Jordanian Senate President and former Prime Minister Faisal Akif Al-Fayez has highly appreciated Bangladesh's over 5 percent GDP growth even during pandemic under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He was addressing a special webinar as the chief guest on Sunday. Bangladesh Embassy in Amman, Jordan organised the event to mark the ...
While the world is reeling under an economic crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh’s economy was able to escape a contraction in 2020 and its annual rate of GDP growth will continue to accelerate throughout the 2021-25 period, so says a think tank. Between 2021 and 2025, Bangladesh’s annual rate of GDP growth will accelera...
Professor Dr. Mamun Al Mahtab (Shwapnil): Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe was grappled with fresh round of alleged terror attacks, first in France and then in Austria, that made global headlines, something very unusual during these corona-days, when hardly any news unrelated to COVID-19 is to be seen anywhere in the front or back pages of ...
Economic activity in Bangladesh has recovered more strongly than expected with both exports and remittances growing in recent months amid the Covid-19 pandemic, said a new report of Asian Development Bank (ADB). But the country still has external risks to face as Covid-19 outbreaks renew in major export destinations, according to the new growth...
Sharif Shahab Uddin It would not be exaggerating to say that the killers of the Bangabandhu and the people who have broken his sculpture are equally criminals and the enemies of mankind as the Bangabandhu had dedicated his whole life for the welfare of mankind. By killing the Bangabandhu and vandalising his statue they have committed a dastardly...
Bangladesh Students' League (BSL) has demonstrated on Dhaka University (DU) campus demanding exemplary punishment and arrest of those involved in the vandalization of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's sculpture in Kushtia. Several hundreds of leaders and activists of different unit of Chhatra League gathered in front of Dhaka University's Mad...
Following the address of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, innumerable people from all walks of life – farmers, labourers, students and common people joined the Liberation War of Bangladesh. One by one other fearless fighter from the army, navy and air-force joined the war. Their endless courage and intellectual f...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her government’s initiative to create skilled manpower to keep pace with the advancement of technology and face the challenges of ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. “We have to keep pace with the world as far as the technology is concerned . . . Otherwise, the count...
Syed Badrul Ahsan: Let the facts about our history, about the nation-state we are part of, be restated yet once again. This country is a People’s Republic, brought into being through the sacrifices of three million people and the humiliation endured by tens of thousands of women during the War of Liberation. The villages pillaged, ...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said there is a need for constructive multilateralism more than ever as the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded that ‘no one is safe until everyone is safe’. “The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that no one is safe until everyone is safe. The pandemic has taught us that global prosperity is em...
World Bank, in one of its reports, projects that Bangladesh will see increased remittance flow and secure eighth position in the world in terms of it in 2020. WB revealed the prediction in the report titled "COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens" published on October 29. According to the projection, two South Asian countries will see an inc...
Bangladesh’s foreign currency reserves have surpassed $41 billion, three weeks after crossing the $40 billion for the first time. The reserves at the Bangladesh Bank stood at $41.2 billion on Thursday, sufficient to pay more than 10 months of import bills. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal once again thanked the Bangladeshi migrant work...
The Maldives has expressed its keen interest to recruit more doctors and nurses from Bangladesh while the island nation hosts nearly one lakh Bangladeshi expatriate workers at its tourism and fishing sector. The interest was showed while outgoing Maldivian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Aishath Shaan Shakir made a farewell call on Foreign Mini...
The air connectivity between the neighbouring Bangladesh and India has been restored under “air bubble” arrangement after more than seven months of flight suspension for containment of Covid-19 pandemic. The first resumption flight between the two countries began as a US-Bangla Airlines regular commercial flight from Dhaka to Kolkat...
Introduction: The controversy over independence declaration The unhealthy controversy over the declaration of Bangladesh independence is still nagging the nation about four decades after the War of Independence in 1971. We have grown weary of listening to the parade of the same old debate on Mujib- Zia dichotomy, especially on the independence ...
Professor Dr M Shahinoor Rahman: Bangabandhu or the Father of the Nation—by whatever name we call him, his humongous inspirational appearance occupies the lane of our memory whenever we tend to think about anything in the context of Bangladesh. Bangabandhu did not become the Father of the Nation in a single moment or a day. Moreover, you ...
Date: 27 October 2020 Basic Information The first case of Covid-19 in Bangladesh was detected on 8 March 2020. So far, the country has detected 401,586 confirmed cases of Covid-19, of whom, 5,838 have died and 318,123 have recovered after treatment. In total, 551,865 people have been quarantined (institutiona...
Mark Tully: The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) projection that Bangladesh’s per capita income in dollar terms is likely to overtake India’s has focused attention on a nation that has risen like a Phoenix from the ashes. The ashes were left by the Pakistan army’s scorched earth strategy. Travelling in East Pakistan a...
Pranab Kumar Panday: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's name is honoured with magnificent titles, such as "Father of the Nation" and "Bangabandhu". This is not amazing, considering his tremendous contribution to the creation of Bangladesh and the people. Now one may wonder why he sacrificed his life for the people of the country. The only answer is that h...
Md Arif Hossain: As the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic lays waste to lives and livelihoods in countries around the globe, the approach of the annual World Food Day on 16 October reminds us not to lose sight of longer-term goals. In many developing countries, Bangladesh included, the economic shock of the pandemic is expected to have seve...
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