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Bangladesh ahead of India, Pakistan in IMF index

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Bangladesh demonstrated the steady and subjective change in major financial markers a year ago regarding comprehensive improvement record (IDI) of the Worldwide Money related Store (IMF). Among 74 rising economies, Bangladesh secured the 34th position in the IMF's yearly file, which reflects nature of monetary execution in a specific nation. In the list, Bangladesh likewise performed obviously better than India (positioned 62), Pakistan (positioned 52) and Sri Lanka (positioned 40). The list likewise incorporates 29 created economies, headed by Norway. Iceland, Luxemburg, Switzerland, and Denmark took after the Scandinavian state on the best when Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Israel were set at the last five. Lithuania bested the record for the developing economies, trailed by Hungary, Azerbaijan, Latvia, and Poland. Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Egypt were among the last five. Contrasted with a year ago, Bangladesh propelled two indents to the 34th from past 36t...

ECNEC approves 14 projects worth Tk 62.28b

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The Official Board of the National Financial Committee (ECNEC) on Tuesday affirmed 14 advancement ventures including Tk 62.28 billion including one anticipate to guarantee penny per penny charge under Comilla zone with Tk 15.21 billion, reports UNB The endorsement originated from the sixteenth ECNEC meeting of the current monetary year held at the NEC gathering room in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar zone with ECNEC director and head administrator Sheik Hasina in the seat. Instructions correspondents after the gathering, arranging priest AHM Mustafa Kamal said a sum of 14 ventures were endorsed with a general evaluated the cost of Tk 62.28 billion. "Of the aggregate venture cost, Tk 54.21 billion will originate from the GoB, Tk 650.81 million from the association's own reserve while whatever remains of Tk 7.41 billion from venture help," he included. Of the affirmed 14 ventures, nine are new while five others are reexamined ventures. The arranging priest said Bangla...

Attack on Narayanganj mayor

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So as to ruin the move to clear the trails of sellers in Narayanganj, an assault was propelled on the chairman of Narayanganj city partnership, her laborers, and supporters, and also media people. The offenders of this unpardonable demonstration must be rebuffed. The police stayed quiet onlookers when the assault occurred, indicating their inclination towards the attackers. This nexus between the scalawags and the police act like a test to the control of law, natives' rights and community life. It is illicit for sellers to set up slows down along the trails as this impedes the path for people on foot. Be that as it may, rehashed moves to expel the sellers from the pathways have been thwarted on numerous occasions. Clearly, the vendors have capable support, for which the overall population is denied of their entitlement to utilize the asphalts. In Narayanganj, as well as in the capital city Dhaka and different places around the nation, vested quarters give the sellers security to ut...

�Journalism paramount, fundamental for democracy�

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Torry Pedersen from Norway is the Head of Article, Schibsted Media. Schibsted Media Gathering is a global media aggregate that claims the main daily papers in Norway and Sweden. On his current visit to Dhaka, Torry Pedersen addressed Prothom Alo about the current situation with media, that assault of phony news, the print-advanced problem and the sky is the limit from there. Prothom Alo: What is the condition of media and reporting all inclusive today? Torry Pedersen: You can state there has been a resurrection in the comprehension of the significance of media. What has gotten this going is the decision of Donald Trump. He has each day been stating 'counterfeit news', counterfeit news', and 'phony news'. And afterward, you read New York Times and Washington Post which have scoop after scoop. Individuals truly see great news coverage. In enormous extents of the populace, there has been a developed and more significant comprehension of the part media plays in the vote...

Mismanagement and inefficiency at Chittagong port

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Fumble and wastefulness at Chittagong port have achieved stunning extents and the shippers are paying the cost. They have lost Tk 11.95 billion this year alone. They are paying remote transportation organizations demurrage in hard-earned outside trade. This has pushed up the cost of imported products and, toward the day's end, the customers bear the weight. While the significant seaport of the nation is in such critical straits, the director of the port, Chief naval officer Mama Khaled Iqbal, has gone on an abroad excursion with his associates to 'secure learning'. Also, this is only two weeks previously he is to resign. He as far as anyone knows will apply the 'obtained learning' to the improvement of Chittagong port. Be that as it may, when he comes back from his visit, he will simply have six days left in office before he resigns on 30 January. This 15-part visiting group incorporates five individuals from the parliamentary standing board of trustees for the deli...

