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Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Joint General Secretary of Awami League.\u00a0Hasan Mahmood said, “When the global economic recession and growth is going down, our growth will be higher than the world average growth, which is the IMF report.”\u00a0After this report, what Mirza Fakhrul sahib or BNP leaders say, now I am waiting.<\/span> Staff correspondent : Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Joint General Secretary of Awami League.\u00a0Hasan Mahmood said, “When the global economic recession and growth is going down, our growth will be higher than the world average growth, which is the IMF report.”\u00a0After this report, what Mirza Fakhrul sahib or BNP leaders say, now I am waiting. He said this in response to a question from journalists after a meeting with the leaders of the Bangladesh Editors Forum at the secretariat on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0Journalists mentioned in the latest report of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe said this in response to a question from journalists after a meeting with the leaders of the Bangladesh Editors Forum at the secretariat on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0Journalists mentioned in the latest report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that ‘the current year’s global growth will decrease to 3 percent from the previous 3.5 percent and will further decrease to 2.9 percent in 2024, but Bangladesh’s growth will not fall below 6 percent and will be 7 percent in 2028’. He wants to know the reaction of the minister.<\/span>
\nIn response, Minister Hasan Mahmud said, ‘Our growth rate is much better than other countries despite the ongoing global recession.\u00a0There is a lot of talk about the rise of daily products, but in fact, the prices of daily products have increased in all countries of the world.\u00a0Of course, the common people are suffering due to the increase in the price of daily commodities, the government is trying to alleviate the suffering by giving 1 crore family cards through TCB, distributing rice to 50 lakh people at a low price, and distributing various types of food grains to another 1 crore people.\u00a0That is why there is no lamentation in Bangladesh.\u00a0<\/span>
\nInformation and Broadcasting Minister said, ‘There is no shortage of daily commodities in Bangladesh.\u00a0In Europe-America there is a shortage of daily commodities.\u00a0After the Russia-Ukraine war, for a long time Supermalls were not allowed to buy more than 1 liter of oil and more than 6 eggs.\u00a0During Corona, the super-malls there ran out of tissue paper boxes.\u00a0People had to line up.\u00a0Many products were sold on rationing, but that situation did not happen in our country.\u00a0Among only 20 countries in the world that had positive GDP growth during Corona, our position was third.\u00a0Above us were Guyana and South Sudan, whose economies were much larger than ours.\u00a0So we can be said to be number one as a populous country.’<\/span>
\nHashan Mahmud said in response to the journalists’ questions about Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s adverse comments after the arrest of BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie, “What do you mean Mirza Fakhrul Sahib, even if there is a warrant against someone, he cannot be arrested?”\u00a0If there is a warrant, he will be arrested.\u00a0If there is a warrant, the Awami League leader is also arrested.\u00a0It is normal for the police to arrest anyone who has a warrant for vandalism, arson or any other reason.\u00a0This is the legal process, this is the legal language.\u00a0Mirza Fakhrul Saheb’s statement in this context is the proof that they do not respect the law court, they do not respect justice.’\u00a0<\/span>
\nEarlier, Bangladesh Editors Forum chief advisor Daily Observer editor Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury led advisors Azizul Islam Bhuiyan, Sharif Sahabuddin, Belayt Hossain, convener Rafiqul Islam Ratan, member secretary Farooq Ahmed Talukder and editors Rimon Mahfuz, Mofizur Rahman Khan Babu, Shamim Siddiqui, Mahbubur. Rahman, Deepak Acharya, Nazmul Alam Taufiq and others participated in the meeting with the minister.<\/span>
\nIqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, the chief advisor of the forum said, “It is absolutely necessary to stop Bhuiphore newspapers and illegal IPTV to protect the dignity of mass media and to get correct information to the people.\u00a0The campaign against them should be continued.\u00a0Everyone should speak out against the sudden dismissal of journalists without prior notice and at least 3 months salary.\u00a0Besides, no foreign conspiracy against the country’s media will be tolerated.’\u00a0<\/span>
\nEditor Forum convener Rafiqul Islam Ratan presented the demands of the forum in the meeting.\u00a0He raised the demand to stop the commission trade in irregularly published newspapers and advertisements, to bring discipline in circulation number of newspapers, distribution of crores and declarations, non-journalists not to be in charge of editors and speedy payment of outstanding bills of government advertisements. \u00a0<\/span>
\nInformation Minister Secretary assured to review the demands of the forum and said, ‘We want the cooperation of the media.\u00a0Because the country can be moved forward only if the government and the media all work together.\u00a0We believe in free media and independent, free, responsible media consolidates the country’s democracy, moves the country forward.\u00a0There are many conspiracies about our elections, about democracy, there are conspiracies to create a special situation in the country.\u00a0In that context, so that no one can conspire against the country and disrupt the democracy, can’t conspire about the election, we want your cooperation.’<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"