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Industry Desk: The government today signed a US$71 million loan agreement titled “Loan 4440-BAN: Climate-Resilient Integrated Southwest Project for Water Resources Management” with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for ensuring climate resilient water resources management.Md. Shahriar Kader Siddiky, secretary of Economic Relations Division (ERD), and Edimon Ginting, country director of…

Iran attacks Israel with over 300 drones, missiles Industry Desk : Israel’s allies have urged it to avoid any escalation, as it considers a response to Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack.Israel’s Western allies, including France, Germany and Britain, have appealed for Israel to show restraint, warning over further escalation…

Mahfuz Emran : Bangladesh is going to start direct transactions with China to increase transactions in alternative currencies to the dollar. For this, Bangladesh Bank is opening an account in the country’s central bank People’s Bank of China. At the same time, initiatives have been taken to join China’s CIPS…

Foreign currency openly trading Rabiul Haque : Illegal hundi business of huge amount is going on openly in the bank booths of the airport. Some officers and employees of the bank are involved in this illegal business. Behind this is a huge syndicate of hundi traders.Anti-corruption commission has recently conducted…

Staff Correspondent: KSRM authorities, owner of the hijacked Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah, have initiated informal talks with Somali pirates through third party as part of their move to begin formal negotiation to rescue the 23 crew members as well as the ship.Somali pirates hijacked the ship with 23 crew…

Rafiqul Islam Azad : A groundbreaking study conducted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Australian Water Partnership (AWP) has revealed alarming findings: approximately one billion people in South Asia are currently imperiled by the escalating impacts of climate change on the region’s vital river basins.…

Staff Correspondent : A total of 300,000 tonnes of wheat is being imported officially (G2G) from the Russian government. The price of wheat has been fixed at $288 per ton. However, five days before this, it was decided to buy wheat at the rate of $279.85 per ton through international…

Mahfuja Mukul : Bangladesh’s fragile health care has been discussed at various times. However, there has been no significant progress in this sector in the last decade.Inadequate hospital beds, shortage of doctors and nurses, shortage of skilled lab technicians, all together, the health sector of the country is in shambles.A…

Staff Correspondent : Delegations from Hamas, Qatar and the United States have arrived in Egypt for “a new round of negotiations” toward a truce in the Gaza war, state-linked Al-Qahera News reported Sunday.Cairo, Doha and Washington have mediated in weeks of talks aiming to pause the fighting in the almost…