The lowest temperature of the season was recorded in Panchagarh’s Tetulia at 5.8C at 6am on Friday (Jan 26). Earlier on Jan 23, the lowest temperature of the season was recorded at 6.6C in Chuadanga and Sirajganj.   Public life is disrupted by the shivering cold, further intensified by dense fog and the freezing northern air. Vehicles are moving with headlights on.     Rokonuzzaman, an observer of the Tentulia weather observatory center, told Somoy that the country’s lowest temperature was recorded at 6am in Tetulia. The same temperature was recorded at 9am. According to the sources of the Meteorological Department, 2018 has been the coldest in recent years. On Jan 8 of that year, the temperature dropped to 2.6C in Panchagarh's Tentulia, which is the lowest temperature recorded in the history of Bangladesh.     However, the lowest temperature recorded in Dinajpur was 3.8C in 1996.   Besides, in 2019, a temperature of 4.9C was recorded in Tentulia, 4.5C was recorded in Jashore on Jan 12, 2011, and 5C was recorded in Kurigram in 2017.  

The minimum temperature in Dhaka was recorded at 12.1 degrees Celsius (°C) in a weather forecast issued at 9 am on Monday, which is the lowest temperature in Dhaka in the current winter season. Meteorologist Md Omar Faruq confirmed the matter. Meanwhile, a mild cold wave is sweeping over Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions and the districts of Jashore, Kushtia, Chuadanga, Tangail, Madaripur, and Kishoreganj and it may continue, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said in a forecast for the next 72 hours commencing at 9am today. The lowest temperature – 8.1 degrees Celsius – was recorded in Badalgachi upazila of Naogaon and Dinajpur, while the highest temperature – 27.6 degrees Celsius – was recorded in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar, according to the Met office.   The Met Office says a Ridge of sub-continental high extends up to West Bengal and adjoining areas. Due to this, the seasonal low lies over South Bay. In such a situation, the weather may remain dry with a partly cloudy sky from 9 am today for the next 24 hours. During this period, moderate to dense fog may occur over the country from midnight to morning and it may continue till noon at places. Besides, due to dense fog, there may be disruption in air navigation, inland river transport and road communication. The night temperature may fall by (1-2)°C and the day temperature may fall slightly over the country for the next 24 hours.  At present, a mild cold wave is sweeping over Jashore, Kushtia, Chuadanga, Tangail, Madaripur and Kishoreganj districts along with Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions and it may continue.

Expatriate Bangladeshis sent around US $ 1,599.45 million remittances during the month of August in the fiscal 2023-24. Reports BSS. It is the lowest remittance in last six months. As per Bangladesh Bank (BB) available data, state-owned banks brought in $183.19 million while 43 private sector banks brought $1,376.02 million remittances. The highest $340.17 million remittance came to the country through Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. 

The Korean tech giant owed the slump in profits to weakened demand for memory chips, as the end of lockdown diminished previous demand for new computers and smartphones. South Korean tech giant Samsung has reported its lowest quarterly profit in 14 years, with a global decline in microchip demand slowing sales and profits. The company said on Thursday its operating profit plummeted by 95% from a year earlier. It also reported an 87.4% slump in net income for the 2023 Q1 compared to the same quarter last year. The Samsung chip division recorded its first operating loss since 2009, when the world was dealing with the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The Korean giant's chip production reported 4.58 trillion won (approximately $3.3 billion; €3 billion) in losses. What caused the drop in profit? Samsung owed its slowed profit to slowing consumer spending on electronics, coupled with the current excess in microchip production, which fails to match the slowing demand. The core memory business saw almost unprecedented demand during the two years of the pandemic, with worldwide lockdowns fueling smartphone and computer sales. This created first a global shortage and then an uptick in the memory chips' production. However, since lockdowns receded, and with rising global inflation, computer sales have dropped again, causing chip prices to drop as the demand shrinks. The memory chips usually account for about half of the Korean tech giant's profits. Samsung said it expected memory chips' demand to "gradually recover" in the second half of 2023. It cited forecasts of declining customer inventory levels. Seoul announced last month that it would build the biggest chip center in the world, largely using some 300 trillion won of private investment from Samsung over the next 20 years.

