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thedelegateDecember 7, 2022

EU for strengthening partnership with Bangladesh The European Union (EU) has expressed their willingness to strengthen partnership with Bangladesh in the coming days. European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic expressed this during their separate meetings with Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud in Brussels on Friday evening […]

adminAugust 15, 2022

About Bangabandhu’s style of speaking, Archar wrote that Sheikh Mujib always speaks like ‘My people’, ‘my land’, ‘my forest’ and ‘my river’, which revealed that he always introduced himself as the person of Bangladesh’ hope and reliability. Former US diplomat Archer Kent Blood touted Bangabandhu as a mass leader and struggling personality, saying that as […]

adminJuly 7, 2021

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh on June 24, 2021, signed agreements for $940 million in loans to purchase safe and effective vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Fatima Yasmin, Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Manmohan Parkash, Country Director, ADB, signed the loan agreements on behalf of Bangladesh and ADB […]

adminJanuary 16, 2021

Indian High Commissioner Vikram K Doraiswami today said India has ensured that Bangladesh would get the COVID 19 vaccine ‘quickly’ and ‘urgently’ under his country’s neighbourhood first policy. “The vaccine issue is everybody’s right and we will ensure the government here gets it quickly,” he told reporters after attending the inauguration of the 19th International […]

thedelegateJanuary 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic that brought global human mobility to a near standstill for most of last year hit the country’s vast labour migration sector hard. Yearly overseas employment dropped by nearly five lakh from what it was in 2019 — with a little over two lakh workers getting jobs abroad by mid-December last year. Some […]

thedelegateDecember 5, 2020

In the midst of a crisis regarding the cost of living in Germany, thousands of people came to the streets of Berlin on November 12 to demand that food prices be brought under control and that more taxes be levied on the wealthy. Marching behind banners, one of which was emblazoned with the demand “Redistribute!” […]

thedelegateOctober 26, 2020

Digital credit is no longer a question of if, but when Despite impressive progress in financial inclusion over the last few years, about 40% of the adult Bangladeshi population are still outside the purview of financial institution (FI) products and services. In the context of Bangladesh, banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) comprise FI’s. Therefore, a […]

thedelegateOctober 8, 2020

Evaluation by Dec, govt decides after cancelling this year’s HSC exams amid pandemic; mixed reaction among students, parents, educationists The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of this year have been cancelled due to health-safety concerns. Instead, candidates would be evaluated based on their results in Junior School Certificate (JSC), Secondary School Certificate […]

thedelegateOctober 7, 2020

Sexual harassment of women and children has assumed an explosive proportion. Though it has long been a deep-seated social malaise, its present frequency and viciousness rather presents an intriguing question. This is whether rape rate has increased or the rate of reporting such incidents has increased. If the former is true it is certainly an […]

thedelegateOctober 7, 2020

The High Court has ordered the lower court to finish within three months trial of much-talked about Seema Mohammadi murder case pending for 32 years.A division bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order on Wednesday following a newspaper report. Advocate Ishrat Hasan drew the apex court’s attention to […]