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For the fiscal year 2023–2024, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its previously expected growth prediction for Bangladesh’s economy from 6.5 percent to 6 percent. A week after the World Bank cut Bangladesh’s GDP growth projection for fiscal 2023–24 to 5.6 percent due to persistently high inflation and issues with external payments, the international lender with headquarters in Washington ...

Belgian attacking midfielder Eden Hazard announced his retirement on Tuesday after failing to find another club following his release by Real Madrid. The 32-year-old endured an injury-plagued spell at Real Madrid after his 89-million-pound (103 million euros, $110 million) move from Chelsea in 2019, playing just 76 matches in all competitions across four seasons. “You must listen to yourself and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) language models could help in diagnosing schizophrenia, according to the findings of a new research. Researchers at University College London in the UK developed new tools, based on AI language models, that can characterise subtle signatures in the speech of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, which is characterised by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language, ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been admitted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at Evercare Hospital in Bashundhara area of the capital at 6:30 pm on Tuesday. Khaleda Zia’s doctor A ZM Zahid Hossain, Abdullah Al Mamun and daughter-in-law Sharmila Rahman Sinthi are present in the hospital. Earlier on September 29, Khaleda Zia was taken to the CCU from the ...

New country representative of UNHCR to Bangladesh Sumbul Rizvi has presented her credentials to Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital today. Welcoming the new country representative to Bangladesh, the foreign minister assured her of necessary supports of the Government in executing her duties. He appreciated the persistent engagement of UNHCR ...

Houses of six families were burnt down in a fire in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district on Tuesday. The incident took place at Baligaon village under Kamalganj municipal area at around 12 pm. It was known that the fire started from an electrical short circuit in a room of a house in the afternoon. Then the fire spread to adjacent ...

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has said that visiting joint pre-election assessment mission from the United States wanted to know about the overall election process of the upcoming national polls. They also wanted to know how the commission will coordinate with the government during the elections. “In the discussion, their main focus was free, fair, participatory and peaceful elections.They ...

Around 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants have been found in Israel around the Gaza Strip, the army said Tuesday, as it pummelled the Palestinian enclave with air strikes. “Approximately 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants were found in Israel around the Gaza Strip,” military spokesman Richard Hecht told reporters, adding that security forces had “more or less restored control over the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday opened the Dhaka-Bhanga railway line, a part of which runs over Padma Bridge, in laying another milestone in the country’s infrastructure development. The opening of the 82-kilometre railway track from Dhaka to Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila under “Padma Bridge Rail Link Construction Project” fulfills the long-cherished dream of the people of the country’s southwestern districts. ...