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RANGPUR : The fourth National Voters' Day- 2022 was
observed with the theme of "Mujib Borsher Ongikar, Rokka
Korbo Votadhikar" (Mujib Year's commitment is to protect WASHINGTON : Moscow's war on Ukraine solutions.
voting rights) in the city yesterday, reports BSS.
and the ferocious financial backlash it's "We are actually in uncharted territory,"
The Rangpur Regional Office of the Election Commission unleashed are not only inflicting an said Clay Lowery, executive vice president at
with the assistance of the Divisional Commissioner's Office economic catastrophe on President Vladimir the Institute of International Finance, a trade
chalked out programs including bringing out a rally followed Putin's Russia. The repercussions are also group of global banks. "We know there are
by a discussion at the conference room of the Rangpur menacing the global economy, shaking consequences that we cannot predict."
Regional Office.
financial markets and making life more For now at least, the damage to the overall
Deputy Commissioner Md Asib Ahsan jointly with perilous for everyone from Uzbek migrant global economy appears to be relatively
Rangpur Regional Election Officer G M Sahatab Uddin workers to European consumers to hungry slight, if only because Russia and Ukraine are
inaugurated observance of the day by releasing balloons with Yemeni families.
not economic powerhouses. Important as
a festoon on Rangpur Regional Election Office premises. Even before Putin's troops invaded they are as exporters of energy, precious
Later, a rally with participation of government officials and Ukraine, the global economy was straining metals, wheat and other commodities, the
employees, civil society members was brought out on the under a range of burdens: Surging inflation. two together account for less than 2% of the
streets to create awareness among youths on their voting Tangled supply chains. Tumbling stock world's gross domestic product. Most major
rights to give democracy an institutional shape.
prices.
economies have only limited trade exposure
Later, Rangpur Divisional Commissioner Md Abdul The Ukraine crisis both magnified each to Russia: For the U.S., it's 0.5% of total
Wahhab Bhuiyan virtually addressed the discussion as the threat and complicated the potential trade. For China, around 2.4%.
chief guest with Rangpur Regional Election Officer G M
Sahatab Uddin in the chair.
Rangpur Range DIG Devdas Bhattacharya virtually
participated in the discussion as special guest.
Deputy Commissioner of Rangpur Md. Asib Ahsan,
Superintendent of Police Md. Ferdous Ali Chowdhury and
District Senior Election Officer Farhad Hossain also
addressed the occasion.
The Senior District Election Officer delivered a welcome
speech narrating the importance of the day and necessity of
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The speakers put emphasis on inspiring the voters in
exercising their voting rights to infuse democratic culture in
them for strengthening democracy to give democracy an
institutional shape.
The chief guest urged the officials concerned to create
social awareness and inspire the voters to cast their votes as
per their own choice to further strengthen the democratic
process.
Journalist Uday Hakim
joins Vista as
entrepreneurial director
DHAKA : Journalist Uday Hakim has joined Vista
Electronics Limited as an entrepreneurial director.
A function was organised at the corporate office of Vista
Electronics at Gulshan-1 in the capital on the occasion. The
Vista family cut a cake and greeted him with flowers on
Tuesday, reports UNB.
Uday Hakim was involved in journalism for 12 years when
he worked in Prothom Alo, Amar Desh, Channel I, CSB
News, Kaler Kantho and Risingbd, said a press release.
In 2010, he joined Walton and he was the Senior Executive
Director of Walton and the Advisory Editor of online news
portal Risingbd.com.
Vista started its journey in early 2021 with the slogan
'Excellence in Technology'. Vista has set up a factory at
Bangabandhu Hi-Tech Park in Kaliakair, Gazipur.
Russia takes aim at
urban areas; Biden
vows Putin will ‘pay’
KYIV, UKRAINE : Ukraine's leader decried Russia's
escalation of attacks on crowded cities as a blatant terror
campaign, while U.S. President Joe Biden warned that if the
Russian leader didn't "pay a price" for the invasion, the
aggression wouldn't stop with one country, reports UNB.
"Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget," Ukraine's
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed after Tuesday's
bloodshed on the central square in Kharkiv, the country's
second-largest city, and the deadly bombing of a TV tower in
the capital. He called the attack on the square "frank,
undisguised terror" and a war crime.
The assault on Kharkiv continued Wednesday, even as
Russia said it would be ready to resume talks with the
Ukrainian side in the evening. A Russian strike on the
regional police and intelligence headquarters, according to
the Ukrainian state emergency service. It said three people
were wounded.
The strike blew off the roof of the police building and set
the top floor on fire, and pieces of the five-story building were
strewn across adjacent streets, according to videos and
photos released by the emergency service.
In Wednesday's strikes, four people died, nine were
wounded and rescuers pulled 10 people out of the rubble,
according to the service.
Biden used his first State of the Union address to highlight
the resolve of a reinvigorated Western alliance that has
worked to rearm the Ukrainian military and adopt tough
sanctions, which he said have left Russian President Vladimir
Putin "isolated in the world more than he has ever been."
"Throughout our history we've learned this lesson - when
dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause
more chaos," Biden said. "They keep moving. And the costs
and threats to America and the world keep rising."
As Biden spoke, a 40-mile (64-kilometer) convoy of
hundreds of Russian tanks and other vehicles advanced
slowly on Kyiv, the capital city of nearly 3 million people, in
what the West feared was a bid by Putin to topple the
government and install a Kremlin-friendly regime.
The invading forces also pressed their assault on other
towns and cities, including the strategic ports of Odesa and
Mariupol in the south.
As the seventh day of the war dawned Wednesday, Russia
found itself increasingly isolated, beset by the sanctions that
have thrown its economy into turmoil and left the country
practically friendless, apart from a few nations like China,
Belarus and North Korea. Leading Russian bank Sberbank
announced Wednesday that it is pulling out of European
markets amid the tightening Western sanctions.
As fighting raged, the humanitarian situation worsened.
Roughly 660,000 people have fled Ukraine, and countless
others have taken shelter underground.
The death toll was less clear, with neither Russia nor
Ukraine releasing the number of troops lost. The U.N.
human rights office said it has recorded 136 civilian deaths,
though the actual toll is surely far higher.
One senior Western intelligence official estimated that
5,000 Russian soldiers had been captured or killed in the
biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.
Economic dangers from Russia’s
invasion ripple across globe
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