Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Central bank supervision weakening day by day
Dissatisfaction among officials Staff Correspondent: Weak supervision is one of the reasons for the distress of the banking sector. The central bank is facing criticism for not taking the right policy at the right time. Many officials of Bangladesh Bank have said that how the supervision of the banking sector…
Read More »Contractionary monetary policy to be unveiled today
Aim of reducing inflation Zarif Mahmud: While inflation is falling around the world, it is rising in Bangladesh. There is a dollar crisis in the market. There is no money in the banks. The main responsibility of solving these problems of the financial sector is Bangladesh Bank. However, the central…
Read More »Debt repayment and cost saving major challenge
Finance Dept’s Performance Report Staff Correspondent: The finance department sees the big challenge in reducing debt and interest payments and sound management of public expenditure. Besides, keeping the pace of the economy normal is also identified as a challenge. The Finance Department wants to tackle this challenge by implementing the…
Read More »Govt wants to ban 17 plastic products
Mahfuja Mukul: The government is taking initiatives to stop the use of 17 types of plastic products in the country. For this purpose, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has already issued a notification.Every home has some plastic products. From drinking water bottles, jugs to tables and chairs…
Read More »UK announces £30,000 aid flood-affected communities
Staff Correspondent: The UK is providing £30,000 or Tk 4.5 crores of vital humanitarian assistance to support flood-affected communities in Sylhet, where over three million people have been impacted and 260,000 are displaced.The current flooding in Bangladesh has so far affected over 14.8 million people in different parts of the…
Read More »National team stars Tawhid and Shoriful urge an end to bloodshed
Industry Desk: Tawhid Hridoy and Shoriful Islam, two stars of the Bangladesh national cricket team, took to social media to urge an end to the bloodshed surrounding the ongoing student protests. The protests, demanding reform of the quota system in civil service jobs, saw one death on Tuesday in Rangpur.…
Read More »Quota reform: Rail communication between Dhaka, rest of the country snapped
Industry Desk: Dhaka’s rail communications with other parts of the country have been suspended as quota protesters put up barricade on the level crossing in Dhaka’s Mohakhali.According to Ferdous Biswas , Officer-in-Charge of the Dhaka Railway Police Station, the protesters gathered there around 2 pm on Tuesday.Since then, rail communications…
Read More »Quota reform: Student dead in clash with police at Rangpur’s Begum Rokeya University
Rangpur Correspondent: A student of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur was killed during a clash between quota protesters and police on the campus on Tuesday afternoon, said police . The deceased was identified as Abu Sayeed, 22, a 12th batch student of Rokeya University’s English department. Commissioner of Rangpur Metropolitan…
Read More »Two killed in clash between quota protesters and BCL in Chattogram
Chattogram Correspondent: A violent clash between quota reform protesters and Chhatra League members in Chattogram’s Sholashohor to Muradpur area has resulted in the deaths of two individuals. Their bodies were taken to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), where authorities confirmed the fatalities. Md. Saiful Islam, Commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police…
Read More »Fakhrul condemns govt for unleashing Chhatra League cadres against protesters
Staff Correspondent: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said those who unleashed ruling party student front Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) ‘cadres’ and police against common students protesting the quota system in government jobs are inhumane devoid of humanity. In a statement, he also alleged that the government…
Read More »