Covid aid to India, financial help to Sri Lanka - Banglade...
May 29 ,2021
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By: Nayanima Basu
File photo of Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina | Photo: David Greedy | Bloomberg News
From providing India with Covid relief materials...
Bangladesh drops 'Except Israel' from passport, essentiall...
May 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh e-passport inside cover page credit: Wikimedia Commons
The South Asian nation of Bangladesh announced on Saturd...
Bangladesh drops ‘except Israel’ from new passports, but n...
May 24 ,2021
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By: Nayanima Basu
New Bangladesh passports will no longer preclude its validity in Israel in an effort to encourage visits to the West Asian country. How...
Bangladesh reaches out to int'l media as it seeks vaccines...
May 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday reached out to the global media to let the world know that Bangladesh looks for vaccines d...
UK accused of ‘abandoning’ Rohingya with ‘catastrophic’ 40...
May 22 ,2021
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By: Kaamil Ahmed
The government has been accused of abandoning Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after cutting aid to the humanitarian response by more th...
“Physicians are worried over Khaleda Zia’s heart and kidne...
May 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia has been improving but the physici...
8 years after rana plaza disaster, activists fear Banglade...
May 21 ,2021
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By: Ana Salvá
In this Monday, April 29, 2013 file photo, a Bangladeshi worker leaves the site where a garment factory building collapsed in the Sav...
Quad and Bangladesh-China relations
May 21 ,2021
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By: D. M Sakhwat Hossen
Quad, Prothom Alo illustration
I took part in a meeting to exchange views on 10 May at the invitation of the foreign minister. Aro...
Bangladesh must maintain its strategic neutrality
May 12 ,2021
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By: ANM Muniruzzaman
ANM Muniruzzaman
There are signs of a strategic polarisation emerging in the Indo-Pacific region. The long...
Bangladesh wants to know the reason behind China’s sudden...
May 12 ,2021
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By: Raheed Ejaz
Bangladesh was taken aback by the Chinese ambassador’s remark that Dhaka-Beijing relations would be damaged if Bangladesh joined...
Bangladesh hits back after China envoy warns against joini...
May 12 ,2021
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By: Syful Islam
Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen, left, with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in 2019: Momen has lashed out at remarks from...
China has crossed the line when talking about Quad: Foreig...
May 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said China has crossed the line while talking about Quad. The foreign minister wa...
Thailand latest country to ban arrivals from Bangladesh, P...
May 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Thailand on Monday widened its travel ban to international arrivals from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal in a bid to prevent the Indian...
Khaleda's treatment abroad: Law ministry says 'no'
May 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The law ministry has refused BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's application seeking permission for going abroad for better treatment.
The m...
Will work together to overcome Covid-19 crisis: PM Hasina...
May 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee after she was sworn in as the chief minister of Wes...
Bangladesh to give 10,000 vials of Remdesivir to India tom...
May 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh will hand over 10,000 vials of injectable anti-viral Remdesivir to India on Thursday, officials have said.
Bangladesh Deput...
Forex reserve hits $45.1b, a new record
May 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The country's foreign exchange reserves today hit a new record of $45.1 billion thanks to the upward trend of remittance and lower impo...
Dhaka's sole Covid-19 graveyard sees sharp increase in bur...
April 30 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The only graveyard dedicated to Covid-19 victims in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka is seeing a substantial increase in burials amid a fr...
China seeks Bangladesh support against US-led military all...
April 30 ,2021
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By: Shahidul Islam Chowdhury
China on Tuesday emphasised the need for Bangladesh to take joint efforts against the formation of a military alliance led by the Unite...
Bangladesh’s GDP to grow at 5.8pc this fiscal year: ADB
April 29 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has forecasted that Bangladesh gross domestic product (GDP) would grow at highest 5.8 per cent this fi...
As India's Covid crisis and variant spreads, neighboring c...
April 29 ,2021
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By: Jessie Yeung, Sophia Saifi and Esha Mitra
As India continues to grapple with an unrelenting second wave of Covid-19, some neighboring countries in South Asia are seeing their ow...
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