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BCL men at JU protest life threat to its GS

Student wing of Awami League, Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit on Sunday organised a rally protesting threat to kill its General Secretary (GS) Siddiqui Nazmul Alam by ‘Ansarullah Bangla Team: 13’. Around 12.00 pm, about hundred JU BCL leaders and activists brought out protesting 1472065_10203149986629908_3451724974432269956_nprocession from transport area and ended at Amar Ekushe premises after parading the main streets on campu...

Man kills three in Austria

At least three people have been killed, with a child reportedly among the dead, and 50 injured after a man drove deliberately straight through a crowd of shoppers in Graz, Austria, before getting out and stabbing bystanders with a knife. The man is believed to have crashed his SUV at speed into the crowd of people on purpose, sending several shoppers flying into the windshield, before getting out and stabbing bystanders with a knife. [caption id="attachment_17140" align="alignleft" width="300"]Police-investigato_3348263b

Bangladesh 32nd in world’s fragile state

Bangladesh is ranked 32nd in the list of fragile states, according to the newly released Fragile States Index (FSI) by the Fund for Peace. The annual FSI was published on Fund for Peace’s website highlighting global political, economic and social pressures experienced by the states. fragile stateAccording to the report, among the 178 countries in the list, seven out of ten top fragile states are from Africa: South Sudan (1st), Somalia (2nd), Central African Republic (3rd), Sudan (4...

All BBIN-MVA documents should be available on websites: CPD

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Saturday said all relevant documents, including the BBIN-Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA), protocols, permit forms, information about fees, surcharges and user-fees should be freely available, on dedicated websites to ensure transparency in all steps. “It’s not enough to design the implementation modalities to ensure win-win outcomes. It’s also equally important that this is perceived to be so by the citizens,” said CPD Executive Director BBINProf Mustafizur Rahman highlighting the importance of access to informati...

Germany outlines Asia aid policy

Germany has unveiled revised development aid goals for Asia. Partner nations will be offered help to safeguard biodiversity, improve work, expand regenerative energy and minimize the numbers of people living as refugees. Development aid minister Gerd Müller declared German know-how and innovative investment models as the key elements in a revised German strategy for Asia on Wednesday entitled “Using Asia’s Dynamism.” muller, germanyMüller, whose official title Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development is supposed to str...

How Bangladesh became a model for reducing hunger

A recent UN report on global hunger highlights Bangladesh – a onetime food basket case – for having cut chronic hunger by more than half since 2000.

Four decades ago, the newly formed and desperately poor South Asian nation of Bangladesh saw its already-high levels of extreme poverty and chronic hunger skyrocket with floods, leading to the Bangladesh famine of 1974. street-children-300x196Farmers and farmland were swallowed up in rampaging waters, distribution of the imported ...
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