Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts tagged as “fallout”

‘As the US is also involved, it is difficult to dismiss refugee scam’:

By Prithivi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, May 15, 2023The public outrage sparked by the news of creation of fake Bhutanese refugees to send them to the United States is growing. There are daily protests on the streets. The Parliament is in uproar. Top political leaders seem to be scrambling to try to contain the scam’s fallout. The Post’s Prithvi Man Shrestha talked to Surya Nath Upadhyay, former chief commissioner of the Commission for…

Mounting paper price imperils publications

report in Daily Asian Age, Dhaka, Jan 16, 2023Sharp price rises of newsprint and white papers of both local make and imports have put Bangladesh’s publishing industry and other consumers in a quandary, as one of fallouts from the current global turmoil. Prices of all kinds of newsprint papers have made a quantum leap by almost 100 per cent in a year, when things started getting back to normal with the pandemic loosening its grips,…