IMF board okays $1.3b payout to BD

Bangladesh is receiving US$1.3 billion from the International Monetary Fund in its lending programme's latest two tranches trapped in unmet reform-related conditions as the IMF board finally nods the payout, sources said. Finance Division officials in Dhaka said the executive board of the Washington-based Fund cleared the credit release as...

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Israel strikes heart of Tehran, Iran retaliates with missile, drone attacks

Israel and Iran traded heavy air attacks a day after the US struck three main Iranian nuclear facilities, report agencies, stoking global worry over the escalation of Middle East conflicts. Explosions rock Iran's capital, Tehran, as Israel announces attacks on government and military sites. Iran also sends waves of missiles...

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$400m more comes from AIIB

Assistance worth US$400 million is forthcoming from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in a latest flow of foreign aid for bankrolling Bangladesh's budgetary programmes--this one for climate-centric reforms. This amount comes under a credit deal signed Monday in Dhaka between Economic Relations Division (ERD) under the Ministry of Finance...

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