Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has joined Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and FAO Director-General Dr Qu Dongyu to inaugurate the new office of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty at the FAO headquarters in Rome. The event was held on Monday, said Chief Adviser’s Press Wing today. Brazil and Bangladesh are co-founders of the Global Alliance, a vision first proposed by President Lula nearly a decade ago. The three leaders formally opened the facility, shaking hands inside the newly inaugurated office space of the Alliance. Describing the initiative as a critical milestone in the global fight…
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World Food Programme (WFP) Acting Executive Director Carl Skau has reaffirmed its commitment to mobilising food aid for 1.3 million Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh, saying the crisis remains one of the Rome-based UN agency’s top agenda. The acting WFP chief made the comments when he called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today at a hotel in the Italian capital, said Chief Adviser’s Press Wing. The meeting focused primarily on the ongoing Rohingya crisis, famine situations in Gaza and Sudan, and the growing challenges in mobilizing funds to combat global hunger affecting tens of millions. Skau praised Professor Yunus for…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has joined Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and FAO Director-General Dr Qu Dongyu to inaugurate the new office of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty at the FAO headquarters in Rome. The event was held on Monday, said Chief Adviser’s Press Wing today. Brazil and Bangladesh are co-founders of the Global Alliance, a vision first proposed by President Lula nearly a decade ago. The three leaders formally opened the facility, shaking hands inside the newly inaugurated office space of the Alliance. Describing the initiative as a critical milestone in the global fight…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has instructed the authorities concerned to investigate into the devastating fire in a garment factory and chemical warehouse at Shialbari in the city’s Mirpur area that so far claimed 16 lives and injured several others. “Chief Adviser, who is in Rome now, has been informed about the tragic fire in Mirpur. He immediately asked the authorities concerned to investigate into the incident and expressed shock at the deaths in the fire,” Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam told media in a briefing in Rome today. “We stand beside the affected families,” he quoted Professor Yunus…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus returned home this morning, ending his two-day visit to Rome to join the World Food Forum (WFF) at the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) headquarters in the Italian capital. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Chief Adviser landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here around 8:20am today, said Chief Adviser’s Press Wing. Earlier, the flight departed from Rome for Dhaka at 7:20pm on Tuesday (Rome Time). During his visit, the Chief Adviser presented a keynote speech at the grand opening of the World Food Forum (WFF), the flagship event of the FAO in…
US President Donald Trump will attend the ceremonial signing of a peace agreement between Thailand and Cambodia at an upcoming regional Southeast Asian summit, Malaysia’s foreign minister said Tuesday. Donald Trump “is looking forward to witness the Thailand-Cambodia peace deal,” Mohamad Hasan told reporters at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Religious Affairs Adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain today said the government repatriated and accumulated unspent Hajj fund of Tk.37.94 crore, stuck in Saudi Arabia acting on behalf of 990 Bangladeshi Hajj agencies. Addressing a press conference, he said the amount was repatriated through the government initiatives in line with requests from Hajj agencies which were trying the get their unspent money refunded for several years. “A total of 990 agencies had unspent money deposited in the IBAN (International Bank Account Number) of the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah’s Masar Nusuk platform from 2017 to 2024,” Hossain said. The adviser…
The government has officially declared Cox’s Bazar Airport as an international airport, marking a significant milestone in Bangladesh’s aviation and tourism development. A gazette notification, signed by Joint Secretary Ahmed Jamil on Sunday and issued by order of the President, formally declared the facility as Cox’s Bazar International Airport under Sub-Rule (1) of Rule 16 of the Civil Aviation Rules, 1984. The order came into immediate effect in the public interest, the Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry said here today. Officials said international flight operations from Cox’s Bazar will begin later this month on a limited scale as part of…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus was given a warm reception as he reached Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, Italy, this afternoon (Rome Time) to present a keynote speech at the World Food Forum (WFF) flagship event. FAO Director General Qu Dongyu received Professor Yunus on his arrival at the FAO headquarters, said Chief Adviser’s Press Wing. Meanwhile, the Chief Adviser met Brazilian agronomist and writer José Graziano da Silva at the FAO headquarters in Rome.
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today placed six proposals for a complete transformation of the global food and economic systems to end hunger, saying hunger is caused by the failure of the existing economic framework. “Hunger is not caused by scarcity. It is caused by the failure of the economic framework that we have designed . . . we must change the system,” he said. The chief adviser presented a keynote speech at the grand opening of the World Food Forum (WFF) flagship event 2025 at Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, Italy, this afternoon (Rome Time). While…
