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Master plan revision on the cards

The widening gap between the country's overall electricity generation capacity and demand has forced the government to revise the Power System Master Plan, or PSMP, two years after its adoption.A senior Power Division official under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, or MPEMR, said it has initiated work...

BD-India border talks postponed

The crucial talks between the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Border Security Force (BSF)of India, which was scheduled to start on Sunday, has been postponed for an indefinite period. The 6-day long meeting was scheduled to be held in Dhaka from September 13 to 18.The BSF informed the BGB...

BD lacks platform to issue trade docs electronically

Bangladesh lacks required platform to issue documents electronically for facilitating trade under bilateral and regional treaties, frequently disrupting export of goods. Until now, most of the trade documents are issued manually and the trading partners cannot check their authenticity if required. As a result, export consignments often remain stuck in...

Govt fixes wages for leather sector

The government has fixed Tk 7,100 as minimum monthly wages for the workers of the country's leather goods and footwear sector.The ministry of labour and employment issued a gazette notification in this regard on September 08, nearly a year after the wage board was formed to review the same in...

Eight years too short to build

Large-scale irregularities took place in building the Kushtia Medical College, a government report has found.Flouting the public procurement rules, the authorities had purchased goods and services from the suppliers and contractors directly or through limited tendering method without open bidding, it said.The Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) has recently...

BD Covid-19 recovery crosses 240,000-mark

With 2,372 more patients getting recovered in the last 24 hours until Sunday noon, the total recovery from Covid-19 infection crossed 240,000-mark, official figure showed. As of September 13, the tally of recovered persons has reached 240,643 and the recovery rate at 71.30 per cent. If the trend continues, Bangladesh...