is Asia Noreen, had with a group of women in June 2009. They were harvesting fruit when a row broke out about a bucket of water. The women said that because she had used a cup, they could no longer touch it, as her faith had made it unclean. Prosecutors alleged that in the row which followed, the women said Asia Bibi should convert to Islam and that she made offensive comments about the Prophet Muhammad in response. She was later beaten up at her home, during which her accusers say she confessed to blasphemy. She was arrested after a police investigation. In Wednesday's ruling, the Supreme Court said that the case was based on flimsy evidence and her confession was delivered in front of a crowd "threatening to kill her". Why is this case so divisive? Islam is Pakistan's national religion and underpins its legal system. Public support for the strict blasphemy laws is strong. Hard-line politicians have often backed severe punishments, partly as a way of shoring up their support base. But critics say the laws have often been used to get revenge after personal disputes, and that convictions are based on thin evidence. The vast majority of those convicted are Muslims or members of the Ahmadi community, but since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been convicted. They make up just 1.6% of the population. The Christian community has been targeted by numerous attacks in recent years, leaving many feeling vulnerable to a climate of intolerance. Since 1990, at least 65 people have reportedly been killed in Pakistan over claims of blasphemy.

পাকিস্তানে ধর্ম অবমাননার অভিযোগে মৃত্যুদণ্ড পাওয়া খ্রিস্টান নারী আসিয়া বিবির আইনজীবী প্রাণের ভয়ে দেশ ছেড়ে পালিয়েছেন।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Speaking to NBC on Friday, he said the US was open to talks but would not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. He also expanded on his last-minute decision to call off strikes planned in response to the shooting down of a US unmanned drone this week, saying he had been told 150 Iranians would be killed. "I didn't like it. I didn't think it was proportionate," he said. Tehran says the unmanned US aircraft entered Iranian airspace early on Thursday morning. The US maintains it was shot down in international airspace. Tensions have been escalating between the two countries, with the US recently blaming Iran for attacks on oil tankers operating in the region. Iran has announced it will soon exceed international agreed limits on its nuclear programme. Last year, the US unilaterally pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear activities. The US has now asked the UN Security Council to meet on Monday to discuss Iran. What did Trump tell NBC? He said a plan of attack was "ready to go, subject to my approval" but said he had then asked generals how many people would be killed. "I thought about it for a second and I said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after I said go ahead," he told NBC. He denied suggestions that aircraft had already been on their way to attack Iranian targets - reportedly including Iranian radar and missile batteries - saying: "No planes were in the air." Addressing Iran's leaders, Mr Trump said: "You can't have nuclear weapons. And if you want to talk about it, good. Otherwise, you can live in a shattered economy for a long time to come." Earlier on Friday Mr Trump tweeted that the US had been "cocked and loaded" to strike. What reaction has there been? Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was glad the president had not carried out the strikes and said he should seek congressional authorisation before military action. Adam Smith - the Democratic chair of the House Armed Services Committee - warned it was "not smart" of the president to make the details public, saying it undermined the notion of a clear US plan. Some US media reports said the strikes had been recommended by the Pentagon, while others said top Pentagon officials had warned a military response could result in a spiralling escalation with risks for US forces in the region. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton had pushed for a hardline stance, but congressional leaders had urged caution, the Associated Press reported. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency order on Thursday evening prohibiting US airlines from operating in an overwater area of Tehran-controlled airspace nearby in response. Airlines from other countries, including Britain's British Airways, the Dutch carrier KLM, Emirates, and Qantas of Australia, have also said they will re-route their flights to avoid parts of Iran. Meanwhile, a UK government minister will hold talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday. Andrew Murrison will call for "urgent de-escalation" in the region, the Foreign Office said. What does Iran say? An official warned that "any attack against Iran will have regional and international consequences". "When you violate Iranian territorial space, then we defend," Seyed Sajjadpour, one of Iran's deputy foreign ministers, told the BBC. It was clear, he added, that there were members of Donald Trump's administration who were intent on overthrowing Iran's government. President Trump's decision to order – and then abort – an attack still sends a powerful message to Tehran. The two countries came to the brink of direct conflict. But in this complex game of signalling, just what message will the Iranian leadership receive? It, after all, had sent a significant warning of its own by downing an unmanned US reconnaissance drone. Mr Trump initially appeared to play down the incident – but then apparently came the orders for a US retaliatory strike. That was followed by a last-minute change of heart. The danger now is that Iran receives mixed messages that convey uncertainty and lack of resolve. This might encourage some in Tehran to push back at the Americans even harder. There appears to be no diplomatic "off-ramp" in this crisis. US economic sanctions are hitting home. Tehran is under pressure. Escalation remains an ever-present danger. What happened with the drone? Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced its air force had shot down a US "spy" drone on Thursday morning after the unmanned aircraft violated Iranian airspace near Kuhmobarak in the southern province of Hormozgan. IRGC commander-in-chief Maj-Gen Hossein Salami said the drone's downing was a "clear message" to the US that Iran's borders were "our red line". However, US military officials maintain the drone was in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz at the time. Iranian officials say two warnings were issued 10 minutes before the drone was shot down. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a high-ranking officer in the IRGC, said another military aircraft, carrying 35 passengers, had been flying close to the drone. "We could have shot down that one too, but we did not," he said. The shooting down of the drone followed accusations by the US that Iran had attacked two oil tankers with mines last Thursday just outside the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman.

মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট ট্রাম্প বলেছেন, তিনি ইরানের সাথে যুদ্ধ চান না, কিন্তু সংঘাত বেধে গেলে, ইরানকে 'নিশ্চিহ্ন' করে দেওয়া হবে।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

With new cases in single figures for several days - one on Sunday - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the virus was "currently" eliminated. But officials have warned against complacency, saying it does not mean a total end to new coronavirus cases. The news came hours before New Zealand moved out of its toughest level of social restrictions. From Tuesday, some non-essential business, healthcare and education activity will be able to resume. Most people will still be required to remain at home at all times and avoid all social interactions. "We are opening up the economy, but we're not opening up people's social lives," Ms Ardern said at the daily government briefing. New Zealand, a country of nearly 5 million people, has reported fewer than 1,500 confirmed or probable cases of coronavirus and 19 deaths. New Zealand's Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, said the low number of new cases in recent days "does give us confidence that we have achieved our goal of elimination". He warned that "elimination" did not mean there would be no new cases "but it does mean we know where our cases are coming from". Ms Ardern said there was "no widespread undetected community transmission in New Zealand", adding: "We have won that battle." But she said the country "must remain vigilant if we are to keep it that way". How did New Zealand respond to the virus? The country brought in some of the toughest restrictions in the world on travel and activity early on in the pandemic, when it only had a few dozen cases. It closed its borders, started enforcing quarantine of all arrivals in the country, brought in a stringent lockdown and mounted an extensive testing and contact tracing operation. Beaches, waterfronts and playgrounds were shut on 26 March, as were offices and schools. Bars and restaurants were also closed, including for takeaway and delivery. Ms Ardern said modelling indicated New Zealand could have had more than 1,000 cases a day if it had not brought in the lockdown so early. She said the country could never know how bad it would have been but that "through our cumulative actions we have avoided the worst". New Zealand's remote location and easily sealable borders played in its favour when the virus broke out, experts say. But the government has also been praised for the clarity of its messaging throughout the crisis. At midnight local time (12:00 GMT on Monday), New Zealand moved from Level Four lockdown to Level Three. That means most businesses will be able to reopen - including restaurants for takeaways - but not those involving face-to-face contact. New Zealanders are being told to stick to their "bubble" - a small group of close friends or family - and to stay 2m (6ft) away from people. Mass gatherings are still banned, shopping centres remain closed and most children will remain away from school. New Zealand's border will remain closed. What's happening in Australia? In Australia, the rise in infections has also slowed considerably in recent weeks. There were just 16 new cases recorded on Sunday. Much like in New Zealand, its government has been praised for its response to the crisis and opinion polls show that trust in the country's leadership has risen. Restrictions are easing in some areas, with some states planning to relax social distancing rules to permit larger outdoor gatherings this week. In Queensland from Saturday, people will be free to go shopping for clothes, have a picnic in the park or go for a swim at the beach as long as it is within a 40-minute drive from home. Western Australia is also joining South Australia in expanding the national two-person limit on gatherings to 10 people. However, most Australians are still required to stay at home unless they have essential work, shopping or exercise reasons to go out. More than a million Australians also downloaded a coronavirus contact tracing app within hours of it being released by the government. Users of the app will be notified if they have had more than 15 minutes of close contact with another user who tests positive for Covid-19. There are reports that Australia and New Zealand are considering opening up travel between them but no decision has been made.

নিউজিল্যান্ড বলছে, কোভিড-১৯ রোগের কম্যুনিটি সংক্রমণ বন্ধ করতে সমর্থ হয়েছে দেশটি, যে কারণে তারা কার্যকরভাবে করোনাভাইরাস থেকে মুক্তি পেয়েছে।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

Mr Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US was working with Egypt and other countries on halting hostilities. But the US again blocked a UN Security Council statement calling for a cessation of violence. The conflict is now in its second week, with little sign of ending. Israel conducted further air strikes on Gaza early on Tuesday. Its army said dozens of rockets were fired into its territory overnight. At least 212 people, including almost 100 women and children, have been killed in Gaza, according to its health ministry. In Israel 10 people, including two children, have been killed, its medical service says. On Tuesday Israel said at least 150 militants were among those killed in Gaza. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs the territory, does not give casualty figures for fighters. According to a White House statement on Monday, Mr Biden "encouraged Israel to make every effort to ensure the protection of innocent civilians". "The two leaders discussed progress in Israel's military operations against Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza," it added. President Biden "expressed his support for a ceasefire and discussed US engagement with Egypt and other partners towards that end", it said. The violence has prompted increasing concern internationally. World leaders and humanitarian organisations have called for measures to prevent the deaths of residents and the chaos wrought by the destruction of buildings and infrastructure. The US - which is one of Israel's strongest allies - has once again blocked efforts at the UN Security Council to issue a statement calling on Israel to stop its military offensive, stressing instead its own diplomatic efforts. "Our calculation at this point is that having those conversations behind the scenes... is the most constructive approach we can take," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. The UN Security Council is due to hold its fourth emergency meeting on the violence on Tuesday. Biden follows familiar pattern Joe Biden is a traditional pro-Israel Democrat. That's different from Donald Trump who actually changed US policy to adopt Israel's positions in its conflict with the Arabs. Biden has quietly begun to reverse some, although not all, of that. But when it comes to air wars with Palestinian militants, he is following a familiar pattern. All US administrations strongly support Israel's right to defend itself against rocket fire. Analysts say in the initial phase they generally refrain from public criticism of Israeli air strikes, including at the United Nations, apparently allowing a window of time for Israel to take out militant leaders and infrastructure. However, if the conflict goes on and civilian deaths mount, sometimes they become more critical and start pressing Israel to wind down its military campaign. In this case Hamas' firepower has been more sustained and intense than before. But President Biden has now publicly expressed support for a ceasefire in his call with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and discussed with him "progress in Israel's military operations against Hamas." So perhaps this is the beginning of new phase. The United Nations has also expressed concerns about the damage to infrastructure in the already impoverished Gaza Strip, home to two million people. It said that 40 schools and four hospitals had been "completely or partially destroyed" in recent days. It also warned that fuel supplies there were running out, threatening basic services. The World Health Organization's emergencies chief, Dr Mike Ryan, said all attacks on healthcare needed to stop immediately. The outbreak of violence began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes. What's happening on the ground? The Israeli military conducted further air strikes on Tuesday and, shortly after dawn, two buildings in Gaza City were destroyed. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said another 15km (nine miles) of Hamas tunnels had been destroyed in the latest operation. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Similar strikes before dawn on Monday also damaged roads, power lines and houses. At least seven Palestinians were killed in the bombing. Mohammad Abu Rayya, a paediatrician in Gaza, told the BBC of the devastation on the ground there. "We don't have a morgue here big enough for the killed and the dead bodies," he said. "We need at least 10 years more to build what has been damaged here in Gaza," he added. Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel later on Tuesday morning. It set off warning sirens in cities in the south, sending people running for shelters. But the rocket fire from Gaza appeared to be less frequent that in previous nights, according to a Reuters correspondent in the region. Rockets were also fired at Israel from Lebanon, but the army said they did not reach its territory. The Israeli Air Force said it had shot down what it described as a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that approached its border from Jordan. Israel has vowed to continue its air strikes on Gaza. On Monday, it said more than 3,000 rockets had been fired into the country over the past week. The country's Iron Dome defence system is said to have intercepted 90% of the rockets. Israeli emergency services have reported an overall total of 311 injuries, six of them severe. An Israeli tech executive and father of three, Eitan Singer, told the BBC: "It is not easy - seven days in a row when we go to sleep and almost every evening, every night, we get the kids out of bed, run to shelters. We have 30 seconds to 60 seconds to find a shelter." Timeline: How the violence escalated The worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting. 13 April Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police. Palestinians are angry over barriers which had been placed outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the Jerusalem‘s Old City preventing them from gathering there after prayers at the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque on what is the first night of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Palestinian discontent had been stoked earlier in the day when President Mahmoud Abbas called off planned elections, implicitly blaming Israel over voting arrangements for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Hamas - Mr Abbas' Islamist rivals who control Gaza and were running in the elections - react angrily to the postponement. Violence around Damascus Gate and elsewhere in East Jerusalem continues nightly. 15-16 April Rockets are fired from Gaza at Israel, which responds with air strikes after a relative period of calm between Israel and the Palestinian enclave. 19 April Clashes spread to the mixed Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv. 20 April In Jerusalem, Jewish youths, angry over a spate of filmed assaults by Palestinians on Orthodox Jews posted on the TikTok video-sharing app, attack Arabs and chant anti-Arab slogans. 23 April Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews shouting “Death to Arabs” march towards Damascus Gate in protest at the Arab assaults on Jews. Clashes erupt at the site between Palestinians and police trying to separate the two groups, injuring dozens of people. Violence between Arabs and Jews spreads to other parts of the city. 24 April Militants fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza, drawing retaliatory air strikes. 2 May President Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas condemn the looming threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers ahead of a planned court hearing. Hamas calls on Arabs to form “human shields of resistance” there. In the days that follow, police and protesters repeatedly clash at the site as it becomes a focal point for Palestinian anger. 4 May Militants in Gaza begin sending incendiary balloons into Israel over successive days, causing dozens of fires. 7 May Two Palestinian gunmen are shot dead and a third is wounded after opening fire on Israeli security forces in the northern West Bank. Israeli authorities say the group planned to carry out a “major attack” in Israel. Later on after Friday prayers - the last of Ramadan - major clashes erupt at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring more than 200 people. Israel's police force says it used “riot dispersal means”, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades after officers came under a hail of stones and bottles. 8 May A second night of violence erupts in East Jerusalem after tens of thousands of worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan. Police and protesters clash at Damascus Gate, with police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas against crowds of Palestinians, some throwing stones. More than 120 Palestinians and some 17 police are injured. 9 May Israel's Supreme Court postpones the hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case following calls to delay it because of the growing unrest. Tensions remain high though and more clashes take place between Israeli police and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate. 10 May Early morning clashes break out between police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where crowds throw stones and officers fire stun grenades. Palestinian anger has been inflamed by an annual Jerusalem Day march planned for later in the day by hundreds of Israeli nationalists to celebrate Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. The march is due to pass through predominantly Arab parts of the Old City in what is seen by Palestinians as a deliberate provocation. It is rerouted at the 11th hour, but the atmosphere remains volatile with more than 300 Palestinians and some 21 police injured in the violence at the holy site. Hamas issues an ultimatum to Israel to “withdraw its soldiers... from the blessed al-Aqsa mosque and Sheikh Jarrah” by 18:00. When the deadline passes without an Israeli response, rockets are fired towards Jerusalem for the first time in years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the group has “crossed a red line” and Israel retaliates with air strikes, killing three Hamas fighters. A continuing exchange of rocket-fire and air strikes quickly escalates into the fiercest hostilities between the two sides since they fought a war in 2014.

