Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that the South Asian island nation had signed an agreement with Chinese state energy giant Sinopec to fast-track a proposed $3.7 billion oil refinery in its southern port city of Hambantota. Sinopec and Sri Lanka will jointly decide the share of refined fuel that will be exported from […]
Read MoreBy Masum Billah Dhaka, December 6, 2024 – Junior Chamber International (JCI) Bangladesh has successfully concluded its National General Assembly at Le Meridien Hotel, Dhaka, marking a key moment in the organization’s leadership transition for 2025. The assembly, attended by Local Presidents and members of the National Governing Board, finalized the new Executive Board, with […]
Read MoreMasum Billah, Baku (Azerbaijan) South Asian Climate Change Journalist’s Forum (SACCJF) leaders met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif at the World Climate Conference Center in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The Pakistani Prime Minister expressed his excitement in this brief interaction with Bangladeshi journalists. He said in Bengali – “Bangladesh, Sonar Bangla.” Then, in […]
Read MoreProtests continue across the country against the rape and murder of a female doctor at the RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Doctors are on strike in various hospitals to protest this incident. To deal with the situation, the Kolkata Police has issued a ban on illegal gatherings in the area adjacent to […]
Read MoreThe Food and Drug Administration has announced that currently, 104 pharmaceutical factories are active in the country, producing 650 types of medications. According to officials at this institution, the products of these factories are of good quality. Javid Hajir, the spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration, said, “In the past two and a half […]
Read MoreA country of 270 million people, Indonesia is one of the world’s top producers of tobacco and there are about 70 million adult smokers there, The World Health Organization said in a 2021 survey. Indonesia raised the minimum age limit for purchasing cigarettes to 21 from 18 as part of a series of changes to […]
Read MoreThe country’s junta has ordered the evacuation of villages around Sitteh, the capital of Rakhine state. The junta recently asked everyone to leave the villages and move to the cities after the country’s anti-junta rebel group, the Arakan Army, threatened to take control of Sitt. The junta has lost a lot of territory to the […]
Read MoreBy Tarikul Islam The Government of Bangladesh has announced the appointment of Ms. Nahida Sobhan, the current Ambassador to Jordan, as the next High Commissioner to Canada. Ms. Sobhan will succeed Ambassador Dr. Khalilur Rahman in this significant diplomatic role. A seasoned diplomat from the 15th batch of the BCS (Foreign Affairs) cadre, Ms. Sobhan […]
Read MoreMarkets fell in Asia on Friday, tracking a sell-off on Wall Street sparked by a string of better-than-expected US data that added to worries the Federal Reserve will hold off on cutting interest rates this year. A weeks-long rally in equities has petered out in the past few days on profit-taking and as central bank […]
Read MoreKyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with AFP on Friday urged China and countries of the Global South to participate in a peace summit in Switzerland next month. The Swiss government announced that it would host a high-level peace conference for Ukraine in mid-June, but said Russia would not attend. Uncertainty surrounds the […]
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