The out-of pocket (OOP) healthcare expenditure in the country rose to 73 percent in 2021 while it was 68.5 percent in 2020, according to the Bangladesh National Health account. "Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure is one of the most noteworthy payment strategies for healthcare in Bangladesh and the share of OOP expenditure has
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European arms imports nearly double over Ukraine: study
Weapons imports to Europe nearly doubled over the past five years, partly due to the war in Ukraine, while exports from Russia halved, researchers said on Monday. Ukraine has become the world's fourth largest arms importer, while France has replaced Russia as the world's second largest exporter behind the United States. Arms
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63.51pc women face online abuse in Bangladesh: Study
Around 63.51% of women respondents reported facing online violence, which was 50.19% last year, according to a study commissioned by ActionAid Bangladesh in 2022. This means around 64 out of 100 women have to face online harassment and violence in the country. The findings of the study were revealed in
Studying abroad made tough as banks stopped opening student files
Bangladeshi students who want to create bank profiles, in order to go abroad for higher studies, cannot do this due to a foreign exchange crisis, students and bank officials have said. Several students and bank officials have confirmed to UNB that the situation arose following restrictions on opening LC and
Study on state of wildlife habitat completed
The government has completed a feasibility study recently to determine the current state of habitat connectivity through camera trapping, ensuring possible wildlife corridors. The Wildlife Compensation Rules, 2021 have been formulated to resolve the confrontation between wildlife and human beings. Md Shahab Uddin, minister for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
61.5pc urban youth suffer moderate to severe stress
More than sixty percent of the urban adolescents in Bangladesh are suffering from moderate to severe levels of stress, a study has found. The physical and mental health of adolescents in the country was already in a precarious state even before coronavirus broke out; the situation in the last two years
Beauty parlor workers paid poorly: Study
Education of 37m Bangladeshi children disrupted by Covid
Education of 37 million children in Bangladesh has been disrupted due to school closures since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, according to a report by UNICEF and UNESCO. The report titled "Situation Analysis on the Effects and Responses to COVID-19 on the Education Sector in Asia" (SitAn