Twin suicide bombings kill at least 13 in Nigeria

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No less than 13 individuals were killed and more than 50 injured in a double suicide bomb assault at a bustling morning market in upper east Nigeria on Saturday, as per neighbourhood sources. The assaults happened in the town of Biu, around 185 kilometres (115 miles) south of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, which has been at the epicentre of Boko Haram's Islamist insurrection. "Two female suicide aircraft penetrated and picked up the passage into Biu," a neighbourhood police representative said. "One of the aircraft exploded an IED (extemporized dangerous gadget) tied to her body inside Biu's principle showcase, while the other one exploded outside the market square," the representative said. The police said 13 individuals were murdered, while a representative for a neighbourhood non-military personnel state army, Ibrahim Saidu Maniya, said the loss of life was as high as 18. Nobody has guaranteed obligation regarding the assault, however, the Boko Haram...

Erdogan seeks to lead Muslim response on Jerusalem

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Turkey's pioneer is looking to initiate Islamic response to the US affirmation on Jerusalem, yet it is dubious on the off chance that he can arrange an important reaction among regularly separated Muslim countries. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who views himself as a champion of the Palestinian reason, had exploded against president Donald Trump's acknowledgement of Jerusalem as Israel's capital even before it was authoritatively declared for the current week. Erdogan portrayed the status of the city, whose eastern area Palestinians see as the capital of their future state, as a "red line" for Muslims. With Trump neglecting such notices, the Turkish president utilized his position as the present executive of the Association of Islamic Participation (OIC) to call a summit of the container Islamic gathering. "He is looking to earn a global reaction," said Ziya Meral, occupant individual at the English Armed force's Inside for Recorded Investigation a...

Israel kills two on �Day of Rage� over Jerusalem

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Conflicts, Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes killed no less than two individuals and injured many others on Friday in viciousness connected to US president Donald Trump's assertion of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. In the most recent political aftermath, the Assembled States remained solitary as, consistently, kindred UN Security Chamber individuals reprimanded Trump's choice in a crisis meeting of the world body. Following a day of challenges and conflicts in Jerusalem and the Palestinian regions, no less than three rockets were discharged at Israel from the Gaza Strip, including one shot around Israel's Iron Arch against rocket framework, the armed force said. Another seemed to have fallen in no man's land however the third arrived in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. There was no quick report of losses. Following the initial two rockets, Israel reacted with air strikes on two Hamas military offices in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas-run wellbeing servi...

Pope ends Asia tour dominated by Rohingya crisis

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Pope Francis wrapped up a high-stakes Asia visit Saturday subsequent to meeting Rohingya exiles in Bangladesh in a profoundly representative signal of solidarity with the Muslim minority escaping viciousness in Myanmar. The Catholic pioneer flew out of Dhaka subsequent to going to a healing facility keep running by the request of Mother Theresa and tending to thousands of understudies on the last day of a visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar that has been overwhelmed by the predicament of the Rohingya. Pope Francis is known for championing the privileges of displaced people and has more than once communicated help for the forbearing Rohingya, portraying them as his "siblings and sisters". The normally candid pontiff strolled a conciliatory tightrope amid his four days in Myanmar - the principal ecclesiastical visit to the nation - maintaining a strategic distance from any immediate reference to the Rohingya in broad daylight while engaging Buddhist pioneers to conquer "partia...

PM leaves for Cambodia Sunday

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Executive Sheik Hasina is set to leave Dhaka for Phnom Penh on Sunday morning on a three-day official visit to Cambodia. The head will pay the visit at the welcome of her Cambodian partner Hun Sen as Dhaka trusts the visit would help reinforce reciprocal participation in the vital areas between the two Asian countries. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Aircrafts conveying the leader and her escort individuals will take off from Hazrat Shahjalal Global Air terminal on Sunday morning in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The flight is booked to achieve Phnom Penh Worldwide Airplane terminal at 12:30 pm (Cambodia time) the same day. The priest in-holding up designated by Cambodian head Hun Sen, and Bangladesh envoy to Thailand and simultaneously authorize to Cambodia Saida Muna Tasneem will get the PM at the air terminal. After the gathering at the aeroplane terminal, a formal motorcade will escort Sheik Hasina to Lodging Sofitel, where she will remain amid her visit to Cambodia. Toward...

