Bangaladesh

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina conferred the prestigious ‘Friends of Liberation War’ honour on former US Senator Edward M Kennedy posthumously on Monday in Dhaka for his contribution to the liberation of Bangladesh. The honour was…
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Bangladesh needs to take urgent action including further adaptation and resilience measures to avoid risking its growth potential, says the World Bank in its Country and Climate Development Report for Bangladesh released on Monday. The…
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Bangladesh produces 80 percent of the mobiles sold in the country, said State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak. Speaking at an event to announce the holding of ‘Digital World 2022’ in December to showcase Bangladesh's achievement in the…
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The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) rescued 20 Bangladeshi fishermen from the sea after the cyclone Sitrang landfall in the country. The ICG in a social media post said that the fishermen were rescued from the sea on October 25 in a coordinated…
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Cyclonic storm Sitrang made a landfall in Bangladesh around midnight last night, crossing the Barisal-Chattogram coast near Bhola. It has weakened rapidly into a depression with heavy rains in coastal areas and moderate to heavy…
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The elite law enforcement agency of Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five more suspected members of the ‘newly surfaced militant group’ from Jatrabari and Keraniganj area on Sunday. Briefing media in Dhaka on Monday,…
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The World Bank has cut down the GDP growth rate projection for Bangladesh for the FY 2022-23 to 6.1 percent. It is lower by 0.6 percent from the projection it made in June this year. The World Bank in its latest South Asia update released…
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The government of Bangladesh will soon bring a law to ban sale of antibiotic medicines by drug stores without prescription, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque in Dhaka on Tuesday. He said those medicine shops who give antibiotic medicine to…
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has extended her greetings to the Hindu Community on the occasion of Durga Puja which is the biggest religious festival of Hindus of Bangladesh. In her message on the eve of the start of the festivity with Maha…
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The US has announced USD 170 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Rohingya inside and outside Myanmar as well as for host communities in Bangladesh. With this the total US assistance in response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis…
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