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BB to focus on credit flow to priority sectors

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) will continue its intensive supervision in ensuring credit flow to the priority sectors to help create more and better jobs along with protecting the environment."….BB will continue resorting to intensive and intrusive supervision in ensuring that credit flows reach the priority sectors (agriculture, manufacturing, SMEs) that...

Students block Dhaka-Mawa highway

KERANIGANJ, Jan 31 (UNB): Students of different schools and colleges formed a human chain and blocked Dhaka-Mawa highway at Rajendrapur in South Keraniganj here on Thursday, demanding immediate arrest and capital punishment of the truck driver responsible for the death of two siblings in a road accident.Shahjamal, officer-in-charge of South...

Plan to create databank on blue economy hits snag

The government's move to create a databank on the blue economy has hardly made any progress mainly due to lack of necessary information in this regard, officials said.A coordination meeting on the blue economy was held recently with chief of the Blue Economy Cell (BEC) Golam Shafiudin in the chair.The...

Country now has bargaining power: Kamal

Finance Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal said Bangladesh has now achieved bargaining capacity with the development partners in choosing its foreign aid."We've the capacity to fulfill terms and conditions of any development partner. So, the donors, including the World Bank (WB), are now coming forward with their extended support...

Hazaribagh awaits renewal after tannery relocation

Hazaribagh, once a heartland of tanners and rawhide processing, is awaiting rapid socio-economic and environmental changes through redevelopment.The relocation of tanneries to Savar has left the old part of Dhaka with the new-found scope of developing the area anew.In recent times, the FE correspondent made multiple spot visits to the...

BD requests US to send home killer Rashed Chy

Bangladesh has requested the United States to extradite Bangabandhu's killer Rashed Chowdhury who had been awarded capital punishment by the apex court here.Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen made the plea when US ambassador in Dhaka Earl Miller met him at his office on Thursday."I've told the US envoy that...

News Watch- (1-2-2019)

Country gets 12m new mobile users in 2018The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers hit about 157 million at the end of 2018, with addition of nearly 12 million new users in last year, statistics of the country's telecom regulator showed Thursday. According to data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication...