Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises above 8,000
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In Sweden, a protest rally and protest meeting was held at Joy Bangla intersection of Char Joshardi Union of Nagarkanda upazila of Faridpur for insulting the Holy Quran.
The protests demanded the death penalty for the perpetrators and called for a nationwide boycott of Swedish products.

Françoise Gilot
(26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023)
Françoise Gaime Gilot was a French painter. Gilot was already launched as an accomplished artist when she met Pablo Picasso, notably in watercolors and ceramics, but her professional career was eclipsed by her social celebrity, and when she split from Picasso, he discouraged galleries from buying her work, as well as unsuccessfully trying to block her 1964 memoir, Life with Picasso.
She was an accomplished painter whose art was eclipsed by her long and stormy romantic relationship with a much older Pablo Picasso, and who alone among his many mistresses walked out on him, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 101.
The death was confirmed by her daughter Aurelia Engel, who said Ms. Gilot had recently been dealing with heart and lung ailments.

Chittagong Challengers to trust in 'impact players' in BPL 2023

Chittagong Challengers displayed great aptitude with an average team in the previous BPL. This time too they did not run toward well-known superstars. However, there are some players in the battalion of Chittagong Challengers who can satisfy the demands of T20.

Chittagong retained Afif Hossain in a direct agreement. This regular face of the Bangladesh national T20I squad is also a reliable name for the Chittagong team. A glimpse of Afif was seen in vital matches in the last season. Afif does not get the chance to bat in the national team a lot but he can perform at the top orders in BPL.

Chittagong obtained Lankan pacer Vishwa Fernando, off-spinning all-rounder Ashan Priyanjan and Ireland's Curtis Campher on direct contracts. In the meantime, Campher has shown glances of itself in the last World Cup. His batting with a medium pace can be the biggest investment of the team.

Chittagong did not look at local big stars after getting the chance from the draft. The first two they picked, Mrittunjoy Chowdhury and Shuvagata Hom Chowdhury, have not been on the national team.

Shuvagata, who earlier played in the national team, is a routine player in domestic cricket as an off-spinning all-rounder. This right-hander can storm the lower middle order. His off-spin is very useful in Bangladeshi conditions.

Although he could not drive it to the national team, Mrittunjoy has already introduced himself. He delivered it in the last BPL by showing the capability of death bowling by making a hat-trick. This left-hander is also very intelligent with the bat.

Chittagong has brought Max O'Dowd of the Netherlands in the opening thought. He has played great in the World Cup. However, there is a huge distinction in the character of Australia's wicket and Bangladesh's wicket. Let's wait and see how he does on the slow wicket. Chittagong has also taken the Unmukt Chand who took the citizenship of the United States. Chand understood the conditions of Asia rather well. Taufiq Khan Tushar is an option among the locals in this place. He came into the discussion by batting fiercely in first-class cricket for the Sylhet division.

Taijul Islam is the reliability of the team in the spin. Although, Taijul is still not strong in T20I cricket. So, there is a challenge ahead of him. They have retained professional domestic cricket all-rounders like Farhad Reza and Ziaur Rahman. There is wicket-keeper batsman Irfan Sukkur. They can make a difference in their day.

The pace battery is not very sharp, to say the least. Mrittunjoy will be accompanied by another left-handed pacer Mehdi Hasan Rana. There is also right-handed pacer Abu Jayed Rahi but he has not been in shape recently. Even if Rana gets a wicket, he is often not much economical. It remains to be seen how much the bowling deficit will concern the unit.

Chittagong Challengers will face Sylhet Strikers in the first match of BPL on January 6, 2023.

Chittagong Challengers Team

Direct contracts: Afif Hossain, Vishwa Fernando (Sri Lanka), Ashan Priyanjan (Sri Lanka), Curtis Campher (Ireland), Darwish Rasooli (Afghanistan).

Locals from Draft: Mrittunjoy Chowdhury, Shuvagata Hom Chowdhury, Mehedi Hasan Rana, Irfan Shukkur, Mehedi Maruf, Ziaur Rahman, Taijul Islam, Abu Jayed Rahi, Farhad Reza, Taufiq Khan Tushar.

Foreigners from the draft: Max O'Dowd (Netherlands), Unmukt Chand (India/USA).

2022 has been quite the year for the Bangladeshi music scene

The past few WEEKENDS have been quite favourable for artists in Bangladesh, as live performances have re-established at their full extinct.

With the year is almost come to an end Dhaka rock fest returned with 2 days Concert blast. Featuring 32 bands from different genre from classic rock to death metal.

Dhaka Rock Fest 3.0 held at the Expo Zone of International Convention City, Bashundhara in Dhaka on Tuesday and Wednesday. The event was organised by Sky Tracker Limited and presented by Banglalink Digital Communication Limited.

The opening day of the event featured 16 bands.

The concert started at early 11 A.M. It was earlier than the usual concert time of Bangladesh because there were 16 band performing on that day. The day one of the concert reminded us what a year it was for enjoying live music after the pandemic

Dhaka Rock Fest 3.0 began with Fantasy Realm taking the stage. Later, Torture Goregrinder, Bangu Bibi, Apekkhik, Arekta Rock Band, Trainwreck, Owned, Karnival, Brahmaputra, Bangla Five, Unmaad, Shonar Bangla Circus and Powersurge performed one by one there were less crowed on that time cause of early kick-off

The show really came to hit when cryptic fate took the stage after the Namaj Break. Cryptic Fate started with Bijoyer Gaan cause why not it’s the month of victory and then Protibad and Akromon, Nemesis performed Kobe and Gonojoar. Fans went crazy for Zohad crowed were screaming 20 takar pepsi zohad bhai sexy. After that Artcell brought down the curtain on the first day of Dhaka Rock Fest 3.0. The band, which was accompanied by Miles’ guitarist Jewel, concluded its performance singing the song Oniket Prantor.

On 2nd day Bands, namely Meghdol, Dads in the Park, Aurthohin, Shepherds, Aftermath, Arbovirus, Shuvo Jatra, Warfaze, Bay of Bengal, Sin, Conclusion, Severe Dementia, Mechanix, Subconscious and Avoid Rafa entrained music lovers on the concluding day of the event on Wednesday. However, the fans weren’t very happy with the organiser because they think they didn’t give enough time to aftermath to perform.
When it was time for Aurthohin to brought down the curtain of the last day something magic happened.

Aurthohin relesed their new Album call “ Phononix Er Dairy 1” on the stage for their fans the album was supposed to release on 29th December. Aurthohin eneded the show best possible way they could the fans emotion were visible throughout the live
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