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The economic disruption coupled with the closure of educational institutions due to the coronavirus pandemic could raise dropout at schools since many families, mostly lower-income groups, have been sending their children out for work.Experts believe that the coronavirus is not only pushing children...
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The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has deepened further across the country with most physicians, nurses and health assistants still reluctant to provide treatment to suspected cases.Two thousand newly recruited doctors and five thousand nurses have been posted at the Covid-19-dedicated hospitals to deal w...
The government is all set to take fresh initiatives to expedite the implementation of megaprojects as it believes coronaviruspandemic cannot halt the country’s ongoing development works.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a recent ECNEC meeting said, “Due to the outbreak of the pandemic, the...
Prices of rice has soared over the past couple of days amid the growing coronavirus outbreak, which rice mill owners claimed due to higher procurement prices of paddy despite bumper boro harvest this year.Rice mill owners said they had to purchase paddy with higher price than that of the government ...
Due to the crisis created by coronavirus infection many workers, engaged with manufacturing products in factories, working in shops and also doing jobs in private companies, face losing jobs.Thousands of garments workers have already faced such layoff and many more are in the pipeline. Even worse, d...
Death rates of males from coronavirus pandemic are three times higher than females.The number of coronavirus positive cases exceeded 100,000 marks in the country amid the rising trend in the community transmission of the deadly virus at places. Mortality data is showing that the virus is deadlier fo...
The country’s major export earning sector readymade garment (RMG) is expected to turn around by mid-August that has been badly hit by the outbreak of Covid-19.The government does not want termination of any RMG workers. To ensure the wages of RMG workers, the government has announced a special...
Country’s under construction Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are likely to get Tk 2.75 lakh crores as budget allocation for the fiscal 2020-21, expecting the export earnings will increase by additional US$40 billion and 30 million more jobs will be created by 2030 after the implementation.In the...
The government will buy six tonnes of Boro paddy directly from every farmer across the country in order to ensure food safety during and post Covid-19 pandemic situation.Earlier, the government used to purchase maximum of three tonnes of rice from each farmer during the Boro season.To this end, a le...
Customers have started paying additional charges for SMS, internet and phone calls since midnight Friday.The hike comes following the announcement to increase supplementary duty (SD) on the services provided through mobile phone SIM/RIM card in the budget proposal for the year 2020-21.All mobile ope...
Businesses of different sectors, including the housing and construction sector, are still plagued with stagnancy due to the worse situation of coronavirus, although the general holiday ended on May 30.As a result, a total of 456 industrial sectors related to housing and construction along with other...
Amid criticism triggered by largescale terminations of workers in the garment factories, the government and Readymade Garment (RMG) factory owners are devising strategies together on how to keep alive the country’s multi-billion earning business and export industry without sacking workers duri...
Demand for charter flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has increased significantly amid the standstill situation caused by the COVID- 19 pandemic.With this, the national flag carrier is also expected to make a healthy earning amounting to over Tk 100 crore by the end of this month. Biman also expec...
The target to earn about US$ 5 billion by 2023 from export of software programmes may suffer a huge loss due to the global corona pandemic.Experts said that more than half of IT-based jobs have shrunk in recent months. This has also reduced export income forecasting a gloomy future for the IT and so...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is supposed to operate few chartered flights to take the stranded expatriates to different destinations of the world as normal life is returning there following the improvement of the COVID- 19 pandemic situation.Officials of Biman have confirmed this matter to The Banglade...
The agriculture sector must get more attention, being one of the pillars of sustainable development, in the next budget to ensure constant, adequate food supply to the people during, and in the post-COVID pandemic situation, experts said.Executive Director of South Asian Network on Economic Modeling...
As the telecom sector keeps making profit during the shutdown following the fact that the number of phone calls and use of the internet has increased drastically, now the government is planning to increase revenue collection from this sector.According to the Ministry of Finance, and the National Boa...
As the government has resumed the country’s economic activities on a limited scale, concerned people with the tourism industry has demanded the resumption of tourism-related businesses including hotels and motels, which have been closed for almost three months.Officials of Bangladesh Tourism B...
Different social and political organizations have expressed concern over the bus fare hike by 60 percent. They said, such decision will create pressure on common people as they have already been facing economic crisis amid coronavirus.It is to be noted, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRT...
The dairy and meat producing industry is one of the worst affected by the current coronavirus crisis causing a loss of about of Tk 2000 crore since the general holiday announced in late March. Since the corona outbreak, cattle sale has dropped by around 60 percent - well reflected in the daily ...
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