Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Benapole customs fails
to meet revenue targetStaff Correspondent: Benapole Customs House has failed to meet its revenue collection target again in the 2021-22 fiscal year despite recording a surge in imports from India.A total of 363,815 tonnes of goods were imported through the largest land port of the country in the last nine months of the…
Read More »Sajek faces severe food crisis
Lokman Hossain from Khagrachari: Scenic Sajek, the remotest union of Bangladesh in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), is undergoing a severe food crisis despite its huge development and tourism boom. This has been attributed to low yield from jhum cultivation, practiced by the indigenous people living in this mountainous area,…
Read More »8 m people dependent on
light engineering industryBicycle exports fetched Tk 1121 cr Mahfuz Emran: Bicycles made in Bangladesh are now appreciated all over the world. Bicycles costing from Tk 5,000 to Tk 200,000 are also being made in the country. The Meghna Group bought the government bicycle manufacturing company in Tejgaon in the capital in 1997.After…
Read More »Govt employees’ salaries to be increased by Tk 606 cr
11.28 pc of total budget for FY 2022-23 Mahfuja Mukul: The non-development expenditure sector is accounting for 74 percent of the total expenditure of the budget for the next financial year. Incentives-subsidies, interest payments on loans and salaries of government employees account for about 49 percent. Of this, Tk 1,08,145…
Read More »Desperate trips on deadly routes
Illegal migration to Europe Staff Correspondent: KabirMatubbar (not his real name) took an illegal route to Italy from Bangladesh in 2015. The trip included a daring boat journey in the Mediterranean Sea from Libya.He paid about Tk 6 lakh to traffickers for this migration and left behind a well-run grocery…
Read More »543 killed in road accidents in April
Staff Correspondent: With the rapid increase in the number of vehicles, mostly cars, in the congested roads of Bangladesh cities, there has been a steady rise in the number of accidents too.As many as 543 people, including 81 children, were killed and 612 others injured in 427 road accidents in…
Read More »Tagore’s 161st birth
anniversary todayIndustry Desk: Today is the 161st birth anniversary of Biswakabi Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as arts of Indian subcontinent with contextual modernism.On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Rabindranath, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages yesterday, paying rich…
Read More »Hasina showing ways
to the world: DipuStaff Correspondent: Education Minister DrDipu Moni said Bangladesh is leading the world in various ways under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.She said this while addressing the unveiling and discussion meeting of the book ‘Bangalir Ashirbad Bangabandhu and Sheikh Hasina’ at the National Press Club yesterday.DrDipu Moni said Bangladesh…
Read More »Country fetches $35.42b from RMG
exports in 10 monthsStaff Correspondent: Country has earned $35.42 billion from exports of apparel products in the first 10 months until April of the current fiscal year, up from the entire FY22’s target of $35.14, said Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) sources.Bangladesh’s exports led by readymade garments (RMG) continue to surge…
Read More »Dhaka starts to get previous shape as holidaymakers returning
Staff Correspondent: Holidaymakers have started to return to capital after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr holiday with their family members and relatives. However, many passengers said that there was no suffering on the way back.Visiting the Gabtali bus counter on Friday morning it has been seen that many people were returning to Dhaka…
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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 …
