A four-day-long annual Pacific Resilience (PR) Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE) began yesterday to increase disaster preparedness, response capabilities and civilian-military coordination in the face of a possible large-scale natural disaster.
Prime Minister’s security adviser Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique (Retd)) inaugurated the function at the Golf Garden restaurant in the capital. At the same time, the DREE have been launched in Chittagong and Sylhet this year.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon through a video message has commended icddr,b’s decades of work towards solving public health challenges and saving lives, reports UNB. In his message the Secretary-General… 
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