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Hoarding blamed for rice price volatility

Blaming manipulation by millers for the recent rice market volatility, a government survey has found the their involvement in hoarding. The hoarding has also triggered an artificial supply crisis of rice, thus making the market for staple unstable in recent days, the survey said.The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) conducted...

Minni, five others sentenced to death

BARGUNA, Sept 30 (Agencies): A Barguna court has sentenced Ayesha Siddika Minni and five others to death in the daylight murder of her husband Rifat Shorif in 2019.District and Sessions Judge Md Asaduzzaman delivered the verdict in the closely-watched case amid tight security on Wednesday.Four other suspects in the case...

Study favours FTA with Japan

Signing a free trade area (FTA) agreement with Japan will be immensely beneficial to Bangladesh in the post-LDC era when the country losses trade concessions, a study has found.Presently, all but a few Bangladeshi products enter Japan with duty and quota-free facility, but that would not last long after Bangladesh...

Weekly flights to KSA go up

The number of flights to and from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) will be increased to 20 per week, starting from today (Thursday), foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said on Wednesday.During the Covid period, he said, 107,000 Bangladeshi workers have returned home from the Middle East (ME) since...

Covid-19 claims 32 more lives

Thirty two more people died from Covid-19 infection and 1,436 tested positive in the 24-hour period until Wednesday morning.With these, the total number of fatalities and cases reached 5,251 and 3,63,479 respectively in the country since March, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The DGHS, in a daily...

US, BD hold economic partnership meeting

The first ever High Level Economic Partnership Consultation between Bangladesh and the United States was held on Wednesday at a virtual platform with a view to developing a vision for advancing the existing Dhaka-Washington economic relations, said a statement issued by the foreign ministry. Adviser for Private Industry and Investment...