Biting cold gripped Sreemangal as the lowest temperature in the country this season was recorded at 5.6 degrees Celsius in the upazila in the 24 hours to Friday morning. The lowest temperature in Sreemangal was recorded at 2.8 degrees Celsius on February 4 in 1968, Mujibur Rahman, an officer at the Srimangal weather monitoring station, said. Temperature between 8 to 10 degrees Celsius is considered a mild cold wave, 6 to 8 degrees Celsius a moderate cold wave and less than 6 degrees Celsius a severe cold wave. Severe cold with frosty winds and dense fog is disrupting daily life in Sreemangal. The low-income people who get by working every day are being hit hardest. Many were seen making fires along the roadsides to keep warm. Most people are staying home unless there is an emergency. Also, the number of diarrhoea and pneumonia patients – mostly children and elderly – is increasing in the hospitals of Moulvibazar, district Civil Surgeon Dr Chowdhury Jalal Uddin Murrshed said. A mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping Rangpur division; Faridpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Naogaon, Sirajganj, Sreemangal, Rangamati, Cumilla, Feni, Brahmanbaria, Jashore, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Barishal, and Bhola districts and it may continue, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said this morning. Also, moderate to thick fog may envelop the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere from midnight to morning. "The weather may remain dry with a temporary partly cloudy sky over the country. Night and day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged," the Meteorological Department said.

The country's lowest temperature today dropped to the season's lowest of 6.1 degrees Celsius at Tentulia, exposing the poor, elderly people and children to intense misery there as elsewhere across the northern region. The sky remained covered behind thick layers of fog and clouds amid blowing cooler winds causing bone-chilling cold forcing people to remain indoors and farm-labourers could not go to crop fields to conduct their normal works till noon.   As the visibility range reduced to the minimum due to the reasons, vehicular traffic remained affected forcing drivers to drive vehicles putting head-lights on to avert accidents on the roads and highways.   The Met Office sources said the mercury level sharply dropped to 6.1 degrees Celsius at Tentulia against yesterday's lowest of 8.3 degrees Celsius in the last 24 hours ending at 9 am today, further deteriorating the weather.   Besides, the minimum temperatures recorded today were 11 degrees Celsius at Rangpur, 9 degrees Celsius at Dinajpur, 8.8 degrees at Saidpur, 8.7 degrees Celsius at Dimla and 9.8 degrees Celsius at Rajarhat monitoring points in the region.   However, the situation marked a little improvement with the appearance of the sun at noon in most areas of the region penetrating thick layers of fog and clouds.     Divisional Director (Health) Dr. Md. Habibur Rahman said doctors continued to treat a higher number of people with cough, fever, asthma and other cold-related diseases at the health facilities in the region today like in recent days.   "We have adequate stock of medicines in hospitals and other health facilities and special steps were taken at the government-run health facilities to treat cold-related patients, including babies and children," he added.   Officials at hospitals, upazila health complexes and community clinics said the number of patients with cough, fever; asthma and other cold- related diseases continued increasing today like in the previous few days.   Additional Divisional Commissioner (General) Md. Abu Jafar told BSS that distribution of warm clothes continues in full swing to cold-stricken people in all eight districts of Rangpur division.   "The government has sanctioned huge blankets for distribution to cold-hit people of Nilphamari, Rangpur, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts in the region," he said.   Besides, the government has allocated money for all eight districts in the division to purchase warm clothes locally and distribute those among cold-hit people.   Meanwhile, different voluntary, professional, sociocultural and charitable organizations, trade bodies and other institutions are extending their hands in distributing warm clothes to cold-stricken people to mitigate their sufferings in the region.   Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension for Rangpur region Agriculturist Mohammad Shah Alam said the sweeping cold wave might affect normal growth of different Rabi crop plants if the situation further deteriorates.   "Field level agriculture officers are extending assistance to farmers in taking proper care of Rabi crop plants and Boro rice seedlings to save those from cold injuries in Rangpur region," he added.   Reports reaching here from remote and char villages in Kurigram, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts said that normal life remained severely affected till noon today.

