Three people including a woman and her daughter were killed and two others injured as a truck hit an auto-rickshaw in Mymensingh on Monday (Jan 22) afternoon. The accident occurred on Mymensingh-Tangail highway at Cherumondol area in Muktagacha upazila around 2pm.  The deceased were identified as Hasina Khatun, 35, wife of Mawlana Nazrul Islam of Binodbari Manpur village, her daughter Adiba, 3, and Mrinal Chandra Das, 42, of Dawgaon union in the upazila.    Md Faruk Ahmed, Officer-in-charge of Muktagacha Police Station, confirmed the matter. Sushanta Kumar Dey, Muktagacha Fire Service Station officer, said a Tangail-bound truck hit an auto-rickshaw and overturned at Cherumondol area, leaving three people dead on the spot and two others injured. The injured were rescued and sent to a hospital. The bodies of the deceased were handed over to police.  The OC also said the truck driver managed to flee the scene after the accident. Legal action will be taken in this regard.

Taskin Ahmed and his wife have been blessed with their second child. On Monday, he shared a post in his verified facebook page.  He wrote, "Assalamualaikum all…Alhamdulillah Almighty Allah bless us with a baby girl…Both mother and baby under observations..please pray for us." Earlier on February 05, 2018, he became the father of his first child. Last Sunday, Mushfiqur Rahim returned to Dhaka from Colombo. Tiger captain Shakib Al Hasan was with him. 

Mushfiqur Rahim and his wife have been blessed with their second child. On Monday, he shared a post in his verified facebook page.  He wrote, "Assalamualaikum all…Alhamdulillah Almighty Allah bless us with a baby girl…Both mother and baby under observations..please pray for us." Earlier on February 05, 2018, he became the father of his first child. Last Sunday, Mushfiqur Rahim returned to Dhaka from Colombo. Tiger captain Shakib Al Hasan was with him. 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie recently announced the end of their 18-years marriage. Recently he saw Greta Gerwig's Barbie with his son Xavier. The picture with Xavier and the Barbie screening with "Barbie costume" had gone viral!  After that On Tuesday, he took his daughter Ella to a screening of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer also shared a picture with Ella from the screening, wearing a black shirt with blue jeans and a cap. Ella channelled perfect GenZ fashion in her brown tank top, camo brown pants and a white hoodie. Sharing the photo, Trudeau wrote, “Balancing things out: Oppenheimer with Ella.”

The police found the body of daughter of Shahriar Kabir dead in Dhaka. On Thursday night, June 08, police recovered the body of 41-year-old Arpita Kabir Mumu from her home in the capital's Banani.  The dead body was handed over to the family by Banani Police Station. On Friday, June 09, Banani police station Officer in Charge (OC) Mostafizur Rahman confirmed the matter. "We heard that she may be committed suicide," police said.

Showing its respect to the proud son of the soil, the Arunachal University of Studies (AUS), Namsai has decided to ‘adopt’ the daughter of late Naik Tape Yajo, who made the supreme sacrifice for the nation while fighting terrorists in J&K in 2008.  The university has offered to bear the responsibility of Late Tape Yajo’s daughter Yaming Yajo for pursuing GNM programme along with free hostel facility. “On the recommendation of Brigadier Charandeep Singh, SM (Veteran), Spl DIG, Assam Police, the Welfare Committee of  Arunachal University of Studies (AUS), Namsai has resolved to shoulder the responsibility of Yaming Yajo, daughter of Late Naik Tape Yajo who was martyred in 2008 while fighting terrorists in Poonch (J&K), for pursuing GNM programme from the University with hostel accommodation without any fee,” a statement from the university said on Thursday. Late Naik Tape Yajo, a proud son of Arunachal Pradesh and resident of Karo village in Shi-Yomi district, had served the Indian  Army with distinction for more than 12 years. He laid his life during operation against terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir while leading a scout of the attacking column tasked to eliminate terrorists in Poonch sector of J&K on September 21, 2008. During the operation, terrorists attacked unexpectedly and opened fire from a very close range with heavy automatic guns following which Tape Yajo was injured.  Despite being wounded and bleeding profusely, he charged the terrorists at close range and he and his team killed three hardcore terrorists. However, Tape Yajo succumbed to his injuries on September 22, 2008.  He was one of the most decorated Army men with many gallantry medals including 50th Year of Independence Anniversary Army Medal, Vishisht Seva Medal with Clasp Bhutan, Special Seva Medal with Clasp Suraksha, OP Rakshak Medal, High Altitude Medal, 9 Years Long Service Medal, OP Parakram Medal and the prestigious Kriti Chakra (posthumous). “The Arunachal University of Studies, Namsai with its glorious 10 years of existence is continuously progressing by facilitating thousands of students transforming their dreams into reality.  As a responsible academic Institution, AUS is always a frontrunner in extending its support to the learners in completing their higher education without any difficulty.  The entire AUS fraternity is overwhelmed to be able to extend its heartiest gratitude to the Martyr Late Naik Tape Yajo ji for his ultimate service to the nation,” the statement added. Source: The Assam Tribune

