Editorial in The News,December 30, 2023Many countries around the world recorded an increase in domestic violence against women and girls during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns. Sadly, Pakistan was no exception to this global trend. According to a study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the ‘Gendered Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Central and West Asia’, respondents to a survey in Sindh and Punjab carried out in the summer of 2020…
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by Md Mehedi Hasan in The Daily Star, Dec 5, 2023Five Shariah-based banks are still experiencing liquidity crisis despite significant support from the central bank, which hit the overall surplus cash situation in the Islamic banking system in the July-September quarter, a Bangladesh Bank report said. The crisis-hit five banks are — Islami Bank Bangladesh, Social Islami Bank, First Security Islami Bank, Union Bank, and Global Islami Bank..At the end of September, Islami Bank Bangladesh’s…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 22, 2023Sources from Herat confirm that the Taliban administration has prohibited women’s tailoring in the central region of this province. Simultaneously, some media outlets have reported establishing a specialized women’s market in Balkh. The source, who preferred not to be named in the report, informed Khama Press that Taliban forces entered the city Wednesday morning to inspect commercial markets. Several markets, including all women’s clothing tailoring…
by Lahiru Doloswala in The Daily Morning, Oct 21, 2023Residents of Wethalawa village in the Central province find themselves in a state of distress and fear as they grapple with a perplexing and eerie phenomenon – mysterious noises emanating from beneath the earth’s surface near the Kothmale reservoir. Concerned about these unexplained sounds, the local community has taken the step of reporting the situation to the National Building Research Organization (NBRO). Meanwhile, geological experts have…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Oct 6, 2023Sri Lanka has made good progress in debt restructuring discussions with China, and negotiations with all parties will be concluded around the same time, Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says. Addressing the media in Colombo on Thursday, Dr. Weerasinghe, in answer to a question posed by a journalist, denied reports that progress in debt restructuring discussions with China was lagging compared to that in…
report in The Daily Star, Sept 26, 2023Bangladesh’s credit rating came under further threat today as Fitch put the country on a “negative” outlook while giving a damning verdict on the central bank’s policy response to the fast-depleting foreign currency reserves. The American rating agency maintained Bangladesh’s BB- rating but warned that the outlook was now negative rather than stable, mirroring the action taken in July by its peer Standard and Poor’s. By the end…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, Sept 13th, 2023WASHINGTON: The militant Islamic State group (IS) has become a more enduring threat than Al Qaeda after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Gen Kenneth Frank McKenzie, former head of the US Central Command, said in television interviews last week. Gen Erik Kurilla, the current Centcom chief, had voiced similar apprehensions in a recent interview, saying that the IS could carry out an “external operation” against the United States…
report in Nepalnews.com, Aug 3, 2023Eighteen leaders put forth their views on the brief report of Chairperson of the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in the fourth plenary meeting of the party central committee that began on Wednesday. During the meeting held at Kamaladi-based Nepal Academy, the leaders expressed their views regarding restructure of the party, its working style, effectiveness and government’s performance. A central committee member Madhav Sapkota shared that…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews, June 12, 2023 at 9:32 PMThe Islamic Emirate’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said that the Waziristan refugees will be relocated in the north, south and central areas of Afghanistan. Mujahid said that the relocation of these refugees will not cause threats to any province of the country and that it is also not “based on racism,” but the decision was made to ensure the interest of both countries—Afghanistan and Pakistan. He…
report in The Island, June 11, 2023Sri Lanka’s poor has surged by 4 million to 7 million since 2019 to 31 percent of the population in 2023, a survey has found as the country was hit by the worst currency crisis in the history of its central bank. A 10,000 person survey by LirneAsia, a regional policy research organization, found that 33 percent of the respondents had skipped a meal and 47 percent reduced their…
report in Prothom Alo, May 19, 2023BNP will stage marches in all cities, except the capital, on 23 and 28 May. The party’s senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, announced the schedule at a press conference on Thursday at its central office at Naya Paltan. However, the 10-day rallies that began on Wednesday across the districts, including Dhaka city, will continue, protesting the price hikes and demanding the resignation of the government and elections…