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Bank deposit decreasing due to economic crisis
Zarif Mahmud: The negative impact of prolonged economic recession has started to fall on the banking sector. Overall, the growth rate of deposit flow in banks is decreasing. This rate is decreasing in cities as well as in villages. However, the growth rate of deposits has decreased more in villages…
Read More »Number of hungry people doubled in 6 months
Staff Correspondent: Amid high inflation, the number of people going hungry for an entire day has nearly doubled among lower-income groups in the past six months, according to a survey by the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling, or SANEM. Prof Selim Raihan, executive director of SANEM, presented the findings…
Read More »Govt planning to invitebid for offshore blocks
Staff Correspondent: The government is preparing to invite international bidding for the country’s offshore gas blocks by making the model production sharing contract (Model PSC) more attractive for international oil companies (IOCs) to invest in hydrocarbon exploration in the Bay.“We’re going to offer the price of gas at 10 percent…
Read More »Mauritania welcomes Bangladesh’s contract farming proposal
Diplomatic Correspondent: Mauritania, one of the largest countries in West Africa, has welcomed the ‘contract farming’ proposal to cultivate the arable land of Mauritania by Bangladeshi entrepreneurs and businessmen. During his recent visit to Mauritania, the non-resident ambassador of Bangladesh, Mohammad Zulkar Nayen, proposed contract farming offer for Bangladeshis in…
Read More »Cry for drinking water in the coast
Dwellers of Khulna city now facing crisis Special Correspondent: The cry for clean drinking water that started across the Khulna coast during the dry season has now reached the metropolis even. Coastal people walk miles to collect water and city dwellers have to stand in queues late at night to…
Read More »Experiment train to run on Padma Bridge on April 4
Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh Railways has decided to run trains experimentally from April 4 (Tuesday) on the Mawa-Bhanga link railway including Padma Bridge.Senior Information Officer of the Ministry of Railways Md. Shariful Alam confirmed the matter to the media yesterday afternoon.He said that the work on railway tracks on Padma Bridge…
Read More »Once again, Teesta issue roils BD-India relations
India is planning two additional canals that will draw water from the transboundary river, impacting water flows to Bangladesh Shafi Md Mostofa: On March 4, the irrigation department of the government of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal acquired around 1,000 acres of land to dig an additional two…
Read More »BNP invited for discussion, not dialogue: CEC
Staff Correspondent: Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was not invited to any dialogue; rather the party has been invited for a discussion, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal. The CEC was addressing a press conference at the election commission office in Agargaon, Dhaka yesterday.“BNP has not been invited…
Read More »Naogaon’s Jasmine was arrested in presence of joint secretary
Death in RAB custody Staff Correspondent: The woman who died in the custody of the Rapid Action Battalion in Naogaon was arrested after a complaint made by a joint secretary, the elite force said.Joint Secretary Enamul Haque, who submitted the complaint against the woman, works in the Rajshahi divisional commissioner’s…
Read More »Abnormal high cost estimates
for Jamuna bank protectionThe project estimates 3-time high budget Md Rabiul Haque: Anomalous cost estimates have been found in a project to protect the banks of the Jamuna River. A huge amount of money has been charged for the consultant fee of the project, which is considered unnecessary by the stakeholders. At the…
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Hotels to be converted for Covid hospitals
Hospitals overwhelmed Staff Correspondent: The government is going to rent hotels for providing treatment …
