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Momen said the two countries during the summit are scheduled to sign at least five MoUs -- Trans-boundary Elephant Conservation to Preserve Biodiversity; Framework Agreement on High Impact Community Development Projects; Barishal Sewerage Treatment Plant; Framework Understanding on Cooperation in Hydrocarbon Sector, and Joint Study on Technology Transfer.

With the expiration of unemployment benefits, there is a need for households and businesses to have fiscal support, Powell said on Wednesday at a virtual press conference after the Fed concluded the final policy meeting of 2020. Powell said the issue now is getting through the next four to six months with fiscal support as he expects significant numbers of people to be vaccinated by the end of the second quarter.

As the three main attacker ware salyed by the security forces during the attack, the trial focussed on their helpers and accomplices.  These included Hayat Boumeddiene, former partner of Amedy Coulibaly who killed a policewoman and another four people in the Jewish supermarket. 

The research was published by the US-based think-tank Center for Global Policy. The report said that China has been forcing its Uighur population to pick cotton by hands. An estimated 5,70,000 Uighur labourers have been mobilised by the Chinese government in the cotton industry, the report further found.

In the past, the panel would have distributed 200,000 tickets for the ceremony and given Congress lawmakers ticket bundles for constituents, The Hill news website said in a report. On Tuesday, the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which is planning the inauguration alongside the JCCIC, urged Americans to watch the inaugural activities from their homes instead of travelling to the event.

After the verdicts, 39 appeals have been filed with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. Among those 22 appeals of the death sentenced convicted are pending due to Covid-19 pandemic, Zed Al Malum, Prosecutor (Admin) of ICT of Bangladesh, told IANS on Wednesday. There is no provision to dispose the appeals virtually. Therefore, the review of the appeals is totally uncertain for the pandemic situation as it is not mandatory to review anytime.

Stressing on the need to look at the macro issues from a grass-roots level, the Indian envoy said: "The macro issues can be dealt with very efficiently only when they are broken down into smaller parts." Highlighting the history of Bangladesh and India, he stressed on the importance of the year 1971 as the foundational rock for the diplomatic relationships between the two close neighbours.

“A team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19)”, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

The sample was taken from a batch of frozen sliced pig ears imported from the United States as part of a regular screening before the entry of any imported frozen food into the city's cold storage warehouse, according to the city's epidemic prevention and control office.

The litigants, a separatist Kashmir Khalistan outfit and two other associates filed the lawsuit challenging Indian parliament’s decision to abrogate the special status of Jammu and Kashmir by repealing article 370 from the constitution of India. The lawsuit was filed on September 19, 2019, days before PM Modi’s ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Houston, Texas.