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A friend who helps at a difficult time is a friend who you can really rely on. Covid-19 has proved that type of friendship between Bangladesh and India again.This pandemic is an unprecedented event of our time. It is a crisis that we have never faced before. It’s a war, but the enemy virus is ...
The visit of Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering to Bangladesh is like his return to the second home. He spent 11 years in Bangladesh to study MBBS at Mymensingh Medical College and later for postgraduate training in Dhaka. So he knows much about Bangladesh.Again he came back to Dhaka as a Prime...
The visit of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is being seen as a way of expanding the bilateral relations further by opening up new avenues of cooperation.This is his first visit to Bangladesh after being sworn in as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the fourth time on August 9, 2020. But t...
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Last month when Maldives foreign minister Abdulla Shahid visited Bangladesh, his counterpart Dr. AK Abdul Momensaid that “Dhaka attaches high importance to its relationship with Male”.He termed the relationship as “a fraternity of common faith and shared values marked with trust, m...
National,Front Page
Prime Ministers of India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Presidents of Maldives and Nepal will visit Dhaka while leaders from China, Canada, Cambodia, Japan, and South Korea will connect virtually to pay respect to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from March 17 to March 26, marking his ...
It is leadership and stable politics as well as government policies which paid off, analysts say as Bangladesh’s graduation from the LDC remains a miracle for many.In 2008-09 when the ruling Awami League first came to power after 1996, the Bangladesh GDP was $103.5 billion. A decade later, it ...
Bangladesh has entered the much-anticipated Covid-19 vaccination phase earlier than many other countries in the world – thanks to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s proactive measures and India’s ‘neighbourhood first policy’ that prioritises Dhaka.Indian High Commissioner V...
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Transgender people face discrimination in many countries in the Asia and the Pacific, despite laws to ensure equal rights of all individuals.Experts made the comment at the closing session of the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR10) held in 14 session...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have given much-needed directions for the future cooperation between the neighbours in the virtual summit on Thursday amid pandemic, experts say.“The summit showcases the close relationship between India and Bangladesh. It a...
Dhaka and New Delhi on Thursday revived the historic links between the neighbours by deciding to jointly commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Liberation War through several activities in India, Bangladesh and third countries.In their first summit amid the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh Pri...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to hold talks with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Thursday in the first-ever virtual summit amid Covid-19 pandemic that foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen termed as ‘historic’.He told Bangladesh Post that they are expecting to sign ‘at l...
The pandemic is "exacerbating" the pre-existing gender-based violence (GBV) in the Asia-Pacific region and is "likely to deepen inequalities", UNFPA’s technical specialist Sujata Tuladhar says.The pandemic is also limiting the GBV survivors’ ability to distance themse...
More than 80 percent of women living with HIV in the Asia Pacific Region have reported that they lacked access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services (SRHR), including contraception, during Covid-19 lockdowns.Proportion of young key populations in Asia Pacific who experienced delays o...
It’s not easy to talk about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the countries of Asia and the Pacific. But it becomes even more challenging for a person with a disability.“Most countries in the Asia Pacific region have focused on improving people with disabilities’ ...
The recommitment process of the FP2020 will kick off in January and run through the year with an aim to devise a new ‘commitment-based’ partnership model for family planning.The new partnership, which is expected to be launched formally at the International Conference on Family Planning ...
It was a “big surprise” for Mohammed Noman that he did not feel the presence of mosquitoes in his area at Mohammadpur during the pandemic.“This is for the first time in my three years of living in Dhaka I had such mosquito-free experience,” he said.He observed that municipal ...
It has been a ‘painful’ seven months wait for Mohammed Wahiduzzaman until Wednesday when he has been able to travel to India for medical treatment under a new ‘air bubble’ mechanism.“I had my spine surgery in Chennai, but I could not follow that up properly. It was a pa...
A new study published in the Nature Medicine revealed potential global hesitance to accept a Covid-19 vaccine.A research team from The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by ‘la Caixa’ Foundation, the City University of New York Graduate School of P...
The Bangladesh government has ensured sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar camps, but the health workers are facing challenges to do the job.The challenges reported by most of the health workers were healthcare seeking behaviours of refugees, lack o...
An international study has hailed the provision of ‘comprehensive abortion care’ for Rohingya women in Cox’s Bazar camps, and said that it showed such care can be implemented in a humanitarian setting.“The favourable legal environment of menstrual regulations (MR) in Banglade...
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