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Onion import still on in peak season
Farmers demand to stop Ibrahim Khalil Jewel: Onion cultivation has increased in the country with the encouragement of the government. In the current season, farmers have started to harvestnew onions from the fields. But at the same time, onion is being imported from different countries including India in large quantities.…
Read More »50 pc child marriage still in Bangladesh
Ibrahim Khalil Jewel: 50 percent of child marriages still occur in the country, but Bangladesh is set to become a modern state before 2041. Child marriage is a big problem, which has a great negative social and economic impact. If a child gives birth to another child, both lives are…
Read More »650 cars stuck up at Ctg-Mongla ports
Importers can’t open LCs Special Correspondent: Reconditioned vehicle importers are now in trouble over getting their 650 cars released from the Chattogram and Mongla ports as they have failed to open letters of credit after the shipments, which is allowed for reconditioned cars, due to dollar crisis. The Tk200 crore…
Read More »Govt taking IMF loan as precautionary measure
Staff Correspondent: Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Kaikaus has said that the government is thinking over taking loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as precautionary measures to tackle the global crisis in advance.“…The world is heading towards an economic recession and facing inflation of currency. As…
Read More »PM stresses usage of all water bodies for fisheries
Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the countrymen and authorities concerned to maximise use of water bodies for boost further the fisheries sector while Bangladesh ranked third in global fish production.Opening the National Fisheries Week, the premier expected the fish to be major component to expand the country’s…
Read More »Solidarity needs to face global challenges
Diplomatic Correspondent: State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shariar Alam MP has called for strengthening global solidarity and adopting a well-coordinated response to address and overcome the ongoing challenges of the ongoing multiple and interlinked challenegs.“As a member of the Champions of the Global Crisis Response Group, my Prime Minister…
Read More »95 lakh pieces of rawhide to be collected
Target set by BTA, Collection starts today Staff Correspondent: The tanners will start buying salted rawhides of sacrificial animals from today (Thursday). Shahin Ahmed, president of the Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA), said 154 tanneries in the country will buy salted rawhides at the price fixed by the government all over…
Read More »France keen to work together with BD
Diplomatic Correspondent: France is keen on strengthening cooperation with Bangladesh for mutual economic and social benefits overcoming challenges ahead, a French diplomat in Dhaka said yesterday.“We now have to keep working together to combine our strength in order to consolidate mutual economic and social benefits and to face the numerous…
Read More »Extortion goes on from cattle laden trucks ahead of Eid
Golam Mostafa Jibon: Centering the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, extortion from different transports especially goods and cattle laden trucks is going on indiscriminately in different roads and highways by traffic police, their recruited agents and some other parties, who introduce themselves as the members of transport workers and owners’ associations.As a result,…
Read More »Digital cattle market poses brisk business
Eid-ul-Azha approaching fast Golam Mostafa Jibon: Like the previous years, this year the e-commerce entrepreneurs are expecting to carrying brisk business of sacrificial animal selling and purchasing through online or digital platform.Due to clutch of corona pandemic in the last years, bulk number of people across the country has already…
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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 …