গাযায় ইসরাইল ও ফিলিস্তিনিদের মধ্যে আটদিন ধরে চলছে সহিংসতা। মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট জো বাইডেন দুই পক্ষকে যুদ্ধবিরতির আহবান জানিয়েছেন।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

The administration asked the justices whether it was entitled to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) scheme next month. But the high court said it would not hear the case as no appeals court has yet ruled on the issue. Lower courts blocked the president's plan to scrap Daca by 5 March. What did the justices say? The administration was seeking permission from the Supreme Court to continue dismantling Daca while various legal challenges unfold. But the justices said in a brief order on Monday morning that the appeal was "denied without prejudice". The Supreme Court also said it expects the lower court system to "proceed expeditiously to decide this case". A San Francisco-based federal court issued a nationwide injunction last month that Daca must remain in place pending litigation. What next? The ongoing political and judicial to and fro leaves some 700,000 mostly Hispanic children and young adults - known as Dreamers - in legal limbo. There is still no agreement in Congress about what could replace Daca, though some members of Congress are reportedly working on new proposals. The Supreme Court's decision could delay discussions on Daca until after the US midterm elections in November. For now, the Trump administration's policy is being considered by the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which has ruled against the president in other challenges. What's the reaction? Mr Trump, who announced an end to the Obama-era Daca programme last autumn - criticised the appeals court. "Nothing's as bad as the 9th Circuit," Trump said as he met governors at the White House on Monday. "It's really sad when every single case filed against us is in the 9th Circuit." "What does that tell you about our court system?" he added. "It's a very, very sad thing." White House spokesman Raj Shah said Daca was "clearly unlawful", accusing lower courts of "a usurpation of legislative authority". Democratic state lawyers who are challenging Mr Trump's Daca policy said the administration should not have tried to bypass the 9th Circuit. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the administration's approach of going straight to the US Supreme Court was "unusual and unnecessary". Immigration activists welcomed Monday's ruling, but said the underlying problem for young immigrants remained. Greisa Martinez, a Daca recipient who works with United We Dream, said: "This back and forth on DACA and the legislative process has created a crisis in our community." What is Daca? The scheme was created in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama to shield children of undocumented immigrants from deportation. It also provided work and study permits for those it covered. In order to qualify for Daca, applicants under the age of 30 were required to submit personal information to the Department of Homeland Security, including addresses and phone numbers. They had to pass an FBI background check, have a clean criminal background, and either be in school, recently graduated or have been honourably discharged from the military. In exchange, the US government agreed to "defer" any action on their immigration status for a period of two years. The majority of dreamers are from Mexico and other Latin American countries.

যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে অভিবাসীদের আশ্রয় চাওয়ার সক্ষমতা ব্যাপক হারে হ্রাস করার যে পরিকল্পনা করেছে ট্রাম্প প্রশাসন তাতে অনুমোদন দিয়েছে মার্কিন সুপ্রিম কোর্ট।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

It had been due to take place at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana but was changed because of concerns over coronavirus precautions. It will now be co-hosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic. The two men will hold three debates in all before the 3 November vote. Reverend John I Jenkins, president of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, said the health precautions needed to stage the event "would have greatly diminished the educational value of hosting the debate on our campus". The new location will be at Western Reserve University's Health Education Campus, the Commission on Presidential Debates said. The second presidential debate on 15 October will take place in Miami after getting shifted from the University of Michigan. The third will take place in Nashville on 22 October, while a debate between Vice-President Mike Pence and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee - who has still to be chosen - will be held on 7 October in Salt Lake City. Mr Biden is currently holding a lead of 15 percentage points nationally, a Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests. The president's national approval ratings have dropped in a year dominated by coronavirus - of which the US has by far the world's highest death toll with more than 147,000 - and widespread protests over the death of black man George Floyd in police custody in May.

৩রা নভেম্বরে মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট নির্বাচনের আগে প্রথমবার বিতর্কে মুখোমুখি হয়েছিলেন ও রিপাবলিকান ও ডেমোক্র্যাট প্রার্থী ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প ও জো বাইডেন।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Mr Trump's tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear launch button was "always on my table". Unsurprisingly, Mr Trump's unorthodox words sent social media into a frenzy. It ended a quick-fire day of tweeting by Mr Trump in which he took credit for a lack of plane crashes, announced awards for "corrupt media" and threatened to pull aid from Palestinians for failing to show "appreciation or respect". Is the 'playground chatter' in new territory? Just as President Trump's unorthodox Twitter habits have puzzled observers in the past, the latest tweet is again redefining what is considered a diplomatic or presidential tone. "I guess the president regards this as a show of strength," said Jim Himes, a Democrat representative from Connecticut and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, on CNN. "But, as everybody who's ever been in a... first grade playground recognises, it's usually the person who's most aggressively pounding their chest that is in fact the weak one on the playground." Mr Trump and Mr Kim have a colourful history of name-calling. Eliot A Cohen, who advised the Republican former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said the latest tweet was childish yet deadly serious. And activists agreed. Several argued that Twitter should not allow "calls for nuclear war" to be broadcast on its platform. However, Mr Trump's supporters have defended him, saying his comments were both factually accurate and showed American strength and resolve. Could Donald Trump press the button? Mr Trump's latest comment states the obvious: a US president has immediate access to the nuclear codes. However, the real process of launching a nuclear attack does not involve any button-pressing. After high-level consultations, the president would exchange codes with top military officials. They are printed on a card known as "the biscuit", which he carries wherever he goes. According to US media, Mr Trump's desk does, however, have a button that orders someone to bring him a Diet Coke. At least that's what US media reported after seeing said button in action during interviews. Could North Korea launch attack of its own? North Korea claims it has nuclear weapons and could strike the US, but while analysts agree that Pyongyang has nuclear weapons, it is not clear whether it has the technology to use them in anger. Meanwhile, in contrast to the bickering on Twitter, the North has just reopened a telephone hotline to the South. Was President Trump riled by a Fox News report? The latest outburst came a day after Mr Kim's speech, to which President Trump initially reacted with caution. "Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not - we will see!", he tweeted. But his later remark left some social media users questioning if the president had been watching Fox News - which had covered the topic a few minutes before. He is known to be a fan of the channel and often tweets along. You may also be interested in: Mother sues dentist son to repay tuition YouTuber 'ashamed' by his dead-man video Egypt's top imam endorses Bitcoin ban

আমেরিকান প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প দম্ভ করে বলেছেন তার পরমাণু বোমার সুইচ উত্তর কোরীয় নেতা কিম জং আনের বোমার সুইচের চেয়ে "অনেক বড়" এবং "বেশি শক্তিশালী''।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

Once the handshake was done and dusted, the North and South Korean leaders were not averse to making jokes and Kim Jong-un's contribution to the jollity was a remark about how he had brought some of North Korea's famous cold noodles for the summit. According to media reports, he said: "I've been checking news and people are talking about food a lot. So I brought some Pyongyang cold noodles for President Moon to enjoy. Pres Moon, please feel easy and have some delicious Pyongyang noodles that we brought." Another translation suggested he also joked that the noodles had been brought "a long way... ah, we probably shouldn't say it is far". On the face of it, not a momentous statement of diplomacy - but his comments lit up South Korea and sparked a craze for Pyongyang cold noodles. Long queues have formed in the South outside cold noodle shops - and, on social media, the term is even trending higher than the North Korea-South Korea summit. A call to noodle Pyongyang Naengmyeon is the cold buckwheat noodle dish that Mr Kim was referring to. According to the Korea Herald, it shot to the top trending keywords on Twitter. But it wasn't just online that the mania was evident. South Koreans have seized the moment and gone out to eat it with lines forming outside Seoul restaurants that serve it. Sungjoo Han shared a selfie on Instagram saying: "I ate the cold noodles for lunch to celebrate two Korea summit." "There was a long line when I arrived there. No seats available in the restaurant so I had to wait to eat the noodle. I believe everybody came to the restaurant for the same reason," he told BBC Korean. The Yonhap news agency quotes one Pyongyang cold noodles restaurant in eastern Seoul say it had run out of parking because of the demand. It also says that at one restaurant, Jeongin Myunok in Yeuido, Seoul, people shouted with joy when they were called by the staff for their turn. "Wow, let's try Pyongyang Naengmyeon," one of them said out loud. "Let's eat them with Kim Jong-un". What's the dish actually like? One tour operator that offer tours of Pyongyang refers to the dish as one of the most "iconic noodle dishes", and one you'll find in every major Pyongyang restaurant. For the uninitiated, they are handmade buckwheat noodles served cold in a flavoured broth of beef, pork and chicken and topped with kimchi, cucumber and pickles or meat. In North Korea, the noodles are known as Raengmyun.

উত্তর কোরিয়ার নেতা কিম জং-আন যুদ্ধবিরতি রেখা অতিক্রম করে দক্ষিণ কোরিয়ায় প্রবেশ করে ইতিহাস সৃষ্টি করেছেন। কিন্তু তিনি আসল তোলপাড় সৃষ্টি করেছেন ঠাণ্ডা নুডলস্‌ নিয়ে একটি মন্তব্য দিয়ে।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

SCL India, a venture between the SCL group in London and Ovleno Business Intelligence, says both India's major political parties are its clients. The company has no charges against it. Facebook would also face "tough action" if it was found to have misused Indians' data, the IT minister warned. Both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and main opposition Congress deny links with SCL India but have accused one another of utilising the services of the company. Cambridge Analytica has also consistently denied any wrongdoing and most recently suspended its boss Alexander Nix, after footage by Britain's Channel 4 News showed him appearing to suggest tactics his company could use to discredit politicians online. Amrish Tyagi, the head of SCL India, in a 2016 interview with a regional channel, spoke about his involvement with Mr Trump's presidential campaign. Mr Tyagi told the BBC that he could not comment on the controversy, but said the removal of Mr Nix would pave the way for a "fair investigation". What do the parties say? On Wednesday, India's law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, said there were "numerous reports" of Congress involvement with Cambridge Analytica and called upon its leader Rahul Gandhi to "explain" the company's role in his social media outreach. Mr Prasad also issued a public warning to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, saying that Facebook was welcome in India but: "If data theft of Indians is done through the collusion of the Facebook system, it shall not be tolerated. We have got stringent power in the IT Act, we shall use it, including summoning you in India." The Congress, for its part, hit back saying that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who used the firm and not them. These claims appear to be backed by Himanshu Sharma, the vice president of SCL India, who says on his publicly available LinkedIn profile that the company has "successfully managed four election campaigns for the BJP" and among them names the 2014 general election which swept Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power. Earlier on Tuesday, the head of the BJP's social media unit Amit Malviya told the BBC that the party had "not heard of SCL Group or Amrish Tyagi so there is no question of us working with them." Congress social media strategist Divya Spandana said they had never used SCL or any of its affiliate companies as it has its own data analytical team. What does SCL India do? SCL India claims it has 300 permanent employees and more than 1,400 consulting staff in offices across 10 Indian states. It offers a range of services in India, among them "political campaign management" which includes social media strategy, election campaign management and mobile media management. Under social media strategy it offers services such as "blogger and influence marketing", "online reputation management" and "daily management of social media accounts". What exactly is the problem? Jagdeep Chhokar, the head of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a non-governmental organisation that works in the area of electoral and political reforms, told the BBC that while political parties were required to include expenses on social media campaigns as part of a sworn affidavit to be submitted after every election, it was unclear how many of them were doing that. "As far as the question of political parties' payment to data companies is concerned it should indeed be declared properly in the sworn affidavits but there is no proper authority to implement it," he added. Furthermore, even if SCL India were running a similar campaign to that alleged in the US, it is unclear how much of that activity would even be considered illegal in India. Speaking to the BBC, Smriti Parsheera, a technology policy researcher at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in Delhi, said that the current law as laid down in the Information Technology Act, 2000, provides for compensation for losses caused due to inadequate protection of "sensitive personal data". Ms Parsheera said that the law goes on to define sensitive data to mean information such as passwords, financial information, health conditions and biometric information. "The problem with the current framework lies in both the narrow scope of the protections as well as the inadequate implementation of these limited protections. Information such as a person's name, location, general preferences, friend's list, are clearly powerful tools for analytics and profiling of users but do not qualify for protection as sensitive data under the present law," she added. Reporting by Ayeshea Perera and Zubair Ahmed in Delhi

লন্ডন-ভিত্তিক গবেষণা প্রতিষ্ঠান ক্যামব্রিজ অ্যানালিটিকা যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে পাঁচ কোটিরও বেশি ফেসবুক ব্যবহারকারীর ব্যক্তিগত তথ্য ব্যবহার করে প্রেসিডেন্ট নির্বাচনে ভোটারদের প্রভাবিত করার চেষ্টা করেছে এই অভিযোগ উঠার পর এবিষয়ে অনেকেই প্রশ্ন করতে শুরু করেছেন।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

In his new book, The Door Opened: 1980s China, Bradshaw shares scenes of everyday life in China, drawing from his archive of almost two million photos. Here is a selection of images, with captions and descriptions from the photographer. Bradshaw says of the photo above: "The big red propaganda boards typically at main intersections were gradually replaced by advertising, often for overseas brands of electronics that were not even available in the shops. "The idea was to build awareness for the time China would be rich enough to buy imported items. "The sight of a foreigner was very unusual at that time even in Shanghai, formerly the most cosmopolitan of Chinese cities." In 1985, Bradshaw spent a week with former world heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali and his entourage, an experience that helped him make the decision to stay in China. "One of the first visitors to China I was asked to photograph was the great Muhammad Ali, who was being sounded out as an adviser for Beijing's desire to host the Olympic Games in the future," he says. "Undimmed by early signs of Parkinson's disease, he was universally recognised, with his good humour, sparring and deft sleight of hand - member of The Magic Circle no less - Ali brought smiles and cheers wherever he went. "This was possibly the first fashion show in reform-era China. The looks on the faces of the audience are priceless. "It's amazing to me how derelict the other side of the river in Shanghai was. There wasn't even a bridge. "Now, there are multiple bridges, tunnels, underground lines and a skyline that competes with Manhattan. "Who knows, one of these children may have grown up to be a real astronaut. No-one imagined this could be possible at that time. "The tenderness of this moment is all the more striking when one considers the presence of the granny who was born at a time when it was normal for women to be intentionally crippled with bound feet. "Consumer electronics were enormous status symbols in China and everywhere I went I would be asked how much my camera cost. "Street markets tended to be dominated by large quantities of the same produce and all prices were negotiable. "This is where the new economic era really started, with farmers able to make extra money if they were more productive. "Air conditioning was almost unheard of in most of China in the 1980s. "So, with summer temperatures reaching 40C, people stayed out late and jumped in any convenient body of water. "I met [director Bernardo] Bertolucci on his first exploratory trip to Beijing to negotiate access to the Forbidden City to make [The Last Emperor]. "We walked around the Imperial Palace and he explained how since a child he had been fascinated by the story of an emperor who was deposed and rehabilitated in a new system. "He was particularly keen to show me the passageway where the last emperor, Pu Yi, had learned to ride a bicycle, which would become a significant moment in the film." Photos are copyright.