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw Pyongyang's latest ICBM launch with his daughter in tow, state media has said. North Korea unveiled the little-known daughter of its leader Kim Jong Un at the Friday launch of Pyongyang's newest intercontinental ballistic missile. State media KCNA reported on Saturday that Kim attended the launch "together with his beloved daughter and wife". Pictures released by the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a young girl in a white puffer jacket and red shoes walking hand-in-hand with Kim ahead of a huge missile atop a launch truck. The latest pictures have attracted attention on a fourth-generation member of the dynastic family that has ruled North Korea for over seven decades as it is very rare for the state media to mention Kim's children. Experts said that it is the first official confirmation that Kim had a daughter. No further information on the girl, like her name and age, was provided. The North Korean leader supervised the launch of a missile on Friday, which KCNA said was the Hwasong-17. Analysts have dubbed it as "monster missile." KCNA said that the launch of the "new-type ICBM" was successful. Kim said the test of a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile confirmed that Pyongyang has another "reliable and maximum capacity" weapon to contain outside threats. He warned the US and its allies that what he called their provocative steps would lead to "their self-destruction," state media said following the launch. The private life of the reclusive country's 38-year-old leader has been a keen area of outside interest—with much of it still unknown. South Korean media has reported that Kim married Ri Sol Ju in 2009 and the couple have three children born in 2010, 2013 and 2017. The identities of Kim's children are of particular interest as he is yet to publicly anoint his heir apparent.    

Authorities are investigating the death of Daria Dugina, whose father has been called Putin's "brain." The car she was driving exploded, her father may have been the target. The daughter of ultra-nationalist Putin ally Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb near Moscow overnight. Daria Dugina died after a suspected explosive device on the car she was driving detonated, investigators from the Moscow region said in a statement. TV footage showed investigators collecting debris from the roadside where the explosion happened. They have opened a murder case and are considering all versions of events. A spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied any responsibility for the incident. What happened? Dugina’s car exploded on Saturday evening as she drove home from a cultural festival that she had attended with her father. This was the father’s vehicle. Darya [normally drove] another car but she took his car today, while Alexander went in a different way, Andrey Krasnov, Dugin’s friend and the head of the Russian Horizon social movement, told Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency. He returned, he was at the site of the tragedy. As far as I understand, Alexander or probably they together were the target. Who is Alexander Dugin? Alexander Dugin is an ultra-nationalist ideologue who is seen as a key architect behind the current worldview of top Kremlin lawmakers. He is also seen as having influence over President Vladimir Putin himself even being called Putin’s brain by Western media but some Russia watchers have downplayed Dugin’s influence in recent months. The prolific political author has long advocated for a new Russian empire, and was an ardent supporter of the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities described his 29-year-old daughter as a political expert in her own right. She recently appeared on state TV to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. Dasha, like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation with the West, nationalist TV station Tsargrad said on Sunday. Both father and daughter are the subject of American and British sanctions. Ukraine denies responsibility On Sunday, Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak denied any involvement with the explosion. Ukraine surely doesn’t have anything to do with yesterday’s explosion because we’re not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state, Podolyak said on national television. Some, like former Putin advisor Sergei Markov and Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk Peoples Republic, have nevertheless blamed the incident on Ukraine. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Telegram the Ukrainian theory had not yet been confirmed, but it would amount to state terrorism, if proven true.

