International – The Delegate

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 […]

thedelegateDecember 4, 2022

Obaidul Quader, general secretary of the Awami League and minister of Road Transport and Bridges, urged the media to be impartial in all areas and asked for their help in moving the nation forward. On the evening of November 16, he was speaking at a view-exchange event with journalists hosted by the Information and Broadcasting […]

adminDecember 3, 2022

Two more RMG factories in the country were recently designated as ‘green factories,’ bringing the total number of green factories in Bangladesh to 178. One of the two newly recognised factories received a platinum rating, while the other received a gold rating. In the current year, 13 RMG factories were designated as green factories with […]

adminDecember 5, 2021

On November 14, World Bank South Asian Region Vice-President Martin Raiser stated Bangladesh has stunned the entire world with its phenomenal development, branding the country as a “development success case.” “Bangladesh is a development success story that has made some truly remarkable progress. Bangladesh is quickly becoming one of the world’s most surprising countries in […]

adminJuly 7, 2021

Bangladesh has been elected a Member of FAO Council from the Asia Region for the term 2022-2024. The election took place on Thursday at the 42nd Session of the UN Agency at which 183 member states are participating. Bangladesh with other Council Members will now lead the organisation at both policy and executive level in […]

thedelegateDecember 6, 2020

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan met with his Indian counterpart Amit Shah in New Delhi on the afternoon of November 18. They talked about different aspects of border management and security issues that both countries face. The discussion between the two home ministers took place on the sidelines of the ‘No Money for Terror’ (NMFT) Ministerial […]

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!” […]

thedelegateNovember 1, 2020

Bangladesh will achieve an eight per cent growth in inward remittance in 2020 despite a downward trend in the global economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank (WB) said in its latest report. Globally, the amount of money migrant workers send home is projected to decrease by 14 per cent by 2021, according to […]

thedelegateOctober 30, 2020

Referring to the consequences of long colonial rule and of the sufferings of our people during our war of liberation, Bangabandhu said, “Immediately after independence we had to grapple with the gigantic task of rehabilitating more than ten million refugees who crossed the border and another twenty million people who were uprooted from their homes. […]

thedelegateOctober 26, 2020

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) projection that Bangladesh’s per capita income in dollar terms is likely to overtake India’s has focused attention on a nation that has risen like a Phoenix from the ashes. The ashes were left by the Pakistan army’s scorched earth strategy. Travelling in East Pakistan after the army crackdown in 1971, […]