Gold traders cheating innocent customers
Offering low quality jewelery with cadmium price Zarif Mahmud: A class of dishonest traders are offering poor quality jewelery to the buyers by charging the price of cadmium jewellery. Again, unscrupulous artisans or traders are supplying…
Read More »Govt borrows Tk 13,000 cr in 20 days
Rafiqul Islam Azad: The government has borrowed around Tk 13,000 crore from Bangladesh Bank (BB) within 20 days after the beginning of the new financial year as it is struggling to cover its administrative expenses, according…
Read More »Rice production hits record 40m tonnes
Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh has set a record in rice production last fiscal year, reaping an astounding 40.1 million tonnes due to the government’s robust food policy that aims to achieve grain self-sufficiency.Farmers navigated adverse weather conditions…
Read More »July likely to be warmest month: NASA
Staff Correspondent: July 2023 will probably be the world’s hottest month in “hundreds, if not thousands, of years,” top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt said Thursday.This month has already seen daily records shattered according to tools run…
Read More »Mango Diplomacy: Spain amazed at Bangladesh’s Amropali delicacy
Staff Correspondent: Pursuant to the Government’s ‘Mango Diplomacy’, the Embassy of Bangladesh in Madrid distributed delicious Amropali mango as gifts amongst all top government leaders, ministers, diplomats and other high profile dignataries.The mangos was distributed as…
Read More »Rampal Power Plant resumes production again
Bagerhat Correspondent: Bagerhat’s Rampal coal-based thermal power plant has restarted production after four days of shutdown due to turbine failure, the electricity produced is being supplied to the national grid.On Thursday (July 20) at noon, the…
Read More »PM calls for an amicable end to Ukraine war
Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked the international community to take steps for an amicable end to the Ukraine war as the prolonging coupled with sanction and counter-sanction is destabilizing the world. “I…
Read More »ADB to help improve community resilience, livelihoods in rural BD
Staff Correspondent: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $120 million loan to help improve access to basic services and climate resilience of remote and rural communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.“The Chittagong…
Read More »Usable reserve much less than $23.57 b
Zarif Mahmud: There is a wide discussion after the publication of net or real reserves of foreign exchange from Bangladesh Bank as per the conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The central bank released the…
Read More »BSMMU officials grab Tk 250cr illegally
ACC starts investigation Special Correspondent: There have been allegations of widespread irregularities and corruption in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), the country’s leading institution for medicine, education and research. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has received…
Read More »3 India-aided mega projects to be inaugurated in Sept
Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh and India are likely to start the operation of the Moitree Super Thermal Power Plant-II, Khulna-Mongla Port Railway Line and Akhaura-Agartala Railway Link is in next September during the G-20 summit in New…
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