Business & Commerce
Former Bangladesh Bank Governor Professor Dr Mohammed Farashuddin on Thursday laid emphasis on taking steps to alleviate poverty through industrialization."I am not a big economist. However, I think, instead of poverty alleviation in the conventional way, steps should be taken to alleviate pove...
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Health experts today said poor water management in Dhaka city is largely responsible for dengue outbreak even insignificant amount of rainfall in the capital city spread the mosquito-borne disease."Dhaka city is facing extensive water-logging whenever it witnesses rainfall . . .we are observing...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Limited in Bangladesh organised an event on Sunday titled "HSBC Economic Outlook: A Perspective on Bangladesh" highlighting the latest global and Asian market developments and sharing a perspective on Bangladesh.Salman F Rahman, Private ...
Stock markets on Thursday finished the session of the week flat as the major indices of the both Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges showed no significant rise amid lower activities of large-cap securities.The benchmark index of the Dhaka bourse closed the day with 9.98 points down at 5,517.42. The...
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Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen emphasized the need for bolstering Bangladesh-UK health sector collaboration.“It is very crucial to bolster Bangladesh-UK health sector collaboration, especially digitisation of Bangladesh’s health sector and skill development of Bang...
Country, Districts
A Joypuhat court on Wednesday sentenced three people to life-term imprisonment for killing a farmer in Sadar upazila of the district in 2005.Joypurhat Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1Judge Md. Nurul Islam pronounced the verdict in the afternoon.The convicts sentenced to life term are -...
Agricultural experts and researchers urged their field level colleagues and subordinates to motivate the grassroots farmers towards expanding and promoting citrus fruit farming to meet the gradually mounting demands through boosting production.Present government under the dynamic and visionary leade...
Reaching high quality services to the producers, particularly small-scale ones, can be the crucial means of boosting grassroots level production along with improving their living and livelihood conditions of the producers.Officials and staff of all the line departments, including agriculture, livest...
President Mohammed Shahabuddin today asked the judges of all courts, including the Supreme Court (SC), to make all-out efforts so that litigants can get justice easily."As the country's apex court, the Supreme Court, is the last shelter route for the justice-seekers to get justice. The judg...
Eastern Bank (EBL), a private commercial bank in Bangladesh, and the US Department of State on Wednesday inked an agreement to collaborate on the EBL Climate Change Adaptation Award.The prize will be announced annually with the aim of recognizing and celebrating the best practices by corporations, m...
The government on Wednesday approved separate proposals for procuring some 1.70 lakh metric tons of fertilizer and 10,000 metric tons of lentil to meet the growing demand of the country.The approvals came from the 11th meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) in this year held ...
Stocks on Wednesday extended its losing streak as the risk-averse investors preferred to book profit on quick-gaining shares.DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), closed the day with 58.22 points down and settled at 5,527.40 points. The DS30 index, comprising blue chips, fell 14.14 ...
Textiles and Jute Minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak on Tuesday requested India to lift anti-dumping duty on jute products.He made the request when Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma called on him at his office at the secretariat in the capital, a press release said. Textiles and Ju...
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has attained professional strengths and competence to protect law and order together with ensuring safety to the public in general through combating all sorts of crimes.Utmost emphasis has been given on mitigating various types of social offenses, including juvenil...
Cheques worth of Taka 1.25 crore were distributed among 114 patients with chronic diseases and 71 different social and religious organizations in the city.On the occasion, a function was held at the conference room of Deputy Commissioner on Monday afternoon.Lawmaker of Khulna-2 constituency Sheikh S...
The cultivation of Jute, the biggest cash crop of the people of Manikganj district is going on in full swing in all the seven upazila of the district, the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said.A total of 4,765 hectares of land has been brought under Jute cultivation in all seven upa...
Price of most rice varieties found declining sharply in the city markets for the last two weeks while lowering of staple food price likely to be continued till further period.The price of medium and coarse variety rice has been declined and the situation would continue for at least next two months d...
The general point to point inflation rate in April has slightly eased to 9.74 percent from the previous month although the food inflation witnessed slight increase.According to the monthly consumer price index released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the general point to point inflatio...
Stocks on Monday performed mixed with major indices finishing flat.DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 29.96 points or 0.53 percent to 5,666.76. Two other indices also ended sharply lower with the DSE 30 Index, comprising blue chips, plunged 8.62 points to fini...
Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) President Mahbubul Alam on Monday said both Bangladesh and Turkey could serve as the gateway of trade and business between Europe and South and Southeast Asia. He said Bangladesh and Turkey offer huge untapped ...
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