by Rejaul Karim Byron in Daily Star,Dec 21, 2023Bangladesh’s debt service to revenue ratio is projected to cross the 100 percent mark for the first time owing to rising loans and lower tax and export receipts, highlighting the growing risk to the country’s capacity to repay. The debt service-to-revenue and grants ratio stood at 58.7 percent in the fiscal year of 2020-21 but it surged to 72 percent in FY22 and 71.8 percent in the…
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by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post,Oct 1, 2023Since Wednesday, thousands of patients across Nepal had been deprived of regular healthcare services as resident doctors nationwide skipped duty to protest Monday’s assault on doctors at Manipal Teaching Hospital in Pokhara. This was not the first time healthcare services have been affected due to doctors’ strikes in Nepal. On September 18, the Nepal Medical Association, an umbrella organisation of medical doctors, called a nationwide strike to…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Keeping in view of the fast-growing political turmoil in the country, the rising scourge of terrorism and the precarious security situation at borders, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has urged the state and the government to take urgent corrective steps with collective wisdom to redefine their priorities to tackle these looming threats to national security. In a statement on Thursday, PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan expressed concerns over the widespread…
by Imran Ayub in Dawn, September 4th, 2023• Several key medicines and non-essential drugs are not available at pharmacies as black market flourishes• Govt takes notice of crisis, officials asked to submit report on remedial measures KARACHI: While people are still struggling to pay inflated electricity bills amid skyrocketing inflation, a large number of patients across the province, and those who are on medication, are hit by severe shortage of several essential medicines along with…
by DR Pant in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 30, 2023Prabin Mahara still remembers the last thing his wife Ganga told him before she went missing some five years ago. “She told me to not leave our daughter alone until she gets back,” Prabin recalls. “But she never came back.” Mahara, who is 29 and lives at Gauriganga Municipality’s ward 3 in Kailali, says his wife’s disappearance left him and their daughter, now eight years old,…