Sanction

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Govt mulls further measures to control price of essentials: PM Hasina

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government mulls further steps to bring down prices of daily essentials to keep them at a tolerable level of the ordinary consumers

Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez speaks during a US Trade and Development Agency Offshore Wind Grant Signing at Ayala Triangle Gardens in Manila on 6 August, 2022.

Philippines cancels Russia helicopter deal over US sanctions

The Philippines has scrapped an order for 16 Russian military helicopters, an official confirmed Wednesday, following reports former president Rodrigo Duterte decided to cancel it due to US sanctions ...

Students drinking water from a tube well at Khalishakandi Govt Primary School in Bogura's Shahjahanpur upazila.

Safe sanitation at primary schools 8.5m students affected due to lack of potable water

In June this year, a report of UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) said, one out of every five (19 per cent) schools in Bangladesh lacks safe drinking water. This is affecting 8.5 million ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the 2022 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in New York City on 1 August, 2022

US sanctions Putin 'girlfriend,' more oligarchs for 'complicity' in Ukraine war

The United States blacklisted Russian president Vladimir Putin's purported girlfriend and the tycoon owner of the second-largest estate in London Tuesday in the latest round of sanctions over the ...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Economist Pierre Olivier Gourinchas speaks during an interview with AFP at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on 26 July, 2022

Russia doing better than expected despite sanctions: IMF

Despite damaging Western sanctions imposed on Moscow in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia's economy appears to be weathering the storm better than expected as it benefits from high energy ...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Franca during the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia 8 July, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war Russia threatens broad Ukraine offensive as US presses China over war stance

Ukrainian defenders battled on Saturday to contain Russian forces along several fronts, officials said, as the United States urged China to align itself with the West in opposing the invasion ...

Prime Bank asks former RAB official sanctioned by the US to close account

Prime Bank asks ex- RAB official sanctioned by the US to close account

Prime Bank Limited has requested former additional director general of RAB Jahangir Alam, who has been sanctioned by the United States, to close his account

Clementina Auma Ojwang (L) and her daughter Margaret Ngesa (R) of the Legion Maria of African Church Mission pose for a photograph after praying for the State visit by U.S. President Barack Obama inside their family sacred hut in Kogelo, west of Kenya

West African bloc assesses sanctions for coup-hit states

West African leaders meet on Sunday in Ghana’s capital Accra to review sanctions they have imposed on three military-ruled countries in their volatile region

Peter Haas, US Ambassador to Bangladesh

Many people ‘over-exaggerating’ impact of sanctions: US ambassador

The US envoy also said over the past few months the two countries had partnership dialogue, security dialogue, military partnership and high level economic dialogue

Plastic letters arranged to read "Sanctions" are placed in front the Union Jack and Russian flag colors in this illustration taken February 28, 2022.

UK to impose more sanctions on Russia

Britain has targeted Russian businessmen, politicians, religious leaders and businesses as part of its wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow

How will Bangladesh manage to tackle the global economic recession that's knocking on the door?

Hard times for the economy, complex times for geopolitics

It will be hard for any country, including Bangladesh, to remain unaffected by a global recession. Bangladesh economists have begun discussion on how risky this recession will be for us and how well ...

Member of US house of representatives Jamie Raskin

Human rights protection US congress member calls for standing by the people of Bangladesh

Member of US house of representatives, Jamie Raskin, has urged his colleagues to join him in standing with the people of Bangladesh, especially those bravest and most vulnerable

The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria on 23 May 2021

Iran condemns 'political, unconstructive' IAEA resolution

Iran denounced as "political" and "unconstructive" Thursday a resolution adopted by the UN nuclear watchdog censuring it for failing to cooperate

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Senegal's President and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Macky Sall in Sochi on 3 June 2022

Food shortage African Union head ‘reassured’ after talks with Putin

Cereal prices in Africa, the world’s poorest continent, have surged because of the slump in exports from Ukraine, sharpening the impact of conflict and climate change and sparking fears of social ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin

Russia-Ukraine war Attempts to blame Russia for grain shipping trouble 'groundless': Putin

Russian president Vladimir Putin told Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer Friday that attempts to blame Russia for difficulties in shipping grain worldwide were unfounded and pointed to Western ...

Load More