Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked for appropriate development planning taking into consideration the features of different regions.“The characteristics of all areas of Bangladesh are not identical. . . Bangladesh needs to be better…

PDB still buys 6 pc electricity from costly rental plants

Despite 40 pc surplus capacity Staff Correspondent: Though the country’s power generation capacity has swelled over 25,000 MW – more than 40 per cent it actually can use – the state-run power agency has continued to…

Universal pension system to be announced
in budget

Zarif Mahmud: The government has taken initiative to announce the complete outline of universal pension. The outline will be announced in the budget of the next 2022-23 fiscal year, said the source.Meanwhile, the finance department has…

Sacrificial cattle market
to be high this time

Demand to be met up by domestic animals Mahfuja Mukul: The Eid-ul-Adha is still about a month and a half away. Livestock traders and farmers are preparing in full force. Traders are visiting different parts of…

World-wide food crisis imminent

UN predicts famine Special Correspondent: The global food system is weakened by the Corona epidemic. The main reason for this is the consistently strict restrictions in the country. The war between Russia and Ukraine began when…

Accomplices under scanner of ACC

PK Haldar’s scam– Many on the run Golam Mostafa Jibon: The accomplices, who assisted Prashanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder to siphoning and plundering over Tk 10,000 crore, are now under scanner of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).…

PM for well-coordinated efforts to overcome crises

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for strengthening global solidarity and adopting a well-coordinated response against the food, energy and financial crises resulting from Russia-Ukraine war and Covid-19 pandemic, placing four proposals to tackle…

Syndicates and stockiest getting
exemption by passing law

Mahfuja Mukul: Traders create instability in the commodity market at different times. Artificial crises are created, various manipulations are done including illegally charging high prices. Ordinary people fall into misery due to their actions. In that…

Filippo Grandi call for Rohingya refugees support

Staff Correspondent: Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, arrived in Dhaka yesterday on a five-day visit to discuss the needs of the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char. Grandi last visited Bangladesh in…