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Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will cast his vote at Gulshan Model School and College polling centre in the city at 10:00 am on Thursday. Prof Yunus will cast vote in the 13th Parliamentary Election and the Referendum on the July National Charter, said Chief Adviser's Press Wing this afternoon.
South Africa prevailed in a double super over thriller as Afghanistan came up agonisingly short of a famous victory after their T20 World Cup clash ended in a tie on Wednesday. Afghanistan were 187 all out after South Africa scored 187-6 in the Group D encounter in Ahmedabad. The teams were tied again after a breathless first super over saw them both score 18, before South Africa won off the final ball of a heart-thumping second sudden-death showdown. "There's areas we can improve," said South Africa captain Aiden Markram. South Africa pace bowler Lungi Ngidi was named player of the match after his 3-26 in four overs.
India’s Ministry of Information Technology has updated rules for the use of generative artificial intelligence on social media platforms. The government is also holding social media platforms responsible if this synthetic content is published without the required markings. Certain categories of synthetic content are banned in the new rules, which were published on Tuesday as amendments to the country’s 2021 IT Rules. This makes it an important market for social media. The announcement of the new rules comes as New Delhi is preparing to host a major global AI summit next week.
About 8 lakh officials will be engaged in election duty in the 13th national parliamentary elections and referendum to be held on Thursday. According to the Election Commission (EC), there will be a total of 69 returning officers and 598 assistant returning officers will remain on duty in the polls. Voting will take place at 42,779 polling centres nationwide. Among the officials to be involved in the election, there will be 42,779 presiding officers, 2,47,482 assistant presiding officers and 4,94,964 polling officers. In total, 7,85,225 officials will be engaged in election duty.
Thakurgaon district unit Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Belal Uddin Pradhan, who was detained at Saidpur Airport "with around Tk50 lakh", fell ill and was admitted to a hospital on Tuesday afternoon. After he complained of illness, he was taken to Saidpur 100-bed Hospital in Nilphamari district by an ambulance at 1:47pm. Nazmul Huda, Resident Medical Officer of the hospital, said: “No sign of a heart attack was found in the Jamaat leader after conducting medical tests. Earlier in the day, police arrested Belal Uddin at Saidpur Airport in Nilphamari and recovered "Tk 50 lakh" from his possession. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair on Wednesday claimed the arrest of Thakurgaon district Jamaat Ameer Belal Uddin with a large amount of cash was a ‘stage-managed drama by law enforcers’.
A total of 2,028 candidates from 50 political parties and independent ones, are contesting in 299 seats in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad polls slated for Thursday. Of them, 83 are women candidates, said Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah. According to the EC, out of the total candidates, 1,755 are contesting from political parties and 273 are independent ones. Among the female candidates, 63 are from parties and 20 are independent. Among the male candidates, 1,692 are vying in the polls from parties and 253 are independent ones.
He said that 766,862 ballots were sent to destination countries for voters registered through the Postal Vote BD app. According to him, 573,722 expatriate voters deposited their ballots at post offices or post boxes in their respective countries. Overall, 1,096,284 voters have cast postal ballots so far, including expatriates, government officials on election duty and prisoners eligible to vote. So far, 561,013 have deposited their ballots at post offices or post boxes, and 438,095 ballots have been received by returning officers. According to the Postal Vote BD website, a total of 1,533,684 voters at home and abroad registered for postal voting in the two upcoming polls.
A total of 1,400 polling stations across 13 constituencies in Dhaka have been identified as high risk for the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the referendum. Dhaka Divisional Commissioner and Returning Officer Sharf Uddin Ahmed Choudhury disclosed the information during a briefing on overall election preparations on Wednesday. “All voting materials will be delivered to the polling stations through the presiding officers by this evening,” he added. The Election Commission has classified 1,400 polling stations in 13 Dhaka constituencies as high risk. He further noted that 90% of polling stations in Dhaka are under CCTV surveillance.
The attack occurred in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, a picturesque mountain valley town in the foothills of the Rockies. Police said an alert was issued about an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday afternoon. Tumbler Ridge student Darian Quist told public broadcaster CBC that he was in his mechanics class when there was an announcement that the school was in lockdown. Trent Ernst, a local journalist and a former substitute teacher at Tumbler Ridge, told AFP that one of his children just graduated from the school. Tumbler Ridge, a quiet town with roughly 2,400 residents, is more than 1,100 kilometers north of Vancouver, British Columbia’s largest city.
