DHAKA: Bangladesh’s army said on Wednesday it had arrested 2,500 people and recovered 6,000 guns as it seeks to bolster security since the revolution that ousted ex-leader Sheikh Hasina in August.

Thousands of weapons were looted in the deadly violence during the student-led revolution that toppled Hasina and the immediate chaos after she escaped mass protests and fled to India by helicopter.

More than 3,700 weapons were handed in during an amnesty that ended in early September, with the security forces then launching a weapons sweep to collect the guns.

Colonel Intekhab Haider Khan told reporters that a total of 6,000 illegally held firearms had been collected, along with 200,000 rounds of ammunition. “Our operation is still ongoing,” Khan said.

The interim government that took over after Hasina granted the armed forces judicial power, allowing them to engage in day-to-day enforcement activities like the police. “There has been no directive from the government regarding the army’s withdrawal,” Khan said.

The army rejected reports four people had died in military custody since August, insisting troops were “strictly adhering” to rules. “Should any complaints arise, we will take necessary action,” he said.

Published in Dawn, November 14th, 2024

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Intern­ational Airlines (PIA) will transport 35,000 Haj pilgrims to the holy land under a government scheme in 2025.

A spokesman for PIA said the Ministry of Religious Affairs and PIA have signed an agreement, under which the national flag carrier will operate special flights from six cities — Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Quetta, Multan and Sukkur — to transport 35,000 Haj pilgrims to the holy land in 2025.

The agreement was signed by PIA CEO Air Vice Marshal Aamir Hayat and additional religious affairs secretary Dr Syed Ata-ur-Rehman.

The PIA CEO reaffirmed his organisation’s commitment to provide best possible services to the Haj pilgrims.

The federal cabinet recently approved the Haj Policy for 2025, setting the cost for pilgrimage between Rs1,075,000 and Rs1,175,000. The sacrifice amount of Rs55,000 will be in addition to Haj expenses. This year’s Haj quota for Pakistan is 179,210, divided equally between government and private sector. Children under the age of 12 will not be allowed to travel for Haj.

The “Road to Makkah” facility will be available at Islamabad and Karachi airports. Haj group organisers will sign service provider agreements with the ministry of religious affairs, and these organisers will be closely monitored for provision of services.

Published in Dawn, November 14th, 2024

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Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version of a spinning wheel.

Alicia recently inherited a whole suite of home-grown enterprise applications. Like a lot of these kinds of systems, it needs to do batch processing. She went tracking down a mysterious IllegalStateException only to find this query causing the problem:

select * from data_import where id > 10000

The query itself is fine, but the code calling it checks to see if this query returned any rows- if it did, the code throws the IllegalStateException.

First, of course, this should be a COUNT(*) query- no need to actually return rows here. But also… what? Why do we fail if there are any transactions with an ID greater than 10000? Why on Earth would we care?

Well, the next query it runs is this:

update data_import set id=id+10000

Oh. Oh no. Oh nooooo. Are they… are they using the ID to also represent some state information about the status of the record? It sure seems like it!

The program then starts INSERTing data, using a counter which starts at 1. Once all the new data is added, the program then does:

delete from data_import where id > 10000

All this is done within a single method, with no transactions and no error handling. And yes, this is by design. You see, if anything goes wrong during the inserts, then the old records don't get deleted, so we can see that processing failed and correct it. And since the IDs are sequential and always start at 1, we can easily find which row caused the problem. Who needs logging or any sort of exception handling- just check your IDs.

The underlying reason why this started failing was because the inbound data started trying to add more than 10,000 rows, which meant the INSERTs started failing (since we already had rows there for this). Alicia wanted to fix this and clean up the process, but too many things depended on it working in this broken fashion. Instead, her boss implemented a quick and easy fix: they changed "10000" to "100000".

1. Gautam Adani plans to invest $10 billion in US energy, infrastructure to create up to 15,000 jobs  Moneycontrol
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3. 'Congratulations Donald Trump': Gautam Adani says his group will invest $10 billion in US energy, infra p  The Times of India
4. Adani commits $10 billion in U.S. energy, infra projects  The Hindu
5. Adani Group commits $10 bn in US energy, infrastructure projects  The Economic Times

Known for his humility, Ratan Tata leaves behind a legacy of compassion and generosity

Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage  Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship’s name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice off Antarctica. There it remained for ten months, […]

To create awareness of waste management among children and incorporate their ideas in achieving the goal of waste-free Kerala

P. Prasanthi warns boatmen associations of stringent action if they attempt to prevent vehicles transporting sand from the sand reaches

The expansions are expected to be completed over the next 24 months

Meet rihest family of Bollywood surpassing the net worth of the Khans, Kapoor,

The FBI said Wednesday it is offering up to $25,000 as a reward for information about the suspect behind recent ballot box fires in Oregon and Washington state.

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Homebase enters administration, but The Range buys up to 70 stores and the brand.

Seven thousand were reported homeless after fire destroyed homes in Lorega cemetery, Cebu City, on 18 March. OM helps provide basic relief.

Heikki drove the nearly 4,000 km from Finland to Transform in Spain on his motorcycle. A Harley-Davidson and a saxophone were useful instruments in God's hands.

Over 50,000 senior citizens continue to benefit from Makati’s Blu Card program, which offers perks to enhance their quality of life, Mayor Abby Binay announced on Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines — Northern Police District officers arrested two individuals and seized drugs worth a total of P146,440 in Caloocan City early Wednesday morning, Nov. 13. The suspects were identified by police as “Budoy”, 18; and “Buknoy”, 24, both of whom are Caloocan residents. NPD’s District Drugs Enforcement Unit made the arrest in a buy-bust operation at 4:12 a.m. on Wednesday along Libis Espina Street in Barangay 18, Caloocan City. Twenty grams of a white substance suspected to be shabu (crystal meth), estimated to be worth P136,000, were seized from the suspects. Additionally, police said they recovered 17 grams of […]...

