Six priority areas up for reforms

Six priority areas are up for reforms under conditions binding a World Bank-offered budget-support credit, including an overhaul in fiscal, revenue, and public-welfare arenas, officials said.The World Bank is providing the development-policy credit under its Building Economic and Institutional Resilience programme for tidying these areas of finance. The Ministry of...

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New industrial gas connection put on backburner amid crunch

Owners fret over an 'unofficial' embargo on new natural-gas connections to industries in government bid to ease owes of the already-starving gas-guzzling consumers across Bangladesh, sources said.Although there is no official instruction either from the energy and mineral resources division (EMRD) under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources...

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Transactions on call-money market enjoying pickup

Cash transactions on the moribund call money-market see a slow pickup following the central bank's liquidity-squeezing moves to tame obdurate inflation, a prime concern of consumers and the interim government alike.Call-money market is a key platform where borrowing and lending take place among banks. Even in a few months ago,...

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Passengers suffer for derailment of train at Kamalapur

Passengers at Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital suffered much following a disruption to train schedules of both departure and arrival caused by derailment of six coaches of Panchagarh Express on Friday.However, the rail communications between Dhaka and other parts of the country resumed after the nine-hour suspension of train...

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Prayer Timings (2024-10-26)

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