ব্রিটিশ ফটোগ্রাফার এড্রিয়ান ব্র্যাডশ ' প্রথম বেইজিং এসে পৌঁছান ১৯৮৪ সালে। পরবর্তী তিন দশক ধরে তিনি চীনের পরিবর্তনশীল সাংস্কৃতিক জীবনের ছবি তুলেছেন। তার সংগ্রহে এখন আছে প্রায় বিশ লাখ ছবি। আশির দশকে তোলা কিছু ছবি নিয়ে বেরিয়েছে সম্প্রতি তার একটি বই, "দ্য ডোর ওপেনড: আশির দশকের চীন।" সেই বইয়ের কিছু ছবি তিনি শেয়ার করেছেন বিবিসির সঙ্গে:

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

On foot and in tractors, the protesters were part of a huge rally planned for India's Republic Day. Many protesters diverted from agreed routes and clashes broke out with police. One protester died and more than 80 police officers were injured. Mobile internet services were suspended in parts of Delhi and some metro stations closed as security forces scrambled to restore order. The government is yet to comment on the violence, but reports say Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with Delhi police to discuss the situation. The government says the reforms that spurred the protests will liberalise the agriculture sector, but farmers say they will lose income. Tens of thousands of them have been striking on the outskirts of Delhi since November, demanding the laws be repealed. Last week they rejected a government offer to put the laws on hold. It is one of the longest farmers-led protests India has ever seen, pitting the community against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP) government. How did the protests turn violent? Police allowed Tuesday's rally on the condition that it would not interrupt the annual Republic Day parade in central Delhi. Republic Day is a national holiday that marks the anniversary of India officially adopting its constitution on 26 January 1950. Farmers were given specific routes for the rally, which would largely be confined to the outskirts. But a group of them converged on the historic Red Fort. They breached security and clambered onto the walls and domes of the fortress, even hoisting flags alongside the national flag. By Tuesday afternoon, police said they had removed protesters from the complex, but the situation remained tense. "We came here to deliver a message to the Modi government, our job is done. We will go back now," one protesting farmer told NDTV. Other protesters broke through police barricades and marched towards central Delhi, where India's parliament is located. Images from the ITO metro station junction - on the route to central Delhi - showed police clashing with farmers and using tear gas and batons. Protesters driving tractors appeared to be deliberately trying to run over police personnel. Local media reported injuries on both sides. At least one protester died at the junction when his tractor overturned as police fired tear gas. BBC correspondents said protesters outnumbered the police at the ITO junction, leaving them struggling to control the crowd. "We have been appealing to farmers to go by the pre-approved route but some of them broke police barricades, attacked police personnel," a senior police officer told ANI news agency. "We are appealing to farmers' unions to help maintain peace." Union leaders issued similar appeals, condemning and distancing themselves from the violence. What is the Red Fort? What do the new farming laws propose? The laws loosen rules around the sale, pricing and storage of farm produce which have protected India's farmers from the free market for decades. Farmers fear that the new laws will threaten decades-old concessions - such as assured prices - and weaken their bargaining power, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by private companies. While Mr Modi has defended them, the laws have been likened to a "death warrant" by farmer groups. Most economists and experts agree that Indian agriculture desperately needs reform. But critics of the government say it failed to consult farmers before passing the laws. Experts also point out that the reforms fail to take into account that agriculture still remains a mainstay in the Indian economy.

ভারতে কৃষি সংস্কার প্রস্তাবের প্রতিবাদে বিক্ষোভরত কৃষকরা পুলিশের লাঠি আর কাঁদানে গ্যাসের মধ্য দিয়ে ঢুকে পড়েছে দিল্লি প্রাণকেন্দ্রে এবং ঐতিহাসিক লাল কেল্লায় উড়িয়ে দিয়েছে শিখ ধর্মের প্রতীক খালসা পতাকা।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

Mr Trump and the North Korean leader posed for handshakes before talking for nearly an hour in the heavily fortified demilitarised zone (DMZ). Both countries agreed to set up teams to resume stalled nuclear talks. Their last summit broke down in February with no progress on denuclearisation in North Korea. Critics have dismissed the occasion - the two leaders' third face-to-face encounter in just over a year - as a political theatre and say North Korea still needs to show that it is serious in getting rid of its nuclear weapons. What happened at the DMZ? In a meeting apparently arranged after Mr Trump invited Mr Kim on Twitter on Saturday, they shook hands across the demarcation line between the Koreas before Mr Trump briefly crossed into North Korea, a symbolic milestone. "Good to see you again. I never expected to meet you at this place," a smiley Mr Kim told Mr Trump through an interpreter in an encounter broadcast live on international television. "Big moment," Mr Trump said, "tremendous progress." Looking relaxed, Mr Kim crossed into South Korea and alongside Mr Trump said: "I believe this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future." The encounter had initially been billed as a short greeting but Mr Trump and Mr Kim ended up talking for almost an hour in a building known as the Freedom House, on the South Korean side. For a brief moment, Mr Trump and Mr Kim were joined by South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, an unprecedented three-way gathering. Speaking next to Mr Trump in a rare statement to the press, Mr Kim said the meeting was a symbol of their "excellent" relationship. Calling their friendship "particularly great", Mr Trump - who once referred to Mr Kim as "little rocket man" - said it was a "great day for the world" and that he was "proud to step over the line" between the Koreas. North Korean media have yet to mention the talks - including in the 20:00 (11:00 GMT) Korean Central TV bulletin - although typically they wait until the next day to report on the news. Have other US presidents visited? A number have been to the armistice line that has divided the peninsula since the Korean War ended in 1953, largely to show support for the South. Both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have been to North Korea, flying into the capital, Pyongyang, but only after they left office. Barack Obama wore a bomber jacket and binoculars for his visit to the armistice line. Mr Trump changed the optics, opting for a business suit. A made-for-TV moment, but to what end? Donald Trump once told his West Wing staff to treat each day in the White House like an episode of reality TV, but he prefers to choreograph his own presidency. The meeting with Mr Kim was classic Trumpian stage management, a diplomatic production that began with an impromptu tweet early morning at the G20 that led to a meeting that ordinarily would have taken months to organise. The setting in the demilitarised zone could hardly have been loaded with more meaning, and Mr Trump was more than happy to perform one of the most memorable "made-for-television" moments of his presidency, stepping over the 38th parallel into what has long been enemy territory, a threshold no sitting US president has never crossed. The images were mesmerising, but to what end? Donald Trump's unorthodox diplomacy has certainly reduced tensions on the Korean peninsula, but it has not stopped North Korea from continuing to expand its nuclear arsenal. This relationship has produced smiles and handshakes but not the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. Donald Trump's visit to North Korea lasted just over a minute - more than enough time, his critics will say, to legitimise a totalitarian regime with one of the worst human rights records on the planet. What to make of the meeting? Negotiators from the two countries will meet in the next weeks to resume discussions about North Korea's nuclear programme, Mr Trump told reporters, saying he was "not looking for speed [but] looking to get it right." Sanctions on North Korea, he added, would remain in place though he appeared to leave open the possibility of easing them as part of the talks. Mr Trump also said he had invited Mr Kim to visit Washington. But analysts have questioned whether the meeting will result in any substantive progress. "This whole meme is just another Trump snow-job of flim-flam. Does anyone seriously believe Kim will give up even one warhead [because] Trump is his bud?," said Robert Kelly, professor of political science at Pusan University in South Korea. Sue Mi Terry, who served as a US National Security Council aide specializing in Korean affairs, said the meeting could result in progress if Mr Trump shows he is willing to accept a partial accord rather than a comprehensive deal. "I do think Kim could offer just enough on the negotiating table such as the Yongbyon nuclear facility plus yet another suspected nuclear facility in order to secure an interim deal with Trump and at least some sanctions relief," she told the New York Times. But Pope Francis has praised the meeting, saying it was a "good example of the culture of encounter". How are US-North Korea relations? Negotiations with North Korea to try to convince it to abandon its controversial nuclear programme reached a peak last year when Mr Trump and Mr Kim had a historic meeting in Singapore. They both committed to the "complete denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula, but without clarifying what that meant. It was hoped their second meeting, in Hanoi in February, would make some concrete agreement about North Korea handing over its nuclear programme in exchange for some of the tight sanctions against it being lifted. But those talks ended with no deal, as they failed to agree on the pace at which sanctions should be eased. Since then the negotiations have stalled, though Mr Kim and Mr Trump have exchanged letters recently.

দুই কোরিয়াকে বিভক্ত করে, এমন একটি অত্যন্ত সুরক্ষিত এলাকায় উত্তর কোরিয়ার নেতা কিম জং-আনের সাথে দেখা করার পর প্রথম মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট হিসেবে উত্তর কোরিয়ার ভেতরে প্রবেশ করেছেন ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent The picture was captured in infrared by the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, and is one of the sharpest observations of the planet ever made from the ground. To achieve the resolution, scientists used a technique called "lucky imaging" which scrubs out the blurring effect of looking through Earth's turbulent atmosphere. This method involves acquiring multiple exposures of the target and only keeping those segments of an image where that turbulence is at a minimum. When all the "lucky shots" are put together in a mosaic, a clarity emerges that's beyond just the single exposure. Infrared is a longer wavelength than the more familiar visible light detected by the likes of the Hubble telescope. It is used to see past the haze and thin clouds at the top of Jupiter's atmosphere, to give scientists the opportunity to probe deeper into the planet's internal workings. Researchers want to understand better what makes and sustains the gas giant's weather systems, and in particular the great storms that can rage for decades and even centuries. The study that produced this infrared image was led from the University of California at Berkeley. It was part of a joint programme of observations that involved Hubble and the Juno spacecraft that's currently orbiting the fifth planet from the Sun. Fast facts about Jupiter Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

বৃহস্পতি গ্রহের অসাধারণ কিছু নতুন ছবি তুলে ধরেছেন জ্যোতির্বিজ্ঞানীরা, যেখানে গ্রহটির বিশাল গ্যাস স্তরের নীচে উষ্ণ ঝলমলে অঞ্চলগুলো ফুটে উঠেছে।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the deal "incredibly painful both for me and both for our people". It follows six weeks of fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians. The region is internationally recognised as Azerbaijani but has been run by ethnic Armenians since 1994. A Russian-brokered truce was signed at the end of the war in the early 1990s but there was no peace deal. Although both sides took steps to reduce tensions last year, fighting erupted at the end of September and several attempts to end the conflict failed. The new ceasefire agreement prompted anger in Armenia, as protesters stormed the parliament, beating up the speaker and reportedly looting the prime minister's office. What has been agreed? The peace deal, which was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's prime minister, took effect on Tuesday from 01:00 local time (21:00 GMT Monday). Under the deal, Azerbaijan will hold on to areas of Nagorno-Karabakh that it has taken during the conflict. Armenia has also agreed to withdraw from several other adjacent areas over the next few weeks. The BBC's Orla Guerin in Baku says that, overall, the deal should be read as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia. During a televised online address, President Putin said that Russian peacekeepers would be deployed to patrol the front line. Russia's defence ministry confirmed that 1,960 personnel would be involved and reports said planes had left an airbase at Ulyanovsk on Tuesday carrying peacekeepers and armoured personnel carriers to Karabakh. Part of their role will be to guard the "Lachin corridor", which links the Karabakh capital, Stepanakert, to Armenia. Turkey will also take part in the peacekeeping process, according to Azerbaijan's president, who joined President Putin during the address. President Putin said the agreement would include an exchange of war prisoners, with "all economical and transport contacts to be unblocked." Jubilant scenes in Azerbaijan By Orla Guerin, BBC News, Baku There is a mood of national celebration in Baku. At Martyrs' Alley - a memorial to Azerbaijan's fallen soldiers - there are surging crowds among a sea of flags. There is a real sense here that a key victory has been achieved after a very long fight. Groups are breaking out in chants and singing the national anthem. Two young students are holding a homemade sign that reads: "Tell the world we are coming home." It is a home they have never seen. Their parents were driven from Nagorno-Karabakh almost 30 years ago, but now they intend to move there to build a new life. Asked if they could imagine living side by side with Armenians, one replied that this might take decades. "Our children may see this," she told me. How have leaders reacted? President Aliyev said the agreement was of "historic importance," and amounted to a "capitulation" by Armenia. Armenia's prime minister said that his decision had been based on "deep analyses of the combat situation and in discussion with best experts of the field". "This is not a victory but there is not defeat until you consider yourself defeated," Mr Pashinyan said. The Armenian leader in Nagorno-Karabakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, said a ceasefire had been unavoidable after the loss of Karabakh's second biggest town, Shusha (known as Shushi in Armenian). Battles were already taking place on the outskirts of Karabakh's main city, Stepanakert, and if the conflict had continued the whole of Karabakh would have been lost, he said on Facebook. "We would have far more losses," he said. In the Armenian capital Yerevan, a large crowd gathered to protest against the agreement, according to local media. They broke into parliament and government buildings, shouting "We will not give it up." Protesters ransacked the prime minister's official residence and Mr Pashinyan said they "stole a computer, a clock, perfume, drivers licence and other items". Defeat sparks crisis in Armenia By Yuri Vendik, BBC Russian, Yerevan It was a night of unrest and upset in Armenia's capital, where crowds of protesters stormed government buildings and the country's parliament. But by Tuesday morning, that anger appeared to have died down. Leading politicians, with the exception of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, are in talks to find a way out of this deep crisis. And this is a crisis: the defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh is a devastating one The protesters who gathered here overnight accused the government of betrayal. They believed the fighting should have continued until the end and they were confident of victory. But in Nagorno-Karabakh itself there was no such optimism. The leadership of the enclave earlier admitted that, had the fighting continued, the main city of Stepanakert would have been lost within days. What's happened during the conflict? The Armenians steadily lost territory and significantly over the weekend Azerbaijani forces took over Shusha. Azerbaijan also admitted to mistakenly shooting down a Russian military helicopter over Armenia, killing two crew members and injuring a third. It is unclear exactly how many have died. Both sides deny targeting civilians but accuse the other of doing so. Nagorno-Karabakh's authorities say nearly 1,200 of its defence forces have died in the fighting, and civilians have also been killed or injured. Azerbaijan has not released its military casualty figures but has said more than 80 civilians were killed in the fighting - including 21 in a missile strike on the town of Barda last month. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that almost 5,000 people had been killed in the fighting. What ties does Russia have to both sides? Russia has a military base in Armenia, and the two countries are members of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization. The treaty envisages Russia's military support if Armenia is attacked - but it does not include Nagorno-Karabakh or the other Azerbaijani regions around it seized by Armenian forces. At the same time, Moscow also has strong ties to Azerbaijan, which is being openly backed by Turkey, a Nato member. Russia has been selling weapons to both Armenia and Azerbaijan.

নাগোর্নো-কারাবাখের বিরোধপূর্ণ এলাকা নিয়ে সামরিক সংঘাত অবসানে শান্তি চুক্তি করেছে আর্মেনিয়া, আজারবাইজান ও রাশিয়া।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

Almaz Derese, 21, who is from Metu in western Ethiopia, had hoped to sit the tests before her baby was born, but the secondary school exams were postponed because of Ramadan. She went into labour on Monday shortly before the first exam was due to start. Ms Almaz said studying while pregnant was not a problem and she did not want to wait until next year to graduate. She took her English, Amharic and maths secondary school exams in hospital on Monday and will sit her remaining tests at the exam centre over the next two days. "Because I was rushing to sit the exam, my labour wasn't difficult at all," Ms Almaz told BBC Afaan Oromoo. Her husband, Tadese Tulu, said he had to persuade the school to allow her to take the exams at the hospital. In Ethiopia, it is common for girls to drop out of secondary school and return later on to complete their studies. Ms Almaz now wants to take a two-year course that will prepare her for university. She said she was pleased with how the exams went and her baby son is doing well.

