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A family that parents suddenly
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visited their home yesterday and found the family plumbing the depths of pain. Some of them lost their senses frequently from a trauma they could not handle.
Hari Kishore’s sons – Uzzal Chandra Roy, 21, and Ajoy Chandra Roy, 15 – were seen staring blankly out of their balcony.
“My parents promised they would come back home. They weren’t able to keep the promise, and now we have been orphaned,” Uzzal said.
“My father called me over phone before boarding the boat. He told me there was a huge crowd. Just 15 minutes later, a relative called and gave me the capsize news.
“Since then, we have been searching for our family members. We found the bodies of our mother and aunt today [yesterday] … We are desperately looking for my father and the other family members.”
He added, “My father was a farmer and the only bread-winner in our family. We now have to face financial struggles along with the loss of our loved ones.”
At least 50 have died and 30 more remain missing after the engine-run boat flipped over near Awalia Ghat in Mareya union around 2:15pm on Sunday, while it was headed for Bodeshari Hindu temple in the upazila.
Around 80-90 passengers were on their way to the temple for Mahalaya.

World economy
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this year to 3.2 percent while it was slightly lower to 4.7 percent for 2023.
Germany is now expected to go into recession next year with Europe’s biggest economy now seen shrinking by 0.7 percent -- a 2.4-percentage-point drop from the previous forecast.
The country’s economy has been hit the hardest in Europe as it has relied heavily on Russian supplies of natural gas, which Moscow has cut significantly in suspected retaliation to Western sanctions.
The eurozone as a whole will post meagre growth of 0.3 percent, a sharp downgrade from 1.6 percent.
The OECD kept its 2022 global growth forecast unchanged at three percent after previously lowering it.
To highlight the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the OECD said global output in 2023 is now projected to be $2.8 trillion lower than previously estimated before the conflict in December 2021.
The war has sent energy and food prices soaring over concerns about supply as Russia is a major oil and gas producer while Ukraine is a key exporter of grains to countries across the world.
Inflation had already been on the rise before the conflict due to bottlenecks in the global supply chain after countries emerged from Covid lockdowns.
“The effects of the war and the continuing impacts of Covid-19 outbreaks in some parts of the world have dented growth and put additional upward pressure on prices,” the OECD said.
“Inflationary pressures have become increasingly broad-based, with higher energy, transportation and other costs being passed through into prices,” it said.
The OECD raised its inflation forecast for the G20 to 8.2 percent for 2022 and 6.6 percent for next year.
Governments have announced emergency measures to help households and businesses cope with the soaring cost of living.
But the fiscal measures to offset energy costs “have been poorly targeted”, the OECD said.
Central banks, meanwhile, have ramped up interest rates, a move necessary to tame inflation but that can also push economies into recession.
The monetary tightening is a “key factor slowing global growth”, the OECD said.
The organisation warned that “significant uncertainty surrounds the projections” for the global economy.
More severe fuel shortages could shave off a further 1.25-percentage-points from Europe’s economy in 2023 and a half-point for global growth.