South Asia’s growth stunted by a combination of shocks: WB

Beset with Sri Lanka's economic crisis, Pakistan's catastrophic floods, a global slowdown, and the impacts of the war in Ukraine, South Asia faces an unprecedented combination of shocks on top of the lingering scars of the Covid, the World Bank said in its twice-a-year update.  Released Thursday, the latest "South Asia

PM calls for immediate end to Ukraine war

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday demanded an immediate end to Ukraine-Russia war and resulting sanctions for the sake of lives and livelihoods of the people throughout the world. "We want the end of Russia-Ukraine war. Due to sanctions, and counter-sanctions, not a single country, rather the entire mankind including women

US urges world to tell Russia to stop its nuclear threats

 The United States urged other nations to tell Russia to stop making nuclear threats and end “the horror” of its war in Ukraine as all three countries' top diplomats spoke — but didn't quite meet — at a high-profile U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday. Held alongside the annual U.N. General Assembly

PM for global initiative to fix crisis driven by Ukraine war, Covid

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed concern about financial and commercial challenges alongside food and energy crisis facing the developing countries in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as Russia-Ukraine war. The Premier expressed this concern while Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum (WEF) Professor Klaus Schwab paid a

PM calls for negotiated end to Ukraine war

Leader of the Opposition and Head of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer on Saturday said 'Bangladesh and the UK are bound by excellent ties and further reinforced by the British-Bangladesh diaspora'. He observed this during his meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her place of residence here. The prime minister

Ukraine piles pressure on retreating Russian troops

Ukrainian troops continued to pile unrelenting pressure on retreating Russian forces on Tuesday, seeking to hold on to their sudden momentum that has produced major territorial gains. Fresh yellow-and-blue flags fluttered from the tallest buildings left in partly destroyed towns around Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, while Ukrainian soldiers inspected charred Russian

Ukraine war benefitting only arms producers: PM

Terming the Ukraine-Russia war as meaningless Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said only arms producers are profiting from the conflict. "...this war is meaningless. Because we are witnessing that only the arms producers are making profits. The lives of the general people are endangered," she said. The prime minister said this