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Industry Desk: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political alliance won India’s weeks-long general election on Tuesday, but the opposition said voters had sent a clear message after his Hindu nationalist party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a decade.Commentators and exit polls had projected an overwhelming victory for…

Staff Correspondent: The Saudi government has urged the renewal of passports of 69,000 Rohingya citizens who went to Saudi Arabia from Bangladesh after the country’s independence.In this regard, a delegation led by the Deputy Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia held bilateral discussions with the Home Minister of Bangladesh.A bilateral meeting…

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh ranks sixth in the global list of countries whose citizens are migrating the most. And the position of this country is eighth in the list of sending remittances to its own country. According to the International Organization for Migration-IOM, 12 percent of those who drowned in the…

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…