ইথিওপিয়ায় এক নারী সন্তান জন্ম দেওয়ার ৩০ মিনিটের মাথায় হাসপাতালের বিছানায় বসেই মাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষায় অংশ নিয়েছেন।

নিচের ইংরেজি লেখাটির একটি বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ লিখুন

And it seems the music streaming service is keen to oblige him, after it posted on its careers page a vacancy for "President of Playlists." The job ad says applicants should have "at least eight years' experience running a highly-regarded nation". It also calls for "a friendly and warm attitude, and a Nobel Peace Prize". Spotify CEO Daniel Ek gave the commander-in-chief a heads-up on Twitter, writing: "I heard you were interested in a role at Spotify. Have you seen this one?" before linking to the affectionate ad. While the posting does not name Mr Obama, it nods to his best-known buzzwords, saying Spotify is "full of hope, and always open to change". The "What you'll do" section says the candidate will identify new playlist ideas, "from a playlist for shooting hoops with your friends, to the perfect warm up playlist for addressing the nation about health care legislation that bears your name". "Ever had Kendrick Lamar play at your birthday bash?" it asks - "We'd love to hear about it!" Lamar joined Mr Obama at his 55th birthday, and the president has called him his favourite rapper. The advert also takes a swipe at President-elect Donald Trump, saying the President of Playlists must "attend daily briefings", and "analyze data and performance of playlists ... using all available intelligence". Mr Obama has been sharing playlists of his favourite music via Spotify since 2015, including tracks by Nina Simone and Bob Marley, and - for Christmas 2015 - Mariah Carey's seasonal super-hit All I Want for Christmas Is You. Spotify is a Swedish company, and according to Natalia Brzezinski - wife of the former US ambassador to Sweden - the president told him last week: "I'm still waiting for my job at Spotify... Cuz' I know y'all loved my playlist!" She posted about the encounter on Instagram, adding that Mr Obama loves Sweden and plans to visit again "really soon". You might also like: It is not currently known what the 44th president will do when he leaves the Oval Office. Community activism and teaching have been mooted, while he has ruled out being a Supreme Court judge. In interviews, he has said he wants to help nurture the next generation of Democrat leaders - and ideally run an NBA basketball team. President Obama's first Spotify playlist - for summer days

প্রেসিডেন্ট ওবামা সম্প্রতি বেশ রসিকতা করেই বলেছিলেন, অবসরে যাওয়ার পর তিনি অনলাইন মিউজিক স্ট্রীমিং সার্ভিস স্পটিফাই'তে একটা কাজ পবেন বলে আশা করেন।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

1. Pollution drops As countries go into lockdown over the virus, there have been significant drops in pollution levels. Both China and northern Italy have recorded major falls in nitrogen dioxide - a serious air pollutant and powerful warming chemical - amid reduced industrial activity and car journeys. Researchers in New York also told the BBC that early results showed carbon monoxide, mainly from cars, had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year. And with airlines cancelling flights en masse and millions working from home, countries around the world are expected to follow this downward path. You can read more about the drops in pollution levels here. 2. Canals go clear On a similar note, residents of Venice have noticed a vast improvement in the water quality of the famous canals running through the city. The streets of the popular tourist destination in northern Italy have emptied amid the outbreak leading to a drastic drop in water traffic, which has allowed sediment to settle. The usually murky water has gone so clear that fish can even be seen. 3. Acts of kindness There are plenty of stories of panic buying and fights over toilet roll and tins, but the virus has also spurred acts of kindness around the world. Two New Yorkers amassed 1,300 volunteers in 72 hours to deliver groceries and medicine to elderly and vulnerable people in the city. Facebook said hundreds of thousands of people in the UK had joined local support groups set up for the virus, while similar groups have been formed in Canada, sparking a trend there known as "caremongering". Supermarkets in Australia are among those to create a special "elderly hour" so older shoppers and those with disabilities have a chance to shop in peace. People have also donated money, shared recipe and exercise ideas, sent uplifting messages to self-isolating elderly people and transformed businesses into food distribution centres. 4. A united front Between a hectic work and home life it is often easy to feel disconnected from those around you. As the virus affects us all, it has brought many communities around the world closer together. In Italy, where a countrywide lockdown is in place, people have joined together on their balconies for morale-boosting songs. A fitness instructor in southern Spain led an exercise class from a low roof in the middle of an apartment complex, which residents in isolation joined from their balconies. Many people have used the opportunity to reconnect with friends and loved ones over phone or video calls, while groups of friends have organised virtual clubbing or pub sessions using mobile apps (including those of us in the BBC who are working from home). The virus has also highlighted the importance of health workers and other people working in key services. Thousands of Europeans have taken to their balconies and windows to applaud the doctors and nurses fighting the virus, while medical students in London have volunteered to help healthcare professionals with childcare and household chores. 5. A creativity boom With millions of people now stuck in isolation, many are using the opportunity to get creative. Social media users have shared details of their new hobbies, including reading, baking, knitting and painting. The DC Public Library in Washington is among those hosting a virtual book club, while Italian Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura has launched an Instagram series called Kitchen Quarantine, teaching basic recipes to aspiring foodies who are stuck at home. An art teacher in the US state of Tennessee has been live-streaming classes for children who are out of school, inspiring them to get creative at home. And while many public spaces have been shut, art fans have been making the most of virtual tours offered by the world's biggest galleries, observing the famous paintings of the Louvre in Paris and the classic sculptures of the Vatican museum from their living rooms. Australia's Sydney Observatory offered a tour of the night sky for people stuck at home. Pop stars including Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and country singer Keith Urban have also been live-streaming gigs to combat the boredom of self-isolation. On Monday, we're going to bring you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories, like these, that are emerging from the coronavirus crisis. We hope you can join us from 07:00 GMT.

বিশ্বব্যাপী করোনাভাইরাস মহামারির ভয়াবহতা নিয়ে মানুষ এখন দিন কাটাচ্ছে আতঙ্কে। সংক্রমণ বাড়ছে, মৃত্যুর হারও বাড়ছে লাফিয়ে লাফিয়ে। বিভিন্ন দেশে ছোটবড় অনেক শহর অবরুদ্ধ করে দেয়া হচ্ছে। বহু মানুষকে জনবিচ্ছিন্ন অবস্থায় থাকতে বাধ্য করা হচ্ছে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including A Bend in the River and his masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas. His wife, Lady Naipaul, called him a "giant in all that he achieved". She said he died at his home in London "surrounded by those he loved, having lived a life which was full of wonderful creativity and endeavour". Geordie Greig, editor of the Mail on Sunday and a close friend, said his death leaves a "gaping hole in Britain's literary heritage", but there is "no doubt" that his "books live on". Obituary: VS Naipaul American travel writer Paul Theroux, who had a bitter 15-year feud with Sir Vidia before reconciling, said: "He will go down as one of the greatest writers of our time." Paying tribute to his friend, who he said had been in poor health, Theroux added: "He also never wrote falsely. "He was a scourge of anyone who used a cliché or an un-thought out sentence. He was very scrupulous about his writing, very severe, too." Salman Rushdie, who also disagreed repeatedly with Sir Vidia, said he was "as sad as if I just lost a beloved older brother". Farrukh Dhondy, a writer and long-time friend of Sir Vidia, told BBC News that his writing was distinguished by its clarity, lack of self-indulgence and for his unique perspective on the post-colonial world. "It's window pane prose. You're looking through a very clean, polished glass window at the object beyond," he said. "He was one of the greatest literary talents of the last century, and he was quite a remarkable personality, with insights which I don't think anybody else had - on a personal level, on a broader civilisational level." On social media, fans paid tribute to Sir Vidia and expressed their sadness. Author Laila Lalami described him as a "wonderful stylist and a terrible curmudgeon", adding: "At his best, he could write with great tenderness and good humor [sic] about people whose lives were erased by colonial narratives." British novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru recalled interviewing him and said: "When we sat down, the first thing he said was 'tell me what you've read and don't lie'. Only then would he consent to be questioned." Writer Jeet Heer called him a "powerful novelist" who "at his best approached Conrad and even the shadow of Dickens", while blogger Patrice Yursik described him as a "titan of Caribbean literature". One fan said "no-one inspired me to read more than Naipaul" while another tweeted that his novel A House for Mr Biswas "stayed with me as a lasting memory for 30+ years". 'Modern philosopher' Sir Vidia, who as a child was read Shakespeare and Dickens by his father, was raised as a Hindu and attended Queen's Royal College in Trinidad. He moved to Britain and enrolled at Oxford University in 1950 after winning a government scholarship giving him entry into any Commonwealth university of his choosing. As a student, he struggled with depression and once attempted to take his own life. His first book, The Mystic Masseur, was published in 1957. It was made into a film directed by Ismail Merchant in 2001. In 1961 he published his most celebrated novel, A House for Mr Biswas, which took more than three years to write. Sir Vidia, who was a broadcaster for the BBC's Caribbean service between 1957 and 1961, was one of the first winners of the Booker Prize, for In A Free State, in 1971. Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2001, the committee said Sir Vidia had "united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories". It added: "Naipaul is a modern philosopher. In a vigilant style, which has been deservedly admired, he transforms rage into precision and allows events to speak with their own inherent irony." His first wife, Patricia Hale, died in 1996 and he went on to marry Pakistani journalist, Nadira. Sir Vidia was outspoken and became known for criticisms of Tony Blair - who he described as a "pirate" - as well as Charles Dickens and EM Forster. He also fell out with the American travel writer Paul Theroux, who he had mentored, in a bitter 15-year feud, after Theroux discovered a book he had given Naipaul in a second-hand bookshop. They later reunited.

সাহিত্যে নোবেলজয়ী ব্রিটিশ ঔপন্যাসিক স্যার ভিএস নাইপল মারা গেছেন শনিবার রাতে। মৃত্যুকালে তাঁর বয়স হয়েছিল ৮৫ বছর।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

Ms Ardern met Mr Trump at the Apec summit in Vietnam earlier this month. On Sunday, a local comedian told journalists Ms Ardern said Mr Trump had mistaken her for the wife of Canada's leader, Justin Trudeau. Ms Ardern denied this, and said she had merely spoken about an outside observer's impression of the meeting. Tom Sainsbury, a friend of Ms Ardern's, had told local radio: "I don't know if I should be saying this, but she said that Donald Trump was confused for a good amount of time thinking that she was Justin Trudeau's wife." The interview sparked headlines in New Zealand that Mr Trump had not known who Ms Ardern was. Ms Ardern later denied this. In a New Zealand TV (TVNZ) interview on Monday, she said: "Someone observed that they thought that it happened, but in all my interactions, certainly President Trump didn't seem to have confused me when I interacted with him. But someone else observed this." She would not specify who observed the meeting, but admitted she had shared the incident with a number of friends afterwards. 'A bit of a funny yarn' Grilled by a TVNZ host for several minutes, she said she had told the "full story" to her friends. She said she had given Mr Sainsbury "a shortened version" of events, but believed she had made clear it was an observer's impression of what happened. "I said there was some confusion over who I was," she said, adding that she could see now how it could have been misinterpreted. "Tom's a mate of mine. I shared a story with him, he shared it with someone else, I can see how that then spirals ... it is a trifling matter. It was "a bit of a funny yarn, something that I don't want to cause a diplomatic incident over", she said, adding: "I think I should never have recounted the story." Ms Ardern, who took office in October, has just returned from her first series of international forums as leader, including the Asean summit in the Philippines and Apec in Vietnam. The prime minister also caused some concern earlier, telling the website newsroom.co.nz how she had joked to President Trump about their respective election victories. According to the website, she recounted how Mr Trump had commented on her recent election saying "This lady caused a lot of upset in her country". "I said, 'You know', laughing, 'no-one marched when I was elected'," she told the website. Ms Ardern pointed out though that the US president did not seem offended by her comment.

নিউজিল্যান্ডের প্রধানমন্ত্রী জাসিন্ডা আরডার্ন তার দীর্ঘদিনের সঙ্গী টেলিভিশন উপস্থাপক ক্লার্ক গেফোর্ড-এর সাথে বাগদান সম্পন্ন করেছেন।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

Authorities have resorted to the unusual move to deal with the mounting waste problem at the site. The ban means tourists can only go as far as a monastery slightly below the 5,200m (17,060ft) base camp level. More people visit the mountain from the southern side in Nepal, but over the past years numbers have been rising steadily on the Chinese side as well. The Chinese base camp, located in Tibet, is popular as it is accessible by car - whereas the Nepalese camp can only be reached by a hike of almost two weeks. The world's highest peak has been struggling with escalating levels of rubbish for years, as the number of visitors rises. The Chinese Mountaineering Association says 40,000 visited its base camp in 2015, the most recent year with figures. A record 45,000 visited Nepal's base camp in 2016-7 according to Nepal's Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation. Ordinary tourists will only be banned from areas above Rongbuk monastery, which is around 5,000m above sea level, according to China's state news agency Xinhua. Mountaineers who have a permit to climb the 8,848m peak will still be allowed to use the higher camp. In January, authorities announced that they would limit the number of climbing permits each year to 300. On Chinese social media, claims have spread in recent days that its base camp will be permanently closed to tourists - but Xinhua cited officials denying that. The official announcement about the closure was made in December, on the website of the Tibetan authorities. It stated that three clean-up operations last spring had collected eight tonnes of waste, including human faeces and mountaineering equipment climbers had left behind. This year's clean-up efforts will also try to remove the bodies of mountaineers who have died in the so-called death zone above 8,000m, where the air is too thin to sustain life for long. Due to the cold and high altitude, these bodies often remain on the mountain for years or even decades.

চীনের যে দিক দিয়ে মাউন্ট এভারেস্টে আরোহন করা যায় সেই বেস ক্যাম্প বন্ধ করে দিয়েছে দেশটি।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

By Maddy SavageStockholm Swedish police are dealing with unprecedented levels of attacks, targeting city centre locations too. The bomb squad was called to deal with 97 explosions in the first nine months of this year. "I grew up here and you feel like that environment gets violated," says Joel, 22. The front door of his apartment block in the central Stockholm neighbourhood of Sodermalm was blown out and windows were shattered along the street. Who is to blame? This category of crime was not even logged prior to 2017. Then, in 2018, there were 162 explosions and in the past two months alone the bomb squad have been called to almost 30. "Bangers, improvised explosives and hand grenades" are behind most of the blasts, says Linda H Straaf, head of intelligence at Sweden's National Operations Department. The attacks are usually carried out by criminal gangs to scare rival groups or their close friends or family, she says. "This is a serious situation, but most people shouldn't be worried, because they are not going to be affected." Teams have been sent to work with gang crime specialists in the US, Germany and the Netherlands, and they are liaising with Swedish military experts who dealt with explosives in Africa and Afghanistan. "It's very new in Sweden, and we are looking for knowledge around the world," says Mats Lovning, head of the National Operations Department. For criminologist Amir Rostami, who has researched the use of hand grenades in Sweden, the only relevant comparison is Mexico, plagued by gang violence. "This is unique in countries that pretty much don't have a war or don't have a long history of terrorism," he says. Where are the explosions? Most attacks have taken place in low-income, vulnerable suburbs in the biggest cities: Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo. Malmo had three blasts in just over 24 hours at the start of this month. But more affluent places are now being targeted too. An explosion in the residential northern Stockholm suburb of Bromma last month destroyed the entrance to a block of flats, blew out windows and damaged cars. A 20-year-old passerby was treated in hospital when a bomb targeted a grocery shop in the historic university city of Lund. And 25 people were hurt when a block of flats was targeted in the central town of Linkoping. Sodermalm is a former working-class area that has become increasingly gentrified. Vintage boutiques and vegan delicatessens break up grids of mustard- and terracotta-painted apartment blocks. The building targeted is opposite a park and close to a school. "Immediately afterwards, when police closed off the streets and I walked with my two kids to preschool, I got really scared," says Malin Bradshaw, who lives a few doors down. No arrests have been made and police will not comment on potential motives. "If it was targeted then to be honest it makes us feel safer, because then the attack was not aimed to harm the public," says Ms Bradshaw, hoping it was not a random attack. Who are Sweden's criminal gangs? Police say the criminals involved are part of the same gangs behind an increase in gun crime, often connected to the drugs trade. Sweden saw 45 deadly shootings in 2018, compared with 17 in 2011. But why they have added explosives to their arsenal is unclear. Swedish police do not record or release the ethnicity of suspects or convicted criminals, but intelligence chief Linda H Straaf says many do share a similar profile. "They have grown up in Sweden and they are from socio-economically weak groups, socio-economically weak areas, and many are perhaps second- or third-generation immigrants," she says. Ideological debates about immigration have intensified since Sweden took in the highest number of asylum seekers per capita in the EU during the migrant crisis of 2015. But Ms Straaf says it is "not correct" to suggest new arrivals are typically involved in gang networks. For many on the political right the explosions add fuel to their argument that Sweden has struggled to integrate migrants over the past two decades. "In the future the situation might grow even bigger and even more problematic," says Mira Aksoy, who describes herself as a national conservative writer. "Since they are in the same area, they are in the same mindset. It's easy for them to connect to each other. They don't feel like they should become a part of Sweden and they stay in their segregated communities and start doing crimes." This kind of sentiment has grown in recent years, and the nationalist Sweden Democrats attracted 18% of the vote in 2018. But Malin Bradshaw believes crime levels are more to do with income and social status. Amir Rostami says ethnicity rarely plays a big role in gang membership in Sweden. "When I interview gang members... the gang is their new country. The gang is their new identity." Did Swedish media hush it up? Another important layer of this story is how it has been covered by Swedish media. After last month's trio of attacks in Stockholm, public broadcaster SVT was accused of a leftist cover-up for leaving the story out of a main evening news programme. "I think that they have not done a great job... I feel like they're trying to shrink the news," argues writer Mira Aksoy. Christian Christensen, a journalism professor at Stockholm University, was himself surprised that some programmes paid little attention to the explosions, but feels there was extensive coverage in the big newspapers and on local news programmes. "The problem is that Sweden is used symbolically as proof of problems with immigration, proof of problems with leftist policies - unfairly in many cases," he argues. A recent study by polling company Kantar Sifo found that law and order was the most covered news topic on Swedish TV and radio and on social media. What are authorities doing? Police say they are trying to track down the perpetrators, but only one in 10 of such crimes in 2018 has led to a conviction. The head of the National Operations Department has promised greater co-ordination with security police. The home affairs minister has announced increased powers to search suspects' homes and greater efforts to break the culture of silence around gang crime. But in Sodermalm, resident Anders Herdenstam says there has to be a greater focus on integration. "I am not afraid for where I live. I am more concerned when it comes to developments in Sweden nationally."

