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President Donald Trump has fired his chief strategist Steve Bannon on Friday, reports Reuters. A source close to Bannon said he was not expected to resign on his own.  "Bannon is going to make them fire him," the source said. "He's not going to officially resign. He’s still been doing the work. He’s been working on projects." The New York Times, however, cited a person close to Bannon as saying he had submitted his resignation on August 7 and that it was to be announced this week, but had been delayed by the fallout from a rally by white nationalists in Virginia over the weekend. Bannon damaged his standing by giving an interview to the liberal American Prospect this week in which he was seen to be undercutting Trump's position on North Korea. Bannon told associates he thought he was talking to an academic and thought he was off the record. He has told friends he could go back to the right-wing Breitbart News outlet if he were to leave the White House.  ....

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Bangladesh's fish production recorded a 61 per cent rise in last ten years and crossed the 4.0 million tonnes mark in the last financial year. Officials Friday attributed the rise in production to quick introduction of modern technology in local fish farming. The provisional data of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) showed that the country's inland and marine fish production together rose to 4.01 million tonnes in FY 2016-17 from 2.49 million tonnes ten years ago in FY2006-07. Director General of the Department of Fisheries (DoF) Syed Arif Azad told the FE that they are expecting fish production to cross the target of 4.2 million tonnes by 2021 as modern technology is helping higher production in the country's limited water bodies. According to BBS, the production of inland fish (sweet water fish) was 3.32 million tonnes and the marine water fish was 0.697 million tonnes in FY2017. Bangladesh, one of the largest fish producers in the world, meets a major portion of protein by its domestic fish production. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Bangladesh is the fourth largest inland fish producer in the world after China, India and Myanmar. The BBS data showed that fish production in Bangladesh is maintaining a steep rise with nearly 6.0 per cent year-on-year average growth over the last few years. Five years ago in FY2013, the inland and marine fish production in the country was 3.35 million tonnes, which rose to 3.54 million tonnes in FY2014, 3.70 million tonnes in FY2015, 3.87 million tonnes in FY2016 and 4.0 million tonnes in FY2017. Syed Arif said the local farmers have adapted to the modern technology quickly resulting in a remarkable vertical extension of domestic fish production over the year. "Within the limited water bodies, we have been able to raise our production remarkably by applying modern technology." Besides, since 2009-10 the government has been offering different policy supports including tax holiday, tax exemption on feed imports to fish farmers and fish industry people which have brought an impressive result on production, he told the FE. He said, "If you look at our policy towards Hilsa fish over the last few years, its production increased to 0.5 million tonnes in FY2017 from 0.4 million tonnes a year ago." Bangladesh has 3.92 million hectares of inland open water (capture) like rivers and beels where 1.05 million tonnes of fish were produced in FY2015. In the 795,841 hectares of inland close water (culture) like ponds and seasonal water bodies, the country produced 2.20 million tonnes of fish in the FY2015, the DoF data showed. Syed Arif said the DoF has a target to increase the per capita fish intake to 60 grams by 2021 from the current level of 56 grams. kabirhumayan10@gmail.com....

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Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Friday urged psychologists to identify the applied areas of psychology as those they can play an important role in the country's development, reports UNB. "That's why psychologists should come forward to identify the applied areas of psychology. Initiatives must be taken to build necessary manpower in this regard," he told a seminar in the capital. Bangladesh Psychological Association (BPA) arranged the seminar on 'the problems of psychology education programme at high secondary education level and its way forward' at the Dhaka Teachers' Training College auditorium. Nahid said psychology can play an important role for the overall growth of a human and prosperity of a society. "We have no enough skilled and efficient manpower in this field and we have also resource constraints. So, once the government gets specific and realistic proposals from this field, we will consider it," he said. The education minister said psychologists can also play an important role to ensure the mental growth of children, including the autistic ones, and address their mental disorders. Chaired by BPA president Prof Dr Mahmudur Rahman, the seminar was addressed among others, by Water Resources senior secretary Dr Zafar Ahmed Khan, Secondary and Higher Education Division Secretary of the education ministry Md Sohorab Hossain, director general of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) Dr SM Wahiduzzaman and chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Prof Narayan Chandra Saha.....

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A 14-year-old boy in the city held a media briefing to accuse his father of murdering his mother, reports bdnews24.com. Parvez Mosharraf, a student of ninth grade, appeared before reporters at the office of Bangladesh Crime Reporters Association on Friday. Police recovered the body of his mother Shahana Akhtar from their home in Mokki Mosjid Goli of West Rampura in the city on July 30. Shahana was suffocated to death by her husband Monir Hossain and his mother Akhtar Banu, her family claimed. The two have been accused in the case filed by Shahana's brother Saifuddin Titu with the Rampura Police Station on the night following her death. "Ever since I was a child, I have noticed how my father would beat my mother. He used to throw me and my sister Sumaiya out of the house and use drugs," said Parvez. The teenager said he was in his maternal grandparents' house in Feni when he heard about his mother's death. "My father has murdered my mother with the help of his mother. I want the mother's killers to be arrested so that she gets justice." Shahana's father Abdur Rob and brother Gias Uddin were also present in the briefing.  ....

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Leaders of the International Farakka Committee (IFC) described intensive flooding and acute water scarcity faced by Bangladesh during the rainy and dry seasons as the outcome of an unsustainable river management, reports UNB. They came up with the observation at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club in the city on Friday. The IFC leaders also called for keeping the common Himalayan rivers alive through basin-wise integrated management on the basis of regional cooperation so that people of all the riparian countries living along the banks of these rivers can continue to benefit from their services. They said people of at least 30 districts out of 64 in Bangladesh have been affected by serious late-monsoon floods due to the onrush of water of common rivers from across the border and incessant rainfall. Experts say 92 per cent of the floodwater comes from the upper catchments of the common rivers while the rest eight per cent get generated from local rainfall and stream flows from hills, they said. Due to the unplanned construction of a series of dams and barrages at the upper catchments of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, many small rivers in the subcontinent have started dying up, the leaders observed. About the share of the Teesta water, they viewed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had recently been elected a member of an influential UN committee on water, expressing their belief that she would be able to stop the diversion of water of the Teesta river basin to other river basins. They also added that the transfer of water from one basin to another is prohibited under international law. IFC Chairman Atiqur Rahman Salu, president of Bangladesh Farakka Committee Prof Jasim Uddin Ahmad and Coordinator of IFC Mostafa Kamal Majumder were present at the press conference.....

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