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  NRB Bank distributes food among poor in Gopalganj

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:17am on May 20, 2020

  NRB Bank Limited distributed essential food items to help families in dire need during the nationwide shutdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic,...

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  Bkash provides food aid to 5,000 poor families

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:33am on May 19, 2020

  Bkash on Monday provided food aid worth Tk 35 lakh to 5,000 families during the coronavirus pandemic, said a press release. The relief would be...

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  3 more UP members suspended as rice theft continues

  Tapos Kanti Das | Updated at 11:02pm on May 18, 2020

  The government on Monday suspended three more union parishad members for misappropriating fair price rice allocated for the poor amid livelihood crisis during coronavirus outbreak....

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  TIB, citizens for inquiry, government says ‘no’

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:11am on May 18, 2020

  No investigation would be carried out to identify any possible corruption even after unearthing repetitions of 8,00,000 mobile numbers on the list of 50,00,000 hardcore...

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  Eight lakh mobile numbers dropped for repetitions

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:15am on May 17, 2020

  Eight lakh names out of 50 lakh listed beneficiaries were dropped from the government list after repetitions of mobile numbers were detected, disaster management minister...

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  MFS cos asked to facilitate cash aid disbursement among 50 lakh poor

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:21pm on May 14, 2020

  The Bangladesh Bank has asked the mobile financial service operators to ensure uninterrupted services to facilitate disbursement of Tk 2,500 cash aid to 50 lakh...

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  Finance Division releases Tk 1,257cr for poor

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 01:01am on May 12, 2020

  Finance Division has released Tk 1,257 crore for providing Tk 2,500 to each of the 50 lakh families, who are affected across the country due to the...

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  Sajida Foundation helps poor during pandemic

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:22am on May 10, 2020

  Sajida Foundation, a non-government organisation dealing with health, microfinance and social development services, dedicated one of its secondary-care hospital for the treatment and isolation...

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  Maradona signs shirt to help poor

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 10:02pm on May 09, 2020

  Diego Maradona has lent a hand in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in his hometown by autographing an Argentina national team jersey for a...

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  Poor areas feared to turn virus hotspots

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:24am on May 09, 2020

  Virologists and public health experts warned that the new clinical management guideline enabling the release of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms from hospitals would turn...