Morning Brief

‘Saarc may seem dead, but we should not bury it quite yet'

While the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) appears moribund, it remains an indispensable and irreplaceable regional grouping, in whose revival and revitalization Bangladesh has a serious stake and must take the lead in, speakers at a round-table discussion have said.

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BIPSS-Dhaka Tribune roundtable on “Saarc Is Dead, Long Live Saarc: Reviving South Asian Regionalism” at a Dhaka hotel on Sunday, November 27,2022 Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune

‘Immediate interventions needed to lower food prices'

The double shocks of the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have drastically increased food prices, and immediate policy interventions are needed to keep food items affordable for people of lower income brackets, speakers at a roundtable have said.

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Dhaka Tribune-USAID roundtable on “Food Security for Sustainable Development” at the Krishibid Institute on Sunday, November 27,2022  Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

PM Hasina: Many countries sought financial assistance

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that after helping Sri Lanka with a currency swap, many countries communicated with her to get the same kind of assistance from Bangladesh.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina delivering her introductory speech at the Secretaries' Committee Meeting held at the PMO on Sunday, November 27,2022 PID

Zelensky warns Ukraine to brace for more Russian attacks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russia would surely launch new missile attacks on his country, and warned defence forces and citizens to be prepared to withstand a new week of strain on the power grid.

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Local residents stand in line to fill up bottles with fresh drinking water after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine November 24, 2022 Reuters

Talking points: Germany still alive after Spain thriller, all's not well in Belgian camp

Although none of the four matches on matchday eight confirmed a last 16 participant, Canada went out of the competition after hosts Qatar. The remaining seven teams from Group E and F are all in with a chance of making the knockout stages following yet another thrilling day of action. 

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Clockwise: Morocco's Achraf Hakimi plants a kiss on his mother's forehead after the Belgium win, Spain's Alvaro Morata scores past Germany's Manuel Neuer, Croatia's man of the match Andrej Kramaric and Costa Rica's Keysher Fuller

Cabinet secy: PM Hasina asks to keep food reserve above 1.5m metric tons

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given directives to secretaries to keep the county's food reserve above 1.5 million metric tons, said Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam.

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