In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, policy changes are taking place across the world in recent times to facilitate international trade.Keeping this in mind, stakeholders, especially bankers, should gather knowledge in the latest global practices of cross-border trade and implement them in line with the local regulator's instructions.This was...
Read moreAt total of 184 dengue- positive or suspected patients have been hospitalised across the country in the last 24 hours until Friday morning.With this, the total number of hospitalised dengue patients reached 9,304 this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its regular bulletin.Of those newly detected,...
Read moreBangladesh needs to adopt a shock-responsive social-safety-net programme with perfect identification of the extreme poor, experts at a webinar said on Thursday.Such a social protection strategy will not only prevent inclusive and exclusive errors from the state-sponsored financial or non-financial benefits but also give enough impetus to the economically vulnerable...
Read moreNEW DELHI, Aug 27 (UNB): A Dhaka-bound Biman Bangladesh passenger flight made an emergency landing at an airport in India Friday after its pilot suffered a heart attack mid-air, officials said.The aircraft, a Boeing 737-8, was carrying 126 passengers from Muscat.An aviation official told the media the plane was near...
Read moreRain and water from the upstream have caused 16 rivers to swell in Kurigram, leaving more than 20,000 people marooned and inundating almost 20,000 acres of harvest land of Aman rice and vegetables. The photo was taken from Pachgachi in Kurigram Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon — Focus Bangla
Read moreBangladesh's premier trade chamber, MCCI, finds some less-promising economic indicators-revenue mobilisaiton and public expenditure in particular-are weakening the country's fiscal framework. The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka, calls for the policymakers to take appropriate measures for addressing some major areas of concern, in the process of recovery from...
Read moreA donor-financed project for converting Akhaura-Sylhet railway corridor, which also connects Dhaka and Chattogram, to dual-gauge track has long been laid off and a bid is now underway to redo it.Official sources said the conversion scheme was taken up to upgrade the section to dual-gauge single-line track. But four ministers...
Read moreSri Lanka on Friday extended a stringent coronavirus curfew for another week after reporting its highest daily death toll of more than 200, report agencies.While India has asked the states of Kerala and Maharashtra to consider night curfews in areas with high COVID-19 case numbers as the country reported more...
Read moreBangladesh will receive a US$1.78 billion worth of funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to improve mobility, road safety and regional trade along the Dhaka-Sylhet trade corridor in Bangladesh.The ADB gave the approval to the said amount of multi-tranche financing facility (MFF) on Friday (August 27), says a press...
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