Those We Lost

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10y ago

Climate change and Bangladesh

Photo: focusbangla
Photo: focusbangla
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10y ago

Achievements

In 2013, Bangladesh got the South-South Award for its noteworthy achievement in poverty reduction as well as ensuring food security for the people. Indeed, Bangladesh's success is remarkable not only in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 -- eradicating extreme poverty and hunger -- much before the targeted timeframe of 2015, but also in MDG2 (achieving universal primary education), MDG3 (promoting gender equality and empowering women), MDG4 (reducing child mortality rates), MDG5 (improving maternal health), and MDG6 (combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases).
10y ago

The economy: Looking back and moving forward

The year 2013 has been one of the extraordinary years for Bangladesh in the recent past. As was the case during the last year of most of the democratically elected governments, this year also has experienced intense political unrest combined with intense violence that aims to oust the government. The party in power has been stubborn not to give in to the pressure of the opposition party and continue till the last day of its tenure.
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10y ago

Fragile state of democracy exposed

If there is one particular feature that's common between the two of our major political parties then that's: they both like to fish in troubled waters at the cost of peoples misery.
If there is one particular feature that's common between the two of our major political parties then that's: they both like to fish in troubled waters at the cost of peoples misery.
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10y ago