BB seeks to salvage 10 weak banks, start talks
Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh Bank (BB) has opened talks with the managing directors and the chief financial officers of 10 banks to try to finalise deals to save them from collapsing.The move got underway after the central…
Read More »WB to give $1500 cr for 55 projects
Staff Correspondent: The World Bank will give 1500 crore US dollars to Bangladesh as loan to implement 55 projects. Its amount in Bangladeshi currency is about 1 lakh 38 thousand crores (92 taka per dollar).Mercy Tembon,…
Read More »Canada-China owned firm to invest $91.15m in Ishwardi EPZ
M/s Big Dipper Textile Mills Ltd, a Canada-China owned enterprise, is going to establish a Textile industry in Ishwardi Export Processing Zone (IEPZ) with an investment of $91.15 million.An agreement to this effect was signed yesterday…
Read More »Govt to send 8.10 lakh workers abroad this year
Staff Correspondent: The government has worked out a plan to send 8.10 lakh Bangladeshi workers abroad and provide skills development training to 5.20 lakh ones in the current fiscal year (2022-23).Besides, to train up more workers…
Read More »Corporate firms behind recent egg price hike
Staff Correspondent: Egg merchants say higher rates set by corporate firms in the sector are partly to blame for the recent hike in the prices of the product, one of the main sources of protein in…
Read More »Prohibited, but goes on
Hydraulic hornsNoise pollution takes serious turn Golam Mostafa Jibon: Despite the ban, the rampant use of hydraulic horns by different types of vehicles is going on in the capital that leads to noise pollution and causes…
Read More »Power sector incurs lose at Tk 60,000 cr in 5 yrs
PDB sinking under burden of subsidies, losses Golam Mostafa Jibon: The power generation capacity of the country has increased with the blessing of rental power plants, but the Power Development Board (PDB) incurred huge losses for…
Read More »Tk 618 cr pocketed by Egg-chicken syndicate
Two week of artificial crisis Govt playing role as silent visitor Staff Correspondent: Leaders of Bangladesh Poultry Industries Association have alleged that several companies associated with poultry sector looted an additional amount of Tk 618.50 crore…
Read More »Rail track installation on Padma Bridge begins
Staff Correspondent: Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday inaugurated the installation works of the rail track on the lower deck of Padma Bridge at the Zajira end.“The landmark railway project is progressing at a fast pace,”…
Read More »Tea workers end strike after little wage hike
Daily wage rose to Tk 145 from Tk 120 Staff Correspondent: Tea plantation workers have returned to work after owners agreed to raise their daily wage to Tk 145 from Tk 120 amid protests.They ended a…
Read More »Inner containment construction enters to final stage
Rooppur NPP unit-2 Staff Correspondent: Concreting of the inner containment dome of the reactor building has started at the unit- 2 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power plant. The work is being carried out by the TrestRosSEM,…
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