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  PepsiCo, BRAC to provide meals to poor

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:50am on May 01, 2020

  PepsiCo in Bangladesh, along with the PepsiCo Foundation, recently partnered with BRAC to provide over 1.4 million meals to support low-income and destitute families impacted...

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  Government gives incentive to rich, not poor: BNP

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:17am on April 24, 2020

  Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s senior-joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday alleged that the government was providing intensive to the rich people like businessmen and...

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  Shippers Council hands over food to DNCC mayor for distribution among poor

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:37am on April 21, 2020

  Chairman Shippers’ Council of Bangladesh chairman Md Rezaul Karim on Sunday handed over 1,000 packets of food items to Dhaka North City mayor Atiqul Islam...

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  Poor stage demo demanding relief in Barishal, Sirajganj

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:28am on April 20, 2020

  Poor people who lost their jobs during the ongoing shutdown for past three weeks due to spread of coronavirus infection staged demonstration in Barishal and...

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  World Bank warns pandemic risks undoing poor countries’ progress

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:40pm on April 18, 2020

  The economic ravages of the coronavirus pandemic could wipe out recent progress made in poor countries, the World Bank president warned on Friday. The Washington-based...

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  Bangladesh poor experience 80pc drop in income for coronavirus

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:10am on April 17, 2020

  The average income of the urban slum dwellers and the rural poor has dropped by more than 80 per cent following the COVID-19 outbreak in...

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  BRAC Bank staff give Tk 1.73cr to feed poor during pandemic

  Business Desk | Updated at 09:51pm on April 13, 2020

  BRAC Bank employees have donated a portion of their salary for the month of April 2020 totalling Tk 1.73 crore towards fighting the coronavirus outbreak in...

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  People loot relief goods in Jamalpur, Kushtia

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:01am on April 13, 2020

  Poor and unemployed people hit hard by ongoing public holiday reportedly looted relief materials in Jamalpur and Kushtia on Sunday. The group of poor people intercepted...

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  Government to finalise cash distribution package for urban poor

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:31am on April 12, 2020

  A meeting is scheduled to be held on Sunday to finalise the proposed third stimulus package for the urban poor hit hard by the government...

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  SANEM seeks steps to ensure food safety for poor

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:23pm on April 08, 2020

  The South Asian Network on Economic Modelling has recommended that steps should be taken for quick distribution of essential foods among the poor and vulnerable...