India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.
Vikram Doraiswami, the new Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, has said that the partnership between the two neighbouring countries was based on respect, adding that India deeply admires and respects the spirit of the Bangladeshi people, who fashioned a nation based on their own unique identity through a historic struggle
The World Bank has warned that one in every 10 people in Dhaka might have already been infected with Covid-19, adding that the coronavirus pandemic is not likely to pass anytime soon
The Bangladesh government has planned to introduce capital punishment in rape cases as protests have erupted across the country over the recent incidents of sexual violence against women
The Bangladesh government has issued a new set of guidelines for teachers on the use of social media platforms, the media reported on Friday
Bangladesh should take meaningful action to combat sexual violence against women and to support the survivors, said the Human Rights Watch
A group of four unidentified gunmen attacked and vandalized a wedding house during a ceremony in Kalkan district of northern Kabul province, breaking the instruments of local singers and warning them not to sing anymore
At least 11 security force members were killed in Taliban attacks in Kunduz and Helmand provinces on Thursday evening, according to security sources
US Special Representative to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad along with Commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan Gen Scott Miller on Thursday met Pakistan Army Chief of Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa to discuss ongoing intra-afghan talks
In a virtual meeting organised by the Tourism Recovery Task Force (TRTF), Nepal's Director-General of the Department of Tourism Rudra Singh Tamang said that the department is preparing to amend existing protocols to which the various stakeholders from the industry raised objections
Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), which has been helping the Bhutan film Industry in building its capacity since 2013, on Wednesday started a 10-day capacity building training, though this time virtually
Three reputed senior officers, one belonging to the Pakistan Administrative Service (ex-DMG) and two from the Police Service of Pakistan, have had to resign before their retirement because of the alleged anguish caused to them by the present government
Amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus in Pakistan, Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood on Thursday said that the federal government has no intention to close educational institutions again
World Bank in its twice-a-year-regional update expects the South Asian economies including Sri Lanka to slump sharper than expected this year into its worst-ever recession as the devastating impacts of COVID-19 on the region’s economies
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Thursday instructed to expand vocational and educational opportunities in the fields of Fisheries, Marine and Marine Engineering at Ocean University under the ‘Vision of Prosperity’ national policy of the government
The latest estimate of roughly 850,000 Rohingya refugees living currently in Bangladesh is ‘accurate’, not the initial calculation released two years ago that put the figure at nearly 950,000, says Mohammad Shamsu Douza, the government’s additional commissioner of refugee, relief and repatriation
