Concerns aired over debt-service fund diversion for instalment payment
Withdrawal of funds from debt-service reserve account for instalment payment against a loan for a state-owned power plant has created concerns among its multiple foreign financiers, officials said. They raised a number of questions to learn the current and future liquidity position of the Ashuganj Power Station Company Ltd (APSCL)...
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Guarded life, limited economic activity under relaxed curfew
An unlikely weekend it looked like in Dhaka-increased traffic and commuters, evidently as people came out for doing limited economic activity under a further relaxed curfew after days of delirious unrest. The curfew restrictions in the capital city and adjacent districts were suspended further for nine hours between 8.00am and...
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Delhi tightens purse strings on Dhaka aid
Foreign aid to Bangladesh from India was the lowest among key development partners in the just-ended FY 2023-24, data shows. Moreover, the neighbouring country in its FY 2024-25 union budget trimmed the development allocation for Bangladesh by 40 per cent, according to Indian newspapers. Analysts said the reduced aid flow...
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French culture, history mingle at Olympic opening show
PARIS, July 26 (AFP): The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics began Friday, an unprecedented and ambitious show with up to 7,000 athletes parading down the River Seine past the historic monuments of the French capital despite the risk of rain dampening spirits.For the first time in Olympic history, the...
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Cache server reboot improves Internet
Following a five-day nationwide internet blackout and broadband services restored on Tuesday, international internet gateway operators resumed Google's cache server on Thursday night -- improving internet speeds for users.However, cache servers for short-form video hosting service TikTok and Meta-owned Facebook and WhatsApp remained offline, according to the telecom regulator.Telecom operators...
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Prayer Timings (2024-07-27)
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Briefing 2024-07-27
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