গত মাসে হঠাৎ করেই স্টকহোমের বিভিন্ন জায়গায় মধ্যরাতে তিনটি বিস্ফোরণের শব্দ শোনা যায়, যা রীতিমত অবাক করে শহরটির অধিবাসীদের।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

Indian officials said the officers and their families had crossed the border in recent days. In a letter, Myanmar authorities asked for their return "in order to uphold friendly relations". Myanmar has been gripped by mass protests and strikes following a military coup last month. Security forces have taken a hard line against the demonstrations and at least 55 deaths have been reported. Police carried out raids overnight on Saturday in the largest city, Yangon, ahead of further protests in defiance of the military. Video footage showed security forces repeatedly firing at buildings as they moved into one street to make arrests. Hours later, thousands of demonstrators had gathered again in Yangon and the city of Mandalay. It followed demonstrations across the country on Saturday, with police in Yangon using tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse crowds, reports said. There were no reports of fresh casualties. What about the police officers seeking refuge? Deputy Commissioner Maria CT Zuali, a senior official in Champhai district in the Indian state of Mizoram, told Reuters news agency that she had received a letter from her counterpart in Myanmar's Falam district requesting the return of the police officers. The letter said that Myanmar had information about eight police officers who had crossed into India. "In order to uphold friendly relations between the two neighbour countries, you are kindly requested to detain eight Myanmar police personnel who had arrived to Indian territories and hand-over to Myanmar," the letter read. Ms Zuali said she was awaiting instructions from India's home affairs ministry in Delhi. According to Reuters, about 30 people including the officers and their family members have crossed the border into India seeking refuge in recent days. On Saturday, scores of other Myanmar nationals were waiting at the border hoping to flee the turmoil, AFP news agency reported, citing Indian officials. How did the unrest start? Myanmar's military seized power at the beginning of February after detaining the democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Days later, a civil disobedience movement began, with many people refusing to return to work and some taking part in huge street protests. Myanmar's security forces responded with a violent crackdown - firing live rounds at unarmed protesters. The military has not commented on the deaths. More than 1,700 people have been detained since the coup, according to UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, including members of parliament, protesters, and at least 29 journalists. Ms Bachelet said the figures could be much higher due to the large scale of the protests and difficulty in monitoring developments. Myanmar in profile

সামরিক জান্তার আদেশ মানতে অস্বীকার করে ভারতে পালিয়ে যাওয়া পুলিশ কর্মকর্তাদের ফিরিয়ে দেবার জন্য ভারত সরকারের কাছে চিঠি দিয়েছে মিয়ানমারের সরকার।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

By Secunder KermaniBBC News, Islamabad "Even now I feel like I am in jail. You can see the scars on my legs from when I was chained." Saima was sentenced to life imprisonment for having committed blasphemy, before her conviction was eventually overturned. She says her jailers at times wouldn't give her food because she was Christian. "They would say, 'You disgraced our religion,'" she told the BBC. She was accused of defiling the Koran and using it to perform exorcisms. But Saima says her Muslim neighbours launched the case against her, following a petty fight between their children. Human rights groups say Pakistan's blasphemy laws are often used to settle personal disputes. According to the Pakistani penal code, anyone convicted of insulting Prophet Muhammad can be sentenced to death, and anyone guilty of insulting "any religion" can be sent to jail for up to 10 years. A spokesman for the police in Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, declined to give figures on the number of blasphemy cases registered this year. But at least 1,472 people were charged under the law between 1987 and 2016, according to advocacy group the Centre for Social Justice. Religious minorities are disproportionately affected by blasphemy laws, although more Muslims are prosecuted than any other group. The most high-profile case has been that of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman recently acquitted by the supreme court after being sentenced to death in 2010. The verdict was met with angry protests, and the intelligence services are believed to be protecting her in an undisclosed location until a final legal challenge against her release has been heard. Some reports suggest about 40 other people convicted of blasphemy offences are still on death row. No-one convicted of blasphemy has ever been legally executed in Pakistan, but at least 70 people have reportedly been killed since 1990 in attacks by lynch mobs or vigilantes after being accused of it. Saima says since being released she lives her life in fear, using a new name. "I don't even go and visit my family, in case it becomes dangerous for them too," she told the BBC. Joseph Francis heads the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement in Lahore, and works defending those accused of blasphemy. Two politicians and a lawyer have been killed in the past decade by anti-blasphemy militants - but he's defiant about his work. "If we don't talk about these issues - nothing will happen," he said. Mr Francis said he had won about 120 blasphemy cases, and that many of those who were released are now living abroad. "Whoever is accused of blasphemy can't survive in Pakistan. The only way is if they stay totally under the radar." Mr Francis says that, as with the Asia Bibi case, lower courts often convict defendants, but higher courts eventually acquit them on appeal. He said it was a result of "pressure" from religious groups who intimidate judges in the trial courts. Lawyer Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry is one of those at times accused of helping pressurise court officials, though he strongly denies that. He heads a legal forum of lawyers working for free to help try and prosecute blasphemers. They are believed to handle a significant portion of all blasphemy cases in Pakistan. They are currently fighting 40 in Lahore alone. Mr Chaudhry told the BBC he gets "a lot of peace" from his work and that he "will be rewarded for it in the hereafter". "For us the most sacred thing is Prophet Muhammad. Everything we do is for him," he added. I asked him about allegations the blasphemy law was being used to settle personal feuds. He dismissed that as propaganda. "I've never seen anyone accused for personal gain. Can you see any element like that in Asia Bibi's case?" he asked. Mr Chaudhry insisted he investigated the cases before deciding to take them on, but said so far he had never turned one down. "No Muslim can ever accuse falsely someone of something related to Islam. Someone might wrongly accuse someone else of theft or kidnapping. That happens a lot. But no Muslim can do this." I pressed Mr Chaudhry though on why anyone in Pakistan would commit blasphemy, knowing it could result in a death sentence or lynching. "From what I've seen, whoever commits blasphemy becomes a hero for the anti-Islam lobby. They help them a lot. They give them visas to go abroad," Mr Chaudhry said. "There are other crimes that result in death sentences, why don't those defendants get such support?" This view that alleged blasphemers are simply looking for an excuse to seek asylum, or some kind of "international conspiracy" lies behind them is common amongst religious hardliners. Mr Chaudhry said international pressure was what led higher courts to acquit blasphemy convicts. He played a leading part in the prosecution of Asia Bibi, representing the cleric from the village who filed the case against her. During Asia Bibi's appeal in the supreme court, Mr Chaudhry claimed that there was a common thread throughout blasphemy cases in Pakistan, with all the accused using similar derogatory phrases. According to Mr Chaudhry, Christian leaders were coaching the community in what to say in order to get asylum and foreign support. The claims may sound outlandish, and the supreme court judges paid them short shrift, but they appeal to some Pakistanis who feel Islam is under threat from secular influences both within the country and abroad. Mr Chaudhry sees himself as an inheritor of the tradition of the founder of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, himself a lawyer. In 1929, Mr Jinnah represented Muslim man Ghazi llm Din, who was accused of murdering a Hindu publisher linked to a blasphemous text. The publisher had been acquitted by a court in Lahore, infuriating many Muslims. Some commentators point out Mr Jinnah only represented Ghazi Ilm Din at a later appeal, not his initial trial, and did not necessarily sympathise with his actions. But even today Ghazi Ilm Din is hailed as a hero in Pakistan, with streets named after him. The supreme court judgement acquitting Asia Bibi, which has been praised for standing up to religious hardliners, refers to him as a "great lover of the Prophet". The Ghazi Ilm Din case exemplifies Pakistan's complex relationship with the concept of blasphemy. It seems unlikely the laws relating to it can be reformed or repealed in the near future. Mr Chaudhry said without them, there would be even more violence. "If Asia has been acquitted then it's because of the law. If this law didn't exist she would've been killed instantly," he said. But Saima, who spent years in jail after being wrongly accused of blasphemy, said the allegation had taken a huge toll on her. "Life has become like death… people come here and talk to me about what happened, I get happy that they're listening to me, but then what? Nothing changes," she said. Follow Secunder @SecKermani

সাঈমা (আসল নাম নয়) পাকিস্তানের কারাগারে ঘুপচি এক কক্ষে চারবছর একাকী সাজা খাটার স্মৃতি এখনও কাটিয়ে উঠতে পারেন নি।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Republican President Donald Trump is up against Democratic challenger Joe Biden. About 100 millions voters had cast their ballots early. By the early hours of the morning both Mr Biden and Mr Trump told their supporters they were on course to win. The final result may take some time to emerge. Here are pictures from the election day and a night of results. With a tight race in key states, the candidates need 270 electoral college votes to secure the presidency. Donald Trump, 74, is seeking to avoid becoming the first incumbent president to lose a re-election fight since George HW Bush in 1992. With a rise in gun sales in the run-up to election day following a bitter campaign, there were fears of violence and disruption on Tuesday. But there have been only a few reported incidents of run-ins at polling stations or in the streets. In Chicago, a man told police that a group of people attacked his car with baseball bats near a polling station, the New York Times reports. And in Charlotte, North Carolina, an armed man wearing a Trump hat was arrested after he reportedly intimidated people at a rally. Overall, most Americans went out to vote peacefully - and of course millions stayed home after voting early. The highest turnout in more than a century is expected. The FBI is investigating a series of automated calls spreading misinformation. Dana Nessel, the Michigan attorney-general, said she had received reports of robocalls trying to trick people into staying home on election day. All images subject to copyright.

মার্কিন প্রেসিডেন্ট নির্বাচনের জন্য ভোট গ্রহণ হবে ৩রা নভেম্বর।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

By Gavin FischerBBC News, South Africa It was the middle of the night when the telephone call came, waking Nokubonga from her sleep. The girl at the other end of the line was just 500m away - and she said Nokubonga's daughter, Siphokazi, was being raped by three men they all knew well. Nokubonga's first response was to call the police, but there was no answer. She knew, anyway, that it would take them time to reach her village, in the rolling green and brown hills of South Africa's Eastern Cape province. She was the only person that could help. "I was scared, but then I was forced to go because it was my daughter," she said. "I was thinking that when I get there, she might be dead... Because she knew the perpetrators, and because they knew her and knew she knows them, they might think they had to kill her so she couldn't report them." Siphokazi had been visiting friends in a group of four small houses in the same village but had been left alone, asleep, when her friends went out at 01:30. Then three men who had been drinking in one of the other houses attacked her. Nokubonga's sparsely furnished hut has two rooms, a bedroom, where she had been sleeping, and a kitchen - where she picked up a knife. "I took it for me, for walking the distance between here and where the incident was taking place, because it is not safe," she says. "It was dark and I had to use the torch on my phone to light the way." She heard her daughter's screams as she approached the house. On entering the bedroom, the light from her phone enabled her to make out the awful sight of her daughter being raped. "I was scared… I just stood by the door and asked what they were doing. When they saw it was me, they came charging towards me, that's when I thought that I needed to defend myself, it was an automatic reaction," Nokubonga says. Nokubonga refuses to go into detail about what happened next. Find out more Listen to Nokubonga and Siphokazi talking on Outlook, on the BBC World Service Download the Outlook podcast The judge in the court case against the attackers said Nokubonga's testimony showed she had "become very emotional" as she saw one of the men raping her daughter, while the other two stood nearby with their trousers round their ankles, waiting to take their turn again. Judge Mbulelo Jolwana went on to say, "I understood her to mean that she was overcome with anger." But in recounting the story now, all Nokubonga will admit to was fear - for herself and her daughter - and her face betrays only sadness and pain. It's clear, though, that when the men charged at Nokubonga she fought back with her knife - and that as she stabbed them they tried to flee, with one even jumping out of a window. Two were seriously injured, and the other died. Nokubonga did not stay to find out how badly hurt they were. She took her daughter to a friend's house nearby. When the police arrived, Nokubonga was arrested and taken to the local police station, where she was kept in a cell. "I was thinking of my child," she says. "I got no information [about her]. It was a traumatic experience." At the same time, Siphokazi was in hospital worrying about her mother, imagining her in her cell and heartbroken about the prospect of her being jailed for years. "I wished that if she spent time in prison, I would be the one who would serve it on her behalf," she says. Still in shock, she could remember little or nothing of the attack. What she now knows she heard from her mother when she arrived at the hospital two days later, after being freed on bail. From that moment on they have been each other's emotional support. "I didn't get any counselling but my mother has been able to assist me," Siphokazi says. "I am recovering." Nokubonga's efforts are focused on ensuring that life continues just as it was before. "I'm still the mother and she is still the daughter," she says. They share a laugh about the closeness of their relationship, joking that Siphokazi cannot get married, because then Nokubonga would have no-one to look after. In the 18 months since the attack occurred they have come a long way. Buhle Tonise, the attorney who represented Nokubonga, remembers that both seemed to have given up when she first met them, a week after the attack. "The mother was distraught," she says. "When you are meeting with people that are at that level of poverty, then you know most of the time they would feel that the mother is going to jail because she has no-one to stand by her side. The justice system is for those who have money." As Buhle spoke to Nokubonga, Siphokazi watched her silently, as though the attack had deprived her of the power of speech. Although Buhle says she was confident Nokubonga could argue convincingly that she acted in self-defence, she feared it would be a struggle to overcome her client's overwhelming pessimism. What neither of them had foreseen was the help they would get from the media, which ended up creating the legend of the Lion Mama. It is rare in South Africa for a rape case to get more than basic news coverage. This may be in large part down to the sheer number of rapes in the country, estimated at around 110 per day - a situation President Cyril Ramaphosa recently labelled a national crisis. The Eastern Cape province - the country's poorest, with unemployment of over 45% - has a higher level of rape per capita of population than any other. In Lady Frere, the village where Nokubonga and Siphokazi live, there were 74 recorded rapes in the year 2017/2018 - an astonishingly high figure for somewhere with a population of less than 5,000. But among the numerous harrowing stories of rape in South Africa, Nokubonga and Siphokazi's story stood out. The press quickly latched on to the tale of a mother protecting her daughter. Unable to name Nokubonga, to protect her daughter's anonymity, one newspaper labelled her "Lion Mama", placing the story next to a picture of a lion and her cubs. The name stuck. "For me, at first, I didn't like it because I couldn't understand," Nokubonga says. "But in the end I knew it meant I was a hero, because when you look at a lion it would protect its cubs." The public responded by criticising the decision to charge Nokubonga with murder and raising funds to help her mount her legal defence. This raised her spirits, but the extent of the public support did not sink in until her first appearance in a local magistrate's court, a month after the attack. "Going to court I was scared, I woke up and said a prayer," she says. When she got there, she found the place was full of well-wishers. "There were a whole lot of people from all over South Africa. What I said to people is thank you, because the fact that the court was filled to the rafters, it meant that they supported me. They really gave me hope." She was quickly called before the magistrate. "I was told the charges had been withdrawn," she says. "I just stood there, but I was excited, I was happy. At that moment I knew the justice system is able to separate right from wrong, they were able to tell I had no intentions of taking someone's life." Buhle Tonise recalls the impact the magistrate's decision had on Siphokazi as well. "After the case was withdrawn, she calls her daughter. For the first time ever I heard her daughter laugh. I think that's when [Siphokazi] said she also wants to see the guys going to jail." They had to wait over a year for that to happen, but in December 2018 the two remaining attackers, 30-year-old Xolisa Siyeka and 25-year-old Mncedisi Vuba - members of the same clan as Nokubonga and Siphokazi - were each sentenced to 30 years in prison. "I was happy about it," says Siphokazi, now 27. "I felt a bit safe, but a part of me just felt they deserved life imprisonment." This is as close as Siphokazi gets to showing anger toward her attackers. Once the case was finished, she decided to waive her anonymity in order to give encouragement to other rape survivors. "I would tell a person that even after such an attack there is even life beyond it, you can still go back to society. You can still live your life," she says. Nokubonga also shows a surprising lack of anger for someone compared by the media to a lioness. In fact, she has hopes that her daughter's rapists can achieve something positive in the future. "I'm hoping that when they finish their sentence they'll come back as reformed or changed people," she says, "to tell a story about it and be a living example." You may also be interested in: Pili Hussein wanted to make her fortune prospecting for a precious stone that's said to be a thousand times rarer than diamonds, but since women weren't allowed down the mines she dressed up as man and fooled her male colleagues for almost a decade. Read: I acted as a man to get work - until I was accused of rape Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

নকুবঙ্গা কাম্পি দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকায় পরিচিত হয়ে উঠেছেন একজন 'লায়ন মামা' অর্থাৎ 'সিংহ মা' হিসেবে। তার মেয়ের তিন ধর্ষণকারীর একজনকে হত্যা এবং বাকি দু'জনকে মেরে আহত করার পর লোকজন তাকে এভাবেই ডাকতে শুরু করে।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

By Sarah Jenkins and Kerry AllenBBC News and BBC Monitoring Footage of the animal in the middle of the road in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, has been viewed 1.4 million times on the popular Sina Weibo microblog. China's Pear Video website said the dog has been seen in the road every day since its owner died on 21 August. A taxi driver said people try to help but the dog runs away. "Drivers often give the little dog bits of food, but when we get out, he goes away," he said. "This owner's relationship with her dog was very deep. After she was killed, this little dog has just stayed standing guard. "Every day it's in the road, I always see it. The relationship between man and dog is so true." The video was filmed on 10 November and since it was shared on Sina Weibo, the site used instead of Twitter or Facebook in China, users have been commenting on the "loyalty" of the dog. One person said: "This little dog is so loyal. My family used to have a dog and every day it would wait for me by the village school." Another user was concerned for the welfare of the pet. "It is so dangerous for that doggy to stand in the middle of the road. I hope that some good people can adopt it and take it to a safe place," they said. But this is not the first devoted dog to tug on the heartstrings of those on China's social platforms. Earlier this year, Pear Video users fell hard for an elderly dog named Xiongxiong who would wait patiently outside a train station for his owner to come home from work. In Japan, Hachiko the Akita became famous in the 1920s for meeting his master every day at a railway station. He continued to make the journey nine years after his owner's death.