Keep on reading: Nearly P150,000 worth of drugs seized in Caloocan buy-bust op

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A former college lecturer who helped create over 15,000 jobs across the north-east by training youths to become entrepreneurs has won an award from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.

German carmaker Volkswagen and its labour unions have agreed to 30,000 job cuts by 2021.

Luxury automotive major Mercedes Benz today said it will hire 1,000 engineers in the country next year for its research and development (R&D) initiatives in India.

The inaugural 1000 Miglia Experience China begins in Guangzhou, showcasing historic cars and celebrating cultural ties between Italy and China.

സുരക്ഷിതമായ നിക്ഷേപം തുടങ്ങാൻ ആ​ഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നവർക്ക് കെ.എസ്.എഫ്.ഇ സ്കീമുകൾ മികച്ച ഓപ്ഷനുകളാണ്. ഉയർന്ന പലിശ നിരക്കിൽ മികച്ച വരുമാനം ഉറപ്പാക്കാൻ കെ.എസ്.എഫ്.ഇ ചിട്ടികളിലൂടെ നിക്ഷേപിക്കാം. മാത്രമല്ല ഇതൊരു സർക്കാർ നിയന്ത്രണത്തിലുള്ള സ്ഥാപനമായതിനാൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ നിക്ഷേപങ്ങൾ സുരക്ഷിതമായിരിക്കും. ഓരോ കാലാവധിയിലുള്ള ചിട്ടികളാണ് ഇവിടെ പ്രധാനമായും നൽകുന്നത്. പലതും പല തവണകളായിട്ട് തിരിച്ചടവുകൾ വരുന്നതാണ്. 100 മാസം കൊണ്ട് 1 കോടി

Stock Market Crash: दिवाली के बाद शेयर बाजार में कोहराम मच गया है. क्योंकि बाजार में ऊपरी स्तरों से भारी बिकवाली दर्ज की जा रही. आज 13 नवंबर को मार्केट लगातार 5वें दिन टूट गया है. बाजार में चौतरफा बिकवाली देखने

உலக பணக்காரர்கள் என்றதுமே நினைவுக்கு வருவது முகேஷ் அம்பானி மற்றும் கௌதம் அதானி போன்ற முன்னணி பணக்காரர்கள் பெயர் தான். ஆனால் 2008-ஆம் ஆண்டிலேயே அனில் அம்பானி தனது மூத்த சகோதரரான முகேஷ் அம்பானியை விஞ்சி உலக அளவில் ஆறாவது பணக்காரராக இடம் பிடித்தார். அனில் அம்பானி பணக்காரராக பட்டியலிடப்பட்ட நேரத்தில் ரிலையன்ஸ் ஏடிஏ குரூப் என்று

இந்தியாவின் முன்னணி உணவு டெலிவரி தளமான ஸ்விக்கி ஐபிஓ முடிந்து, புதன்கிழமை (நவம்பர் 13) பங்குச்சந்தையில் பட்டியலிடப்பட்டது. ஸ்விக்கி நிறுவனத்தின் பங்குகள் அதன் IPO விலையான ரூ.390 ஐ விட 7.69% அதிகமாக என்எஸ்ஈ-இல் 420 ரூபாய்க்கும் மும்பை பங்குச்சந்தையில் 412 ரூபாய் என 5.64% பிரீமியம் விலையில் அறிமுகமானது. இந்த வெற்றிகரமான ஸ்விக்கி ஐபிஓ மூலம்

சென்னை: ஒட்டுமொத்த நாட்டிற்கே முன்னோடியாக தமிழக அரசு குடும்ப தலைவிகளுக்கு மாதந்தோறும் 1,000 ரூபாயை மகளிர் உரிமைத் தொகையாக வழங்கி வருகிறது. குடும்பத்திற்காக வாழ்நாளெல்லாம் ஓயாமல் உழைத்துக் கொண்டிருக்கும் பெண்களின் உழைப்புக்குக் கொடுக்கும் அங்கீகாரம் இது என இந்த திட்டம் குறித்து அரசு பெருமிதம் தெரிவிக்கிறது. தமிழக அரசு சார்பாக தற்போது இந்த திட்டத்தின் மூலம் 1

பெண்கள் முன்னேற்றத்தில் அதிகப்படியான கவனம் செலுத்தும் மாநிலமாக தமிழ்நாடு, நாட்டிலேயே தனித்து விளங்குகிறது. இந்த நிலையில் தமிழக அரசு குடும்ப தலைவிகளுக்கு மாதந்தோறும் 1,000 ரூபாயை மகளிர் உரிமைத் தொகையாக வழங்கும் திட்டத்தில் முக்கியமான மாற்றம் கொண்ட வர உள்ளது முக.ஸ்டாலின் அரசு. தமிழ்நாடு முழுவதும் உள்ள அனைத்து பெண்களுக்கும் மாதந்தோறும் ரூ.1000 உரிமைத்தொகை வழங்கும் திட்டம்

The company is offering fresh equities to the public worth Rs 10,000 crore totalling approximately 92.59 crore shares.

The shares were sold between June 20, 2024, and November 11, 2024, at an average price of Rs 446.402 apiece through an open market sale.

The Adani Group will invest USD 10 billion in US energy security and resilient infrastructure projects, aiming to create up to 15,000 jobs.

This actor rejected a role worth Rs 2000 crore in the world's highest-grossing film ever.

Swiggy IPO makes 500 employees crorepatis, unlocking ₹9,000 crore in ESOPs, with shares listing at a premium

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