In the wake of growing violence and loss of lives, the Unites States, European Union and United Kingdom have urged all the sides to show restraint and engage in “genuine dialogue” to solve the crisis. Condemning violence across the country centring the recent political developments, separate statements from US, EU and UK today urged the government to ensure freedom of assembly, movement and speech. They also demanded that the government probe Tuesday night’s gun attack on former foreign secretary Reaz Rahman and try the att...

The World Bank (WB), citing stagnation in Europe and Japan and a slowdown in China, downgraded its forecast for the global economy this year. It also reported that world economic growth came in below expectations in 2014. The bank predicts the world economy will expand 3 percent this year, up from 2.6 percent in 2014. Last June, World Bank economists had forecast 3.4 percent global economic growth this year and 2.8 percent last year. “The recovery has been sputtering in the Euro Area and Japan as legacies of the financial crisis linger ... China, meanwhile, is undergoing a carefully managed slowdown,” the bank said Tuesday in the first of its twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects reports for 2015.