ব্যস্ত এক সড়কে রোজ একটি কুকুর এসে অপেক্ষা করে, যেখানে ৮০ দিন আগে তার মনিব মারা গিয়েছিলেন---এমন একটি ভিডিও নিয়ে চীনের সামাজিক যোগাযোগ মাধ্যমে এখন চলছে ব্যাপক আলোচনা।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

The Niti Aayog report, which draws on data from 24 of India's 29 states, says the crisis is "only going to get worse" in the years ahead. It also warns that 21 cities are likely to run out of groundwater by 2020 despite increasing demand. This would also threaten food security as 80% of water is used in agriculture. Indian cities and towns regularly run out water in the summer because they lack the infrastructure to deliver piped water to every home. Rural areas are also badly affected by a lack of access to clean water. They cannot rely on groundwater due to erratic rains and the fact that the groundwater is increasingly used for farming when monsoon rains are delayed or insufficient. Around 200,000 Indians die every year because they have no access to clean water, according to the report. Many end up relying on private water suppliers or tankers paid for the by the government. Winding queues of people waiting to collect water from tankers or public taps is a common sight in Indian slums. As cities and towns grow, the pressure on urban water resources is expected to increase - the report estimates that demand will be twice as much as available supply by 2030. Water scarcity would also account for a 6% loss in India's gross domestic product (GDP). Some Indian states, however, are doing a better job than others in managing their water. Gujarat in the west topped the report's rankings. It was closely followed by Madhya Pradesh in central India and Andhra Pradesh in the south. Fifteen of the 24 states scored better than they did the previous year, leading to one of the report's conclusions that "water management is improving across-the-board". But what remains alarming is that the states that are ranked the lowest - such as Uttar Pradesh and Haryana in the north or Bihar and Jharkhand in the east - are also home to nearly half of India's population as well the bulk of its agricultural produce. But, the report said, policymakers face a difficult situation because there is not enough data available on how households and industries use and manage water.

ভারত তার ইতিহাসের সবচেয়ে ভয়াবহ পানি সংকেটর মুখে পড়তে যাচ্ছে। প্রায় ৬০ কোটি মানুষ তীব্র পানি সংকটে পড়বে বলে সতর্ক করে দিয়েছে ভারত সরকারের একটি গবেষণা প্রতিষ্ঠান।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent They found that the actions of wind turbines would double the amount of rain that would fall in the region. Solar panels have a similar impact although they act in a different way. The authors say their work reinforces the view that large-scale renewables could transform the Sahara region. The scientists modelled what would happen if 9 million sq km of the Sahara desert was covered in renewable energy sources. They focussed on this area because it is sparsely populated, and it is also exposed to significant amounts of sun and wind and is close to large energy markets in Europe and the Middle East. According to authors' calculations, a massive installation in the desert would generate more than four times the amount of energy that the world currently uses every year. Previous studies have shown that installing wind and solar can have an impact on temperatures - but the key difference with this research is the impact on vegetation. "Our model results show that large-scale solar and wind farms in the Sahara would more than double the precipitation, especially in the Sahel, where the magnitude of rainfall increase is between 20mm and 500mm per year," said Dr Yan Li, the lead author of the paper from the University of Illinois, US. "As a result, vegetation cover fraction increases by about 20%." In the Sahel, the semi-arid region that lies to the south of the Sahara, average rainfall increased 1.12mm per day where wind farms were present, according to the study. How do turbines and panels increase rainfall? With wind turbines, it's all about the mixing of air caused by the rotation of the blades. Wind farms mix warmer air from above, which creates a feedback loop whereby more evaporation, precipitation and plant growth occurs. "Wind farms increase surface roughness and therefore increase wind converging into low-pressure areas," said Dr Li. "The converging air has to rise, making it cool off and moisture condense, which will lead to increased rainfall." Solar panels actually reduce the reflection of sunlight from the surface known as the albedo effect. This triggers a positive albedo-precipitation-vegetation feedback that leads to precipitation increases of about 50%, the authors report. "The panels directly reduce the surface albedo which leads to more solar energy absorption and surface warming, which in turn strengthens the Saharan heat low, leading to more rising air and precipitation," Dr Li explained. What would be the impact on people? Mostly positive, say the authors. "Precipitation increases predicted by our model would lead to substantial improvements of rain-fed agriculture in the region, and vegetation increases would lead to the growth in production of livestock," said Dr Safa Motesharrei, from the University of Maryland, another author of the paper. "The Sahara, the Sahel, and the Middle East include some of the driest regions in the world, while experiencing high growth of population and poverty, and our study has major implications for addressing the intertwined sustainability challenges of the energy-water-food nexus in this region." But temperature rises are bad for climate change, right? The authors say that the heating impact of all those turbines and panels would not make an important difference. "The local warming by wind and solar farms is much smaller compared with the reduced future warming from greenhouse gases that renewable power at this scale would imply," said Dr Li. Will this work with smaller-scale renewable installations? The authors also looked at other desert locations in different parts of the world but they found the impact on rainfall and vegetation growth was much smaller. They also believe that fewer panels and turbines would have a limited effect. "Generally, the climate impacts are reduced with reduced installations, but this result depends also very much on the exact locations," said Dr Li. "High-resolution modelling may be necessary to better investigate more regional impacts of wind and solar farms." Should we now proceed with big installations in desert areas? "Yes, I think so," said Dr Li. "The main message for people, policymakers, and investors is the enormous benefits to the people, society, and ecosystem as a result of these solar and wind farms." "We hope that, in the light of our findings, and because of the primary climate effect of these farms is the reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting mitigation of climate change, we could transform our energy sources. That can lead in turn to sustaining freshwater, food, and life on our planet." The study has been published in the journal, Science.

সাহারা মরুভূমিতে প্রচুর সংখ্যক সৌর বিদ্যুৎ প্যানেল এবং বায়ু বিদ্যুতের জন্যে টার্বাইন স্থাপন করায় সেখানকার বৃষ্টিপাত, গাছপালা এবং তাপমাত্রার বড় প্রভাব ফেলবে- বলছেন গবেষকরা।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

On Sunday, authorities reported 2,009 new cases and 142 more deaths nationwide. New cases spiked earlier in the week after a change in the way they were counted but have been falling ever since. In total more than 68,000 people have been infected in China, with the death toll standing at 1,665. Outside China there have been more than 500 cases in nearly 30 countries. Taiwan reported its first death from the illness on Sunday. The victim was a man in his 60s, who had not travelled abroad recently but who had diabetes and hepatitis B, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said. Four others have died outside China - in France, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan. The measures China has taken to stop the spread of the coronavirus are starting to have an impact, Mi Feng, a spokesman at the National Health Commission, said on Sunday. In other developments: On Saturday, World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised Beijing's response to the outbreak. "China has bought the world time. We don't know how much time," he said. "We're encouraged that outside China, we have not yet seen widespread community transmission." How is China coping? China has imposed more restrictions on the 60 million people living under lockdown in Hubei province - the centre of the outbreak - in an attempt to control the epidemic. The use of private cars has been banned and residents have been told to stay at home unless there's an emergency. Officials say there will be only one exception to this rule - every three days a single person from each household will be allowed out to buy food and other essential items. The new measures come despite an announcement by China's State Council that the proportion of infected patients in a serious condition had fallen nationwide. Foreign Minister Wang Yi also said that along with a drop in infections within Hubei there had been a rapid increase in the number of people who had recovered. Meanwhile, authorities in the capital, Beijing, have ordered everyone returning to the city to go into quarantine for 14 days or risk punishment. China's central bank will also disinfect and store used banknotes before recirculating them in a bid to stop the virus spreading. In another development Chinese state media published a speech from earlier this month in which Chinese President Xi Jinping said he said he had given instructions on 7 January on containing the outbreak. At the time, local officials in the city of Wuhan were downplaying the severity of the epidemic. This would suggest senior leaders were aware of the potential dangers of the virus before the information was made public. With the government facing criticism for its handling of the outbreak, analysts suggest the disclosure is an attempt to show the party leadership acted decisively from the start. Read more about the coronavirus and its impact

চীন দাবি করেছে পর পর তিন দিন নতুন করে করোনাভাইরাসে আক্রান্ত মানুষের সংখ্যা কমেছে।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

It comes in the wake of the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June. He is believed to have killed himself, but the case has fuelled months of speculation by news channels. Dozens of companies, including those owned by stars Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan have taken action. "The livelihood of persons associated with Bollywood is being severely impacted by the smear campaign being run by the defendants," the case says. Indian media has been dominated by the actor's death in recent months. A total of 34 producers and four film industry associations have joined the case against two Indian media channels and four presenters, who have not yet responded to the allegations. "The privacy of the members of Bollywood is being invaded, and their reputations are being irreparably damaged by painting the entire Bollywood as criminals, seeped in drug culture, and making being part of Bollywood as synonymous with criminal acts in the public imagination," according to the lawsuit. Rajput, 34, was found dead in his flat in Mumbai on 14 June. Police at the time said he had killed himself. But his family later registered a police complaint against his girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, accusing her of abetment to suicide and other crimes, all of which she has denied. Since then a number of Bollywood stars, including actress Deepika Padukone, have also faced questioning as part of the investigation into Rajput's death - although none have been accused of any wrongdoing. The case is now being investigated by three federal agencies. With investigators drip-feeding nuggets of information to the media, rumours and conjecture over what happened and who is responsible have been rife.

ভারতীয় কিছু গণমাধ্যমের "কাণ্ডজ্ঞানহীন রিপোর্টিংয়ের" বিরুদ্ধে মামলা দায়ের করেছে বলিউডের বড় বড় কয়েকটি প্রযোজনা প্রতিষ্ঠান।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

The sultan deposed his father in a bloodless coup with British support in 1970 and set Oman on a path to development, using its oil wealth. Widely regarded as popular, he was also an absolute monarch and any dissenting voices were silenced. No cause of death has been confirmed. His cousin Haitham bin Tariq Al Said has been sworn in as his successor. A family council had three days to choose a successor as Qaboos had no heir or publicly designated successor. Instead they opted for opening the sealed envelope in which Qaboos had secretly left his own choice. The sultan is the paramount decision-maker in Oman. He also holds the positions of prime minister, supreme commander of the armed forces, minister of defence, minister of finance and minister of foreign affairs. Last month Qaboos spent a week in Belgium for medical treatment, and there were reports he was suffering from cancer. Images showed a crowd of men gathered outside the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in the capital, Muscat, where the coffin had been placed before he was buried in a family cemetery. In a televised speech after being sworn in, Sultan Haitham - a former culture and heritage minister who studied at Oxford - pledged to continue his predecessor's policies of friendly relations with all nations while further developing the country. Smooth transition, for now at least By Sebastian Usher, BBC World Service Arab affairs editor This is a day that had long been dreaded in Oman where the elegant, beturbaned and white bearded figure of Sultan Qaboos had for five decades embodied the identity of a country that he had brought into the modern world. There were concerns that his death might bring instability to Oman, which has largely avoided the unrest elsewhere in the region. For now at least, the process of finding a successor has moved swiftly and smoothly. And Haitham bin Tariq Al Said - born in 1955 - was swift to reassure his people and the wider world that he would follow the same path as his predecessor. Being the chosen successor of Qaboos will enhance his legitimacy within Oman, but a far harder task will be to take on the crucial role that Oman has played for so long as a trusted and independent mediator in many of the most intractable conflicts that have blighted the region. Neutral policy, absolute rule For almost five decades, Qaboos completely dominated the political life of Oman, which is home to 4.6 million people, of whom about 43% are expatriates. At the age of 29 he overthrew his father, Said bin Taimur, a reclusive and ultra-conservative ruler who banned a range of things, including listening to the radio or wearing sunglasses, and decided who could get married, be educated or leave the country. Qaboos immediately declared that he intended to establish a modern government and use oil money to develop a country where, at the time, there were only 10km (six miles) of paved roads and three schools. In the first few years of his rule, with the help of British special forces, he suppressed an insurgency in the southern province of Dhofar by tribesmen backed by the Marxist People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Described as charismatic and visionary, he pursued a neutral path in foreign affairs and was able to facilitate secret talks between the United States and Iran in 2013 that led to a landmark nuclear deal two years later. A degree of discontent surfaced in 2011 during the so-called Arab Spring. There was no major upheaval in Oman, but thousands of people took to the streets across the country to demand better wages, more jobs and an end to corruption. Security forces initially tolerated the protests, but later used tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition to disperse them. Two people were killed and dozens of people were injured. Hundreds were prosecuted under laws criminalising "illegal gatherings" and "insulting the sultan". The protests failed to produce anything in the way of major change. But Qaboos did remove several long-serving ministers perceived as corrupt, widened the powers of the Consultative Council, and promised to create more public sector jobs. Since then, the authorities have continued to block local independent newspapers and magazines critical of the government, confiscate books, and harass activists, according to Human Rights Watch. Reacting to the death on Twitter, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said it was a "loss for the region", and voiced hope that the new leadership would take "inspiration from the past". UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Qaboos had left a "profound legacy, not only in Oman but across the region" while former US President George W Bush said the late leader had been a stable force in the Middle East.

