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Garment workers in fear of mass arrest
Owners sought factory protection Gazipur Correspondent: One of the hearts of Gazipur industrial area is Konabari area of Gazipur metropolis.Massive labor demonstrations and protests took place in these industrial areas demanding the withdrawal of the new minimum wage. At that time, a case has been registered against 11 people and…
Read More »PM opens Southeast Asia’s largest fertiliser factory
Narsingdi Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated the newly constructed Ghorashal-Palash Urea Fertiliser Factory (GPUFF) in Narsingdi, the largest of its kind in the Southeast Asia, which is expected to help slash fertiliser imports significantly.She opened the environment friendly energy saving and modern technology-based factory with production capacity of…
Read More »US position on BD will not be changed
Md. Touhid Hossain: Last Friday, the fifth defense and foreign minister level ‘two plus two meeting’ between the US and India was held in Delhi, the capital of India. Defense Minister Lloyd Austin and Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken on behalf of the United States and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and…
Read More »Emergency medical services hampered for dollar crisis
Zarif Mahmud: Hospitals in the country have to rely on imports from abroad for medicine ingredients, chemicals, raw materials and emergency medical equipment. In particular, almost 100 percent of equipment for heart disease, orthopedic, eye, cancer, general surgery, neurological disease treatment and surgery needs to be imported. Presently, the current…
Read More »$7 b foreign loans for developing SoEs
Zarif Mahmud: In addition to implementing various development projects, state-owned enterprises regularly taking loans from foreign governments and donors to meet various expenses. The amount of these short- and long-term loans at the end of 2021-22 financial year (July-June) was slightly more than $6.9 billion ($690 crore).At the end of…
Read More »3-yrs’ project takes 13.5-yr
Dohazari-Cox’s Bazar Railway inaugurates Mahfuja Mukul: The railway construction project from Chittagong’s Dohazari to Ramu to Cox’s Bazar and from Ramu to Ghundhum, the border of Myanmar, was taken up in July 2010. As a part of the Trans Asian Railway, this project was taken up to build 128 km…
Read More »Salt importing despite record production
Mahfuja Mukul: In the last 62 years, there has been a record production of salt in the country. Even so, the Ministry of Industry is afraid of salt shortage due to the continuous increase in demand. That is why the decision to import salt has been taken. There has been…
Read More »BB to provide guarantee loans to small women entrepreneurs
Special Correspondent: Bangladesh Bank has further extended the scope of guaranteeing collateral-free loans at low interest rates to cottage, micro, small, medium and women entrepreneurs. Henceforth, the central bank will guarantee against loans of cottage, micro, small, medium and women entrepreneurs against four funds.The central bank will provide guarantee against…
Read More »PM to open Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail line today
Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will flag off the much awaited 102-kilometre Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail line today, bridging up the country’s tourist hub with the port city through the railway connectivity as well.She will unveil the new rail route (from Dohazari in Chattogram to Cox’s Bazar) for train movement…
Read More »US surgeons perform world’s first whole eye transplant
Industry Desk: A team of surgeons in New York has performed the world’s first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn’t yet known whether the man will ever see through the donated eye.The groundbreaking surgery involved removing part of 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 …
