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As the conventional business has been hard hit by the coronavirus crisis, there is a general trend in shifting to online business or e-commerce by traders who consider public health safety a priority.Such shift is gradually attracting many young entrepreneurs to open new business opportunities and h...
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Although the number of laboratories for testing Coronavirus samples has increased in the country, the number of tests have decreased. On the other hand, the coronavirus infection rate has increased in proportion to the test.Analysts believe that coronavirus test fee and floods in some parts of the c...
All overhead cables will go underground immediately as the government is going to remove all kinds of overhead cables, including for electricity, internet and dish TV in the city, an official said.Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has already signed an agreement worth Tk 25.30 crore with the...
The government has taken a number of remedial measures to ensure rawhide fair price and storage, as well as to thwart vested quarters manipulating the market during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.If these steps are implemented, it will be possible to overcome any crisis, an official said.Last year, there ...
The government has taken various initiatives to enhance generation of renewable energy as part of its efforts to ensure energy security keeping carbon dioxide emissions at low level.Bangladesh is now generating 630.96 megawatts (MW) of electricity from renewable sources – 3.15 percent of the t...
Four months following detection of the coronavirus, the outbreak position of the pandemic in Bangladesh is now stable.Though the number of infected people has increased, so has the recovery rate.However, experts believe that this month is especially important because Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest ...
When the Awami League-led government assumed office in 2009, the nation was suffering a chronic power supply crisis. Many industries, factories and business establishments shut their activities in the face of power outages and low voltage. Those days are now gone.Bangladesh has now attained the capa...
The country’s overall economic, business and other activities are gradually improving amid the Covid-19 crisis for the time-befitting decision by the government, according to people concerned.As the country’s government and non-government offices and establishments have started reopening...
Against the backdrop of the prevailing catastrophic situation in the global economy due to the virus pandemic, the country’s agricultural sector can play a very important role in ensuring food security as well as economic challenges, experts opined.Various international organizations are also ...
The government is going to build several mega renewable energy plants, mainly solar-based, in various regions of the country in phases under the largest-ever renewable energy project to be implemented with Chinese support.An agreement will be signed to this end in the middle of July between state-ru...
The country’s power generation capacity has increased by four-fold over the past decade while the electricity transmission and distribution system lags behind resulting power disruption in different areas.To resolve the crisis, the government is now focusing on transmission and distribution sy...
Thousands of job seekers face uncertainty at least for next two years as the job market crisis in Bangladesh continues to collapse amid the corona emergency.Recent university graduates are facing immense challenges in finding jobs amid the global as well as national coronavirus economic crisis.Econo...
Work on mapping the highly-contaminated virus affected areas of Dhaka city has not been completed despite the announcement for area wise lockdown of red zones across the country a few weeks ago.Experts say such a lax situation is unfortunate and risky as it will not help stop the spread of the dange...
Experts have made various predictions about coronavirus infection in Bangladesh at several times. According to the latest forecast, coronavirus infection will decrease from June, and will be fully under control in July. But in reality, the deadly virus has been spread abruptly proving all the predic...
When the country’s people continue to suffer afflictions due to fallouts of deadly coronavirus, providing ghost electricity bills to consumers has simply added spikes to their tortured souls in this hard time.Anwarul Islam, a resident of Hazaribagh area in the capital, complained to The Bangla...
Social distancing is ignored by most of the people across the country, aggravating the ongoing the Covid-19 crisis. Apart from the capital city Dhaka, most people are travelling, roaming, gossiping and gathering at crowded spots such as bus or launch terminals, kitchen markets, tea stalls in ot...
As the coronavirus pandemic cannot be fought blindfolded, all suspected cases require to be tested, but when it comes to testing of samples and getting results, manifold sufferings and woes chase the suspected corona patients.Suspected patients have to bear the burden of waiting in uline for a long ...
The government has taken an initiative to test more than 30,000 samples a day to prevent coronavirus infection.Besides, it has adopted a policy decision to set up PCR test labs in all districts as well as to introduce an antigen test system. The plan would be finalized within a week based on expert ...
There is an extreme lack of coordination in efforts to control the coronavirus infection in capital Dhaka.A zone-wise lockdown has not taken effect even a month after expert advice. Such a move is also not yet clear to the people and even though the health department has identified the risk areas, t...
Welding of the upper semi-vessel of the Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) for Unit-2 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant has begun in the Volgodonsk Branch of ‘AEM-technology’ in Russia, according to Rosatom, a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation.Rooppur nuclear power pla...
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