আরব বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে দীর্ঘস্থায়ী শাসক ওমানের সুলতান কাবুস বিন সাইদ আল সাইদ মারা গেছেন। তাঁর বয়স হয়েছিল ৭৯ বছর।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) are some of the republic's most wretched citizens because of an unforgiving Hindu caste hierarchy that condemns them to the bottom of the heap. Although untouchability among Hindus is widely documented and debated, its existence among India's Muslims is rarely discussed. One reason possibly is that Islam does not recognise caste, and promotes equality and egalitarianism. Most of India's 140 million Muslims are descended from local converts. Many of them converted to Islam to escape Hindu upper-caste oppression. 'Lived reality' Their descendants form the overwhelming majority - 75% - of the present Indian Muslim population, and they are called the Dalit Muslims, according to Ejaz Ali, leader of an organisation representing socially disadvantaged Muslims. "But caste and untouchability is a lived reality for Muslims living in India and South Asia," Dr Aftab Alam, a political scientist who has worked on the subject, told me. "And untouchability is the community's worst-kept secret." Studies have claimed that "concepts of purity and impurity; clean and unclean castes" do exist among Muslims groups. A book by Ali Anwar says while Dalits are called asprishya (untouchable) in Hindu society, they are called arzal (inferior) among the Muslims. A 2009 study by Dr Alam found there was not a single "Dalit Muslim" in any of the prominent Muslim organisations, which were dominated essentially by four "upper-caste" Muslim groups. Now a major study - possibly the first its kind - by a group of researchers reveals that the scourge of untouchability is alive and well among Indian Muslims. Prashant K Trivedi, Srinivas Goli, Fahimuddin and Surinder Kumar polled more than 7,000 households across 14 districts between October 2014 and April 2015 in the populous northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. 'Food from different plates' Some of their findings include: Caste-related prejudices are found among all religious communities - including Sikhs - in India. Parsis are possibly an exception. "But a belief that caste is a Hindu phenomenon since caste system derives legitimacy from Hindu religious texts, has dominated thinking of governments and academia since the colonial period," says Prashant K Trivedi. So he and his co-researchers believe that "Dalit Muslims" - and Christians - deserve affirmative action benefits like their Hindu outcaste counterparts. The moral of the story: you can try to leave caste in India, but caste refuses to leave you.

'অস্পৃশ্যতা দাসত্বের চেয়ে খারাপ'— বলেছেন ভারতীয় দলিত সম্প্রদায়ের অবিসংবাদিত নেতা ড. ভিমরাও আম্বেদকর।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

What happens in this South Asian country of nearly 200 million matters: it is a nuclear-armed rival to India, a key developing economy and one of the world's largest Muslim-majority nations. Here's what you need to know about the election, which has been called the dirtiest in Pakistan's history. Why it's important Since independence in 1947, Pakistan has oscillated between civilian and military rule. This election will mark the second time that one civilian government has handed power to another after serving a full term - a historic landmark. But few in Pakistan are celebrating the strength of its democracy. The run-up to the vote has been marked by tensions between the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party and the military. The PML-N complains of a targeted crackdown by the powerful security establishment, with the alleged help of the courts. Nearly 17,000 party members are facing criminal cases over breaking unspecified election rules. The media, meanwhile, have faced virulent censorship and intimidation. Another concern for some Pakistani democrats is the participation in the vote of militant groups. Many believe the military is up to its old political machinations in favour of its preferred candidates. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says there have been "blatant, aggressive and unabashed attempts" to manipulate the polls, with "alarming implications for Pakistan's transition to an effective democracy". The campaign has also been marred by violent attacks - including an IS-claimed attack in Balochistan on 13 July that killed nearly 150 people. Who are the key players? Nawaz Sharif (PML-N), 68 The three-time prime minister was disqualified from office last year after a corruption investigation prompted by the Panama Papers. He went to London to spend time with his ailing wife, but made a dramatic return with his daughter Maryam in early July, despite having been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The pair, convicted for their family's unexplained ownership of luxury London flats, are now behind bars. Mr Sharif blames the military for conspiring against him because he has openly criticised them and seeks better relations with India. The military denies any role. Nawaz's brother, Shehbaz Sharif, has led the PML-N campaign and will be looking to become the next prime minister. Key quote: "What credibility will these elections have when the government is taking such drastic action against our people and this crackdown is taking place all over the country?" Current seats: 182 Imran Khan (PTI), 65 The former star international cricketer entered Pakistani politics more than two decades ago, but he has never run a government. This time, many observers are convinced that he is the military's preferred candidate and that they are working to undermine his rivals. Mr Khan and the military deny any collusion but he told the BBC that the current military chief, Gen Bajwa, "is probably the most pro-democratic man we have ever seen". The PTI is supported by controversial groups, including one linked to al-Qaeda. Key quote: "Pakistan's issue is nothing to do with liberalism or fundamentalism. Pakistan has an issue of governance." Current seats: 32 Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (PPP), 29 Oxford-educated Mr Bhutto Zardari is the latest political candidate from a long political dynasty. Both his mother, Benazir Bhutto, and his grandfather, Zulfilqar Ali Bhutto, served as prime ministers. Both were also killed - Ms Bhutto by an assassin and her father by an executioner. The 29-year-old PPP leader, who is standing for parliament for the first time, says he wants to implement his mother's vision of a "peaceful, progressive, prosperous, democratic Pakistan". Polls predict the party will finish third. Key quote: "If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent then you really can't defeat me on the issues." Current seats: 46 Where will the vote be won? The PML-N's stronghold is Punjab province - Nawaz Sharif's homeland and the country's richest and most populous province. It has more than half the 272 directly-elected seats in the National Assembly and will be the key battleground. Mr Khan's PTI will have to make serious inroads here in order to win. In the 2013 election, the party performed well in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Analysts say Mr Bhutto's PPP is popular among the "rural class" and its voter base is concentrated in the southern province of Sindh. So what might happen? In the context of an election where two of the three main parties have cast doubt on the legitimacy of the vote, analysts expect a tight race between the Sharifs' PML-N and Mr Khan's PTI. If neither party wins a clear majority, the support of Mr Bhutto Zardari's PPP and other parties could be crucial to forming a governing coalition. If the PML-N wins, India and the US may breathe a sigh of relief, given Mr Khan's perceived closeness with the military and accusations that he is soft on Islamist extremism. Although Pakistan is a longstanding partner in the US war on terrorism, its alleged protection of militant groups active in neighbouring Afghanistan has long irked Washington and President Trump has cut off security aid. If the PTI wins, the PML-N could lead its supporters into the streets - especially if Mr Sharif remains behind bars. No matter who wins, however, the military will seek to maintain its extremely powerful role in Pakistan.

নির্বাচনী প্রচারণায় সহিংসতার ঘটনা আর নানা ধরণের রাজনৈতিক বিতর্ক তৈরী হলেও বুধবারের সাধারণ নির্বাচনে ভোট দেয়ার জন্য প্রস্তুতি নিচ্ছেন কোটি কোটি পাকিস্তানি।

প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি অনুচ্ছেদের বাংলা সারসংক্ষেপ কি?

By Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent Caitlin McNamara, 32, told the Sunday Times how she was allegedly sexually assaulted in a secluded palace by the UAE's 69-year-old Minister of Tolerance, while curating the Hay literature festival in Abu Dhabi in February. The minister, Sheikh Nahyan Al-Nahyan, who denies the allegations, is a senior member of the Abu Dhabi royal family and has property in the UK worth millions of pounds. Ms McNamara has returned to the UK and in July she gave the Metropolitan Police a detailed description of the alleged sexual assault. A formal investigation has yet to be opened, for several reasons. The alleged incident took place outside the Met's area of jurisdiction, there is no police report of it in the UAE and, as a member of the ruling family, the individual accused is likely to have sovereign immunity from prosecution. Discussing the case on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, acting for Ms McNamara, said she would like to see the UK government pressing the UAE for redress but admitted it would be difficult in legal terms. Hay festival has expressed outrage and says it will not be returning to Abu Dhabi while the Sheikh in question remains in his post. But there has been little response from the UAE side, other than for the Sheikh's lawyers to issue the denial and to express disappointment at the allegations and the way they have been aired publicly. Sheikh Nahyan, who has been a member of the UAE government since 1992 and is a familiar and largely respected figure in his own country, has not been suspended from his post. Diplomatic storms The case is the latest and one of the most disturbing in a succession of incidents that occasionally bedevil the UK's close relations with its Gulf Arab allies. These go right back to 1980 and the diplomatic storm triggered by the ITV drama-documentary 'Death of a Princess' about the public execution of a Saudi princess and her lover who was beheaded. The film cost British businesses an estimated £250m in lost contracts. Today it is largely forgotten, but women's rights in Saudi Arabia, while slowly improving, still fall way short of standards acceptable in the rest of the world. Then in 1984 the outgoing British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sir James Craig, wrote what should have been a confidential valedictory cable to his boss in Whitehall, in which he accused his Saudi hosts of being 'incompetent, insular and ignorant of the world around them'. Much to the embarrassment of the Foreign Office, the cable was leaked and went public. In 2018 relations between the UK and the UAE went through a rocky period after the arrest in Dubai of Matthew Hedges, a British PhD student. Hedges was researching a thesis on post-Arab Spring security but Emirati officials said they found incriminating evidence on his laptop proving he was a spy, which he denied. Hedges was detained for months before being pardoned, during which time he said he was subjected to 'psychological torture' in solitary confinement. To this day, the Emiratis believe he was a spy and Britain says he wasn't. Then shortly before Covid-19 erupted onto the world stage, there was the high-profile case in London's High Court involving Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, and his former wife, Princess Haya of Jordan. Despite the Sheikh's best efforts to stop the publication of her damning allegations the judge ruled against him. The world then learnt how the (then) 70-year-old, a giant figure in the horseracing world and often pictured with The Queen at Ascot, had abducted and incarcerated his own daughters when they had tried to leave the family. The judge also ruled Sheikh Mohammed 'had conducted a campaign of fear and intimidation' against his former wife, who fled to Britain last year with her children saying she was in fear of her life. The story briefly sent a shudder through the racing world amid calls from some quarters to sever links with the Sheikh. Of all Britain's relations with the six Gulf Arab nations, Saudi Arabia is the most controversial. Its opaque, draconian and much-criticised justice system has produced countless cases of human rights abuses, well-documented by groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. However Saudi Arabia is seen by Whitehall strategists as a vital bulwark against Iran's aggressive expansion across the region. It also provides jobs for thousands of Britons, especially in the defence industry. But aerial bombing raids by the Royal Saudi Air Force in the Yemen war - at times using aircraft and munitions sold by Britain - have contributed heavily towards the UN classifying the conflict as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Perhaps the incident that most shocked the world was the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. His body was dismembered and never found. Western intelligence agencies concluded that in all likelihood Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was complicit, something he has denied. In July Britain sanctioned 20 Saudi officials for their role in Khashoggi's murder but relations with Riyadh have continued largely uninterrupted. Astronomically rich Several factors combine to ensure that, barring a complete change of policy in London, relations with the Gulf Arab states are likely to grow closer still. In an unstable Middle East where ISIS and Iran are still seen as strategic threats, the Gulf monarchies are viewed as necessary allies. RAF jets regularly fly into and out of bases up and down the Gulf and Britain now has a permanent naval base in Bahrain - HMS Juffair. A joint squadron of Typhoons has been set up with Qatar and increasing use is being made of facilities provided by Oman. And of course the Gulf states are astronomically rich, thanks to their oil and gas reserves. Collectively, they form the UK's third biggest trade partnership outside the EU, investing billions of pounds into the UK economy and in a recent interview with the UAE newspaper The National, Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke of the region's importance to Britain. Two things are certain here. There will be more incidents to come and the PR consultancies hired by Gulf governments look set to stay in business for many years to come.

সংযুক্ত আরব আমিরাতের রাজপরিবারের একজন গুরুত্বপূর্ণ সদস্যের বিরুদ্ধে এক ব্রিটিশ নারী যৌন নিপীড়নের অভিযোগ তুলেছিলেন। এই অভিযোগের কথা এ মাসে ফাঁস হওয়ার পর তা হতবাক করেছে অনেককে।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

The decision will be made later at a meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Russia could be banned from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. It could also be ruled out of the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar. The country's sports minister refused to comment ahead of the ruling. Before the Lausanne meeting, members of Wada's Athletes Committee demanded a blanket ban on Russian athletes competing at the Olympics. Even if Wada backs the four-year ban, Russia will be able to compete at the Euro 2020 football championship. St Petersburg will also remain as one of the host cities at next summer's tournament. What is Russia accused of? Earlier this year, Wada's Compliance Review Committee (CRC) declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) non-compliant over inconsistencies in a key database of athletes' test results. Rusada boss Yuri Ganus has since confirmed that someone altered or deleted "thousands" of entries. Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov last week refused to comment on the issue, telling a BBC correspondent to wait for the outcome of the Lausanne meeting. Full disclosure of testing data from a laboratory in Moscow was a key condition of Wada's controversial decision last year to lift a three-year suspension of Russia's anti-doping agency over a vast state-sponsored doping scandal revealed by a scientist-turned-whistleblower. Authorities were accused of helping to cover up drug abuse, including while Russia hosted the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Russia was banned from taking part in last year's PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea, although athletes who could prove they were clean were allowed to compete under a neutral flag. What penalties could Russia face? The Wada Compliance Review Committee recommended a raft of measures:

বিশ্বের সব বড় বড় আন্তর্জাতিক খেলাধুলার আসরে রাশিয়াকে চার বছরের জন্য নিষিদ্ধ করেছে ওয়ার্ল্ড অ্যান্টি ডোপিং এজেন্সি।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

The technique uses antibody-rich blood plasma from people who've recovered from the disease and has already been applied to 70,000 people in the US - in trials or for the gravely ill. The FDA says initial trials indicate it is safe, although more are needed to prove effectiveness. Several experts have questioned the robustness of studies into its use. The announcement came a day after President Donald Trump accused the FDA of impeding the rollout of vaccines and therapeutics for political reasons, and on the eve of the Republican National Convention, where he will launch his campaign to win a second term in the White House. "This is what I've been looking forward to doing for a long time," the president told reporters on Sunday. "I'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the China virus that will save countless lives." Mr Trump described the procedure as a powerful therapy, as he appealed to Americans to come forward to donate plasma if they had recovered from Covid-19. More than 176,000 people have died from coronavirus since the start of the outbreak in the United States, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 5.7 million cases have also been confirmed nationwide. The country has had more confirmed cases and deaths than anywhere else in the world. Does plasma treatment work? The FDA had already approved the use of plasma transfusions on coronavirus patients under certain conditions. It has now given the treatment "emergency use authorisation", rather than full approval, saying that early research suggests blood plasma can decrease mortality and improve patient health if it is administered within the first three days of admittance to hospital. However, more trials are needed to prove its effectiveness. The agency said it had concluded it was safe after reviewing the results of 20,000 patients who had received the treatment so far. The FDA said people under the age of 80 who were not on a respirator and received plasma containing high levels of antibodies had a 35% better survival rate a month after the treatment than those who had received plasma with a low level of antibodies. "It appeared that the product is safe and we're comfortable with that and we continue to see no concerning safety signals," said Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. In his own comments, Mr Trump did not use such nuanced language, saying instead that the plasma treatment had been "proven to reduce mortality by 35%". Several experts, including Dr Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House's coronavirus task force, have expressed reservations about the robustness of studies so far. Balance of risks Many countries are using plasma as a coronavirus therapy, but it's not yet clear how effective the treatment is. The decision by the US FDA to grant emergency use is a balance of risks. It says, based on the evidence so far, convalescent plasma may lessen the severity or shorten the length of Covid-19 illness. Certainly, sick coronavirus patients whose own immune systems are struggling to fight off the pandemic virus might get protection from a transfusion of antibody-rich plasma from someone who has successfully recovered from Covid-19. Convalescent plasma has been used to successfully treat other diseases, including Ebola. It is generally well-tolerated, but unwanted effects can occur, including harmful allergic reactions. A recent UK analysis said it remained "very uncertain" whether plasma was beneficial for people admitted to hospital with Covid-19. Trials are ongoing to understand precisely which patients might benefit and by how much. Experts want "gold standard" evidence to inform treatment decisions and gathering that data will take time. In a statement, the Infectious Diseases Society of America said that while there were "some positive signals that convalescent plasma can be helpful in treating individuals with Covid-19.... we lack the randomised controlled trial data we need to better understand its utility in Covid-19 treatment". Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, called it "a political stunt". "Convalescent plasma may have some efficacy, but we need to have definitive data," he wrote on Twitter. World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Monday that using convalescent plasma was "still an experimental treatment". They added that the risks and side effects associated with it, ranging from mild to severe, must be considered. "There are a number of clinical trials going on around the world looking at convalescent plasma compared to the standard of care. Only a few of them have actually reported interim results... and at the moment, it's still very low-quality evidence," WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a news conference. The WHO has previously said that "Covid-19 convalescent plasma can be made available on an experimental basis through local production provided that ethical and safety criteria are met for its preparation and use". What's the latest on vaccines? In a tweet on Saturday, President Trump said "the deep state, or whoever, at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. "Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after [the US presidential election]," he added. Earlier this year, US regulators gave emergency authorisation to Gilead Science Inc's remdesivir as a therapeutic treatment for coronavirus. Meanwhile, a report by the Financial Times suggests the White House is considering granting emergency authorisation for a vaccine being developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, ahead of the US presidential election on 3 November. The White House has not commented on the story, but a spokesperson for AstraZeneca told Reuters that efficacy results for its trials were not expected until later this year.

