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It is a favour well returned. As India comes under pressure for emergency medication to tackle second wave of Covid-19, Bangladesh has come to its rescue In March itself, India gifted more than 1 million free doses to Bangladesh. Whether it was good trade politics or not, the fact is that the favour is now being return in the form of Remdesivir vials. They have promised 10,000 such vials. The doses of Remdesivir have been produced by Beximco, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies of Bangladesh, which has also partnered with the Serum Institute of India to provide Covishield vaccine to Bangladesh.  The lot has already been handed over by the Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata at the Indian border port of Petrapole . This was the first part of the medical assistance from Bangladesh for COVID-hit India. This is likely to be followed by a large number of Vitamin C, D, Zinc supplements, N95 masks and possibly other critically needed medicines for the treatment ...

The world has seen enough military coups and we don't want just another one in Myanmar The political upheavals, the military coups and the civil wars are not the wars that any nation’s people want to fight- because at the end of the day, they destroy everyone’s life. The story of Myanmar is no different, with military coup have robbed the nation of hope of a democracy. The war that Aung San Suu Kyi fought locked up in prison for decades has comes to knot end.   As her cabinet fell off the favour with the military heavy political party, the hope of democracy has once again become a faint light at the far end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, harried people are fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand. On March 28, official reports state that an estimated 3,000 people had crossed the river dividing the two countries into Thailand's Mae Hong Son province following two days of aerial attacks. It is another exodus of people looking for safe haven-something similar to the situation that has tr...