Afghan boys' schools to reopen
But the new Taliban ministry of education gives no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes
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Bangladesh
- Infection: 1,540,110
- Recovery: 779----
- Death: 27,147
Source: IEDCR
World
- Infection: 227,118,472
- Recovery: 3,405,---
- Death: 4,671,547
Source: Johns Hopkins University
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The court grants police three days to question in custody Mohammad Rassel, managing director of Evaly, in a case involving charges of fraud on Friday, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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The court grants police three days to question Evaly Chairman Shamima Nasrin in custody in a case involving charges of fraud on Friday, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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A group of Evaly customers demonstrate demanding the release of its Managing Director Mohammad Rassel and Chairman Shamima Nasrin in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on Friday, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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A group of Evaly customers demonstrate demanding the release of its Managing Director Mohammad Rassel and Chairman Shamima Nasrin in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on Friday, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Police arrest an unidentified man for raising slogans demanding the release of Evaly Managing Director Mohammad Rassel and Chairman Shamima Nasrin after the law enforcers took them to the court in a case over embezzlement on Friday, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Bangladesh Students’ Union leaders and activists join a rally at Dhaka University in procession to mark Education Day on Friday, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Bangladesh Students’ Union leaders and activists join a rally at Dhaka University in procession to mark Education Day on Friday, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Dhaka Mahanagar Natyamacha loses its beauty with parts covered with garbage. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Gas cylinders are kept at one corner of Dhaka mahanagar Natyamancha. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Rickshaws are kept at one corner of Dhaka Mahanagar Natyamancha after breakdown. Shops are set up at another portion. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Homeless people sleep at the gate of Kazi Bashir Auditorium of Mahanagar Natyamancha in Dhaka’s Gulistan. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Homeless people hang their clothes for drying at Kazi Bashir Auditorium of Mahanagar Natyamancha in Dhaka’s Gulistan. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waves to the cabinet members and diplomats at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport as she leaves Dhaka to attend the UN General Assembly, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: PID
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Cabinet members and diplomats bid farewell to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport as she leaves Dhaka to attend the UN General Assembly, Sept 17, 2021. Photo: PID
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The Chhatra Union planted a Radhachura tree, or peltophorum pterocarpum tree, near Dhaka University’s Arts Building on Thursday, Sept 16, 2021 to protest the felling of a Krishnachura tree at the same location. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu
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A group of citizens organise an exhibition of memorabilia from dengue survivors and people who died from the mosquito-borne disease outside High Court in Dhaka on Thursday, Sept 16, 2021 demanding preservation of the city museum Nagar Jadughar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
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A group of citizens organise an exhibition of memorabilia from dengue survivors and people who died from the mosquito-borne disease outside High Court in Dhaka on Thursday, Sept 16, 2021 demanding preservation of the city museum Nagar Jadughar. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
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The banks of the Padma continue to erode in Azimnagar Union in Manikganj’s Harirampur Upazila, leaving residents to scurry to a safer place before the river devours them. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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Azimnagar Union in Manikganj’s Harirampur Upazila is facing the risks of an overflowing Padma as the river erodes its banks at the end of monsoon. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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The residents of Azimnagar Union's Hatighata area in Manikganj’s Harirampur Upazila are leaving their homes to move to safer grounds as the erosion of the Padma's banks worsens. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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A large area of Azimnagar Union in Manikganj’s Harirampur Upazila is under threat due to the erosion of the Padma River. Aside from moving away from the Padma's banks, residents are also cutting down trees to protect themselves from an overflowing river. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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A piece of land in Azimnagar Union’s Hatighata area lies abandoned after the family which occupied it moved their house to a safer place as the erosion of the Padma River worsens. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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A family in the Hatighata area of Manikganj’s Harirampur Upazila has found temporary shelter on an empty of piece land after its previous moved their homes away from the banks of the Padma as the erosion of the river's banks worsens. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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A service company has dug out a section in the middle of DIT Road in the Chowdhurypara area of Dhaka’s Malibagh for renovation work, causing traffic congestion in the area, as seen in this photo taken on Thursday, September 16, 2021. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu
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Farmers from near Dhaka bring their produce to the Shipahibag Bazar in the Khilgaon area on Thursday, September 16, 2021. They come to sell their vegetables at the bazar every day. Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu
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Afghan boys' schools to reopen
But the new Taliban ministry of education gives no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes
Chess pioneer sues Netflix
over 'The Queen's Gambit'
Nona Gaprindashvili, a history-making chess champion, says she was slighted after a line in the series mentioned her by name and said she had “never faced men”