করোনাভাইরাস রোগীদের চিকিৎসায় প্লাজমা থেরাপি ব্যবহার করার জন্য জরুরি অনুমোদন দিয়েছে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের খাদ্য ও ওষুধ প্রশাসন (এফডিএ)।

এই ইংরেজি প্রবন্ধটি বাংলা ভাষায় সংক্ষেপে অনুবাদ করুন

The woman's family has alleged that the man attacked her because he wanted to check the baby's gender. They say the couple have five daughters and the man has been putting pressure on his wife to deliver a son. The man, who has been arrested, has denied intentionally hurting his wife, saying instead that it was an accident. The incident took place in Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state in the north of the country. Police officials told the BBC that the injured wife was in a stable condition in a hospital in the capital, Delhi, and that her husband had been arrested. The wife's sister said that the couple used to regularly quarrel about having a son, BBC Hindi reported. According to her brother, the woman was taken to Delhi on Sunday on the advice of doctors as her condition was extremely critical. The husband said he did not attack his wife intentionally. He told local media he threw the sickle at her, but had no idea it would injure her so severely. "I have five daughters, one of my sons is dead. I know that children are the gift of God. Now whatever is to happen, will happen." The police investigation is ongoing. The desire among Indian parents to have sons instead of daughters has created a skewed gender ratio. Some 46 million girls went missing from India in the past 50 years, according to a June report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Annually, as many as 460,000 girls are killed through abortion after gender-based sex selection and excess female mortality due to deliberate neglect of girls after birth. A 2018 Indian government report said the desire for sons had created 21 million "unwanted" girls. The finance ministry report found that many couples kept on having children until they had a boy. India is a country with a longstanding cultural preference for male children. The desire for sons comes from the belief that a male offspring will financially provide for the family, look after parents in old age and carry the family name forward. A daughter, on the other hand, will eventually marry and leave, and often the parents will have to pay large dowries. This preference for sons, aided by pre-natal gender-selection technology, has played havoc with India's sex-ratio imbalance and over the years, tens of millions of girls have been killed - in the womb or soon after birth from deliberate neglect. In 1961, for every 1,000 boys under the age of seven, there were 976 girls. According to the last census in 2011, that figure had dropped to 914. Campaigners have called it a "genocide". Former prime minister Manmohan Singh has described female foeticide and infanticide as a "national shame" and called for a "crusade" to save girls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also advised Indians "not to hanker after sons" and not "kill the daughters in the hope of a boy". Five years ago, he launched Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save daughter, educate daughter) - a campaign to save girls. In another campaign, he asked fathers to take selfies with their daughters and send them to him. But none of the campaigns have really worked. Experts say for things to change, India must confront its unhealthy societal preference for boys and convince families to celebrate daughters as much as they celebrate their sons.

ভারতের পুলিশ জানাচ্ছে যে এক অন্তঃসত্ত্বা নারীর স্বামী কাস্তে দিয়ে তার স্ত্রীর পেট কেটে দেবার পর ওই নারী মৃত ছেলে সন্তান প্রসব করেছেন।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Mr Bolton says Mr Trump wanted China to buy agricultural produce from US farmers, according to details of the forthcoming book previewed by US media. He also says Mr Trump "remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House". The Trump administration is trying to block the book from going on sale. Speaking to Fox News, Mr Trump said of Mr Bolton: "He broke the law. This is highly classified information and he did not have approval." "He was a washed-up guy," the president added. "I gave him a chance." John Bolton joined the White House in April 2018 and left in September the following year, saying he had decided to quit. President Trump, however, said he had fired Mr Bolton because he disagreed "strongly" with him. He is known as a foreign policy hardliner and also served in the administration of President George W Bush. As national security adviser, he was the top counsellor to the US president on security matters at home and abroad. Mr Bolton's 577-page tome, The Room Where It Happened, is due to go on sale on 23 June. But on Wednesday night, the Department of Justice sought an emergency order from a judge to stop the book's release. The publisher, Simon & Schuster, said in a statement: "Tonight's filing by the government is a frivolous, politically motivated exercise in futility." It said hundreds of thousands of copies of the book had already been distributed around the world and the injunction would accomplish nothing. Mr Trump's Democratic challenger in this November's election, Joe Biden, said in a statement about the book: "If these accounts are true, it's not only morally repugnant, it's a violation of Donald Trump's sacred duty to the American people." What does Bolton allege about the meeting with Xi? The allegations refer to a meeting between President Trump and President Xi at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June last year. "Trump, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election [in 2020], alluding to China's economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Mr Bolton wrote. "He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome." Farmers make up a key voting bloc and largely supported Mr Trump in the 2016 election. Speaking on Wednesday evening, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer disputed Mr Bolton's account, saying the request for help with re-election "never happened". Mr Bolton also mentions an earlier conversation at the summit's opening dinner, in which they discussed the building of camps in China's western Xinjiang region. Mr Trump said the construction should go ahead as it was "exactly the right thing to do". China has detained about a million Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in the camps for punishment and indoctrination. The Trump administration has been publicly critical of China's treatment of Uighurs, and on Wednesday the president signed legislation authorising US sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the repression of Muslims in Xinjiang province. China denies mistreating Uighurs and attacked the US move, calling it malicious and threatening countermeasures. On one hand, the account John Bolton offers in his new book should seem somewhat familiar. This is hardly the first time a former adviser or anonymous current aide to Donald Trump has offered anecdotes about a president seemingly uninterested in the details of governing and uninformed on basic issues of foreign policy. For nearly three-and-a-half years, there have been plentiful stories about a White House rife with backbiting and internal power struggles. Mr Bolton's book goes beyond this well-trodden ground, however, in painting a broad portrait of a president willing to bend foreign policy to advance his domestic and personal political agenda. This was the heart of the impeachment case congressional Democrats made against Trump in January. Mr Bolton confirms their allegations that the president wanted the withholding of military aid to pressure Ukraine to provide damaging information about Democratic rival Joe Biden. Mr Bolton adds that Trump's dealings with China were also done with an eye on his re-election, and that he repeatedly intervened to assist friendly autocrats around the world. Republicans suggest this is all the work of a disgruntled employee trying to sell books, while Democrats are already growling that Bolton should have volunteered these bombshells during the impeachment proceedings. That ship has sailed, of course, but Bolton's book can still have a bite, distracting a presidential campaign struggling to find its footing less than five months before election day. What else did Mr Bolton say? Mr Bolton says the impeachment inquiry into the president might have had a different outcome this year if it had gone beyond Ukraine and investigated other instances of alleged political interference. In January, President Trump was impeached for withholding military aid to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into starting a corruption investigation into Mr Biden and his son Hunter. The president denied the wrongdoing and was acquitted after a two-week trial in the Republican-controlled Senate in February, which did not include any witnesses. Mr Bolton - who was criticised by Democrats for declining to testify to the hearings - does not discuss in the book whether he thinks that Mr Trump's actions on Ukraine were impeachable. The publication contains a number of other damaging allegations: 'Oh, are you a nuclear power?' Among other things, Mr Trump is alleged to have been unaware that the UK was a nuclear power. Britain's atomic deterrent came up during a meeting with Theresa May in 2018, when it was mentioned by one of the then-prime minister's officials. According to the book, Mr Trump said: "Oh, are you a nuclear power?" Mr Bolton said he could tell it "was not intended as a joke". Mr Trump also once asked his former chief-of-staff John Kelly if Finland was part of Russia, writes Mr Bolton. Invading Venezuela would be 'cool' Mr Trump said invading Venezuela would be "cool", according to the book, and that the South American nation was "really part of the United States". But he was less enthusiastic about another invasion. Of the Afghanistan conflict, Mr Trump is quoted in the book as saying: "This was done by a stupid person named George Bush." Mr Bolton writes that in a May 2019 phone call Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled off a "brilliant display of Soviet-style propaganda" by likening Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, which "largely persuaded Trump". Mr Putin's objective was to defend his ally, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Mr Bolton writes. In 2018, Mr Trump labelled the leftist Mr Maduro a dictator and imposed sanctions, but he clung to power. In an interview with ABC News to be broadcast in full this Sunday, Mr Bolton says of Mr Trump: "I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle." 'This is a bad place' Mr Bolton writes that many of the president's closest aides privately disparaged him. When he arrived at the White House, Mr Bolton said Mr Kelly warned him: "You can't imagine how desperate I am to get out of here. This is a bad place to work, as you will find out." During Mr Trump's 2018 meeting with North Korea's leader, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo passed Mr Bolton a note about the president that said: "He is so full of shit." He writes that Mr Pompeo, often described as a Trump loyalist, was among aides who considered resigning in disgust in frustration at working for the president. Mr Bolton writes that the president "saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government."

যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের সাবেক জাতীয় নিরাপত্তা উপদেষ্টা জন বোল্টন নিজের নতুন বইতে দাবি করেছেন, দ্বিতীয় দফায় দেশটির প্রেসিডেন্ট নির্বাচিত হবার জন্য ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প চীনের প্রেসিডেন্ট শি জিনপিংয়ের সাহায্য পেতে চেষ্টা করেছিলেন।

এই ইংরেজি লেখাটির বাংলা সারাংশ প্রদান কর।

Some 80 people were injured at the centre, which the UN-backed government says was hit by an air strike. Anti-government forces led by warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar have accused government forces of bombarding it. Most of the dead are believed to be Africans, attempting to reach Europe on clandestine sea crossings from Libya. Thousands of migrants are stopped and held in government-run detention centres. The country has been torn by violence and division since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011. What do we know about the attack? Some 120 migrants were inside a hangar at the Tajoura Detention Centre which took a direct hit on Tuesday evening, emergency services spokesman Osama Ali told AFP news agency. Tajoura is believed to house some 600 migrants. Women and children were among those hit, Guma El-Gamaty, a member of the UN-backed political dialogue group, told BBC World Service. An official in the Libyan health ministry, Doctor Khalid Bin Attia, described the carnage for the BBC after attending the scene: "People were everywhere, the camp was destroyed, people are crying here, there is psychological trauma, the lights cut off. "We couldn't see the area very clear but just when the ambulance came, it was horrible, blood is everywhere, somebody's guts in pieces." Who is to blame? The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, accused the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) of carrying out an air strike on the centre. The "heinous crime" was "premeditated" and "precise", it said. The LNA - led by Gen Haftar - was fighting government forces in the area where the strike happened. It had announced on Monday that it would start heavy air strikes on targets in Tripoli after "traditional means" of war had been exhausted. The LNA said its warplanes had bombed a pro-government camp near the centre and pro-government forces had fired shells in response, hitting the migrant centre by accident. A spokesman for the UN refugee agency, Charlie Yaxley, said it could not confirm who was behind the attack on the centre, Reuters news agency reports. Why is there war in Libya? No authority has full control over Libya and the country is extremely unstable, torn between several political and military factions, the two most important of which are led by Prime Minister Sarraj and Gen Haftar. Gen Haftar started an offensive against the government in April. The general has been active in Libyan politics for more than four decades and was one of Gaddafi's close allies until a dispute in the late 1980s forced him to live in exile in the US. After returning to Libya when the uprising began in 2011, he built up a power base in the east and has won some support from France, Egypt and the UAE. Libyans have mixed feelings towards him due to his past association with Gaddafi and US connections, but do credit him for driving Islamist militants out of much of the city of Benghazi and its surroundings. How vulnerable are migrants in Libya? People-smuggling gangs have flourished in Libya's political chaos, charging desperate migrants from sub-Saharan Africa thousands of dollars per head. Human rights groups have highlighted the poor conditions at the detention centres where many migrants end up as the EU works with the Libyan coastguard to intercept migrant boats. Leonard Doyle, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration in Geneva, said migrants were not treated with consideration when it came to housing them. "This detention centre is right beside a militia workshop that's been targeted in the past and it's been hit by shrapnel," he said. "Migrants who are trying to get to Europe get picked up typically by the Libyan coastguard. They're brought back to land and then they're brought usually by bus to any of up to 60 detention centres around the city. It's really not a good situation." Did you witness the attack? Were you in the detention centre? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. You can also contact us in the following ways:

লিবিয়ার রাজধানী ত্রিপলির বাইরে একটি অভিবাসী বন্দী শিবিরে হামলায় অন্তত ৪০ জন অভিবাসী নিহত হয়েছেন। দেশটির সরকারি কর্মকর্তারা এই খবর জানিয়েছেন।

দয়া করে এই ইংরেজি নিবন্ধটির সংক্ষিপ্তসার বাংলায় প্রদান করুন

A local candidate was among the dead in the Mastung town, police say. So-called Islamic State (IS) claimed the attack. Earlier, a bomb attack on a similar rally in the northern town of Bannu killed four people. The attacks come ahead of general elections on 25 July. Meanwhile, former PM Nawaz Sharif was arrested after flying home from the UK. Sharif and his daughter Maryam were taken into custody by officials from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after landing in the northern city of Lahore. They were then put on a chartered plane bound for Pakistan's capital Islamabad. They were later transferred to a local prison. The three-term PM was ousted last year after a corruption investigation. Last week he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison. He has accused Pakistan's powerful security establishment of conspiring against him ahead of the elections. What is known about Friday's attacks? More than 150 people were injured in Mastung, officials say. Among those killed was Baluchistan provincial assembly candidate Siraj Raisani, his family said. He was a candidate for the Balochistan Awami party. Local officials say the attacker detonated a bomb inside a crowded compound where the campaign rally was being held. "Human remains and red bloody pieces of flesh were littered everywhere in the compound," local journalist Attah Ullah was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency. "Injured people were crying in pain and fear," the journalist said. IS militants later used their news outlet to claim the group carried out the attack. IS has carried out a number of attacks in the region bordering Afghanistan in recent years. However, security has improved since the military managed to clear large swathes of territory. Friday's bombing was the deadliest attack since militants from the Pakistani Taliban assaulted an army-run school in Peshawar in December 2014, killing 141 people, 132 of them children. Earlier in the day, a campaign convoy of another candidate was attacked in Bannu. Akram Khan Durrani, who represents the MMA party, was unhurt, officials say. No group has so far claimed responsibility for that attack. Secular parties targeted By BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad These attacks are unexpected as they come amid claims by the army that militants have been cleared from Pakistan's western regions on the Afghan border, which have become a sanctuary for the Taliban. Before the 2013 elections, militants had issued early warnings, resulting in a muted campaign by targeted secular parties. Those parties lost the poll by wide margins. Those same parties and groups appear to be targets again. These latest attacks may also trigger a new set of tensions ahead of an election already marred by controversy. Significantly, the attacks come in the aftermath of the conviction of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by an anti-corruption court. Friday's attacks came just hours before Sharif flew in from the UK to Lahore, and the city is under a lockdown ordered by authorities to prevent his supporters from staging a huge welcome for him. On Tuesday, a suicide bomber hit a campaign gathering in the northern city of Peshawar, killing 22 people - including a provincial candidate. The Pakistani Taliban said it had carried out that attack. What about Sharif's return? Tensions across Pakistan have been rising ahead of the former prime minister's arrival in Lahore. Clashes are reported to have broken out between Sharif supporters and security forces at the main highway entry-point to the city. Thousands of police officers were earlier deployed and shipping containers placed on some main roads. On Thursday, Sharif's PML-N party said hundreds of activists in Lahore had been detained ahead of Sharif's return. Sharif's lawyers hope that his return to Pakistan will enable him to file an appeal against his conviction. Pakistan's general election

পাকিস্তানে পুলিশ বলছে, দক্ষিণ-পশ্চিমাঞ্চলীয় একটি শহরে নির্বাচনী প্রচারণার সময় আত্মঘাতী এক বোমা হামলায় কমপক্ষে ১২৮ জন নিহত হয়েছে।