Cost will be Tk 693 cr to ensure food security Mahfuz Emran: The government is going to construct 196 more warehouses for storage of foodgrains targeting to ensure buffer food stock for the population of the…

Ctg-Italy route to be fully launched soon

Direct container shipment Ayub Ali from Ctg: Experimental direct container shipping on the Chittagong-Italy route began late last year. If the voyage is successful, a vessel carrying export goods left Chittagong seaport for Italy earlier this…

Government wants Tk 3,081 cr
more JICA loan for Metrorail

Zarif Mahmud: Works of the country’s first metro rail construction project is moving fast to free the people of Dhaka from traffic jams. Work on the 11.63 km section from Diabari in Uttara to Agargaon is…

Only 0.84pc people have insurance
coverage

Mahfuja Mukul: Less than one percent people of the country have not life insurance coverage due to lack of knowledge and worst performance of the insurers. The insurers are not willing to pay claims on time.Most…

Slow in underground electric cables works

Dhaka city in high fire risk In this Dhaka city of bricks, stones, dust pollution and vehicles, the name of big problem is electricity. Dishes of telephone, internet and electricity wires by the windows or on…

Soybean oil price hiked Tk 12 per ltr

Staff Correspondent: The price of soybean oil has been raised by Tk12 per litre following the price hike in the international market.Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners and Vanaspati Manufacturers Association made the announcement of price hike yesterday.The…

New generations should learn about national heroes: PM

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterdayemphasised on informing the new generations about the struggles and sacrifices behind the achievements of the country.“If the future generations know about these sacrifices and struggles they will learn the…

Tk 76,500 cr master plan sets
for Railway development

Zarif Mahmud: The government has taken a master plan to pave the Dhaka-Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar railway. Seven initiatives have been taken to implement this master plan. This will require a loan of US$ 9 billion (Tk 76,500…

PWD SE Kalam turns to a money crocodile

Plundered crores of Taka Golam Mostafa Jibon: Allegation of amassing huge illegal assets through massive corruption and irregularities has been intensified against Abul Kalam Azad, Superintending Engineer (SE) of Public Works Department (PWD) in Dhaka.There is…

Four govt hospitals to build by local fund

India cancels loan Zarif Mahmud: Four years have passed, fixed term of the project has also expired. However, there is no progress in building 500-bed hospitals for the existing medical colleges in Jessore, Cox’s Bazar, Noakhali…

Habibul Awal new CEC

4 more commissioners also appointed Staff Correspondent: For the first time, the Election Commission (EC) was formed according to law. Retired Senior Secretary Kazi Habibul Awal has been appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). A…