PM Hasina to inaugurate, lay foundation stones of 34 projects in Chittagong Sunday
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate 30 projects and lay the foundation stones of four others in Chittagong on Sunday.
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UNBChittagong Pologround prepared to welcome PM Hasina
Chittagong, the economic capital city of Bangladesh, is eagerly waiting to welcome Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a festive manner amid tight security.
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Dhaka TribunePM Hasina seeks WHF cooperation on medical science research
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought cooperation from the World Heart Federation (WHF) to carry out basic research on medical science and to build skilled manpower in the health sector of the country.
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File photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ReutersGovernment lowers expenditure estimates
The government has been compelled to cut down its projections for expenditure in the coming years - in light of the changed economic reality brought about mainly by the Russia-Ukraine war and its aftermath of sanctions and counter-sanctions.
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Representational photo BigstockInflation: how financial speculation is making the global food price crisis worse
The extreme spikes in the cost of energy and food that we have seen this year are mostly to blame for the rise in essential expenses. Basic grocery prices have increased by 17% on average from last year, according to the Office for National Statistics (UK), while some products such as pasta have increased by as much as 60%. This is because the cost of staple food crops, such as wheat, have increased by more than 30% since the beginning of 2021.
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Women from the pastoral Turkana community wait on October 18, 2022 under a makeshift shed with their children at a drought-intervention community outreach clinic organized by Unicef at Nadoto village AFPIranian security body says 200 killed in recent riots
Two hundred people lost their lives in Iran during nationwide riots that started in mid-September, an Iranian state security body said on Saturday, a figure significantly lower than that given by rights groups.
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File photo: Despite heightened security measures & crackdown, thousands of Iranian mourners flock to Saqez cemetery in Iran's Kurdistan province, to mark 40 days since Mahsa (Jina) Amini's death in custody AFPRemembering Adrienne Germain
I first met Adrienne Germain in 1974 at the UN Population Conference in Bucharest, where she invited me to be a panelist in a day-long program at the NGO Forum to highlight the centrality of women's role and agency in population policies and programs. She was then working at the Ford Foundation's women in international development program. I was pleasantly surprised to meet a young woman nearer my age -- she was 27 and I was 30 -- and discovered that we shared similar values, concerns, and mission though we came from different continents. Over the years we collaborated on many common causes. She remained my close friend, like a sister till she passed away in May 2022.
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Adrienne Germain FlickrForex reserve now below $34bn
The country's foreign exchange (forex) reserves dropped below $34 billion on Wednesday as the Bangladesh Bank continued selling dollars to banks.
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Representational Photo BigstockNasrul Hamid: All liquid fuel-based power plants will be phased out over next 2 years
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said that all the liquid fuel-based power plants will be phased out within next two years.
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Representational Picture Bigstock‘More multilateral funding, concessional lending needed to facilitate LDC graduation'
Export quotas, duty-free facilities, and the ability to obtain loans with favourable terms won't exist as they do now once Bangladesh moves out of the least developed country (LDC) category, further complicating the country's transition, as well as that of Nepal and Bhutan amidst of an ongoing global crisis.
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Dhaka TribuneTransport strike called off in Rajshahi
The transport strike called by the Rajshahi Divisional Transport Owners' Association has been called off in Rajshahi division on Saturday.
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Map of Rajshahi district Dhaka Tribune
