Amid the price spiral of sugar, a most essential item, on the overheated commodity market, local refiners has proposed another hike by Tk 10 per kilogram. Bangladesh Sugar Refiners Association (BSRA) moved the proposal recently by fixing the maximum retail price (MRP) of packed sugar at Tk 85 per kg...
Read moreBusiness leaders have raised serious concerns over speedy depreciation of Bangladesh taka (BDT) against American dollar as it is pushing the import costs up.The BDT-dollar exchange rate in banks was recorded between Tk 86.20 and Tk 89.50 in Chattogram, according to the Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI).But the...
Read moreAnother fast-track project may get delayed in execution as two more years have been sought to install the 130-kilometre Dohazari-Cox's Bazar-Ghundum rail line.Having failed to build it in 13 years, the Bangladesh Railway (BR) has sent the revision proposal to railways ministry for approval, officials said on Friday.The ministry has...
Read moreSri Lanka won by 8 wickets with 77 balls remaining against the Dutch in the final round-one match of the Twenty20 World Cup on Friday in Sharjah.Sri Lanka scored 45 for two in 7.1 overs to advance into the Super 12s round beginning today with Australia taking on South Africa...
Read moreCOX'S BAZAR, Oct 22 (UNB): Seven people were killed in a predawn gun attack on a madrasa at Cox's Bazar Ukhiya Rohingya Camp on Friday, police said.Four of the deceased were identified as madrasa teacher Md Idris,32, from Camp-12; Ibrahim Hossain, 24, from Camp-9; madrasa student Azizul Haque, 22, and...
Read moreUncertainty eclipses modernisation of the public sugar mills as the process of replacing the outworn machinery with modern ones has stalled for several months, officials said.Officials in Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC) and the Ministry of Industries (MoI), in fact, have little idea about the fate of the...
Read moreSet government rules on zero migration cost for female domestic workers are not implemented properly by recruitment agencies as majority of them are allegedly charging money from the migrants.Workers and insiders said the outbound women domestic workers also were deprived of their due wages that the employers send to recruiting...
Read moreAn underage boy is carrying goods at an aluminum factory in West Jatrabari of the city. The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed many kids into exploitative and hazardous child labour in Bangladesh. The photo was taken recently — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam
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