Bangladesh is mostly flat and low-lying, so short-term floods during the monsoon season are common and are often beneficial to agriculture.
June 20, 2022The areas include displacement settlements housing tens of thousands of people displaced in Syria's 10-year conflict.
August 23, 2021The Afghan force-building exercise was so completely dependent on American largesse that the Pentagon even paid the Afghan troops’ salaries.
August 17, 2021The states were affected by floods, landslides and cloudburst during south west monsoon 2019.
January 7, 2020US President Donald Trump will go all out to cut off aid to Pakistan if it continues to back terrorists, US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley has warned. “The President is willing to go to great lengths to stop all funding for Pakistan if they continue to harbour terrorism,” she told reporters here on Tuesday. “The …
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January 3, 2018In one of the most sharpest critique of United States policy of providing aid to Pakistan, President Donald Trump slammed the south-Asian country saying, that they have given us nothing but “lies and deceit”. Trump in a tweet on Monday, said that US “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars …
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January 1, 2018West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the Narendra Modi-led Central government of not aiding her state the way it aids the others as her government opposes its policies. “The Central government does not provide necessary monitory support to Bengal, rather they take the money away. We are still paying Rs 40,000 crore …
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December 11, 2017West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced aid to the family of a labourer, Afrajul Khan (48) from Bengal, who was brutally hacked to death and later burned in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand region. The accused, Shambunath Raigar, had hacked Afrajul to death and later set him afire, and filmed the whole incident and warned ‘love-jihadis’ of a similar fate. …
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December 8, 2017The Puerto Rican government, citing an “unprecedented catastrophe”, has asked the US for a significant new influx of money as the island sits on the brink of “a massive liquidity crisis”, a media report said. In a three-page letter sent to US congressional leaders on Sunday, Governor Ricardo Rossello requested more than $4 billion from …
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October 9, 2017A Buddhist mob in Myanmar threw petrol bombs in a bid to block a boat carrying aid for Rohingya Muslims in conflict-hit Rakhine state before police fired warning shots to disperse them, a media report said. The incident happened on Wednesday when the boat was being loaded with relief supplies from the International Committee of …
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September 21, 2017China will donate $147,000 to help restore peace and stability in Myanmar’s Rakhine state where a military offensive has led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas, a Muslim minority community. China’s Ambassador to Myanmar Hong Liang said Beijing will continue to support Myanmar in the peace process in Rakhine, reported the state-run …
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September 21, 2017The South Korean government reiterated on Monday the need to send humanitarian aid to North Korea despite the increased sanctions on the regime for its increased nuclear tests. Unification Ministry spokesperson Baik Tae-hyun said that aid shipments “should be continued regardless of the political situation”, reports Efe news. Baik also said that a majority of …
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September 18, 2017Following the abolition of the Planning Commission and the adoption of a new policy at the Centre, Tripura has been losing around Rs 2000 crore per year, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said. “With the abolition of the Planning Commission, the central government led by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) has stopped various central aid …
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September 12, 2017Texas Governor Greg Abbott has hailed the US Senate’s approval of a $15.25 billion hurricane Harvey fund to the state. “The response by the federal government has been swift and effective, and the passage of a bill allocating an initial down payment for recovery and rebuilding is a continuation of their assurances to stand firm …
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September 8, 2017Britain will give Nigeria aid worth £200 million over five years to help it cope with the brutal insurgency being waged by Boko Haram jihadists, the foreign ministry in London has said. Foreign Minister Boris Johnson visited Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeast Borno State and epicentre of the Boko Haram organisation, to meet some …
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August 31, 2017Bangladesh has proposed joint military operations with Myanmar against Rohingya militants fighting in Rakhine state, as the UN raised fears over reports of civilians killed during fresh violence in recent days. An upsurge in fighting in Rakhine, an impoverished state neighbouring Bangladesh, has been raging since Friday when Rohingya militants staged coordinated ambushes against Myanmar’s …
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August 29, 2017Australia is contributing funds to help Sri Lanka combat its worst outbreak of dengue fever, which has claimed 250 lives and infected nearly 100,000 people so far in 2017 in the Indian Ocean island nation. Visiting Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said last night that Australia is giving $377,000 to the World Health Organization to implement …
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July 20, 2017