Manipulation of shares in 2 cos by subsiding info
Staff Correspondent: According to the rules, the shareholding of listed companies increases and decreases almost every month. Especially when the share price of the company fluctuates more, the amount of shares held by the institutional and…
Read More »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…
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…
Read More »Loan repayment pressure increasing
$87 m paid in 3-month Mahfuja Mukul: Bangladesh under the pressure of foreign debt repayment. In the first three months of the current financial year, $870 million have been disbursed, which in local currency (at Tk…
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…
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,…
Read More »Hand money returning to bank: BB report
Farhad Chowdhury: The trend of keeping money in people’s hands is decreasing. Deposits are more than withdrawals from the bank. The movement of cash outside the banking system has been decreasing for 3 consecutive months.At the…
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…
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…
Read More »Climate Resilient Inclusive Urban Master plan introduced
Staff Correspondent: A major stride in sustainable urban development was taken today as the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) under Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry has successfully introduced ‘Climate Resilient Inclusive Urban Masterplan (CRIUMP)’.This…
Read More »Police smell conspiracy behind workers’ unrest
Gazipur Correspondent: Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Industrial Police Md Zakir Hossain Khan on Saturday said they smell a rat behind the unrest in the readymade garment (RMG) industry in Gazipur.“The government has already announced wages…
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