The plan to run Dhaka-Chattogram high-speed train is going to see light, as the government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently decided to go ahead with the transportation system, officials said on Friday.The ADB agreed to support the ambitious project for connecting the country's business capital with the administrative...
Read moreA rickshaw-puller is taking a nap in the shade of trees on the Dhaka University campus on the hot and humid afternoon of Friday. Sizzling temperatures have been baking different parts of the country including the capital for the last few days — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam
Read moreMost places across the country suffered from mobile internet disruption for 12 hours since Friday early morning due to a 'technical glitch'. The mobile internet service was restored at around 5.00 pm.Acting chairman of Ban-gladesh Telecommunica-tion Regulatory Commis-sion (BTRC) Subrata Roy Maitra told media that it might have happened due...
Read moreThe government is set to ban the transportation of edible oil through drums from March next year, aiming to ensure its marketing in packaged forms on the domestic market, officials said.Currently, around 70-per cent soybean oil is sold in unpacked or loose format while only 35 per cent in PET...
Read moreIn a front-page report published in the October 15, 2021 issue of the Financial Express under the headline 'Onion duty-free, sugar RD cut', it was mistakenly mentioned that onion import duty had been waived fully. Actually the NBR waived 5.0-per cent customs duty but another form of import tax known...
Read moreCommerce ministry sits tomorrow (Sunday) to devise strategies in a bid to tame the prices of key essential items like edible oil and sugar in the domestic market.The meeting is part of a move to make the commodity market steady as prices of some commodities have already spiralled out of...
Read moreA battery-run rickshaw van and a motorcycle collided head-on with a truck on the Rooppur-Pabna road in the Aotapara Paschimpara area of Pabna's Ishwardi upazila on Friday morning, leaving three people dead Story on Page 3 — Focus Bangla
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