Over Tk 1.5 billion has been splurged on projects in 20 years for installing automated traffic-control system in Dhaka, but to no avail as vehicle movement is still controlled by outmoded hand-signals in this megacity. Sources said not a single light of the signal system could be made operational, thus...
Read moreNew York, Sept 23 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited the US investors to come to Bangladesh to tap into its liberal investment policy for mutual benefits."I would like to invite US investors to invest in renewable energy, shipbuilding, automobile, pharmaceuticals, heavy machineries, chemical fertilizers, ICT, marine resources, shipbuilding,...
Read moreActivists stage a street play at a programme organised by a few environmental rights organisations demanding the government's move to ensure energy security by focusing more on renewable energy, in front of the National Press Club in the city on Friday — FE photo
Read moreThe government is planning to provide Tk 43.40 billion fund to the BCIC as subsidy - to cut its existing trade gap in importing and selling fertilisers and make payment of LTR (loan against trust receipt), sources said.The Ministry of Industries (MoI) requested the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to release...
Read moreVegetable prices witnessed a notable hike by Tk 10-40 a kg last week, raising sufferings of the commoners - already battered with rocketing price trend of most essentials.Vegetable prices surged amid declining supply of the summer varieties as well as following a significant gap between their prices at farm and...
Read moreDengue fever has so far claimed 50 lives this year, as two more deaths were reported while 125 patients were hospitalised with the disease in the past 24 hours until Friday morning.With the new cases, the total number of dengue patients reached 13,000-mark this year, the Directorate General of Health...
Read moreNOAKHALI, Sept 23 (BSS): Three persons including a house tutor have been arrested in connection with the murder of Tasnia Hossain Adita, a class 8 student of Noakhali Government Girls High School in the district. Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Shahidul Islam said this while addressing a press conference at...
Read moreNEW YORK, Sept 23 (AFP): US securities officials fined Boeing $200 million over the aviation giant's misleading assurances about the safety of the 737 MAX airplane following two deadly crashes, regulators announced Thursday.Boeing agreed to the penalty to settle charges it "negligently violated the antifraud provisions" of US securities laws,...
Read moreThe Bangladesh Bank has allowed the return of the treasury chiefs of six banks, who were removed from their positions for making "excessive profits by trading dollars, ignoring banking norms amid a volatile foreign exchange market," reports UNB.Also, the banks have been asked to spend 50 per cent of the...
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