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Urgent rice import may widen govt budget deficit

An unanticipated hefty spending on government-level rice procurement for food security amid market upswings is set to widen country's budget deficit, sources said.The directorate general of food took a fresh decision to import a total of 1.5 million tonnes of rice, some 150 per cent higher than the original estimate...

Rohingya children in dire straits, says UNICEF

GENEVA, Oct 20 (Reuters): Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.Up to 12,000 more children join them every week, fleeing violence or hunger in Myanmar, often...

Non-stop rain halts city life

Incessant rain, caused by a depression in the Bay, disrupted normal life in the capital and elsewhere across the country on Friday.The continuous rain that started lashing the city since Thursday night, also affected income of day-labourers, caused sufferings to pedestrians, and hampered normal trading activities amid water-logging in places....

IMED actions perfunctory

The monitoring and evaluation of public sector development projects by a designated government agency produces substandard evaluation reports for lack of in-depth performance analysis, insiders said.They said the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) outsources in-depth evaluation of some ongoing projects and impact assessment of some completed ones, but the...

Pollution causes one in four deaths in BD

PARIS, Oct 19 (AFP): Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published on Friday.Almost all the deaths, 92 per cent, happened in low- and middle-income countries, it said, with air pollution the main culprit, felling 6.5...

News Watch (21-10-2017)

Jordanian Queen to visit Rohingyas on Monday Jordanian Queen Rania Al Abdullah will visit Cox's Bazar on Monday (Oct 23) to see for herself the Rohingya plight on the ground. Queen Rania is scheduled to reach there on Monday morning, an official concerned said on Friday. In her capacity as...