Bangladesh

Six leading cos hiked 50pc price of 234 items Mahfuja Mukul: Elderly Sharifa Begum of Banshri area of the capital has been suffering from paralysis for more than a century. Sharifa Begum’s son’s wife Jahanara Begum said last Sunday that her mother-in-law was advised by the doctor to take six…

As production will decrease soon Mahfuz Emran : The daily gas demand in the country is about 400 million cubic feet.Against this, the supply is 266.20million cubic feet.However, with the two LNG terminals operational, the average supply is a little over 2900 million cubic feet.Officials of Petrobangla and Energy Department…

Zarif Mahmud : The government is moving ahead with plans to build a 295 km long pipeline (Maheshkhali-Matarbari-Bakhrabad) to increase the supply of LNG to the national grid. This project is now in the Planning Commission. It has been estimated to cost about 1.4 billion dollars. The government is still…

Interested for trade in Chinese currency Rabiul Haque : Chinese loan discount for Bangladesh reduced. Again, the country has not given any new promise of financing any project in recent times. China’s debt relief has been brisking in the past two fiscal years. At this time, big projects were also…

Syed Ishtiaq Reza : There is little news from junta-ruled Myanmar. There are also many questions about the authenticity of what is found. However, recently, the news of the conflict and war between the rebel Arakan Army and the Junta forces has been coming on a large scale. Many media…

Syed Nasir Hossain : Tahmina is an officer of a private organization. Lives with two children in Gopi Bagh area of the capital. He had been saving money little by little for a long time to cover the cost of his children’s education. He expressed his interest in buying a…

Staff Correspondent : The world economy stopped after the pandemic corona. Many famous and expensive institutions are closed. Many companies are forced to lay off workers. Which is reflected in the clothing industry of the country. Export orders are closed. Later, the economy became active, the clothing sector of the…

GDP growth to be lowered to 6.9pc Staff Correspondent : The government is preparing the next annual budget as contractionary aiming to reduce inflation rate and restore financial stability, according to an official document.The size of the budget is likely to be Tk8.05 lakh crore (8 lakh and 5 thousand…

Six men die on Biswa Ijtema ground Gazipur Correspondent : The first phase of the 57th BiswaIjtema began on Friday after the Fazr prayer along the banks of the Turag River in Tongi of Gazipur.Maulana Ahmad Buttullah of Pakistan gave the opening sermon (Ambayan) at the congregation.The Tabligh Jamaat-organised event,…

Mahfuz Emran : The government has suddenly reduced the rate of export incentives and subsidies. Incentives are reduced by an average of 0.50 percent to 5 percent from the previous rate. Currently 43 sectors are given incentives at various rates to increase exports. This rate has been reduced in almost…