Tag: WORLD

  • World Bank seeks more money to address climate change, other crises, document shows

    World Bank seeks more money to address climate change, other crises, document shows

    The IBRD’s $13 billion capital increase in 2018 was designed to prepare for “one medium-sized crisis a decade, not multiple, overlapping crises” including the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change. Accelerating effects are included, the document said. The IBRD’s crisis buffer is likely to be exhausted by mid-2023, it said. Another option,…

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  • Global economy faces tough year in 2023, warns IMF's Georgieva

    Global economy faces tough year in 2023, warns IMF’s Georgieva

    US economy ‘most resilient’ Meanwhile, Georgieva said, the US economy is standing apart and may avoid the outright contraction that is likely to affect a third of the world’s economies. “America is the most resilient,” he said, and it “can survive a recession. We see the labor market remains very strong.” But that fact in…

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  • US State Department says Covid death toll in China is a matter of concern for the world

    US State Department says Covid death toll in China is a matter of concern for the world

    State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Monday that the US is hopeful that China can address the current COVID-19 outbreak because the toll of the virus is a global concern due to the size of the Chinese economy. “Given the size of China’s GDP given the size of China’s economy, the toll of the…

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  • Modi urges unity on 'biggest challenges' as India assumes G20 presidency

    Modi urges unity on ‘biggest challenges’ as India assumes G20 presidency

    “The biggest challenges we face today – climate change, terrorism and pandemics – can only be solved by working together, not fighting each other.” His comments on the war echoed a comment he made to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a regional conference in September, when he said now was not the time for war,…

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  • It’s the time of Bangladesh to stand up for Environment

    Today’s global People’s Climate March sends an important signal to world leaders gathering for the UN Climate Summit on September 23. With evidence growing of the speed of climate change, Bangladesh faces huge threats as rising water levels may permanently inundate entire districts of our low-lying country. As a nation on the front line, Bangladesh…

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  • Vitamin-A abounding rice gets nod

    The supervision has authorised import of vitamin A-enriched transgenic rice seeds for investigate as great as hearing production. The state-run Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) late final month got the capitulation for procuring seeds of the transgenic rice, popularly great good known as “Golden Rice”, for the first-ever hearing prolongation in the country. Something is…

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  • Eid-e-Miladunnabi Sunday

    The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of bieing innate as great as flitting of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be celebrated upon Sunday opposite the nation as elsewhere in the Muslim World with due apply oneself as great as eremite fervour.On this day in 570 AD, the 12th of Rabiul Awal of the Hizri calendar,…

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  • Intel VP John E Davies to revisit Bangladesh

      Intel World Ahead Programme Chief John E Davies will revisit Dhaka imprinting a fifth Asian ICT-based general muster ‘E-Asia’ during a Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in a city upon Dec 1. The ICT consultant will encounter with Bangladeshi youths upon Dec 3, a third day of a fair. Educationist Professor Jafar Iqbal will deliver…

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  • World Bank suspends Padma bridge Fund

    Implementation of the Padma multipurpose bridge-project as the consortium of the four lending agencies led by the World Bank become uncertain $2 billion has interrupted a Fund of $1.345 (b) for the project, to an allegation of corruption the bidding process for the appointment of construction monitoring consultant settled is. Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Secretary…

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  • World Tourism Day 2011

    This year the World Tourism Day (WTD) was celebrated in Bangladesh upon twenty-seven Sep as elsewhere of the world. The thesis of the WTD is ‘Tourism Linking Cultures.’ It equates to joining together the cultures of the star by travel. Millions of people revisit most places as good as believe pick cultures any year. This…

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  • Hundreds of cricket-lovers throng outlets hours before sale of World Cup tickets starts

    A latest year imbues people with hopes as good as dreams. And 2011, for any sports fan in Bangladesh, binds usually a single dream, a single hope: to secure tickets for a cricket World Cup. All a hype surrounding a New Year is focused to a single side upon a showpiece eventuality slated to proceed…

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  • World Cup tickets from Jan 2

    The tickets for a World Cup 2011 matches will go upon sale countrywide during a 80 comparison branches of dual banks from Jan 2, a internal organising cabinet strictly voiced upon Thursday. No tickets for a opening rite will be accessible upon a opening day of a sheet sale. The LOC had progressing pronounced a…

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  • Smoking banned in WORLD CUP venues

    If you have been a smoker improved don’t go to a track to watch a matches of a World Cup 2011. Cigarettes, ethanol as well as low-pitched instruments have been between a equipment criminalized during Bangladesh’s World Cup venues. The criminalized equipment additionally embody firearms, fondle guns, explosives as well as glow crackers, pointy materials,…

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