Cold wave sweeping over the country. After several days of severe winter, the capital Dhaka has seen the sun shining since yesterday, but the severity has not yet subsided in most of the country's districts. On Tuesday, January 10 the lowest temperature of the country has come down to 6.9 degrees in Panchagarh, which is also the lowest this season. The destitute people of many district have suffered. Moderate cold wave sweeping over Panchagarh, the northern district of the country. With wind, Drizzling rain is falling. Meteorologist Abdul Hamid Mia said, "The lowest temperature in the country is in Panchagarh. 6.9 degree Celsius was recorded there. Yesterday the temperature in Panchagarh was 7 degrees Celsius. Apart from this, the temperature was recorded at 7.9 degrees Celsius in Dinajpur and 8 degrees Celsius in Rajarhat of Rangpur.

Four people died after being infected with coronavirus in the country in the last 24 hours and 232 new Covid-19 cases were traced during the same period. Yesterday the number of deaths was 10 and the number of newly traced infected people was 243. With this number the number of deaths has increased to 27,805 and the number of infections has soared to 15,67,139. The information was delivered by the health directorate in its daily coronavirus update message. Mentionable, the deadly coronavirus have spread across the world after the first infected person was identified in December, 2019 in China. The first coronavirus case was detected in Bangladesh on March 8, 2020. After ten days the health directorate confirmed the news of first death due to coronavirus infection in the country. AH

Bangladesh today (Friday) recorded seven novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths, the lowest daily count since early May. “Seven more COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 8,094,” a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today. The recovery count rose to 4,78,960 after another 414 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period, a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today. It said the tally of infections has surged to 5,34,407 as 454 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours. A total of 12,075 samples were tested at 204 authorized laboratories across the country during the time. Of the total sample tests in the past 24 hours, 3.76 percent tested positive, while 14.73 percent cases were detected from the total tests conducted so far, the release added. Among the total infections, 89.62 percent patients have recovered, while 1.51 percent died so far since the first COVID-19 positive cases were reported in the country on March 8. Among the seven deaths, six are male and one is female the press release said, adding one is in his 40s, one in his 50s while five are above 60 years. According to the division-wise data, three deaths took place in Dhaka division and rests are in other divisions. Among the total 8,094 fatalities, 4,507 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 1,488 in Chattogram division, 461 in Rajshahi division, 549 in Khulna division, 243 in Barishal division, 301 in Sylhet division, 356 in Rangpur division and 189 in Mymensingh division, according to the press release. A total of 36,27,413 samples have so far been tested since the detection of the first COVID-19 cases in the country. The DGHS said in order to make treatment facilities easily available for the COVID-19 patients, the government has introduced telemedicine services comprising 100 physicians for round the clock in the country. A total of 7,11,104 people have so far received healthcare services from telemedicine. The DGHS said 2,34,81,985 people received healthcare services from hotline mobile numbers and health web portals as the government formed a group of medical professionals to provide emergency healthcare services. To receive information and treatment facilities on COVID-19, the contact hotline and mobile numbers are 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222. As of January 29, 2021, 10:27 GMT, 2,202,722 people have died so far from the COVID-19 outbreak and there are currently 102,117,505 confirmed cases in 212 countries and territories, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics. China was the world’s first country which on January 11 reported the first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province. Source: BSS AH

The lowest temperature 13.9 degree Celsius was recorded at Tetulia under Panchagarh district and it is the lowest temperature in this season. At 6 am on Saturday the temperature at Tetulia was recorded 13.9 degree Celsius which was unchanged at 9 am. It is the lowest temperature in the country in this season, confirmed the met office. The temperature began to decrease in the winter season in Panchagarh district comparing to the previous year as it is situated closer to the Himalaya. For the last three days cold is being felt after the sunset with dense fog as wind from the Himalaya blows over the district. Van puller Asirul Islam said, it is very cold from the morning. I have to wear warm cloth to come outside. Severe cold is being felt for the last three days. The same words were uttered by stone worker Naqibul Islam. He said, today is very cold and the water of the river also, so I am sitting here. AH