Experts call for awareness to prevent HIV/AIDS infection

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Wellbeing specialises in Rajshahi on Friday called for mass mindfulness, particularly among the young people to counteract the spread of HIV/Helps in the area. They underscored for making mass mindfulness about infections like Guides, wellbeing rules amid sexual contacts, creating religious morals and good esteems, and including the socio-religious and political pioneers for the anticipation of HIV/Helps and other sexually transmitted ailments. Common specialist office sorted out the talk in the relationship with NGOs and willful associations to check the World Guides Day-2017 in the city. 'Appropriate to Wellbeing' is the fundamental subject of the day. Divisional chief of Wellbeing Abdus Sobhan, common specialist Samajit Kumar Shaha, agent common specialist Enamul Haque, region Brac delegate Jahedul Islam, junior wellbeing instruction officer Abdur Rahman and official executive of Asakta Punarbashan Sangstha Abdul Bashar Paltu talked on the event. Abdus Sobhan underscored the...

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) the blessing to mankind: Khaleda

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BNP administrator and previous executive Khaleda Zia on Friday noticed that the last prophet of Islam Muhammad (swm) is a sparkling case for humanity to take after. In a message sent to the media on the event of Eid-e-Miladunnabi (commemoration of the birth of the prophet), the Bangladesh Patriot Gathering (BNP) administrator additionally said God-like Allah sent Hazrat Muhammad (SWM) down as a gift to this world. "The landing of the prophet gave humankind trust in this life and in the future. It gave them confirmation of peace and welfare. Our prophet Mohammad (SWM) conquered all shameful acts and insults, to build up poise and privileges of the general population. "Our Prophet (SM) is a sparkling case for humankind to take after. Through his genuineness and uprightness, enduring confidence, abstinence, diligent work, responsibility, fearlessness, persistence and profound confidence in the maker, conquering all sufferings and pity, he completed the obligation of spreading th...

AL to go tough with BNP after Khaleda verdicts

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Administering Bangladesh Awami Association (AL) is probably going to indeed run extreme with its most outstanding foe Bangladesh Patriot Gathering (BNP) after the decisions in join arguments against its director Khaleda Zia are articulated. The decision party insiders said the gathering would likewise begin getting ready for the eleventh parliamentary races after the decision as the trial of the cases is at the last stage. AL senior pioneers said they think Khaleda and her child Tarique Rahman, likewise the BNP senior bad habit administrator, would not have the capacity to evade conviction in the Zia Halfway house Trust join the case and that is the reason the gathering will stay milder towards BNP until the decision. The decision party has intended to oppose any move of the BNP to riot after the decision. Gathering insiders said the AL needs in any way to guarantee triumph in the following general races booked to be held late 2018. The gathering conceives that the trial of the two bes...

Pope ditches popemobile for rickshaw

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Pope Francis jettisoned his trademark popemobile to ride on a customary cycle rickshaw as he kept up his man-of-the-general population notoriety amid a visit to the Bangladeshi capital on Friday. The Catholic pioneer smiled comprehensively as he was carried through the greenhouses of the diocese supervisor's home in the prominently new-looking rickshaw. Bangladesh is well known for its cycle rickshaws, which were customarily the most prevalent type of transport and are for the most part as run down as they are brilliantly hued. The model utilized by the 80-year-old Argentine pontiff was fresh out of the plastic new and seemed to have been fitted with additional guardrails for his wellbeing. Pope Francis takes a ride in a rickshaw amid the second day of his visit to Bangladesh, in Dhaka on 1 December 2017. Photograph: AFPPope Francis has set up a notoriety for his practical way, vowing to stamp out excess among the ministry and convey the Catholic Church nearer to poor people. Prior...

Annisul laid to eternal rest

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A large number of individuals paid tributes to Dhaka North City Organization (DNCC) chairman Annisul Huq as his body was kept at the Banani Armed force Stadium to encourage individuals from all kinds of different backgrounds to pay their last reverence. A namaz-e-janaza was held there before taking his body to Banani cemetery where he was covered around 5:00 pm. In the interest of president Abdul Hamid, military secretary real broad Sarwar Hossain, for the benefit of the head administrator, military secretary significant general Mia Mohammad Joynul Abedin, in the interest of speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, commander Mushtaq Ahmed, for the benefit of decision Bangladesh Awami Alliance party its general secretary Obaidul Quader, Dhaka South City Partnership chairman Sayeed Khokon and appointee pioneer in parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury offered their regards to Annisul. Head administrator Sheik Hasina offers petitions close to the assemblage of Annisul Huq. Photograph: Center Bangla D...