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...Bangladesh “in opposing external interference”....
...The UK and US have decried election interference in Bangladesh after authorities arrested thousands of members of the main opposition party prior to voting on Sunday....
...Separately, the fund also approved a payout of nearly $700mn for Bangladesh under its own programme.Both countries approached the IMF last year after struggling with rising import costs and falling foreign...
...Intense heatwaves in India, Thailand and Bangladesh and fatal floods in China and Pakistan this week have coincided with the latest UN weather agency warning that climate change is causing major repercussions...
...In office, she set about transforming Bangladesh, infamously dismissed by Henry Kissinger as a “basket case”....
...Bangladesh is now adopting agroecology approaches, which African countries can benefit from, instead of the failed Green Revolution technologies....
...The bank said it expected the economy of south Asia, which includes Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, to grow faster than any other region over the next two years, at 6 per cent in 2024 and 6.1 per cent...
...Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, a leader of the rival Bangladesh Nationalist party, accused Sheikh Hasina of “destroying” the industry....
...To supporters of her Awami League, it symbolises Bangladesh’s economic transformation under her leadership....
...Bangladesh’s government has pushed back against western censure....
...But others argue that Bangladesh risks missing an opportunity....
...Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, founder of civil society group Bangladesh Health Watch, said Wazed’s selection would be “valuable for Bangladesh” and “help the country’s image”. The WHO declined to comment....
...“I will continue to serve the people of Bangladesh and the social business movement to the best of my ability,” he added....
...Yet, they are up to 30 per cent more likely than men to repay loans — a phenomenon the microcredit pioneer Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh found too....
...Ambrey, a UK maritime security company, reported that the vessel seized was flying the Bangladesh flag....
...It recounts the online theft in 2016 of $81mn dollars from the US Federal Reserve by nobbling the computer system of the Bangladesh Central Bank — with the loot transferred to a bank in the Philippines,...
...But most Bengalis, overwhelmingly, are Muslims from East Bengal, today’s Bangladesh....
...Bangladesh election: Voters will cast ballots to select a new parliament on Sunday in Asia’s first major election of the year, with 29 political parties competing for seats....
...India Lags Behind Its Neighbours (2023) by Swati Narayan India, south Asia’s rising superpower, has one of the world’s fastest- growing economies, but lags woefully behind regional neighbours such as Bangladesh...
...Radical libertarian economist, Javier Milei, has won Argentina’s presidential elections, investors are shaking up the venture capital market by raising money to buy out start-ups, and Bangladesh is struggling...
...National holidays: Bangladesh celebrates Victory Day on Saturday, marking the end of the 1971 war of independence, while it is Independence Day in Kazakhstan, with the coming Monday a public holiday....
...So they started buying up cargoes that had previously been destined for, say, Bangladesh. So Bangladesh found itself sort of really low on gas....
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