Exporters want daily dollar rate
To repatriate export earnings sooner Zarif Mahmud: There is a dollar crisis in the country for a long time. To deal with this crisis, Bangladesh Bank has emphasized on bringing export income to the country on…
Read More »Over Tk 50,000cr due in gas and power sector
Mahfuz Emran: Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) is unable to pay a large part of the dues of domestic and foreign power companies. Private Power Plants (IPPs) are not able to pay the price of fuel…
Read More »Banks under heavy liquidity pressure
Call money rate heating up Mahfuja Mukul: The commercial banks are under heavy pressure in terms of liquidity or money management. To deal with this pressure, on one hand, various banks are borrowing from the central…
Read More »BNP suspends rally after police action
-Two killed, injured over 100-BNP-Jamaa’t call daylong hartal today-AL to hold peace rallies Sunday-Jamaa’t holds rally peacefully Special Correspondent: The grand rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) began around 12:40 pm in front of the…
Read More »PM opens first ever underwater tunnel in Bangladesh
Chattogram Correspondent: The port city yesterday witnessed country’s historic entry into a new era of connectivity as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opened the much-anticipated nearly 3.315km underwater expressway tunnel, first of its kind in South Asia,…
Read More »Tk 10,690 cr spent for Tk 5,600 cr tunnel
Cost increased almost 91 pc Zarif Mahmud: Bangabandhu Tunnel has been constructed under the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong with Chinese funding. It is being constructed by China Communication Construction Company (CCCC) on G2G basis. Exim Bank…
Read More »Chattogram to be an investment hub
Industry Desk: The first road and tunnel under the river in South Asia ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel’. Businessmen see the construction of this road as a very timely initiative to connect the communication system on…
Read More »Bangladesh win historic Women’s T20 series against Pakistan
Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh Women’s Cricket team won historic Women’s T20 Series against Pakistan beating the tourists by 20 runs in the 2nd of the three-match T20 series at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on…
Read More »Potato price may go up to Tk 100 per kg
Need to import urgently: Experts Staff Correspondent: Potato price may go up to Tk 100 per kilogram in a week, as forecasted by the market experts. This is the potato seedling time and the potato farmers…
Read More »Chittagong to beinvestment hub
Industry Desk: The first road and tunnel under the river in South Asia ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel’. Businessmen see the construction of this road as a very timely initiative to connect the communication system on…
Read More »Dhaka-Ashulia Expressway facing so many challenges
Zarif Mahmud: Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway is being constructed with the aim of bypassing Dhaka city and reducing traffic congestion in the city. The construction of the second elevated expressway of Dhaka started on November 12 last…
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