Following the incident of knife attack on famous writer and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) Professor Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, his daughter Yeshim Iqbal in a long emotional post on her personal blog said, ‘We are not going anywhere.’  Here is the full text of Yeshim’s writing: We are all, of course, shocked and extremely disturbed. Much like many of you who will be reading this, I have a profound sense of unease and sadness that my country is not safe. That the university campus I grew up on is the same place where my father got stabbed while trying to enjoy a robotics competition. A young friend asked me desperately, “WHY Yeshim Apu? Why would you stay in this country, when this is happening?” It seems, then, that many people are despairing about the state of this country. Asking me if my family will leave, lamenting that we have failed my father. However. There’s something I’d like to say to all of you. In fact, I might as well just be lazy and steal a few words from my father, because I know exactly what he’s going to say as soon as he’s up and about again. You see, you are not allowed to give up hope. And you can never, ever stop fighting for all the things that are good and beautiful to you, for the country you so badly wish you were living in and just haven’t gotten quite to yet. Nothing has ever come easily. Every single thing that you enjoy in your world today - a street to walk on as a free person, a meal to eat, a doctor when you are ill, the right to go to school, to vote, to work at a job that pays you enough money to live and maybe take a rickshaw ride and eat some fuchka that will probably mess up your stomach but is worth it because you’re eating it with someone that gives you the giggles - every single thing you enjoy now was fought for by someone who came before you. Nothing ever came for free, and nothing ever came easy. Somebody fought for it, little by little, piece by piece, day after day, year after year. By people like my parents, yes, but also by people like you and me. It is our right, and our responsibility, to deeply enjoy every tiny bit of what we have been given. And it is our responsibility to continue to fight for what we don’t yet have. Perhaps our children will get it. When it gets difficult, when you want to scream and cry with the sheer outrage of it -  I know, I know, I am there myself - you do not plan on how you’re going to run away. You take a deep, deep breath. You look around, and you gather up the pieces of courage that you might have dropped by accident along the way. You lift your chin up as stubbornly as you possibly can, and you figure out where the next step forward goes. I know very well that one of the reasons I am able to say this is that my father is alive and well, already talking about how to finish the five courses he’s supposed to be teaching this semester. I take a moment now to think of the families and friends of those who have lost their lives in this same fight. There are daughters out there whose fathers have not recovered. I’m thinking about you. I’m staying in this country because I like it. To me, this place is not the ugliness of the incidents like this. These incidents and the people who cause them are a problem, one there we need to deal with very urgently. They are rather like warts, or maybe fungus. They’re gross, and they may have appeared because we haven’t yet done a good enough job of keeping clean. We need to remove them. But they are not what this place is. To me, this country is the gorgeous volunteers I work with at Kaan Pete Roi. It’s a trip to Chhayanaut or Shilpakala any day of the week I’m looking for a song in my heart. It’s the incredible science and art and literature this tiny country has managed to make despite the battering it has taken in history. It’s the groups of university students I often have the privilege to chat with and learn from, and it’s my parents’ young colleagues sitting around our dinner table, planning how to make things better for their next wave of university students. It’s the insistence of friends to feed me kababs made of little fish, because apparently that’s what makes a healthy baby. It’s my mother and father, who - make no mistake - are not going anywhere. I am so grateful, especially to those who were there in the moment and acted quickly, with no thought to their own safety, to get my father the care he needed. Thank you. To those protesting all over the country, thank you; the sound of you gives me strength. To those who made up the absolute ocean of love we have received in the past few days, thank you; you are exactly what I need. Make no mistake. We are not going anywhere.   *Yeshim Iqbal is a doctoral candidate in the Psychology and Social Intervention Program at New York University. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and worked for three years as a Research Coordinator at the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies. She then went on to found ‘Kaan Pete Roi’, the first suicide prevention and crisis support line in Bangladesh. AH