Bangladesh sends humanitarian aid to Libya
Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh has sent emergency relief goods as humanitarian assistance to flood victims in Libya. A C-130J aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force left Dhaka for Libya at 8pm on Thursday with necessary relief materials and…
Read More »NASA registers summer ‘23 as hottest on record
Industry Desk: The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, NASA announced on Thursday.The months of June, July, and August combined were 0.41 degrees Fahrenheit (0.23 degrees Celsius) warmer than any…
Read More »Adolescent health care essential to establish women’s rights
17-point declaration at National SRHR Conference Staff Correspondent: The two-day ‘National SRHR Conference and Youth Conference-23’, ended on Tuesday with announcing 17-point declaration.The declaration mentions the importance of ensuring adolescent health care in establishing women’s rights…
Read More »Number of billionaires increasing despite crisis
Mahfuja Mukul: Bangladesh is facing multi-faceted macroeconomic crisis including unbridled inflation, dollar crisis, declining reserves, decline in remittances. Government and common people are losing their breath while carrying out the necessary expenditure. Even in such a…
Read More »Trade deficit reduced but fiscal deficit large
Farhad Chowdhury: As a result of the restrictive measures against the dollar crisis, imports fell. At the same time exports and remittances are increasing. Due to this, Bangladesh’s trade and current account deficit with the outside…
Read More »Syndicate traders root of all doom
Staff Correspondent: In the last one year, it has been possible to rein in commodity prices all over the world. Our neighboring country is Sri Lanka. Inflation was 49 percent. Almost went bankrupt. The government fell.…
Read More »CBC confiscating shares of 3 Eastern Ins directors
Staff Correspondent: The Commercial Bank of Ceylon (CBC) is confiscating 7 lakh 53 thousand 900 shares of three directors of Eastern Insurance Company Limited listed in the stock market. Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the major stock…
Read More »Top exporters in great depression
Entrepreneurs unable to pay LC debts Mahfuz Emran: Large exporters have been hit hard by the ban on the transfer of export earnings dollars from one bank to another bank to repay the debt of the…
Read More »High-risk nuclear fuel shouldn’t run in capital
–Contractor won’t take any responsibility-Finance Dept gives Tk 4346 cr guarantee-No local insurer agrees to guarantee risk Mahfuz Emran: The nuclear fuel for the Rooppur Power Plant is importing without any insurance coverage, which is scheduled…
Read More »Health minister blames local govt’s failure to control mosquitoes
Staff Correspondent: Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has drawn attention to the critical need of effective mosquito control measures in order to combat the rising number of dengue cases in the country.While speaking at…
Read More »Mongla Port dev project to be implemented in Chinese loan
Tk 3,782.36 cr to be borrowed from China Staff Correspondent: A project has been approved in the ECNEC meeting to install modern facilities in Mongla port. For this, a new project titled ‘Expansion and Development of…
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